HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL.
A mosting of the Legislative Counell was the Countil Chamber hold yesterday in Prement:-
Hou. A. M. THOMSON (Aoling Colonial Secretary).
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DEC»MBER 15TH, 1903
shipping trade would be very much met if thi were done, and there are other grands on which I recommend it, because we must all of us member what happened in 1900. When, the surplus beats had gone for shelter into Yaumati Bay they were comfortablo enough as long as the wind romsined in any quarter, bat when it vocred round to the westward in a very short time the damage done was enormous. HIS EXCELLENCY THE OFFICER ADMINISThere were people in great numbers rendered houseless, homeless and boatloss, and had the TERING THE GOVERNMENT, F. H. Maxx,C.M.G. wind not veered round when it did there would MAJOR-GENERAL VILLIBUS HATTON, C.3. have been great loss of life. In fact,, I think the may be fairly said that on that occasion (Commanding the Troops).
boat population were within an ace of a very great catastrophe. I think it is our right and duty to do what we can to prevent a similar occurrence. I recommend the resolution to your favourable ecnsideration on two grounds 1) that of self interest, for we indirectly Hou. L. A. M. JOHNSTON (Acting Coloxic will get some bonet because we are doing something to assist trade and (2) on the higher ground of our common humanity, for I think it is right and proper that wo should afford all the protection and help we can to an industrions and hard-working section of the community, who during a certain part of the year may claim to be following a dangerous avocation; because we must remont- bor that these people in numbers, wen, Women and children, have nothing between them and the next world but perhaps a half-inch plank be blowing a hurricano in tho Harbour.
Hon. Sir HENRY A. BOREULEY, Kt. (Altorney-General). "
Treasurer)
Hon, A. W. BREWIN (Registrar-General) Hon. Basil. B. HI, TAYLOR (Harbour Master) Hon. W. CHATRAM (Director of Public Works).
Hon. Sir C. P. CHATER, C.M.G.
Ilon, Dr. Ho KA, C.M.G.
Hon. Wei A YUK.
Hon, C. W. DICKSON.
Hou. GERSHON STEWART.
when itinon these grounds I recommend i
Mr. R. F. JOHNSTON (Acting Clerk of this motion to your favourable consideration. Cornells).
NEW EMBER.
With this amendment the section was CORRESPONDENCE. approved,
Bub-section 2 of
· suma section gave wasters [ of vessels the right to dotain such persons.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAY, said the provision had been put in at the suggestion of the hon. member for the Chamber of Commerco.
Hon Mr. STEWART asked if it did not give the master of a ship rather the right to look up any- one he did not want to land, as a lunatic
The A,C.S.—He baa the right noy way, HIS EXCELLENCY did not think there was any objection to this,
The sub-agetion was approvad,
Hon. Mr.BTEWART afterwards suggested that it would only be fair to have a clause inserted to protect a shipper who might have a lanatic pat or bourd surreptitiously and who might be saddled with his maintenance for 50 yours,
After some discussion
the
GRNERAL said be would leave the Bill in Com. mittes stage to allow the hon, member to bring forward a definite proposal if he thought it desirable.
The Council adjourned till the 23rd inst.
REVIEWS.
DIOCESAN GIRLS' SCHOOL.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRE99."
December 14th, 1903. Sir,With your kind permission, I should| like to call the attention of your readers to the
which advertisement of the above school appears in your columns of this issue.
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it will be remembered that na the result of a public mesting held nearly five years ago a sufficient sum of money was obtained to justify the promoters of the se! nol in securing the
of haus-Rom Villa, West-in which | and peaco," stating that he, Canon Bainbridge, lease the work of the school has been carried on "does not bellare that the average boy takes hood
โช ATTORNEY- Sines February, 1900, November of of the mesuing of the words of any of the paulmas the same year lady superintendont-Miss he sugs." Probably both the Rev. Cunions are E. D. Skipton, B.A.-ard an assistant right, bat util the average boy does take hood, superintendent-Miss M. I. Hawker-arrived by proper instruction being afforded bim, why in the Colony from England, and under their pro ch about missions to the ignorant heathens management the school quickly grow until it of foreign climes? Let us remove the beam out was found impossible to increase the number of our own eyes, before we send our men and of bearders owing to lack of accommodation. money to interfere with the "mote" in those of This state of affairs lasted until quite recently, the ignorant heathens of foreign chimes."— bat when within the last for weeks the Yours, etc., adjoining house-Rose Villa, East-fell vacant
CHARITY AT HOME. the committee decided that this opportunity of doubling the accotum dation short not be missed, and promptly took the houso, thas securing the whole block for the par- poses of the Diocean Girls' School. Up to the preraut the committee, which is largely composed of ladies, und of which the Bishop of lack of accommodation it was neelees to make any great effort to make the existence of tho schoal more widely known; but they now desire to call the attention of the public to the many advantages which this school offers.
Formosa Under the Dutch. Described from Contemporary Records by the Rev. W. CAMPBELL (English Presbytarian Mieston), London Kegan Paul & Co.
SHIPPING NOTES.
His Excellency Major-Ge, erul Villiors opposito. The necessity for providing ashelter pages of this book. This is a pity, however, Victoria is chairman, have felt that owing to by the Rosella-maru,
Halton, C.B, Commanding the Forces, took the formal oath of offes and assamed his seat as a member of the Council.
FINANCIAL.
The ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY inid on the table the report of the Finance Committee (No. 12) and moved its adoption.
DAIRIES.
WEATHER OUTSIDE. Moderate weather from Manila is reported Fine weather from Shanghai is reported by the Eastern.
Clear weather, moderate N.E. monacon, from Swatow, is reported by the Hatlong.
Moderate to fresh monsoon from Singapore is reported by the Japan.
Fine weather from Moji is reported by the Victoria
Fine weather from Shanghai is reported by the Lycemoon, Armani Belic, and Taishan
Fino weather, with gentle N.E. monsoon, from Fonchow, is reported by the Auping-mara,
MANA ARRIVED.
Per ss. Yangtze yesterday. She loft Singa- porn 7th inst.
IN a time, when, unfortunately, people only Hon. C. W. DICKSON-I beg, sir, to second real scraps and tit-bita of literature it is not the motion proposed by my hon. friend likely that many will get through the voluminous
for small craft is no
obvious that i feel it considering the great pains the author has The work requires no comment of mine to recommend it taken to wake his compilation.
Il consists to the early attention of the Government. is like a parliamentary blue-book. Hoa, members must be aware from persoal of long quotations from old documents in oberration of the scarcity of boats of all kinds reference to the state of religion and trade soon after the first indication of a typhoon of Formoss between 1624 and 1661 when the The first object of the school is to provide a even though that typhoon bo several hundelund belonged to the Dutch. Only those Christian training and atacation for giris of reds of miles away from the Colony and there interest in the early history of Formoss European and mixed parentage, and the com- i really no occasion for alarm. This is due to at that time will read the book. It is no use
mittee are always prepared to consider applica. The work is on sale tions for the admission of orphans and skildren sarisly on the part of the boat people to reach to the up-to-date touri t.
in recensitons circumstannes. The education The ACTING COLONIAL. TREASURER second the one shelter at Causeway Bay which with Messrs. Kelly and Walsh.
is very soon, as we know, crowled. I boliera
given 18 an ordinary English elementary ed, and the motion was agreed to.
that if ample additional accommodation wero The Elder MucGregor. By CHARLER HANNAN, education, neranged in accordance with the
London: R. A. Everett & Co. provided, preferably on the west side of tho
Government grunt-ja-aid scheme. The girle The ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY laid on Harbour, the shipping of the port would be MR. HANNAN in this book of Scottish skatehen are also trained in household duties, and relieved and much of the inconvenience and loss assumes a role that one hardly should have are taught to make ret of their own the table nail moved the approval of the follow which the presunt conditions give rise to at such suspected of the author of The Capline of Pekin. clothes and to keep them in order. The ing additional by-law made by the Bauitary times of the year, during the typhoon period, McGregor, the Kirk Elder, is a character that fees, including tuition, board, laundry, and Board under Sub-section of Section 16 of the would be done nway conding the resolution. Winaow in Thrums or The Bonnie Brier month; while for tuition orly the fees are $3 With these remarks might have stopped out from the pages of clothing for girls under £fleon, are $20 a with I have much pleasure in
The ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY-I am Bush, and to that ortent he is not to be a month. The vacations aro-one month about authorised to say on behalf of the Government welcomed for we have had enough of the February, varying with the Chinese Now Year; that we are fully aware of the nest of new "Railyard" of recast times, notwithstanding six weeks in July and August; a few days at accommodation such as is indicated in the resolu"C. B.8" defence of it at Stirling Castle. But Christmas and Easter. Application for admis- 10. No recapiscle used for the reception or tion, Only lack of funds has been the difficulty the Elder MacGregor is such an exquisitely sion should be made in the Lady Suporinioand aboard the se. Victoria, from Tssoms, on the
Some folks think humour supplied, at the Dinonean Girls' Sulool, Rose storage of milk in any dairy shall be used for hitherto in connection with this increase. Steps humorous creation that his being is justifled.ent. by whom further information will be
bave boon taken just now to obtain definito plans | Listen to him: for the constraction of a Harbour rotugs comes nataral and spontaneons like water Villas, Bonham Road, Hongkong.--I am. sir. at the west end of the Harbour. (Applause.) running over a hill Thera porer Meantime the Government has no objection tá greater mistake. Humour is no a thing on the Barface, it's a matter of getting at it, it's an pass this resolution. (Applause.)
affair of accomplishment and very, very difficult. You'ro ali wrong if you think kamour comes easy to a man, it's a thing that wants digging for.
Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903: "The following bye-law sill be added to the to the by-laws contained in the Bohe Tulo "Orlivanco under the heading "Dairies":
any other purpose whatsoever.".
The DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS seccud ed, and the motion was agreed to.
TYPHOON KHELTER.
Hon. GERSHON STEWART is paraundice of notice given moved: "That, in the opinion of the Council, it is advisable to increase if possible the means of shelter for cargo bouts and sampons
Lie said during the typhoon season." Your Excellency,At a recent meeting of the Council when a member moved the adjournment with the idea of getting an answer to a question, Ifis Excellency our theu ¡Governor said that if a member wished to ventilate any question it would be more suitable if he did so by bring- ing forward a definite resolution, and it is on that ruling that I beg to bring forward the resintion which standa iu tay name to-day. I think the subject of which it treats is one of general interest. I think that, probably in an indeliuite sort of way, most people will say they agres with it. I have brought it forward in the hope that it may be raised from the position of a pious opinion which everybody socepts and does not say anything about, so that active steps may be isken for bringing about a very much needed improvement in the Harbour. In the course of late years we have been sD busy with the plague that we have had no time to think about anything else. Our money and our time bave been spout entirely on that and on other very great projects which have emerged. It is a fact we might bear in mind that the Harbour is after all the reason of our existence here, and from the Harbour we either directly or indirectly all of us, draw our subsistence. We are now in the position-the happy position of baving an abundant revenue. i regnit to say that
very Jargo amount of it comes from what I cannot help bat term a somewhat oril
source, opium; but I think the best thing we can do to square the matter with our consciences is
II ESCELLERCY-I hope hon. members will understand that the difficulty hitherto bad boen want of funds, and the remark put forward by the Colonial Secretary is not intended to indicate that that difficulty has bean got over-I am not in a position to state that--but the matter is regarded as urgent.
The resolution was agreed to.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S PERS
TEO ATTORNAY-GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill entitled an Ordinance to provide for Fayment of Counsel's Fees by the losing party in certain cases in which the Attorney-General appears as Counsel.
The ACTING COLONIAL BECRETARY Seconded, and the mction was agreed to,
The objects and reasons attached to the Bill are as follows:-
To provide for the recovery of counsel's fees from the lasing party in cases or proceedings where the Attorney-General appears as counes), This Ordinance is intended to remove any doubt which may be entertained whether counsel's feas can be, properly, included in a bill of costa against the losing party in cses where the Attorney-General appears, but dous not receive fees from the Crown,
THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND BUILDINGS ORDINANCE,
The Council went into committee on the Bill entitled an Ordinance to amend the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that when the Bill was last before the Council Clanse 3 had boon held over for further consideration. He moved that it be passed anbject to deletion of the Medical Offloor of Health from the constitution of the Banitary Board.
The ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY esconded, remarking that it was on the representation of the unofficial members of the Conncil that the Government had decided that it wes not desir able to add the M, O. H. to the Board,
Tha motion was agreed to.
WHA * cto.,
That's the question in a nutshell, humour has to be day." The sketches deal with Scottish village life. They are mostly good, and all are marked by excellent characterisation.
Adventures of Gerard. By A. CONAN DOYLE.
London: R. A. Everett and Co.
THIS is a collection into book form of those charmingly fresh and cotertaining stories that have appeared from time to time in the pages of the Strand from the pen of Conan Doyle. The dashing debonair Brigadier has come to be sa well known to magazine readers as the redoubt- able Captain Kettle himself, so it is unnecesary to introduce him. His adventures in the Napo- leonic wars lose nothing of their sest even on a second reading. Messrs. Kully and Walsh haro
the book on salo.
The Odd-Job Man. By OLIVER ONIONS. London: John Marray, Albemarle Street,
New SINCE George Gissing gave us his Grub Street there has been no novel that depicts more truly than The Odd-Job Man the darker side of that city life which ou its obseras bears the stamp "Bohemian." Tho author takes as his central character an artist Purcival Oddy who runs through a rich patrimony before he is thirty and is only saved from the guitor by the influence of a good woman. Oddy works up through the whole gomat of odd jobs in different parts of London antil he attains nearly to his lost position. Some splendid bits of character-skatebing ure introduced, notably Caylay the lugubrious journalist and Hettie the model. The strongth of the book lies in its sketches; there is a lack of force and cohesion in the plot, but it serves as a suficient pog on which to hang them. The Odd-Job Man is forwarded to us by Messrs. Kelly & Walsh,
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Per P. & 0.8.s. Japan, from Singapore, yesterday.
Per 6. 8 K. a. Auping-mari. Sho left Foochow 11th inst., Swatów 13th just.
Fer C. M. 3. N. Co'a... Taishan. She left Shanghai 12th inst.
INCIDENTS,
A stoerage passenger committed suicido
1t inst. There was, also, another death during the venge.
A passenger died on the sa. Hengmok's, while coming up from the Straits,
A SAILING-SHIP.
It is not everyday that a sailing ship entors the harbour of Longkong. The Vale of Dion arrived from Burma on Sunday. She left Rangoon with a cargo of lumber on the th ult. Mesare Sander, Weiler & Co. are the agenis.
NY.E. EUROPEAN LINER IN COLLISION.
The N.Y.K. steamer Inaba Maru, which was to sail for this from London on the 18th inst. is reported to Lara collided with a ship at Autwerp on the 27th ult. The Inaba Maru proceeded to Middlesboro for repairs, which were expected to take nearly a forin gut. The company steamer Hitachi Maru, which left Masillas for London on the 26th alt,, will take the Inobe Mari's plass for the homeward voyage.
WAMSHIPS,
Warships have been arriving in such numbers that it was quite a question to know where to put them all. British warships in port on Saturday morning were Amphitrite, Bramble, Britomart, Fame, Glory, Humber, Leviuthun, Phanis, Rinaldo, Rosario, Sandpiper, Sparrow- hook, Talbot, Th tur, Vestal, Virago, Whiting, Winera, a pubar of torpedo host destroyers, and the French cruiser Montedim. Arrivals since then are:-Chinese gunboat Kwangice from Sanchang,
3. 9. Mostercy from Cauton, Austrian Don Juan de Austria from Macs, H.M.9 Surprise from Shanghai, Franch Kersaint from Haiphong, German iftis from Macao, and H.M.8. Albion from Kobeand Mies Do Buy.
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ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL CO., ED.. SHANGHAI,
MISSIONARIES AND THE PRESS.
TO THE EDITOS OF THE "DAILY PRENS."
Sin, May I crave a little space in which to reply to the correspondent signing himself "Griffin" in your last Saturday's iso I bad-boped for sterner mettle, but even Griffine must be met. Poor Grin" plays an innocently into my hands that I can scarcely resist the temptation to made incision in him. I hope he my learn to smond his controversial wars. Griffu" shows much ek of method. He offers no reason for Christianissionary work; he draws upon conclusions as to the source of my reading for which be has not the slightest grounds; he afferents to make capital out of some masty book," the title of which he does not give-in which ho necesfully plays to the gallery; he cocupar 5 my physique with the "silent Sphinx" anil the Christian Church, and generally m xes his metaphors and analogies into a fearini heap of confusion. He might equally well here compared my bulky form" with the mon or the Buddhists' religion. fear, my deur "Griffin," is quite true--the moon, the Sphinx, and the various religions will be here long after I have faded into thin air" But does the apparent stability of these things prove religion true? they prove the serumed divinity of Christ.? Do they prote that Allali is the only A somewhat remarkable incident is mentioned God, and Melammed
the true prophet? by the Kote Chronicle iu connection with th Day
not the structure of the Sphinx Tokai-Progress collision near Hakodat. When rather suggest its humon origin and can
the Airlio of the E. and A. line was recently "Griffu" extend the thought to his religion at Hakodate the captain was askel to attend 4 Griffin "seems to think that men throat the
a Court of Inquiry into the circumstances, religion of their childhood from them na bel nt the Russian Consulate. The esptain children throw away their test sa toys. Not so, was unable to attend owing to illness, but the my dear" Griffin." Th's costing off at one's chief officer of the vessel, who holds a master's religion is an evolution, ofttimes a slow and certificate, attended in his stod, and took
part in the inquiry into the collision, his colleague to see that we spend that money to the best
The Long Night. BY STANLEY WEYMAN. painful process. Nothing would please me
London: Longmone, Green, & Co.. more than to know of a religion which could being the captain of a Russian vessel in port. vantage. Dootura aud the Sanitary Board
MR. STANLEY WEYS N'ala test novel is to land, withstand the test of all sentifle criticism. Eydence was heard, and after a close sxemina- and shoregoing people generally hare beau
and is quito equal to anything that this well. Yet despite the glamour with which we attempt tion of the witnesses the Court gave a finding fairly well looked after, and I now put in a plea for a humble and hard-working action The Council went into committon on the Bill known and popular author has hitherto place to cletha our early religious beliefs, the study noquitting the captain of the Progress of of the safaring population who have no means entitied an Ordinance to provide for the Be. before the public. From the first chapter to of modern scientific research inta bibliology, blaca, This is surely, our contemporary
15th January, 1904, for the above characters around which the thread of the story drive back the religious beliefs, and the force at lest we can recall no pr. Flous case in map of the Harbour and paint out all the account of certain nudesirable persons intro-
ir woren are clearly and powerfully depicted of the syllogism rules over the force of sati which a captain has been asked to sit o position.
A space required for definite purposes-mon-of-duced into the Colony.
The rubric of Clans 3 read as follows with all Mr. Woyman's accustomed skill. mest. The trial under which I was compelledrine coast of inquiry unless he was of the Applicants must state previous experience, war anchorages, the proposed reclamations, and
ama mtionality as the authority ammoning the space
required for wharfage and the "Owner, charterer, &e, liable in certain cases for The romance is begun and worked out in to place Christianity is too long for recital in
Presumably the inquiry was hoid age, nationality, enclose copies of testimonials stenmore working in the stream is not ED persons becoming a charge on the puble within years of the fitmath century-at that period because of the lack of originality ; there is plenty with view of making a report in the Rasan and references, together with a full length fairways-you will find that the area for expanses incurred by the Colony on account of the old-world city of Geneva in the opening this letter, but "Griffin" need not be downcast the part.
of scope for his brilliancy in answering the Marine Bureau. The suit for damages, brought It is incumbent upon us, six months of very extensive,
persons from dig and any prevent such when, surrounded on all sides by ambitious and
"stock arguments and anscrupulous enemies, among whom Savoy
Griffin," it be bave by the Nippon Yusen Kaisha against the photo of recent date. Only men capable of therefore, to see that this space is availed of to
owners of the Progress, which is to come on in the best possible advantage. It is well within
stands out the most promitent, every citizen the interest of truth 11 heart, caucot pass over your knowledge that during the typhoon season
was ablo and ready to carry arms aut de with lofty contempt the labours of Huxley, the Japanse Courts is connection with this managing & first class Hotel of 200 Rooms need hattin for his cherished independence, the Haeckel, Robertson, Allen, and a host of writer collisia, is likely to raise some interesting apply. Liberal remuneration to suitable man. work in the Harbour is constantly interrupted
womon folk, es shown in the course of the story, and thinkers, possessing all the qualifications be for days by the beats having to susk shelter at
havi jurisdiction to try the case, seing that
Apply by letter-to- the very earliest signs of bad weather. The
being ready to sacrifice all they held most preenderatas. Hence "Griffin" may gather that, one being whether the Japanese Courts
the collision took place outside the thro-mile THE CHAIRMAN OF DIRECTORS refuge is away up to the eastward, and further
cicus in the sacred cause of Freedom. Several the conclusions at which I have arrived rrapeut fcidenta in the course of the romance are ing Christianity have been forend apen me jina 1. On the other hand, it is admitted that than that, eren if the superficial area which it
during several years of careful reading. It bus the place where the collision occurred was a
2, Kiukiang Road, Shanghai, China. represents were entirely available for boals, it
strikingly analogous in many details with those would still be inadequate for the purpose for
experienced in Eugland under the Puritan not been a question of hosty diemical from my part of Tsugara Straits, and the question Shanghai, 13th November, 1993.
(3143 augus presence"-so carefully suggested!ariens whether thero straits can be claimed to which it exists; but it is very much salted up.
rule that period when implicit belief was
AUTOMATIC MAUSER and boats, naturally wishing to get in there,
placed in the powers of witchcraft, and when fle will also gather that the missionary ques he within the territ in waters of Japan. dack superstition dominated all classe A tion is a question of the truth of Christianity, striking picture is drawn by Mr. Weyman, in for the fact will necessarily follow that it i of the councillors of the city, the immoral to prasel that which is not trusoren the meetings rugged and unflitobing patriotism and saat for to the boathon,
Yours truly, the safeguarding of Clouevu and its inhabitants hing most realistic. Intermingled with this story political statecraft and ignorant supersti tions belief is the web of a charming love passage between two young people, who, although at sne time almost overcome by the machinations of ouscrupulous enemies are yet made the chief bguros around which revolve the frustration of the designs of the Duke of Saves to encompass
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On the Council resuming, the Bill was read a third time and passed, on the motion of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, 6ended by the ACTING COLONI L SECRETARY.
UNDESIBABLE IMMIGRANTS,
MANAGER WANTED.
of advocating their own canso. It you take a covery of Charges incurred by the Colony on the last the story is full of incident, and the the relentless logic of the rationalist critics remark, a unique incident in shipping unnals PPLICATIONS will be received antil
I
Heb. Dr. Ho Kar thought three months a sufficiently long time to make the shipper liable for the upkeep of such personB.
Hon. Mr. STEWART suggested six weeks, The ATTURNET-GENERAL said six weeks was too short a period, He thought three months reasonable.
Hon. Mr. STEWARTremarked that it would be advisable to stipulate a maximum amenut is which a shipper could be liable; otherwise he might be victimised for 50 years if he brought
such a passenger.
Hon. Mr. DICKSON proposed six wesks as the term.
Hon. Mr. STEWART cenenrred.
HID EXCELLENCY pointed out thataran with very few dollars in his pocket might get over six weeks.
Hon. Mr. STEWART supposed the use of a man who got sunstroke, in which case the ship would lare to pay the whole time.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL Baid the argument applied to sir daye.
me
Hon. Mr. DICKSON remarked that an imbecile
of
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WH. DAVIES.
MISSIONS-AND MISSIONS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRESS,"
818-In view of the correspondienos that bas
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTA.
The P&O.tasaur Coromandel left Ringa-. pore. for this port on the 13th inst., at a.... with the outward English mails, and is dus here on the 19th ist, at about noor.
The O. & O. steamer Gaelic, with mails, do, from San Francisco to the 25th alt, via Hono- Inlu, bas arrived at Yokohama on the 12th inst. be P.M, steamer China, with mails, ko, left San Francisco for this port via Honolulu, &c, on the 12th inst.
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new one. It has been advocated at various could not be expocted to be able to tell what the downfall of Genova. In a word, Mr. Wer son lately appearing in your columns, ander Albert left Kobe, via Nagasaki and Shanghai, any time between 7a,m, and 10.30 p.m. Monthly
on the 13th inst,
on
leave their work at the very earliest moment to obviate the chance of having to be
the towed up by launches against wind. suggest that this, resolution' should meet with your favourable consideration. Still it cannot be put into shape for some considerable Limo, and I would suggest meanwhile that something might be done towards dredging. out Causeway Bay. There are dredgura in the Harbour now
which might be available for hire or purchase, and I think we could put them to an extremely good use in the present instance. The idea of a western refuge is no
the 22nd inst, P., and may be expected here times. Mr. Leigh wrote about it in the public ship he came by. How was the Government man has given the public a work which, while the heading of "Missionaries and the Press," to learn that Canon your endere, papers, and I have here got the correspondence going to ensure that the proper ship would be having an historical value, is yat worthy of it is refreshing, and it may be of interest to the most ardent votary of folion, Glazebrook, Headmaster of Clifton College, which took place batwoon Mr. Leigh, the held liable? Chamber of Commerce, and the Government The ACTING COLONIAL SECEZARY That and alculated to beguils the monotony Las come out with a startling denunciation of Zechou w'ich left here on the 11th inst., a,.,.
has arrived at Shanghai on Sunday, at 7 p.m. or tediousness of an idle hour. in 1896.
His idea is to have a breakwater is a matter of carrying out the Ordintbeo.
the use of certain psalms in the service of the
The N.D.L. steamer Bornco laft Sandakan via down in Belcher's Bay. I have spoken of it te Hon. Mr. DICKSON-The greater the time
Church, which he desigantes "improstory Zamboanga on the lith ifit., 3,19. Design and Workmanship. palms, notably, the 35th, 36th, and 109th Wood Carving: the greater the difficulty.
The C.P.R. sleamer Tartar arrived at Shaog- The A.C.S.-In that case we could make it By GzerGE JACK. London: John Hegg
THIS is an useful little manual to those in Bishops of Salisbury and Lincoln, bavo 8 pm. same day for Hongkong, where she is and that, while he, together with the tai at 6 am, on the 13th inst., and left again at pealms, terested in the subject of wood-carving. Illus eliminated them from their Church services, the dae to arrive at 10 am, on the 16th fnet. trated with drawings by the author, etc., it
Rev. Howard Bainbridge, a minor Canon of The Shire Line steamer Radnershire, from goes into the subject very clearly in thepompass of 270 pages. It appears to have been written Westminster, does not share the views of the Lunden, &c., left Singapore on the 12th inst first in the form of lestares. We can commend it above, that they are harmful to the boys who at noon, and is das here on the 19th inst., p.m. bave constantly to repeat then in choirs, as to all for whom the subject has any fasolastion. being opposed to Christ's preaching of "love for this port on the 13th inst.
The A.L. steamer China left Kobe rat Moji
Mr. Douison, who is a practical engineer and knows the Harbour pretty well. He has drawn out a plan of a break water from the one day. That would be better. north of Green Island and joining the smaller Bon. Mr. DICREON--I would prefer that island to the east of it, and this could be myself. built at very little expense as the water is HIS EXCELLENCr· said the six months' time shallow, and the water-way between the two stipulation came from the Vagrancy Ordinance islands would be an anchorage for bosts. I am He thought three months a reasonable, con quite convinced that the convenience of thecasion.
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