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advantage; who in to judge between thera? on common sense have been dictated by There are certain so-called vices resulting the home societies, and are pretty evenly from an abnormal development of instincte divided amongst the various bodies; but the necessary to the healthy development of the work goes on--and why? Buddhism and The whole kuman family find neces-Confucianism are empty titles in China.
mace.
A. S. WATSON & CO., my the use of sutne narcotic or stimulant, The salt bus lost its savour
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for the two fads into one another, be it tea Europe, seasoned by a millennium of wars or coffee, or hemp or opium, ar tobacco or and a conflict wherein peoples of varying alcohol, in cui form or other. Each of them | race had come one after anotlier to the front, may be used to such an extremat as to tell almost like an avalanche on China, and de- become dotrinental. Even tes apparently manded admission; rusted by disuse, China's the mildest, is in certain communities, us in arms broke in her nervelesshands. Dintrudi- the Falklands, becoming a curse. The tion kept alive indeed the memory of former writer has seen many wrecks of humanity greatness, but it was but a memory at best, brought about in the United States by the Real warfare had assumed the outer aspect coffee hobit. The man who has learnt of mere pesturing. The barbarian was to statecraft from actual experience under be frightened by the antics of the stage, the stands the diffenlty of seeking to repress display of bauners and the imitated bowling DISPENSARY. by legislative measures any of these, and of wild beasts. The people themselves were instinctively feels that repression leads by no means a nation of cowards, but long te worse excess in other directions. It is disuse had had its usual effect, and the only amongst the ignorant or the fanatical power of organisation and the instinct of that we find such altempts' unde. The national defence had been lost. It was use. very instruments made use of tu reprees less to look within. Treatises on war did
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There was another case of plague yesterday.
Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz, the acting police magistrate, goes to Japan by the Mongolis, on short leave.
The M.M. steamer Ernest Simora was twelve hours.overdue when she reached Colombo on the 11th ult., owing to her machinery going out of order. Repairs were affected at Colombo.
It will be seen in our advertisement columns that the sale by anetion of leasehold proporty at No. 5, Bonham Strand, previously advertised to take place to-day, has been postponed to the 17th
izat
THE WAR
{FROM OUR OWN COLEESPONDENT.]
!
RUSSIAN VERSION OF THE LIAU BATTLE.
LONDON, 1st September. The Russian official report of
Tuesday's battle is quite different to
Mr. H. B. Darnell, the Canadian Pacific that of the Japanese. It states that and Mrs. Darnell, who arrived from Manika por Railway Company's Eastern Travelling Agent, the Japanese failed to turn the
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sa. Habe on the 20th o't, are staring at St. | Russian right, and that in their futile George's Hous," Kennedy Road.
attack they had to abandon 46 guns, The Post Office motor mail car, which cost which the Russians captured in an the colony of Colombo nearly 18,000 and R200
per month for upkeep for nearly a year, has undamaged condition. Samsanoff's bem at last condemned, and is now converted
T
РАКНОГ
[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT]
AN ACCIDENT.
28th Augast.
The steamer Hue was due hore on the 25th instant, from Haiphong, but she did not put in an appearance until the afternoon of the 26tli. The cause of the delay was that her engines bid gou out of order, and it was with difficulty that nho monged to reach this port. After arrival thengineers lost no time in ag ning the mos sary repairs to enable the vowed to proceed ou her voyage.
Captain Guiligau was confident that the repairs would be carried out in a few hous, and is proposed to start for Hallow. Kwongchow Bay and Hongkong the same oven- ing. The repairers having failed to obligs him. he decided to ge luck to Haiphong instand, nư being the nearest port where any materia repairs could be made. The Hae in the subai- dized French mail boat owned by Mr. A. R. Marty.
TIGER HUNTING.
into a steam lorry for the use of the Public [[Sakharoff's] detachment took an dangerous sport. The young gentleman who
Works DepartmenÍ..
Mesars. W. Brewer & Co., the Hongkong agunts for the Kobe Chronicle Diary of the War, have sent us Part VIII.. bringing the
some more excellent photographs, particularly
entire Japanese battalion prisoner. Yesterday the Japanese scemed to be turning the Russian left, but the
is now so fur recovered that he is able to attend
such natural savings are found to be then. selves the int addicted to the practices they are called on to destroy; and the too of mere scholars, that the most formidable record of erents up to June 1st. There are road to Mukden renmained open for for disposal. The animals hut evidently been
entire
fragment issue is the demoralisation of the body politic. Our own royal Lomoy sought by his celebrated "Counter blast" to repress the suicking of tobacze in England as effectively does the dog hay at the moon frens generation to generation.
So far does Me. DAY ENFORr carry his reater with him. His weakness is shown when, having charged through the maukts of the enemy, he essays to take on himself
their armour and methods. He makes an
active and brilliant onslaught on the rer shallow, und self-compromising Memorial presented in 1902 by the Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade to the late Lord SALISBURY, then Prime Minister; which Memorial, evidently through fulse reppestations, was unfortunately signed by the Archbishopt of "Canterbury and Dublin. On the strengtli of it, Mr. DAVEN- ror takes a tilt at the missionaries.
to
the large views of the works at Dalny.
expres showing the proposed sailings of the Messrs. Melchers & Co. yesterday immed an Tusporial German mail steamers for next your.. overawe | Tka Prinz Heinrich loaves on February 15th, the Sachsen, Primea Alice, and I'rinz Begont Luitpold on March 1st, 15th, and 29th respoc. the Prins Eitel Friedrich on April 20th tively. The Presszen leaves April 12th and
weapons of offence consisted of larger banners with cfficulty carried by the soldiers, who for defen carried nothing more formidable than grat wirker shields painted in brilliant colours the enemy by the presentment of savage tigers.
a ler with weapons, and the highest aim of the general in command was an ambush, in the cutting off by treachery of a few stragglers,
Tucties were
on
to whom were they to turn? The dovern- The people at large felt the indiguly, but
ment, in the hands of a bigotted and in- practical literati, was unable to save itself The secret of self-control had been lost to China, but clearly survived amongst these formidable Westerners, she were clearly actuated by summe Common bond. Dini tradition pointed to some such period in China, and that was associated with the As a fact, which he is unable to com ascendancy of the Buddhist Church. Simi- prehend in its fullness, missionaries are hurly, however, they differed amongst them in China because the Chinese would bave selves. These Westerners had a common them there, exactly as membants are bond in their reverence for Christianity. A. S. WATSON & CO. here because the Chinese nerded their In Chian modern Buddhism had, like her wares and would trade whatever were the modern government, fallen into the har de opposing labcles. The two things are of a set of lazy, degraded drones. The bitually interlocked, and, no power on Christian missionary taught on the other auth, be it ever so far reaching, ean inter-hand the essential natrine of the strenuous Oxxcom mications relating to the new columnsre effectually to repress a national instinct life. Emperors, literati, and priests in Mr. DAVENPORT in various chapters des China had for centuries taught the tenets of ribes the difierent classes of missionaries quietism, and what had been the result? who have pentrated to the various regions The conclusion was inevitable that herein of the earth, Jewish, early Christian, lay the essential difference between China Buddhist, Molammedan, and the celebrated and the West. Unconsciously the wis- 16th Century Roman missions in China; be sionary came to be a political factor. First even describes the imaginaay Buddbistic from mere riosity be
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On 10th July at HoRonSTA-MAIN, Germany.. Martha Postlar, of the Hildesheim Missionary Nociety for Blind Girla in China.
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Few books published of late years regard- ing or relations with China are Bore suggestive or more misleading that Mr. A. DAVENPORT'S China from Withis." strange medley of fact and prejudice, it yet possesses crannies crammed with observa- tions which set the reader thinking for himself. Mr. DAVENPORT, from his log persoal experience in the Consular Service in China, is personally able to speak with authoúty on the subject of the Opium Trade
are founded, first on wilful ignorance of the natur, origia and growth of the opium traffic between India and Chica, and secondly ou equally wilful misstatement and positive untruth. The whole is a charae-
H his
By kind permission of the Commander of
Polire, the String Band will play the following 7.30 p.m. to 9.30p.m. to-morrow (Saturday):-- programme of amaic at the Macao Hotel from
March........TheSommerGirl" Victor Merceron
Overta Wallas Selection Walt...
Port and Peasant P. von Suppé Dream Facts", ateissler
• Pinton of Penzance" ...A. Sullivan Worship to the Beautifal "G. Codina
Section.... "Among the Rosea". W. Willson Schottische. Kinky Healed Coa". Hotel
Galop
Get Away "..
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C. Weber
The Ceyline Observer says that most attractive amongst the adornments at Lady Blake's ball were the very handsome embroidered curtaiue and hangings which were on the walks. Ou each side of the dais hung an immense surtain; ground-word of rich golden orange magnifi Foxtly band worked with bold designs of trees 'n brilliant greens and purples, with peacocks admiration. and it is interesting to know were at the foot. These were the subject of general presented to Their Excellencies in Hongkong Around the ballraum were other smaller pieces. of Chinese embroidered work, ons specially bundsome one being worked in gold on a dark conspicnons. The bright colours of these inrad blue ground. the Chinese dragon being very
decorations were well brought out by the numerous electric lights, and they showed up beautifully.
Selection... Waltz....
God Save the King."
Lancers. The Toreador. Wikima
cambers, Beetroote, Anchovy on Toast Soup-
MENU-Hova d'Euvres - Sliced Tomatoes, Cu- Giem Peas and Custard. Fish-Boiled Fiss and Anthy Sauce, Entrees-Mutton Chop Cutlets and Potato Chips, Baked Stuffed Tomatoes, Ham and Mushrooms on Toust, Joints-Roush Beef and Yorshire Pudding, Roast. Cupon, Cold
an orderly retreat by the dislodged Russian wing,
RKUTER'S SERVICE.]
HEAVY RUSSIAN LOSSES ADMITTED.
I have heard nothing further rugursting this
was wounded by a tiger in a recent expedition office. In this connection I learn that abont. two weeks ago some villagers had succeeded in killing two young tigers and brought then out
but how the natives sicceeded in capturing these snured and then killed with spcars and clubs,
cabs without meeting the wrath of the parent beasts soems astonishing. It is evident how- ever that the axistence of numerous tigers prowling about the villages is not a myth, as some would have it believed.
THE WEATHER.
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The weather is purely tropical, with tempera---★ turent 91 or 92 degrees Falir, during the greater part of the day, Ent the mornings and evenings five days. The health of the port continues are cool enough to compensate for the oppres
LONDON, 30th August. General Sakharoff reports, froin Liaoyang at noon yesterday, that the Japanese were advancing along the whole front against good so far. Liaoyang. The main attack was directed against the Russian centre and right, where the Russian losses were the heaviest, The
nese were close on the Russian centre.
THE CRUISER HUNT.
LIAOYANG.
A correspondent of the Muse Vrencya gives the following description of the rise, size und importance of Limoyang
t
Japanese had posted overnight uumerous artillery within range of the Russian posi-Ceneral Kuropatkia's headquarters and the tions; by 9 o'clock in the morning the Japa.official buildings are not in the town itself, but in a neighbouring settlement, which was founderlin 1898, when the town was made the headganrters of the officials charged with building the southern section of the Manchurian Railway, In 1900, when the Russians retired Haicheng during the disorders, the Chines Aisanlan-tien the Russian troops under Genera quarter was burned down. After the fight near Subbotitch again occupied Linoyang, and the engineers began to rebuild the town. The and roads leading from Ints, Moukdies, wit position of the tows, at the junction of wilway
the Corean frontier, and its importance as 12 trading centre, son attracted the attention of
workshops, and the Bks. In 1901 private railway authorities, who ballt there a large, first-class station and numerous warehouse, initiative began to display netivity; mary houses and large shops were built, and there was seen a purely Russian settlement next to the Chiness town. Mos of the houses art
LONDON, 30th August. The Admiralty announces that the Com- mander of the Cape Squadron left the Sey- chelles on the 2ith instant with the Crescent Forth and Pearl, proceeding south in search of searches between Wallisch Bay and Benguela, the Petersburg and Smolensk. The Barrosu
and the Partridge between Walfisch Bay and Simon's Bay. The Commander of the South of Cape Verde, with the St. George and Atlantic Squadron, at present in the vicinity
Brillinet, has also been ordered to join in the search,
.
KOWLOON DOCKS.
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By kind permission of Lt.-Col. Iremonger and officers, the Band of the 93rd Burms Infantry The Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co.'sus-storeyed, after the type of Americia listened will play this programme of music at was
the
Kowloon establishment has experienced quite à farm-bonses. There is a beautiful Orthodox missionaries, who he fancies, from some
King Edward Hotel, during dinner, this (Fri-pressure of work lately. No. 1 dock has not tu; afterwards,
ideal cave
church in the middle of the Russian quarter. Temote resemblance of the faingat Palengne to be more fully recognised, meu came to
day) evezing:~~
been vacant for a long time. The now stern- The pavements vro wretched, and lighted by oil March......... The Washington Post".
...Souzn to Indian Lopes, to trave, heen Buddhistic him for instruction.
frame of the .. Sikk, now in No. 1 dock, may lamps; the streets are mat made up; thus, in Action inevitably Idyll
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be fitted in a week or so, and then the Shawand rainy weather they are morely begs, and Selection... Menio England accordance with his other conclusions leads to reaction; the craft was in danger, Song Liebeslied" It is in
......... German
Karoly Klay will occupy the berth. The exact damage Europeans wishing to cross such a strest have that all these have been markedly superior and all the elements of obstruction were
Feminiscences of Scotland" Godtroy
to the Shawut, which is at present lying to get themselves carried across by the Chinese, in their ways to those of the nineteenth called into being. Self-interest is ever a
alongside with a list to port, is not at present The town has to water supply, a Rossia ..... Margis
century; our present-day misionaries do more potent factor then doctrine -- the
known. It has decided not to send down engineer tried to lay down a system, but the not appear to realise that China was opened humble priest, the literati, uay, the entire of
divers to inspect the bottom, as the ship has to go attempt came to naught, there was a "fault" to them by earthly warfare. Considering the ruling bierachy, found the foundations of
in dock anyway, and the divers could do no good. somewhere. Thas the people have to drink it a case of alding insult to mjury, the their powers rudely disturbed. Their appl,
The German 8.5. Clara Jebsen is in Nu. 2 dock. unfiltered water from the clay, and for this undergoing her annual general overhaul and Chinese strongly resented their efforts to like that of the bangers-on of the temple of
survey. No. dock is taken up by the dock
reason everybody suffers from disordere. svangelise the people; they did but under DIANA, was to the great unwashed. Indirectly to CarryChicken Liver. Salte — stand why burbacians who could not dis the appeal was the strongest evidenes of the Potato. Vegetables-Boiled Potatoes. Les droger Cunton River. With her great beat,
ier twin-serows, and the quantity of machinery railway and border on the walls of the Chinese The Russian quarters lie westwords of the Posatoes, Green Fees, Mashed Turnips. Sweets- Such national morenicus Apple Pudding, Jus Tarte, Vanilia Ice Cream, above dock level, she looks a peculiar vessel
town, and are divided into two parts by a tinguish between Tan and I should national want.
Finger Cake. Demert-Fruits in Season. Tea In spite of her working on the bucket presume to teach them Tanli, uuless from rannot be repressed by force. To remove at
broad, Jarge street. In the southern half are and Coffee.
syatam, and not the more modern action some underlying sinister motive; or why this eleventh botar the missionary would be
the house of General Kuropatkin, the hores of system, she is a vary useful craft. The the Chief of the Staff; and the offices of the the robbers should be so anxious to improve to take away, the only influence able to
Chins Navigationss. Sungsiang is on the big Field Chancellaty. Her no there stands the morality of the robbed." They had not control the movement. It would be as
slip: her bottom-cleaning tuished. She looks ready with steam up and on a side-track the like a "new pin." The ferry Morning Star, magtificent trair used by Gou. Kuropatkin, and other small raft, are also on the lips. Behind his residence are the barracks of the The as. Lothian, painted white with butt faune railway battalions and the catre of business and black top, looks particularly well. She is life. In this quarter the only hotel is to be alongside fitting up to take lies to Svutis found; it is dirty, dark, badly tied up, and Africa. The China Navigation As, Changsha horribly dear; one is glad to get even its worst and the German 8s. Korat are moored off hals of a room for 6s, 60. a day. In the Pathfinder, her hall all red priming, is also for ammunition and food, hospitals, and various the docks. The little U.S. surveying, ship | Russian quarter there are immense store-roome
moored there. She seeins none the worse buildings required in providing for the needs for her recent stranding.
of a gigantic army.-Japan Mazi.
method.
DEATH OF A LADY MISSIONARY
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Miss Martha Postior, of the Hildesheim in fact studied the Tekki, but had reusate as in time of plague to banish the Missionary Society, sister of the Order of St. taken the irregular mode of climbing overstitious object to the isolation of the infected. (Kowloon) for Chinose Blind Girl, died on medical man, because certain of the super John, und Founder of the Ma` Pan Huli School the fence into the sheepfold without the
This is, however, Mr. Davenrorr's great : July 26th, alwest immediately on her arrival indispensable key of the Wadean Pekingese
remedy Unable to comprehend the move. in Germany from Hongkong. tea her, or delaying till their intellects had ment in Chim, which characteristicily be
We would condole with the late Miss Post- in China, and easily demolishes the false become obfuscated through his inane repeti sees only from the official side, he woulder's fellow workers, who have thus lost un issues raised by the societies of goudy- tions. Far flerwise should have been the bare the missionaries remove bag and Pestier, we are informed, came to Houg enthusiastic, selfless, and troly Christian friend. goodies who clamour for the total suppres
His method has at least the baggage to Alrict, where the people, he kong eight years ago, expressly to work sion of the opiam trade between India and
method of originality our easters may truly adds, desire Christianity, but in for the blind girls of China. China Those fulse issues, as he well shows,
Mis Postler judge of its prelable efficiency. It was to default are ready, to become Mohammedan
NEW SHIPS. begun the good work with five pupils in
The Dock talk of the hour is the new steamer erect on the southern face of the island of Like many other theorists who see only one Hongkong, "far away from the seductions side of a thesis, Mr. DAVENPORT Clows his the Pokfulam Road West Point. In four
years she removed to Macao, and there Kinting, which, by the way, was a few days as the Shanghai-the largest vessel of the seaport," schools and collages. Here yes to the fact that the movement, of which be
years, cunstantly increasing known the missionary propaganda is only the the number of her protégés. Iu May, 1902 evor turned out at Hongkong. She is is un. the missionaris sixty years age, setting to
outward sigu, is really spontaneous, or could the work was transferred to the new balld.dorgo
a trial trip this morning, commencing teristic exemplification of the vicarious one side the arm of flesh, would have trained not lave attained the depth or superficial ing at Kowloon, whero Miss Reineckr, anethor at Ja.m.; and considerable anxiety, is felt as righteousness of the day, which, in the young Chines for evangelist je work in the dimensions it occupiss. The removal of the devoted German lady. helped in the cure and
interior, where they were to he launched missionaries would in no sense diminish the tuition of blind girls, without experience or guidance. The in-force of the stream. From being an en- It appears that Miks Postler left Hongkong vitable would have followed; the Taiping banked and well-ordered river, the absence
on June 24th by the s.. Zarten in apparently Rebellion with its horrors broken out with of control could convert it into a destruc-and died three days after reaching her sister's the difference that it would have been con- tive torrent. What that means in China, vincingly trace to the instigation of the let the history of the closing days of English missionaries. Such, mid not the the Mings and the more recent Taiping conversion to Christianity of China, would eruption indicate. have been the demonstrable effect of Mr. DAVESPORT's notable scheme.
words of Hunteras, would
Compound for sins it felt inclined to
By damning those it had no mind to. After all, the scales in which humanity most eventually be weighed have a remark- able tendency to rest on an oven beam. In Europa we hold in high social esteem, the great brewer and the wine merchant; why seek to rob the Indian ryot and the darker. skinned merchant of Bombay?
two
good health. She was taken ill on the voyage,
home ut. Hochsta-main.
THE MURDERED FRENCHMEN.
If the Chinese Government has any intimate acquaintance with the politice of Europe, say the Baturday Review, the latest demand from to the result. It is said that, at her last trial, cultured cynicism. Some Belgian missionaries European nation will appeal to their highly a foy days ago, some difficulty was mot with in of the Roman Catholic Church were murdered keeping steam ap
At present the Kinling, daring an auti-foreign tumult at Ichung, The with a yellow coloured lull and white top-work, French Governmout by virtue of its protectorate Talaud survey boat work is proceding apocs, the traced the Lagation in Peking to demand is lying off the docks. On the new Philippine over the Roman Catholics in China hy in shell of the vessel nexcing complètion. Capt. Yates, the skipper, is to be found constantly by complete reparation. They have the splendid ↳ her; and he seems satisfied with the work so fur, audusity to maintain, even to advertise, and w The Evening Star, a new ferry, is practically for political purposes, this old position as ru-
presentative leader of Catholicism in the Far
The sudden change of front by the Russians in unexpectedly consenting to land down the colours of the Askold and Grosovei at Shanghui In any case Jesus, with more knowledge (the general opinion being that the uffair would ready for launching, except for the copper East while in their own country they are
drug on longer, though it would end in this way Her upper-deck fittings are not quite finished. oventually), and allowing them to be disarmed When launched, no doubt, she will be brought by the Chinese officials hero, is enid in man. under the shoer-legs to receive her engines, darin eireles to have been mainly due to the The recently-built hopper has disappeared, so action of the British authorities in ordering the it is to be presumed she is already in use. Dock people to stop work on the vessels in com- New sheds in the vicinity of the building pliance with the request of the Chinese ground are finished as far as frame-work is Government. northern contemporary thinks) appear to be corrugated iron roofs. The new electric light There does not, however (a concerned. They are all ready to receive their
much foundation for this warĮnise.
plant is being fitted up by degress.
The Chiuaman ignores the aroma of our
of human mature thun is exhibited by Mr. choicest vintage and turns for consolation It must not, however, be taken for granted DAVESTOR, points out of the sins of omis to his elaborate pipe and whiff of the that because "China from Within" contains sou of the Jews of his day, "These ought, choicest Mulwa. The thinner-skinned horse my foolish passages the whole book is to ye to have done; and not to have left the refuses the succulent but prickly thistle.be lightly thrown away as rubbish on the other undone." Increased exertion in Africa which bis better armed relation the donkey midden heap. For the most part, as Mr. could in no sense be held as a comperation eagerly devours to his great personal DAVENPORT half confesser, the outrages for faint-hearted withdrawal in Chine,
destroying Catholio institutions, hounding out their members, and in the peres of their chief Minister preaching dogmatic atheism. The contrast suggests mother reading of the tastan religio potuit auadere malorum. The Saturday Retien forgets that the French Government can reply that it seeks reparation for the luss
of citizens, not for missionaries.