INTIMATION.
quite true,
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TONG SHAO-Y!
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22nd, 1006.
seems
The Rev. A. A. Johneton, pastor of the
This evening at the Union Church Literary
to have discovered, that the Chinese Contral Presbyterian Church, New York, who Cab, Mr. Frank Brown (Governmost Analyst TELEGRAMS. CONCERT IN THE CITY HALL. Imperial Post has now reached a high state conducting a series of meetings in Hongkong. of his views." D. J.C. Thomson will take the
ie on a visit India, Japan, sud China, is
The first was held last night of the Seaman's Institute, Kowloon, and attracted a fair attend
of efficiency. It handles an enormous.Dass of mail matter for all nations, as well as domestic letters, and the Customs people | uner. have themselves with pardonable printe
A. S. WATSON & CO., called atention to the satisfaction with
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CONFECTIONERY, of competition with thear, we have noticed that even foreigners have given it the pre. ferene under certain conditions. In passing is may be pointed out that the reported
TE HAVE JUST UNPACKED oor
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from the leading London and Pansias Henson
ncluding
CHOCOLATINES, CHOCOLATES.
CARAMELS, PRALINES, FONDANTS.
FRUIT JELLIES, NOUGAT, TURKISH
DELIGHT.
PASCALL'S TOPFER and MIXED
SWEETS.
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BURNT ALMONDS.
ALMONDS
will deliver a lecture on Faraday and certain
chair at 9 pm sharp. It is hoped as many as possible will attend.
A curious 'slip occars in a Home paper The Oaks Plague Prevention Council pro-describing the gua-trials of the Dreadmonylits pases the expenditure of about Y870,000 for the The precautivas necessary for the ganners to Stamping-out and prevention of plague in the avoid the coneussion of the mighty charges of city. Of this san, Y45-4,8-9) is to be devoted to cordita'iuoluded wads of "gun-colin"in the the construction of a quaranti se-home, and cars, to prove at the dramos leing split. This Y420,000 for warehouses for storing Bombay recalls the ausver given by a S. V. A. gunner, cotiau. Application will be made to the who thought he had land word than enough Government for a grant of the above-tamed gruilling from the Sergant Mogor round the sum.
gan, and at question time he was asked what kind of powder was used with the genu,
suical spacer that was opposted
"["DAILY"PRESS" EXCLUSIVE REHVICK.
CHINESE VOLUNTEERS AT
SHANGHAI
STATUS RECOGNISED.
Miss Henriotts Muckens, an accomplished violinist who has charmed many-audionons-in- the East, and Mike Bonaria Hant, a pianist of more than ordinary merit, assisted by local artists, gave a concert in the City Hall hast night ja presence of a fair number of the masie lovora of Hongkong. Both the principals won golden opitious from the andiouch. Miss Murkons showed a parlent mastery of the violin, Artistio as well as skilful, she played with wonderful feling, and her selections from a lung repertoire charmel her hearers.
When
inserto
SHANGHAI, November 21st. The Municipal Commeil annoa nees associated with Mr. fokd in this
"Larga ma són tanta ale appeared to great its willingness to admit a body of one
advantage, and she was conspicuoudy sure-us- andred Chinese Volunteers miderful in her performance ( 30 Old Daten Suits
atlices in the Treaty Ports, but at many The result of the issue of the 6 per cent places, where in Ims enteral into some stand of Kawasaki lockyard Comply "gua-pander" was correct, but not the pany. Kole, to the amount of ¥4,000,499, the
Tu Japan, since the conclusion of peace' with | defence force. sub criptions to which wore closed on, the 7th
Ilew nompanies have been instant, has proved completely specansfel, the Russia, 3,36 mamat subscribe! excending ¥8,000,000. The promoted, prospectuses drafted, and their com applications offered at above issue prios reached bined capital mbled to the fund for the extension over 14,000,084, so that offers at par have woef obl gompanies exc-eds. 1703000,000. The prospwet of receiving day allotment. The company flotation maniu continued in Soplam: highest price offered was Y1:10 for Y10) ber and October lust, a this expital of the new
remark of Toso Suveert is in itself a fing compliment to the ability of the INSPECTOR- GENERAL and the stuff of whom the Chinese are supposed the autious te rad themselves. The Chinese Imperial vmdeure is the foreignera which led to the handing over to the Customs of the entire offieil and privde mails, for warly wa
Thursand years entrusted to the Courier Post, WAS admittedly justifle 1. In March 1904 wg remarked that if
the Etrapan supervision wend withdrawa from the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Servire, there cut be no doubt in the talors of the
whee
then vaide.
|
companies proposed in the two months emorated 10 Yoga83pm and Y2,754,00 respectively. The aggregate amounts of the
proposed increases of expital of old, rempanies during desa mouths sare Y8,142,000 and Y20,715,000 respectively, and then, added to the total up to Angust last, brings the graud total up to nearly 1900,000,000.
The incorporation of the Tokyo and Oska Sugar Refining Companies was approved t special general meetings of the respective con- cers on Nov. th. The gecessary procę laro for the incorporation was gone through on New 11th, and to business will be condariel after his data under the style of the Dai Nippon Seite Kaisha (Crew: Japan Sugar (Ratone
Russiaus expeel the commareisl trendy with Company). Wo anduratand that the proposed | Japan to be concluded by the end of this year. inerporation of the Daici Sagar Refining The Government will then appoint a Cousal Mill has not entar about, the terus proposed at Korsakoff, and sand a commercial agent acquainted with this depin innguage trase
the incorporated xanpony,
A district watchusu as Third Lane got into trouble early on Wednesday morning. After going on duty he went to a certain lionso where
ognisant of Chinese ways and iliosyncra by the latter corn, bug dispproved of by sies, that there would follow a rapiri reversant to the obl system of corruption, sloth, and pro rasticntion. Trasle would soon sulter, the revenge fall off, and
he divested himself of his uniform and attiend sungging become rife. The same with the himself in ordinary clot hou. He went for a walk Pestal Administration". Thus, in spite fund in the course of his wanderings haud his all the claptrap about Chian's awakening, comparion came upon a foreign-seamen, with and her alleged reforms, is as true today when they had words. The other man held as it was then. It is because we are so
De sailor's hands while the watchman hit him on the head with his balon. Then both of them Packet in the daintiest buxes or in the convinced of that that we do not share the
ran off, int the emalor gaze chass and caught the walchnia, who appeared yesterday before simplest to sail to taste.
Mr. Bazeland at the Magistracy sad was saafeused to six weeks' imprisonment.
WALNUTS, MILK CHOCOLATE, NOT
TONA, &c.
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vortionally hon Japas and to exspise the ports especially Trungu which will probably become a great centra of Russo-Japunusu trade,
American expital to Sakhalin and Eastwu it will also endeavor to attract British aud
The great bagbear of the Russians is the dond Siberia as a counterpoise to Japanese enterprise.
of the peaceful assimilation of the eastern coast of Siberia by than depanese, which accounts-for their absurd opposition to M. Motero's propom! to allow Jupatione fishermen to lease and for fishing stations for a cumber of years. Russiaus wished the term to be only one year.
The
A telegrain from Rome to the Temps relates that the R. Father Caronies, vicar of the fashionable church of Bants Maddalena in that city, hus isen missing for several daya, He is well known in Rome ne the "Soldier. Priest," for although vicar of an import- ant parish, he is also an officer in the Italian Artillery Reserve, and on several
JUNK WRECK DISASTER.
SHLANGAI, November 21 A
"tureign "ollivers as a quit of the host Songs givennady Misterande
wlt Miss Bonavia Hunt teok a promineAÍ part in the prozradíme, While all her con tributions had a partienlar charm, she porkaps valled in **Etule," which evoked tho rapturous applus of the audiences.
Her concluding relations gavo indication of he wanderful skill as a pianist, and her auditors at namturally demandai mare. Alour with Miss Murkens she was the recipient of floral compliments. Mrs. P. Maitland WAS in blowing" aad" Hush as th sorrow" in azquisite vaiva and sang Daffodils a
very pleasing manner and had to respond to nu «menre to her sound effort. Mr. P. W. Goldring was deservedly applauded for his fiue rendering of Still wie dies uncht" aud already indicated Mr. Joki took part in a dust with Miss Markens, playing in his umal flofsted style. Losers of high class music curtainly agrnel that they had had a treaE.
A large jank entering port, and crowded with Chinese, capsized in.| the fangpu yesterday. About sixty were drowned.,
KIANGSU PAMINE.
SILANGITAL, November 21st. An influential Chinese and foreign committee is being formed to organize relief for the famine stricken people of
North Kiangsu,
Spasmodic rioting contines there among the distressed population,
ABSCONDER CAUGHT.
SILANGHAL, November 1st.
MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE.
μ
Gulam Sher, an Indian watchman, employed eu the Kowloon-Cuaton Railway, appeared ba for Mr. F. A. Huzeland at the Magistracy Yesterday charged with manslaughter, it bring alleged that he caused the dust of Ng Hings Pak, a pig douler, at Yaminati, on theo làth inst Buspector McDanabi, of Youmati, prosecuted. It was intimated that the proscention had six Goode, who recently absconded fromwituesses, and the defendant esid he would all Cone Indian en his behalf. Two Chiwess witnesses here, has been arrested at Victoria, whom he wished to call could not be found. British Columbia.
[NDUTER'S SERVICE.]
CANADIAN PACIFIC MAILS.
fears of those who believe the Customs in similar danger HOW There is danger 10 purely British interests, but the disappearance of foreign control, at
A lady friend of mine (says a writer in the the present time, is nuthinkable. T`soome
Glasgow News) who during the early to us that, with Chinese polities in their satuma months, visited London was one of present chaotic condition, it must be us Father Vanghan's hearers at a Sauday "Smine unthinkable at Peking as it is in the Trent; Sot" tirade. I only rust my friend yesterday, but she was as full of the sermon as though she Ports or in London, auve perhaps in the had heard it yesterday. Her verdict was that occasions after drill he has been seen in the minds of a few impotout, mein bers of the the Father's sermons game under the category church booted and spurred and with a sword at Young Chian party. The Treaty Towers of simple, direct discourses; the occasional his side before going into the vestry to put on English mail will reach Hongkong in 27 have left it to Great Britain asthe predominant outbursts of feeling alone were pounced on by his olerical vestments. The doublo character of days. partner, and not even a Kudical Government the Loeden journalists. What struck her u ost, priust and soldier seem to have turnil the beads
dure neglect its duty, once the Young China ORL Fommunications relating to the news columnly proves that its influence is more than it hould be addressed to Tax EDITOR.
Correspondents must forward their not one ad drasas rath communications addressed to the dies, not for publication but as evidence of good faith
Al letters for publication should be written on
side of the paper
come.
Ne anonymously signed communications that havi ai cuuy appeared in other pasers will be inserted.
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The Daily Press.
HONGKONG. NOVEMBER 22ND, 1906.
a real political issue.
however, was neither the preacher nor the
Barton,
it was the faol that the text was cannot serve God and Manmon," and that she had to pay a shilling for her sont.
A few years ago Russia entertained the project of laying down a line of railway from Kakhta, the old Siberian froutier town, 181 miles 8 E. of Irkutsk, across the Gobi or Shamo tort of Mongolia to Urga, sad theres to Kalgan, a fortified Chinese town lying 125 milss NW. of l'eking and near the Great Wall The greatest secrecy was maintained with regard to this project, and Mongolia itself was closed by Bassian authority to exploration by foreign travellers. However, it is known that Pussin did get together a very considerable amount of alway building material for the purposes of laring down the Mongolian Railway. At last a start hrs been made, but, strange to say, it is the Chinese themselves who are building a rail- way across Mongolia,
The
of a number of fashionable Roman ladios. priest, who is a fua-looking men, was a great favourite, and his confessional box was boringed by ladies, young and old, of the Roman aristo-,
Gracy. f late be had been continually beset by an exceedingly handsome young lady of distin guished Easily. She was madly in love with
the soldier-priset and the pär have now disappeared together.
LONDON, November 19%. The Canadian Pacific has shortened the bual trausit for mails, and hope that the
GERMANY,
LONDON, November 19th.
The first witasse spoke to seeing deceased | lending a boar along the road from Kowloon- tong to Kowloon-chși. Defendant” threw a piece of earth at the pig, whereupon deconad called him a "dirty Indian devil.” The defend- ant then struck the dealer with his dat, knock- ing him over, and then kicking him several times as he lay on the ground. He also stamped. on the deceased's back. Witness saw that lie wan was dead and he and three others arrested the Indian.
The hearing wes adjourned.
A BUILDING PROSECUTION.
A building contractor named Fang Chan Ynep, caramoned by the Building Authority The German papers, including the Con. for failing to comply with a nottes calling upon servative pues, continue to be intensely houses in Hill Road on the ground that the bim to remove certain iron partitions from his
road, and attribute it largely to the having been submitted to the Building satisfied with the situation at home, and partitions bad to rected without the plans Kaiser's constant personal intervention. Authority, has had julgmont given in his They strongly urge the necessity of a ready. Prince von Buelow's speeches remarks on "The Blue Feak School," which have not allayed the popular discontent at are apropos just now after so many scares re the -
the foreign policy. He points deterioration of the British navy. out that the scaremongers always avoid facts, and confine themselves to programmes of ships "building"
A writer in the Spoker kas san appropriate
or "about to be laid down"
THE SITUATION IN MOROCCO.
faron by Mr. P A. Hazeland. Mr.
Bowley, the Crown Solicitor, who prosecuted,
contended that defendant was responsible for nuisance on the premises, but Mr. M. W. Slade, finstructed by Mr. R. Harding, of Messrs. Ewens, Harston and Harding), who defended argued Dint the facts did not constitute anisauce. His Worship held that commencing a building without having deposited plans with the authority was not a naisance within the meaning of the section of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, and he dismissed tha
LONDON, November 19th, According to the Dilke return of May, 1956,
The condition of Morocco is going from Great Britain has 55 first-class battleships to Germany's 18, France's 19, and Russia's eight bad to worse. The Europeans are looking Of armoured cruisers Great Britain has to forward to a Franco-Spanish intervention, Gormany's six, France's 19, and Bassia's fureo. | and it is understood that both countries summons. two and a half times that of Germany. The takea unawares when the moment for action Further, the total British naval expenditure is are making preparations to avoid being
CHINESE AND BIRTH REGISTRATION.
almittedly is at present. It is unlikely," we remarked years ago, "that Chiun will pass out of tutelage for many a long year to Even the stimulus of Japanese example less striking then than it has since becoms) is unlikely to have any the apathy and corruption which hold the Chinese Govern- ment in bondage." In three later days, we see little reasure to modify those opinions. We will grant the disappearance of much of the apathy referred to, but tho proportion of really dependable officials has not grown any grouter. The new system has not yet had time to produce them, and so far ite attempts to do as have been half- hearted and misdirected. It seems reuson- Recently at Singapore. a youthful Chinese Tuz detachinent of the Imperial Chineseable enough to us to relieve the Customs flad was charged with having kidnapped a pre-contention of the Terrorists is that one German arrives, Pasul service from the control of the further responsibility for such a large possessing Malay girl named Esali. The story is equal to, if not better than, thres Englishmen Customs, which we recently surmised undertaking us the C. I. P. has now grown; seems quite a romance, for though the heyat seu A London contemporary says: -“ In would wound Sir ROBERT HART far more but if it has to have the special department it charged by the girl's mother, Essh's story in the days before the entente, cordiale we were told.
that she is sixteen years old and has know" than the appointment of the new Commis-
now seems to require, the Chinese will be Kha Watt, the boy charged with kidnapping / that we must increase our armaments boesnee aioners to rchers the Wai-wa-pu of 19 well-advised to retain a foreign hend.her, since her childhood and is very fond of him. Franco was the enemy. Now the alarmista supervisory duties, appears to have become Doubtless the foreign representatives, in the As her mother illtreated her and did not give ingeniously adapt themselves to cironmutauens the Hongkong Authorities they invariably When natives and themselves in trouble with Prince Casais interests of maintained efficiency, as im her oneagh food, she asked her sweetheart Kim by urging that we must farther increase car credited or blamed as the original of the portant to China as to theur, will prevail Watt to take her away and one night at the urmauents in urder, if necessary, to come to lead ignoraus of the regulations or the lowe which they bare infringed, and despite the scheme, which is obviously partly minated upon Peking, if they change at all, to pro- boy's mother's house.
romantio bear of midnight they eloped to the the aid of our ally. If the British Empire sixty odd years that Hongkong has been under Here they sp. ut four occnpied the whole surface of the globe we would British administration there is still the same by the modera spirit desirous of eliviunting ceed on these lines. Let the Chinese days of bliss before the girl's mother tracked And these same fearful spirits organising a scare foreign direction from ali Chinese public authorities appoint native Postal Commis her daughter down and broke up the honeymoon. undertakings. The Peking and Tientsisioners if they like fas thers are still The young lover's story is similar to the girl's Timer considers that Tore Suso-r is the expectant" favourites who have to be Be is seventeen years old and is a compositor real author of the propment, the latter being rewarded) but let there be a foreign Post-in the Straits Times office The police were reported to have said that the organization Master-General, just as there is still and ridently in smpathy with the lovers, and it
now 80 far advanced ng
to render must be a foreign Inspector-General of farther foreign supervision noedless. Customs, with equal responsibility. Then Whoever be responsible for it, such
we shall not see a promising enterprise change Cannot be contemplated losing the ground it has notably gained in without
tend great uneasiness,
without regariling for thin Say moment its anti-foreign tendency. Chinese ambitions to manage their own affairs are sufficiently natural, their ropugnauce to foreign assistance of no long standing, that it is not worth while wasting time discussing them. What will be, will be; but what should not be, ia the light of foreign treaties and Chinese pronies, will certainly not be. We still have sufficient confidence in these representing foreign interests to trust that nothing outrageous The will be permitted in our time. objections to the proposed transfer of the
Postal Service reat on Chinese mmediately practical grounds. It
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we the last two or three years.
捐
The
more
ią
not exprcled that they will be separated.
is
about sa invasion from Mars."
during the last winter through Cbins for the Dr. Tafel, a German explorer, has travelled
Bacond time. Dr. Tafal has explored the Koko-Nor region of N.E. Tibet. To do this he had to disguise himself as a Kashgar trader, while his chief attendant in charge of his caroxan gives himself out to be a trader is discharge, was
A TERRIBLE DEATH,
A Chinaman employed at the China Borneo Company's sawmills at Mongkok met bin death there yesterday. While carrying a load of wood he slipped and fell on me of the buge circular saws, which cut bis head open, death being instant neons.
ENOUGH PRECEPTS: TOO LITTLE
PRACTICE.
CHINA'S MOST PRESSING LEFORM. difficulty in inducing the people to comply with
There is no necessity to wait for the formulat ing of rules and regulations and laws and local regulations. A case in point is the statutes by which a Constitution Government Many Chinese parents neglect this duty, either har registration of children born in the colony.is to be ordered and administered 10 or 20 years hence, remarks the Shanghai Mercury. It is puro
Eonsence and waste of energy and time to through ignorance or a disinclination to obey, sad the object of the Ordinance is frustrated changes and alterations for an anticipated Con be engaged night and day in formulating such What brings the matter up afresh was the stitutional or Representative Government I the people are burden- The identity of this storm (Sept. 18th with
imprisonment of a boy for larceny who, after twenty years about
ed and crushed, and oppressed by offic
officials and the one which crossed the Philippines a few
ordered to be bauish their yamen ranners all the year round right days earlier, may be pointed out by Father of smaller rank, and the ten mes forming the. The father, however, intervened and under their eyes! The above in rory depart Algue; but in view of the animosity which has caravan are ad armed with rifles. The Ber. declared the lad was born in Hongkong and ment of the Government Administration can not be remedied by the drawing up of endless always boon displayed by Mr. Doberck against liner Tageblatt" publishes Dr. Tafel's views could not, therefore, be sent out of the Colony. rules and forcelas for an uncertain form of the Manila Observatory, and his antagonistic with regard to China. The explorer writes: Inquiries were made, sud a woman state she Government of which neither officials or people attituds thereto, the reverend director has no "The Japanese spies are to be wat with hiddon | had been present at the birth of the boy in a koow little, and care little for its establishment! desire to embitter him still more by pointing away in the most remate districts, even for boat at Causeway Bay. The mother also Why not begin in the yamens at on that might have beati done in line of timely towards Tibet. They travel in the guise appeared and said that the younger son, a boy of the country, why not begin to clean those onea? They have reformed somewhat the Educational laws forewarning of the Hongkong disaster of traders, teacher, and Buddhist monks; as of four, was born at the same place. She "dirty stables" that soud forth such oppressive Furthermore, (damnauts the Far Eastern the latter they manage to incite the wrath admitted that she bad not registered either of stenches every day us to weston the industrial The Cablencios, reporting the arrival of the
Review) a thorough discussion of the subject of the leading Tibetan followers of Baddle the births. A prosecution followed, the parents Prin: Sigiamural at Menila with a carge of could not be accomplished at the Manila against the catside peoples. Everywhere the baing proceeded against for not registeriox the Australian four, wentions that she was pre-records, which privilege Fatber Algue might and in playing the yellow off against the that he did not know he had to do so, but the
Observatory without acess to Mr. Dobarck's Japanese are met vous retire the native births of the two children. The father pleaded aceding to Hongkong to be surveyed.
noi hope to beaccorded on account of the one-sided white. Only Intoly I met a young monk, who Magistrala thought ile daty would be impresse
a genuina Tibetan; suddenly Darie, Captain Harry Gaokrogar, animosity which restrains professional and scien- seemed to be
ou kim by the imposition of a fino of 85. arrived at Manila on Nos. 16th, 27 days out from tifis freedom of communication between the two be epoke to me in the best English, in which San Francisco. Captain Gankrogar relieves institutions. We should like to sue the barrier only a slight Japanese acount was to be Captain Harry Smith in command. He has of jealousy so long sxisting torn away, because noticed; he was one of Japan's agenta, nad been chief officer of the Doric for five years.we believe that with earnest and unselfish probably an officer by his education. Mr. John Hill, formerly 2nd officer of the co-operation between the observatories of spoke also a little German, and it was the Coptic, is chief officer, succeeding Capt. Manila and Hongkong much good could be first time for a whole year that I had heard Gaakrogar.
Boomplished in the public interest.
my mother-language.”
▲ Chinese child, three years of age, while playing on Tuesday in a house in Kennedy Stroet, fell from the window sill to the ground, and died shortly afterwards.
The
Не
When a girl is badly hart-heart-burt--ske instinctively turns to doing good.
You may fail to shine in the opinion of men, both in your conversation and actions, from being superior as well as inferior to them.
i
habits of the working-wan, and destroy the hope and expectations of the earnest shopman, the farmer, and the hard-working ploughman ? There classes are never safe from the oppresion aud Bezes of the yanien runners! real reformers in Peking were to set about in earnest, and keep close to the three distinct powers which comprise every kind of govern- Dent, namely, Legislative, Judicial and Executive, they would then ady ance somewhat.
It is a singular fact that all young people want to be eller and all old people want to ba younger, and that both, by neglecting their present to gaze into a far away realm, ding away their opportunity.