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It is hard to kick against the pricks; to The oup presented by Bir Matthew Nathan run with the hare and rido with the boat; to the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club for we refer now, not to our esteemed contem-competition in the cruiser plass was on Sunday potary, but to the sentimentalists, the won by Miranda (Mr. H. Mosser's), idealists, the Utopiane, who forbid us to
A native undertakse from Hunghem was
"Holigans or fog seriously wise brought before Mr. Hassland at the magistracy.
eVJa
having and coolies, or
to hang callous murderere. If it were only all in the divine pane of Liberty, we could sympathiso; but the same people are most prone to meddle with individual liberty, in countless other ways.
The commana!
yesterday, charged with failing to report a case of smallpox at his house on April 5th. The Medical OReer of Health mid the man ought to have koira, as the rash was apparent. A fine of 825 was imposed.
TELEGRAMS.
("DAILE PRESS EXCLUSIVE. SERT IOR.]
IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.
LONDON, April 22nd.
The Imperial Conference decided
SUPREME COURT.
Monday, 2nd April, IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION BEFORE I FRANCIS PIGGOTT (CHIE) JUSTICE).
LARCENT OF TOBACCO, Charles Humphrey Kane, ou remand, agaia appeared on the charge of larceny of 1000 cases
to meet every four years, the confeof "Egyptian Delight" tobases from the
the Magistracy for making fast to the steamerent staff in London, and provision mixing while she was under weigh in the is to be made for holding subsidiary harbour. Defendant pleaded that he had been conferences: asked to go on board, bat P. C. Burry stated that the captain said he was not aware the man was on board.
LORD HALIBURTON DEAD.
Mr. Hazeland dealt with a facetions China-
LONDON, April 22nd. Iman ot
The the Magistracy yesterday.
Lord Haliburton, who was Assis- defendant, an unwashed sperimen of manhood was singularly enough ebarged with stealing, tant Under Secretary for War in 1888, carbolic seap, the property of the Godown and Permanent Under Sceretary from Company, and on being asked to plead defiantly
replied "It does not matter whether I stole 1895 to 1997, is dead. it or not." However his Worship found him guilty, and committed him to prison for thres weeks.
Á sensational case of swindling has just been reported to the police and as a result two
arreats have been made. A respectable Chiness gentleman, having been informed of a house to be sold at a remarkably low price, obtained
$10,000 to complete the parobase and on proceeding to the meating plans, a house in
THE ROYAL TOUR.
LONDON, April 22nd. The King returns to England to-
morrow.
[KEUTER'S MERVICE.]
THE COLONIAL PREMIERS IN
The Attorney-General prosecuted, and Mr.
for the defendant.
Mr. Calthrop, in re-opening the hearing, said it was a rale of practice that a jury ought to be told they ought not to convict unless they thought the evidence of the accomplies was corroborated, Evidently the British-American Tobacco Company did not think this "Egyptian Delight" tob woo had say cominarelal value when they carried it thoasseds of miles by se
This was cor-
to destroy it at West Point. tainly a peculiar aircainstance which tho
mausger stated had been carried on before his time. In the first instance the witness Hon Kwai pleaded guilty to the larceny of this tobacco, but the prosecution withdrew the charge. Of course, on this account, the witnes would be very grateful, and wish to assist them, and the way he did so was by saying Kane took the tubacco.
A fine of $50, with the alternative of two rence to be under the presidency of British-American Tobacor Company. sionths' imprisonment, was imposed on a board the Premier. There is to be a perma H. G. Calthrop, instructed by Mr. G. K. Hal enjority for its own peace and preservationing house racner yesterday by Mr. Hazeland at may not use repressive measures against
Brutton (of Messrs. Brutton and Bett), appeared the abnormal units who threaten it; but it a week in a cornin must pass its one day inactive way
the out of rospect for
It must be superstitions of the minority. serumized so that it can't convey didessa, but it musta't be punished so that it will not carry crime. Shanghailan lers were recently so shocked by the way of a maв, with & wayward mild, that they were unable to be shocked by the way of big murdererd with a revolver; and the soft tears of pity and relief that fell when mercy prevailed then, seem to have left their hearts harder and sterner for the time when "n steady increase of petty there came crime." Ah, well! we do not expect, and
The Attorney-General then addressed the do not plead for, consistency. Experience
jury. He said a msn bed a right to do what be liked with his own property, and if it was of a as well as EMERSON &aches us to loathe the consistent anan. But let us remember,
quality to interfere with the sale of his specialty as far as we cau and ns often as we can,
he was at liberty to distroy it in order to prevent it falling into the hands of that our lot is cast in a world of real flesh Gage Street, was offered the nanal cup of tea,
unscrupulons persons who might use it to and blood, of thorns nad roses, of crime and This was dragged, and the victim was enticed to participate in a gambling scheme in the
adulterate superior qualities, and in other ways virtue and strive to abandon frst of all
course of which he was rellavad of his manay..
bring these qualities into disrepute with the that sickly sentimentalism which, as with
The Pilgrim's Club gave a banquet at consuming public. There were thus good and We have received a programme of the angusi the anti-vivisection people, handicaps the
athletic sports of the Hongkong Schools. It is Chridges to the Colonial Premiers. Lord long one, containing 24 events, some of which Roberts presided. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, fighter with disease, hindura the repression (not suppression) of crime, and makes the promise to be very interesting. Foremost of General Botha and Mr. Moor wore absent, gardener's task Sisyphean by insisting on these are the bicycle races, and the half-mile owing to indisposition. The crowd of much consideration for the weeds.ohallenge up for boys from 14 to 18 years of distinguished persons present included Sir Finally, it seems inevitable that in arguing age. Heats in a rumber of the events will be
run off at the Valley on Saturday, but the best Edward Grey, Lord Elgin, Mr. Haldane and against one thing we should over-emphasise
sport should be witnessed on Monday, Messrs. the Duke of Devonshire. its opposite: Tolerance is good, and meroy H. L. Garrett and A. R. Satherland, is good; but this seatincatalism that.
| hovorary secretaríss, are open to receive an threatens to drown us all like a second entrance fee of 20 cents for euch event, or $1 Deluge is frightful. If our Ark should to cover the mooting. appear somewhat harsh in its outlines, it is
The N.C Daily News of April 18th mays. nevertheless necessary to enter it, till the-Perhaps the most satisfactory matter referred flood abates, and the Dové can ha set to in the Mau icial Council's Minutas is the Correct CRABH STs that the act of a wing cues more.
re-introduction of the use of the sangus at the Mixed Court. We have already stated that this avenging, though attended with the in- fliction of pain, is oftentimes sin act of
very proper step was taken ou Saturday last and while all proper credit may be given to the humanity as well as of justice: none suffer
Taolai and Magistrate, it is fitting to observe but those who deserve to; it is the act of
from the Minutes that the advisability of o Go Himself; whereas revenge" is the
doing kad again been strongly urged by the Busest of all actions, and its spirit un-
Council. The Mixed Court returns also còn. Christian. Are we to suppose that Shang-
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The English Mail of the 23rd March was delivered in London on the 20th inst.
Hall & Holts Ltd. of Shanghŝi have paid a twelve-and-a-half-per-cent dividend, and curried forward $15,000.
No plague, and other communicable diseran hai's eatisfaction with the Chinese reversion diminished, is the effect of the reports for to Chinese penal practices betrays desertion last week. Twelve caera of smallpox were noti- of the Christian principles of humanityfied, nine fatal, and four of enteric fever. and mercy; that ghost of Judge LYNCH | Heavy penalties were imposed by Mr. C. D. walks there; and that passion has usurped Wolfe at the Magistracy yesterday of nine and second were fined $50, and the remainder
a
the
tain a record of decapitations in the native city, which while grim in itself is an indication that a more weighty view of their responsi. bilities towards public order is being taken by
tue Chinese authorities.
A meeting of Shanghai cyclista took place
LONDON.
LONDON, April 20th.
The Hon. Mr. A. Daukin, (Australian Coinmonwealth) in responding to the toast of the Premiers questioned whether Great Britain's seaports would be unchallenged another century, and said that Australia, which believed in universal service, was ready to assist the Motherland and coaling stations with supplies.
| N.-C. Daily News Service.]
NO LIKIN AT KIRIN.
Tokyo, April 17th. 'The Japanese Consul at Kirin has secured a declaration from the Tartar General that all articles passing from the Settlement into the city shall be duty free, as stipulated in the Treaty.
RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT IN MANCHURIA.
TOKYO, April 16th,
ent before 11 a.rgon day of publication. After that i the pince of reason? Certainly not; such gamblers brought from Yaumati. The first gathering was a representative one, and it was stipulates for the juiat laying of the Kirin-
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AGRADECIMENTỎ, ALFREDO FRANCISCO DE JESUS SOMMER, sus capes, files, genrose netos, e FRANCISCO É UHERIO DALUZ SOARES sua rapora e fillos profundumenta penhorados pelas demonstrações do sympathia pelo Fallecimento do sen curulo Pai, Hagen, AVA His Ave, FRANCISCO DE PAULA SOAKES.
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to
$5 Bach.
The Cousalar Body at Shanghai has made common cause with the Municipal Council with regard to the latest likin imposition on caftle for the Shanghai butchers. The Consuls are protesting against it to the Chiasse authorities.
A Chinaman, who was found leaving the
how the supply is limited. Only supplied for Cush Telegraphic Address: Press, Code: 4.5.0, al Ed sult is remote from our intention Our contemporary notes that "the result" [of the temporary abandonment of Chinese thods] has been a steady increase of petty crime."
a result, and they Hrein in no doubt as
its cause, was enough to wurraut their recantation. What the good people of Shanghai have recanted 1 Dal, w think, their professions of humanity, but their now recognized errora of sentimentaisu. They have discovered, as their brethren .et home have not, tod
not Utopia. The Shangbai is
A fine boy in the employ of Messrs. mollycoding of criminals at home may Melohors and Company pleaded guilty at the
+ffect
Magistracy, yesterday, to the theft of unneed lar; Home have its
stamps from the office to the value of 36,66. A effect is not so immediately apparent coolic in Mr. Haskell's office was charged with Th it was. is exmunity like that of receiving them, knowing them to have been Shengbai. It was a in stake to relax the stolen. Eemanded.
Agradecen por cate mucio as pessoas que, se dignum vela: por elle, enviar grinaldas e accompanbala sua última morada,
Mongkong, 23 d'Abril, de 1907.
DEATH
70%
On April 15th, whilst on his way home per P. & 6. S. Macedo, WAAN Wooddy Kreo, (Shanghai), aged 17 peuta,
SONGKONGOFFICE: UA, DES VOUZ NOU LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREKT, EC.
The Daily Press:
HONGKONG, APRIL 23rd, 1907.
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but the
Comment Works, where he was employed, with a huge iron hook fastened to hit waist, was found guilty of larceny by Mr. Haxoland at the Magistracy yesterday, and sentenced to thro weeks' imprisonment.
secuted.
on April 16th at the Hotel des Colonies. The
decided to have an opening moet on the 5th May next under the auspices of the International | Velodrome. The following programme w
arranged for the first meeting: one mile, these mile, fire mile, open arania; two mile race for Police of both Settlements; five mile race for two or three borss power motors; and an American race for eight horse power motore, the riders starting at opposite sides of the track, making it necessary for the winner to lap his competitor. The rules of the Amateur Athletic Association were adopted; all riders to wear their university colours. The entrance foe for each event was fixed at $1,0
Our obituary colume has an announcement of Mr. W. W. King, who of the death commoroially has been known, in China for considerably over forty years. He went to Shanghai in March 1863 to the house of Shaw Brothers & Co. With them he remained until their dissolution in 1880, when, he started business on his own account. He was on bin way to see about the establishment of the firm of King, Simpson and. Ramsay London Forty years ago he was a rider of to mean ability and an soter of no mean merit, and for
Was
mightily handy with bis donklaharrel. And Mr. J. D. Bockefeller characterises as a his band with his peu unser forgot ils cunning, fabrication the report that he intende establish as all Shanghai papers can testify. He could ing a luod of £16,002,007 to be devoted to write pretty verse and most readable prose, and as a conversationist at a dinner table was over accoptable. Cancer was the cause of death,
The following paragraph is interesting be cause a comat is said to be even now rushing at
It has been urged that bolb are dograding raising the Chineas and their country to the pucishmonts and wholly repugnant to British
plane of civilization enjoyed by the American principles. We are prepared to admit that no punishment per ee is difying, but provided people. A great wave of thankfulness bas that fur Dis that absolutely meaningless are
Breed, the musi
brutal or passad over Chica
Ba deterrent on crime. With regard to the.
Chinese severity that alone impresses The four Japanese charged with the murder Chinese criminals, and the mistake should of a compatriot in a Japanese lodging house in be frankly admitted. Our contemporary Connaught Road on the 4th instant appeared does not seem quite willing to go this before Mr. Hez-land
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the Magistracy yester Our Shanghai correspondent, a week ago, length, however. It is uneasily conscious day, and, pleading not guilty, were remanded telegraphed that the punishment of the of the awkwardness of the dilemma, and it for a week. Detective Inspector Hans pro subsequent years amongel the snipe "cangue" had been inflicted, and that the lost (we use the word in all kiadlines, Magistrate had at the same time annomos having no alternative)-it almost shues, that the punishment of bambooing "We quote: would be resumed. Both are peculiarly Chinese methods of punishing criminals, and both were abandoned, at Shanghai only, when the Imperial Ediet concerned with peral reform was promulgated. This munouncement of their resumption takes us back to beginnings. One of the fex itenis of Chinese domestic policy with which foreigners have bera most insistent to inter- fere, and with which, in Treaty Ports, they have diligently and firmly interfered, has been China's treatment of her criminal.
meut, as there is analiaited reveu ant prisoners A Nanking løfter states that a fisherman, The chief, if not the only, resson for the can to take charge of by the Government and while dragging is nots over the Cana: at institution and existence of the Mix segregated from the community until they have Tunghayan inside the Eastern part of Nan and then. Courts was and has been that foreigners countries, however, the State counet afford this, kin city, to his surprise brought up a quantity | pity that the astrologer has not fixed the procise
ideal, wetbed of coping were determined to check, under their own
crime. Here of rifle enrtridges. A further weareb revealed tour, as if the collision should happen in the we are unfortunately cou in Chi
confronted with acres if nowhere else, what they were a population which seems to understand the 1,29 of three differant calibres. The authorities Those who are live on the 14th of June will be with more of them making a total "find" of over ¦ night, many would like to sit up and see it appreciate other mild pleased to call untive judicial brutality and gue, but fails wholly to
forans of punishment. The greatest good of were immediately uctiled and it is suspected able to confirm the correctness of the prophecy." native cruelly. The Chinaman's in tho greatest number is, therefore, likely to be that the contraband was "cache" by Anti- To alleviate suy nervousness, we may add that advanced by a temporary return to the panish-monarchists in preparation for a proposed the quoted paragraph appeared in print in humanits to Chinaman made them mourn ;
ment of the cangue, pending the elevation by émeute in the future. nothing if not humane, the foreigners in gradual methods of China's, criminal classes,"
eject of punishment is achieved if it acts A Peking dispatch states that the Wai-u-pa two punishments in question the bamboo is has been notified by the Amerious Minister in Lot so far removed from the birch and the Peking that there may be some trouble ja cat, med in British prisons, to call for com- Lionchow, Kwangiang Provines shortly. The ment. We may note in passing that, although
Minister therefore, requests the Wai-su-pu to
car globe. "A German astrologer (name unknowe) autonoces a terrible catastrophe for the middle of this year, in which Crinoline and China, the Brompton Boilers and the Forsian War, the reign of Naj deon III and the song su end. The end of the world is at hand. Day by day the ill-omoned astrologar has traced the path of the comet. There in the heavens its course is plafaly marked out. Oa, the 13th of Juce it will come into collision with the carb, all will be over. It is a
it has not yet been rovised at the Mixed Court, instruct the Viceroy of Knaagtung to rive of the Ratanteher's Daughter will all come to there se+ms some prospect of this being done within a short time The cangue in certainly protection to Americau residents and their not to be recommended for Ulaga; in the property in the threatened district. ideal state, there is no need for psical
PRuick-
been transformed 'into ideal citizens. In most
the
with
April, 1857.
sufficient reasons for the distraction of this property, and if a person charged to destroy it converted it to his own use it was theft, just as much as taking a parse cut of another person's pocket. The prisoner had told them his salary was $80 a mouth, but he would not press that matter tome, as the jury could draw their own inference from the spectacle of an 880 a month man living a $500 Bĺe.
His Lordship then summed up at longlb, and directed the jurors, who retired.
The jury came back twice, the foreman reporting that they bai been unable to agree, and on each occasion they are directed by
his Hoonar to retire, and endeavour to arrive at a nuanimons verdict.
They returasd for the third time 25, when The foreman inanunosd-We are still of the same opinion-four to three..
The Chief Justice-Then there must be " retrial. I ought not to sit again, I think. It will be better if Mr. Justice Wine takes the
CASH.
The jury was discharged, and after the mazai details had been arranged, the Seesions wore adjourned,
THE POST OFFICE FORON KIES, Chan Wo and Chan Lam were inlicled on charges of forgery, ultering a forged docamsut and obtaining goods by means of a forged document.
The Attorney-General, instructed by Mr. An agreement signed on Monday at Paking | G. E. Morrell, Crown Solicitor, prosecuted. Changchun Railway for the purchase by
Prisoners who were undefended, pleaded guilty. Mr. Gomperta stated that the accused were China of the Hsioniston-Mukden Railway; and for the investment of Japanese capital informerly employed by the Kwong We Choong,
firm that railway East of the Liuolo.
which bad large dealings with Touro, April 17th.
America. They know that the firm receired The purchase price of the Hsiamintut letters containing money or valuable documente Mukden railway is Yen 1,560,000.
Half the capital of the Hsinmintao Mukden by every American mail. On March 14th. from the South Manchuris Railway Company. defendant went to the Post Office and asked. and Changebun-Kiric railways will be borrowed The term of the loan for the Ilsiumintna for the firm's letters. He was handed eleven railway, will be eighteen years and of the
which he chopped, and signed receipts. The Changchun Bailway twenty years, and the amounts will be muredeemable until the full second defendant was waiting outside for the The chief engineers first, and together they went to the China Hotel expiration of these terms. and accountants are to be Japanese, who will
MeanwLilo where they opened the letters. here full responsibility for the lines.
the firm sent for their letters and
when the American mail arrived the first
Fore
accused were arrested inter and certain cheques were found in their possession.
Influential critics here point out the possibi y that China may horalf conatrust railways told that they had already been delivered. The which are rot specially mentioned in the convention without reference to the South Mancharis Railway Company inasmuch as such s contingency was not foreshadowed by the Kemura Troaty of Peking.
A DIPLOMATIC "OINT.
Texvo, April 16tb. The murder of a Chinese member of a fishery ompany at Port Arthur and the subsequent arrest of a Japanese by order of the Directorate of the new Kaiping Fiabing Company, arn receiving diplomatic attention.
THE HAGUE CONFERENCE.
TOKYO, April 16th. The Japanese delegates to the Hague Coo- ference are to lear Tokyo on April 27th and will proceed to Europe via Biberia,
WEATHER REPORT,
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday isxned the following report
On the 2ed at 11.55 a.m.-The depression lying over NE. Japan yesterday in moving
His Lordship aid the offence was very serious one and sentenced mob of the defendants to seven years' imprisonment with hard labour,
GERMANY'S NAVAL STRENGTH.
A COMPARATIVE RETINATE.
year, bu bigger thar
виту
The Berliner Tageblatt has published a striking article dealing with a comparison be tween the German Nazy and those of other Powers. The writer of the article begins his remarks by saying that the political situation in the new Reichsing is toci favourably for the Government got to ask soon for more modey to be spent on the
Narg
Not only will the new Armoured craiser "F" to be laid down this aby similar ship in say but the
Eraati-Bayern battleships NOW and Brauts Sachson will come se surprises in several respects. The final remarks call for attention: A general view of the naval strength of the various Powers does not resolt in formasy coming out unfavourably, for its battleships, which are the real fighting ships, assure to Germany incontestably the second place among all the nasies of the world. We do not come out so well from a comparison of Loochoos. It remains high oror N. China.
Pressure is low in the neighbourhood of the ont armoured cruisers with these of France and the United States. Still, in that respect Fresh N.E. winds are expected to prevail also, circumstances permit us to eay that our in the Formosa Channel, and along the superiority over one of the Powers referred to Northern shores of the China Sea.
la no longar doubtful. And this is the reason at 10a.m. to-day, 9 inches.
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending why Germany wishes to maintain its place among the havies of the world. But the ambitious sim of wishing to reach the first The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon place among the Naval Powers is illusory and to-day is as follows -- Hongkong & Neighbourhood...(*), Formosa Channel ..
avay over the Pacific.
The barometer has risen over S.E. Japan and the S conet of Chins, and fallen over the E.
ccast and the Loochaos.
öven useless in view of immenso superiority possessed by the British Navy in the proant N.E. winds, political situation."
freak.
Same as No. 1.
South coast of Ching between?
Hongkong and Lamocks
Plain fostaros are a great help to virtue. South coast of China betweenĮ E. winds,
Plague ills its thousands, foar its millions, Hongkong and Hainan. fresh.
but fashion and convention can give both 90 in (N.E. winds, moderate or fresh; rain at a hundred and best them by ten." fest, probably improving later.