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to many observers a little suspicious that! in South Africa as well as in Hongkong such emphasis should be laid on the statement that corruption is practically confined to subordinates. It looks as if "the national bonour" has to be white-
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& CO., washed in sections. Reforms of system, how- ever, would help us to dispense with this unsatisfactory way of treating toe tarnished As Dr, PRAUSE would say, it may make the place look cleaner, but it doesn't bill the germis.
One of these days th methods of the London, County Council staff will be exposed, and then the peccadillors of the HongLong Sanitary Board's servants will pals into comparative, Insiguibance. If two ghovels are required there, two dozen are ordered, two used, a dozen disposed of by subordinate employees, and the remaining (say) ten taken down Thames one day and dumped into theses. If you happen to know the dumpers get lots of good things very you can cheap. This has been going on for Tenra, or bad bom up to half a dozen years ago, and we have seen so notice of any change yet, except tout the public was FRAGRANT tired of the Council's "extravagance." There is little doubt that this sort of thing goos on wherever, as at Hongkong, public money is spent, is the Commission now telly us, without basinesslike checks and supervision. It is useless, when the ovil becomes too glaring to iguore, to keep about the tarnishing of the national honour. National fiddlesticks. The thing to do is to set about revising the system, or initiating methods that will reduce the tempta tions and mitigate the jeopardy of the Englishuau's good name. This the members
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with hostility to begin being viewed with, by the very officials who ought to be most anxious to help. When our readers have been put in possession of the 'com, plete report, as well as of Mr. SHELTON
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It may be most regrettable mental obtuse. ness that after pondering the remarks of Hrs EXCELLENCY THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING
GOVERNMENT
tind ourselves THE unable to see how the conduct of the cor- Tupt employees of the Hongkong Sanitary Board "drugs the name of Englishman into the mire", or how it can be said to have
taruished the uational honour."
As the offenders were not all English, Mr. May might more fittingly have employed the term "Briton", and even then there would
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and no time will be lost in starting operations site, à temporary matahed has been erected, TELEGRAMS. for the erection of the permanent building. On Monday an informal opening ceremony is to take place.
REUTER'S SERVIOR.]
THE CHINESE MINISTER
LONDON, May 15th. The Chinese Minister has left London for
A Japanese military mission was expected to arrive at Rouen on April 18. It consisted of General Nishi, Inspector-General of Military Peking, Instruction, with other Japanese Army oflores, and they were to visit most of the military As General Nishi is a establishments there. General of Division, he was to be received with the military honours always paid to the Com- mandar of an Army Corps. The mimion was to be prosent at a field day of the local garrisons near Louviere, a small town 17 milna south of Roush..
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
LONDON, May 15th. The Austrian elections, conducted for the first time on the basis of universal suffrage, are noteworthy on account of the suogosses of the Socialists and the defeat of Pangermang.
After a trial lasting six weeks, a Chicago jury he found the Standard Oil Company guilty of receiving rebates from the Chicago and Altou and other railway companies on 1,452 counts out of 1,903,441 counts having On this finding the maxi- been thrown out. www panallies under the Elkins Law amount to nearly 230,000,00 (28,000,000). The im position of penalties has been withheld pending Connaught were present. the hosting of a motion by the defence for the consolidation of the offenses into one misdumoa- nour and for the imposition of a single fias to be
PRINCE FUSHIMI,
LONDON, May 15th. Baron Komura bas given a banquet and reception in honour of Prince Fushimi. It was among the most notable functions of the season, The Duke and Duchess of
Prince Fushimi bus receivel the doctorato of lawa degree at Cambridge where he also received a great ovation, and lunched
fixed according to the discretionary power of in the Senate House. The University of the judge. The defendants have slao moved
for a new trial.
The Budget in brief-Reduction of 3d. in the £ on all earned incomes up to £2,000. Where the income, both earned and unearned, does not exceed £2,000, the reduction to apply only to that portion which is earned. The penalties to be increased and the period of recovery extended in caas of evasion. Extended returns to be required. English mode of collection to ba levelled up to the Scottish. Present scale of abatements to remain. Before the close of noxt session to lay the foundations of an old-age pension scheme, System of imperial ta zation being handed over to local authorities, to be swept away. Local authorities to receive an equivalent from the consolidated fund. Death duties on ostates above £150,000 to pay, if not exceeding £250,000, 7 per cent.; under £500,000, 8 per cɩmt.; nader £750,00). per cent; and under a million, 10 per cent.
By kind permission of Lient. Col. W. Scott Moncrieff and Officers, the Band of the Third Battalion "The Duke of Cambridge's Own'' (Middlesex Regiment) will play the following programms of musia during dinner at the
Oxford will confer the Doctorate of Civil Law on the Prince, on the 21st inst..
RESULT OF THE NEWMARKET STAKES.
LONDON, May 15th.
1 Acclaim.
2 Linnere.
3 Enstern.
THE CROWN PRINCE OF SPAIN.
Lonnox, May 15th. Prince Arthur of Connaught will repre. sent the King at the christening of the Crown Prince.
THE KING.
LowDos, May 15th. King Edward will spend Whitsuntide at Lord Curzon's new seat, Regiate Priory.
THE MINER'S STRIKE IN THE
TRANSVAAL.
LONDON, May 15th. The strike of the white labourers on the
Hongkong Hotel, this (Saturday) evening.→ Overture... "Zamps," Valse ........ "My Memories," Jaxone
JRand is not making much progress, a large Selcution. "Carmen," Bize
Bizet (8) Song..."Fetters of Gold,”..... Katchinmón
proportion of the men rofusing to join the Selection "The Shop Girl, Caryl!
(b) Lied. "Morgen Standében, Schubert strikę. Gavotte ...
Phryne
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Sanitary Administration, and soine select testimony like the eminently sensible. memorandum of the Hon, Mr. E. OSHORNE, we must take the proposals and suggestions of the Commissioners in detail. At present the cake is too big to assimilate properly; it has to be treated Jack-Horner-wise It is absolutely safe to say at once that the Commissioners leave no room for doubt of the need for a system that will emancipat e the Clouy from the autocraticisuse, and fads, and wayward ways of officialdom. What little franchise the colonists have been given in the past has been sapped and undermined, and now is the time, with this Report as a weapon, to get matters re
We give bere a description of the gold adjusted. After all, officials are public caskets (18 ot) mentioned in our London servants, although we, and they, are apoorrespondence yesterday, as given to the to forget this in Hongkong.
M. Froc, the director of the Siccawei Observatory had, on May 10th, received promises from 120 ship caplains to co-operate in his new cheme of transmitting storm warnings from district to district.
Monsre. D. Tollan, H. Dewsbury, and J. S. Bey have joined the Volunteers, the first named being posted to Left Half No. 1 Company and the other two to Right, Half No. 1 Company. Sergeant L. Murphy has been granted leave of absence.
The Hon. the Colonial Secretary, by an
advertisement which appears to-day on page invites any members of the community interested in the bouan-to-house cleansing operations of the Sanitary Board to witness the process to-day, and on Tuesday rexi.
arch of the Bolt. 2. Valse of the Hours. 3. Dance of the Automatons. 4 Village Wedding. 6. Valso of the Doll. 6 March of the Warriors. 7. Hungarian Dance Two Step.
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MENU-Hora d'ouvre-Caviare an Toast. Soup-Ox Tail. Fish-Builed Fish and Anchovy Since. Entrées-Mutton Cutlets and Green Peas. Sweathread à la Toulouse, Indina Cora and Butter Sauce Curry-Dry. Joints, &c. -Boast Sirloin of Beef and Baked Potatoes, Roast Capon and Celery Bauce, Boiled Corned Ox Tongue and Caper Sauce, Cold Leicester Pie and Beetroot Salad. Swoots--Caramel Pudding, Cofea Ice Cream and Finger Cakes, Tipsy Cake, Choose Biscuits. Dessert-Coffee-Fruit
colonial Premiers. "Each Is strikingly original in its bold conception and fraudo
CORRESPONDENCE.
SUPREME COURT..
Friday 17th May.
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION,
HEFORE ME. A. G. W188 (PUISNE JUDGE).
AN EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT. The oase in which the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company, Ltd., sued T. Lanoslat Wyndham dootor of medicine, for the recovery of $1,000, being damages for breach of agreement dated June 13th 1900, was mentioned.
Mr. O. D. Thomson, who appeared for the defendant, stated that he had received a tolegram from his silent at Singapors informing him that he did not know when he would bo able to attend, Io the airnumstances be euggested that the case stand over for two months in order to enable him to fix a cou. venient dato.
Mr. Dixon, from Mesars. Hastings and Hastings, objected on behalf of the plaintiffs.
His Honour ultimately adjourned the case for a month.
POLICE COURT.
Friday, May 17th.
BEFORE MR. F. A. HAZELAND (FIEST POLICE MAGISTRATE),
HOUSE BAKING, Three natives broke into a shop at 304, Queen's Road West, on Wednesday, and stole clothing and jewellery to the value of $370 The matter was reported to the Police who, after waking inquiries, detained three men who had hooked passages to Canton by the se. Kangsi. They appeared bafore his Worship yesterday, and the case was remanded.
RECKLESS DRIVING,
Three coolies who were navigating a truck in Connaught Road on Thursday got such way on that they were unable to pull up when usacing a standpipe from which a number of Sanitary Beard employees were talking water into a boat. The truck crashed into the standpipe cansing considerable damage which resulted in the coolles being charged before his Worship with reckless driving. They were fined 82 apiece.
A
BANK CLERK AND CONDUCTOR,
HAMBURG.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
April 16th. FRENCH COMMENTS ON THE KAISER, Monsieur Jalos Haret of the Paris Figuro has daring the last twelve months contri- buted articles on Germany to that paper which, coming from AD unprejudiced Frookman, anrious to correct the somewhat hazy couenp- tions of the majority of his countrymen as to the character, habits, and customs, the trade industries, and the educational system of the German people, ars deserving of attention.
paper on the Kaiser, last month, he says What is the rasl nature of this man about whom we know so little? With his contracter ovo- brow, bia mensoing moustache, and the stern expression of his other features, be has from the beginning excited the approbessive curiosity of the French. He has never been looked upon as an ordinary mortal, of the same flesh, and blood as our own, but as a national enemy. A despot, sullen and strong, ready to let loose his cnaked hordes on France whenever he may think the moment opportuno. In truth little deficite is known about him; apart from his speeches and his talograms we possana but vague and unreliable accounts of his sharooter, heromsing to us, as depicted in his portraits, disquietening and mysterions,
I have no pretension to draw an saat pisture of the Emperor, for he has not granted me a sitting but purpose doing something more in- torenting, something more to the purpose. I will try to dispel the mirago which places him at a distance from our eyes and to bring him poarer to an by representing him as his subjects so him, so that the information I have gathered in order to trace his silhouette may serve at the same time to enlighten us as to himself and his people. I have soon him, on several occasions. I may therefore claim som knowledge of the outward man, and my impression is that
bas only turned up the points of his moustache in order to conceal his natural timidity. An amiable dowager of Potsdam, whose nama I must not divulge, bat who knows all that is said and dane at court bas kindly given mo the following information: The Kaiser hat
Frederick,
tram conductor proceeded against Finberited from his mother the Cmpress portais timidity, which he has, however, overcome, having forend himself early hour by persistent and
Antonio, a clerk in the Mercantile Bank, on a charge of assault, and the defendant proceeded against the complainant on a cross-summons.
It appears that on the evening of the 12th instant the defendant boarded a our at Kennedy town, gave the conductor tea conts, and asked for a second class ticket. The conductor handed over the ticket, and returned the change of fire gents in coppers, The clerk did not want five cents in coppers because they were too heavy to carry, and asked for a five cents pisse, The conductor replied "Once change finish, and walked away. Again the defendant' en, deavoured to get a five cant piece by asking politaly. Eat the swanli avea onthara more to say to him, and is alleged to have struck him on the chest. Then defendant doalt him a blow on the mouth, ontting his lip.
His Worship held that defendant had no business to strike the conductor, find him 87, and dismissed the summons against the
THE LUSITANO SPORTS PROTEST.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRESS."
Hongkong, 17th May 1907. SIE. Your correspondent "Impartial" bas not been fortunate enough in selecting his | conductor. "nom de plume" for his opinion is partial and his evidence incomplete.
I did most emphatically protest in public at the grand stand just as the prize was handed over to the wrong winner, and no notice what- ever was taken by the Committee, and I did also write to them, and received no satisfaction; they still persisted in their error and challenged me and my colleagan to take any steps we liked; so there is no defence on behalf of the Committee. and I am glad they finally admitted their mis- take bat sorry of their persistence in it.
Thanking you, Mr. Editor, Yours, etc.,
O. F. R.
of design, in the from the Globe, surmounted by a finely-modelled figure of Britannia, as represented on coins of the realm. The Globe contained the sorell of freedom of the City, and rests on a framework particularly gracefal
Unless the Lositano Sports Committee or in character. The four supports are beautifully any one of its members desires to make answer, carved, their lower portions having the maple this correspondence is now closed - ED.]
leaf and wheat, the floml emblem s of Canada, entwined around them: Pendant from the frame, to which they are attached by artistic scrolla, are four escutehoaas, bearing the actas of four Colonies enamelled in proper colours. The Globe and frame staud upon as oval platean of solid silver, riobly gilt, rendered light and graceful by four supporting op en erches, and on the plates beneath the Globe appears the following inscription:Presented, with the freedom of the City of London, to right Hon. Bir Wilfrid Laurier, G.C.M.G., Prime Minister
BTOWAWAYS,
and thirteen girls Two Japanese men appeared bofore his Worship on the charge of stowing sway on the sa. Merionethshire from Kuchianftu. They were discovered in the forspeak.
His Worship foed the first defendant $250,
and each of the others 250.
The decision in the case of the boatswain and two quartermastore, who were charged with aiding and abetting, will be given to-day.
BEFORE Mr. G. N ORME (SECOND POLICE MAGISTRATE),
配 from
strenuous efforts to show self-possession. Even now, in the presence of strangers, this un- comfortable feeling will sometimes returo, bat he tries to hide it under the mask of bonhomis and joviality. This timidity being of a paraly psychological nature does not preclude the possession of extraordinary moral courage and a belief and confidence in himself and his star that border on mysticism. From his mother ton he derives that diversity of interests and talente which many Germans admire but which his
The Empress liks her son devoted bersalf to all kinds of parauita, aql it the Emperor Frederick had lived she would no doubt have
played a prominent part in the Stale, but for all that she was an indi Feront judge of character and never rightly understood, the nature of her mon, who in so many respects resembles her! she never recognized the striking likeness of their two characters.
AN INTELLECTUAL EMPEROR
But wheuce his irrepressible desire to speak and even to preach? It is a logacy of his fathors who like all men that are not men of action gave event in words to the workings of their powerfni intellect. If the general public
heard little of this it was because the old Emperor "padlocked" his lips, which he felt. acutely. To his father too, the Kaiser ones, what is frequently misunderstood in Franco, his peaceful disposition. When he ascended the throus, in 1888, & thrill of apprehension passed through the whole of Europe as if on the Io France, as you threshold of great events.
A FEROCIOUS HOG. Kwok I was prescuted for allowing a ferocious dog to be at large without muzzle, and for failing to have it licensed. The dog may remember, poople already imagined they To the man in the street, no doubt, the attacked a bricklager who was passing defen-board the tramp of the Uhlans in the distance. salving of two-thirds of the White Star liner dant's house, and severely mauled him. His Yet nineteen years have gone by without Suavic represents a notable achievement of Worship ordered defendant to pay $5 com. the puses of Earope having been disturbed, anl mechanical skill set variously enough the pensation, and to take put a licence at once.
the credit is his in a large measure, Sorreunde Liverpool Salvage Association had many data
on his accession by a military party, convinced to work upon. In the autumn of 1898, in fact, fest. The steamer Milwaukee went whore,
that the German army was invincible even if its officers performed almost exactly the same
pitted against the united forces of France and and on, at Crudor Scar, on the Aberdeenshire At about midnight on Thursday tàs police | Rusela, and pretending that the peass of Burope coast, and could not be refloated. Her length
were informed that a Mabomedan watch man, for the next fifty yesss could only be secured by was less, of course, than that of the Sucvic,
ing no more than 479ft. Capisins Batobelor named Meils, had been murdered at his residence, a great war, be refused to listen to their counsel, and Pomeroy out her into two parts at about 4. Hing Lung Street, West Point. On pro- Ten years later, in 1892, at the time of the 190ft from the bow, and the waived section of
MYSTERIOUS MURDER.
Seventy-five thousand deaths from plagns of the Dominion of Canada by the corporation 280ft was safely towed to the Tyue, where theeading to the house they discovered that the Bulgarian troubles the same men again urged curred in India during the week ending April of London." Guildball, E.C., 16th April, 1907. Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Company! unfortunate man had been brutally backed and him to take up arme but he was not to he acarcely be enough blushes to go round. It 13th, 70,000 of these having, taken place in The finely modelled figures of lions flanking the The problem of undertakings of the kind is, of¦ would appear that both knives and choppers had when you French believed that Germany was Limited built and fitted a new forward part. chopped, and from the nature of the wounds it persuaded. Then came the Moroso incident course, the towing of the salved parte. The shipimilding part is insignificant.
Bengal, the United Provinces, and the Punjab he epidemio began in the Punjab in October 1897, and there have since been nearly a million and a half deaths from plague.
casket and its supports are representative of the Power of Unity, as exemplified by the Union
been used by his assailants. Evidently the murdared man was taken unaware, and in all A curiosity of marine engineering is that the probability, was salesp at the time of the on- pioneers in current mechanical developments
bent on war, but you were mistaken, seeing that no hostilities occurred."
of the Mother Country and her Colonies,
But, said I, was this not owing to the fact The obverse of the base has a background
Great Britain, did not venture to go too far?
"No, because England would have been of Standard both in enamel, with the full blason whom the reproach of conservations is frequently murder was committed early in the evening.
laid. The Allan Line and the Canard and that robbery or Forenge was the incentive little as to France in a continental war, and of the arms of the City of London in the centre,
for icetanoe, share the hour of the dragons baing modelled in silver, and urodong the marina stenus turbine to the. At present the affair is shrouded in mystery, you must admit that, if the Kaiser had really the shield, crest and motto onamelled in pro- Atlantic. Now, snother old concern-Messrs. and although the polics have heen actively desired war, the moment was favourable, Russia per colours; while on the reverse appear the David MacBryne, Ltd., of Glasgow-have engaged on the case, the murderers are still at not being in a position to render you any arme of Canede, and on the ornament above the atted it in a little vessel which is to be employed taken up the internal combustion engine, and recipient's monogram. which is thus associsted in the West Bighland service. The vessel is with the arms of the Colony for which be note, not large, but 109ft 5in by 19ft by 16ft 6in represents Detabo pogrees from the motor-bost of the day. The ongines are of the Griffin
The late Mr. William H. Stewart, a partner formed by the Union Jack and the Royal are nearly all old shipping companies, against slanght. The police are of opinion that the that, Germany knowing as to be backed up by
large.
LOCAL SPORTS.
bas not been to the public of Hongkong the painful shock and surprise that it seems to have been to Mr. MAY; and we do not hear of Englishmen or Britons in this Colony rushing to the various Consulates to register changes in their nationality in the firm of Les and Perrin, has left a fortune only a few sovereigns short of £180,000. That, The corruption unearthed by the Commis- with the £1,070,00 left by Mr. C. Wheeby Lee, sion had not been very deeply hidden one of the same firm, adde a new chapter to the than bistory of a firm whosa fortunes were established before; its existence WILS more suspected; any Hongkong lawyer with on an old screw of paper. The Lord Sandys of Chinese clients could, if he would, have the period, while getting a proscription dispensed
at the shop of Moss. Lea and Perrio, chemiste! given the Commission a great way pointers;
in a small way of business at Worcester, be- Atench and of the platenu are given the actus and the prosecutions prior to the publication thought himself of an old recipe which he had of the two remaining Colonies. The casket type, with cylinders of Ilin and 1sin ta this week of the Report gave rise to all the picked up during his travels in India. He gave described illustrates that presented to Bir diameter, and they are designed to use Scotch orado sbale oil. The experimant, for the vessa! discussion on that subject that there is it to the young men, who let it le suite for Wilfrid Laurier au representative of Canada. 98 experimentat, it being watched with interest likely
to be. It was intelligently observed some time before thinking anything about it. The remaining six were presented to:-The by engineers. Shipbuilders are not, of course, by the average commentator that blame Then they experimented with a bottle, found Hoa. Alfred Deakin, Australia, The Hou. Bir absolutely ignorant as to the qualities of the attached less to the men who had thus that it was pleasant to the palate, and tried a Joseph George Ward, K.C.M. G., New Zealand, motor. On the Tyne, in fact, exhaustive trials few bottles on their castomers. The sauce sold The Hon. Leander Starr Jameson, C.B., Caps are proceeding with a cargo barge, which is forsaken a high standard of integrity at once. It was advertised, and its fame made Colony, The Right Hon. Sir Hobert Bond, fitted with Grifin oil engines, and reports from
the North indicate that they
are highly than to the system or no-system which universally known, and the will of Mr. Stewart K.C.M.G., Newfoundland, The Hon. Frederick satisfactory. The propeller, of course, is the made such things possible and easy. That serves to remind of the haga financial success Robert Mour, Natal, General the Hon. great dificulty, just as it is with the turbine, view of the matter, broadly, we endorse; of the gift freely giver, and received more out Louis Botha, Transvaal. These were designed but so many experta are at work on the and the conclusions of the Commission enable | complaisance to an aristocratio customer than and manufactured by the Goldsmiths and problem now that its solution cannot be la L. E. Brett by 21 points to 14.
Silversmith Company, Ltd., 112, Regent Street, delayed. London. W."
us to maintain that standpoint. It must seem from any hope that it was anything worth.
LAWN BOWLS.
CIVIL SERVICE C.C. *. POLICE C.C.
The following will represent the Civil Service Club against the Police CC. on the former's Ground, to-day (Saturday) at 4 pm, sharp-
W. H. Kelley
R. Duncru R. Fenton
C. H. Parkinson M. McIver
R. Hudson L. E. Brett (skip) 1. A. Whoal (skip)
P. R. Adam
E. Badcock
A. Blowey
W. Fincher (skip) In the championship W. H. Kelly but
assistance, nor lisposed to do so. Again the military party tried to incite the emperor to war, bat again they failed."
And you really believe that your Kaiser is a lover of peace! I seked.
The bast proof of this is that during the
nineteen years of his reign he has not gone to war, this is an uncontrovertible fact, Observa however that he is not a lover of peace from humanitarian motives, it is simply because he believes that the interests of Germany and his own, which in this instance are identical, demand it. Germany has nothing to gain by a war; vio- torious she would not wish to saddle herself with more French provinces, whilst, in caso of a defeat, she would run the risk of losing her