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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 14TH, 1908,
("DAILY PRRSS" BECLUSIVE BRÉTICE.)
it cannot new be pleaded that all precious TELEGRAMS. generations have been sinners against their consciences, yet it is these innocente on whom the judgment of the wicked threatene to fall. We may well ask who has the right here of judgment? Surely not the self-righteous claimant who seeks to atone for his own shortcomings, by holding up to: scorn the weakness of his brother' m su
The student of history learns a very different lesson from the past. It is well to remember that not the least infiential course in bringing about the debauchery of the Restoration was the self-righteous puritanism of the Commonwealth. Weeeen. to have fallen on such another contemptible period in our national history. The time of CHARLES II when King and Parijanisot were pessioners of Louis XIV. is not a pleasant period to look back on, yit we' seem to be doing our utmost to bring it back again a
Yesterday's European mail via Siberia brought London adrices dated up to March
19th.
But the habit is by no means confined to opium; we find even a mau aiming at the high position of Prime Minister as little aware of the duty he owes to his fellow wan, There are hundreds of thousands in England who drink for the sake of drinking; who when they have money in their pocketa, utterly oblivious of their duties towards their families and towards themselves, make straight for the public house, simply for the love of getting drunk-and-|- when drunk not only reduce themselves to the level of beast, but become a source of danger to the community. This too is There are others allowed on all sides, who feel no natural desire for alcohol, who in many cases actually dislike it and feel a repugnauce to its taste, and smell. This is likewise allowed on all sides. But why should this except on the principle expressed by old Samvet BUTLER, be held to give then any authority to be judges of
There were thirteen plègne quses last week, their acighbours? Far more reasonable and three yesterday, bringing the total to 48. would be the contention in any well reThere were 24 cases of smallpox, with 19 gulated community that the very fact of fatalities, during the week, their aversion from” alcoholic liquore ven he Indian Government, has announced it dered them unfit to sit in judgment. If inloution of raising a loan of three crores-of rupees for railway and irrigation purposes the counsel for the defence has any reason to bélieve that one of the jurymeu called during the current year. has some inveterate prejudice against his client, so judge with any idea of justice whatever will object to his challenge. This is the commonsense view of the subject, which till the present conjunction of affairs was always held to be a characteristic of the English nation, and which indubitably has been one of the main causes of its having attained its present position of eminence.” - Vaforluuntely it is not alone on the sub- jects of opium and alcohol that our modern paritaus make themselves towards the world
Among, the probate news published at Home last mouth was a paragraph sta ing that Mr. Robert Ellis Biker (78) of Hyde Park W., and formerly of Hongkong, had left £3,865.
Offelal intimation was received in Glasgow from the Admiralty to the off so that the contract for the prection of the naval works at Rosyth had been placed with Messrs. Robert MAlpine and Bone, Glasgow.
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THE EX-PREMIER.
LONDON, April 12th. Sir Henry Campball-Bannerman is weaker and his condition is now pre nounced to be serious,
PORTUGAL.
LONDON, April 12th. Republican riots are occurring in Lisbon.
THE MUSICAL "AT HOMES'
LICENSING.
AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
A meeting of the Junios of the Peace w The last of the series of four musical "At held at the Magistracy yesterday, afternoon Homes" arranged by Lady Lugard was given when there were present Messre J. H. Kemp at Government House last night. They bars (who presided), J. R. Wood, P. P. J. Wode- proved most enjoyable gatherings, and, from the house, Theung Ss Kat and W. Bowan-Row. manical point of view, memorable too, for lauds, Two applications for liquor licenses nothing floor has been heard in the Colony for aware presented to the meeting. The first was long time than the brilliant interpretations by from Charles Ernest Clifford for the transfer Mr. Doamna Fuller and Mrs. Cobras of com- to him from one Thomas. Barnard Maguire of positions for two pianos by the great masters. the publican's licence to sell by retail intoxiost- Equally noteworthy was the Beethoven con- ing liquore on the premises, No 2, Pak Shui Wan, ander the, siga of "The Belle View certo played last night by Mes. Georg and Mr
Hotel." The application was adjourned in Coobrane,
prednos order to allow the applicant to references.
Apart from these items in the four program - mes there have been other performances of note which combine to make there gathering memorable in the local masiosi anuals. In this the piano EUROPEAN POLÍTICS.
connection may be mentioned. solo which introduoad Mr. Grove to tbg LONDON, April 12th.
Colony as an accomplished pianist; and the Prince von Buslow, the German instrumental trios with which Mrs. Cochrane Chancellor, has gone to Rome, where(no), Mrs. Murray (riolio), and Mr. Kosing (violiccello), have delighted the audiences. Miss it is expected he will have audiencesHarker, who has recently returned to the Colony with the King of Italy and the Pope.
THE BRITISH ARMY.
LONDON, April 12th. Lord Grenfell has been appointed a Field-Marshall,
A PROBABLE PEERAGE.
LONDON, April 12th.,
It is reported that Mr. John Morley, the Secretary of State for India, will probably be created a Peer of the realm.
NAVAL COURT-MARTIAL LONDON, April 14th,
from musical stadies in Europe, played the piano in one of these trios, Mr. Wolf playing
the viulis.
The vocalists for the most part have boàn "old favourities," The exceptions include the Baroness von Hulton (authoress of "Pam"), a guest at Government Hone, who has given proof of musical abilities which must be rated very highly; and Mr. Frank Grove, the engineer in chief of the Canton section of the railway, whose powerful and well trained base voice,
it may be keped, will be heard on many futuro occasions. Mr. Groge also figured in at night's concert as a 'deiloist in a trio with Mrs. Grove (piano) and Mr. Murray (viola.)
The programme at last night's" At Home' included compositions by Beethoven and Techaikowsky, and was as follows:-
Mr. & Mrs. Grove ......Mrs. Murray Rev. M. Longridge.
Trio
Concertó (For two Pianos). Grofe Part Song..... Cello Solo "Chant sans paroles " Mr G. Koenig
The agenda for the meeting of the Sanitary The Court-martial which has in- Songs Board to be held this afternoon shows that. the Public Health Ordiannos will coine up again, quired into the loss of H.M.S. Tiger, and the only other new item of interest is a which foundered during manoeuvres minute from the Registrar-General recommend-off Fortsmouth, has exonerated all the at large, not only unhappy but offensive.ing the smandment of the definition of a
officers of the destroyer as well as of There are amay instincte implanted in our common lodging hoses,
H.M.S. Berwick with which she nature as being necessary for our existence
collided].
us a race, or essential for our enjoyment MARCEAUX of life, the two being so closely connected
Xaroa
that it is impossible to separate them. But Although these instincts have been in planted in us for a wise purposs, it is also the fact that the perverse use of them may-
A. S. WATSON & CO.. be injurious, not only to ourselves but to
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the body politic. The wise administrator knows this to his cost, and seeks so far as he can to restrain excess. He also knows that to seek to extirpate the instinet will as a matter of necessity not only entirely fail, but be productive of worse results even
The Queen of the Netherlands and Prince
Heary are expected to pay an official visit to the British Court this yest. The middin of
June is mentioned as the probable date of toe Queen's arrival in England. The royal party. would embark at Flushing.
THE GERMAN NAVY.......
LONDON, April 12th. The battleship Bluecker has been launched at Kiel.
NAVAL APPOINTMENT.
The return of visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum for the week ending the 121 April, 1908, shows that of non-Chinese there were 344 to the Library and 125 to the Masean and of Chinese 141 to the former and 2,366 to
LONDON, April 13th. the latter The Library was therefore used by 485 persons and the Museum by 491., - -
Inspector General Porter has been Particulars of the damage done in the nolli-appointed Director General of the
Ibis and the Japanese steamer Wakus Maru
Medical Department of the navy.
show that the Ibis has been seriously injured, The port sida is heavily store is. As regards the Waksm Mary, it is stated that the stem is badly bent above and below the water line. be Ibis, of 1,194 tons, built in 1888, is owned by the Antwerp Steamship Company, and valued at £12,000.
ONLY communications relating to the netes column than permitting the instinct to run riot.sin: at Antwerp between the British steamer Correspondents must forward tasir names and ad--"We may teach a monkey not to take cartain rekse with communications, addreed to the thing, but by no manner of meade pau we Aditor, not for publication but as evidence of yead teach him to comprehend that there is any Faith.
"Ail' letters for publication should be written or oral obliquity in stealing in the abstract
the puper only.
Nature has not implanted in him the idea No caongmanicsly signed communications that have
of property. His friend the dog who has sirezdy appeared in other papers will be inserted.
Orders for sera copies of DAILY PRESS should be rent before 11 a.m. on day of publication. After that a very strong idea of the nature of private hour she supply is limited. Only supplied for Cash property, will disdain to take without per- nission anything that he knows belongs to his master, und will protect it from others so far as he can. To attempt to retrain
Telegraphic Address: Press. Codes A.B.G. 5th Ed. Liebsr. P. U. Uoz, 34 Telephone No. 12. HONGKONG ÜVVICK: 10A, DES YEUX ROAD U
10% ON OFFICw; 181. FLET STREET. EU the monkey from stealing will not only of
The Daily
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HONGKONG, APRIL 14TH, 1808
necessity be a failure, but will in all pro- bability spoil his good points and make him morose and savage; the trainer of a sheep dog knows how careful he has to be to encourage his pupil in his botter instincts, SPEAKING of those puritans of his day, whole it in attempting to reform him, from what were desirous of forcibly converting the world around them to their own peculiarly narrow views of life, old SAMUEL BETLER nunde the remark that they would
Atone for ions they were inclined to
The Nippon Yasen Kaiska's Wabana Maru, of 6,265 tons, bailt in 1897, is
valus at £55,500,
His Excellency Tuan Fang. on completing
his trip on the North German Lloyd steamship mads the following entry in the guest book of. Fri 2 egeat Luitpold, from Chius to Europe the captain of the stenwer:-"My feet hare been over the whole world, bat my heart knows ro fear, neither of the wind nor of the waves. like Waug-Ya-Ching, of the fairy tales. We passed volcanoes (Vesuvius), and the Red Sea that bears its name uujustly, for the waves did not move; without motion, our vessel rolled over
thein. On board of the steamer I write this on
The new Director-General sacceads Sir Harbert Mackay Ellis K.C.B. He was made inspector general of Eospitals and deste in Outober 1006.)
NEW PEERS.
LONDON, April 13th. Mr. John Morley, Secretary of State for India, and Sir Henry Fowler, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan caster, have been raised to the peerage.
THE NEW CABINET.
LONDON April 13th. Lord Tweedmouth, formerly First Lord of the Admiralty, has been ap
Songs
For Two Pianos.
"Springtime
PART II. .
"Teary!"
A Legend" "Danae de la Féé Drags"
Kakuza Uretsuki 'applied for an adjnost liste to sell by retail intoxicating liquora on premises numbered 36 and 37, Connaught Road Central under the sign of "Bei Foo Row."
Mr. M. J.-D. 8ephens, who appeared for the Was no Japanese hotel in the Colony where the Japanes applicant, pointed out that there could get their sake. It was only lately that that Japanese had taken to doing business in foreign countries and a Japaness hotel was a necessity. In Japan, he remarked, Earopeans were allowed to conduct hotels. They were nul” expected to go outside for their wines, and Mr. Stephens thought it, should be reciprocal. The appliostion was made in order to cater for the Japaness, who would feel when they were in their own hotel that they work ́ guarded from trouble. The Japanese clerke in the-city-also would prefer is be_in_a_ hotel of their own rather than go to others There was no bad name against the botel-
The Chairman-It Jas been open for some
time!
Mr. Stephens answered in the affirmative. Continuing, ho asked that the license be allowed to run until vert November and in the mean. time, if the pinco was not properly conducted, the hotel could be closed,
Two letters one from Mr. J. H. Nowbold |
wad the other from: Mr. L. Comar-objecting to the bounce being, granted were submitted.
Mr. Wood naked-Will you sell foreign- wines
Mr. Stephen-No, enke and Japanese boer. He added that no provision was made in the Ordinance for Japanese hotels.
Mr. Wood-Have you made an application Baroness Tonto the Government to invent a new licence for
Hation
Mrs. Cochrane.
.....Mr. Walter.
"Yalse des Flours"
No word from thee" Songs
"Don Juan Serenade" Part Song.........." Tehabod "j
Гарацово ?
1.
Mr. Stephens said he had not.
The Justices discussed the matter in camera and the Court was cleared. After-aboat ten Mr. Grove. minutes the Chairman intimated that the licones would be granted, on condition that the place was properly kept.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
POLICE SERVICES, Acunal occurrence was witnessed in
A meeting of the Hongkong Logislative Quest's Road on Sunday. Two soldiere, one an infantryman and the other an artilleryman Council in called for Thursday next. The went into a jeweller's shop to parobass a watch, orders of the day are: Hon. Altofney General. The article was selected but instead of paying First reading of a Bill entitled an Ordinazos to for it they ran out. The alarm was given and a amend the Chinese Extradition Ordinance, 1889. Second reading of the Bill entitled sa Or district waichman and an Indian constable came on the scene. They gave obose to the Boeing dinases to enable Foreign Corporations to soldiers. As the latter passed the Land We acquire and hold land in the Colony. Second Live In public house this soldiers and sailors reading of the. Bill entitled an Ordinamos to atanding at the bar hearing the commotion is authorize the making of Bye-laws by the Hong- the street looked out. On arding that two men kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Com- in khaki were being chased by Asiatics their pany Limited. Second reading of the Bill sympathies were aroused and they, one out to entitled an Ordinace to amend the Publis protect the soldiers from arrest. However the Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1993, and the Chinese populace became interested in the pro- Public Health and Buildings Amendment ceelings and taking the side of the officers of Ordinance, 1903, the law they drove the soldiers and sailors back into the hotel. Bottles were throws but the watchman and the constable effected the captars of the two rnnaways and brought them to the over to the military authorities. The dane will -be tried to-day, Central Police Station whence they were handed
LUSITANIA'S NEW RECORD.
25.17 KROTI AN HOUR,
MARINE COURT,
Monday, 13th April
DEFOES THE HON COMPE BASI LAYLOR. (Harbour' MASTER).
ALLEGED NEOLIGENCE.
Fok Tain, coxswain of the steam launch King Edward," was auminoned for negligence.
Despite rough ese and strong head winds, the Cunard liner "Lusitania," with 1,270 passen. The prosecutor Mr. A. E. Gibson, the runner gers, reached New York after a passage of fire of the King Edward Hotel, said that about 3 days four hoare 39min. Her average speed on o'clock on the afternoon of the 3rd instant he the trip was 25.17 knots. The passengers were
the 28th day of the fifth month of the year pointed Lord President of the Conn-jabilant because two fress rewords, had been went on board the launch to take some pas Ping-hu of the Emperor Kuang-hsu, I, the Gil, and the Earl of Crewe becomes undersigned, Tuan-Fang, Governor-General of Secretary of State for the Colonies; the Provinces of Fakian and Chelinng. Ai Naples I boarded the steamer of the North with Colonel Seely as Under Secretary, Garman Lloyd Printregent Luitpold. Her The new First Lord of the Admiralty, captain has been very courteous to me during
day she covered 6.7 miles, at on average_of_scrived on board the comwain was not to be of the launch that day, Accused's story added to the big turbiner'a laurels. On Tuessengers to the Empress of Japan." When he
an average of 25.15 knots. 25.17 knots an hour, and on Friday 625 miles, found. The engineer had to take obarge
It was generally agreed that the new meche-
that he was ill that day and could vical devices to prevent vibration on the vessel was
not get a substitute. Mr. Dorabjee, the pro- were completely successful.
This is the best performanos over credited to prietor of the King Edward Hotel, informed
on
trials. Under merenditions the Lusitania" bae travelled at about 25 kants so
he, the teacher, considers wrong, he may compel him to become a sheep stealer or mar. deer. The very lust anan to reform your drunkard is the self righteous teetotaler, who holds out the alternative of Hell-fire and By damning others that they had un mind to damnation, and is unable to perceive how It is our mistortime to live in just such much depends on mare instinct both another age of puritanic hypocrisy when sides. So uo-one is worse fitted to enre the the wh le trip. Even the winds and the waves Mr. McKenna Mr. Lloyd Georg & liner on service," though it has been excelled the Harbour-master that this was not the first
Chinese of spiam smoking than your smug he guided so that I entirely forgot the fact that takes over the duties of Chancellor I was on à voyage 20 "oss the great sea; there of the Exchequer, and Mr. Winston anti-opinin ranter, who has never smelt a whiff of opium smoke in his life, and is fore, the prize belongs to the Prineregent Churchill becomes President of the utterly unable to comprehend that sense of Luitpold of the North German Lloyd, above
all other ocean steamers. All the vessels of the Board of Trade. Mr. W. Runciman having nothing else to distrau, his attention North German Lloyd have also a world-wide from the humdrum of daily existence thon reputation, as the Jakabitants of the are goes to the Education Department, I am moved, and Mr. F. D. Acland is Secretary smoke opium; a large number of professedly. good people in China, on the other hand, do the opiam pipe. We all have the instinct continents embark upon them. smoke opium. Opium annually in Chits of climbing to Parnassus, the opian-smoker than to record my thanks to the captain of this for War and Lord Lucas is Financial
Under Secretary for Wür and the drunkard by seeking to forget their steamer.N.D.L, Bulletin · · ruine a number of people who smoke more restrial environment; and the teetotaller than is good for them. All thie is owed
and anti-opiumist hy the leas charitable. on all sides, and it is also allowed time to convert from smoking the man who smokes method of exalting their own righteousness
-every-man who does not possess some particular vice is moving heaven and earth to procure an act of Parliament to reuder it as he foolishly imagines, impossible for his neighbour to practise. A large section of professedly good people in England do not
to excets, or whose amoking is done to the at the expense of their neight airs, forgetful
MACAO.
(KNUTER'S SERVICE]
THE STRIKE OF INDIAN TELE- GBAPH OPERATORS.
time he had to complain of bis "coxswaia's hour but her new record of 25 17 kuota absence, The Court discharged him with a winter will not be lowered probably for some continuously for a whole day and night in
"Mauretania's" successful trial, when she reach- time. In spite of the high hopes raised by the
caution.
BAHKAN MEN FINED. The owners of nine cargo boats were each
equalled the "Lusitania" as a fast guess steamer. ed 27.36 knots for a short time, els has not yet fined 25 cants for allowing their steru care to These British ships bare both, however, eclipsesi remain in the water walls at puchor. This is. And there is no present prospect that the "blue ribbon" of the Atlantic will again pase from the United Kingdom. the beat storming by vessels under foreign flags, the first prosecution since the regulations came
WEATHER REPORT.
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following report
On the 13th at 11.55 am.-The barometer has risen considerably in N. China, and fallen slightly on the S. coast,
** INDISĢEERT PROSELYTISM" DENIED. Our Macao correspondent is denounced by of their own special iniquities, which they the Vicar General as a calumniator, in respect detriment of his family financially; is a
cdable action. But there are many millipe to cover by railing at the weakness off his notes (published April 3th) about tho their brethren. The worst of all this"mysterious disappe rance of children from lions of very good people in China who smoke hypocrisy is that it is the innocent who religions houses. The refutation as it reaches Liverpool Chamber of Commerce have wired
na is loo long, but we willingly stato, on the opium, and who do not ruin themselves,ve to suffer the plain men and women nor injure in any way their families, and who have nothing to say to either, but who authority of the Vicar-General, that (1) there Mr, Morley, urging the immediate restera over China to the North of the Yang
LONDON, April 10th. East India, China, and a section of the
have been no such disappearances. (2) The boy tion of cable communication in India to its referred to is with his mother, a Catholic, and normal condition, as business is at a stand- the Judge who requested explanations from the Directors of the institution where he had beers gratuitously educated and maintained, declared that their conduct bad been quite correot, and
who on the whole conduct themselves in the for no crime of their own find that they for affairs of life quite as well as their censore, other mens excesses are threatened with who are honest and just in their dealing the loss of their own livelihood. charitable in act and thought to their
Society Las never condemned those who neighbours, bring up their families well, and for thousands of years h ve been engaged in that he had nothing whatever to my against are in every external respect good and use the Lande of brewing beer or preparing the them." (3) In the other case (a girl of 19, mot ful citizens, quite as useful in fact as their opium juice; the Bible itself has never flung 13) the sileged abductee is at the Collegio de accusers. Surely such men are entitled to a taunt at the vine-dresser, and has vaunted Perseverance, a voluntary and happy liniste, ask of the others, "Who set you up to bề on the contrary the work of his hands. visited once a month by her mother, who lives raler and judges over us? Are there no Surely after the approbation of milleniums two miles away.
still.
THE RUSSIAN LEGATION
TOKYO.
The depression has moved Eastwords towards
the Sea of Japan; and pressure is again high Fresh to streng N.E. winds are expected to northern shores of the China sea. set in over the Formoss Chauzel and the Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 am. to-day, 0.00 inches.
into force..
At the Magistracy yesterday an ex-lukong. was ordered to pay a fine of $25 for slapping woman's fast at Hanghom on Sunday. The alternative was a month's gaol,
NEW GUNBOAT FOR MACAO.
The Portuguese Government have placed a contract with alesers, Yarrow and Co. (Limited),
of
the construction of one of their very shallow Glasgow (formerly of Poplar, London), for draft gunboats for Mzozo. This vesel will be londed with 25 tons,
25in. The guaranteed 120ft, in length by 2ft. beam, sud will draw, speed is 121 statute miles an hour. The vessel will be sized with suitable artillery, and the various stations where the officers and men will The forest for the 24 hours ending at noon stand will be bullet proof. The propelling pystem will be by means of a Yarrow watertabe ATto-day is as follows:---
boiler and enginer driving. Two sorowa working Hongkong & Neighbourhood(*) Formtes Channel. ... Same as No. 1. in tunnele fitted with Yarrow's patent hinged South coast of Chins between
Same No. 1. ap aft. The vessel will be completely put together at Mera Yarrow's new works on the Hongkong and Lamooks.} South coast of China between Same as No. 1. banks of the Clyde, Sha will be shipped in
Hongkong and Rainan..3
pieces, re-erected, riveted together, and launched
China.
LONDON, April 10th. The Tear has sanctioned the Bill for raising the Russian. Legation at Tokyo to an Embsesy
(NE, winds, freshening; fine at first, cloudy and misty later,