RANDOM REFLEÜ) IONS.
Another good man gone-to Shanghai! When Dr. Wilder left here on holiday there was a pretty shrawę opinion that he would not rotara, but that he should be sent to Shanghai was not expected. Well, it need scarcely bo added that our good wishes go with the doctor.
the subject, I looked at the copy of the-bill under the heading objects and reasons," only to and that there weren't any reasons) How funny our law makers can be, when they like. No rea sons are given' for introducing the bill, and yet the heading "objects and reasons" stands out on the printed, copy of the bill in black type, It looks as if somebody's thinking apparatus was
out of gear.
How.nexionaly some Hongkong officers, milit.
Man plays many parts in his tims, but who ary officers, take themselves! A lady went up to one who was the secretary of a certain organing thought of seeing the Governor as a plaintiff in tion the other day with the query." Mr. Toney, an action in the Supreme Court? Then these I believe," No, Captain Toney, please!" Poor barristers with no sense of the fitness of things lady confused. Too bad of you, Captain Awant to know who he is and all about him. military man should have shown greater chivalry. Sounds oncious; eh!
A cat show for Hongkong! Yes, it is spoken about and I believe it will be carried out. I find it difficult to enthuss over cate, but I realise that the exhibition will do some good. It will confine most of the cats in one are (which I hope may be far removed from my home) for a time, and some of us may look forward to a night's alumber undisturbed by caterwauling,
RODERICK RANDOM,
A RUSSO-BRITISH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
The following correspondence has been for warded for publication:-
Hongkong, 27th April, 1909. DEAK 812.-I have just received from the Secretary of the "Russo-British Chamber of Commerce" a few copies of the "Stabates" of that Body which has recently been established at St. Petersburg being a direct outcome of the friendly understanding between our two Nations
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 17TH, 1909.
BRITISH COTTON-GROWING : ASSOCIATION.
The angul mesting of the British Cotton
Manchester. Growing Association was held on March 30 in
Sir Alfred Jones, the President, when the chair, said that the British Cotton-Growing Association had been the means of getting the West Indies to grow cotton to supply Lan kind that Lancashire
LUCK IN GOLF.
LIFE IN BATAVIA,
DUTCH ADMINISTRATION AND ENTERPRISE.
cashire with the particular all quantities of particularly in avoiding aomeinter while the impression that it is a port, until they ind
wanted. It had
in
the
THERE IS SKILL AND
THOROUGHNESS
OF CONSTRUCTION
IN ALL
PIANOS
WE IMPORT
The railway station at Tandjeng Priok, a tow yards distant from the custom-house, is not a has a buffet, book-atall, exchange barean, to place where one would dosire to linger. But it BUILT THROUGHOUT FOR
Priok and Tandjong foilities. Between gether with telegraph, telephone and postal
If we are simply to walk round and look at the felinos I am afraid the exhibition will fall somewhat fat. There is no use blinking the fact that the Chinese tabby or tommy has little which has happily been inaugurated in the last price to the native producer, which might pos-d. so that both remarks are the most. Butavia all juggage placed in the van must be
claim to beauty, though other varieties may be introduced, and wiless we have rat hunte or
some other competitions to test the merits of the animals time will hang heavily on our hands soil the passes themselves will suffer from empni.
for years.
:
The balance-sheet showed a
Usually
THIS CLIMATE.
paid for, though elsewhere, beth on Government and private lines, the usyni liberal allowance is made. There is good service of trains, during daylight, and the carriages are comfortable, with broad cane seats and backs, but vary duety. For the greater part of the j
e journey to Batavia, rail, canal and road ran paralel, one ROBINSON PIANO to the other. The land is flat and, in parte,
CO. LTD. marshy. There is no scenery so interesting os that between Port Swettenham and Klang,
To attempt to analyse or define luck at a game is to involve oneself very rapidly in an inextricable tangla both of thought and of words expression in its every day use is an entirely loose and unscientific one, and most Two interesting articles, entitled Batavia in be treated accordingly. It is most commonly 1909, from which we give an abstract below used (anga The Times) to mean that a player has appear in the Malay Mail of the 28th and 29th just succesdel by the barest possible margin in ult., from the pen of their own correspondent
mare Most people who come to Batavia so under Bocomplishing some desirable end, or "bad luck" denotes the exact converse; the on arrival that they are seven mile from this cotton to Americe, and made it impossible
cricketer whose lofty strokes fall just the nearest European hotel. There was a time, for Americs to compete satisfactorily with the growth of that kind of cotton. They had out of reach, the football player who indeed. when British feet anchored off no antagonism towards Amarion; all they continually bombards the goal-posts are farmel Batavia, and effected a landing a few miles
respectively lucky and unlucky At golf, to get
put away but that is ancient history. To-day, the desired was to make it "possible cotton in the event of other countries fting aside the more reasonable application of the port of Batavia, Tandjong Priok, is a monument not wishing to let them have it It was gratify word to a series of villainously bad lies in the of Datoh enterprise, shall and power of middle of the course, bad luck implies that д
Legan in 1877, organisation. ing to know that they could grow it in parts of player has caught the highest pinnacle of a course of hix years their engineers con our Empire at a price at which America confd distant bunker as that his ball at the end of a structed the harbour works much as the never produse. it. He moved the adoption of
put has hit the hole and then porchiod iteall appear to-day-ie, an outer harbour, 26/feet the report.
Mr. J.. A. Hutton, seconding the resolution, obstinately upon the very tip. In the mouth of deep, with two piers, each more than a mile said that it was abeohitely certain that they an impartial spectator it signifies that the ball kain length, built of a sort of rook orystal STAMPING THEM IN EVERY WAY done something other than the spectator thought (trachyte) bronght from the neighboring would have short crops in America again, and it would do; in that of an adversary it really has inland of Poeloe Merak, off the coast of Bantam consequently Lancashire would, sooner or Inter,
It
no signification at all. A's hard luck" B's The inner harbour measures 1.100 by 175 have to face a scarcity of supplies.
be accurately metres, and socommodates both the Dutch and SUPERIOR VALUE therefore, in the interests of the spinners to put lips past the kole might
outrageous French mails, which discharge their passengers encourage British-grown cotton by buying it translated as, "It would have been an
of B, as he oom- whenever possible. A memorandum had been fake had the ball done anything else)" while and goods at the dock-side.
up and sent in to the Colonial the "that was a Inoky-one drawn Office suggesting that the Government should plently picks the ball out of the hole at the take over the scientific agricultural work which end of a long ateal, means no more than, "I the association had been carrying on. The main wish A would learn to keep his temper, but know everything that is passing in the others's difheulty would arise as to guaranteeing a fire perhaps I had better soothe him; A and B sibly involve the association in serious losses: and also as to the establishment of pioneer transparent formalities.
In their animer momente most golfers will In his latter to me, acompanying thero ginning and buying centres, which in the early admit that good and bad luck so-called are meted "Statates" the Secretary of the above Chamber stages could not possibly pay defeit on the out with a fairly even hand; but there are never requests me to bring the establishment of that year's working ot £31,627. The main source friends and, if they are of sufficient celebrity, by theless a few players who are believed by their institution before the British Commercial Com- of the deficit was Lages. In 1906 they had munity of this Colony, with the view of promo-crop of 6,000 hales; in 1907 a arop of 9,500 the golfing publie to be permanently lucky. If ting the aime and objects of the Russo-British 13,600 bare provision for a crop in 19 18 of fully mined, certain offsites tow and
could not possibly have fully examined, certain similarities both in Thore is a nome little axons for the foreign Chamber of Commerce, which consist in further anticipated the serious drought, which took notel Flay and in tempore any van gray by found. In first place they are generally in West Africa, with the consequence that pressman being a bit hazy about the exacting closer Commerical and Industrial intercourse
the total crop in 1908 only amounted to 5,500 rather erratic in their long game, since for a location of towns in the interior of Chins, but between Great Britain and Russia, based on
balet. In 1906 they showed a surplus in Lagos man to be deemed permanently lucky he must when a Chinese journalist in Peking writes in mutual economical interests.
of £300, and in 107 a surplus of about £500 have a good many opportunities of recovering Owing to baring all the staff and machinery the deadly accuracy of Mr. Ball or J. H. Taylor from difficulties; nobody ever heard a player of Englich of Changalia as being the capital of the province of Yunnan-well, my advice to
for a large crop and having only a small crop cused of being lucy Becondly, they are him is to take a geography course at Queen's
to deal with, their staf 14,000. This physically very strong, since if they were
they would be unable
make season all the reports pointed to a crop College, Hongkong. Changsha, 'the capital of
working showed a deficit of £14,000.
the recoveries when the occasion arose, Cole, as 10%, the terminal point of the
12,000 to 15,000 bales, and they hoped to be able and there is an department of the game in which to show in Lagos either square secounts or Yunnan railway which the French are con structing.
only a small deficit. If next year they had to sheer physical, strength plays so large's part
nt another bad account before their members thirdly, they are invariably bold puttars, who
Sir Home Gordon writes in Badminton ou determined “triers." Any golfer who possesses
the coming cricket season. He says that, given their position. During the seven years they lastly, most important of all, they are most had been at work 84,000 bales of cotton, valued these qualities in any marked degree in unlikely
fina weather, it will be one of the most interest at £1,250,000, had bean grown under their auspices. Shortly they would require large to escape the reputation of being a permanent
ing of racing seasons, thanks to the expected visit of the Australians. Their programme will favourite of fortune. additions to their ospital and he hoped that they
No celebrated player was so repeatedly accused
be as extensive as everThe fire Test Matches. would not appeal to Lancashire in vain.
of being looky as the late Mr. F. G. Tait, and
begin on May 27th at Birmingham, June 14th unanimously The resolution was adopted Sir Alfred Jones was re-elected President and he possessed all the characteristics above
at Lorde, July 1st at Leeds; faty 26th at Maz- cheater, and August 9th at the Oral, this game the Duke of Marlborough, Lord Dudley, Sirenumerated. It is true he was as a rule a beauti ful straight driver, but there was latent within
being played to a finish." The Australians, he William Houldsworth, Sir Frank Forbes Adazt,
him an extraordinary capacity for error, and his
says, will be immensely powerful in batting; their and Mr. Alfred Emmett, M. P., were reappointed crooked shot was of the sort that sends the striker
fielding should be splendid; but their bowling bird's-nesting breast-high among the whins;
looks deficient both in quality and quantity. Of the counties Yorkshire has the most exten. the great bodily strength, which he kept so
arranged by its executive, severely under control in his normal shots, found
sire fixture list ever fall scope when his ball lay in any abominable
all the counties being mot except Gloncesto
netralizza diffealty, while we never remember to have seen
shire, and Hampshire, and the the hals
"as well as Çam- four times encountered," anybody who was so continuously past the HFFECT OF TRADE DEPRESSION ON BECRET with his long puts. It was the most markedly
bridge University and M.C.C. and Ground. Further, the Second Eleven play fourteen courageous feature of a courageous game. Mr.
two-day matches, Surrey not onl has Mr. Warren D. Barnes, secretary for Chinese Tait pallet many matches out of the fee in the bis career, but the two which will
The only other public conveyances in Batavia huge programme, meeting all the trat-class his report for 1908 writes:The depression in always be
four-wheeled converance called an matches on June 21st, meeting Lancashire at trade has caused a considerable ineronse
"The writer expecte amber of unlawful societies. There a site in quick succession in 1898; he beat Mr. Joba and
the own. The unique achievement." Amatenship at Hoylake, and very smallest credit in commes with the old dangerous sooloties aust the 22rid vehicles reflects the the Oval and Orford University at Reigate-
whose objects
„finished one stroke in sado is ricketty, two-whealed box, drawn University cricket of uncommonly good type.
weedy ill-kept Javanese yony,
娜
It would give ine much pleasure to record your willingness to give this very commendable scheme the valuble support of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, of which Body you have the high distinction of being the Chairman, and with this object in view I beg to submit to your kind attention a copy of the
anticipation for what steps you may consider appropriate to take in this matter.-I am, &c.,
P. H. TIEDEMANN. Imperial Russian Consul,
To the Hon. E. A. Hewett, Eng., Chairman,
The Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce.
13,000 bales.
vice-presidents.
of from
to
BUBURBS.
PROSPECTS OF CRICKET.
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Batovis with its extension, Weltevreden, and its militery suburb, Meester Cordelis, is straggling town some seven or eight miles in lines almost dug north and south, and is practi- other peculiarities, whether of place or people, length, and is of greatly varying breadth. Its difficulty in putting up or down-with any eslly flat, thongh with a slight tendency to rise And to the stranger who is not aggressively throughout its length, the incline becoming British there is no end to the kindness of the more noticeable every mile of the journey to Dutch, which, perhaps, helps to account for the numerous cases of intermarriage which are on Buitenzorg and the Presnger. It will be convenient at this point to notios the means record here. of communication, which alone might be said to justify the Dutch claim that this is the most
Weltevreden, is a fine road, running for some town of Bataris with its moders adjunct, three miles straight as a die, and due south to the Harmonie, one of the largest social clubs, and the centre of the hotel and European shop- ping quarter. At this point the road divides, one part sweeping round to the east, and regaining its southerly direction a mile further on, at the Ichouwberg or Theatre, oad thence, skirt ing Waterloo Plein, through Kramat, to Moes ter. Cornelis. The whole of this distance is served by a steami-tram; the lines being doubled as far as Kramat, where are the station and junction connecting with the single line on- warda. Whatever may have been the case when the line was built, there can be no two opinion as to the inconvenience and danger of a donide line on a road which is nowhere wide enough to permit two vehicles to pass without encroaching on the tram-lines.
I am unable to answer a correspondent who shove mentioned "Statutes," Thanking you in her ould be compelled to consider seriously may be relied on to give the hole a chance and European town in Asia. Connecting the old inquires whether the authorities aro satisfied that the placards which have been posted over the town requesting the public not to expectorate on the sidewalks have served to mitigate nuisance. It is quite possible they have, for motions of this kind are very likely to have a restraining infinance. An interesting story in confirmation is told of the carly days the tram cars before they bore the familiar notice about spitting. A European lady (no longer in the Colony) had a habit of showing her democratic sympathies by travelling
Оце the DATA.
day third-class Wanchui coal heaver, begrimed with coal dust, jumped upen the car and tock.a seat bwils the lady. Once comfortably seated, be expressed his contentment in the usual manner by expec torating about the place. The conductor
I shall take the utmost posible pleasure in coming slong at the time to colect the coal heavier a fare, the lady in tozes of indignequainting the Committee with the scope and ation, which the conductor evidently mistook adairable objects of the scheme and can seguro
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Hongkong Chamber of Commerce, 3rd May, 1909. DEAR SIR, I thank you for your letter of the 27th April and for the copy of the Statutes of the recently formed Russo-British Chamber of Commerce which that letter covered.
My interest has already been aroused in the Institution by notices which I has read in the local press, and the book of Statutes which you
CHINESE IN SINGAPORE.
· SOCIETIBU,"
PUBLIC CONVEYANCE..
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so kindly sent me gives me the fuller infor- Affairs, Bkraits rettloniente, in the course of court remembered followed esch other are the dos-a-dos, commonly known as sado, counties, but actually plays two first-class
mation I desired of so happy an undertaking.
jimmediately
tiod
are rather ganga of bed character definite front of 45. Mare Fergusson in the St. George's byth string, and, in perhaps seven cases THE INSTINCTS OF ENGLISHMEN.” for agreeable surprise eromimed: “Are passen-you that its developement will be watched with organisations joined by large sections of the Cap at Sandwich. Nobody who saw the matat of ten, glandered. The vehicle itself is
gers allowed to spit where they like on this the greatest sympathy by this Chimber. car?" The tram conductor, who had evidently
a
undergone some training in politeness of the spot, answered with insinuating grass and bland anile: "S'pore Missiey wantchee spit, cat do any pisde, maskes"! I have no doubt the notices which were subsequently posted in the tram cars have served to prevent many little misunderstandings of this description..
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Different men: different methods. In other times rchoolsaarters were wont to use the caus or the tawse" to keep their classes in subjection
of as a deterrent against misdeeds, but I read
+
SCHOOLBOYS.
FATHER'S CLAIM FOR' DAMADES.
IMMIGRANTE."-
in a home paper that a Scottish domisie TERRIBLE ASSAULT BY JAPANESE says. The most notable feature in connection kas hit on a novel method of punishment. It is nothing else than compelling the unruly boys to take doses of custor oil. The parents apparently do not view the experiment with favour and they have complained to the School Board. It would be a pity if such originality were suppressel.
We have been hearing a lot during the past twelve months from the Legislative Council
Recently the students of the Hagi Middle School in Yamaguchi prefecture assaulted one of their number, named Fujii Kaurn, as result of which he has become maimed and ubalanood in mind. Owing to the callousness of the boy's tormentors to the sufferings of their victim, the father of the latter brought action against the students who participated in the assault, claiming damages amounting Y17, 00. Judgment was delivered on the 3rd instant in the Yamaguchi Court, the 42 defendants being ordered jointly to pay the anm of Y8,190, together with interest at the rate of 5 per cont. per annum from the date of judgment to the settlement of the claim.
From
GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S PALACE.
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Mr. Haldane has doclared, without the slightest warrant, that a compulsory service would" gravely imperil the stream of life of the regular army, which is as much as to say that if you teach all men to read and write there will "no need of printed, books. The encourage- mont which compulsory service would give the
of
blackmail and faction fighting, population. They are, however, the cause of at Hoylake is in the least likely to forget it; Will you ploum convey to the Secretary of auch crime, and the number now in existence indeed, Mr. Tait's two astonishing brassy shots,
passenger sits at the back, at an angle them down. To deal with them the 21st, have been described repeatedly and sufficiently sonte to make certain that he will the Chamber the congratulations of the Hong- both in Singapore and Penang calls for strong ons as to the 16th green and the other on t nearly always dirty and disreputable-looking. kong General Chamber of Commerce and it as societies is diffloalt owing to the looseness of have become part of golfing history. That land on his face, at a sadden stoppage, unless he weak willingness to at all times assist the Russo-thair organisation and the very temporary which so much stress has not been laid on is the holds on with both hands. Half an hour in a British Chamber of Commerce in furthering character of many of them. A successful prose fact that he had to hole a put of several yards to sade will always suffice to indicate all
a prominent mar closer commercial and industrial intercourse cution or the banishment of s
form again later under a different name of maliciently formidable length at the 21st. In copy of the latest advertisement of Elank's pills hemofession of arms would far more probably be between Russia and Great Britain to their breaks them up for the time being but they keep the match alive at the 2 hole and snother spots in the passenger's anatomy, so the with
from very day language, it was an lucky
The obro, drawn by two more foolish is the objection commonly heard mutual and permanent bonefft.-I am, &o.,
win for Mr. Tait; but from an educativaul-point salf-satisfaction.
(epithets as before) is a degree as that compulsory service was a state of EDBERT H. HAWETT.
their alien leaders the right to further abuse of view it is more useful to remember it as portalile than the sado, but. otherwise things to which the instincts and ways our hospitality. It is regrettable that the
wonderfal display of courage in adversity. P. H. Tiedemann, Esq..
proportion of Straits born Chinese among these If Mr. Lowe's experience was disheartening, there is little to choose between them. The of living of Englishmen were opposed." Imperial Russian Consul,
Tenders in increasing.
perhaps Mr. Biure Fergusson's in the St. fares are low- cent a minute for the former. This statement and others like it hovo Hongkong.
He and 1 cents for the latter, and the rate of progression been made so often that they appear to be George's up was even more 60. Turning to immigration and emigration he Mr. Tait had played together and at the 36th averages six miles an hour. There are no beyond the reach of controversy. What has hole, when each had played throe shots, their rikishen here The Chinese community will not been said thrice seems sa true to our Radicals with immigation in 1908 was the imposition of scores for the day were equal; but whereas Mr. allow a Chinaman to draw a rikisha, and the as to the gentleman in Lewis Carroll's peama. nor, in all But a little consideration will easily prove its of 14 days quarantine on account of small-pox Ferguson's ball lay to all appearances dead, Mr. Javanese is neither willing to de against the three chief ports of departure for Tail was far away at the end of the green near probability, would he be physically capable falsity. There is no man so patient, so easy to Chinese immigrants, viz, Hongkong, Swalow the railings. Down went his put nevertheless of the work. It is hardly necessary to add control, so willing to obey the law, as the habits of enduranco and discipline, and and Amey, from the end of March to the begin. and Mr. Ferguson, having the cup, locked from that private carriages, add sat:mobiles can Snglishman. For centuries he has been trained ubiquitous. Of the roads these habits have appeared far more pleasant ning of July and of a ten days quarantine on his lips, missed his abort pat a thing that he always be hired, but the prices are rather in
thomselves, it is sufficient to say that they are than irksome to him. The man who accepted account of plague against Hongkong continued was, and tis, ne unlikely to do as any golfer stiff, The bicycle until the middle of September. These measures alive.
had A round of golf by another
her player which was well-constructed, with, in the case of muxdam the yoke of William the Conqueror with a wise acquiescence showed how highly he though amply justified on sanitary ground a disastrous affect upon the volume of immigre termed very lucky, and which possessed many ised rosás, a fairly high crown,
prized the order which comes
good It would be rash, however, to assert that the government. Nor did the autocracy of terrora, for the tion. During the first quarter, the figures were of the characteristics of Mr. Tait in his more about normal but in the second (during which erratie mood, was that played by Mr. Robertson-
travelling facilities
thus placed at their Englishman. He endured the exaction of about the financial straits into which the Colony
the quarantine was imposed) they fell to 23,504, Durhain in the University match of Sunningdale good people of Batavia are satisfied with the the Taders have say the maximan, naman and sterage figures last year. He was some six holos down at lunch,
VIII, obeyed turn in the afternoon by as extraordinary a Governor-General down to the successful man which, in the regin of is drifting, and we have had a Retrenchment
for the previous nine years being 79,607 (1904) and yet he managed, to become one up at the disposal. On the contrary, from H. B. the Empson and Dadlay in the same spirit with tively turns of display as could well be tunagined. Poultless it of bunces, they are demanding an express, the commands of that forseeing tyrant chaved Committee at work trying to save e deller hero
55,695 (1899) and 67 755 mpectively.
of 8 comparison and there in the various spending departments Yet when the alarming statement is made to the
arrivals at Singapors from hina and of certainly was not, for it would be possible to service of trains betwear Batavis and Buiten- the nation which tolerated without complaint Chinese departures from Singapore for Heng point out several strakes that were as bad as zorg. Negotiations have been in porgress for the hardship of the Dress-rang, a very real hong it would appear probable that on an average need be; but the recoveries out of heather some mouths, and only this week a cable from infiction which no one would like to see rosired, Coumoil that the railway which is being con-
of ten years, about 6 per cent of our Chinees (some of them only possible for a very Holland informed us that the company who cannot justly be charged with preferring an TO LIVE LONG.
the splendidly bold was the railway had decided to sell it to the illusory fre om to quietude and security. This structed for as by the Crown Agants will cost
objection then, that compulsion is incompatible immigrants return to China; the highest per strong man) and more than twice the amount of the original
with the British character, cannot for one The lighting of the town is a a monopoly, both Dr. Saleeb in London serves up many wise centage in any year being: 70 and the lowest putting were un admirable object-lesson A Government
nor does the other estimate not a word of indignation or protest has counsels on how to live to be a hundred. Lire 51. The figures are approximately separate fery great deal more than lusk is required for
on sixpence a day, and earn it. All but the practically all steamers carrying dock passengers such golf as that. If the game be carefully gas and electricity being in the hands of the moment be sustained. come from the lips of the Unofficial Members of
of laying shote "stone dead autocratic withal There is little to grumble by which men can be compelled to serve, the Council! True, only the two Chiness 16-very poorest of 4 igrossly over-cat, and very from Bingapore to China mako Hongkong their scrutinised of nay golfer, who is rocklesal same company very flourishing concern and argument, that England poaressos no machinery presentativas kappened to be present last Thursday any of as over-drink as well. "Joy and first port of call and the number of Chinese whe
thinks, be found that insufficient justice has the street lighting is about as ineficient as it ory does not exist, it can forthwith be invented. temperance and
Singapore is very small, m when the Governor brought the revised estimates doctor's nose pose, Slam the door on the leave Malaya for China, otherwise than vis and of haling inordinately long puta, it will, ong about in the quality of the light supplied, but carry any heavier weight. If the machin
The three best doctors are. Dr.
been done to his power of being up to the hole. could be. Until 7: 30 or 8m. it is sked out in, It is no more dificult to find a conscript than to The surest way of avoiding a reputation for Nordwyk and Rejswyk by, he brilliant lighting summon a juryman, and the penalty for evasion before the Connell, but the revelation was enough Quiot, Dr. Diet, and Dr. Merryman. Över
"In the last four years 71 persons have been to give speech to the dumb. Perhaps the work never get killed anybody, we may very
one's approach patting.
there is just enough light to show how dark it is. ned we be appalled at the expense. Unofficial Members will have a word to say on nearly say. It is wors that kills. Every banished as profesional, morphis injectors. Itundas Jurich ging be consistently short in of sons of the European shops, but elsewhero of service could easily be inflicted. As little Reference has been make to the absence of compulsory army is not in the nature of things pleasurable emotion raises the tide of
is to be feared that despite frequent proseentions
buildings of any architectural protinaions. so, costly as an army.olunteers, and there is this abject at the next meeting, and get the
painful emotion lowers it. One of the and severe soutonces the morphia-lahit, is
Exception might be mado in favour of the no reason why we should not accept Mr. Amery's Government to enlighten the community as to secrets of youth is to keep working. The steadily grusing Indulgence in it affords s to much cheaper and speedier gratification than
ranscum on Koningsplein, and, perhaps, to the wise suggestion, that while service should be how this excess orce the estimats is to be inactivity of the old greatly helps
existence has does opium-smoking.
palace of the Governor-General. For the made compulsory, only those who engage to provided. Not even our optimistic Colonial age then. The struggle
tanght us we are strugglers by constitution. The number of brothels and prostitutes known Sir T. Fowell Buxton presided at the home most part, however, the Dutch eschew serve abroad in time of war should receive pay, in Lame-house over the 52nd anniversary meet- young company. Fathers and mothers, to the department is 572 with 3,864 inmates:
decorative
From Musings without Mothed; in or imposing buildings, there ing of the Strangers' Home for Asiatics. He
Blackwood, a substantial air about their houses, with tion to opinea divan licences would regard the no children. The preservation of young is best vious years. The inmates are called to the said that the object of the home was to provide their pillars, marble Boors, and lefty rooms,
carried out by the seeing young people, byoffoe twice in
the
year and their legal freedom shelter for sailors coming to this country from
derstand the art of building houses which are increase a more bagatello not worth while efforts to sympathiso with them, and even by explained to them. This and other measures all parts of the East. That day there were $7 which lond one to the conclusion that they un-LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS. following at times, in a mild way, some youthful are fairly effectual in protecting them from illinnutes in the institution, though the number both cool and comfortable. There is always parait or gume. Never surrender your treatment by brothel koopers,
The number of persons banished wag 433tinually fluctuated, for only a few days plenty of air-space around the houses, andin
and may pais. Don't brood over the past and fend.
yard as old as we feel. A man is as old as ninety more than in the previous year, 347 Treriaaly the number had been 150. On the case of the larger mansione it might The LG.M. str. Derflinger left Shanghai on expected p.m., Sir Frederic Frvér said that if almost be said that each one stande in 's private the 15th inst, at 7 them were habitual criminals.
here to-morrow at daylight.
The C.N. Co. str. Chonan loft Shanghai on These spophthegma, borrowed from a great Action was takau in Singapore to put down annually: advertise itself mom ke was a Park of its owa. A
Speaking generally, it may lx mid that there the 16th inst, and is due here on the 19th inst. some Wong Tai Sin chapsis. Wong Tai Sin is there were many who had interests in the Edst
local demigod of Canton who came into sudden who would be only too willing to give pecuniary is very little real difference between the life here
The T.K.K. str. Hongkong Mars is due to prominence there as a reliable adviser for sick and other sid. Major-General. Chamber, B., and that in ritish colony. There is probably
The P.M. ate, Asia from San Francisco, sails How To A BEAUTIFUL-Keep your com. people and lottery ticket buyers. His images and De Pollen, C.I.E., also spoks The lion. less intolerance, but there is also a more rigid The perdoa, 20 instant.
minatie of social observancos,rom Yokohama on the 15th inst, and is due to to the n plexion, Mrs. Ellen's Crème Charmante, Lait were brought here and at the time when action secretary (Major Chesney) stated that the attention to
and this especially in military circles, less dis- arrive at this port 23rd inst. Charmant and Special Ekin Tonic and Poudrs was taken, four rival idol-owners were advising Japanese Government had contributed £100 to
Her chap ji li stakers and receiving fees for doing the fund in 1909. Of the inmates received last play of common sense, but a grester show of The CPR. str. Empress of Japan left Van Charmant will enable you to do it. nobody ever suggested that they should be Specialities for the Skin are the study of so any petitions were received as to the year 20 were sent by the India Office, digh by courtesy. Taking one thing with another, the 'couver p.m, on the 13th inst. for Hongkong vi
lifetime. A. S. Wateon & Co. Ltd, Bole Agents harm these chapel were doing by fostering the the Colonial, Office, and 38 by the botics and ran who can accommodate himself to rice-table the usual Ports of Call
1453 habit of gambling among women..
hosbitals.
is likely to have a good time, for he will have no
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ADVISING GAMBLER,
Secretary who thinks the Colony is not so badly average, live longer than, those who have The figures show no great variation from pre
off that it could not afford $11,000 for compensa- on
worrying over.
Dear me? Our Legislative Council is being asked to pass a bill to demonetize postage stamps his mind. Be a boy as long as you can. "bearing the lead of her lato Majesty Queen
Victoria. But why! The stemps live presuma range of literature and experience, ure raily hly been paid for, and why should Government epitomised. fór some whim or caprice rofuse to accept them at any time? As well donionetize the toller, or coins bearing the same offigy. I remember at home seeing George III coins ställ in use, and repudiated. When my notes was drate to
THE STRANGERS' HOME IN LONDON FOR ABLATICS
sveruge
home
there were over 800 who were helped
YENY LITTLE DIFFEFENCE,
ie
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The C. & Mstr. Zafiro left Manila on the
15th inst., and is due here to-day at 6 p.m.
be