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temper as they apparently are in at present. Though the telegraphic information tells of the growing unpopularity of the war, it is still strangely silent as to the reason for this. As we remarked before, it might have been expected that national pride would have insist on the hostilities which
THE BONGKONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, AUGUST 3RD, 1909.
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General Wilsons-Black, who was commander of the forces in Rongkong about ten years ago, His body was cremated at Golder's Green.
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and formerly Governor of Hongkong, while driving on the 8th alt: was thrown out of his His Excelloncy austained some clight injarjes. The accident appears to have taken place in London.
The new promises which have been erected for Messrs. fardino, Matheson and Company st the corner of Pedder Street and Dos Your Boad are nearing completion. The new trac ture, which is decidedly handsome and a welcome
Spain in North Africa were worth the cost addition to the architectural bosaties of the of maintaining, with the single exception,city, is certainly worthy of the traditions of the
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SENTENCES QUASHED,
SINGAPORE, August 2nd, A specially convened Appeal Court at Singapore has quashed the death sentences passed upon the Johore pirates and condemned them to penal servitude for life,
LOCAL SPORT.
LAWN BOWLS. Progress is being made with the arrangements for a lawn bowls championship of the Colony, all the four bowling clubs having indicated their approval of the scheme.
CROQUET.
The Kowloon Bowling Club is responsible for the great interest which has been awakened in this game in the Colony. Already two competitions-mixed doubles and gentlemen's a championship competition is ander doubles have been played on this green, and
now
weigh,
AT THE MAGISTRACY
LORD WILLIAM CECIL AND HONG. KONG'S UNIVERSITY SCHEME.
The following letter has appeared in The Times:-
SIRI ses your Correspondent at Tokyo falls foul of me and blames me when he ought to praise me. He accuses me of not having in- quired into the Hongkong University scheme: I did inquire most fully into it when I was in China, and I may oven say that one of the features that be praises in that schemeoriginated in a suggestion of the Bishop's, which sugges tion I think I may claim credit of having in my turn made to him,, and that, suggestion was that Christian hostals should be attached to the University. But your Correspondent is wrong udenominational; it is, or was at least when was in China, w-Christain, not undenomina- in saying that the Hongkong University
tial, and that is the onontial difference between the scheme of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and the Hongkong scheme.
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The University scheme, which is not the Before Mr. J. R. Wood at the Magistracythey express every sympathy with it, is & scheme of the Emergency Committee, though
lines of tho Universities of Oxford and Cam- sesterday twenty-four natives were fined $4 heme to erect a University orantly on the bridge-namoly, a University composed of many collages which could represent the various budies now working in the cause of education in China. This scheme is Christian and no-
The ground on which the Court
sach for gambling at ShaukiwnD. A sad fatality was reported to the police at based its decision was that the crime was committed outside the Territorial waters of the Colony, and that both the victims and the perpetrators of the crime were the subjects of a Foreign
a
A Chinese schoolboy Hanghom on Saturday. on his way honis stopped to have a swim in pond. He was the only bather, and apparently he got beyond his depth, for when his uncle went in search of him later he found his clades and school books on the lank, and the lifeless body of his nephew in the water,
More than 30,000 Chinmo have been received
into Church followship by the China Inland. Mission since its commencement in 1866, and of namber 2,507 were received last year. The those more than 21,000 still remain, Of the C.I.M. has 928 missicuarios, 210 central stations, 750 outstations, 970 chapala, eight hospitals, 42 dispensaries. 88 opium refuges, and more than 200 day and boarding schools, with about 4,000 scholars,
campaign. Neither is the opposition to the war based on sus sentimental foundation that war is wrong, The explanation is simply that the people prefer peace to war. Since their aufortunate experiences of laat contury they have learned a little of the advantages of industrialism. A serious attempt to develop the resources of the country has resulted in new enterprises being established, in-lustries have sprung up many parts of the country, and the populace, becoming conscious of the ensuing
Under the loading Hongkong Spored," prosperity, are naturally averas to the the Manila Colences of Thursday last may Government embarking on a course of contrary to all the expectations of the action which is likely to take them from Weather Burean and to the very general rale peaceful avocations. This is the crux of the of the road followed by typhoons, the storm that whole problem. No war of any magnitude was expected to pass by the uretiipelage and And it is apparent that the present fight-strike tongkeng on Tuesday night failed to ing is more serious that was at first anti-alal expectatious, but made a zeures shot uine o'clock and returned to the Philippines, cipated-cau be wage without augmenting staying all day and making it look as though the peace establishment of the army.
a new centre of depression had been created" time of peace Spain's standing army does not amount to more than 100,000, but when
to bear arms,
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war is threatened conscription is applied and that number is doubled, while, if necessary, the reserves can be called out, giving CARBOLIC ACID another 100,000. Now we see that 75,000 reinforcements are demanded for the troops in Melilla, which means that men will have to be drawn from their various employments As the people have no reason to look back on recent wars in which Spain was engaged with any feeling of pride, they show little enthusiasm over any military enterprise; but when added to that they have learned to enjoy the blessings of pence and to reap the advantages of a glowing in lustrialism and a revival of trade, their present attitude does not seem quite so inexplicable. Some might see in | this is happy augury for the future. They
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AND KOWLOON DISPENSARY. Hongkong, 19th July, 1909.
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BIETAS.
On June 28th, at Stanfo, to Dr. and Mrs H. STANLET JERKING, a daughter (Margaret Wini fred).
On July 20th, at Kuling, to Rev. Dr. and Mrs. W. E. TATLOD, A BOR.
On July 28th, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs.
ARTHUR EVKLEIGH, & Bon.
On July 26th, at the Chartered Bank Bones, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. GoRGE MILLEB, & daughter.
MABRIAGE.
On July 24th, at Shanghai, THOMAS DANIEL, second son of C. O. Gxa, formerly of the Custome Service, Shanghai, to BARBARA PEMBO, eldent daughter of Gro. Pranson, of the China Merchants' S. N. Co.
DEATH.
On July tet, at South Kensington, London, JOHN GROZOR BARKLET, late of the Shanghai- Nanking Railway,
Messrs. Wm. G. Hale und Co., the well-known
rice exporting firm of Saigon, say in their latest circular dated the 23rd ult.:-"The few sales effected to Java and the Philippines daring the past week at ruling prices have tended to ud- vance our market to no small degree. In azpocta- tion of a strong demand from tinse directions, millora are now adopting a cantions policy, and are only open to contract at limits which bayers are reluctant to pay for the present. At the close our market shows indication of being well able to maintain prices."
The American Ambassador entertained at dinner at Dorchester Hoame on the 7th alt, the British, American, French, and German repre- sentatives of the group of bankers in each country who were in London for the purpose of settling the terms of participation in the lon to Chius for the Henkow-Szechuan Railway. Great Britain was represented by Mr. Willlem Keswick, M.P., Mr. Carl Mayer, and Mr. C. S. Addis; France by M. imon and M. Uhmann; and America by Mr. Edward Grenfell, Mr. Germany by Herr Urbig and Herr Rehders; Otto H. Kahn, and Mr. W. D. Straight.
Mr. F. 8. A. Bourne, Mrs. Bourne and Miss
Power.
GREAT FIRE AT OSAKA.
20,000 HOUSES DESTROYED.
TOKYO, August 2nd.
denominational, half of the committee being in
A coolie who was arrested while endeavouring to force an entrance into 175, Queen's Road Central was charged before Mr. F. A. Hazeland
the Magistracy yesterday with having house-sympathy with the Church of England and breaking implements in his possession. He was half with Nonconformist Churches; it Ina on number of leading residents at found guilty and sentenced to six weeks' impris- its committee
Oxford and Cambridge and is essentially the oument with hard labour, and six hours' stocks.product of Oxford and Cambridge. It is in no
at
A dative appenvoel hefore Mr. F. A. Hazeland at the Magistrany yesterday on the charge of attempting to stow away to Australia by the ga. Taiyuan. On the evince he was found guilty
being three months' imprisonment,
the
A quarter of the city of Osaka has and ordered to pay a flue of $150, the alternative districts in which the various languages are
been destroyed by fire which broke. out at daybreak on Saturday through the upsetting of an oil lamp in a small factory.
OPIUM SELLER'S SCARE. On Sunday the keeper of an opium dlvin dashed into the Central Policu Station and in a
way in competition with the Hongkong Univers it is to be started in the Mandorin-speak- sity ing part of China, some six to ten days' journey away from Hougkong. I think your readers will probably and a big nip of Chins very necessary at the present time, and if that map marks spoken they will understand the isolated condi tion
of Kwangtung, and of Hongkong, which Is an island on its south coast, and
University there can no more satisfy the needs of hins than the University at Tokyo. In the aro way, though in a lesser degree, the University at Shautang is not well placed, for though they do not speak the puro Mandarin. A University speak a dialect of the Mandarin language, they to benefit Chius must be started in the contro language of Chinn is spoken.
which he alleged had occurred in his divan. of China in that vast distriat where the trus
sought information accuses za of not having think there was hardly any person who know
The Aames spread with fearful few minutes had told Inspector Fanton three rapidity and swept over the centre of different stories of a robbery with violence the city, destroying the Courts of From all that ho had been told the inspector
I themselves at the divan, and while one had well informed. Appeal, the Town Hall, several large on day gathered that six men had presented business offices and factories and probased an amount of opiem the rest had about twenty thousand houses.
Thousands of people have been rendered homeless and the mortality is high, but the number of deaths has not yet been ascertained.
[REUTER'S SERVICE TO THE "HONGKONG DAILY PRESS.")
THE AMERICAN TARIFF,
LONDON, August 2nd. The House of Representatives at Washington has adopted the Con- ference Jariff by 195 votes to 173,
These figures have evoked Re- publican demonstrations.
"AUTHORITY TRIUMPHS IN
BARCELONA.
LONDON, August 2nd. Authority has clearly triumphed at Barcelona, which is becoming quiet.
Official reports, state that order has
thut the participants had rapidly made them selves "carce.
OBSTRUCTION AND ATTEMPTED
BRIBERY,
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cou only any that I darted with $27 which they bad extracted anything of education, both Chinese and English, in the Mandariu district of whom from the till. Detective-Sergeant Appleton did not in some way or another make was despatched to make inquiries, and that inquiries. The Chinese were most encouraging offer discovered that nothing more than a to our proposal University. His Excellency his Excellency Liang-Ten Sen, his Excellency Tong-Shao-Yi, and many others, Vicaroys and free fight had taken place in the divan, and Chang-Chi Tung, his Excellency Funng-Fang, Governors in varions parts of China, gave me a great deal of excellent advice. I wont orer many
schools and made every inquiry of both Western and Eastern who were teaching in those schools, and the result of those ingi was to confirm what Chinese experts in Bəfore Mr. F. A. Hassland at the Magistracy had told the committee who sent me out- yesterday a hawker was charged with causing namely (1) that a University to influence China an obstruction at Wanchai, and with attempted must be started in the district where the true was now no bitter feeling against Christianity. bribery. When arrested by a lukong it appears guage or Mandarin is spoken; (2) that there that some Chinese women told the defendant The Chinese are essentially a tolerant race and to pay the policeman twenty cents and all would i can in their history point to many examples of The hawker had only seven cents that toleration, and they will now treat Christ- and fifteen cash in his possession, but he im-ianity with perfect toleration, as, indeed, they have treated Mahomediam and Kuddhism; but mediately proffered this amount
a peace though the days of the persecution of Christianity offering. Instead of having the desired effect,are apparently over there is an ever-increasing in China, and however, it caused the policeman's grip to close anti-foreign morament going on
therefore any University flying any fag but the the tighter on his prisoner, and the latter was
Chinese must sooner or later be in great dificul
the great danger charged before 2. F. A. Hageland at the ties with regard to pupils; (3) th
opinion of Magistracy yesterday. On the charge of that is before China, in obstruction ho was fined $10, while a further observers, both Westerns and Chinese, is the development of the extreme and dangerous Ane of 815 was inflicted on the charge of revolutionary party. bribery.
be well.
THE TRUCK NUISANCE.
of all
placed this s and a great deal of other informa tion before the Oxford Cambridge Committee, and I hope that it will assist them in the great tank that they have set themselves to do--namely,
Mr. A. Course, traffic. Auperintendent of the to organize au efficient University in the centre
by CARLYLE has not yet arrived, and the Bourne left Shanghai for Home by the R. M. g been restored in the disturbed districts Tramway Co., processed against the driver of a
Empress of India. A very large xumber of of Cataloma, Aragon, and Vizcaya.
wisdom of the present day having decreed that men must be prepared to bear arms in the service of their country when called upon, it is not improbable that Spain will have to make her sons realise that whilo enjoying the blessings of peace they must ever remember that the best guarantee for peace is preparedness for war
The new harbour light kitasied on Signal Hill, Kowloon, was in operation for the first time on Sunday night.
friends were present on the jetty to bid them farewell, and many good wishes follow them for a pleasant holiday. Mr. Bourno has been Acting. Judge of H. M. Supreme Court for China and Korea since May, 1908, and he has been very hard worked especially during the past, sir months. His bome leave for one year fell,dne,
at the beginning of the month. Mr. Lindsey Smith, who with Mrs. Lindsey Swith have just arrived at Shanghai, will be Acting Judge of H. M. Supreme Court for the present.
Perhaps the next mining excitement in the Philippines, says Mauils contemporary, will be an oil boom. Up to the present time consider-
A costly scheme to provide Bangkok with a water supply has received the Royal sanction.able exploring has been carried on in & quiet
It is expected that the works will be completed way, and some wells have been drilled to shallow. by Nerember 1912.
GA
gist of the Division of Mines, has just returned
THE CASUALTY LIST.
LATER. Barcelona is settling down again to its normal state.
Whole quarters of the city were razed by the recent artillery fire.
The Captain-General estimates that 1,000 were killed and 2,500 are in the hospitals.
TURKEY AND CRETE.
LONDON, August. 2nd. News from Constantinople states that Turkish resentment in regard to
C
depths with sucouraging results. Very little information concerning the oil finds has thus far Sir Robert Hart, writing to the officials of reached the public, but there is no reason for the Portadown Methodist Church, states that holding it back, since there is room for every. Crete is strained to danger künt.
The Porte has protested to the HONGKONG OFFICE: DA, DES YEUX ROAD Chis health is far from good and his plans for body in the field. Dr. George I, Adams, geola- LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET. EC returning to Chins in Jaly have been upset.
At a recent meeting of the Kulangan (Amy) Municipal Council, the agreement of the Fecretary and Capt. Supt. of Police was renewed for a further period of three years, from the 1st June, 1909, at a salary of $350 per month,
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, AUGUST 3RD 1909. MISFORTUNES still crowd upon unhappy Spain. Not only has the fighting with the Moors so far resulted in nothing but a succession of disasters, but the unpopularity of the war has grown to such an extent that it bas found angry expression in riots and strest Gghting which have had to be quelled by the artillery, who have been responsible for a death roll which has not been equalled
Various gentlemen in Shanghai, having the interests of the Navy League at heart, lave privately subscribed the sum of $325, the amount of the overdraft at the Chartered Bank,
truck owned by the Connaught Aerated Water Company, of Queen's Road East, before Mr. J. E. Wood at the Magistracy yesterday for obstructing a tramcar in Des Voeux Road Central. It would appear that the trucks belonging to this Company fit on the tram lines, and that great diffenity is experienced in removing them when a tram is spproaching.
When the case was concluded yesterday Mr. Course pressed for a heavy penalty on the ground that the Tramway Company had ex- rienced considerable trouble with the trucks
of the defendant Company.
His Worship fined the driver 820, the alternative being one month's imprisonment.
BIG OPIUM SEIZURE AT MANILA, A big opium-seizure has been made in Mauila. No less than 450 kilos of opium, valued at
P. 14,000, were found in a boiler which had been taken over from Hongkong for alterations. The Hongkong police apparently.got to learn of this attempt to sanggle the opium and cabled to Manils, but the Manila customs were search it was not the custom house officers but the ing five days before they discovered it. In fact employees of the Taylor machine works who Stronger steps are considered im-made the discovery. By way of preparing for
from a reconnaissanes in the Tayabas Peninsula Powers to the effect that the hoisting and has brought back samples of the oil which of the flag has strengthened Turkish were collected with special care for the purpose public opinion. of analysis in the laboratory of the Bureau of Bcience.
minent,
BRITISERS IN PASIG JAIL FOR WATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION."
INTERVENTION OF H. M. CONSUL.”
the drilling of larger holes fa the boiler, they mscrewed a plag is one of the columns and there they found it.
THE CHINESE RAILWAY LOANS.
of China:
In conclusion, may I wish good luck to the Hongkong University and express a hope that their work in the Kwangtang district and our work in Central China may be able to co-operate together in this one great object.--- Yours obediently,
WILLIAM GASCOYNE-CECIL. Hatfield, Herts, July 6th.
THE MURDER OF SIR CURZON WYLLIE.
Two brothers of Madha Lao Dhingra, who shot Sir W. Carron Wyllie, arrived at Bimla
rently. They saw the Viceroy's secretary, to whom they expressed the family's extreme shams and horrer at the murder of Sir Curzon Wyllie.hey begged Lord Minto to convey their sympathy to Lady Wyllis, and their feeling of abhorrence to the British nation.
The family is convinced that Madis Leo was tool in the hands of a conspiracy. His brothers say he was always socentric. His father writes that he did his utmost to resque him from India House and other malign in-
fluences.
COTTON-GROWING IN RUSSIA.
The Moscow Bourse Committee is taking
steps to promote public interest in the scheme great cotton-producing countries of the world. The project is based on the assumption that. for raising Russia to the position of one of the provided the work of irrigation it carried out. thoroughly, Turkestan and the Trans-Caspian provinces offer magnificent facilities for the cultivation of cotton. A sum of £50,000 has now been subscribed by manafacturers towards A fiamese Royal dores orders a census of It is a notorious fact, says the Seoul Fress,
the cost of preliminary work in connection with The responsible that in former days Korean officials used to
the irrigation, and it is suggested that the the Kingdom to be taken.
province of Fergana offers most favourable conditions for cotton-protection. The Govern ministers are also directed to make arrange embezzle part of the taxes paid in by the people. ments for the registration of births and deuths,In April last a law was promulgated for the
meat naturally favours the enterprise, in the and for the registration of immigrants and adjustment of the less caused to the Treasury in
The following telegram from Peking was hope that it may be possible for Russia to this way and also for the prevention of embezzle- The difficulty the bureau of justice has to deal published in New York on the 9th ult.: emigranta,
Considerable surprise is expressed by the reduce her indebtedness abroad by means of ment in future. The Government has since with in the appointment of justices of the pace been investigating the matter sad is said to capable of fulfilling the position was made European bankers here at advlees received exports of cotton, and to render herself entirely have discovered that during the 12 years between evident on Sunday in the action of the justice of from London to the affect that the American independent of the United States ne regards the peace of Pasig, who imposed a bail of bankers have refused the compromise offered to 1895 and 1997 as much as three million yen P21,000 apiece upon four Britishers who were the--namely, participation to the extent of have gone astmy, about three thousand Korean arrested by the police and charged with at one-quarter in the part of the Szechuan al- LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS, The O. & M. str. Bubi left Manila on the 1st by some of the recent enuguinary encounters
officials being responsible for this. To their tempted assassination because an automobile in way loan sat aride for the Hupsh section in in which the forces of Spain have been
great consternation, the Government has now which they were riding struck and injured a lien of participation in the Hankow-Canton
The C. & M. str. Chenan leff Shanghai on demanded of those officials, against whom there native who accidentally jumped in the track of line. It is understood that the American inst, and is dus here to-day at 6 pm.
refusal came from Washington. Hitherto it worsted. The outlook is far froin hopeful.
A party of four Britishers were en pleasure bent has not been believed that the Americans the 1st inst., and is due here to-morrow.
The ar str. A. Apo from Calentta left Martial law-has-b en -proclaimed practically While the occupants of house No 125, Nullah is clear evidence, the repayment of their the machine in an attempt to escape from it.
kow-Canton Railway in view of the manner in Singapore on the 1st instorming, and may be throughout the country, but what is perhaps Lane, Wanchai, were absent yesterday a thief misappropriations. Already over 100 officials, and were returning from Montalban when the would insist upon participation in the Han
which they relinquished their claims in 1904. expected here on or about the 6th inst. The European bankers to-day renewed their The I.G.M. str. Bulowe carrying the Germa the most significant of all the news items broke the lock of the front door, entered and including some of high rank, have been informed: acplant occurred within the limits of Pasig. which have filtered through from Madrid was departing with a box of clothing when one of the Government's determination and have They rendered all assistance possible and even
of the inmates returned. The thief was on. promised to make good the shortage, which the case to the police at the station efforts to induce China to sign the original Mails with dates from Berlin of the 14th it amounts to about 300,000 yen altogether. They were held in the municipal jail for Scan-agreement. The firmness of the Chinese left Colombo on the 31st alt. p.m., and may be is that the Queen and the Dowager-Queen envcessful in his attempt to spe, and cnmou do to pay the whole amount at once seven hours for lack of bondsmen, but when Government has impressed the parties involv-expected here on or about the 11th inst
The LG.M. str. Goeben, which left here on able to communicate with their Contul theired. The attention of the bankers was called bave retired into France, indicating that appearing before Mr. F. A. Hazeland at the there is a feeling of uncasiness as to what Magistracy yesterday he was sentenced to six will be allowed to do so by yearly instalments cause was at bice taken up and they were to the embarrassment which would result if 30th uit, at 4 p.m., arrived at Shanghai on the
China was led into a false position.
Ist inst. at 3. ... releasedUablonews-American. happen with the people in such a weeks' imprisonment and six hours stocks,
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