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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 167, 1911. Scorr-long before Mr. OSCAR WILDE-
The return of visitors to the City Hall Library
pointed out resembled the service with and Museum for the week ending the 12th Febra-TELEGRAMS.
ment."
which it is consummated in beginning with Dearly beloved" and ending in "ame But nowadays things are marked by a difference. Not only do the men decline [to propose, but the women decline to accept. The probability is that this is a case of the bad example, although of course the suf- fragette movement may have had some thing to do with it in England. How con EDWIN propose to ANGELINA when he
a
ary shows that of non-Chineso there were. and of Chinese 121 to the former and 6,372 to 309 to the Library and 278 to the Masoum
the latter. The Library was therefore, used
by 430 persone and the Museum by 6,650
quis Heari Cavallotti, eldest son.of the late A marriage has been arranged between Mar
Marquia Maurice Carallosti, of Rome, and nephew of the late Baron d'Anathan, formerly Belgian Minister in Tokyo, and Elspeth, younger daughter of the late Lieutenant T. H. James, R.N., of Troseronx, Eden-bridge, and
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"DAILY PRES9" EXCLUSIVE SERVICE. Į
PLAGUE IN THE NORTH,
PERING, February 15th, The Plague at Kuang-cheng-tze
is
still secthing, and outbreaks are reported across the Russian and Korean borders,
CANTON,
[FROM OUR OWN CORLESFONDENT.)
14th February.
TROUBLES OF A CIRCUS,
As bofors reported, Harmston's Creus has arrived and the first performance was given on Sunday afternoon. Truly, the way of a cirens proprietor is hard in this country. After much trouble with the authorities a fixe site was allot. ted to the Cirous on the New Band, but at the eleventh hour those in charge were told that the guaranteed. The cirons thoroforo pitched its site was not available as protection could not be
to aid the peoplo'the charitable institutions hare sent in a memorial to the Viceroy praying that for the present tho likin duties on rice coming from the sister province be taken off It is also said that the lamled gentry in Kwong Ssi are endeavouring to advanco the pries of rice by holding ou to their stores of grain and pre- venting its export. The Viceroy is requested to take notion in this niso
MOVEMENTS OF OFFICIALS.
Li Ching Fuu, the newly appointed Diplom afio Commissioner for Kwong Tong, arrived an interview with the Viceroy ho took up hi here in the B.S. Kwong. Tak yesterday. After
temporary abode in the Tul Fut Mounstery at such time as his yamen is fit for his reception. Tho Commissioner's suite consists of over thirty persons.
A report is current that the Proviustal Treas-
tents on the opposite side of the river at the place known as Fa Tal. On Sunday a large number of persons (including away Europeans) went to see the show, but once in the tent where There is a daily diminution in the the wild beasts were exhibited they refused to mortality at Fuchiation, where 32 leave, as they contended that the small fee they deaths were reported yesterday,
had paid to see the beasts entitled them to witness the equestrian and other performances Elsewhere conditions are improv-in the adjoining pavilion. As the natives refused way has lately come in for a good deal of journ. to badge, two huge elephants were taken intoalistic criticism. When he took office be pro
uror will soon tonder his resignation, as he Ins fallen foul of the new Viceroy.
The acting director of the Ynet Hon Rail-
AS SUPPLIED TO THE ROYAL The statistician has been abroad and has used for the storago of silk, the door of which ing, and the Government is not the tent and in less time than it takes to write mised to perform the duties of his post without
CHAMPAGNE knows that at any moment le mar le Tokyo, and granddaughter of the lato seized with an insane desire to punch Vory Reverend Arthur Ranken, D.D., Dean of ministerial nose or horsewhip & minis Aberdeon and Orknoy. terial back? and how can ANGELINA look with kindness on EDWIN. when he is de- priving her of the pleasure of making a cross on a piece of paper and thus haring a stake in the country? But whatever the cause the facts cannot be explained away. come back with the solemn statement that “while salaries in industry, professional life and labour have been gradually rising in value in such civilised countries as Eng land, the United States. Hungary and Italy, the number of marriages has SOME LONDON ESTABLISH- suffered A sensible diminution.". Now,
MENTS AT WHICH
do salaries rise-not nominally but ST. MARCEAUX
actually Why should they? The very fact that salaries have had a nominal rise makes us suspicious that the actual value of
COURTS OF
ENGLAND, GERMANY, RUSSIA, AUSTRIA, BEL- GIUM, ITALY, DENMARK,
&c., &c.
CHAMPAGNE the salary has not changed, but that it is the
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AGENTS:-
cost of living that has risen. After all, battleships and other luxuries have to be paid for and there is always the increase in the population to be considered. The probabilities are that Edwis is in the same --or perhaps not quite so good-a financial
MEETS DEATH IN A STRONG ROOM, BBOCKING DISCOVERY ON BIVER STEAMBE,
Canton river steamer Kwong Tung on Tuesday A shocking discovery was made on board the erening. The vessel has a special strong room is always kopt locked. It appears that this room had not been entered for some daye, but when the door was opened last night and mem- the dead body of a Chinese. How the man bore of the grow went into the room they found
prosent a mystery, bat the interior of the room came to be locked in the strong room is at shows that he made a desperate struggle to get free. Bat all his efforts were of no avail, and ho passed to his death by the lingering and dreadful soad of starvation. The police are making inquiries.
DISORDERLY BEHAVIOUR AT THE POST OFFICE.
A bluejacket from H.M.S. Otter was charged before. Mr. J. R. Wood at the Magistracy yesterday with behaving in a disorderly manner at the Post Office and with assaulting a shroff,
According to the evidence for the prosecution
the defendant called to send a parcel to Shang- hai, for the postage ou which he tendered to him that steps could be purchased with subsidiary coins in payment. It was explained only Hongkong money, and the bluejacket was
sparing expense in its efforts to stamp it the tent was cleared. By this time about emolument, but it has transpired that he has
out the scourge,
The losses occasioned the railways by the suspension of traffic amount to 12,000 taels daily.
REUTER'S SERVICE TO THE 'HONGKONG
DAILA PRESB,
UNITED STATES AND CANA
DIAN RECIPROCITY.
AN INTERESTING PROPHECY.
LONDON, February 15th. The House of Representatives at Washington has passed the Canadian Reciprocity Bill by 200 votes to 92.
the Speaker in the new Congress, in The papers state that Mr. Clark,
2,000 people had assembled outside and com- menced to show their resentment by storing the touts. Many large pieces of stone tore
through the canvas roofs and more than one European was hit. The police were sent for and a small body of men, absolutely inadequate. to preserve order, was sent. Matters grow so serious that the managemont, to save further trouble sâmitted the crowd to the tents, but no performance was given in the evening. The next day it was stated that the Viceroy had issued proclamations forbidding the natives to patronize the show, and to-day I am told that orders have been issued by the authorities to the management that the tonts are to be taken down. I have heard that behind all these troubles lies the everlasting question of *erneeze.” An official who had received a
handsome consideration" for obtaining pro His successor at ones demanded a similar
tection, &c., was a day or two after transforred.
"consideration," which was not given. Others
evidently fallen under the ban of the authorities, of these parasites were also disappointed in not obtaining a squeeze, nud so the whole show has
received no less than thirty thousand trols for his services, that is, he has been paid at the rate the native Press take him severely to task for of two thousand tnels a month. The editors of breaking his promise.
RICSHA YARES.
extortionato charges made by ricata coolier The people here are grumbling loudly at the
that it is high time that the polics enforced a on the Bund and at Sha Ho, and are saying definite scale of fares. There are about four hundred of these men in Canton, mostly from Okin Chau and Wai Chou, and they are a most impudent set of follows. They frequently have disputes among themselves, and on more than tween them, one ecession serious affrays have occurred be-
THE COTTON TRADE.
A SPELL OF PROSPERITY,
The long period of depression in the Lanca-
off the losses they incurred during the Inst two shire cotton trade has come to an end. Business aro busy, and soom likely before long to wipe is now brisk; both spinnera and oianufacturers
condition as his great great-grandfather. le the fault in ANGELINA then? The writer who has collected the statistics thinks that EDWIN no longe takes his old delight in nursing the baby, and ANGELINA is tired of told to go to another part of the counter to the course of the reciprocity debate, darning his socks. The traditional happi- get the parcel weighed. Instead he became said he considered the agreement ness of the home on washing days has been pugnacious, and it is alleged that. Le punched would be one of the strongest factors posters were stuck up in several prominent as long as they could in the hope that there
the shroff on the nose.
tead against the superstition of the people. Fine
Moreover, the circus people have had to con
yesis and to aconmialate profite,
The great coDanilag markets abroad, like the home merket, have been withholding orders would be a declins in the price of the raw mato- riel and 6 consequent decline in the price of action has depleted stocks to the lowest possible Hit. Now it has become necessary to distri was sufficient to bring misfortune on the whole able about the size of last
broken into say, by the intense delights of
Defendant stated that when he went to the in the unity of the continent. The torn down. I went to the trouble to find out the cinématograph; the increase of civilian-counter the shroff held his head in the air and
places and in nearly every care were soon after tion and refinement has deprived EpwIN of ignored him. He pushed the parcel through day was coming when the American the reason, and found that during the Chinese the manufactured goods. Their prolonged his taste for cold mutton, and ANGELINA of an opening in the wirework above the counter, ling would fly over the whole of North tiger, let alone to fiz a picturo of one on a wall, bute orders freely, and us the information avail.
and the shroff in turning his head suddenly met
it with his nose.
Inspector Goudly pointed out that the parcel the injury which the shroff received, was a soft one, and could not possibly occasion
the simple pleasure arising from doing over ast year's bonnet. EDWIN no longer hugs ANGELINA, and so ANGELINA bas to hug her illusions, which also, alas are fast vanishing awty. The future prospects of His Worship imposed a fine of $7, the wedded bliss are thus distinctly unfavour-alternative being seven days' imprisonment.
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will marry? Or, say, only a favoured few, specially selected? Is man doomed and is the future only to women an ignoble woman born only to work like those so-called neuter ants which nevertheless display such maternal instincts as to make them nior feminine than the queen ant herself? Such a foria of civilisation seems merely a cul-de-sac.
And yet all things are possible.
A Northern contemporary reports that Dalny
Harbour is fall of steamers awaiting benn cargoes, in spite of the stoppage of trade to that port owing to the plague.
Mr. H.S. Kavarana was on Tuesday re-elector
PICKPOCKETS AT THE RACES.
America, and Great Britain would one day gladly hand over Canada to the United States.
THE BRITISH PRINCES.
The
London, February 15th. Prince of Wales and Prince
first month to mention such an animal as a
street, and this is implicitly believed by the great majority of the people. In one of the main streets of Honam I saw an excited old woman frantically tearing down one of these posters with a bamboo clothes-pole and telling an interested and sympathetic crowd that the tiger in the picture was looking right into her such evil influencos. The longer one lives in this window and she was not going to put up with
Facts of the world does not feelson's rep in all advantage in giving orders on a small conle, as a very large scale, it is felt that then will to no there is no prospect of prices declining to any considerable extent. The consequenso is that orders have been received which will keep the at rates which are fairly remunerative. mills going at full speed for a considerable time
Labour is in good demand. Secretaries to
report that there are few out-of-works on the Spinners' Trade Union in the numerous centres throughout Honth-East Lancashire
Light-fingered gentry are taking advantage Albert, who are suffering from measles constry the more one becomes cognizant of the their books, those who are in this position being
the carrying on of their nefarious trade no the of the numerous opportunities which offer for races, and the daring mascals who mir with honest people respect no elsss.. Even the reputation of a pugilist is not sufficient to deter the pickpocket at Happy Valley, as "Kid' Marriott learned to his cost on Tuesday. While watching a race ou one of the outer stands he was relieved of his watch, chain and a number
af medals. A Chinese woman, who was also seized with the prevailing fever, dissovera when a race had ended that her watch and obain had vanished.
A young Chinese, who recently arrived from
a member of the French Municipal Connoil at Canton by the French steamer Paul Beau, was Canton, Mr. Kavarana has been on the muoi-charged before Mr. Wood at the Magistracy cipal board for the last ten years.
The Rer, H. C. Meeke, M.A... Presbyterian Chaplain to the Forces, from Tientsin, who proceeded home on the transport Rohilla, bas boon posted to Aldershot for duty,
The Rov. A. Dallas Eusis, M.A. Chaplain to the Forces, and Captain and Depaty Com missary of Ordnance A Baker, A.O.D., on arrival home from Hongkong, have been posted to Pymouth and Aldershot, respectively. WHILE there are so many "aigus of the times" floating about it is distressing to lomatic Corps iu Peking have lodged a protest
It is stated in n Chinese paper that the add another to their number, but we may with the Waiwaput against the incompetence comfort ourselves with the reflection that, of the officials of the three Eastern provinces, after all, most signs of the times are merely in Chibli and the Shantung Provinces for their made to order by distressed journalists failure to prevent the plague. looking for what Americans call a “story,” or by dyspeptic old gentlemen condemning as sour the grapes of the life they are so soon to leave. For it is cortain that sigus
Mr. B. W. Fleisher, proprietor of the Japan dertiser, could not leave Tokyo on the 5th
yesterday with attempting to pick the pocket of a compatriot on the ruco course. The complainant alleged that the defendant out his pocket, and extracted $3.60. The hearing was adjourned until to-day.
TRAGEDY ON THE WATERFRONT.
CAPTAIN RECEIVES FATAL INJURIES.
are doing well.
ARMS TRAFFIC AT MUSCAT.
LONDON, February 15th. Replying to a question in the House of Commons, Mr. Montague, Under Secretary of State for India, said that France
felt unable at the Brussels Conference to renounce the rights of unrestricted trade in arms at Muscat,
FROM THE MANILACABLENEWS."]
THE U. S. HOUSE OF RE- PRESENTATIVES.
Washington, Feb. 10.
present apportionment consists of 391 e [The membership of the House under the
prosentatives.7
ACCIDENT TO REAR ADMIRAL SCHLEY
incapacitated for employment in one way or another. In the weaving districts, Burnley, East Lancashire, the demand for labour is even Blackburn, Nolson, and other parts of North- more keen than in the south-eastern distrist. Every available weaving shed and ovary available loom have been rot to work, and there is
ex
blighting effect those degrading superstitions have on the people. No class is exempt from them. The official, the morchsat, the student and the ordinary individual in the street are alike affected. The student, puffed up with a little superficial Western knowledges, scoffs at all kinds of "goda," but most religiously burns in-ployment for moro operatives then can be found. Full advantage is hetag taken of the briskness onse to the "tei chi" at the threshold who of trade, but there are not wanting those who The highest in the land have the fear of the sumption the stocks of cotton will not hold out prevents evil spirits from entering the house.
bold the opinion that at the present rate of con inaeus of "fang ahal" continually before.
until the next season's crop is available, and that there will be scarcity and ridienlously in- them, while the euperstition of the women is flated prices for the raw-inaterial before Stop- beyond belief. Society is deceived and plunderedtember is reached.The Times, by a heat of priests, fortune-tellers, physiogno- mists, palmiats, "no-moh sin shangs" and other chastalane whose name is lagion, and until something is done to educate the minds of the poople above anch superstitious beliefs it is doubtful if the nation will make any consider able progress.
RICT:US. SOLDIENS,
ENGLISH AND OYSTERS.
CHINESE IMMIGRATION INTO CANADA.
AUTHORITIES HOODWINKED.
J. M. Bowell, giving evidence before the Royal The Collector of Castoms at Vancouver, Mr. Commission investicating Chiuere immigration and opiti smuggling at. Vancouver, admitted
upon which English people are pitiably ignorant The New York Times has dieodvored a subject oysters to wit and in the course of a spicy editorial it revels in the discovery as follows:- "We have no oysters to spare fur Englishmen to scoff at. An Englishman does not know & real oyster when he tastes it. His idea of an It is not to be wondered at that the people oyster is a brown thing that fasto- like copper. hers have little regard or respect for soldiers. He calls a Lynalaren or a Cotait tasteless. A The House of Representatives yesterday Last wook it was reported in this journal that him the capacity to appreciate the best oyster generation of experience would not onltivate in passed the bill providing for the reapportion-some sollices had nearly caused a serious riot at in the world. Ho knows nothing of a stewed A sad susidout, resulting in the death of a new connue. The total number according befors last four soldiers endeavoured to force with the favour of copper, and likes it cause ment of membership in that body under the the Tung Kwan Theatre, and now an almost oyster or a roast, or a broil, or a blankoted similar occurrence has taken place. The night He pays from Idol. to 3.75dol, for the mollus
ovater. He never heard of an oyster cocktail.
afternoon of that day Captain John Smith, late
resisted them, and there was a great struggle, in American oysters to England. Dip-waterfront at West Point on Tuesday. In the
well-known master mariner, occurred on the to the new bill will be 433.
master of the river steamer Shun Lee, paid a
without buying a ticket. The theatre attendants they belong their way into this theatre just before midnight his ancestors liked it. Keep our oystere whers visit to some friends on board. At about seven o'clock, while he was on the upper deck, tho
All this is opropos of the proposal to expert the course of which one of the theatre employees was seriously wounded. The police came to the telograph signalled the "stand by" and the veg-"
attendants' aid and the four soldiers were sel pr. ceeded to move out from the wharf. Capt Smith hastened below, and rushed to the
detained and handed over to a military control. gangway, only to find that this means of ragain-
It is to be hoped that these peace-breakers will be severely dealt with, for not only do they nothing for it then, but to jump on to the wharf,
behaviour is, if not immediately checked, ing the shore had been removed. Thers was
bring the Chinese army into disrepute, but their of the times have fallen into disrepute. paper on the subject of Anarchism in Japan,
conduct is imminently dangerous, as such They are, as it were, the steps of the ladder At Macassar cholera has broke out, and the fell between the wharf and the ship, and in his and the distance was not great. But the Cap which leads mankind down to perdition. disease is pretty bad. But Europeans have es- fall collided with the guard of the vessel. The tain appears to have missed his footing, for he Few men nowadaye find a sign of the timescaped because they have been inoculated with engines of the Shun Les were promptly stopped, which can be accused of having a good anti-cholera serum fa time. Most of the seiz- and the officers and crew of the Hing Lee, which
THE SUFFRAGETTES, character; an encomaging, hopeful, up- ures are among the Chinese, who are so terror.
A REVOLT AND DENUNCIATION. lifting sign of the times. Nearly all the stricken that they have gone to heavy expense to
was berthed on the opposite side of the wharf, specimens produced only serve to deepen have brought the calamity upon them.
drive away the evil spirits who are believed to
who had witnessed the accident, hastened to the the Women's Safrage Movement, who suffered Mrs. Billington Greig, one of the pointers of the gulf of degradation into which mankind
assistance of the injured man. He was pulled for her enthusinom, has severed her connection is plunging. The latest sign of the
While fise members of the crew of the British steamer, where every assistance was rendered her more stalwart sisters, After denouncing They were, however, overhauled by one of the
out of the water and taken on board the latter tributes a further denunciators article regarding had received a consideration for doing so. Line Board the question of lengthening existing
with the milifants. In the New Age she con times is the decline of marriage, although Nagasaki, were being conveyed to their ship in semi-coustious condition, and in this stato be was have provoked in their desire for self-advertise launch to make off without any inconvenient
barque Calcutta, lying outside the break-water at The injured captain, however, remained in a perhaps it is not quite so "late" as pre-a sampan on the evening or February 5th about subsequently removed to the Government Civil ment, the lady deplates
the riotous soens which the forward section large river oruisers, which, while allowing the tended. Did not a previous generation seven o'clock, the boat capsized at a point about Hospital, where be expired at 7.30a.m. yesterday in it. The details of gory fights and fearful Canten, where the crows were arrested. find their ears assciled with a song only a dozen yards from the ship, the accident, it is
The public loves a drama with lust and blood enquiries, took the boat containing the salt to one line of which remains in memory"Why alleged, being due to carelessness on the part of
calamities are read with insatiable appetite and witness said that his age was only 16 and that won't the mon propose, mamma" and is the condo. Some of the crew of the Calcutta known along the waterfront, and was a popular Militaney invests the suffrage movement witli to be discharged. The case has been remanded As previously stated, Captain Smith was well. gloomy enjoyment in every corner of the land. he was not a party to these proceedings and asked not this some kind of evidence that at a life boat was also launched to rescue the men, large number of the river craft of Hongkong, At aviation meetings the men must fly-crea
who noticed the accident threw life-buoys, while character among sailormen. He has sorred on has for the mob is that it is not bloody enough, for further inquiries.
the game unholy chatm. The only drawback it least one side showed a disinclination, even wlio included an Englishmen, a Dane, tro Swed on some vessels as master and on others as if they ay to death. The suffrage demonstra tion would be more popular if a few people could
he originally proposed, owing to the fact reproduction of an interview published by agits that he has been indicted, in consequence of the
korning.
Washington, Feb. 10.
Yesterday he slipped on the fee und fell, serious condition na
Rear Admiral Schley, retired, is in a a result of a fall breaking three of lus ribs.
that he and his officers were at the mercy of an
Bufffolent to canée sprions riots and loss of life.
interpreter in dealing with the arrivals, and SMUGGLING BALT that many Chinese stortaways had got into the A remarkable story was told by a witness in contry. No attempt, he said, had been made. a case in whick three men were charged with our passports carried by a large number of sauggling salt. Hn said that a boat containing merchants.
arriving Chinese who wished to enter as a large quantity of smuggled salt was towed up Government launches which are used to patrol the river for a long distance by one of the the river and that the commander of this boat
The
NEW YORK AS A PORT..
recently referred to the New York Harbour The War Department at Washington
plers there, and in other ways of coping with the at its request the Chamber of Commerce were growing size of ships using the port. The Board was to hold a special meeting on the 25th ult, and to send several of its members to give evidence.
tons in existing arrangements and accommoda
There is no doubt, says a roport, that it will
the port are 7ft to 80ft. longer than any of the Lion. Several of the great liners already using recommend very important and extensive altera-
piers, and this shortage will, of course, become more serious when the new White Star and
of the grain consumed here comes down from world, even if it should be necessary to spand ping men, and business men generally, are Canard giants start their sailings. Local ship
reputation as the most go-ahead port in the the districts near Wachow in Kwong Esi, and millions of dollars to that end.
DEÁR EICE.
The people are complaining very much about
at that time, to enter into wedlock ? Peres, and an American, v. The first four wern enved mate, and the news of his death wall bo learned he killed in them; but they cater successfully the high price of rice. A large portion determined that Now York shall maintain ita:
haps that may have marked the beginning but the American and the sendo were drowned, of the decline of the state which Sir WALTER The bodies of the two men are still missing.
with regret. He will be interred in the Happy for the oraving for thrills when there is no Valley Cemetery this morning,
greater citement going."