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RANDOM REFLECTIONS,
The growls about the weather of late are not without reason, as it has been more dis- agreeable than we expect at this period of the year. I am told that seven years ago we had a similar spell of cold wet, misly weather, and that it lasted ten weeks. We all hope history will not repeat itself in that has aspect, though, now that the wind changed, hatter conditions ought to be
assured.
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 29r¤, 1912,
ENTERTAINMENT IN THE THEATRE |
ROYAL.
HOUSING SCHEMES IN
HONGKONG.
A “PORTUGUESE RESERVATION " AND A "GARDEN CITY."
The
of a number of houses of different types suited efficient direction. In the creation of a Garden ↑ to the different incomes of these comprising the City the aim will bo to work along these lines." That the promoter of the scheme has devoted commmalty. Thers will be bungalows, detached much attention to this aspect of it is houses, semi-detached, and houses in terraces, afforded by a lengthy list he he compiled thereby those with small means will be provided of fruit trees, owers, vegetables, &o., for as well as thees in better cirommstances which, he states, may be folly and Purening further the system of classification, auccessfully cultivated in the district, for coma- The appointment of an mercial parpanem, participants will be grouped under four different expert bortionicurist is contemplated to advise categories, viz-(a) Contributore of from 830 to tenants and to generally premets (heus develop $40 a month; (b) Contributors of from $40-350ments in the reservation area. & month; (c) Contributor of from 850-860 a
That the scheme may be a real and lasting month; (d Contributora of $60 and upwards. benefit to those who care to profit by it, it aims of succuraging thrift among the active partici- pants thereis. With this end in view it is pro. pozed that lessons shall tocome their own land. lords by a system of providont purchase. The plan suggested is that the purchase money bo morgod in the monthly rent, and a table showing the monthly payments over a period of 25 years has been carefully worked out.
The Memorandum deals at some length with the provision contemplated for the education of
The performance given on Saturday night in the Theatre Royal in honour of the delegates to the Medical Congress by the Hongkong Amateur Dramatic Club of the
"The steady growth of the Colony popals variety entertainment and harlequinade which
tion and the limited area, for residential the community has learned to enjoy as one of in the the best productions by amateurs Colony attracted an exceedingly large house, purposes, on the northern slope of the Island ing of the middle classes in Hongkong one of including most of the medical visitors and has rendered the question of the suitable hous their friends. The programme was in the the serious problems of the time. The reosot main features similar to that giver some large indux of Chinese into the Colony has In many respects it seems unfortunate that little time ago, but it was of such outstand accentuated the urgency of the problem, the the proceedings of the Medical Congress, inginerit that most people would be glad of solution of which demands prompt and carnost which has been sitting in Hongkong all last the opportunity of patronising it more than consideration. There is no reason to suppose week, should have received, no publicity in
On this occasion the quartelte by that the recent augmentation of the population the local press. This, I understand, was at once. the desire of the Congress. Of course it will Mrs. Schofield, Miss Gordon, Dr. Schofield, is of a temporary nature, while there is evidence to support the nasumption that the better class Chinese with their families from the neighbour be readily admitted that the majority of and Mr. D. J. Donne Strange Adventure " papers read and subjects discussed would "Sweet and Low" met with such an
insistent encore that the party had to returning territory have "come to stay," and with I of a technical nature, fut there are sonje
"Miss characteristic animity they have set about which might have afforded valuable public and give again the second song. enlightenment. The ladies, indeed all of us, Zelleree," whose. identity will probably be purchasing properties in the district comprised the children in the Settlements, and also for but the ladies especially, would have been guessed from the name, was heartily wilkin Caine Road on the North and Condait interested in learning something of the con-applauded for her graceful dance, and Road on the South. This demand has caused religions worship. For the benefit of the for a free grant of a site of 50,000 square feet clusions reached by Major Chamberlain, Capt. Addison could not satisfy the audience appreciation of all the properties in this area.hildren so the Government is to be asked to be laid out sa & garden "word or lead after M.D., of Manila, in his treatment of the with his rendering of "Sybil" and had to
foregoing paragraph a quoted the etyls of the Pook Garden," and to provide question as to the relative resistance of return to the platform and give "Fritz'a
the harmful friend," while Mrs, A. B. Moulder won from Memorandum prepared by Mr. Cin the Colonial Estimates an annual vote of $240 blandes and bruncties to influences of a tropical climate. Now if popular favour by her spirited singing of Montagne Ede, outlining a scheme for the creation of a Portuguese Reservation at Wong-
It is pointed out, that with 150 houses on expert medical opinion on this point were." Carmen in costume.
nei-cheong, and it may be at once stated that pre- the site the beafit acorning to the Government In Crown rent and taxes would amount to 87,666 known, it might assist the unmarried men
birth-or rather increased vitality--to another
per annum. It is estimated that the soleme in the Far East in the choice of a wife,
isoly the same set of circumstances also gave
Presumably they would be influenced in
and more ambitious scheme aiming at the area-will cast on the whole, in ronad figures, for a favour of those who were most likely to
tion of a Garden City," on a aits conveniently Settlement containing 150 honses--60 bangs wear well in the trying climatic conditions
near to Kowloon. The author of the latter lowe, 50 houses of the small, 30 intermediate scheme is Mr. F. P. Soares, Portuguese and 10 of the large type-$735.000. To provide of this part of the world.
resident whose family has lived in Hongkong the capital it is proposed to raise it upon almost ever since Hongkong became a British mortgage of the whole property, the issue to It will doubtless be of mack toke the form of wortgago debentures of the Colony. public interest to set forth the leading features value of $1,000 each, beaxing interest at:8 per of both schemes. It may be mentioned that cont per annum, payable half-yearly. If the subscribers take advantage of the provident under the Garden City" "scheme was consideration at a much earlier date than the purchase scheme a certain number of Deben. scheme formulated by Mr. Ede, who, however, tares will be paid off each year in the month of was unacquainted with the project. The two January following the year of the complstion of schemes, however, are not necessarily antagonis. the work and the onerpation of the houses, and to, though in curtain respects they ran upon thereafter in the same month of each year. practically the same lines. One is a scheme for The loading Banks, Mercantile Firms, Insur. Portuguese only of the class pertaining to the ance Offices in the Colony will be asked to sab- clerical section of that community employed inscribe to the Debenture Issue, inasmuch as the the Government service, banks of the colony scheme is designed to hones, under botter bygienic conditions and more economically, insurance offices and mercantile establishments the other, though initialed by a Portuguess their own employees, and it is therefore assumed rasident, is for all Europeans of the middle that they will be actively interested in it. clark
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Again, much useful information on the care of children in the tropics and infant feeding in the tropics, two subjects discussed on Friday might have been disseminated through the columns of the press had these papers been reported or a summary of their conclusions given. It is a pity that so much of public interest associated with the Con- gress should remain practically a seated
book.
Hongkong is beginning to see a little more of the Far Eastern Squadron than it has done since the advent of the cooler weather. The reason for the absence of so many British ships is well known, but all the same we like to see the ships here.
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I heard a good story the other day regard- ing a British bluejacket. He and his com panion had just emerged from the gates of the Naval Dockyard in Queen's Road when a beachcomber accosted him and asked for some tobacco. "Sorry," was the reply. blowed if I ain't given my last quid to the captain."
She also had to A very respond to a demand for a recall. dainty song and chorus," The tooth brush and the sponge," in which seven ladies participated, had to be repeated for the satis faction of the house, and the "burlesque du ballet" by the two artistes rejoicing in the stage names of Karsariga and Ninsky was exceedingly clever and most amusing. The duct by Dr. and Mrs. Schofield was a beauti fut rendering, and an encore had to be given to this also. It should be added that the of the The gymnastic performance by men K.O.Y.II. was particularly skilful. second part of the programme was devoted to the harlequinade, which was made more mirthful than before by reason of the topical allysions introduced. For instance, when the policeman was squashed between the folding doors the two perpetrators decided to carry "Captain Badeley to the Medical Con- gress, and then when they discussed his was reference to probable death there "bury" and "beri-beri," The transforma tion scene followed, and was as well done as before.
CANNIBALISM IN NEW GUINEA, REVOLTING STORY TOLD IN COURT- BY A' MURDERAN.
THE PORTUGUESE RESERVATION.
The site selected for Mr. Ede's "Cidade Cimces" is a large platean above the Sookanpoo and Wongaoicheong valleys Ample ground is available for expansion in the future, sa may become necessary. We under. A missionary in New Guinea, writing to the Java Post, gives the following declaration stand that the land is about 400 ft. above sea. The “distressful country" is not belying of cannibal from the Baimuru village on level. The approach is proposed to be by means its reputation at present, and it must be trial for having murdered a womar of Buroi. of a low-level tramway to the head of the Wong, confessed that the outlook in Belfast is such His statement in court was as followeneichong valley, thenos ap the hill by the same "Balj told us that we were to kill three ns to cause grave upprehensions in the persons in Baroi; he gave us a boat to make cars fitted with rok adjustment. The drainage minds of all friends of Ireland. It is easy the journey thither, and on arrival there we of the Battlement, it is stated, does not present We were any very dificult problems. As to the water to apportion blame, both to Mr. Winston tried to catch three persons. Churchill and to the Orangemen of Ulster, fortunate in being able to secure Aimari, supply, it is anggested that the Wong Not with his two wives, Lora and Aipuru, in Era bu is just possible that the soft answer Bay. Kairi killed Aimari, I killed Lora and Cheng reservoir should be sat aside for the
"that "turneth ́aways wrath may cool the hated passions of the rival partisans and that the visit of the First Lord of the Admiralty to Relfast may become less of an adventure than it seems at present.
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Thursday was the anniversary of the birth. day of Robert Burns, and the occasion was allowed to pass unnoticed by the Scotsiner of Hongkong. I doubt if in any other part of the Empire where there are two or three Scots gathered together the day would have been forgotten, as was apparently the case in Hongkong, Surely St. Andrew's Society had enough patriotism and support to pro- Thora Burns Concert
A-correspondent up.country
"sends me
a poent (save the mark) which a Chinese fired passed on to bin. As it is an effort to put into English certain Chinese aspira tions I give it publicity--
So far in Canton
I don't know why
So many people cry
gone.
Now my Dear
You need not fear,
Take no notice of what you hear
For your family is quite safe here.
Jomu killed Alparu. I killed Lora with a purpose. dagger made of cassowari bone. We took
An area of not less than 150 sores is wanted the bodies into our boat and rowed back to in the first lastanes for the scheme, and of this Baimuru. It is not true that I hit off Lora's area some 20 acres would require to be leased nose, because it is not our custom to bite off the nose of a person we have killed. Ana by the Government as building land, for a term bit Lora's nose off, Kwai, Aimari's nose, of 75 years, renewable for a like period. It is The noses hoped to get this land at 1 cent per foot, and at and Omeara, Aipuru's nose.
a Crown rent fixed at £100 per sore. must be bitten oll, not cut off.
"Before we set out to kill anybody we consult the spirit of the Kopiravi (the latter are carved images about four feet in height which are kept behind
It is an integral part of the scheme that any application for lease within the Reservation screen in the public should be submitted to and passed by a Coma- The mittee appointed by those who will, finanso the house, Marea, of the young people.) spirit manifests and comes to the boat, and if our expedition is to be successful hesshome, and that any applicant who may be gives the boat a shake.
refused shall have no claim to require reasons
',
towards its upkeep.
offor
Similar arrangements for education and religious worship are contemplated in this scheme as in the other. In fact an
foet тан made for of 30,000 square
The educational purposes some time ago,
thu erout of scheme already commands a large measure of practical support, and in The Gorernment undertaking to assist the scheme in the manner desired there is every being prospect of a considerable amount of ospital forthcoming for the darelopment of the
district.
The Snuncial dataila of the scheme has been reo iving careful consideration. They are not yet quite ready for pabligation, but we may say it is fa contemplation to provide suitable house accommodation at rentals ranging from 350 down to $20 per month.
P. AND O. OFFICER DROWNED.
- UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT ÎN THE SUEZ CANAL., The P. and O. steamer Nile from London has an unfortunate boat accident to relate in
life in the Suez Canal, which Quartermaster J. W. Heath lost his
According to the log, at about 4.10 p.m. on December 29 four able seamen got into the ship's jolly-boat to make the ship fast in the siding.
INTIMATIONS
JOHNSTONE'S
M.P.
WHISKY.
better than M.P.
H. RE
While the ship still had a slight way on, before unhooking the slings, the boat gave a sudden sheer from the ship's side owing to death, who was in the stern: Our argument is there is nothing putting hely to port, and so turning the boat on its side. The crane wire, ran out to its full length and brought the boat alongside the ship's side. The pressure of the water caused the forward book of the boat to straighten out, and the stern post to carry away resulting in the boat being completely turned over. Three of the scamen jumped clear as the beat turned over, but Heath, who was in the stern clinging to the aling, was flung against the ship's side and most rise. The other three seamen righted the boat and were picked up by a dredger. A 38 AND 40, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. probably stunned as he was never seen to WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
long search was made for the missing man," but no trace of him could be found. The
being thrown over for the men and another ship was stopped at the time of the accident and everything possible dene, four life buoys boat lowered, that, on the Canal dredger
was then used for noorfag the ship. being seen to attend to the men, the boat
TO GIVE GERMANY HALT AUSTRALIA
PROFESSOR.
During the preparation of site, levelling of ground, laying out of approaches and roadwaye REMARKABLE SUGGESTION BY A LONDON Interest will acorns or the purchase money for the site, Crown rent and payments to contract- ore. To partly meet the interest on the first outlay it is proposed that:-
(1) An initial payment of $40, 250, and 860, respectively, be made by each of the sab scribers in respect to his application for any one of three land allotments acording to sire. (2) A monthly contribution of $5, $7.50, and $10, respectively, be made until comple tion of the housen, pohlep M.
(3) The proportion of Crown rent be paid by each subscriber as it becomes duo one half
year.
Any absoribor withdrawing from the sehetae will forfeit half the payments made by himself. Any subscriber dying before completion of the buildings will have his contribution returned in fall to his heirs.
ment to
reserve
of
Gorera-
a
that
Great
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RACE SEASON
1912.
CHRONOGRAPHS
SINGLE AND
The amazing suggestion Britain should make a present to Germany RELIABLE of half the Australian Continent is contained in a letter by Professor Caldecott, of King's College, which the Spectator publishes.
"Would not
White Australia," he writes, be more stable if the British people
Our had the eastern half and the German people the Western half of that continent? old settlements must be left intact; but are the quarter of a million people in what we call Western Austrália equitably entitled
SPLIT SECONDS.
to keep a grest European nation from taking ZEISS PRISM BINOCULARS
its place under the Southern Cross?
Cause
of
£9.5.0
Is the population only equal to that of Berkshire to claim permanent and sole occupancy of a million square miles? We should still have the choicest part, from Queensland to South Australia, including As it stands, the unoccupied part of £7.10.0 Australia is a
serious very Tasmania, with New Zealand in addition.
instability."
After pointing out several other points of the world where German expansion could take place, the professer concludes," that German expansion is bound to take place, and that it is a legitimate aspiration of ike German people that it should be set out on. To be obtained from the larger lines without delay."
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MAKING A STRUGGLE CERTAIN. Commenting on the proposal in editorial article, the Spectator says:-
It is difficult to find words strong enough with which to repel this amazing suggestion. It is a policy which must infallibly destroy the British Empire. Australia would fight to a man to prevent a foreign Power from being admitted to the Island continent.
For the Mother Country in a wanton, ecstasy of philanthropic sentimentality to introduce a military rate like the Ger mans would be to make a bloody struggle for supremacy in Australia a certainty. We all hope that we may be able to get on better terms with Germany; but we shall never accomplish it by rushing to give her our own or other people's pro. perty.
A SOLICITOR WHO BECAME KING.
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NEW MODELS.
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Chas. J. Gaupp & Co.,
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THE GARDEN CITY PROJECT. The Garden City scheme which Mr. Soares is preparing contemplates a reservation 24,000,000 square feet, though, it is not, of course, expected to develop the whole area. immediately. About twenty million square feet of this is at present Crown land, and of the remainder (57 acres) ere already owned by people about two and a half million square feet
Garden support the
City prepared to We arrived at Baimuru that evening, for such refusal.
With a view of preventing any spooulation in scheme, A doable purpose is in view. The but we left the bodies in the prahu dit the following day. We he took th to the the land and houses acquired ander this scheme immediate object is to provide house accom Marca and there laid them down on the
t is a condition precedent that Crown fesses of modation for Europeans at rentals within verandah where they were cut up into small pieces. The women mized these with ago, any portion thereof must enter into s bond their menas; and accoudly to develop the cooked them, rolled then up in nipa palm whereby they engage themselves not to part horticultural possibilities of the district. the entire eite-which leaves and then distributed them. Women with their holdings or any section thereof It is proposed to ask the and children may also eat human flesh. I
lias just beyond the Yaumati railway ate a hand of Alpuru. I did not eat of Lora, except to a member of the Portuguese commu- because I had killed her. Our custom prenity, and the price at which he may undertako vents a man eating a person he has killed. to sell must not exceed that which he paid for station-as a residential district for Europeans. "When you have killed a man you sit on the property added to any other gun he may and, further, to reorro to the Co-operative Booiety, which is to be formed for developing To Hongkong they bring their children a coconut with your feet on two other coco hare speat upon the ground for addition or
nuts, and then you tell your daughter to cook the man's heart. Then you may drink improvements. Similarly, no house can be the Garden City sohome, the right to purchase. the water in which the heart was cooked, leased to persons other than of Portuguese within a specified period of years all available and even cat a small piece of the heart itself; extraction. In the event of the death of apertions of Crown land within the boundaries of but you must be sitting on the coconuts all Crown lessee, the property passes to his heirs, the site, the price of every 10000 ft. to be the time, otherwise you are not allowed to
executors or administrators, but so that it must assessed on the basis of 7,000 ft. being reserved eat anything at all of a person you have be retained in the Portuguese gommunity. In for farm and garden lots and 3,000 ft, for build- yourself killed.
"We killed the persons from Baroi because the event, however of Anancial assistance being ings. The "gardeniden is strongly emphasised we had made a big new boat, and when we required the Trustees will ardeavour to arrange in this scheme, for as far sa garden produca have made a new boat we have to kill a
to have a fund to be drawn on for the purpose concerned the object is to make the com cassowari, a pig and a human being in the
of loans on mortgage. Statutory provision manity of the settlement entirely independent order mentioned. The blood of the slain we
example for develop Note how what we can" rhymes with poured into the water at the places where must be enacted in order to secure the property in this respect of the neighbouring market,
they were killed."
to the Portuguese in the event of the bankraptoy and
New Territory. or insolvency of any losses whose creditors may ment throughout the happen to be persons other than of the All the fruit and vegetable supplies waloh the city would need could be grown within the LOGIC OF PLUM PUDDING,
Portuguese race.
The proposal to give a distinctive appellation Reservation, and experiments already made her Commenting apen the growth of the art of sabstitution, the Lanost suggests that the to the district is a suggestion deemed to be proved that, with a little European supervision, question on what is plum padding?" might wise, for it is believed that the sense of civic fruits and vegetables of a quality superior to the be added to the already long list. The obvious pride which will be engendered in the minds of ordinary market prodate can be economically in Portugal was effected-by a coup carried answer," kaya the Lonest, "wonld appear to be tenants in the district will lead them to regard and successfully cultivated within the proposed of Orefic Antonie, and in a fight with that out in about a week's time, the monarchy pudding made in part, at any rate, of pl-me;
yet what is generally called a plum padding jealously the good reputation of the Reservation reservation. Que of the functions of the Co- being abolished and the republic set up the Christoss padding ontains plums, lest by repronshful publia conduct or ill-con-operative Society will be to dispose of the sur- escaping and got back to France. There his marvellously quicle time, and with comparas if we accept the
a plum that. It is
Mr. Soares, in his tively little bloodshed, too. Of course, the edible drapaceous fruit of any one of various sidered manners the distriot be brought into plus in the outside markets, the proceeds going
As everyone knowe, revolutions in the Central American and trees of the genus prance.
Boducing the serage into square foot, there original draft of the satiomo sure capture by the Chilians managed to leave Lenses Ground on the Premises. the fruiti used in Christmas pudding are gener- South American republics are brought about
ally raisins and currants, both of which are will be at the disposal of the promoters of the Those who may regard this scheme as with startling suddenness, but their fre
dried grapes. There are several raddings in project an available surface area at the start of Utopiau should recall the history of California, the cookery books containing raisina which are 671,200 square feet, from which it is proposed to where gold-mining has not proved such a great all by various fancy pamen, but never longest apart 30,000 square feet, is round numbers, producer of wealth and comfort as farming and her lovers, a Dane, committed suicide in porn the Chris' mas padding the product is for a sebook-house and playground attached. fra growing, aut tattle and poultry-rearing, despair. Then she went to Denmark, to be the Chinese character, and that very called s plam pudding. With no logie it is The available area for buildings and approchas What has been achieved in the State of near her lover's grave. She appears to have deliberation gives the greatest hopes for the agreed to accept the word plum as applicable to is thus reduced to 841,200 square feet. The California in this direction can be achieved on lived on her capital, and some years belére
she sought refuge in the asylum. raisms or currents when they happen to be in soheme contemplates as a first step the erection a smaller scale in the New Territories under she died it was exhausted. It was then that permanence of its results..
Übrielmas pudding.” RODERICK RANDOM.
To be Republicans'
fall in line with Americans
We
mus! To be masters of the Manchu again
We must do the best of what we can.
"American.".
There has been a tendency to describe the Revolution in China as one of the shortest in history, but the two latest revolutions were both shorter. Turkey established its new régime and disposed of the old Sultan
in less than a month, while the revolution
quency robs them of historical importance.
The revolution In China is proceeding with
a certain amount of deliberation peculiar to
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to the common fund.
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PINCE NEZ and SPECTACLES
There has recently died in Denmark, in a poor asylum, a lady who bore the title of Princess, and who in her time had occupied a good place in society. According to the Voss Gazette, she was a daughter of Orelie Antoine J., King of Araucania. The King was of French origin, his name being An- upon to exercise kingly functions he practised as a provincial avoue solicitor. toine de Tounens, and before he was called
In 1861 he gave up his practice and went to South America, and led the Indians to fight for their independence, which resulted in the cania and Patagonia, The King gave his ex-lawyer being proclaimed King of Arau country a Constitution, and entered into Accurately
Chilians never recognised the sovereignty treaties of commerce with other States.
Republic the King was taken prisoner. After
Fitted to Individual's Face.
Each
some months captivity he succeeded in Our Stock is Complete, Assortment
Varied, in all Metals. misfortunes seemed to follow him, and later
in 1848 he died at Dordogne, his birthplace. His daughter at the time of her father's
the country, and she succeeded in taking with her a good part of the patrimonial fortune. She reached Europe, and was much
admired on account of her beauty. One of
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