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WEATHER REPORT.
On the 19th at 11.45am.The northern anti-syalone is moving Eastward.
Pressure has fuarcased moderately along the coast from Shanghai to Hongkong, and slightly evar Anuam.. It has given way slightly over the Philippines under theftfinence of a typhoon to Eastward.
Moderate N.E. winds are indicated along the Scoast of China, and light to moderate Ñ.W. winds over the N. China Bea
THE HONGKONG
BURMESE AND CHINESE "VILLAGE
LIFE.
|
DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2017, 1912.
NOTES AND NEWS,
LUCKY" WHITE · HEATHER.
The British occupation of Weibai has
The fancy that white heather is sup given a certain number of officials" a unique opportunity of studying Chinese posed to bo "lucky" may to some extent life and mannors and social institutions a founded on crystallised experience, A. in a way which does, not come in the successful searcher for white heather way of the resident in the Treaty Ports, would certainly be likely to possess in- or the average Chinese consular officer.dustry, perseverance, mental alertness,
Hongkong minfall for 24 hours ending The lensed territory is administered and other qualities conducive to worldly.
according to immemorial Chinese custom- prosperity. 10 am, to-day, 0.00 inches
The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon to-day is as follows:
DISTRICT
* Hongkong & Neighbourhood Fermos Channel
T
FORBOLST..
NE winds, fresh. Bouth coast of China between) The time as
No. 1. Hongkong and Lamecks.)
South coast of China between The Same as
Bongkong and Halasa
some showers later.
No. 1.
CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL
Biation,
Vl'ostock
REGISTER
19TH SEPTIMBER, A.E.
Nemuro
Hakodate
Wakio
Nagasaki.....
7.30.11:54 | 72 | 6,29.75-*
29.99
,, 30,06-
Wind.
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| kry law. Mr. R. F. Johnston in his book "Lion and Dragon in North China" gives us an interesting, picture of the quiet and apparently, humdrum life of the village communities. They have re- mained as they are now for unnumbered, centuries. The peoply of Weihai, as of all parts of rural China, are practically a population of peasant proprictors, though proprietorship is vested rather in the family than the individual.
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GENERAL BOOTH AND THE REPORTER. General Booth ruade no distinction between special correspondents and ordinary sinners. If they tried to draw him in the interest of their papers he would cleverly turn the conversation on to the state of their own souls, and escape with a friendly "God bless you." It was quite in the General's own spirit that at one of his revival meetings a
• N.W. winds, moderate, fir, generally, "Villages still bear, in very many canes, worker inquired of one person, “Are you the name of the family that lived in them saved?" and got the matter-of-fact reply, as far back as their history can be traced."No, I'm a reporter.” Chang-chia-shan is the hill of the Chang family; Wang-chin-k'uang is the defile.
THE NEW YORK GAMBLING SCANDALS, of the Wang family; Chiang chia-k'ou is
It has been ascertained that the New the pass of the Chiang family; Yu-chin- chuang is the village of the Yu family." York police lieutenant Becker, who is Thus it comes, says the Ilangoon Gazette, charged with murder in connection with that the land-tax is in practice, with only the death of the gambler Rosenthal, put a very few exceptions, levied exactly as at least £11,800 in the bank in the course the thathamede tax is levied in Burma.of nine months, and his fortune is esti- His The tax is imposed on the village as amated at something like £40,000. whole instead of on the individual house-salary as police lieutenant was £450 per Details of the monthly tariffe helder. For scores and scores of ear paid by way of blackmail to the New every village has paid through its bead York police show that to secure im- man or committee of headmen a certain munity from raiding the proprietor of a sum of money which by courtesy is called first class gambling den handed land-tax. The various families asscas the $200; betting houses paid £120; and amount payable by each on a system very street corner bookmakers £20, Dice..and much the same as the thamadis of Upper other gambling games were overlooked in Burna villages. The only stipulation is public houses for a fea from £10 to £40. that no one is to be called upon to pay roore than his ancestors paid before himn unless the family property has been con-
The trial has taken palce at Loverness siderably increased. The Chinese Govern-
young farm ment did not, and the British Govern of John MacSnac ment does not, make any close inquiries Jabourer, on a charge of murdering an as to whether each cultivator paye his old women who lived alone on the island proper proportion or whether a certain Benbecula, South Hebrides. The jury man is paying too much, or is paying found him guilty of culpable homicide, nothing at all. This no doubt began with fifteen years' penal servitude/
and Lord Dowar passed sentence of Most of the fact that each village was exclusively the witnesses gave evidence in Gaelic, inhabited by the people of ons name and and an interpreter was necessary.
Evi- this still obtains in very many villages, dence was given by Mr. Neil McLean, It is the onse everywhere in China, but justice of the peace for Benbecula, who nowhere more than in Weihai, where took the old woman's dying depositions. there are title-deeds and tombstones to He said that she told him that her in- prove that many of the peasant pro-juries were inflicted by God.”, There prietors are the direct or collateral was, she said, nothing on her bat what descendants of the people who tilled the | God had done,' It was suggested in same field in the days of the Bung Tuancourt that it is the custom in some parts and Ming dynasties. There are others of Scotland for religious people to say who were military colonists, or were when an accident befalls them that Pro brought in by the Chinese Government vidence is the cause, and that that pos- hundreds of years ago from such remote sibly accounted for the old woman's Mr. McLean stated that he places as Yunnan, as a result of political statements. DF social troubles such as rebellions or knew fatalism was very common in soms famines. Whether, however, the village parts of the Highlands, but he thought is made up entirely of fathers and sons there was less of it in Benbecula than and brothers and uncles and nephews elsewhere. The woman had said, when or not, the important point is to note questioned, that the man was only a "tre that the units of the village community oster," who was taking the road. are not individuals but families.
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Karometer.
Temperature.
Hamidity.
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Weather.
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T. E. CLAXTON, Director. Hongkong, Oboratory, September 19th, 1912 1 Bang, reduced to 32" degroom Fanronisit on the level of the was in inches, tentlis and Lundredthe.
2 TEMPERATUES, in the shade, in degroos Fahrenheit.
3 HUMIDITY, in percentage of saturation, the humidity of air saturated with moisture boing 100.
DIRECTION OF WISE, to two pombe,
6 FOROM OF WIND, dording to Beaufort Soals.
STATE OF Wratham, b blue sky, e detached vland, d drizzling in, fog, & gloomy, h hall, | lightning, o urozonit, p peasing showere; a squntly, Train, snow, t thandar, v visibility, wlew (wat).
Bar in inches, textas and hundredthe.
KONG KONG METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER.
Hongkong Observatory, September 19th
Barometer
Provions On Date On Det
Day at at 2 p.m. 6 2.0..
配
2 p.m.
29.71
29.30
29.74
Temperature
76
71
82
59
83
61
Weet
WNW❘ West
0
*
0.00
Hamidity......
Wind Direction ...
Force Weather) Rain...........4
Highest open air Temperature on 18th...77 Lowest open air Temperature on 18th...70
Days of
HONGKONG TIDE TABLE
From 29th to 26th Feptember, 1912 HIGH WATEE.
H'kong.
Height
Low Watzs
K'kong.
Time
Mean
К
Time.
Fri.
20 m 3 4
It in, 5. m.
6.3
h
No infer high-
Satur. 21 m 4 49
Sun.
Mon.
6 3 9 24 * 4 9 22 m 6 I 6 5 9.4 5 0 23 m 6 54 6 8 m 8.52 5
Tus,247 39
8:53 5. 4
Ved. 25m 8 21 7 1 Im
9 Bal 5 7 Thurs 269 2 7. 1
25 6 0
b. m. ft. ia.
0 6 2 3
nor low water
0 55 a 2 0
11 52 x 4 8
1 32 1 8
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JOHNBOX'S CAREER AS A MASOX.
This family system, Mr. R. F. John-
Jack Johnson's masonic adventures in sion points out, is the basis of the high Scotland will not be readily forgotten standard of commercial honour for which by those immediately concorned in his the Chinese are noted. A Chinaman can-initiation. It appears, after all, that not dissolve his liabilities by the simple is admission had been obtained by cor process of going bankrupt, or running tain subterfuges, which have brought away or shooting himself. His rights down on the heads of those who fathered are inherited by his sons and so are his him the terrors of the Grand Lodge. liabilities. The law, it is trae, limits a The Right Worshipfol Master of the man's liability for an ancestor's debts to Forfar and Kincardine Lodge (R. T. the extent of his own inheritance, but the lines) was suspended for two years, and rule of custoin is sterner than the rule of Past Masters Smith, Ross, and Low for law and it is obeyed. Mr. Johnston gives one year, and the lodge itself was to be an instance which came before him in inoperative until November, 1013. An court. A man Liu discovered a piece of appeal against this sentence was recently paper recording a debt of three tiap (five of the Grand Lodge of Scotland. Coun heard at the Quarterly Communication or six shillings) incurred by one Ku, and he called upon Ku's descendant toel was heard on both sides. First of all, pay up. This Ku did, paying principal the question of colour was barred, and was to be a question simply of the and interest amounting to something like desirability of the individual. Such was twenty times the original loan. Then he the ruling of the Right Worshipfu! came into court not to dispute either the Master, the Marquis of Tullibardine. loan, or the sum it had grown to, but The brother who appeared-for the lodge to suggest that as the original, debtor had said there was no attempt to get behind two direct living descendants besides him the back of the members, but the brother self it was only fair that they should pay who prosecuted, so to speak, said that on their share of the ancestral debt. We are the day in question a motorcar was re- not told what view the court took of the quisitioned and sent round the town matter, but the assumption is that the gathering in a number of office-bearers two descendants of Ku preferred to sub- and a meeting was held at ten o'clock, mit to the money loss rather than to run two hours before the advertised hour. the risk of loss of fate. The Weihai When many of the members arrived at farmer is not a very highly educated noon they were told the ceremony had person and seems to have so limited a been performed. Under these aroun conception of his own existence as a stances the sentences were confirmed, the separate and distinct personality that in initiation was declared null and void, ordinary speech he continually confuses and Johnson's foes are to be returned. himself with his ancestors, or with living embers of his family. A man comes to court and complains:-"I bought this land and now the Tung family is trying to steal from me." When did you buy it asks the court. "Two hundred years ago," replies the oppressed our Another man says: "I went to Man churia as my family had not enough to eat. I came home this year and wished to redeem the land I had mortgaged before I went away. But I found it had already been redeemed by my neighbour, a cousin, and he refuses to let me redeem it from him." On being asked when he
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