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OSCAR WILDE.
[CONTRIBUTED.)
Wilde has been dead for nearly a dozen
"THE MAGISTRACY.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,
For being in unlawful possession of 200 rounds of ammunition a Chinese was
at the Magistracy yesterday fined $50.
For causing an obstruction on the foot- path in front of his godown a godown keeper was at the Magistracy yesterday fined. 83.
Mr. Hoggarth, chief excise officer, applied to Mr. Melbourne at the Magis tracy yesterday for the award of 542 tins of opium found on the s.s. Persia to the Opium Farmer. The application was granted.
LI HUNG CHANG'S DIARY.
ACCOUNT OF VISIT TO ST.
PETERSBURG.
FROM THE LONDON "OBSERVER."].
"I am back once more and my spirit is pleased, for it best fits an old man to be st home and among his kind. Old mon-at least so I think-are not taken up with the sights of strange things or other lands, for they are at such an age pre- paring for the sights of the Place of Seven Springs of which they have been told so such and know so little.
years. Already the more swiftly fading colours of his work are vanishing; already critics who fix their eyes on that departing brillianes are helping his books into the neglect that often precedes and invariably follows popularity. Hia life is already midway between fact and legend, between realism and glamour. His life and his hooks alternately illu- mino and obscure each other. There is a word, often applied to Wilde in his life.
"I wonder why Russia asked the time, that has, since his death, been used
Throne to send me (to the Coronation). to justify a careless neglect of his work.. Mr. Melbourne convicted a Chinese on and have a right to feel Battered...
It was most certainly a great compliment, That word is "pose." Wilde "posed "as a charge of stealing two bangles from a But the Russians have for long tried to an asthete. He was an asthete. He "posed" child in the street, and ordered him to go impress me with the idea that they hold as brilliant. He was brilliant. He "posed to prison for two weeks, to be exposed in me in the highest esteem. Perhaps they do. as cultured. He was cultured. The the stocks for four hours, and to receive Any way, they may have their motives, quality in him to which that word ap-twelve strokes with the birch.
for all this. And I have no doubt they have; but I could tell them that my own pliod was not pretence, though that was willingly suggested, but display. Wilde
Four Indians were charged before Mr. considerations, and if I show favour to country's interests are above all other let people.ace, as soon as he could, and
Melbourne with stealing £27 from a com-Russia in any matter I do so because I in any way that was possible, who and patriot. All the defendants were said to believo China will be the ultimate gainer what he was or wished to be.. No bushelbe new arrivals in the Colony,
I bave tried in years past to make Russia hid his lamp. Wilde's "poss"-call it
from us, but the standing of that country realise that Corca could not be taken what you will-is easily adopted by talent,
has been changed of late and the Tsar since Wilde created it with geoins. Its
can hope to gain nothing by flattering origin was & sense of the possession of
me with honours or preferences. genius, of being distinct from the rest of the world. The same desires whose
Mr.
Sutherton Russ (of Messrs. Goldring, Barlow & Morrell) prosecuted, and Mr. J. H. Gardiner defended. The case was adjourned.
A Chinese boy who appeared before Mr.
THE TSARITSA'S TOAST.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3RD 1912.
especially for me, but they do not taste). like the foods at home or those of our own cooks which we have along. The toa, however, is the best: I brought it myself and made it a presont to the Tear and Trarites, and Tu (hia chef) tells them how to make it."
HE BRITISH EMPIRE'S "BARNYARD."
NAPOLEON AND GORDON, So Napoleon marched all this dis- tance from France in the midst of winter! He was either a very brave and determined man or a very foolish one, for even now, with the best of accommoda- tions and soldiers to guard us instead of fighting us, it is a long and tiresome Shortly before leaving Russia for journey. Some of the country is very Berlin Hung Chang wrote
beautiful, but there are hundreds of of the Taar and travel toward the land for sheep and goats and even wild wolves. On Monday we will leave the capital miles that are dreary wastes and fit only hours ride from here to the frontier on sheep. It is the same in the life of man of the Germans. They tell me it is many There are always wolves where there are
would be three times as far. Going north the west and that if we went south it and the lives of nationa.
**I do not want to be thought of as a the Tray's dominions reach to the top of wolf by my fellow men. But I have been the earth, where mountains and lakes of called worse names, over to foreign ice are seen for ever throughout all the devila, which is ridiculous! Gordon said once that he knew it was my ambi- "Often and often I had studied over tion to overthrow the monarchy and and I knew, of course, that Russia was the maps of the countries of the world, make myself Emperor of the wh a far-reaching Empire, but I had to to me now when I am in the country Middle Kingdom. This thought.-comes- travel it to know fully how immense and Napoleon wanted to rule. Gordon was solid it is. There are vast plains and
a good friend in time of need, but I was tremendous mountains, but there are no still a greater friend to him, and he could seas nor oceans coming in betwees, and
have done nothing but for my money and solid and substantial this Empire must Army together. I had no ambition ever I cannot help thinking how much more influence in keeping the Ever Victorious be than the British Empire, with its to go as Emperor to the northern capital islands and possessions scattered like fowl (Peking). over a large barnyard.
Toena.
gratification earned him the epithet Melbourne at the Magistracy yesterday sight, even if I must say this after having not want to control us in all our home
"poseur." made him expend in conversi. tion energies that would have multiplied many times the volume if not the value of his writings. He leaves three things behind him, a legend, his conversation
and his works.
The two mon who stand charged with the murder of the Indian foreman at Pokfulam appeared before Mr. Hazeland at the Magistracy yesterday and were remanded on the application of Sergt. Adlington, who informed his Worship that he had been instructed by the Crown Solicitor to ask for a week's remand.
CHURCH AND THAR.
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The train is bustling with life and frontier excitement now, for we are coming to the I wonder if I will meet
Herr Krupp."
INTIMATIONS
ERUPTION COVERED HIS 3 CHILDREN
From Head to Foot. Heartrending to See Them Suffer Such Pain. Used Cuticura Soap and Oint- ment and Itching Stopped.
**y the children were covered with sores from head to foot and bands and arms. They Arst came out on the back like a lot
of little blistere Allect with water, and then broke inŝo large sores till their back, arms and Jegs were nothing but Bores. It was heart- ronding to see the little things avier with rich pain and they would scratch themselves to pieces had they not been stopped.
"I tried gareral doo- tore medicines and all kinds of ointments but nothing seemed to do them any good. They simply got weren until a friend of mine told me to get soms Cuticura Soap and give them a good hot bath and then apply some Cuticura Olt- nent. I did and after I had dressed them a time or two and used two tablets of Curlers Hoap and two boxes of Culicum Ointment the places, began to dry up and the licking seemed to have stopped, as the children could go to sleep as soch as they were bathed and the Olatment applied.
"They had suffered about two months anth I started with Cuticura Remedies. I used six tablets of Soap and about the same of Dintment and they soon began to look bright and healthy again, and new skin began to grow. am pleased to say they are keeping Bo, but I am still keeping Cuticura Soap and Ointment by me. It is a good talag for scalda and buran, (Bigoed) Wain Dunn, 145 Branstore Rd., Burton-on-Trent, England, Mar. 12, 1911.
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respect, too, and it is sad that our nation "China is much like Russia in this has not yet learned how to make all parts of it stand together as one against the outsider. There is this difference between China and Russin: Many of the nations
REVOLT AMONST CHINESE IN "Still, the Coronation was a wonderful agree to harass China, but not any of them will bother Russia. If Russia did
DUTCH WEST BORNEO. been told that charged with hawking without a licence attraction; more so, the Tsar told me,
I was the centre of affairs, what a strong alliance would be deat, writing from Modan on November The Malay Mail' Sumatra correspon said he did not remember having been than he himself. But all this is Western possible between as !"
13th, says: birched before, but later when his Wor-flattery, for could not see that the
A very ugly revolt has Sunday Night.
broken out amongst the Chinese resident ship asked how many strokes he had beautiful Tsaritsa was the eye of the
in Western Borneo (Dutch). This is the peacock'
"All the party attended a long church time of the year when the poll-tax When she spoke gracious received ho answered six. He was order-things to me and lifted her cup of wine service this afternoon, and when the time (belasting) is being amassed by the Gov ed to receive eight strokes.
toward me and smiled I could well believe came for my final audience with the Tear ernment and on the 9th of the month the that such was a compliment to remember.I was very fatigued. Dr. Morniff, the assistant Resident of Bambas wired for "When I told the Empress and her household physician who has been attach aid as Chinese secret societies had ladies upon my return about the beauties ed to our party here by courtesy of the placarded the town forbidding any of of the Russian Tsar's wife they all said Government, gave me a hypodermic of their adherents to pay belasting under she must be even as lovely as the pictures s01ething and a large bottle of white penalty of death. Similar placards are of her which I had brought to then as I was feeling like a boy. I told His small places. The nearest town of any wine, so that when we reached the castle being displayed in Mempawn and other tokens from the Russian Court. questions about the Russian Court, which smoke of the incense nearly sickened me, and according to the Jan Bode there is "The Dowager asked me many trying Majesty that the long service and the site to the seat of the revolt is Pontianak I tried as best I could to answer intelli- at which he laughed heartily, showing a military force there of 330, which is gently. She wanted to know if the his fine teeth, and said I was about the trying to maintain order in the surround- Tsaritsa was a political power and if healthiest-looking man about.
ing district. By the Maitraycker a force When are your Majesties coming to of 450 soldiers, with 100 convicts as camp she had many eunuchs about her; but I answered that the Tsaritsa was raising a
China I asked him..
followers, and a medical corps of 20, was family of her own and even giving her
shipped from Batavia for Fontianak to breasts to her children, and that eunuchs
Batavia Niewsblad reports that every augment the Pontianak garrison. The were unknown in Russia. She said she
thing is safe at present at Pontianak wished I had learned how the Russian
itself, but that at Mempawa and Mandar Empress had kept her fertility. But I
Nicholas is himself not a very healthy played and the Chinese are determined many revolutionary placards are dis- told her that the Russian Empress was not at all old (only half my own age) man, I think. I believe he stays indoors to resist the payment of the tax. The and a very careful woman.
too much, or that worry about his life military commandant of Pontianak has keeps him pale and listless. He is a been attacked by a Chinaman and small man to rule a great empire, but wounded. The Chinaman was captured Napoleon, they tell me, was even smaller and is now in durance. Matters promise in stature. But there are many big men to become even more serious and new CHRONOMETER-MAKERS, by them; and his soldiers, especially those in this capital. The Tsar is surrounded of a sharp conflict is hourly expected. regiments which are of his household, are a magnificent lot of men. I believe the
Wilde's talk is gone, but its effects remain in the conversational case of his prose, and in the mental attitude that bis writings perpetuate. His books are those of a wonderfully gifted and accom- plished man who is an author only in his moments of leisure. He was indolent and knew it Indolence was, perhaps, the only sin that wared him in the face as he lay dying, for it was the only one Mr. Leo d'Almads applied for a re- that he had committed with
bad con- mand in a case in which a Chinese youth science. Much of his work fails; much was charged with assaulting a man now of it has faded, but " Intentions," "The in hospital. He informed Mr. Melbourne Sphinx," "The Ballad of Rending that he appeared for the complainant, Gaol," "Salome," "The Importance of being Earnest" "Lady Windmere's Fan" and that he was waiting for the medical certificate before coming to a decision as to preferring a charge of doing grier.
and
AN IDEAL HUSBAND "
ous bodily harm. The truth of the mat persuaded by others to stand the trial. Several men were really concerned in the assault, and if he preferred a more seri- ous charge the case in all probability Worship granted a week's remand. bail would have to go to the Sessions. His
being fixed at $500.
are surely enough to challenge the atten-ter was that the defendant had bee tion of posterity.
These things were the toys of a critical spirit, of a critic as artist, of a critic who took up first one and then another form of art, and played with it almost idly. He touched nothing that he did not de- corate. He touched nothing that he did not turn into a decoration. It is difi- cult to prophesy which, in particular, of these friezes and tapestries of vision and thought will enjoy that prolongation of life, insignificant in the eternal progress of time, which, for us, seems immortality.
fing of tenths, victors, but what does it perhaps, our only method of ¬at- matter to us if the books that fed the in- tellectual life of our generation are stones to the next and mann to the generation after that of this, at least, we may be sure: Whether remembered or no, the works that move as now will have an echo that cannot be denied them, unheard bab still disturbing, or, perhaps, care- fully listened for and picked out, among the myriad roaring of posterity.
THE EXPERIENCES OF THE "LORD CURZON,"
BIJOU SCENIC THEATRE.
The management of the Bijou, have secured another attraction in vaudeville, Miss Dollie Swift, a Hongkong favourite, opening lust evening, and meeting with a favourable reception from a good house. Misses Dellie Connor and Gladys Porter and Mr. Bob Stephenson make up a big programme, and the pictures are all new to Hongkong.
FOOCHOW PIRATES. Mr. Tsen, Commissioner of Pacification of Foochow, according to the Paking The Jupan Gazette of the 21st ult. con- Daily Telegraph, has requested the Minis- tains the following account of the belated ter for the Navy to despatch men-of-war arrival of the Lord Curzon at Yoko-to patrol the coast on account of the con- hara:-
stant attacks made by pirates on ships The Andrew Weir Line Lord Curzon,The cruisers Haichen and fucki and two regarding which some anxiety was felt in other vessels have been ordered to under Yokohama on Tuesday, arrived in port take this work.
last night at about nine o'clock, being preceded, sony five hours earlier, by the British cruiser Afinotaur, which had gone in search of the vessel, and had success. fully located bor.
The Minotaur, under the command of Captain Cayley, located the Lord Curzon at about seven o'clock yesterday morn- ing, about 250 miles from Yokohama, and, as stated last evening, immediately sent a wireless to the Japanese Admiralty re- porting the safety of the vessel, this in- formation being immediately communi- tated to the British Embassy and the Consulate General, and through these agencies to the American Trading Co., the local agents of the steamer,
The
AMERICA AND THE CHUSAN ISLANDS.
the
THE OFFENDED" EMPRESS.
21st Day of the Twelfth Moon. "I have received notification that I am ceremony at the Palace. This is a small to forfeit one year's pay for a breach of matter, the ano, but I would be pleased to know in what respect I ofended Tzu Hsi (the Empress Dowager)..
21st Day of the Twelfth Moon,
LATER. "Messengers from the Throne have just arrived bringing a copy of the edict con- ferring upon me the Order of the Golden Dragon. The original edict was written, Bays the copy, by Tsau Hai berself. I am etiquette was nut serious to her private inclined to think my breach of Court mind, although her official mind fined me 37,000 tacks for it!
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The Order of the Golden Dragou! I expected it before I went on the long truly well pleased, although I had journey to the capital of Russia.
If I was not a plain man I would quite think I was a member of the Imperial Family, for the Golden Dragon is conferred (except in extraordinary cases) only upon those of the blood. Perhaps Her Majesty conferred it upon me so I could not offend in her presence again, for wearing the Golden Dragon I am privileged to kneel or not as I please. But I shall always be attentive. those above me, just as I expect like to matters of coremony and regard to evidences of respect from those who are not upon equality with me."
A NOTE ON LIARS.
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"Again he laughed, and said that maybe some time he would like to arrange for his wife to meet the Dowager Empress and the ladies of the latter's Court some where in the Far East.
Japanese soldiers would run fast from these regimente:
ANARCHISTS; AND A REMINISCENCE,
THE PROSPERITY OF THE PHILIPPINES.
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In these days when politics absorb so taste. I would much prefer to begin the much time and man waver in their faith journey now and sleep on the train going. reinspiring to read a statement like that because of politics it is reassuring and To arise so early in the morning seems made by M. E. Loewenstein, president of especially among men of State, who paper on the commercial outlook. to be a foolish Western practice, foolish Pacific commercial company, to could so much better transact their affairs Loewenstein is a sound and conservativo at night when all is quiet and the mind business man, in close touch with con- is most alert. statesmen and lawgivers look for their escape an era of prosperity, and those ditions throughout the Philippines, and But from what can learn these it is his firm belief that the islands cannot pleasures at night, going to banquets, who follow his line of reasoning will be theatres and fancy parties, often staying bound to agree with him. He estimates until the light of dawn comes on again. that Philippines exports for the year To this I attribute much of the intrigue, 1912-13 will be at least P115,000,000 and ENGLISH MOUNTED CHINESE JADF that is known to all these Courts. The the present rate of trade and prites women cannot enter the council chambers would indicate that his figures are con- nor make speeches in the parliaments, cervative. He says himself that he will but they work their wiles at the parties not be surprised if exports go to and operas."
P125,000,000, but the inside figure which he gives would be a growth for the year of 15 per cent, and most of us will be more points out that many millions of than satisfied to do that much. He also
year, because of severe storms followed by pesos will be saved in rice purchases. Last unprecedented drought, the rice crop was a small one and it was necessary to import to the extent of P21,000,000, or twice as much as the average for the five years preceding. If this year we only attain the average there will be a saving of P11,000,000 over last year. But the extensive planting and the condition of the islands will do much better than that, the crop make it reasonably certain that and Mr. Loewenstein is inclined to believe that the foreign rice hill will be cut from P21,000,000 to P0,000,000 or P7,000,000, effecting Saving in
the year of that this huge drain has largely been P14,000,000 or P15,000,000. It is clear stopped and that there will remain in the country, to be expended for other things, an enormous sum of money.
On the Train, Monday. slower pace than any of those before. I "This train is travelling at a much asked why, and was told that the Gover ment would not run any risks when so many big foreign officials were aboard Soldiers are everywhere along the line, and whenever the train stops the common people ure kept at a distance.
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A few days later the Viceroy writes: "Liars are the worst people in all classes, I believe.
Tseng (Li's secretary) tells me that he has been "It is bad enough to be an official in The Hochi states that the negotiations approached by a number of very common. between the Chinese Minister in
China and put up with lies, abuse, and people and asked if it is true that I told misrepresentation, but here in Russia United States and Mr. P. C. Knox, Sec- retary of State, regarding the proposed would have more and better children if can. I am told that a great secret band the Empress that our Imperial Princessea they kill their big officials whenever they lease of the Chusan Islands have been in a state of deadlock owing to the election they followed the Tsaritsa's example, exista all over the Empire, and that the of the President, but that, according to What lies! What vicious, monkey-faced members thereof find their chief occupa- ernment appears the latest information, the Chinese Gorlice! Any one with Bense would know tion and amusement in the killing of men
that even if I dared I never would of State and others in high position. to desire the quielt con- clusion of the negotiatione, owing to the address such language to Her Majesty "I do not think I would like to tardiness of the loan negotiations with or the ladies of the blood. I interest my life being taken, unless it would be the Six Power Syndicate, and to a belief rayself not at all in the inner doings of have the fine Tsaritsa as wife and my The vessel, as already stated, left Puget that the partition of China Proper will the Court, for it is enough that any man choice of the rarest tea! Especially in Sound Ports on October 5th for Moji and be prevented should the islands be leased shall keep his own household in these later years I have had no fear of Hongkong with a cargo of wheat, flour to the United States. It is presumed that order.
As Mr. Loewenstein points out, im- my life being taken, unless it would be provement and progress are shown all and lumber. When in mid-Pacific the the reported lease of the archipelago may vesac encountered terrific weather, with be realized.-Japan Herald.
"I said not one word which might, seen by some crazy fanatic like the fellow who over the archipelago in all the chief and head winds and heavy seas, and it was
aither through a mountain gapway or the shot me in the eye at Shimonoseki, minor industries. Hemp is bringing a impossible to make much progress.
eye of a needle, refect at all upon the Several times in Hankow, in the days of surprisingly largo return, and by this coal supplies ran out, and as it was im
ladies of the Court. I did praise the my first Viceroyalty, low fellows sought avenue alone large sums of money are possible to put back to port, the Captain
Russian Tsaritsa, but I dispraised no to take my life, and once in Tientsin a every day reaching the planters and THE EYE had no alternative but to consume
one else.".
low fellow came into my courtyard and through them the workers and the auch of his cargo as was necessary. 1
... HE DECIDES TO SEE THE WORLD.
told the banner captain in charge that business men. Copra continues to be a reach Japan, Soms 14,500 bags of flour Captain E. I. M. Barrett, of Shanghai, Writing in his diary at St. Petersburg he intended taking my life. He had a splendid source of revenue, and while were consumed, together with the hatches, whose remarkable performances with the Li Hung Chang says, among other long piece of wire and said he was going ladders and all wood-fittings that could bat in first-class cricket at Home during things
to hang me to my own gate post. I had be used without endangering the veseel, the past cricket season, were followed
to have his head cut off before he would When the Minotaur picked the vessel-up with much interest in
"It has been urged upon me to return tho-Far she was struggling gamely to reach Yoko East was on Thursday
to China by way of Constantinople and stop talking- -presented
the Suez Canal, but I cannot agree to hama. As soon as the Minotaur found with
box as the Lord Curzon was safe, and Captain souvenir, by friends at Shanghai. Mthis plan. Now that I have traversed-all- Cayley assured himself that she was able A. P. Wood presided over a gathering of Asia, I want to go to Germany and to reach port under her own steam, the about 40 admirers, and, in making the States. There are wonders for as 15 lay France; then to England and the Unite! warship came back to Yokohama, arriv-presentation, said that throughout Inst ing several hours before the merchant summer they had been looking at the eyes upon in all these great countries, ship.
papers to
see what Captain Bar and besides that there are official duties To-day Lloyds' Surveyor wont on board rott
doing, and it and inspected the vessel.
great pleasure to there to find that he
"I am told here that I will not be Beyond severe training, the Lord was in the first light of cricketers, tinah received very well in England, but it is Curion i
arently undamaged, but on ing up with an average of 40.05 in 44 certain they will not harm me there, nor arrival at bagkong she will be docked matches. He stood tenth on the list of I do them any injury. If the house is
"My mother said that as a little baby for a thorough inspection. The crew of first-class cricketers, and fourth for his cold and the table not set, I need not I had evidences of a strong beard later in the vessel were all safe.
county, Hampshire, while he had also been remain, for the road is long and the life. She averred that it was a sign that complimented on his fielding.
as
PRESENTATION TO A WELL- KNOWN CRICKETER,
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TONSORIAL.
Nearing the German Frontier:
Hour of the Shesp. "P'lo has just finished shaving my head and I feel fine. I think I would be insane if I wore all the hair some of these Russians do. Many of my people have chaffed me about my beard, but I wish they could see the hairy faces of the St. Petersburg Court They are hairy devils' in truth!
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the position of sugar continues to be uns satisfactory there are powerful elements that, move toward improvement. large modern central has been completed. another is being constructed, a third has been ordered and a number of small mills have been built or planned. To
industry is doing well, now that bacco strike troubles are over, and all over the country there is in progress an immense amount of construction work and public. improvements.
All these, says Mr. Loewenstein, spell prosperity and spell it with capital letters,
TYPHOON WARNING.
The Manila Observatory cabled yester·
Yap moving W. or W.N.W.
Barrett expressed his deep gratitude for nose at town constables.
Captain traveller who has money can turn up his I would be a great man in my country, day morning: Cyclone or typhoon N. of their kindness, and said that nothing had "To-night I am to attend another been more pleasing to him than to know banquet given by the Tsar, which I hope A general average on the steamer will that his performances, such as they were, will not continue as long as the one of
had been followed in Shanghai
last night. It is true they prepare foods
The Captain states that the weather ex- perienced on the trip across was unusual- ly severe, and the worst he has ever en- countered.
be declared.
West
and many times sinco affairs have gone so well with me has she asked, 'Was not my prophecy correct?" Always have been compelled to answer her that I did not know, but if she thought I was a great
man I was.
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