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CANTON.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
December 10th:
SHONEST OFFICIALS.
One of the great things expected by the common people from the revolution was the doing away with all the dishonest officials whose main plan and purpose in life was to squeeze as much money as they could out of their subjects. However, the Revolution has not changed the nature of the different officials, and just at present the indignation is running high at actions of several of those in authority throughout the province. The idea of a number of these new officials seems to be to make as much money as they can in Be short a time as possible, for they never know when they might be supercoded Not long ago one of the chief officers under the Pun U Magistrate-was-shot-for extorting money from the people whole- sale, and just lately the Magistrate him- solf has been dismissed for connivance at this and other similar cases. Last week the chief official in the Lung Moon dis trict was dismissed and taken to Canton to be tried for throwing innocent people into prison and then demanding large sums for their release. Now news comes from the Sheung Shan district stating that the officer in charge of the Court of Justice has been arrested and brought to Canton for misconduct. He has never got on with the people and continual trouble has resulted from his appointment and many people have come to Canton to testify against him. It is significant that on leaving his place of abode he could not get a chair coolie in the whole place to carry him.
These disclosures show that the change of Government has not made much difference in the country districts that the people are not any better off in the way of impositions and justice; and that China has still many cuemies among her so-called officials and officers. However, the wholesale way in which the Government at Canton is deal: ing with these culprits shows that they realise the great amount of danger these dishonest officials are to the peace of the community.
NEW SALT COMMISSIONER. It is reported that an officer called Lam Ping Cheung has been appointed Salt Commissioner in this province and has left Peking for Canton to take up the appointment. There is plenty of work to be done in this line around Canton and a great deal of smuggling will have to be put dowIL. Yesterday, the Chinese gunboat Chan Tung, while cruising in the Sam Shu district, saw a junk behaving in a suspicuous manner and on signalling it to stop it tried to make off at full
TAS HONGKONG DAILY PELAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12т¤, 1912.
SHAMEEN MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.
The minutes of ordinary meeting of the- Council held 9th inst. are as follows:-
Present; Messrs. T. E. Griffith (Chair- man), L. H. Gilman, O. V. Lanning, R.. C. Martin and the Secretary (Mr. R. T. Mathieson,)
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed,
POLICE.
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Mr. Alison's term of probation having expired it was decided to offer him the position of superintendent on a five year contract,
The Chairman reported that only a number of minor cases had been dealt with during the interval.
HEALTH.
The Medical Officer reports one case of diphtheria and 0 cases of dysentery during the past month. Since the recent rain- fall a general improvement in the health of the community is noticeable.
DEFENCE CORPS,
THE DIARY OF LI HUNG-CHANG. | also, But he wanted me to try and I
ENGLAND AND THE ENGLISII.
VISIT TO MR. GLADSTONE.
did, However, it was awkward work, for the handle of the instrument caught in my sleeve and I nearly cut my foot.
On the train hour of the crow. I slept two hours during my visit to Mr. Gladstone, and he slept also during that time.
Daring the first four days in Eng- land, Li Hung Chang's time was so fully was served-rare colong, some Chinese When we met again a nice littlo lunch occupied as he himself puts it, crackers and cold fowl. Mr. Gladstone busy with small things and great, small and myself ate alone this time. people and famous" that he had no just before leaving, we sat together and Then, time for his memoira. Then he writes:were photographed. I could not get one of the pictures, although I would will- told it will be in all the London papers ingly pay any price for it. Still, I am in the morning.
AT HAWARDEN.
Hawarden. eleventh day of the peaceful jade Emperor,
Only here, in the home of the greatest living Englishman, have I found real rest since leaving the bost at Dover.. Hore
have enjoyed for a day such a rest as I have not known since bidding, good-by to China; for it is a pleasurable rest to It is delightful to learn his thoughts an ser and know this Grand Old Man," to see things of this world as ho seas
them.
During the following two days the memoirs contain only the briefost com- ments on the dinner given in his hon- our by the Lord Mayor of London, bis visit to the Tower and the Houses of Parliament, and finally a carriage ride through the poorest sections of the City. Referring to this last, he says, among other things
IN THE EAST END,
BAW
to be able to retire to such a home life as hosts of our party want to show us only It is the highest prize of public service Of course, it is but natural that the his is, amid the respect of the world and the beautiful and prosperous in their tho love and admiration of his country realm. I saw great grandeur and much men. If I could be any other person than wealth at Moscow and St. Petersburg, the liam Ewart Gladstone, the Grand Old also the strength and greatness of Berlin, Li Hung Chang I would want to be Wil temples, parks and fine avenues. Man of England. And I would like bestand the wonderful activity of Essen, of all women, even now before the Bremerhaven, Munich and other cities. Tsarits, one of Fournier's lovely daugh- Nevertheless, my eyes were constantly engaged for insights into the real condi- tions of the people, and I saw things that somehow told me that all was not sun- shine and glory.
ters.
Quartermaster Sergeant Sutton's re port on Camp attendance at Lowu was submitted and it was decided to refund hall railway fares to all having attended thrive or more. The Camp is now closed for the season. A general alarm was
Mr. Gladstone met me at the handsome held on the night of 6th inst., on which green-covered station upon my arrival. the S.NO, Commander Mackenzie, R. N., A great crowd of his country people were had favourably commented. The Com-there, and hats were raised and handker- mandant, M. Grith, minted that chiefs uttered while our party descended from the train. Then there was long sad thanks are due to Messrs. Maze, Ahrendt, hearty applause as we shook hands, both Shields, Scrymgeour, Bohuszewicz and of us harcheaded. I do not know when Cameron, who had each kindly presented before in publie I was seen without a
head covering. cups as prizes for shooting, distribution of which will shortly be notified.
BRAMEEN WATER WORKS.
The work of excavation.is -progressing satisfactorily and part of the plant for the jetty, etc., has arrived, the filter, and tower plant being due during the next 3/4 wooks. A letter had been written to Messrs. Griffith and Bent, owners of lot 56, asking permission to lay the suction main through this property, by which the routs to the river would be considerably shortened, which permission has been con ditionally granted.
SWIMMING BATH CLUB.
MR. GLADSTONE'S WELCOME Mr. Gladstone-he is only "mister," for he has refused the highest titles the British Queen could bestow-was mach stronger in appearance than I had ex- close together and sat face to face, I could pected find him; yet, when we were see that he was an old man; much older in his face than I although there are but nine years' difference, I believe, in
our ages.
come to London to meet me. But he said At once he apologised for not having that if he had made the trip he would have very likely been ill for a week or two. He had sent a telegram to me at Windsor Castle to this same effect two days before, and so I had determined to Correspondence between the Club Com-visit him at Hawarden, even at the ex- mittee and Council was submitted by the penso of offending a number of the enter Chairman, The wording of the lease tainment committee and several members of the House of Lords who had given me from the Council to the Swimming Bath strong invitations to visit their homes. Club is found to be vague as to the
The Viceroy on a later date gives a Council-haring the right to make use of
list of the different. personages in Eng land who he thought might be offended part of the land for the Water Works.
because he bad chosen to go "of his own H.M.'s Consul General had given opinion
will to visit Gladstone at Hawarden on the matter and the Chairman was and neglected to accept the many other urgent invitations to prominent houses. authorized to nettle the matter on
He asks:- amicable basis with the Swimming Bath
an
Club, both sides apparently admitting the original intention of the lease of the land from the Government to serve S now intended.
HAMBURG LETTER, [SPECIALLY WRITTEN FOR THE "HONGKONG DAILY PASS."]
HAMBURG, November 13th. THE NEW U.S. PRESIDENT AND TRADE PROSPECTS.
Woodrow Wilson as President of the It is expected that the election of Dr.
United States will give a fresh impetus to trade, and to judge by the course of
these anticipations seem likely to be the various markets during the past week:
realized, although its effect on the stock exchange has been to some extent counteracted, by the political news from Europe,
· game
A reduction in the American import duties would be welcomed by all countries, more especially by the textile industries of Germany, which have suffered, more perhaps than any others,
McKinley tariff. by the heavy rates imposed by the
at the
There appears to be Panama caval difficulty being settled time somo hope of the amicably, Mr. Wilson, it is reported, being disposed to submit the matter to arbitration at The Hague. Herr Ballin's visit to the States during the election was, it is believed, undertaken for the purpose of studying the trend of ideas on the subject with a view to the organisa- tion of a future extension of the services
And it is so with London and England. dined as the guest of Her Majesty at of the Hamburg American Line in that the Castle, and great officers of State took me to the Parliament and to the forts and
direction. For the present, it is intended arsenals. I saw the fine parks of London to run the steamers plying to the Far and some of the great thoroughfares; yet | East to the west coast of America to I could see in the vast crowds 30 many people who were poor. Even in the short such ports as Ban Francisco, Vancouver time of my journey I have learned to and Seattle, whilst the Kosmos Line of distinguish between the different classes which Herr Ballir is also a director con- of people by the clothes they wear. I fear, by my desire and request to be the Sandwich Islands. All the principal My entertainers were not overpleased, templates opening a regular service to
poorer sections. taken for even a brief period through the steamship companies of this port have with the various shipbuilding yards in placed large orders for fresh tonnago Hamburg and elsewhere, a suro biga that they believe in a continuance of the present activity in the foreign trade of the city. It is indeed marvellous that it should have been so hitherto by the war in the near East. little affected
To-day there are rumours afloat of an approaching armistice, which, if they should prove true, would no doubt fur- ther stimulate business.
them, and the sight of rags is not new We have poor in China, millions of to me, but I have seen so many grand sights that I am afraid unless you grant of mind would mean that I had not a my wish that to leave in my present frame true conception of life in England."
It was this way that I talked to them, And finally I was shown, hurriedly, some of the more wretched parts of the city.
THE SEAMY SIDE.
I cannot tell now of all I saw, nor of my fullest impressions, but I know that I have come to the conclusion that under a grand show many of the countries with great armies and flects of ships have much misery hidden from the eyes of the world. China is not the only country where there are rags and hunger. Chinaman cries out when his stomach is empty and his throat dry, but in foreign lands the hungry man steals from his neighbour or breaks into his house.
INTIMATIONS
ECZEMA PAINED SO HE COULD NOT SLEEP
Leg Red and Inflamed. Itched Aw- fully. First Application of Cuticura Ointment Stopped the Itching. One Box of Cuticura Ointment and One Cake of Cuticura Soap Cured Him.
**The appearance of my son's complaint was as though a piece of skin had been tora from the leg, it was no red and infamed and used to Itch something awful. He used to scratch it in his sleep and the pain he used to suffer was awful. It started as a acar about three inches square just below the knea and I think had been there about eighteen months.
"Ittled several ointments, etc., but none seemed to do any good for him, then I took him to the doctor and he was under him for about two months. The doctor told me is was oczema and the olgiment he gave me gave him no ease at all. My san's leg gave kim the most trouble at nights as some nights he could not get to sleep for the pain.
Thon read about the Cutleura Soap and Cuticura Ointment and decided to gire them a trial. The first time I applied the Catteurs Ointment it stopped the itching and one box of Cuticura Ointment and one tablet of Cutleurs Soap were suficient io effect a complete eure in three weeks. I shall be only too pleased to recommend Cuticura Soap and Ointment to those who suffer from any kind of kin disease," (Signed) Mrs. Chaytor, 22, Walworth, Street, Bunderland, England, July 12, 1911,
For more than a generation aarra baths with Cuticura Soap and gentle applications of Cuticura Ointment liars afforded the speediest and most cecnomical treatment for torturing, disiguring affections of the skin and scalp at infants, children and Edults. A liberal sample of Gutleurs Soap and Olatment with 32-p. book free from near- est depot: F. Newbery & Sons, 27, Charter- heuse Bq., London; R. Towris & Co., Bydusy, N. S. W.; Lennon, Ltd., Cape Town; Muller. Maclean & Co., Calcutta and Bombay: Potter D. & C. Corp., sole props, Boston, V. 8. A.
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Gaupp & Co.,
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,
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TOBACCO CULTIVATION IN GERMANY. According to official returns the num- ber of growers of tobacco in this country The
ie 95,141, of which there are 36,380 in Prussia, $4,563 in Baden, 14,335 in CHRONOMETER-MAKERS, Bavaria, 9,783 in Alsatia and Lorraine and 3,718 in Wurtemberg. The total
WATCHMAKERS,
compared with 17,016.9 in the previous area planted amounts to 15,776.7 hectares
year","
Often, very often, as I have learned in weeks, he is ready to make silent war those few but eye and mind-opening with bomb or knife upon the Government he blernes for his hopeless condition. The more I see and learn of the lower
POPULAR INTEREST IN AVIATION. To what extent aviation has aroused
ine? Bread and wine and musical enter What had these other people to offer tainments. I had never heard of them, any of them, and what would I be spend. ing my time with them for the classes of people in Europe the greater Her Majesty Victoria of England Ireland, her son who will be King if he is my love and pity of the miserable poor the interest of young and old in all The Chairman, submitted correspond-lives, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Morley, Lord of my own country, for by comparison classes of society is shown by an exhibi- ence between the Commissioner of Cus. Tennyson and the Houses of Parliament the latter are less vicious,
land, and the shipa.
RIVER PRONTAGE.
I bow low
speed. Soon, however, it was stopped, toms and the Council, in which the sitting those were what interested me in Eng illustrious Majesty and the Court to the articles connected with them organized by
and on a search party going on board no less than 200,000 catties of salt and five guns were found on board to be smuggled into the villages. The junk was brought back to Canton and the officer in charge of the Salt Department informed of the
matter.
ANOTHER FIRE IN CANTON.
About noon yesterday, a fire broke out in a shop in Hing Shon Lane in the Western Suburbs. It is a very bad spot for
conflagration but. · luckily there was no wind and the fire brigade managed to confine the blaze to the one building.
INCREASING THE FIRE BRIGADE.
A movement has been on foot since the great fire to greatly increase the number of fire brigades in the Western Suburbs and to procure soms modern engines. Citizens have been asked to volunteer for servicc-in-the-different companies and a good response is being made. At the present time of the year fires are usually Rumerous and these stops are being takon none too soon. What the authorities ought to get is one two modern steamers to attack fires from the river, Had they had some of these at the big fire a month ago a great deal of property might have been saved. Still it is good to see improvements of any kind in this respect, and a larger fire brigade will be of immense benefit to a place like Canton.
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AN EDUCAȚIONAL GATHERING.
A large meeting of all the teachers in Canton is to be held on the 31st inst, and the 2nd and 3rd prox, to confer on educational matters and sec what can be
done towards improving the condition of the schools in the City. The new Educa tional Commissioner is very onthusiastic about increasing the number of schools and endeavouring to compel parents to send their children to school. That day however, is a long way off; still this conference ought to help to keep the different schools in touch with one another.
ROBBERY IN CHAN CHUEN,
A few days ago some rice merchants were making their way to Chan Chuen
to buy rice and were in possession of
HOME RULE AND TREE-FELLING, Continuing his narrative at Haward- en he says:---
up of the bund frontage was dealt with. The matter of band extension is under consideration and copies of the corre upondance has been forwarded to H.M.'s Mr. Gladstone aid myself, accompanied Consul General for transmission to the only by Leh and Bruce [interpreters and Government Authorities. The silting up secretaries], took a long stroll over his estate and talked of many matters. re- of the river to the south-west of the moved from State affairs.
I was sur concession has been going on for yearsprised how well he knew my life, and he and has now assumed dimensions which expressed the same feeling when I told constitute a serious impediment to He spoke about the Queen, about Indian him that which I knew regarding himself. traffic, as also a menace to the health of affairs and of Home Rule for Ireland; 1 the community, owing to the miasma and I was certain that ho hoped to see emanating from the foul mud-bank that unhappy country governed better
before he died. formed in close proximity to the limits
Secretary,
THE MAGISTRACY:
Mr. Melbourne passed sentence of six months' hard labour on a Chinese for re- turning from banishment.
For being in illegal possession of arms and ammunition a Chinese was fined 8100, or six weeks' hard labour in default.
Charged with assaulting a Chinese con- stable and obstructing him whilst in the discharge of his duties, a Chinese was sentenced to two months' imprisonment and four hours" in the stocks,
Nine Chinese were brought before Mr. Melbourne yesterday, charged with gambling. Ono charged with keeping the house for gambling purposes was repre- Bented by Mr. Otto Kong Sing, and he was discharged. One man did not ap pear, and 25 bail was ordered to be estreated. The other defendants were
fined $2 each
for hawking without a licenes when an-
A Chinese constablo had arrested a man. other man came up and knocked the constable down. Mr. Hazeland yesterday. The first man Both appeared before
was fined $3 and the second defendant. for assaulting and obstructing the con.. stable, was sent to prison for two months' and four hours' stocks. He was sentenced to a further 14 days for damaging the constable's uniform.
LOCAL FOOTBALL.
"They have given their best to Eng land," he said, and in return have been given only England's worst,
He pointed out some tree stumps to me, and said that in eight years he had kept his health good and muscles strong by this chopping exercise. It amused me very much and I told him I would like to see him strike a blow, so he took up, the instrument for cutting and made Then he turned to me and said:- several great dents in one of the trees,
"Lord Li, did you ever cut down a tree !"
I told him had many a time when I was a boy, but that like many other boyish habits I had ontgrown this one
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in respect to all China--from her tion of models of flying machines and
river men of Canton,
On the ship ready to sail for New York.
the Feue Hamburger Zeitung. Pupils Good-bye to you, Tsar and Tsarina, of board and secondary schools from the and to you, Russia; good-bye to you. age of twelve upwards are amongst the Kaiser, Bismarck, and my friend Herr exhibitors, as are also young lads and Krupp of Essen good-bye to Happy and Gracious La Belle France; good-bye clerks in offices, apprentices to various to Victoria, the Queen, and the Grand trades, some of which have nothing to Old Man,
I am going to Grant's country.-From do with mechanics, a baker's lal, an the London Observer,
under-gardener, an old gardenor of 73, and last but not least the middle form of a young ladies' school represented by their class teacher. There are no less than 382 exhibits divided as follows into seven classes :---
SHIPPING RUMOURS.
The rumours of the coming deal in the shipping world are interesting, varied, and detailed enough to please the most exacting. The latest story current is that a concern generally on the lines of the International Mercantile Marine will embrace the controlling interests of the leading great companies, The Ob- server
told this story, as current in shipping circles, some little time ago, Apparently the Stock Exchange is now waking up to it. The market has already decided that whatever form the develop- ment takes, Sir Owen Philipps is retiring from the Royal Mail chairmanship to take over the position of chairman of the new undertaking. Sir Thomas Suther- land becomes the vice-chairman, and 80 on. Most of the details can, in fact, bo had for the asking from the first markat man one meets-Pall Mall Gazette,
The fact that some of your teeth are decayed
1: The work of youths under 18 years of age
(a) 76 models puro and simplé
(b) 76 models to he submitted to a flying
test
The work of adults (a) 48 models
(b) 30 models to be submitted to a flying
test
III-Meteorological Lites and books on aviation, etc., belonging to the IV-Kites and similar apparatus
Deutsche Seewarte in Hamburg V-Parts of aviatic machinery, propellers,
etc.
VI-Designs, photographs, and literature
on aviation
VILA silver model of a flying machine by
a Berlin jeweller
The knowledge of the principles of aviation displayed by the exhibitors, even by the youngest of them, is surprising, for not all of the models are copies or adaptations of known systems; there are
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a great many original ones amongst them STUDY that do credit to their inventors. The first prize in class 1. (a), for instance, has been awarded to a lad of fourteen, attend- ing one of the middle forms of second-
ary school, for a construction of his own, and the first in class 1. (b) to a youth of 18, an apprentice in an electro-technical work-
shop in Altona for a monoplane of his own design.
All the models showed careful workman- ship, but it was amusing to see the materials employed by some of the lads whoge pocket money was probably limited; wheels and other parts of old. mechanical toys, in fact anything that came handy for the purpose has been made use of,
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SIR IAN HAMILTON AND THE MALAYS.
Sir Ian Hamilton stated at Penang
although you have always cleaned them is a proof that the prepara-at he was very favourably impressed The Hongkong A.F.C. will be opposed about $1,000 in money between them. by H.M.S. Minotaur (A.) on the Club tions which you have used do not preserve the teeth. Use Odol! This got ears of a notorious robber ground at 4.45 p.m. to-day. The follow in the dist, who with three of his mening will represent the Club-H. F. Being a liquid preparation it reaches all parts of the oral cavity, waylaid the merchants and at the point Buckingham A. Hamilton and A of the pistol robbed them of all they had Mackenzie D Campbell, F. F. Long, and being an antiseptic it arrests the action of the bacteria which and made off safely, despite the fact that nd H. C. Van Weiren; H. B. Henderson, the soldiers were on their tracks in no W. A. Wilson, H. S. Jones, W. Vattack the teeth.
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with the Malay volunteer contingente at Singapore and Penang and was convinced that the Malays were proud of their con- nection with the British Empire, and that the fighting qualities of the race may well prove an asset of much valuo if the ter ritorial integrity of the Peninsula is ever threatened.
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