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DEWAR'S
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When the as Chuen Chau was off and possessing no rights, not even the right to live if the master willed other Green Island yesterday, returning from wise. Had the material wealth and lei-Macao, a Chinese passenger committed
suicide by jumping overboard. sure been equally divided there would have been 's uniforur standard of poverty. Western nations bave substituted for this slave class the forces of nature which they control. Wind, water, steam, electricity, now do the work of these thousands of
slaves...
America is pre-eminently the country
A brass door knob, valued at 50 cents, was stolen from one of the doors of the Central Magistrsey on Tuesday. report was made to the police by Major C. Willson, the second Magistrate.
The
In avoiding a collision with a truck in Des Voeux Road yesterday, a motor-car
The Filipino Club, last night in the South Chins Restaurant, entertained at dinner the visiting Filipino basebail players. The players leave to-day, by the Empress of dria, to fulfil fixtures in Japan.
Of the three murder trials to be tried at the Criminal. Sessions this week, one was begun yesterday, another was ad- journed till next Sessions, and in regard to the third, it was stated that it would not take place. This trial has been post- The alleged murderer attempted to commit suicide in bis call in gaol, and both his legs had to be amputated
LABEL" where the maximum use has been made driven by Mr. W. J. Mckenzie, Govern poned for several months.
FINEST
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DEWAR'S
of these forces of nature, with the result ment Veterinary Surgeon, was struck by that her plane of living, from the materiala tram-car and seriously damaged. "Mr. point of view, is the highest in the world McKenzie, luckily, escaped Injury, America's slave class is her electrical power derived from her rivers, waterfalls
and coal mines. China alone among civilised nations seems content to employ
human labour to perform duties which can much more efficiently be done by the forces that he ready to her hand, and so the plane of living is depressed to an unnecessarily low standard. Ancestor worship is sometimes blamed for the pre- scat miserable level of existence in China but new methods would raise that level it has done in every other country where they have been adopted.
Between 1850 and 1900 the population of Great Britain increased from 20,000,000 to 38,000,000, while previous to 1800 the
While Mr. R. W. Henderson, of the P.W.D., was driving his car in Arbuthnot
Road yesterday, one of the mudguards collided with a basket of firewood shuns
over the shoulder of a coglie woman. The woman was knocked down, but escaped injury.
The
In honour of his knighthood, and his recent appointment to the Executive Council, Sir Shou Son Chow is to be entertained by the Hongkong Chinese General of Commerce next week, Chamber were to have been hosts at à dinner last night, but owing to short notice the complimentary banquet will be held at the Yeo Wo Restaurant, West
ednesday night. Point, next
The Procurator of the Spanish Dominican Mission was summoned at
ANOTHER OUTRAGE.
PRIEST KILLED BY CHINESE SOLDIERS.
NO NEWS OF MR. MOORE.
¡THROUGH REUTER'S" "AGENCY.}
HANKOW, August 18th. The Franciscan Mission yesterday re- ceived news announcing the murder of Father Maiquer by soldiers at Tacliching near Sianfu, Shensi, on August 4th.
Father Maiquez, who was a Spaniard, had been in China eighteen yearn.
A telegram has since been received from the Shensi Governor expressing
the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday at the instigation of the Sanitary Depart regret and promising investigación
ment for failing to clear a choked drain pipe at the rear of No. 11, Cameron Road, Kowloon. Mr. H. C. Macnamara, who defended, said that his clients had not received notice, but as soon as the summons was received, Father Noval had the defective rain pipe repaired The case was dismissed.
A.F.C'S INSTALLATION MANAGER. There is no further news regarding the capture of Mr. J. W. Moore, but the bandits have been located fifteen miles outside of Changsha Governor Tang has
Fromised to do his utmost to secure Mr.
Moore's release.
BRITISH WAR VESSELS DESPATCHED.
"VICTORIA population sever rose beyond 10,00,00 dert McKinley, which left carly this and the 5.2. Suiyang also with Shanghai Gant have been despatched. The Foreign
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He would be a bold-person who would assert that the standard of material com- fort and the leisure time available for the people was not much higher in 1900 than in 1500 or in previous ages. One would have thought that the spectacular suc cess of other nations in harnessing nature's powers and in adopting time and trouble-saving devices would have acted as a stimulus to the Chinese, for the average person is not enthusiastic about doing manual work if he can discover a way of getting it done equally well with out personal effort.
Home and European mail vit Suez is
PERING, August 18th. due this morning by the P. & O. &...
Telegrams to Peking state that the Malwa, which will bring letters and papers, dated July 22nd, and parcels, bandits who captured Mr. Moore Lavě dated July 15th. Also due to-day is the best located by Tang Seng Chi's troops s.s. President Cleveland with mail from afteen miles to the south of Changsha, ' The Admiral Oriental Line 8.8. Presi U.S.A. Honolula, Japan and Shanghai, to which point H.M.S.S. Woodlark and
morning (Thursday) for Seattle and mail. Yesterday, mails arrived by the Affairs Bureau of Canton telegraphed to Victoria vid port, is not carrying ang Chenan and General Metzinger from Changsha urging that every offort should first class passengers beyond Shanghai. Shanghai, the Aut Sang from Straits be made to ensure Mr. Moore's release.
President McKinley from She is fully booked up at Shanghai with and the Chinese Government and private students who are proceeding to the United States to pursue their studies in various uni
There will be approximately versities. 200 students travelling on this steamer.
Vancouver...
Manila.
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Yesterday we referred to the passing FAR EASTERN of Cafe Wiseman and its transference to the new premises of Messrs. Lane, Crawford, Ltd." It is interesting to note founded in 1904 that the cafe was by Mr.. Weismann, a German resident. It was then situated in a small room în Beaconsfield Arcade, but later it was found necessary to obtain more space, and the business was converted into a limited company in 1805, and moved into Queen's Road Central, opposite what is now the China Building, but which was then the Post Office. Later it was removed to Denouncing Feng Yu Hsiang's departure for Voeux Road, where the Exchange Build-
TER CHRISTIAN GENERAL,”
BACK FROM MOSCOW AND ENGAGED IN WARFARE.
PEKING, August 18th. Wu Pei Fu's Intelligence Department, fortnight ago, received a telegiam an-
OBITUARY.
AP.C MAN SUCCUMBS TO CHOLERA AT CANTON.
MR. J. W. LEE.
It is with much regret that we have.
to record the death of Mr. J. W. Lee,
a member of the staff of the Asiatic Petro- leum Company in Canton.
A thief or thieves broke into the Hong- korg Furniture Company, 8, Queen's Road, Central, during Tuesday night or the early hours of yesterday morning and stole about $8 in money and some small rugs, valued at about $40 to 250, It is possible that the adoption of new The robbery was not discovered until methods in China might produce greater yesterday morning when the shop was HEKA MAY INSTITUTE Not Later Than A. S. WATSON and a corresponding increase of opened. The intruder, or intruders, population which would consume that appeared to have gained entrance to the & CO., LTD. wealth, ad that the country would not be premises by breaking through a partition
the business was converted in to a British. Feng has now arrived at Pingtichuan, much hetter off than she was before.in the side staircase of the shop on the ing now is, and when the war broke out China from Moscow. It is believed that
ground floor, The worship of ancestors would simply
concern and obtained the name of Cafe from whence he is directing the Kuomin- be guaranteed to a far greater extent Among the passengers who will leave Wiseman. In 1922 Messrs. Lane, Craw-chun's. present general retreat. than at present. The probabilities, how. Hongkong on the R.M.S. Empress of ford took control of the business. In its ever, are that the adoption of Western drie to-day at noon, when she sails for new home on the first floor of Exchange
rid ports, will be Mr. B. Building, above Mestra. Lane, Craw-1. methods of production would necessitate
Montague Ede for Europe, via Canada;, ford's general departments, the "Cafe"- an improved standard of education, in Mr. K. M. Fetterley (Chief Assistant is known as Lane, Crawford's Restau- order that the workers should understand Freight Dept., of the Hongkong Office of rant. The management is the same and the complexities of trade and commerce, the C.P.E.) and Mrs. Fetterley for the service is by the same staff. Improve of machines and engines. This would Canada on leave; and Mr. J. McMurray, ments made through the change include lead to other interests than getting mar who is going Home via Canada on re-special high-class orchestral music at SLAVE POWER AND MACHINERY. ried at the earliest possible opportunity, tirement from the post of Superintendent certain times during the afternoon.
Engineer of the Indo-China S.N. Co. that is if other countries are any criterion The Empress of Air will not call at Tar reason most Western countries are on the point, and so population would Shanghai on account of the cholera out carefully cultivating China is because it not advance at such an alarming rate as break there, and all passengers for that is virgin soil with latent powers of becom- might be feared. The loyalty, to the dead port will disembark at Wecsung and c/o Hongkong Daily Pressing a flourishing field in which the popula. past would be undermined through en proceed to Shanghai by tender.
tion will develop an enormous demand -HOUSES AND FLATS AVAILABLE: for Western products. Even if the people W4-Babington Path
400 developed their own resources, construct- G7-Glenesly. 9 TOOMS...
Mr. L. B. Warren was not present employed by a Chinese woman hawker C1-Peak Road, 9 rooms. Plus taxes 450
furn. $450ed their own roads and railways, opened
at the Criminal Sessions yesterday, of fruit and vegetables at Portland Ca-Conduit Road, 7 rooms....
$230 & taxes mines and factories, calling in the aid of when he was called to serve on the jury Street. He alleged that while on his Co-Bowen Road, 6 rooms Li-hatham Boad, 12 rooms
****** $500 $103, 110, 125 the foreiguer to provide the expert guid-in a criminal case before Mr. Justice way to the Western Market to buy W4-Babington Path
vegetables and, fruit for his employer, Li-Cameron Boad. 3 rooms tiesi XI-Macdonnell Road.....$180 gr. fr., $200 ance as a preliminary step only, the Wood.
he, was suddenly seized by the throat by other fire.
standard of living would be so raised and
another Chinese, and that ten or eleven
An area of low pressure covers the Al-Armand Villas, 4 rooms...$147 gr., £r... $150 Al-Patell Villas, & rooms
tance. The victim of the assault stated which a typhoon may be forming, that he was robbed by his assailant of The latest weather report, forecast and although he was not so well known here. China instead of being a poor neighbour solicitors, of Ipoh.
fifty dollars and two cents. He recognia remarks, an issued by the Royal Observa having been in Canton since the ceasa
tion of hostilities in the late War. He would become a wealthy one. It has Chinese was sentenced to three whom he (complainant) was formerly em-
ed the man as a relative of a man by tory at 6.30 p.m. yesterday, read as
was a very popular member of the AP.C. On the 18th at 5.30-A: trough of low B11-6 rooms, furnished, proferred, year or long since been recognised that an im-months hard labour, at the Central played. Up to last evening no arrests
pressure extends from Indo-China. to staff and his death is deeply regretted by M13-Wanted 6/8 roomed Hous, Caine Road, Poverished country is not a desirable Magistracy yesterday for attempting had been made, but the police are in-Luzon. There are indications of a deall who knew him,
pression forming in the vicinity of the Local forecast: East winds, moderate, tair.
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An alleged highway robbery was re- ported to the police yesterday by a Chinese. This man stated that he was
THE WEATHER"
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Weather reports issued yesterday read as under:-
At 11.10 am. the Observatory report ed :-
According to the news telegraphed to Hongkong yesterday morning, Mr. Lee succumbed to cholera.
The local office of the AP.C received further details regarding Mr. Lee's sud den demise by mail. It appears that the deceased gentleman returned to Shamecn on Monday afternoon suffering from cramp in the leg. At noon on Tuesday, it was thought, that he would recover, but later he suffered a relapse, "and died from cholers at 4.30 p.m. the same day."
Mr. Lee, who was unmarried, was just The typhoon is filling up over Man-over 30 years of age, and was a native of Lincolnshire. Much sympathy, will be
Pressure has decreased moderately over Japan and alightly from Pratas to Manila. It has increased moderately or slightly
elsewhere.
churia.
$200 Lt fr. the surplus wealth so increased that the Maxwell, Mr. Bernard Maxwell, is other men, came to the sailant's assis northern portion of the China Ces infeit for his bereaved relatives. Deceased
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The elder son of Sir George and Lady
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The Straits Times understands that a new block of offices is to be built in Raffles Square, Bingapore, on the site now occupied by the Mercantile Bank of
ing about 9,000 square feet of land from Alkaff & Co., this being about half of the block between Cecil Street and Rattles Square, and they propose to build new. offices there. The property is in trust,
order, of the Court before the sale can
In view of the falling dollar, the popular Capstan cigarettes are now cost How does a nation rise in the scale ofing a little more. The shops are charg- material welfare-In ancient days-Egypting sixteen cents instead of fifteen conts India The Mercantile Bank are acquir. Babylon, "Rome and Greece were con- for a packet of ten. sidered to possess more than the average Robert Jim Muda, who described him- thare of the world's goods. Their reputa- self as a Eurasian from Penang, was tion for fine buildings, luxurious comfort sent to the House of Detention at the
"STOWFORD No. 248. BONHAM ROAD, Three Stories Siz Rooms, Five Bath great. When their social position is a vagrant in the Colony, Rooms, Kitchen, Servants Quarters-Apply examined, however, it is found to be
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A Chinese woman of No. 24, Spring Carden Lane, who is a wash amah at the Military Hospital, was the victim of a
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was well known. among the European community at Canton and Shameen,
Joining the A.P.C. staff in Hongkong in 1916, Mr. Lee went on war service shortly afterwards, serving with the Artillery in France se gunner. On the expiration of the War he returned to the Far East and since that time has been stationed chiefly in Canton. For a time. he was in charge of the Company's Shamehai branch, and had also travelled in the Company's interests to other branches. The late Mr. Lee apoke Chinese fluently, and his linguistic services were frequently. in the business and necessitated bim called in connection with Chinese matters travelling a lot. He will be greatly miss ed, particularly in this respect..
She was proceeding along Hospital Mr. Lee returned from Home leaverlast For not properly covering a dynamite be completed but this is said to be merely Fath when two Chinese stopped her. October. He was a very keen and suc- charge, a contractor engaged in the preformality. The Mercantile Bank whose One threw some pepper into her eyes and cessful footballer and, when his duties her feet. In the struggle she fell into at Shameon Mr. Lee was also a very who were the hewers of wood and drawers paration of a site at North Point, was present offices occupy an area of only grasped her hands, while the other held permitted, he often played as goal-keeper Eined $100 by Mr. R. E Lindsell 3,300 square feet, have been continuously the nullah alongside the path. One of good tennis player, but his duties took ExCKKA Cheep Rants Banging from 135,00 of water; the gorgeous extravagance of yesterday morning. Mr. Grimes, of the in these offices since 1857, first as the the men then held her by the throat and him away so much from only the short *KA GRURY BUILDING than Bood, the upper section of these societies was P.W.D., stated that the defendant had Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, the other took from her a pair of bangles, did not figure so prominently in sport.
a gold ring and some money, of a total Moderate Hate. Apply to--THE KA OHUN balanced by the abject misery of this been warned in May in respect of a London and China, and, since 1892, un value of $21.40. Her assailants then
decamped. LAND HOTAT, 22, Tang Hing Bowl,
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The funeral arrangentents could not be ascertained last evening, but it is assumed
that burial took place at Canton.