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H.E. Sir Cecil Clementi, K.AM. G., recently gave, în: Peking, at the Anglo-American Association rifkin, a most interesting account of a little known British Colony, British Guiana, where he has himself held office as a Civil Servant, Sir Cecil regretted that- he could not speak on "the subject uppermost in ray mind, China; but I cannot permit myself to think aloud about that Reuter gives the following account of Sir Cecil's address and the function at which he spoke.
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In introducing the guest of hon- our the Chairman remarked that it was the first time in its history the Association had been addressed by ["A" Governor of Hong Kong.
A. SHANGHAI FORTUNE TELLER.
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KNOWN CHARACTER.
Wu Kien Kwong, the famous old Chinese fortune teller, known to thousands of Chinese and many foreigners of Shanghai as he sat consorting with the powers of the infernal regions in Nanking Road, opposite the entrance to the tem- ple, was saved from possible death by a spectacular coup carried out by Municipal detectives late on Monday night. November 21st, says the Shanghai Times.
The fortune teller, who is reput- ed to be very wealthy, was recent- ly carried off for ransom. When by a party of Municipal police ho was rescued on Monday night
from Central Station, headed by Detective-Inspector James Hunter and Detective Sergeant Pike, he was being held prisoner in the ser yaats quarters of a foreigner's house at 13 and 17, Kinnear Road.
His presence here indicated that the servants employed by the for- eigner, were in league with the kid- nappers, five of whom were arrest- ed when the police raided the place. Old Wu who is nearly blind. was held prisoner there, but the No. 1 boy, believed to be prin ripak in the detention arrange- meats, was not in the building when the police swooped down on the place and arrested the five kid- pappers.
Peking, Nov. 17th and were now the richest people speaker At The Anglo-in the country. American Association- tifin to-day The Colony, fell into British was Sir Cecil Clementi, Governor hands during the Napoleonic Wars of Hong Kong. The chair was after Holland had been invaded by taken by Mr. A. F. H. Edwardes. French troops, The British Fleet Sir Miles Lampson, British Minis in the West Indies went to ter, was present but the American Georgetown and demanded the the Colony. The Charge d'Affaires, Mr. Ferdinand surrender of Mayer, was prevented from attend-Governor went on board and agreed ing by a family bereavement.
to surrender on certain stipula tions. One was that the Constitu- on remain unaltered. The British Admiral agreed and that accounted far the fact that the Colody had such a bad constitution, it had re-
Acting on information, Inspector Sir Cecil opened by declaring mained the same ever since. It Hunter and the other detectives that his time in Peking had been consisted of a Court of Policy in proceeded to the house at 10 p.m., so full that he had no time whatever which theré were
8 Government on Monday, November 21st. Sur
rounding the servants' quarters, i to prepare an address and there representatives 8 unofficial repre- they tried. to enter quietly fore his hearers must excuse him sentatives and six financial mem- but could not They then forced
the door if he only thought aloud. The bers, also unofficial. There WES
after catching two guards napping. The police fired subject uppermost in his mind of always a big unofficial majority several shots and disarmed the course was China but he could not At one time, during the Premier-guards, subsequently arresting the permit himself to think, aloud ship of Lord John Russell, the two and three more inside the about that (laughter). Therefore planters, who rarely saw eye to place. One of the gang was a wo- man. Old Wu was released to con- be would talik about British eye with the Government, were able tinue his fortune telling. Guiana, the only British Colony into prevent the Government getting 40 Years A Fortune Teller, South America and one in which revenue" by their representatives This spectacular raid which gave. he served in the. Colonial service.. refusing to vote any. The Colony Wu' his freedom was climax of an unusual story of Wu's experiences It had a Constitution quite the at that time was completely within the detention of the kidnappers. worst in the world, not even out revenue for 18 months. Chaos Wu, who is nearly blind,__ is „G3 which the people years of age, a native of Kwang- excepting China. Its population resulted in lived almost entirely on the rea demanded money be voted. The tang and has acquired remarkable Chinese pi board, which was about four feet unofficials reaigned and the Govern repute among the below sea level. The Dutch, being
ability at discerning the veiled Shanghai and district for his the first settlers there, knew from
pathe of life, and the fund of good their experience in Holland what
advice which goes along with for: living on such a coast was and so
tune telling lived up the
However, when the British went they decided to settle on the coast and had had cause to regret it ever since.
rivers.
It was a country rich in timber. Greenhart produced there was ship ped to all parts of the world as the best timber known for with standing worm. Another product they might have heard of was balat. He said "might have heard of it because even the Colonial Office had not, he dis covered. (Laughter.)
ment resumed.
The Franchise had been widely granted and the dominant vote was Binck The unofficials were inter ested only in development of the
He was in his office in Nanking road on November 1st when a Chinese woman called and asked him to go to her house to tell for- tunes. He accompanied her to BI Carter Road but as he was leaving, he was kidnapped by a gang of six men who pushed him into... a car and took him to Woosung. After being there some days, the gang took him to the Kinnear Road house, where they told him he was to be tried and much propa- ganda was worked on him in this way.
try in which they had plant- ng interests which meant that the hinterland was still completely un- developed. No money had been voted for development of the rast resources of the up-country up to the time Sir Cecil went there and since then all that had been done was a small vote for a cattle track, with the up-country still un- developed the people were still forced to live on the seaboard in constant danger of flooding.
Many efforts to eet the con- stitution changed had been made, Trons 200 Feet High.
Accused At Court. Behind the seaboard on which One, nearly successful, was shortly the population lived was wonderful before the war. A railway was
He was conducted to the up- timber land, primeval forest in novoted to be built from George stairs reome of the servants' quara which trees reared up 200 feet high town on the coast through to ters where he was kept until he and behind this belt was a hill the other side of the Colony. A beard shots on Monday night and country. The original inhabitante loan was necessary but the Home the police, rescued him. Wu, who were Indiana. Then the Dutch Government would not permit such is not totally blind but manages settled andt then the English. a loan unitss it had control of the to catch dull glimpses of things,
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was made up of African negroes, majority of the' inhabitants showed his story when the five Chinese them in favour of selling their were brought before the Provi Emported, for bour purposes. Chinese had been imported for the Constitution for a railway but the sionat Court yesterday morning same purpose, about two thousand war intervened and the scheme and were remanded in order to them. These importations were dropped and the same Constitution enable the police to affect further made because of the unsuitability remained, in spite of the fact that of the Indians for labour purposes.visited the Calony to investigate a Parliamentary Commission had Every endeavour had been made to preserve the race but in their reafter the Government's Budget had servations they fought and killed been thrown out lock, stock, and each other, were quite, unsuitable barrel by the unofficials. for agriculture and were gradually dying cut. Chinese The Richest People In The
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There was
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He had de committing suicide. cided to do it that very night
rather than stand his treatment, If the constitution was altered the bandits demanding 8100,000 then it was a country holding out ransom and threatening to cut off Prospects better than any other his ears if he did not pay it. At country he knew of.
1 p.m., on Monday, November gold, diamonds, rich timber, rub-21st, two hours before he had The Chinese imported, however, ber, rice and of course the staple decided to maks
with away didn't remain labourers. They im-industry of sugar.
himself, be heard ebots" and Sir Cecil was warmly applauded thought the kidnappers were go- mediately began to better them
ing to kill him. He did under the selves and kept shops, owned mines' for his address-Reuter.
blankets and recited Buddhist prayere but his fears were eased when a Chinese detective arrived
A NOVEL WITH A CHINESE¡ against her wish, and on an "under.
standing." SETTING.
PICTURES OF THE YANGTSZE AND HANKOW.
The book is oked out with the resolving of this " understanding, and one feels that the action is hindered rather than helped by the antagonism between the two leading characters. If Mr. "Keyte had written rather in the delightfully of the
A CONTRAST WITH ENGLAND. inconsequential manner
MINGAN BY J. C. KEYTE. ALSTON
RIVERS, LONDON.
Mr. Keyte gives us in the course of this novel some very interesting pictures of the Yaugtsze River and of life in Hankow, He also intro duces us to a number of interesting and pleasant characters, of whom Hou Lao Teh, "the old junk mis tress, has great possibilities and one wishes she had been, more fully developed.
and told him he was safe.
It was indicated at the Pro- visional Court that six other mem- hers of the gang are still at large, and a remand was ordered to en- able Inspector Hunter to get them.
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The current term brought up he has obtained of the enterprise heavy batch of freshmen, who have of the British electricity industry.
been ordering silver-grey flannels The chief defect Mr. Templin has for wear between times with jackets. Lavengro" adventures, with those
found in the present British supply of this new shade. Harris tweeds Minsan and Meng Sei Ling, as two,
FOR BITING A MOTHER- the chief protagonists, and in con-
IN-LAW-
service is the lack of standardise also are much in demand, and bere tion of the voltage distribution. He bran, sand, and natural shades are trast to the romantic and serious. minded young people, the broad
Primitive punishment was meted has been surprised at the variety of first favourites. Ad humour of the junk mistress and out in the mining town of San voltages used in this country and On the other hand, there is a Minsan's old family retainer, he Toy, Ohio, when Bay Wiggins re- the large stocks of different kinds distinct tendency for quieter-pat- might have given us a most excel-ceived twenty one lashes at the lent story. May we suggest a sequel whipping post for biting off the ear on those lines?
of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Armanda One of the best things in the book Taylor..
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of appliances which manufacturers terned shirts and neckwear. Gone consequently have to carry.
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VERY HALF A CLATURY REPUTATION ON LECLERC'SIVER & KIDNEYE
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Mr. Templin said that in a few adventures of a brave and patriotic from house to house and flat to flat of a crowd surrounding the.mayor's
years every house in New Zealand Chinese, Meng Sei Ling, who has in contrast to the firm settlement office. escaped from brigands with whom of the Chinese peasant on his own Wiggins agreed, and after being will be an all-electric home. The he had been forced to serve, and soil with the Chinese home to which laahed on his bare back was granted present cost to the user is now acts out to equip himself intel- the children can always return, find fifteen minutes to leave the town. 3d per unit for a relatively small. lectually to.. render service to hising it the same. For all its troubles. He had been working in a field number of units, and from 20, to 1d.. distracted country, Minsan, an and defects he considers the founda with his mother-in-law when they per unit (bd. per unit at night) English educated young woman tions of China firmer than those began an argument which ended in for the remaining domestic coll"
sumption. whom he has rescued, marries him, of industrialised England.-R.B. the assault.
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