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The British Museum Trustees have decided that the Sir Ronald Ross Archives, presented to the
last Museum
by Lady Houston, shall be transferred to the Ross Institute at Putney. An
year
the
ing improvements, such as a supply of clean Eltered water, which many Chinese regards as wholly super- Ruous, especially if he has to foot part of the bill. But the thing does not stop there. The obstinate Can- official of "the Ross Institute said tonese merchant has got it firmly in an interview that the archives into his head that Mr. SooNo were of considerable value to them wants the money for the campaign for reference purposes, and would against FENO Y ASIANG and all be more accessible than at the assurances in the world will not Museum. alter this view. He has, only he would not put it so bluntly, "been stung before. It is no use urging that the suppression of this dan- gerous rebel is essential for the welfare of the "country, that the unity of China, the abolition of un equal treaties, and a hundred other vital issues are at stake. He will merely reply that he cares for one of these things: in his provincial ignorance he may even mutter that it is all a ruse whereby the said FENG YU HSIAN and the members
On Wednesday last the annuni ] An Ayurvedic "Doctor,” reunion of the Victoria, Hong Practitioners of the Ayurvedis Kong and South China Diocesan system of medicine will do well to note а све which was recently. Association was held in London at Victory House, Leicester-square, beard in Colombo, in which na The chairman was Mr. Sydney F. Ayurvedic physician unsuccessful- Mayers and the speakers the Rt.ly appealed against a police court Rev. Bishop H. J. Molony, D.D.,conviction for having used the Mr. P. S. Cassidy, Mr. T. "Ltitle Doctor" without being a medical practitioner, Chang. B.A., B.Sc., and the Rev. registered W. Rogers. The Rev. E. V. L. The appellant claimed that he had Martin, of St. Stephen's College, studied at Madras and Calcutta, Hong Kong, was to give an ad- that he had got the degree of dress at a service of Holy Com Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine, St. Martin's-in-the-Calcutta, that he had continued munion in Fields, Trafalgar-square,
his studies in California, and that
e had obtained the degree of
not
were:
The King has approved the ap- Licentiate in Midwifery at the Mr. pointment of Sir Arthur George Rotunda Hospital, Dublin.
Fletcher, C.M.Q., Justice Drieberg pointed out that Murchison
Colonial Secretary ofthere was evidence that the Dublin C.B.E., Ceylon, to be Governor and Com-diploma had been given to the sp- mander-in-Chief of the Colony of pellant in error, sad in any case Fiji and His Majesty's "High Com- this qualification alone was missioner for the Western Pacific, sufficient to entitle the appellant in succession to Sir Eyre Hutson, to register as a medical practi- K.C.M.G., whose period of office tioner. The titles B.H.M.S. (C3- will soon expire. Most of Sir cutta) and A.M.A.C. (Madras), Arthur Fletcher's service has been which the plaintif used, in Hong Kong, where he was, from Ayurvedic diplomas, but his Lord- 1801 to 1925, acting as Colonial ship thought most people would Secretary on no fewer than eight conclude that they were qualifica- In January, 1988, he tions granted by the university occasions.
medical schools in Calcutta and went to Ceylon as Colonial Secre- Madras. The appellant also used (London)," tary, and was Acting Governor the title "M.R.AS.
which means member of the Roval. from May to August, 1927...
Asiatic Society, but, said his Lord- ship, appearing as it does after the LM. (Dublin) and before the words 'midwifery specialist, it is difficult to avoid the belief that the appellant thought it not a- likely that it might be mistaken for M.R.C.S., London. All of which shows the need for careful scrutiny of the brass plate in the East!
Status Epidemic.
Foona City is not famous for its beauty or even cleanliness, but if all the resolutions now before the
In a statement to the Press, the newly-appointed Chinese Consul General in Melbourne, Mr. Sung, raid that in certain ways the White Australia" policy affected commercial relations, and it would City Municipality, asking for be to Australia's advantage to statues in marble and bronze of a copy' the United States, where few number of celebrities, are passed obstacles were placed in the way and put into effect, Poona may of Chinese visitors, and every op shortly become known as the city afforded to mer of Ane monuments. One of these portunity
The Chinese, he said, resolutions demands a marble effigy chants. could convert Northern Australia of Mahatma Gandhi. Another of the National Government will into a wonderful place in 20 years wants a grand composition "showing He if they were allowed to work there the meeting of Shivaji, Ramdas and feather their GWD nests," wants peace and prosperity. On the
Tukaram-and all three seated on whole L: THAI HEIN's regime was Hoover and the Senate.
thrones, too! A third resolution it gave security
The three-cornered
asks for a memorial in blacze to The
WEA
uppreid because to be that ther President Hoover, the House of
But
it is док
the country,
Senate
the
Bagpipes Banned in Scotland:
Scotsmen the world over should shake their heads when they read that the Town Council of Largs, in. Ayrshire, have forbidden the bagpipes on the beach. Silver and brass bands may still play there.
and collect what silver and brass they can for their pains--but the of the Scotsman-is to be heard no bagpipe-the native woodnote wild
late Lain Lajpat Rai. Yet au humiliating than the prohibition
Bombay.
The Marie Céleste Affair.
two
by motor-cara,
Ile-
Motors are the.
judged. It imposes a complication.
itself. The bagpipe, it is explain- straighten out the chaos left by the was any feeling of personal loyalty Representatives, and the Senate other revives the demand for aed, does not, combine well with the recent war. It would be interesting for LI, Tear Hex, or any wish to over the Farm Aid Bill has now memorial statue to the great non-noise of motor traffic. Bagpipes ABRATED WATER MANUFACTURERS. to know if Mr. T. V. Sooso intends strike a blow on behalf of the reached an interesting stage. The Brahmin pioneer, Jotiba Phule, by themselves discourse most excel-
pressing his labours further, and TEL. C. 436. has any idea of tackling the prob
"choss-player" of Tangshan Hot Lower Houte has rejected the so- which was turned down a couple of lent music, motor traffic by itself
together produce Spring. THU. C. 436.
Been called debenture plan inserted in years ago after an exciting debate.only offends a sensitive few, but would drive [50 lem of actually abolishing likin, of that he at least gave
Canton the Bill by the Senate, and which And over and above all these, it cacophony which replacing tax-farmers by a properly what the majority of the populace the President himself has twice has already been resolved to erect visitors from Largs. It is a sad a statue of the great Moderate day for musical instruments when organised body of Government tax wanted, and if he reduced remit denounced. The vote by which the leader, G. K. Gokhale. If this their welcome depends on the way collecters, and of ihaugurating some tapces to Nanking, and shot "Reds" Senate insisted upon retention of statue fever spreads, one shudders they mingle with the noises made 1929 Edition system of audit which will save the without much, ceremony or too pro- the debenture plan was a curious to think of what may happen to standard noise, and by them other
taxpayer at the expense of time tracted an inquiry, that all fell in one. All but two of the Democrats
sound-making, instruments will be honoured perquisites to the holders with the views of the ordinary supported the preposition. Appar
on the Wagners of the future which of greater and lesser offices. No Cantonese who is not a perfervidently their action was based upon If the new and the very circum-they may be tempted to solve by man is better equipped for this enthusiast for the ideas of Dr. Sus the prospect that the debenture stantial explanation of the mystery using nothing but motors in their gigantic task than Mr. SOONG. YAT SEN, though he may approve system, if enacted into law, would of the brig Marie Celeste is accept orchestration, ringing the changes. elby professional critics it will rob on two-seaters and saloons, and re- His work at the Canton Treasury long as they do not interfere with bring a substantial bonus to pro- sailormen of all ranics of what lying an omnibuses and chara (before the National Government him personally. It is quite certain ducers of cotton-a bonus estimated seemed a never-ending subject of banes for their major effects. If The the popularity of jazz continues, CHRONICLE moved to Hankow and thence to that Canton is heartily tired af at about $10 a bale. But in ex-discussion and argument.
instruments; and this. Nanking) is still remembered, for being either & milch-cow for the change for this boon to the cotton Seven Seas Club, the Archorites, engines are almost certain to oust
and other social bodies of retired wind he it was who supplied the tinews reformers of Nanking or a useful States, which after all represent a ships' officers have all held full de- Ayrshire Town Council can claim that the spirit of the times is with of war for the Nationalist victories piece in the strategic chess of the comparatively small section of the bate on the subject. It seemed a At one time he was raising about militarists The difficulty, which
Democrats first-class mystery. The brig was them. Everywhere the country is reported to have been found under yielding to the town, animal life committed their party to the sup- sail on the high seas with no one raakes way for mechanical eff port of an agrarian policy which on beard, the store still hot and ciency, and the Eagpipe, whose is apparently thoroughly unpopular the cat sleeping, and the ship's noise and origin are avowedly of throughout the greater part of the ing's new explanation explodes the product of the factory.
boats intact. Mr. Lawrence Kent the hill-side, must yield to the
country. They arrayed themselves whole idea of mystery and replaces with the so-called Progressive Re- the romance with a sordid com- publicans, and created, so far as of the salvage award. There have spiracy to defraud the underwriters
the Senate is concerned, that been many previous explanations. I hear from a source deserving alliance between the South and Mr. Winchester, of New York, the every credence that the representa West which has long been the vague finitely some years ago that when valley have again petitioned the real owner of the brig, stated de tive people of Sundup city ind hope of Democratic politicians, he charactered her she carried not Hong Kong Government to take The alliance will probably not last only the two boats that were found over these places and incorporate on board and whose presencs raised them in the New Territory under long in the Senate, and will be even the whole question of what bad British rule. Until this is done less enduring among the electorate. become of her entire company, but Samchun will certainly be a stand- It has been a matter of some also a third boat carried in chocks ing menace to the peace of the on the hatch which was not found. scuntryside. It is the resort of all- notoriety in Washington that Pre It might, of course, have been lost the bad characters of the province, aident Hoover expects to rely large before she started on ber, last who find it. convenient base from" St.ly upon the House for the fulfil voyage, or during it by rough which to make raids upon the weather, but, on the other hand, it British Territory villages and also ment of the Administration pro- might serve to rob the incident of to make descents upon itself for This i said to an ex be the third occasion on which · cians question the wisdom"of this Conan Doyle published reliance, yet banging conditions Panation as a novel, which he call similar petitions have been made. ed “ 7. Habbakuck Jepson's Story," The Government are, foolish not to The total output of the Kailanmay justify this new form of and the explanation is so good that take advantage of the general feel- political strategy. The Republican it is sometimes quoted a true ing and arrange for the transfer the majority in the House is large, well one. ¿ Mining Administration for
of the city to the British flag.-- week ending June 1, amounted disciplined, and thoroughly friend-
Hong Kong Daily Prets, June 15, 1904, 108,700 tons, and the sales during
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nine million dollars or try from they fully realize at Canton is that Kwangtung, and though trade was any sign of resistance to Nanking, injured and merchants grumbled the is inevitably, followed by a threat money was forthcoming, and most to summon that very effective bailiff's officer, CHANG FAT FUI and Marshal LI THAI H:13 was never the Ironsides. This suggestion has CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO.
CHINA. SIAM, STRAITE very satisfactorily served at the more than once brought Canton to SETTLEMENTS, MALAY Provincial Treasury, or perhaps the heel, notably when there was a move STATES, NETHERLANDS milk had already been skimmed. for neutrality in the fight between INDIA, BORNEO. THE His first downfall under the com- Nanking and the Kwangsi mili- PHILIPPINES, Etc.
bined onslaught of Waxo CHING tarista. Wii and Chang Fat Ful's "Iron- sides" was largely due to public
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After the usual: Juma Namaz, a
ly to the President. In the Senate
Looking Back 50 Tezze,
tion of a depleted currency. It is as Surnames in strict alphabo. tical order so that any name not, however, very gracious, to say can be found instantaneously.', now that he did nothing. Unfortu- nately Marshal LI TEAI HSIN cannot CLASSIFIED LIST publish a budget which would pass a vigorous auditing. Such a thing
there is a narrow Republican ma- Testing the Root. jority only by grace of those From time to time explanations Senators who frankly put allegi- have been given which satisfy the IMPORT AND EXPORT is impossible in China at present,
On the 9th, ultimo the rates in as impossible "sa collecting income-
ance to the local interests of their premises more or less, but nearly England for vemels to China were MERCHANTS
tax from the "Christian General" special prayer for rain was offered States before party loyalty. The all of which are open to criticism unsteady. Steamers to Shanghai or the "
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by
were getting £2 per ton for weight congregation of about 160 House support is the factor upon Most of them are stories told by persons et the Mosque, Shelley which the President can confidently old men alleged to be survivors and measurment, to Hong Kong £1 Apart from the Customs, under Street, yesterday afternoon. rockon. Speculation has been rife which could not be divulged until 13s. per ton weight, and £1 10s. as to the reason for Senator Borah's the tellers were dead and croes measurement. Sailing vessels to international supervision, most ofAt the auction rooms of Messra seeming abandonment of the Ad examination impossible. The new Shanghai were receiving 21 166. per the taxation in Canton is of an un- Lammert Brohters yesterday, a pro-ministration on this issue. While explanation is that the story told ton weight and measurement, and certain order and largely bired out party known as "Craigmin West," he had long opposed the equaliza about the Marin Celeste being £ 51, per ton weight and £1 to tax farmers, the revenue being 500, The Peak, was put up for sale tion fee, it appears that he had been deserted was all a lie. If correct measurement to Hong Kong The by order of the mortgagees. The, somewhat committed to the deben- the whole thing looks like the current quotations for coal from helped by special levies, generally sale was withdrawn owing to lack ture plan. Mr. Borsh, moreover, Charles 11. problem, which so wor- the Wear or Tyne was, to Toko- a month's or a fortnight's rent from of bidding.
is a law unto himself, and has ried the wiseheads of the Royal hama or Shanghai, and to doubtless reasons for this seeming Society. He asked why it was that Hong Kong £26 per keel; from the landlords, of a quota of the
abandonment of the President which a bowl of water containing a gold Newport, Cardiff, or Swansea £1 nominal capital returned by regis
will in due time be made known. fish weighed no more than the same 8s, per ton to Shanghai, and £17 kered companies. It ie all very
it is hardly, probable, that his pre- bowl of water without the goldfish. 6d. per ton to Hong Kong; and
explanation was thi
that it was not. from Birkenhead to Shenzhai attitude is indicative of an The rough and ready, evnsion has he
abandonment of the Administration true. Verily, merry monarch. de per ton, hud to Hong Kong come a fine art, and if Mr. T. V. the trophy with a net score of 4, on the greater issues soon to be No one had thought of questioning 18. per ton-Hong Kong Daily
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