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LONDON, December 26th,
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A TELEGRAM dated the 6th fest, states that Mr. J. E. D. Ezra, has been si lected to fill the office of Sheriff of Calcutta during the coming year. THE Freemasons of the Colony contemplate giving a ball in the City Hall on the 15th February, under the auspices of the District Grand Lodge of Hongkong and South China. A general committee has been formed of three or more representatives of each Lodge and Chapter, and subscription lists have been issued., Mr. Woolley is the hon. Secretary,
The hamber of Deputes has approved the THE London telegram of the 15th inst, regarding vote of credit for military organisation.
Pasig being granted a passenger certificate | the Pang has broken down at every point; on the Canton river. This act in itself even unblushing falsehood, hacked up by was uncalled for and unwarranted, unless devout cant, failed to set aside the plain the protesters were prepared to show unvarnished truth. that the Marine Surveyor, who is the responsible officer for duly carrying out the 'provisions of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance as regards the conveyance of passengers, was either incapable of adequately per- forming his duties, or that he was untrust- | worthy and had been "got nt." But they dared not advance any such allegations Mr. A. WAGNER'S professional ability, like his private character, stands far above suspicion. We believe that the protest was supported-It may possibly have been suggested by two professional surveyors,. the value of whose opinions, in this parti cular instance at least, may be best guaged by the fact that the Government, after a
FLORAL & ROSE WATER, CRACKERS, thorough and independent examination of
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THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY,
Hongkong, 19th December, 1888.
· NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS,
the matters at issus, declined to accede
to the demand of the Companies, and accordingly renewed the Pariy's certificate. And now this disinterested (?) scribbler comes to the front under the cloak of a
COLONIAL APPOINTMENTS.
Sir H A. Blake has heen appointed Governor of Jamaica and the Earl of Kimore Governor of South Australia.
PERSIA AND RUSSIA.
LONDON, December 17th. Persia has assented to the appointment of a Russian Consul'ai Meshed.
PARLIAMENT.
.. December 18th.
A debate took place last night in the House of Commons, Mr. Morley urging the Government to stop operations at Suakim and negotiate with the Arat.
to' alleged capture, od Ensin Bey and Stanley by the Mahdi appears in our Singapore contem- poraries as fillows:-" General Grenfell has that Emin Bey has been delivered into the hands received a letter from Osman Digma stating of the Mahdi by his mutinous troops, along with a white traveller believed, to be Stanley, General Grenfell credits the report of the capture.
THE Singapore Free Press of the 19th inst. days: No news has been received of "the 's'cämer Han ¡Phat Hin, which cleared here on the 16th of last month for Borneo ports. Rumours have reached us as to her having been on fire and ashore, but as the charterers, Messrs. Belin Aleyer & Co., have heard nothing to this effect, it may be possible that the steamer is detained through some break-down in ber machinery.
Jaicanguested that vil communicains etuing to Subwedings convenient anonymity and throws his retire as quite unworthy of the consideration of inuch during their last visit, is going to take two
Advertisements, KG be dressed to the Manager. Ferghan Tilemand unt to the Editor.
Letters on Elitorial matters to be sent to The Editor" and not to lurlividualamanders af de staff.
Communications inicoded for publication must be accompanied by the name and address of the waiters, not necessarity for publicstion; but as evidence of god faith,
Will the colony of the flinghore Trigraph will always afecting plic interests, it must be distinctly understond that the Editor does not in any way held himself responsible for
pinions thus expressed.
be open for the file diversion by correspondents of all questions
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contemptible aspersions broadcast. The Government. is directly accused of having acted most unwisely and wrongfully in accepting the reports of its own officers, the. Pasig is described as a worn-out, patched-up craft, with a honey.combed bulk-head and defects concealed by cement," and grave insinuations of malver-
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Sir James Fergusson regarded the proposal to
the House, and said that Osman Digna's letter was probably a ruse, and that to negotiate at present would be futile.
Lord Randolph Churchillsupported Mr. Mosley. The House approved the policy of the Govern ment by a majority of eighty-nine.
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
We are informed that the Band will not play in are freely indulged in. It is sincerely the Gardens on Sunday, the 30th inst. to be hoped that the Directors of the ACCORDING to the official return, 91 births and Steamboat Company and the Agents of G deaths were registered in the town of the China Navigation Co. distinctly Nagasaki during November.
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The Hongkong Telegraph's mumber at the Telephone Central repudiate the advocacy of the China Mail's own" Brownie!!! What does this person's cowardly attack on the Government, the Marine Surveyor, and the owner of the Pasig, actually amount to? It is nothing but the splenetic raving of a fanatical and At No. 143) Wanchai, on the 27th inst. Mrs. M. S. COHEN, of a son,
T1339 short-sighted partisan, who had an axe to grind, and performed the operation very badly. Tow can the charge against the
BIRTH.
MR. H. A. DINSMORE, United States Minister Resident and Consul-General at Senul, arrived at Nagasaki on the 14th inst.
MESSRS. Adamsan, Delf & Co. agents for the Canadian-Pacific Line, inform usthat the steam. ship Albany, from Vancouver, arrived at Yoko- hama yesterday.
TWENTY more victims arrived today, by the Telemachus. They were beguiled from the Glasgow police, and will bring our European
Celegrapher Dow can the charge against the Glasgow, paly, al toid
The Berghoun Gelegraph
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, DECEMBER. 28, 1888.
wrongfully be maintained? Surely not on the mere ipse dixit and vapid twaddling of a man who has not even the courage to In the China Mail of Saturday last we append his name to his strictures! Does find the following from the pen of "Brownie" really imagine that the members "Brownle."
of the Executive Council went on board That the Executive has acted most unwisely and the Parig and made å personal examination I think wrongfully in gianting a Passenger of her alleged defects! And if they had Certificate to a craft like the Pasig, and in so
done all that what would such examination doing the authorities have not appeared to advantage by taking shelter behind a form of have been worth? It must be patent to words.
the meanest capacity, even to the substitute That I am. fold by authorities that the Pasig is
a worn-out, patched, up craft, with a honey that serves as brains for the Editor of the combed bulkhead and defects concealed by cemat, so that it is devoutly to be hoped she" Brownie," that the Executive were bound China Mail and his excellent colleague will not meet with any serious accident. That the worst description al accidents on the river occur in vessels of this class, although That the Government should make strict regula
tians prohibiting their servants from supplying plans and drawings of work which they are afterwards to sit in judgment upon; or, if such regulations exist, they ought to be strictly enforced. That, as has been forcibly pointed out before, salaried servants of Government, with a pension in prospect and aided by all their prestige and influence as Government officers; have no right to compete against private individuals who have their living to make and their reputation to uphold.
the Executive do not seem to remember it.
That in this Colony, British interests must be considered first, especially in regard to ships and sitam-boilers, and the Chinese must be made aware that their notions of safety and efficiency do not come up to the British standard. That the Executive, as I have said, have failed,
on the occasion under notice, to adopt the best meant for attaining this end.
to act on the reports of the competent and skilled officers appointed to survey the steamer, And in so acting, they did nothing unwisely or wrongfully. For the informa- tion of "Brownie and all others interested we are in a position, to state that a most searching survey of the Pasig, in addition to the Government, survey, was made by three of the most competent engineers in this colony-men who, unlike "Brownie," could neither be bought nor sold-, and
SIGNOR Chiarini's Circus was again well attended last night, when a really enjoyable programme was put through. The usual performance will take place at nine o'clˇck to-night.
THE Cricket match, Hongkong Club v. 58th Pegiment. will be continued at 3 a.m. to morrow. By kind permission of Colonel Anderson and the Officers of the gath Regiment their land will play during the afternoon...
A CHEMULPO (Corca) correspondent writes that Mr. Suzuki, Japanese consul at that port, has been appointed to a similar position in Hongkong vice Mr. Minami, wan, it is understood, will represent Japanese interests in Manila.
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study of Latin in the public schools, and sub- viability of dropping, es a great extent, the
stituting more of modern languages, beginning with extra classes in Spanish and Italian. MANAGING Mamma (iately arrived at the hotel and not sure of the matrimonial status of her new acquaintance); "Ah, Colonel, how many children have you? Colonel (a confumed bachelor): "Well-er-none to speak of"
coming to an anchorage in Nagasaki harbour THE British steamer, Duke of Westminster, in on the 17th inst. lost one of her anchors in consequence of the chain breaking off short as the anchor was being dropped from the cat-lead.
A STEWAWAY named James Smith was brought Hefore Mr. Pollock, this morning, on the extra- himself on the steamship Feoktang without the ordinary charge of "surreptitiously concealing consent of the master." He committed the offence at Shanghai. The magistrate remitted the case to the Harbour Master.
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THE al fresco fête in aid of the Alice Memorial Hospital opened this evening, at 5 30. The public attended largely, there being even visitors from Canton, where a sandwichman has been promenading the lanes for some days with a
attractions are announced in another column.. IN calling attention to the Government anti- fication in another column, according to which Artillery practice will take place from Lower Belcher's and Stone-cutters' Island West Batteries to-morrow, the 29th inst,, we are requested to state that it would be advisable for occupiers of houses on the line of fire to keep their windows open.
placard announcing the festivities. The numerous
they found the vessel in such sound THE Opera Company which is performing in condition in every respect that without Manila is drawing big houses, we hear. The hesitation they would have recommended seen in Hongkong, which is not hard to believe. performances are said to be far ahead of anything her to receive not merely a river permitThey will stay in Manila some months yet, after but a sea-going certificate. The bottom which, let us hope, they will give us a lurn. of the Pasig is for all practical purposes just as sound as on the day she was It would be interesting to know whether in launched at Glasgow twenty-one years publishing the above extract our contem- ago, she is not in any sense of the porary is flagrantly dishonest or merely term "a worn-out, patched-up craft," disgracefully ignorant. In either, case, her bulk-head is not "honey-combed," although the stigms might be less in ignor. nor has she any defects that are concealed ance than in dishonesty, the actual respon.by, cement. "The worst description of sibility would be the same. "Brownie" is accidents on the river occur in vessels of generally credited with being a person
this class, although the Executive do not intimately associated with a leading ship: seem to remember it." asseverates the ping firm in the colony whose interests are Saturday evening oracle of the China Supposed to be imperilled by the Chinese- Mail. No, "Brownie," the Executive, not owned steamer Pasig being permitted to possessing your vivid imagination, could not run on the Canton river. Assuming public possibly remember what never occurred. opinion, to be correct as, to this man's No accident that would not more readily identity; and we think there can be but occur on board any one of the Steamboat very little doubt on the point, his purpose Co's or the China Navigation Co's in obtaining publicity for such a concoction steamers has ever happened in the ⚫ of malicious misrepresentations, which, if Canton river to any vessel of the Pasig's ancontradicted are calculated not merely class; the worst disaster that has ever to injure the business of the owner of the been recorded there was. when the steamer named but also to raise doubts defective boller of a rattle-trap called the to the honesty of certain Government Potini exploded off "The Brothers" and officers, may be fairly inferred. And, sent from twenty-six to thirty souls into ⚫like some of the same writer's past eternity, and "Brownie"-the Yotrar was Attempts in an almost similar direction, but not sent to sea by Chinese, but by the especially in connection with the affairs Directors of the Company who, with such of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co, righteous indignation, protested to the the China Sugar Refining Co., and the Government against the owner of the Hongkong and Shanghal Banking Cor- Pang being permitted to enjoy a share of poration, his purpose is a most discreditable the Canton river traffic. And furthermore, one, and we tap only marvel that any either "Brownie" or the newspaper public newspaper, however insignificant, that so complacently acts as his ready could lend its assistance to such shady tool, have any charges to make against doings:
responsible officers of the Government, It is a matter of public-notoriety athat-a-think that in common honesty such Tfew weeks ago, when the steamer Pasig was charges, as well as the names of the lad up for repairs, the Directors of the accused, should be very plainly stated, Steamboat Co., and. Messrs. BUTTERFIELD Innuendo is the weapon of the coward, & Swixx, agents for the China Navigation the hired instrument of the unscrupulous case against the Co., jointly forwarded a strongly worded bravo. "Brownle's protest to the Government against the Government, the Marine Surveyor, and
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MARSHAL Bazaine's widow writes to the Paris Figare denying that she left her husband through a disagreement. She states that she was com- pelled to go to Mexico on family matters, and that she regularly sent Marshal Braine sufficient remittances for all his needs. He did not, says the widow, die in poverty, notwithstanding that his mode of life made him poor, despite his supplies of funds.
ATELEGRAM dated Washington, November 20th, cay's A diongeeable piece of news comes across the water to the effect that the stem of the English gunboat Srour has sunk consider ably, and that the rear frames show. tigna of weakness. This sign of structural weakness acquires importance from the fact that the new gunboats Yorktown, Bennington and others, recently built for our Navy, are patterned closely upon the English model which now shows signs
of failure.
PHIL RAY, the Gobo, Pish Tush, Professor Bendle, &c. &c, &c., who has entivened the performances of the Opera Company so much bencfils-to-morrow night and Monday-at the Garrison Theatre. The Lily Minstrels are once more to the fore in the work of benevolence, and if everybody who laughed at Mr. Ray's humour in the past will" rally round," as the professional phrase ruas, a fatal accident will happen to the beneficiaire's spine, carrying away the dollars. A LICENSING sessions was held at the Police Court this morning, Mr. Wodehouse and ML. J. S. Gower silling. Mr. Hastings applied, on. behalf of Adolph Stern, a restaurant keeper in Cochrane Street, for an adjunct licence. He urged that. Stern kept the house respectably, and that it was desirable, the foreign sailors who liquor Mr. Hospel opposed the application, visited it should be able to obtain a glass of
on the ground that the locality and class of the house made it inadvis cble. It was refused. A license for the Stag fotel was granted to John Olsen. He had previously held a license nine-
teen years.
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Tisngin orders" to publish any news about the Manila Lottery now, so we shall have to trust to our readers' perspicuity when we say that four English clerks in "Smith Bell and Coch office in Manila had their pleasure much avg- mented this Christmas by dividing $40,000 among them. Three Indians and a Spaniard took the other $44,009. They all needed it,
RIDER HAGGARD has a curious theory regarding the fate of Henry M. Stanley. He thinks that ¡the Explorer is alive but that he has been seized, taken into the interior of Africh, and geified by same al the tribes. He is inclined to think that Stanley will be treated with greatest kindiness and veneration, but that he will not be permitted to escape. When the interior tribes find a real tive idol, who seems to them to be god-like in appearance and power, they are not likely to give him up. All of which is about as probable as Haggard's story "She."
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NorwITHSTANDING the pessimitic prophecies as to approaching anarchy, which of lite have been
as thick as
**Autumnal leaves in Vallambrosa," the French Government goes steadily along quietly but surely making every possible pre- paration for that great emergency which has for so long been expected, to strain its power to the uttermost. The approval of the varr of credit. for military organisation by the Chamber of Deputies will strengthen public confidence in the determination of the present Ministry to protect the interests of France wherever they may be inperilled.
A CYNICAL writer in the Frankfort Zeitung asserts that the only royal road le fortune for lady singers is to have some of their jewelry ing undiscovered, belongs as much to the outfit stolen from them. He says: "A thief, remain- of a phenomenally famous singer as does her, indispensable rouge pot. According to a rough estimate, jewels of the value of £15,000,000 have been stolen from singers during the last decade, and however greatly the abilities of the police of different countries may differ in other respects they are alike all the world over in donnas." never troubling the thieves who victimize prima
THE Macao Independente continues to devote its columns to the demonstration of the extremely ridiculous proposition-That the Portuguese colonial system of supporting and encouraging a mixture of the colonising element with the 'native races is the sine qud non of colonial pio. gress. It adduces as proofs the Lusitano-guar- of Africa, and the Macao descendants' from the anys of Brazil, the Portuguese men of the woods primitive Lusitanian rovers in the Far East and the daughters of that peculiar class of Chinese citizens who then inhabited or infested the rocks and neighbourhood of Micao. The Independente raised for itself, and finds in it a sign of future takes pride in the racial monument Portugal has progress for Lusitania's colonies. We congra. taiate the Magno seer on his discovery, and hope the Portuguese colonial world will go og mixing for itself and for its protean mother. colours, in default of having anything else to do
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D. Crowe.......
L. Hill.....
A REGULAR meeting of Zetland Lodge, No. 525 was held last night, when Bro. A. D. Death was installed as Worshipful Master for the ensuing year. Right War. Bro, S, J'Gower, 13.D.GAM., ass' sted by the Grand Lodge officers, performed the ceremony, Uro. Death invested his officers as follows:-M., Wor. to. D. Gillies; S.W. Bra. J. B. Sealt; J., Hiro. R. Conke; Treasurer, Hro. S. C. Jex; Secretary, Ilgo. J. D. Ball; S.D., Bro, H. Rawlinson, J.D., Bro, G. C. Anderson Diganist, Bro. A. J May, D.C., Bro. Lassen;
Bro, J. Kirkwood: Steward, Bro. Hutchings; Tyler, Bro. J. Maxwell. As will be seen by a telegrant in another part of THE Annual Installation Meeting of Nagasaki this issue, the Secretary of State for the Colonics Ladge, No. 710, S. C., was held at the Masonic has found it convenient to give way to the Hall, Nagasaki, on Saturday the 15th December, wishes of the Government and people of Queens-when the following office-bearers for the ensuing, land with regard to the new Governor for that year were installed :--- colony. On the death of Sir Anthony Musgrave, Bro. J. Hutchison Sir H. A. Blake, whose official career in Ireland is sufficiently notorious to make him a persona ingrata in a colony where the Home Rule element largely preponderates, was appointed as his successor by the Colonial Office. The appoint. ment gave great dissatisfaction throughout
Knutsford that his nominee was not acceptable. Queensland, and as the upshot, Sir Thomas
to the Colony, and, in effect, that the appoint- ment must be cancelled. After the usual bluster situation, and Sir 11. A. Blake has accordingly the Colonial Office recognised the gravity of the
heen provided for in Jamaica, the Queenslanders bring saddled with the Earl of Kintore, anj pecunious Scotch peer whoappears to have had no adininistrative experience whatever. However, the people of Queensland have established their their Governor, and there can be little doubt | right to have some say in the appointment of that this precedent will be worked for all it is worth in future by the Australasian colonies.
The Straits Times of the 17th inst. has the
the Premier, cabled to
following: The French transport Bienhoa arrived here yesterday morning and sailed the coals fray the Borneo Company Limited. The same afternoon after taking a large quantity of deposed King of Annam is a prisoner on board there are also a considerable number of deports of all ranks, a number of whom will be landed at Obeck, while the remainder will be sent to Cayenne, These people are of the same type as the "dacuits" who have given us in much trouble in Burmah. The ex-king of Angam is responsible for a plot which was designed to assassinate General de Courcy and his officers and soldiers. The King and his Prime Minister attempted to take advantage of an official dinner being given in the citadel of fall upon the Hue by General de Courcy unsuspecting Frenchmen and murder them while they were off their guard. Fortunately a friendly mandarin gave General de Courcy warning shortly before the attack actually took place; the French were able to rally and give the treacherous King and his following a warm reception. The King, who is by the way a most wretched and villainous looking per- sonage, is accompanied by an interpreter and his cook. He will be exited to Algaria much in the same way as Arabi Pasha has been banished to Colombo, or our own Malay Chieftains to the Seychelles. The Prime Ministery who was the soul of the Hué conspiracy, will probably fall into the hands of French troopers before long, and if he is quietly hanged out of the way instead of being deported, there will be few to regret the translation of this official
A GENTLEMAN calling himself "Non-Church- man," complains in the correspondence columa of the Sydney Daily Telegraph that marringe is too expensive in N.S.W., and points out that -the fee charged by, Church of England clergymen-is often more than the girl is worth,- To this a melancholy incumbent replies, with
bitterness:
Therols a saving "It" in "Non-churchman's" Letter of Satur day last and I hasien to catchy hina before he decides, I nesuvokim that the general seg given" is by no means "45" That is, to say, low of my argininences ameang the clergy, live where that happens museli, Agalnız “Non-churchmast""" Instance I quoso ne which is not only actual but typical. The marriage ceremony me it over as I the vesity almost cleared of muslia, tears, and dingi, The bridegroom says to she clergyman,What's the damage1 The clergyman replies, there is no foo fur the stemnisation of practically, It is left him.
age. It wound and to say, "I care il 17 you." St,
It is this style of leaving it to him, remarks the Irrepressible Bulletin, which fills the parson's A WRITER in the Opinion, a Spanish newspaper cup with sorrow, and the case certainly calls for publiched in Manila, advocates the abandonment Government interference, and the establishment of the Caroline Jolands as uncleep and costly of a regular tariff the puren could be licenses. dependencies of the Spanish Crown. It is said like a cab for hire at so much an hour, with an that Spain spends annually $300,000 for the additional charge if kept waiting, or else be maintenance of the Carolinas, that Spanish chartered at a fixed rate by the job, provision blood has been shed in abundance in those being made for the imposition of a fine for territories, and that up to the present no profit the furlous driving through the marriage has been reaped. The Diario combats the service, and if affairs could be run in for over Opinion's arguments, on the ground that present leading if he were found trying to marry twa sterility should not be taken as an argument couples at once, things would probably go a -ngainat future contingencies."
good deal more smoothly.
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C. Brown....
R WM.
1.P.M.
D.M.
S.M.
W. Hooper
S.W.
J. Dainty...
J.W.
R. H. Powers.......
Treas.
A. Norman
F. Wengel......
J. Wilson
W. L. Mitchell
...Sec. ....S.D. J.D. ...D.C.
J. S. Massie .................. Steward. F. Devenish Steward.
P. Doel............L.G. 5. F. Lawrence...Tyler. assisted by Wor. Bros. Calder, Robertsan, Enslie, Wor. Bro, Crowe acted as Installing Master, and Brown. At the conclusion of the ceremony the usual banquet was held in the Masonic Half, |to which twenty-two brethren sat down.
THE feeling in England, says a writer in the San Francisco Chronicle, against Germans and Germany is rendered more bitter from the fact that the Queen and her entourage, in extraction, tastes and manners are more German than the Germans themselves. The Battenberg clique, with her foreign grandchildren, so engross as they are termed in English society, together
the Queen's attention that she little beeds the open contempt with which the leading nobility regard, her German silver, or pewter-plated eccentricities, as they are styled,. A fashionable London journal thus alludes to the subject: "When our sovereign takei her waiks (and drives abroad in the company of her relatives, a grand ducal or princely German is sure' to be one
the party. Most of the Queen's horses, and most of the Queen's men, are kept to benefit these connections from
the Fatherland. Another thing to be said is that the English nation has never sought to stock Germany with surplus English princes, If three or four of our royal dukes had been packed off to Berlin without a penny, to bless themselves with, and the Prussian Government had been called upon to find them in comfortable, well-paid berths, with rich princesses for wives, there might be some excuse for a certain feeling against the country. The lamented Fritz had an English-born consort, it is true, but the animasity excited by this alliance might well, be allayed on considering that by descent, if not by birthplace, the Princess was as thoroughbred a German as ber-husband, or any of his family,
LAST NIGHT
(Our errätte reporter's report.)
I'll tell you what I went to see
Last night, Though I was busy as a bee
J Last night, "The Mascotte" was so very drawin | That even I would pay the lawin
Last night,
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I saw it, you may be assured
Last night, And of the blues I was well cured ***
Last night, When "Sheridan" cane on the stage His nose did every thirst assuage
Last night.
He sang, ob, yes, he sang full well
Last night, Much better than I've power to tell
To-pight, I wonder where he get the power ~~Forhold the house aliniest air-hour-
Last night, There was some trouble, all right through
Last night, The actors knew not what to do
Last sight, The prompter's voice was wanted much, Especially by Rocco, (Sutch),
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But theh 'twas hut a dress rehearsal
Last night, No one could honestly be critical
Last night, And Rocco had so hard a tine T'were hard to put him into rhyme
Last night.
The "Mascotte" yes! she was Belline Last night, Almost the best I've ever seen
At night, The Gobble," which is so well known Was excellent, as was well shown
Last night. T'was rather novel, all the same
Last night, Audran's good music's never tame
At night, "Perhaps the "Gobble" would have been better Had "Gracie "stuck more to the letter
Last night.
Last night,
Last night,
But "Pippo" fairly did his work
The "Goal" he didn't even slitk
I've heard," La Mascotte" times beföre But certainly it pleased ime more
Last night.
To-night,
Last night,
I've hardly space to tell the rest
Of what I saw, almost the best
Was "Flametta," she did well- And got encored'i'm glad to tell
And "Fisher," too, he did appear
In belfer form, and it was clear
He knew just what he was about Akhough the prompter was called out
Last night.
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Ta-night,
Last night, Last night,
T'was midnight, there or there about,
Last night, When from the "Mascotte" I came out
Last night, Yet I confess 1 liked the game And want to see it just the same
Another night. [Our worst on record.]
"IS MARRIAGE A FAILURE?”
This, says a writer in the Sydney Bulletin, is about as idiotić a question as could possibly be asked One might as well enquire if the Cosmos were a failure. All the while there is a young and rising generation it is very evident marriage is a most unqualified success. The fact is that people who ask the question do not know what they mean by mariage. It is an eternal fáct. pation, ancient or modern, savage or civilised, In every clime, amongst every people, race, or there has been marriage. When it ceased, the nation ceased. The permanence of the one proved the existence of the other. When people ask "Is marriage a failure?" they mean is marriage of the nineteenth-century conventional British, type à failure? This narrows the question the human race would not be very seriously considerably, but, fortunately, the existence of
imperilled if it were. All unions of individuals of the opposite sexes entered upon with the intention of the perpetuation of the species is marriage. To talk of it being a failure when' that end is subserved, is to talk nonsense.
From the racial point of view any and every system, natural or so-called artificial, which con tributes to maintain the vigour and numbers of a race is good and right, and, the other hand, any and every system which fails to achieve these objects is a fraud and a failure, Marriage of the conventional type is not a piece of legal machinery for the perpetuation of racist "or national vitality. It is variously regarded as a method of making money, repairing a decayed fortune, acquiring an estate, securing a nurse for one's declining years, hiring a general ser- vant, coercing someone of the opposite sex to do "chores" for the consideration of shelter, get- body to wear one's name and to advertise one's ting a chop properly grilled, or obtaining 'some
business in society, Women scck in the.. modern marriage increased freedom, the right to go about without first asking parental permission, the privilge of attending balls and theatres in the care of a cavalier servente, carriage in which to pay calls, an establishment superior to their mother's, dresses their father's purse refused to furnish forth, show, ostentation, money, parade, liberty, anything in fact except children, which are little nuisances, and calculated to impede one's movements. It is recognised that families are a mistake. Babies are in the road and are much too expensive; girls are « difficult to navigate, through the quicksands of social life and troublous to marry off one's hands; boys too often turn out failures; their education is costly and frequently wasted in the manufacture of a cabman or a lower-grade civil servant Instead of a professional success. In America children are at a discount. In France the State offers great inducements to the multipication of the race without success. Population in several European countries is steadily decreasing. In
such marriage is a failure.
When the deaths outnumber the births in
periods of normal mortality things are not sight. Every unproductive marriage is a union in which so far as the nation is concerned marriage is a failure. These unions may not be necessarily loveless. They are simply unions between highly civilised, highly refined, and eminently scin people. Savages and primitive races increase and multiply at a tremendous rate. In the memor- able words of Editor Stead, "In Russia the cradle is never empty." The Russian is one of three races destined to play a great part in the world's bistory when the Anglo-Saxon, has com mitted racial suicide. The two others are the African and the Chinese. With these marriage is mot a failure. Virility speaks volumes on this point. A people in the heyday of youth do not sink into the commonplace grooves. They do not ask anything, about marriage. The home- life has not become so all-absorbing. They live and struggle and fight, out in the open most ofe the time. When they go to their homes they go to beat their wives. Walive in the home. All our real life is home life. All our moral and mental life is the moral and mental life of men who are half women in their habits, men breathing always a domestic atmosphere. Daily we become more. and more forced into our home life for our genuine existence. Specialism is destroying all the interest of existence outside the home. Hence we are daily asking too much. We grow dissatisfied because we require from one woman," one. little environment, one dull set of daily circumstances, and daily petty· Incidents, the great life that nations #us.
to the home,
Marriage plays too important a part in the life of the modern civilised man. He is cramped 'and coffided 'in' on every hand, Society: is inexorable. Every little caste and class has its little laws and regulations. He is forced to look to the conventional manage, for all his character-culture, his higher ex citements as an intellectual being, and he finds it bitterly inadequate. The people who find marriage to be anything but a failure sre people of Bohemias tendencies; Peoples/ who do not ask, who do not want too much from "each other, who live freely, unconventionally, |'asturally" "The game comes which operkus to