“To-day's Advertisements.
THE GREAT EASTERN AND CALE- DONIAN GOLD MINING
CO., LIMITED.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1899
2 BIRTHS:
At Seoul, Korea, on 20th September, the wife of Mr. ALEX. KENMURE, Agent, British and Foreign Bible Society, of a daughter,
At 20, Nakayamate-dori, 3-chome, on the oth October, the wife of A. BUSCHEI, 'of a son.
On the 30th October, at No. 30, Akashi-machi
SHAREHOLDERS are reminded that the ex Concession), Kobe, the wife of J. R. PALLANT,
EXTRAORDINARY MEETING called by Circular, to which the SPECIAL RESO0- LUTION for the purpose of WINDING UP and RECONSTRUCTING the Company, passed at the Extraordinary General Meeting, on the 25th October, will be submitted for CONFIRMATION, will be held TO. MORROW (THURSDAY), the 9th November, 1899, at 11.30 A.M., at the OFFICE of the Com pany, No. 9, Praya Central
LUTGENS, EINSTMANN & CO., General Agents,
Hongkang, 8th November, 1800.
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• DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW.
THE Company's Steamship THE
*HAITAN."
Captain Roach, will be despatched for the above Ports, on FRIDAY, the roth fastant,
at to A.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers.
Hongkong, 8th November, 1899. 13924 HONGKONG AND MANILA REGULAR
LINE OF STEAMERS. FOR MANILA.
THE Steamship
"LEGAZTI".
of a son.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
TELEGRAMS. Russian Legation in regard to the Masanpho affair. M. Stain, the Russian Chargé d'Affaires, has applied for an audience with the Emperor. The date of audience is not yet decided on, nor are the contents of the instruction known.
It is reported that M. Payloff, the Russian Minister to Seoul, who is in Russia on leave of
The War. LONDON, November 6th. General Buller telegraph on the 5th inst. that a despatch from Ladysmith, by pigeon On the 22nd October, at Nagasaki, PRE-PUs, dated 3rd inst., says that the Caralty DERICK BENSON, Chinese Customs Service, to and Artillery went out the day. previous, META BERLET, Quawa, Illinois, U.S.A.
MARRIAGE.
DEATH..
under General French, and effectively shelled- a Boer laager without suffering any loss. Suddenly, at the Government Civil Hospital,
General Joubert has sent in Major Kincaid. ERNEST WILLIAM FINNER HATHERLEY, eldest and dearly loved son of William and of the Royal Irish Fusiliers and nine other Fanny Hatherley, in his zoib year. [1393a prisoners for whom Boers have been ex
changed.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER & 1899
It may not at this juncture be altogether impossible, for those continental angio- phobes, who are raving at the tyrannous acquisitereness of the British, to receive some commonsense enlightenment as to the actual position we are forced to take up in the Transvaal and the possibilities which will be opened up in South Africa by our conquest and final annexation of the Boer provinces. In our Monday's issue we published an article written by Professor HANS DELBRECK, an article in everyway exhibiting concise A perusal thought and perfect reasoning. of this will at any rate give those who have brains and the capacity in use them some slight idea of the question as it is viewed by those thinkers who un- influenced by antagonistic sentiment, are capable of judging the situation as it is and arriving at unbiassed conclusions. Professor Arcade.DELBRUCK but voices in his article, the 13918 position taken up by the majority of thinking men in Germany. There has been a great outery in many quarters that the present war is but a stockjobting speculation forced upon the Boers through the machinations of such
men as Khodes, Beit and others whose interests are centeral in or depend upon the supremacy of the British in South Africa. In any case that is a point which is immaterial.
Captain A. Yribar, will be despatched as above on SATURDAY, the 11th instant, at Noon.
The Attention of Passengers in directed to the Superior Accommodation offered by this Steamer. The Vessel is fitted throughout with Electric Light.
For Freight and Passage, apply to
LIZARRAGA HERMANOS,
Agents. No. 6. Beaconsfield Hongkong, 8th November, 1899.
THE OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA, LIMITED
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND TAMSU!
THE Company's Steamship
THE
"MAIDZURU MARU," Captain T. Ogala, will be despatched for the above ports, on SUNDAW the 12th instant, at Daylight.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, Agents.
Hongkong, 8th November, 1899.
[12:33 AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA-
TION COMPANY. - STEAM TO SHANGHAI AND KOBE.
THE Company's Steamship
"VINDOBONA,"
Captain C. Bellen, will leave for the above places on WEDNESDAY, the 15th instant, P.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
SANDER, WIELER & Co.,
Agents. Hongkong, 8th November,
einber, 1899.
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It is absolutely certain that phenomenal conditions existed in +1: Transvaal, conditions which must Sooner * later
have
been broken up by "a bloody revolution, which would have ended in the restoration of a thermal system, either by the destruction of Boer power or the exter mination of the Ditlander majority. It is an unknown conditión, in the annals of the world's history for a minority of inferior culture and strength of arms to dominate a majority immeasureably their superiors for any length of time. The old law of natural
selection, which bas worked out the prudue- [1395ations in the animal kingdom, determines
FOR NEW YORK VIA SUEZ CANAL.
HE Steamship
*ST. JEROME," will be despatched for the above port on or about the 16th instant and will be followed by
S.S. "AFGHANISTAN."
For Freight, apply to
DODWELL & CO., LIMITED, Agents.
Hongkong, & November, 1899.
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CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SHIMONOSEKI AND KOBE.
THE Company's Steamship
"CHINGTU,"
Captain Williams, will be despatched as above on SUNDAY, the 19th instant. For Freight or Passage, apply in
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents. Hongkong, 8th November, 1899.
Intimation.
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the existence of principalities, and the governing power in individual states. The position of our countryinen in the S. A. not only intolerable but Republic was directly contrary to the tenets of the Lon- don convention which stipulated for the equal rights of our people with the Boer inhabitant, and even it such were not the cise, the abnormal state of affairs which excluded those upon whom the prosperity of the country depended from all ciri rights demanded an alteration, which should
General Brocklehurst in-day engaged the enemy, with Artillery and Cavalry, to the South West of Ladysmith, fighting for several hours with a very small loss.
The bombardiment continued yesterday and 10-day, any shells pitching into the
town.
The Operations in Cape Colony.
General Buller has ordered the withdrawal of the garrison at Stomberg to Queenstown and the evacuation of Rosemead and Naaw. port, pending the arrival of re-inforcements.
The Times and other, papers urge the despatch of further re-inforcements, to South Africa.
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Death of Commander Egerton, R.N.
Commander Egerton, R.N. is dead,
LATER.
Special Service Squadron. The special service 'squadron has coated for a voyage.
The War. Martial law has been proclaimed from De Aar to the Orange River.
The Boer annexation of the Upper Tugela district is officially proclained void.
H. M. S. Terrible has left Capetown with officers for Durban.
An armoured train with the Dublin Fusiliers has succeeded in relieving the gar rison of Fort Wylie.
The authorities, at Maritzburg have accepted the services of 1,000 more Volun teers. The regulars and officers of the Natal Coast Rifle Associations have been called ont, and other emergency Corps are forming
(Frone Japanese Papers.)
The Firing at Mafeking. DOMBARDMENT INEFFECTIVE. MATANZAS OUTDONE.
LONDON, October goth
At the bombardment of Malcking, Matanzas has been outdone. One dog was killed!
It will be remembered that in the bombard- ment of Matanzas in Cuba during the war between the United States and Spain, it was officially reported that one mule was killed:
Russia and Korea.
SEOUL, October 30th.
On Friday the Russian Minister applied for an audience with the Emperor for the purpose
The of making a representation to the throne. Emperor, however, declined the application on the plea of illness.
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absence, has left St. Petersburg for Koren.
M. V. C. de Plancy, the French Chargé d'Affaires at Seoul, has been recalled.
Commercial Treaty Between France and America.
Tokyo, November 1st. The following telegram from Washington has teached the Governm rated States and France, with a view to extending to France the benefits of the lowest US tarit, has been signed at Washington. The Treaty is based on Chapter IV. of the Customs Law of 1897. The reduction of the duty on silk goods is only 5 per ceni. of the regular duty imposed. The Treaty has not yet been ratified.
A Treaty of medus vivendi between the
Return of M. Alexieff to Japan.
TOKYO, November 1st. The Foreign Ofice has been notified by the Russian Minister that M. Alesieff, the Finan cial Commissioner in the Russian Legation (for awhile Financial Adviser to Korea), who has been at home on leave of absence, has returned to his office.
Violating Election Regulations.
AOMORI, November 1st.
The firosaki Shimbun, a paper published at Hirosaki, has been charged with violating the Regulations for the control of elections of members to Prefectural assemblies. The editor and publisher have each heen con- -demned-to_imprisonment without labour for
20 days and to pay a fine of Y5.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
this
À CONSERVATIVE estimate of the gold output from the Yukon territory $20,000,000
year is
E destroyers Fanic and Whiting were es pected to leave Shanghai for Hongkong on Monday last.
THE number of Russians in Colombo has so
(Ith abologies to Rudyard Kipling.....
God knows they put on side enough in peace they might die like men when the time- comes to eam the wages they have drawn for years." Front Correspondence in a daily paper
REAR ADMIRAL, James Bruce will, it is under. | MR. ATKINS ON THE LADYSMITH
DISASTER. stood, shortly relieve Rear-Admiral Fitz-Gerald as second in command in China, and it is nearly certain that Lord Charles Beresion will occupy a similar position in the Mediterranean as soon as Sir Gerard Noel's time expires. THE Japanese Police have summoned all the barbers of the capital and conveyed to them. strict instructions with regard to cleanliness. and the use of disinfectants, as well as the -duty of not shaving persons that are suffering from skin diseases or other maladies of contagi... pa shot,!!!
ous nature.
full
Tu Toyo Kisen Kaisha, it is said, are think- ing of increasing their feet. It is said that when the American Maru arrived at San Francisco on her last voyage,, she found cargo already engaged for her, and quantities of goods shut out. The Company think that there is ample room for two or three steamers
more.
ON account of the large orders coming from Spain, United States, and othercountries, dealers in folding fans in Kyote are experiencing an unprecedentedly busy time. Apropos of this subject, it is stated that the Kyoto Boyeki Sensu Kaisha has shipped an assortment of Inney folding fans to France for exhibition in the forthcoming Exposition.
GREAT surprise and disatisfaction are express ed in commercial and political circles in Queensland at the news that the British war. office has placed large orders for canned meats in the United States. As a matter of faci, the Queensland canners, anticipating a large de mand, had prepared increased stocks which. will now possibly be a drug- on their hands, A WUCHANG dispatch reports that Prince Knoye after visiting Viceroy Liu K'un-yi at Nanking, is expected to visit Viceroy Chang Chih-tung at Wuchang. The Prince's visit to the various cities of this Empire will, however, have to be a hurried one, as according to news from Japan His Highness is expected to reach Tokio in time to be present at the opening of the Imperial Diet on the 21st instant.-N°C. D.
increased as to lead to the formation of a News, library there for their special use.
A CHINAMAN proposes to take overthe Roman Catholic church compound at Taiping for min ing purposes. The land is reported to be very rich.
A BALLAST train has been derailed by colliding with a camel near Nanpara, in North India. The tratte was interrupted for hours; the driver at a coolie were killed.
Th Sin an Pao says that operations on the Tientsin-Chinklang railway has been commen- ced, with headquarters at Chêngting, the Director being Chang Liesten.
SIR Claude Macdonald, the British Minister to China, and Lady Macdonald, are booked from Southampton to Shanghai by the German mail Steamer Konig Albert, due here in a few days. No less than six persons are reported to have been bitten by mad dogs in Nagasaki on the 27th ulto, in consequer ce of which the local authorities have ordered that all dogs scen without muzzles are to be shut.
OWING to the steady decline of the indigo in- dustry in the chief indigo-growing districts of Lower Bengal, where several factories. have been closed, the area, inder indigo there, this
give them enfranchisement, and a voice in Korean Engagement for Mr. Sands. I year has fallen by about 14 per cent.
SEOUL, October 29th.
the goverment of the entry, which in a British Colony would be granted to them free
The Korean Government has decided to from harassing conditions.
Professor DLLERVER in his article, re-engage Mr. Sands, the Secretary in the U.S. Legation, as teacher of the Crown Prince, to ferring to the generally accepted' rights of suceed the late General Le Gener, and the man to political life, says
contract is said to have been signed.
Another Storm in the Hokkaido.
AOMORI, October 30th,
"The Boers desire to remain the rulers of their land and permanently to treat as mere quests the immigrants who, dough morally often their inferiors, are immeasurably their superiors in culture and economically. To these immigrants they will give no political right: while exploiting them the utmost with the aid of their laws. It is quite clear that here we have an absolutely impossible situation. It is impossible that in Colonial entries the original settlers should shut out all the sub-
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THE RIGHT OF HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT. "We are here confronted with one of those
numberless cases in which the canons of formal law go for nothing. Opposed to the existing positive rights of the original settlers is the Fight--ne may serm it the natural, the uni- versal right of mankind, the right of revolution, the right of the ling force, the right of histori Scal development. Only the who represents the standpoint of a pare conservative formalism can deny the right of the foreign, for the most part British and American, mine owners, gold diggers, and tradesmen as opposed to the Boer Government. It is, moreover, as little to be denied that by virtue of existing treaties the British have a right to interfere in the internal affairs of the Transvaal Whether this right represents an actual Suzerainty and whether it goes as far as the British maintain may be fairly disputed, but the point is really quite 23.20 immaterial. We have here a case which is noi to be satisfied with the demands of conven- tional justice. It is not with good grounds, therefore, that threat Britain refuses to submit it to a Court of Arbitration. She points to the fact that she is the Great Power in South Africa, and as such she refuses longer to tole- rate conditions in the Transvaal which affect the rights of so many Englishmen."
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"A USELESS WAR." Professor Delbruck, who is far from being an Anglophile proceeds to express the hope that the Boers will spare the world the spectacle of a useless wat. He thinks they would be acting wisely in their own interests if they were to seek admission of their own accord into the British Colonial Empire.
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WEATHER REPORT.
The Observatory report says:- On the 8th at 11.50 am, the barometer has
A heavy gale with rain was blowing from last night. Rivers have risen, and bridges have been carried away. Many houses have been flooderl.
A telegram reaching the head office of the Japan Railway Company states that the bridges
on the Aomori line between. Nunasaki, Otsu
tomo, and Nobeshi have been rendered unsafe in consequence of the flood, and the traffic has been suspended on those sections.
and passengers in trains en route had great The umasaki line is totally submerged, difficulty in finding houses to shelter them. The trafic is expected to be resumed the day
after to-morrow,
An Official arrested for Bribery.
FUKUOKA, October 30th.
J
A CHUNGKING telegram of the 30th sito, to the N. C. Daily New's states that a revolt has broken out in Jenbushsien, Kueichou. The magistrate has been murderest, and the situa
tion is considered serions.
LETTERS received at Singapore from Honolulu state that H.M.S. Egeria has surveyed the route from Vancouver to Fanning island and and an average depth of 2,800 fathoms, or very nearly three miles. The temperature at that depth was 34 deg. Fahr
NEWS has been received at Shanghai by wire,
that Mr. Little's steamer heechuen which
THE cool stocks at Moji have been gradually decreasing of late, owing to the revival of the More than coal export traile at that port. 800,000 ton's of coal were lying there in May last, awaiting, orders from abroad. The stock is now returned at 380,000 tons, the particulars of which are as follows:
Uwners.
Quantity. tors.
Mitsui Bussan Kaisha................................. 140,000 Yasukawa, Matsumoto & Co... 90,000 Mitsu Bishi Company. Others..
Total
70,000
80,000
.380,000*
The 'Ongkong Public seems to think a Temmy
An ounce of pluck nor arf a grain oʻgo They seems in think' is duty, is to run against. But the bloomain" Ongkang Public doesn't know That Tommy ain't a miracle, I only wish 'e was Then ed-wipe.Com Paul: from off the blessed
earth,
An' gather up the pieces of the beggars 'e ad
shot An' sell 'em to old Nick for what they're worth
We aint no thin red 'erpes, as Mr. Kipling says, An' we cannot stop a bullet with enrand, An. its easy for to dub us chicken-earted when
you're safety & Alist'nin' to a military band, Its easy for to lecture on what Tommy ought.
to do,
p
With a belly full of whisky o'er your pipes,
a zampin' Boer, ⠀⠀ But you wouldn't ave no stomach for to nieet You'd likely get a bad attack o' gripes
You never takes account of ow gun without
n charge Ain't a weapon of precision at a mile, You seems to think we ought to sit as targets
for the lloers When we ain't no cartridges-it makes me. Now suppose that we ad done it in Natal the
other day afh
Would our lives ave been of bench to you? If we'd bolted in a panic with our rifles chucked.
away Then I shouldn't think you'd said but wot's our
due.
But there wasn't any boltin', we was in a little
Pell of Bying' shot with bullets spittin' round, Our men they was a droppin', an' the orlicers
as well,
An the wounded was a squirmin' on the ground. An' we 'eld to that position from the breakin.o
the day, Though our ammunition mules ad done a scoot/ -I'd like to get my bay'n'et in them muleses
inder parts, Or to coax 'ent with a ammunition boot.
We saved our ammunition an' we wasn't
shootin' wild,
We was prayin for supports just all wo knew, An'the company commanders they was cussin-
they was 'rited- An the colonel an' the major lookin' blue. When we hadn't only three more rounds an' no
relicis ad conie,
The colonel up' an' speaks, 'is voice was glum, Says 'e, "men, you aven't even got the nine
lives of a cat
An' a bayonet ain't a bloomin maxim gua.“
THE Football Shield Committee met yesterday Says 'el "know you'd foller me to "ell, if I but and drew the ties for the first round as follows:-An'
1--25th E. 1., RA, bye.
2-C Co., R.W.F. 7. B Co., R.W.F. 3-Hongkong F. C. z. 15th S. D., R.A. 4--A Ca., R.W... 38th Co, R.A. 5-Engineers' Institute . F Co., R.W.F. 6--H.M.S. Viderious v. Royal Begineer's'
Recreation Club.
7-D Co., R.W.F. 7, I! Co., R., F.
$ Co.; R.W.F. 1. Victoria Kecreation Club. The first mentioned team has choice of ground and must provide ball. The kick-off must be not later than a quarter fast 4 o'clock. The first round must be completed before Jantury 1st, 1900.
I'd take ye there if duty-so required,
But we cannot do a miracle un clear those i
beggars out
When our last remainin volley as been fired." Then 'o orders us to fire off our last remainin
shot, Which we did, an then le sounded the " "cease
An' if 'e wasn't blubbin' when the Boer com
mander came
You can put me down a Gawd-forsaken liar.
:
E was blóbbin' an' a talkin' of the depth of is
disgrace
There was Boers on every ill top all surround But what the merry blazes could 'e do?
of the place An' they could 'ave picked off all the bloomin
crow..
So we piled our aims an' waited, beneath a flag
of truce,
twarn't no use,
SOME time since, when the Aurora was guard. ship Weihaiwei, says the N. C. D. News, a cable was laid from the ship to the shore to Till the Boers come up an' took us one an' all transmit messages ordinarily signalled. One The officers an' men was cupsin' ard, but night this cable was cut and three hundred. We couldn't fight an' so we ad to fall. yards of it stolen. The prompt and energetic measures taken by Capt. Gaunt, then Commis sioner and administrator, secured its recovery.
About the 14th ultimo 2,300 yards of the cable. connecting the Island with the mainland disap peared, cut at both ends. Efforts to recover if have not met with success. It may have sunk in the mud as some surmise, or it may have been dragged by the anchor of a merchant steamer driven across the bay during the storm of the 15th and 16th, but it is understood that the authorities conclude it was stolen. At that time the Orlando was guardship. The cable, which was lent to the Chinese Telegraphs by HERE are, it appears, says the N. C. Daily the British Adinial, is to be replaced im News, six foreigners with the Peiyang squadron; } mediately, a Mr. R. E. Nelson, R.N., naval instructor, Mr.
reached Chungking from lebang on the 28th of October with Mr. Joseph Walton, M.P', and
chang Capt. Plant, has returned safely with them to
Brassey, instructor in seamanship; the contract CONCERT AT THE SOLDIERS AND
SAILORS INSTITUTE. engineer mentioned by our Tengchou 'corres pondent; and three German officers,
Mr. Yoshitomi Shichiro, a civil engineer in the Fukuoka Kencho, was arrested to-day on a charge of having received bribes in connection-A-DISPATCH-from-Tientsin-received-in-Shang- with certain works.
Speech by Rosebory.
DENUNCIATION OF THE TRANSVAAL.
LONDON, October 31st,
1.11 pan.
Earl Roseberry (former Minister for Foreign Affairs, and late leader of the Liberal party), in a public speech has stated that he would post pone criticising the methods by which the Government dealt with the Transvaal. He regarded Gladstone's policy as a sublime effort in favour of peace (telegrant here mutilated]; but since then the Transvaal bad persistently armed, while the country was appallingly mis- governed.
The Storm in the North.
bai reports that the head office of the proposed Tientsin-Chinkiang Railway has been estab- lished at Chêntingfu, Chihli province, and that a Taotai named Chang Lien-fen has been appointed Commissioner at Cheating. The Bombay mills have reached a critical stage in consequence of the failure of the In dian cotton crop. The price of yarn has gone up, but not in proportion to the increased cost of cotton, and all the mills are working at a heavy loss. The mills are now working short time.
According to the Japan 'Mail the Japanese Government has decided, it is said, to send Captain Hiraoka Hachiro, as well as the Mili- tary Attaché of the Japanese Legation in oniton, to South Africa for the purpose of observing the operations against the Boers. It was intended to despatch the Military At-
TOKYO, October 31st. A telegram from the Governor of Niigata to the authorities in Tokyo states that a heavy gale with main began to blow from the 29th inst., and did not cease till 10a.m. the follow. ing day. A landslip on a hillside occurred tachés from the Legations in Paris and Lon- near the Raikoji, which blocked the Hokuyetsu line, and traffic bud to be suspended. At the don, but their knowledge of the English Nuttari Station a mail carriage was overturned language was not considered sufficient, and blocked the line.
At the conclusion of the Inter-port cricket matches at Yokohama. recently, a match was arranged between a Ladies' Eleven and a téami The Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs is picked from the gentlemen of both ports, the now in Paris. As he has remained ilfere forfatter using only the left hand and a witket for about a month, the visit is said to be attracting a bat. This resulted in favour of the fair sex, the attention of the other Powers,
they making 46 runs the first innings and 22 for four wickets the second, against 27 all out for the gentlemen We notice two bw. and seven b. to the credit of the ladies, so they must have been there before, or at least some
European Echoes from Tokyo.
TOKYO, October 31st,
Russia and Korea.. risen slightly in the North, fallen a little in the
THE MASANPHO DISPUTE. South. Pressure is high over N. China, and
SEOUL, November 1st, relatively low in the N. part of the China Sea. It is stated that a long telegraphic instruction FORECAST -Strong N.E. winds; cloudy, misty from St. Petersburg-has been received at the
of themigi
(COMMUNICATED,)
Péraps it would 'ave sounded well if we was
all wiped out, You say it would ave blotted the disgrace Of arfa store of 'undreds of England's prou-
dest troops
Surrenderin' to a înferior race.
Public's pride Mar Madam Peraps it would av satisfied the 'Ongkong If we'd blown our bloomin' 'eds off as we stood. ad they been in our place I fancy, they'd
But
'ave said
"Such a sacrifice could do no public good”.
No, we ain't a batch o cowards an' we ain't a
a set of curs, the
An' we'll fight for your protection if required ;--- But give us arf a chance an' do not call us dogs:
anworte
For surrenderin' when our fast shot's bron fired. Ad our ammunition lasted we'd 'ave "old that
litve ill
Till the last of us dropped from loss of blood, But we can't perform a miracle, we're only
soldier chaps, Nor make a Metford cartridge out of mud."
GILAH
VOLUNTEER TUNERAL,
A very enjoyable concert was given at the So- Idiers and Sailors Institute, Kowloon, last night by Mr. Farr, the chairbeing taken by E. C. Wilks, Est. The first item on the programme was a pianoforte duct, "Zampa," by Misses King and Chun Yut, which was appreciated very much by the audience. Mr. C. McD..Smart, who was next on the programme, was unable to appear
AN IMPRESSIVE SERVICE on account of sickness. Miss Logan sang
We ime pleased to say that it is a raža The Gift." This promising young lady has improved greatly since we last had the pleasure occurrence for the Hongkong Volunteer Corps of hearing her. Mr. Bentley rendered his part to be called upon to pay the last respects to very well, and needs no comment as everyone their departed comrades, but yesterday, owing knows his ability to amuse the audience. He to the sad death of Genner EW. Hatherley, gave as an encore song "Just One Girl" Nr.: the Corps mustered, as strongly as possible, Edwards gave a comic Chinese song From under the necessarily brief nolice, to accord Foochow foo." He made a splendid Chinaman, the remains of this young volunteer a martial and sang the song with much taste. Mr. burial. Mr. Hatherly
(was only twenty Gabbay amused the audience with his "Talkee years of age and was just on the Phone as the chairman expressed it. A vocal point of completing if he bad not duet "Gay Paree" was given by Mr. Farr and already completed, his apprenticeship to the Miss Chun Yat. Miss Chan Yut looked very engineering trade, at the Taikoö. Sugar Re- well as the French girl, and played her part finery Though, not of a very robust constitu extremely well. Mr. Farr made a very goodtion; the sad termination of his brief illness Frenchman. They were encored and gave an came as a terrible surprise both to his parents extra verse. Miss Chun Yot would be a value and to mumerous friends who had seen him in abic addition to the A. D. C. Mr. Thomas health and strength last Sunday inoming sang "Oh Promise Me Mr. Skoolbred gave Fever, however, attacked hiin on Sunday night, asong, "Come Along Mary," with banjo accom and on Monday afternoon, he was taken to paniment and for an encore gave a banjo solo. Hospital in a delirious condition, and Mr. A. Ritchie sang "Show me the English 5.30 on Tuesday morning. man it was very well received because Orders were verse about Kruger was brought in Miss noon, to Chun Yut again appeared, singing "Flight of deceased Ages," and anyone who has heard her knows beingtlich of her vocal abilities The performance was assoc brought to a close by the Kowloon Ufflanders May we suggest that for all concerts a small entrance foc, of say to or 20 cents, be charged for civilians only soldiers and sailors to be admitted free. The amount collected could g to the upkeep of the Institute, and we are pure the concerts would be just as well patronae as hitherto i not more so,