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NOTES AND COMMENTS.
who has commanded in the same measure the respect and admiration of the whole civilized world. Never, it may be said, bas there pean in history, any sovereign who has wou to the same extent the respect admiration and love of her people as Queen Victoria has It is now nearly so years since her great poet Laureate said of her body ka *** May you rule us long----" etc, etc.) -
I suppose the poet hardly realized to what The Queen has gone down to har grave full of extent that aspiration of his would be fulfilled.
reign, -begun, before any member of this Council was born, Her Majesty Queen Victoria, the purest, and greatest monarch of historie times, devoted her life to the welfare of her country. Never was, monarch more faithful, never was monarch more beloved. In her letter of the 27th Januag, 1892, in acknow ledging in touching and noble words the expressions of loyal and loving sympathy from all classes of the empire on the occasion of the death of the late Duke of Clarence, the Queen wrote: that her bereavements during the last 30 years of her reign had been heavy and the anxieties and responsibilities owing to her position had been great. Yet it was her camest prayer that God might give her strength to work for the good of her dear em pite, whilst life lasted. And God has granted We humbly trust that her son, on whom her her prayer for to the last the Queen preserved royal mantle now falls, will receive in as thosd marvellous powers and royal gifts of equal degree, the blessing of God, and will wisdom and foresight that were always ex-prove in every way, the worth of the splendid ercised in the interests of peace, and the pro- example set by so great and good a Queen.
years, honour and renown, and more than all,
she has gone down to the grave amid the tears of her people. She will, however, long live in their memories. She will have the same place in their heart of hearts.
of teatest nation of the caraf, the perfect of the greatest earth, Goodman, K.C.), said Queen, the stainless wife and devoted mother, has entered into her,rest crowned with a triple diadem of strength, truth, and virtue, and en-
de Att me Gendral (The Hon W. Meight May it please your Lordships Replying on behalf of the members of the Bar of this Colony, concurrence in the sentiments of profound sor desire to assure your Lordships of our entire row at the death of our revered Queen, to which
The notification which we publish to-day from the Gazette Extraordinary, which was issued under yesterday's date, is the first official intimation which the Colony.received of the death of Her Majesty. We are givenveloped with loving veneration, not alone by to understand that the official confirmation of the sad hers did not arrive until after three o'clock yesterday afternoon and, when one takes into considemtion the differ ence in time between Hongkong and Lon- don and the number of different places to which the news would have to be despatch- ed, this seeming delay is not surprising.
the people of her world-wide empire but by the peoples of the whole world. Within the last hours I have received the following two tele-you have given such cloquent expression.
So far instructions have not been received as to the ceremonial to be observed or the mourning to be adopted by the Colony, but it is to be hoped that every British subject in Hongkong will take note of His Excellency's request and wear mourning for Her Majesty. It is only fitting that every token of respect should be paid to the memory of our beloved sovereign, whose death takes from us the greatest woman and queen that the world has ever known.
Until official instructions have been re- ceived, it is impossible to say what will take place in official circles, but we un- derstand that the fleet at present in hat- bour will fire eighty-one minute-guns, com- mencing at noon to-morrow. The number eighty-one signifies the age of our late Queen. There will, of course, be services held in the various Churches throughout the Colony, but of these we have not, as yet, been notified. They will probably take place on the day of the funeral To-day there was a special meeting of the Legislative Council and meeting of the Members of the Legal Fro- fession at the Supreme Court, reports of which will be found in another column.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. THE QUEEN'S ILLNESS.
LONDON, January 21st. The bulletin issued at 8 am, said that the; Queen's strength was diminishing and her condition was again assuming a more serious) aspect.,
LONDON, January-zand.. The bulletin issued at 4 p.m. yesterday said that the Queen was slowly sinking:
LATER.
THE QUEEN IS DEAD. DEATH OF HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
THE OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.
The following was issued in. the form of a Gaxelte Extraordinary yesterday, but did not: reach us until this morning- GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 41
With deepest grief the Governor has to announce that Her Majesty the Queen passed away at Six Thirty p.in. on the and instant. His Excellency requests that the inhabitants of the Colony will wear mourning for a time to be specified in a future Gazette.
By Command,
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd January, 1901.
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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL,
A SPECIAL MEETING.
This afternoon, special meeting of the Hongkong Legislative Council was held in the Council Chamber at the Government Offices, for the purpose of passing a motion express- ne condolence with His Majesty the King and the Royal Family on the death of there being present His Excellency Sir our late beloved sovereign Queen Victoria, Henry. Blake, G.C.M.G., H.E. Major General
w: Gascoigne (Commanding the Troops), the
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In the name of the people of Portuguese); India and mina I present to Your Excellency the respects of our heartfelt grief for the great loss which the noble British nation bas sustained by the demise of the Queen Empress Victoria of ever-lasting memory
With the greatest regret I present to Your
(Signed) GACHARDO GOVERNARDO. Excellancy the expressions of my deep grief and in the name of this Colony I accompany all the English people in their dolour by the death of her Gracious Majesty the Queen Empress.
Governor of Macao.
The reign of the Majesty was so prolonged and so beneficent, her vast personal influence was so constantly exerted for good,: her life was so noble, that her position, even among Sovereigns, was waiqué.
Hard it is, indeed, to realize that a par sonality so venerated and so beloved, has passed away, all suddenly as it seems to :us, honours, and has left behind her a memory But she has gone from us full of years and enshrined in the hearts of her people. *
Mr. Francis, K.C, said :--
As the Senior Member and the actual, al- though not the official, leader of the local Bar, crave permission from Your Lordship to ad- dress you on this melancholy occasion and to add a few words, on behalf of the practising members, to what has fallen from the learned Attorney General.
It is for us, as representing this Colony, to humbly lay at the feet of their Majesties The King and Queen, whom God protect, an ex- pression of bur loyal condolations, And for that purpose. I propose to you the following resolution That the members of the Connel
But first, I crave leave, as the solitary repre. have heard with profound sorrow the sad an
sentative, among the members of the higher nouncement of the death of her Majesty the
branch of the profession hare, of the Irish Race Queen and desire humbly to express their most and of the Roman Catholic community to give heartfelt respectful, and loyal sympathy to their expression to the love and respect and venera Majesties the King and Queen in the time of their tion with which Her Most Gracious Majesty! bereavement,
was and always will be regarded by Roman lency, as the senior Unofficial Member of
The Hon. C.P. Chater said:--Your Excel-Catholics of all nationlities from His Holiness Council, the sad task lies upon me to formally second the humble expression of our grief which your Excellency has proposed.
Little could we have thought but one short Her late Majesty's Subjects, or week ago that so dire's blow was falling on forseen that her nation was losing its august and beloved Queen. It is not for us now to dwell upon her royal worth as a Monarch, her-thought- fulness, her care, her solicitude, for her people, these things the past has verified to all, and the history of the future can only prove yet more and more the immensity of our loss,
To their Majesties the King and Queen of Great Britain, and Ireland and, the Royal Family, we tender, in the words of the resolu tion, our most heartfelt, loyal and respectful sympathy, and if what we say to-day can lighten, though but for a moment, their burden of sorrow, we, Sir, may renture to hope that we shall not have spoken altogether in vain, vi I beg to second your Excellency's resolu- tion,
The Hon. Dr. Ho Kai said
Sir, As the representatives on this Council of the British Chinese subjects and the Chinese Community of this Colony, I and my colleague. desire to express on their behalf and on behalf of ourselves our entire concurrence with the sentiments which have been expressed by your Excellency and by the Honourable the Senior! Unofficial Member. In the sad death of our well beloved and much respected Queen, we bave sustained great and irreparable loss, We feel that we have not only lost a just, august and mighty. Sovereign, but also a kind and affectionate mother, whose parental care has for more than half a century cast mantle of pro- No part of the British Empire could feel the tection and peace over us and our island home, dreadful loss we have just sustained more than this Far Eastern Colony, and none in this Isla could mourn her loss more than her loyal Chinese subjects inhabiting its shpres, seeing that the Colony was born as it were in Her Majesty's reign, and brought up through the successive stages of infancy and childhood under her fostering and watchful care, and that
Her Majesty's Chinese subjects, owe our liberty, security, wealth, and happiness, and findeed our all, to her wise and benificient rule Truly, to us the loss is woefully great, and our sorrow, and grief are proportionately pro found. I regret, Sir, that in a great national calamity and affliction of this nature, our hearts are too full and overwhelmed to give appro priate expression to our sorrow, or to convey to those who on account of natural ties are éven more afflicted than we are, an adequate
sense of our heartfelt sympathy and sincere
condolence. We can only say that we do
sincerely mourn with those that moum and and earnest, prayer will ever be May God bless and comfort Their Majesties and the members of the Royal Family in their sore distress and 國 bereavement.
The resolution was then carried, in silence, all the Members standing.
ween with those that weep, and that our united
SUPREME COURT.
"RESPECT TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE-
QUEENAL
the Pope downwards. Non erair as will ascend to Heaven on behalf of Her Majesty and for the repose of her than will be poured forth by. Her Majesty's Catholic subjects from the highest to the lowest Loyalty to the Throne is a duty most strenously enforced on every member of the Catholic Church. In Her Majesty case that spirit of loyalty to the Throne has only served.
basis to support and strengthen and to give force and consistency to the deep. per- sonal respect and veneration on the part of her Catholic subjects of which Her late most Gracious Majesty has always been the object. The personal loyalty of Irishmen to the Sovereign bas always been conspicine famcontemptible exceptions only making the loyalty of the vast majority the more conspicuous. I rejoice that Her Majesty had in the last year of her life such convincing proofs of that loyalty and devotion, in the valour of her Irish soldiers in South Africa so frequently and gratefully acknow- ledged by Her Majesty in her own gracious and considerate fashion and in the enthusiasim with which she was received in Ireland during Red last visit to that countty
Nowhere will the death of Her Majesty be more deeply felt and more sincerely regretted than in the ranks of her Irish Regiments. No- where will her virtues be more highly appreci ated and her loss more genuinely felt than in the houses of the Irish people, whether in Ire- land or eleswhere. She was a good woman and a great Queen-en
YesMy Lords a great Queen as wall as a good Queen, and as such the world first, and England ultimately, will hail her, Victoria the Great and Good. Of her goodness there is no doubt. All acknowledge it in their various ways and from their different points of view. She was a pure, true woman, in all things womanly. As maid, as wife, as mojbër, she was above and beyond reproach. No stain of
any kind rests upon her life or character," "In her widowhood she was beyond praise. In her relations with her people of all classes and grades she was most cordial and sympathetic Her heart, went out to all suffering humanity. But was she Great? I say emphatically she was a great Queen, as well as a good Queen, better deserving of the title than any to whom it has ever been given, and day by day bar true greatness will be more fully and fairly recognised as we come to learn more, of her life and of her work. But enough is known; now to enable us to say that she possessed all the elements, all the essen tials of greatness, in its best and truest sense. She was great in her devotion to duty. Her successive ministers tell us that not for a day, unless when absolutely unable to works were her duties as a sovereign neglected or allowed to fall into arrear. Her duties were
numerous and important and slie was only able to get through them by great selfdenial and sélisacrifice, and self-denial and selfsacrifice are the essentials of greatness, whether in the field, or in the Cabinet. She was the first truly constitutional Sovereign of Great Britain.
• The first who knew no will but her people's. Who took as her Ministers and officers the homineen of the nation and not her own pominees. She had nd previous example of constitutional sovereign on which to model: herself. She created, if I may, to speak, the fole of Constitutional Sovereign and was the first to play it. It was a great, pole and she played it greatly. Her Majesty had great natural ability and cultivated it to the utmost. The extent of her knowledge astonished her Ministers, he was student to the last day of her life. She had sound judgment, great tact, unfailing knowledge of men and a strong will, and yet that strength of intellect and strength of will was always subservient to constitutional restraint We shall not know for many years how much England owes, how much the world owes to that strong patient, tactful woman giving up all pleasures for the solo-performance of her dulies, England has grown from a Kingdom to an Empire, and a great Empire, under her *-gulding, hand. Great deeds bave been done ingit great victories won, great, conquests ef fected in "äll fields" dn, derprise. Shall not she be called truly great under whom and in those name all those great things have been one, and who dominated and controlled all wise and good men by whom they were accomplished, being herself greater than any ing her manifold, knowledges in her in her energy and in her will
This afternoon at four o'clock the Members of the legal profession met in the Supremo Court, there being present His Honour Sir John Carrington, Kt, C.M.G. (Chief Justice); lis Honour T. Sarcombe Smith (Pajsne Judge), the Hon. W. M. Goodmanse. Attorney General), Mr. F. Aeroland Police Magistrate), Messrs Francis, K.C H. E. Pollack, K.C., M. W. Slade, E. Robia Son, Bowley (Crown Solicitor), V. H Dea Con W. H. Locker, O D Thomson, F. B. Deacon, H. Hursthouse, Ewens, H. K Holmes, Ha Gedge, A. B. Johnson, JF.
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The Chief Justice baid M&A General, The Crown Solicitor, gentler Have invited you here to-day to pay
Hon H. Stewart Lockhart (Colonial Secre tary), the Hon. A. M. Thomson (Coloninthe memory of her fais Majesty Quee Treasurer the Hon. W. Meigh Goodman, (Attorney General,) the Hon, R. D. Ormsby, the Hon. FK.
and to testify our profound sorrow bews of her death. I think wa had for raking such a step because we
Director of Public May, C.M.GR Superintendent of Court, stand to the Queen not- Policey the Hon. Basil Taylor (Acting Har ordinary relation of her hubjects
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Mr. Bowlsy said As representing the juniors of the profession, I beg to endorse, what has fallen from the lips of Your Lordship and the Attorney General and the Teamed Council, and to express the deepest sorrow with which we mourn to-day for the loss of our dearly beloved sovereign."
WEATHER REPORT.
On the 54th at tau5 p.m. Pressure has pro.......... The Observatory report saya se bably increased over the North of China, and the monsoon is likely to freshen on the coasts. of S. China. Forecast-N, to NE. winds, freshening; changeable, probably some cain.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Forage hrome, is advertised for from Penang, TEE list of New Year's Honours includes decoration for Mr. Hiram S. Maxim, the in ventor of the gun known by that name. Major Clem Browne, R.E, officiating Deputy Manager, N. W. Railway, Lahore, has beat ordered to Tientsin for work on railways. The Jansens, ihose famous aerial performers arrived by the German mail from Vanicetta's Circus in Berlia, yesterday, and will shortly: appear at Harmaton's Circus: “
A NURSE, to take charge of children on the
CAFT: Tows, V. C. whe lost the sight of both eyes at Thaba Mountain, had been appointed by the late Queen to be one of the Sergeant-at- Arms in ordinary to her Majesty.
Advices received from Madagascar by the last mail state that a number of Boer emigrams from the Transvast have settled in the island. and made applications for grants of land. MAJOR GEN. J. B. B. Dickson, C.B, pho has been in command of a Cavalry Brigade in South Africa, is to resume command of the troops in the Straits Settlements, to complete five years in that appointment.
OwING to the death of Her Majesty the Queen, advertisement published in our columns that he His Excellency the Governor notifies in an has cancelled all engagements..
published yesterday, that the Colony are-re- It is also notified in a Gaselle Extraordinary, guested by the Governor to wear mourning until such time as may be specified in a later Garelle.
AN armed robbery is again, occupying the attention of the police. About six men entered matshed at the Naval Yard extension warks. at Ma Tau Kok at about 1a.m. yesterday, They were armed with revolvers and got away with about $12 worth of goods. They took box with $70,but, whilst removing it, the police they had to leave it. Nobody has been arrested came on the scene and disturbed them and
so far,
SAYS the Bangkok. Times of the oth usta batch of twenty Sikht have been imported from Hongkong for the police force. Many of the men seen on duty recently, seem to be a very seedy lot, and considering the trouble they put their superiors to with their complaints of sickness, Constantly leaving the force, etc, we are inclined to think it will be a good day for local residents when they find some other employment.
the Dutch community in Singapore to H. M. IT is understood that the wedding present of Queen Wilhelmina is to take the form of a handsome silver album of views of Singapore.
ing of the costly silver album, and Messrs. G. R. tographers of Singapore, have been given carts Lambert-and Co., the well-known artistic pho-
worthy of the loyal Dutch community of the blanche as to the pictures. It will be a present place.
Mr. de Silva has been entrusted with the work-
THE passing of the Red Karen, à Burma mountain tribe, is thus alluded to by a corre pondent of a Rangoon journal :—In Karenni, one gets à clear illustration of the theory regard- ing the survival of the fittest. The people can dying out. A life of peace and quiet is entirely not stand the attack of civilization, and are fast
foreign to their nature; and prevented from their favourite pursuit of murder and rapine, they are being ousted out by the Shan and Taungthu In a few more decades one may expect that the Red Karen, as a pure race, will be a thing of the past..
A PRESENTATION was recently made to Mr.
Charles Ernest, who has retired after 48 years Bervices on the North-Eastem Rallway Com pany as assistant-superintendent of the litre and in his speechin reply be gare soma.seminis.. cences of his early years in the service, recall. ing the open camages of the days when the: guard rode on the top, and when the aristocracy. Iravelling to London would not occupy a rail WAY carriage, but rode in their own private carriages strapped on railway trucks. They paid, he said, "430, per mile for the carriage" truck and 36 per mile for themselves, (zza
It is estimated at the present Burma rice crop will leave 2,600,000 tons of cargo rice for exports to other countries. This is said to be.. the largest crop ever get obtained in-Burma. China and the Straits will no doubt take a good
quantity: But in these markets, Burma has tou compete with Baigon and Bangkok, where the crops are also said to be larger Japan is also becoming consumer of Burma rice. She exports most of her own grain, finding it more profitable to do so than using it herself, as-- higher rates are obtained for Japan grain-than- for the Burma rice..
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