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THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY OCTOBER 28 1905.
loon 7. While the Peak residents get, their | It is now claimed that vegetable Juice, taken
he Houghseg telegraph gardens at the cost of the ratepayers, Kow-three times a day, will curs consumption., Gam
HONGKONG, SATUrday, Octquer 28, 1905.
THE CHILDREN'S GARDEN 42
THE PEAK.
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MR. Whitelaw Reid, the distinguished succes sor of Mr. Choate as American Ambasador to Great Britato, is one of the many statesinen less extent-in England, have graduated in the who, in America, in France, and—to somewhat career of journalism.
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chief proprietor of the New York Tribune since 1874.
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loon has to go without a garden at all, and rye are both vegetables, for consumption Kowloon has a better case, to support tho argument that a public garden should be presented to the inhabitants of that auberb than oven Hongkong could submit. For at least it can be argued with a certain amount of plausibility that Hongkong has a Occasionally it happens that an item in garden which nobody visits, hut Kowloon the Estimates of expenditure for the year is has nothing, except a tile range. It is the allowed to pass without comment, not be pride and boast of people in Kowloon that cause it is intrinsically right, but because they live in the healthiest quarter of the
A DEAD man hold the wheel of the schooner Chules Levy Woodbury during several hours' the amount set against it is so insignificant Colony, and naturally it would, not became
of the night of August 8, on her trip to Van- that criticism might savour of a a resident in Hongkong to dispute their couver from Laysan island. He was a Japan carping spirit. Still there is a principle,at opinions. on a subject which they have
ese member of the crew and die 1 clutching the stake, and even although the amount con- studied.. But, even granting that, Kowloon wheel. He was found still holding the wheel cerned is trifling it is public money which residents are surely quite as fully entitled to and the vessel, though greatly damaged by a should not be expended except in a man- garden as the children at the Peak. Kow-hurricane which is supposed to have caused ner which has the support of the community loon is growing every year; there is a city his death from 'over-exer.in, reached port in in general. In the Hstimates for toog there on the peninsula where once only a few safety. is an entry under the "Botanical and houses existed, and in many quarters of Afforestation Department" classed with Kowloon there are signs that congestion is "other charges" which reads-"Peak Gır-taking place. People of the lower clase den-formation, $700"; and on reference to herd together in tenements, breathing the His Excellency the Governor's speech in foul and noxious odours which so freely cir- introducing the Estimates for the coming culate in certain districts. Blocks of building's year we find that The Botanical and are being run up, where a maximum of Forestry Department Vote is reduced humanity may occupy a minimum of space.
These are the people who would benefit from work as the Barma and Siam wood, and 'the by $679 as the children's garden at
the gift of a public garden, maintained out of unsuitability of its length militates against its the Peak, costing about that amount, is to be finished this year," On the principle that the public funds; but they have to wait these for shipbuilding purposes, to him who hash more shall be given, the pleasure of the Government, which, of course, Fit Grand Duke Vladimir is reported by wire must provide in the first place for friends at to have resigned from his position as Governor Government of Hongkong has decided to gentry of the Colony with a garden, where the anals can congregate with their charges and rid the houses on the higher level of squalling infants and noisy youngsters. Of course, this children's garden will prove a hoon and a blessing to those people wilt afford to live at the Peak, and we might not be inclined to cavil
ACCORALNG to a New York cable the way has been won in connect the Westeru continent by,
direct submarine telegraphic libes with the mpires of Japan, and China: Me Clarence Mackay, president of the Commercial Cable coinpany, has announced that his company has secured the necessary concessions to enter Yokohama, Japan, and Shangbai, China ordin
AVANCOUVER Journal states that, with the the northwest and the many statements that, a Lanouncement of the bumper wheat-crop of
portion of this, as four, would pass through that city en route to the Orient, has come anew expression of opinion that there should be a flour mill of large capacity situated at the point. pose as it has, on the one band, the road, tap Vancouver is admirably adapted for such a pure,
ping the wheat country, which can bring its bur, en of grain and empty it directly into ele vators, whence it can be draws on by the mills as occasion may demand. After the milling, the fleet is at hand to the harbour to bring the manufactured product to the east
THE output of Java teak during the year 1504
A CONFERENCE will be held in the near futura was much more satisfactory than that of the
in Cuicuita, at which it is hoped that, the, dife previous year, being 6,355,000 cubic feet, as against 3,531,603 cubic feet in 1933. The deferences between China and England in regard hand for timber his been good both for export to the treaty of the lailer country with Th|be| to Europe and to India, while South Africa has will be adjusted. At this conference which taken about 547,000 cubic fest in the form of will have as its purpose the framing of a new railway sleepers. It would appear that the treaty between England and China concerning Java teak is not so well liked for high class Thibel, the Chinese Gaveromant
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EMSERVICE SER
THE TOKIO EMBASSY,
BRITISH AMBASSADORE
SIR CLAUDE PROMOTED.
[From Our Own "Correspondent)
Shanghai, 28th October, 11,80 a.m.
Colonel Sir Claude Macdonald, the British Minister at Tokio; has been
pasa
promoted to the position of Ambassa dor at the Tokio Embassy.
RUSSIAN MISISTER
APPOINTED TO TOKIO.:
From Our Oton Correspondent.]
Shanghai, 28th October,
11.30 am.
Count Baklimékieff succeeds Baron amant will be repreItoson as Rassion Minister at Tokio
sented by its Minister in Londeo, Chang Tai Yen, while the English Viceroy will probably be the British representative. China never re- cognised the treaty Colonel Younghusband male with the Thibetan authorities and pro tested against it as soon as the military expe conferred with Lord Curzon, but did not make much progress in the negailations, whereupon these were temporarily stopped, to be taken up again within a few weeks
present the children of the taipans and the Peak. There must be something radi-General' of St. Petersburg. He has been dition returned from Lhassa:«A commission
CAN
cally wrong when the tongue-tied people are neglected or forgotten, and only the affluent permitted to bask in the sunshine of official favour. If a children's garden had to be given at all it should have been given, we maintain, to the waifs and strays of Hong kong, and not to the children of the wealthy, who could well afford to provide themselves with a garden without trenching on the public purse. The amount set down in the Estimates for the formation or completion of the children's garden at the Peak is, as we have shown; #700-an insignificant sum from a Government point of view; but that $700 might have been better spent in al leviating in some measure the wretchedness of those whose lot is passed in the crowded districts of Victoria or Kowloon. The money has been voted, however, and the children's garden, at the Peak is an accom. plished fact. So the ratepayers--who are not worth consideration may accept the situation and chew the cud of reflection.
succeeded by Gensial Gripenberg, the famous veteran of many campaigns, and who went to Manchuria in support of the army of General Kuropatkin. The resignation of the Grand Duke, is believed to be indirectly the result of his terrible inhumanities. He is the father of the Grand Duke Cyril who a few days ago was degraded by the Czar for his marrying against the emperor's will, and for various excapades,
THE following pars. do not appear to have gone the round of the Press; they are worth a small space. A little girl of seven, who resides at Stoke Mandeville, made such a splendid fool of her mother on the First of April. Mum,ale said, there is a mad kissing, cook in the pantry "Great heavens!" cried mamma, as she assumed the black cap and child running after her, stopped her at the hurried off to pass sentence, But the sweet pantry door. "April fool!" she cried., "It's only father"-fier a certain block of tend ments had been partly finished the builder and his foreman went on a tour of inspection." The former left his, assistant in one house and went into the adjoining one, when the fallowing con- versation ensued: "Can you 'ear me, John? "Yes." "Can you see me?" "No." The jerry builder rejoined the foreman and remark. ad, with a self-satisfied air,Now, them's. [ what you can call walls!"-A well-known man who got used to travelling in crowded tram cars, was going home one night after a birth- was day celebration. He was a lone passenger until a lady boarded the car, then, rising, and bowing gracefully, he said: Madam, you take Tax ashes of the immortal actor, Sir Henry my seat-I will stand." And he hung on to a Irving, lie by the side of those of David Gar-strap for the rest of the ride, beaming with
whisky and politeness. rick, who died 126 years ago,
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
REGULATIONS under the Naval Stores Ordin- ance, 1875, -are-printed in the Garette,
SLADANG SHOOTING IN PERAK, The following few lines may Interest some of your sporting readers. On Thursday, 6th Oct, I got a wire from the District Officer at Tanjong Malim, saying that the Malay ladangs round Behrang were being destroyed by Sia dang and could I come and shoot them. So I set off early on Friday morning to the place mentioned (which is about 6 miles from Tanjong Malim) with my 8 bore and 577 Arriving at Babrang at 7 am. I had a look at paddy, so picked out the largest looking one the damage done and found fresh tracks in the
and followed. As luck would have it I found the track soon "separated" from the herd so felt sure he must be a bull. After following up for about 30 minutes in dimker (and growth jungle) and bamboo juogle, 1 came on to a place where he had just been lying down, The fact was pretty plain, as the flies which generally follow any large acinal ware in bundreds.
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HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB.
"OVER 18" v. "UNDER 18."
The following are the scores in the match- played on the Hongkong Cricket Club Ground to-day, up to the time of going to press:--
MUNDER 28,"PRE Harry Hancock, e l'odley, Bercombe
Barith W...
G. E. Morrell, c and b Morrell ven
Lieut. F. W. Lumsden, run out........ T. E. Pearce, c Substitute, b Bird, W. Peake, batting not out W. A. Powell, b. Bird
N. H. Rutherford, b`Bird
R. H. Whitamore, e Williamson, b Bird... G. W. Tullidge, c Lowit, b Bird w H. Woodward, l.b.w., b.Lowis E. C. Hagan, baiting not out....
Extra.
Total
HB HAZEL DOLLARIN
WATSON & CO., at the expenditure if the community us a whole was treated with equal justice. But while the offspring of the aristocrats "at The Peak are provided with a garden at, the public expense, what is being done for the unfortunate children of the poor who are dragged up in the gutter? Are they pro vided with a garden where pinched faces may blossom into health and weary mothers get a breath of the fresh air mid the flowers. Not a bit of it. There is a park adjacent to the high-level tramway station where children are sometimes taken by their nurses, and where a few Chinese residents occasionally saunter, but it cannot be said that the park is patronised by the class which would most benefit from the use of a públic garden. It is beyond the reach, of those who live in the congested districts of the city, such as Bonhams Strand and Queen's RoadWest; a formidable journey has to be taken by the poor if they desire to visit the public gardens as they are called, and the effort required to get there would complete ty nullify any good that might otherwise result. The consequence. is that a trip to the gardens-the only gardens that are open to the labouring class, the only open vacant spot which is not over-run by sporting clubs and sporting enthusiasts in the Colony partakes of the nature of an expedition. The preparations for the trip are greater thari those made by the average man who spends a holiday in visiting Shanghai, So that if the children of the drudge, the busst of burden, who was only brought into the world to live in servitude and whose only virtue is that he pays the taxes, if they see the public gardens once in a blue moon they in the Philippines will be favoured by Con. Princess Thyra, father of Prince George, and annoyed over this, and could not understand plenished ber bunkers at Moji sba came on to
$16.00
WILL BUY A CASE
GREGOR & CO.'S
IMPERIAL
HIGHLAND
THE German mail of the 27th September delivered in Londən on the 26th inst.
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FOR' another five years the Spanish-langunge is to be the official language in the counts of justice in the Philippine filanda. THE American barque Alden Bette has been purchased by a Japanese firm to carry fah pro. ducts from British Columbia to Japan,
A.GENERAL exodus of army surgeons will occur about the middle of next month when the No vember transport sails from Manila for San
Francisco.
IT is announced from Washington that there is every reason to believe that agricultural banks
Hress at its next session.
THE American steamer, Skowmut, sailed from Manile with one of the largest cargoes of hemp which has ever left that port on any vessel, amounting to 16,000 bales.
MR. P. Jacks, assistant land officer, has been appointed a commissinner to administer oaths, and his name has been added to the official list of Justices of the Peace.
PATRICK A. Collins, the mayor of Boston, who
may consider themselves tucky. Does any. body ever hear a suggestion that a children's garden should be presented to the real toil. ers of the city? They are supposed to drag out their existence in the lanes and alleys of crowded buildings, to honour and obey their superiors, and to forget that they have any rights. But the children of the well-to-do, who live in villas at the Peak, whose homes are spacious and well-appointed, whose WHISKY.habitat is a garden in itself, must be pro-refused to entertain the Filipino honorary com- vided with a public garden, while the urchin missioners to the St. Louis Exposition, at the of Vietoria proper finds his playground in expense of the Pilgrim City, is dead. the streets. There certainly seems to be a disproportionate dispensing of favours here. It may be said that the children of the poor can spend their days at Happy Valley; but, as everybody knows, that delightful spot is reserved for the use of those who have time THE Ceylon Government has sent to all heads of Departments portraits of IT. M. the King, to spare for cricket, football, golf, or horse- with the instruction to have them framed and racing. The cricket ground, which was once hung up in conspicuous places is their offices. a public site, is now practically monopolised |
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THE BEST I
PRACTICE reel dances for the St. Andrew's Ball are to be held in the City Hall on the toth, 15th and 21st prox instead of the 9th, 14th and 21st idem, as previously notified.
by the Hongkong Cricket Club and its THE right of erecting and maintaining a per. friends, whose most absorbing topic is whe-manent pier opposite Hillier Street is to be ther chits should or should not be allowed sold by auction next month. The right will be when drinks are in question. There is, leased for a period of Bity years from the 1st therefore, no place for those who live on the January, 1900. The upset price is $18,000, ground floor of the Colony, and nobody or THE Manila Timer observer that Sir Claude at least nobody who has the car of the Macdonald has been decorated with the First Government, and, of course, no one Class Order of the Rising Sun, and points ont could expect the Government to act on its that it doesn't fallow necessarily that he got own initiative nobody dreams of planning up every morning in ilme to aze it rise, neither a public garden for the children of the lower does it signify that he travels for a brand of
stove polish,
GREGOR & CO., classes, If anybody says a word, the Gothi
ment can reply, grandiloquently, 10 pub is a public garden, a-nhildren'
QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL the Peak, a
ADMIRAL Enquist, Ing 'ships at Manila, hau roce Government to procesi
200 Arst of
sail list; Vhorsday, Lin follow within ↑
A KEW LUMBER TRADER. A
The arrival of the s.2., Hard Dollar in part marks a new era in the lumber carrying trade across the Pacific. She is the first boat especially built for the carrying of lumber, her holds, between decks and lower holds being adopted for storing the longest beams carried, I then told the two. Malays that were with This trip is the maiden one of the Hazel Dallar which was built and engined last February, by me to wait about twenty yards behind mo`and took up the tracking mysell. I had not gone Ranger and Company at Port Glasrow, She more than 50 yards when I cams upon a buge is registered at Victoria, B.C., and thus flies the clump of bamboos, so crawled very carefully British Aag. Her tonnage is 4,304 gross, and round there when, about twenty paces in front 2,503 registered, while her length over all is of me, stood a very fine specimen of Sladang. 384 feet five inches, breadth to feet, and depth, He looked immense. Just as I got the 8-base moulded, 29 feet three inches. On the voyage up he moved his head round and looked at ma; out, she maintained an average speed of ten he was broadside on then. So I did not waste knots, though on her trial trip she easily main- any time and took the shot behind the shoulder, tained 12). This trip inaugurates her futurarum Five and twenty years ago today there was as near the heart as I could make it out to be which is to be between Puget Sound, China, born a de jure Crown Prince who would, to He fell with a thud, but was up again in a and Japin, and as her derricks are on the upper day, be Crown Prince of Hanover, de facto, if moment and charged straight towards where instead of on the main decks, she has increased the Kaiser's ideas of legitimacy were always my two Malays were standing. They did a space on deck for carrying a load of Juml as thorough.going as they are when it comes to record sprint, and were not to be seen for some which is seccesary to put her down Detmold, and his brother-in-law, Hanover, time. In the meantime, just after he passed marks, the ordinary load of lamber no doubt, had become a Prussian annexe be them, he fell again. So I thought it was all holds not being sufficiently heavy, to do fore the Kaiser's time, and alter Sadows, and over, and called out to the men to come and this way, with all deck gear removed protest had not much availed, then, George bring my $77. They heard bim fall also and space on deck for nearly a million V. was monarch compulsorily retired from regained a certain amount of courage, but instead | ber, She began her life by a trip to business when he died in 1878. The son who of coming to me, were too inquisitive and where she look in load of would have succeeded him as Ernest II. is thought they, would like to see what had hap. Francisco. After discharging this shi H.R.H. the Duke of Cumberland, K.G. in pened to him. As soon as he saw them be was ed to Pagat Sound, where he took in stead, husband of Queen Alexandra's sister, again with a sport, and bolted. I was very cargo of lumber to Kure, Japan, and havin of the Princess Max, of Baden, and a consider what had actually happened over my shot *able improvement on the previous Ernest There was not a sign of blood where I took the whose talent for ircading on people's cores was first shot and only very little where he fell the zo frankly acknowledged by his brother, King second time, but having tumbled twice. within William IV. The year in which Prince twenty yards I know I must have hit pretty hard George was born saw, six months earlier, the We decided to wait ffices minutes before fol. marriage of the elder of his aunts, the Princess towing again, so went back to the Malay boase Frederica, an espousal which came in for some and got my sandwiches and something to drink comment at the time. The bridegroom on in case I had to make a day of it.” Hers Mr. that occasion, was the Baton von Pawel.Ram Crolist of T. Malem met me, and asked if be mingen, who had been sometime equerry to could come too, I was rather glad of this, as his wife's father. The function took place at it is much safer for me to have a European Windsor and was graced by the presence of carrying my and rifle, instead of a Malay, Quen Victoria, who, though by no means who generally leaves you when, in dith without hard and fast notions of her own, culties, We followed the tracks from the always had a liking for a love-match place left them, and, we had not gont more THE director of the mint at Washington has than a mie and half, through high "grass, published his estimate of the production of and plantain trees, when I saw the jungle more gold and silver in the United States for the head of me about 35 yards, so stopped and calendar year of 1994. These figures show un listened, when I heard him crash off again, bui increased production over the calendar year of only for a short distance. The tracking ber 1903 of $7,131,500 gold, and 3,486,000 fins came very interesting now at these animals are
silver. The largest gain was by very cunning, and often run ounces California, which increased about $5,000,000 try and charge you more than in the previous year and a larger, keep our eyes open. 1 amount than in any other State since the sixties. Malay add Mr, Grellet, and "This gain," the director says, "came chiefly place where he had be from dredge operations, and a further gain is quantity of blood, so left, expected during the current year and for some We went on 20 yards, time to come. The California State mining walking towards me very defini bureau estimates the possible output of the air looking on dredges at $7,000,000 a year for thirty years, dropped white/andy Colorade shows an increase of neatly $2,000,000 bellowed immediatel gold sud 1,300,000 ounces of silver Alaska gains of $700,000 in gold, Montana gain 2,000,000 ounces of silver Ubargain of
Kain
1000 onaces of silve 4,300,000 ounces of gilver
of the smoke and saw him bis legs aguia, so raz round put in two 577 shots in the
hand He still tele) to eat day put in two more Abfs time beh] he bent bis band away from sufficient to finish him off,45
found my flies bollet
this port. Her officers declare that Dollar is the best boat affost for her pant run, and is the first to be specially beilt carrying lumber. Her si ter ship, the Reside Dollar, is expected to be launched early in the new year, and she is built entirely along same lines as the Hazel Dollar, both are owned by the Robert Dollar Com San Francisco. The local agents are "Vesers. Arnhold Karberg and Company..
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