THE NEW VICEROY,
LANDING AT CANTON:
CANTON-HÄNKOW RAILWAY PROBLEM."
· [From a Correspondentų).
** Canton, 21st September, ̈`
Au briefly reported to you, by telegram, to-day, K. Viceroy Chang Jen-chun, the newly-appointed representative of H. 1. M. the Emperor in the Southern capital, arrived here this morning on board the C. M. S. Co
5. Tol Shum frank Shanghai via Hongkong. The steamer was escorted to Canton by several Chinese gunboats and Government launches, and entered the barbour amidst the booming of guns. The Prefect of Kwangchow, Chao and the magistrates of the More Tinng: districts of Namhol and Punyu, proceeded early this morning to Whampoa to meet HE. there, and accompanied him into the city. Arriving safely here.E. landed this forecoon at about ten o'clock at the Tien Tzs Whath where he was received by the Provincial Trea- surer, the Acting Provincial Judge, the Provin. cial Examiner and the Salt Commissioner, the Tarter Generals and many other officials both civil and military. At Whampoa H.E, also
a enil on the Admiral and Commander. In-Chief, Chin Ping-chik, H.E. and family will not take up a temporary residence at any place, but will proceed-sraight to the Vice- regal quasters, where everything is in readi-
ness for his reception.
H.E. Viceroy Chang has issued a red pro clamation notifying the public that he will take ever the seal of office on the mathing of the 22nd instant, as Viceroy of the Liang Kwang Provinces.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 281 1907.
HONGKONG COLLEGE OF
MEDICINE.
(APPOINTMENT OF RECTOR,
THE UGN, MR, MAY RE-ELECTED,
10
WUCHOW NOTES.
IMPORTANT; SHipping case,
REFUGEES,
MURDER IN SHANGHAI,
THE SICAWEI OBSERVATORY,
AN APPRECIATION.
315
an electric coil, stands in front of this board One of the pencils was roarking a line on the The N. C, D; News contains particulars of
paper every second,, clicking backwards and forwards: LE it did so. It was recording the the murder of the Russian Jewess at Shanghal
direction of the wind. Each point of the reported in our special telegram last week. Our
At first sight it may appear strange that the compass has its own pencil, and should the Shanghal contemporary of 19th lost, says
work of studying the beavers is undertaken wind be between two of the A Russian Jewess was murdered at. No. 56' by a religious order; in reality, however, from
| polate two pencils' Scott Road yesterday afternoon in a most cruel remote ages there has been an intimate.com are set in motion. Another moving mannen. It appears that the deceased, a Fathers at Sicawei sutely are animated by the could rend the force of the wind as ro sexion between, religion and astronomy The was writing in lines that only the initiated married woman named Liza Cappera, ha spirit of the psalmist who cried: When (con corded by the anemometer at the top of the Shanghai for some years, was living with an sider thy heavens, the work of hulband, it said, to have been away, from other woman, who went to Vangtredos on the monan that thou art mindful of him? for showing the readings of the theater tower. Yet another was following the vagaries fingers, and the in
thats which thou hast andare of the barometer, and there were attachments Monday evening and celebrated the Jewish Festival with some friends there. There was and the son of man that thou visilest him? and of the rain gauge. The neo of the fatter no other occupant of the house. The deceased The Jesuit Fathers were the first to in pencil has been discontinued here, because it went out after lifin and was seen returning at troduce the results of the observations of is considered unscientific to take the rainfall a p.m. 41 7.30 p.m. her companion returned Western astronomers into China, and at Sica- from the roof. The present gauges are all lo from Yangtiepoo and found the front door wal they are now continuing the labours which the grounds, THE LIDRAKYMĄZA
She thoreapon want began with the arrival on Chinese soil of to No. 53 where a friend resided" and "s Mateo Ricci and Verbiest. Trus, that work has At the end of the hall is the library, a fins houseboy was sent to the back entrance suffered from long interruptions, but to the lofty rooms, the shelves of which are stocked with her. She entered and, on reaching her Jesuits the Chinese owe the calendar at present with the publications of other observatories bedroom, which was downstairs, saw that her in use, and to the same order mariners in Far and scientific societies. On a blackboard Eastern waters at the present day are indebted bearing a rough map of the coast of Ching, tenta were strewn around the room. Every for invaluable information placed at their disa Brother has just traced the barometric thing in the room appeared to have been posal by the unostentatious and palicat labours readings as received by telegraph that morning, searched. She then went upstairs and saw the
He is now at the telephone, taking down more dead body of Mrs. Cappers lying on the bed
readings that havo just been received · at· the partly dressed. The woman at once hurried
minent feature of the chase of the blackboard signal station on the unad. The most pro away to the Hongkow Police Station, and de-
is the series of circles that show the position roles went to the scene of the murder. Mr.
of a typhoon Brodiansky, Russian Vice-Consul, and Dr.
of the Fathers at Sicawei. - For "sicawei is,
THE MOST IMPORTANT ONSERVATORY
on the Chinese coast. Daily throughout the year it receives meteorological and other data by tele. graph from about sixty stations, and by careful comparisons of figures, by ceaseless watching typhoons and storms is reduced to a minimum. With his finger on an electric swith at Sicava one of the Fathers daily gives the standard time to China, and as noon approaches, on nearly every vessel in sight of the signal station, chronometers are checked or set as the time-ball falls.
Were I to describe more instruments there.
Hankow from Hanan he had an interview with to the welfare and interest of the College. Email, those who can are making desperate though they bad been held there while death in the true sense of the word. It does possess tüere is a magnificent view; "miles awAY...
CONFERENCE WITH CHANG CHHI-TUNG, When H.E. Chang, of Canton, arrived at
H.E. Viceroy Chang Chih-tong of the Hu Kwang raviners. This conference lasted for several hours during which a variety of subjects was talked over, especiallymuters in connection with the Canton-Hankow railway.
At Shanghai, H.E. also hid a conference with the Canton-Hark w'Railway shareholdern there in-regard to the working, etc. of this line.
H.E.'S INITIAL MOVE. ·
RISE OK RIVER. "
Wachow, zoth September, 1957. A case of cobalderable importance to ship. ping firms on the West River has occurred by A combined meeting of the general Council the ss. Salaam bringing up some cargo from and students of the Hongkong College of Me: Fong Chuen to Wuchas. Fong Chuen in dicine, which was postponed from last Wed about 20 miles below. Wachow and is only nerday, was held is the Legislative Council recognized, according to ned, as such is con- Chamber on Monday afternoon, for the purpose sidered a cloned part, and no cargo can be
as a “Pastager Stage," aud of electing Rector.
His Excellency Sir Frederickugard presided, naded or shipped there by foreign vesseli. (Colonial Secretary); Dia. C. Thomson,
There were also present:--Mr. F. 11. May The Saisam last week, it is alleged, picked up some cargo at this place and brought it on Francis Clark, R. MacLean Gibson, W. W. M. in Wuchow. There was no attempt at actug Koch, lie Kai, G. M. Harston, J. W. Noble, C. gling at all; the goods shipped were correctly M. Heanley, W. 8 A. Moore, Kwan King Leung, manifested. The Customs Authorities hold that Wong Sai Yan, Ho Nai Lee Yin BiG. A Sze Cheap Ho Ko Tiun, the Satnam committed a breach of regulations closed, and locked.
Ma Luk, To Ying in trading to a closed port and was subject to Kwan, Chung Yik Sun, Ho Nai Toan, Kwan substantial fine in addition to which the cargo King Hung and Mr. A. H. Crook.
shipped was liable to confiscation. No decision His reside for the first time as pre. rather complex points are likely to be raised in boxes bad been turned out and that the con
sald that it gave him great has yet been given in the above matter as some pleasure to aident of the Hongkong College of Medicine. connection with this case. The decision, when There was no time, he said, for speech-making, givan, will be of paramount interest owing to the business being to re-elect Mr. May the establishing of a precedent. Rector of the College, Mr. May for the last five yeni's had given much lime and thought The disturbance in the Yum-chow district nod had taken keen interest in the work of has resulted in the influx of a large number of she be standing again for re-election.
College, and it was not unusual for him to refugees to Wuchow vin Nanning. All the Dr. He Kai remarked that, bring the senior Nanging boats.have, of late, had more than walkers, also came in reply to telephone and patient care, the risk to mariners from would be fear of this article developing into a member of the Court.of the College and the who give some interesting reports on the press and an examination of the body and
scientific catalogue, it must auffice to WAY their full complement of passengers, same of oldest member of the general Council, it gave sent state of affairs in Yem-chow. It
premises was made. The body lay on the
that there are barometers, innumerable in appears him great pleasure to propose the re-election of that the trouble is anti-official, but not anti-
bed face down. Death had evidently been the Hon. Mr. F. H. May to be the rector of the dynastic, and that the rebels have enlisted all aby strangulation, for a towel was
in the sun, in the shade; above and below the observatory and grounds, thermometers College for a further term of five years To the bad characters" in the district who are still tied tightly around the neck in a reel
the ground and in a well, a sunshine record. secure the unanimous vote he had very litle maraiding and pillaging the homes of respect knott, which appeared to have been tied
ing instrument, an apparatus for receiving to say, as Mr. May was well known to them able Chinese folk who will not contribute funds
with strong hands. Another towel was tied
Hertzian waves and thus indicating the proximi -all, for during the time he occupied the rectorial to their campaign. As a result of this black around the legs just above the ankles. The chair he had been active, energetic and saw
hands were crossed bokidd the
2. MAGNETIC INSTRUMENTS. back as
ty of a thunderstorm. My visit concluded with Sicawal is not an astronomical observatory the ascent of the clock tower. From the top said he did not speak with the idea of flattery taking refuge in Nanning and other ports, attempts to get out of the troubled zone and
took place. A heavy bruise, was noticeable or to offer undue compliments, but having had The refugees who have reached Wuchow com
under the right eye and bruises on the neck small telescope, by means of which the Fathers could see the Observatory of Zosé, on a hill, over twenty years' experience with tho
just above, where the towel was tied. The can photograph or observe the phenomena Below, almost at, my feet the new cathedral, institution he was bound to say that Mr.plain bitterly of the inadequate protection
accorded them the officials and state that contents of the upstairs room in which the body of the heavens, but the real work of the now building, was a hive of busy workers. May had done just as much work as his the present rest will spread over the Kwang-ture had not been thrown about. It appeared conditions, and the recording of seismologi clore at hand, and above my head the ane fay had also been ransacked, though the furni Institution is the study of meteorological The convent, the workshops, the schools lay illustrious predecessors, and that during the past five years under him great progress had crovince unless the rebels are promptly that the search, though hurried, had been cal and magnetic observations. Particular mometer was moving gently in the breece been noticed, and very soon the College checked and suppressed,
conducted quietly. Meanwhile the houseboy interest attaches to the latter at this time, ns, The large clock, a gift of a "devout Catholic, would be established under a marè permanent
from No. 53 had been sent to the police owing to the advent of the tramways, all the gave out an angry bun as it prepared to basis. Thanks to the generosity of the Gay-"
station, where he was questioned and when magnetic instruments are shortly to be trans.
aan strike the hour. In the distance I could the inquiry was concluded the body was sent Director of the Observatory, the Shanghai and the forest of masts that betokened the ferred to Quintan. By the courtesy, of the sue the smoke of our great city, the river, to the mortuary and a guard placed over the premises Friends of the deceased
ociety of Engineers, and Architects will this presence of its busy shipping. You must assert that she had at least $100 in the house afternoon (Sept. 31) have an opportunity of come another day to see the, workshopi," and a pass-book for Sgog in the bank. The tended to a representative of this paper a few was about to bid him farewell a coolie, mount inspecting these instrumenta, a courtesy ex said my kindly guide as we descended. As 1 pass-book was found the bedroom, but no money. The house is a very narrow one and days ago. Father de Moidrey, who has beeted on a bicycle, rode up the drive. He has the adjoining residences have upstairs front at the Observatory for nine years, kindly to just taken in the morning charts,aid Father windows not more than ten feet from the open dertook the office of guide for the occade Moldrey. "This afternoon he will go is to window of the room in which the tragedy took
sion. The first visit was to the small Shanghai again with the daily bulletin and place; yet no sound was heard by the occu
building in which the magnetic instruments forecast." And then we sald firewall➡➡N. 0. pants of either of these places, so they assert,
are housed,
In this building there are D. News. and no one was seen to enter or leave the three rooms. In the smallest is a new and, house after the unfortunate woman returned into the uninitiated, very complicated earth
"THE FOREIGN COMMUNITY, AS the afternoon. The circumstances point to inductor, or dip circle for showing the dip of
SEEN FROM BEHIND." robbery as the motive of the crime, but, no sub- the magnet. The instrument is levelled and stantial evidence had been procured last night. revolved by hand, and until it has been connected with a galvanometer. It is then Saveral detectives were engaged upon the case, adjusted to indicate the exact dip of the however, and many theories had been formed.
It appears that the Indian who was arrested goet the galvonometer registers a current.
When po current is discernible the readings It is somewhat surprising to find a journal of Natur of 21st inst,, lives two doors away from a dial are read by means of a microscope. the reputation and standing of the Osaka saki the house in which the tragedy occurred and ing the declination, or variation of the compass, nothing less than the abuse of the foreign re-
The next.room,
n.captains.instruments.for detecte filling its columns with what amounts to inquiries made on the spot disclosed the fact Ench instrument is under a glass case, and con- sidents of Kobe. Under the above heading that he had some knowledge of the occurrence. sists of a magnet about five inches long suspend one of the staff of our Osaka contemporary has At the police station, however, he made state ed by a long silk thread or threads. A mirror is set out to "expose" the life of the foreigners ments, bighly improbable they appeared attached to each magnet, and any variation who are fortunate or unfortunate enough 10 at first, which led to his own release and the arrest of a woman named 'Minna Medal
can be read on a scale by means of a telescope. find themselves domiciled in what is known to at Yangtsepoo early in the foren by fepth of a minute can be ascertained,
By these instruments à declination of one the rest of the world as "polite," "happy". Det-Insp.-McDowell-and-another foreign-
d, & figure and/or sunny" Jepan. This vituperations of detective. The woman was at, once form stood, when it in realized that mariners are impression such reading is likely to have upon of which the significance can best be under- the Japanese scriba are fanny were it not for the ally charged and taken before the Austro- Hungarian Consular Court, where Herr Kobr, able only to detect a variation of half degree-the lower and more Ignorant classes who will doubtless peruse the series of articles with which lasted all the morning and the greater the centre of the magnetic observatory. It is on the Pacific Coast in mind-treatment which Vice-Consul, conducted a preliminary hearing, three hundred times greater.
There is an air of mystery about the room in avidity; and, with the treatment of the Japanese Ind an and several other witnesses was taken, quite dark, entered through four doors, opening none deplore more than the fore ga residents but the hearing was conducted in camera. A through as many walls; the object being to is Jepan-they are likely to utilise it to the manded in custody; the procedings will be re-declinometer and vertical and horizontal force kind of writing encourages them the conclusion of the case the accused was re-equalize the temperature as far as posible. full, for foreigner are frequently subjected to There are here three more instrumenta: adsults from coolics and such people, and this sumed the morning" at 9.30 o'clock, again in
The writer begins by describing the port of camera.
magnetometers. They are connected with a clock by long wooden tunnels. The mechanism Kobe as the entrance-way to Japan, but the of the clock causes three rollers, each covered place of origin of haikarra taste-and-the- with sensitized paper, to revolve, and a lamp-itdeplorable customs of civilisation," Whether playing on the mirrar suspended under each Kobe deserves the title of the gateway of Japan instrument automatically records any variation is more than the writer cares to say, but be of the magnets on the paper. This set of instruasks: Just imagine what will become of Kobe ments has been working since 1877, and day and when 400 foreign firms and 3,000 foreign mer- night throughout that period the sensitized paper chants (sic) have been taken away from the bas recorded the behaviour of the magnete. Un port? (It will be seen that the writer bas wittingly our representative had entered the room made up his mind that the forcingers are to be without leaving his pocket-knife-outside: "taken away."): Will not the reality of Robe When leformet of this Father de Moid:ey being the entrance-way of Japan be the ex
aid he was glad to know, as the result would tremely doubtful? Gratifying as it is to know probably be a disturbance of the instruments that Kobe is the most prominent foreign trade that might be mistaken for an earthquake. | port in the Kwansal district, it in just as dis- Every day this dark room is visited at intervals | pleasing to know that the majority of the trade
in perfect order. His pocket knife, carefully state; the strong foreign odour that emits from by a Chinese assistant, who checks the time of is carried on by foreigners. the clock and sees that all the instruments are Kobe is an inlet for the irregular foreign
to those who heedlessly bring earthquakes in from what be describes as the dark side of placed on a shelf outside, was a silent reproach the port being basseating to the average Japan
The correspondent goes on to lift the
I understood that E. Ching's first animent and Mr. Ng Liring, the College will step in initiating his administration of the go-bave permanect quarters of its own, and under vernment of the two provinces, will be to
the circumstances Mr. May will be supported thorough investigate the Yeet on Railway by the Council and the public, and with question. It is to be hoped that the petty his guidance he (the speaker) was, certain bickerings will soon be reinoved and the con-
the College would be placed on a higher struction and 'working' of the railway will be level. But notwithstanding the great energy pur under a proper and satisfactory board of displayed by Mr. May nothing could be directors..
Accomplished without the help of the students, Dr. Ho Kai reminded them that by coming to the meeting to-day, hearing the speeches, and dispersing was not doing their duty. They should use all their endeavour is supporting him and the Court in getting up an endowment fund to enable improvements to bo carried out and to put the College on a better basis. (Applause).
Dr. Ho Kai then proposed the re-election of the Hon Mr. F. H. May as Rector of the College,
Dr. Kwan King Leung seconded.
JAPANESE STEAMSHIP
COMPANIES.
RUMOURED INCORPORATION OF THE
AND TK K.
A
NV.K. AN In reviewing the present position of stean ship companies in Japan, the Osaka Asoki remarks that the aggregate tonenge of Japanese steamships, which stood at 791,000 at the end of 1904, has increased by about two fifthe during
This
An abnormal rise of the river, for this time of year, is being experienced just now. Until five days at the river was se low that prepara tions had been made to lay down the buoys to mark the winter channels. On the 16th inst. the river commenced to rise slowly and kept sendily on. The rise to date is over 40 feet and the river is still rising, though slowly, The cause of the present rise is attributed to the river I ino. Ho being in flood. This river is situated just below Kwai-yuen. Another 15 fent will see Wuchow Anoded, but it is to be hoped that the water will recede in a day or two. As it is, boatbuilders on the foreshore have had a bad time of it. As is usual, át this time of year, they constracted their majsheds on the foreshore for building purposes and had faished 16 boats, when the river rose. In a couple of days they were flanded out and their workshops and matsheds washed away, Chinese-like, they made no attempt to save
hence lost more than they need have done. The weather ibis past week has been very squally accompanied by plenty of rain. 7 he barameter on the 15th showed 194 and quite a gale way experienced here. Luckily no serious damage or casualties are known of The weather just now, is delightful and it up pears as if the long summer is over,
the last two years and a half, and now stands Chun sal was supported by Mr. Wong anything until the last possible manent and early yesterday morning, reports the W. C. D.
and
Vik.
Carried unanimously. Mr. May said that he was deeply sensible of the honour done him in re-electing him. Ho
WAR DO
VOLUNTEER CORPS ORDERS,
'ALI. UNIJS,
23rd instant, for intaniry drill. Bergt. Downes, -At headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Monday, the 3rd Middlesex Regt., will attend,
RECRUITS' DRILL
4th instant, for infantry drill. Sergt. At headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday,
ARTILLERY UNITS.
25th instant, for 15-pounder L. gus drill, At headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sergi, Windsor, R.G.A, will nitend.
Al headquarters at 5:30 pm, on Friday, the 27th instant, for Maxim gun drill. Sergt. Windsor, R.G A., will attend!"
at about 1,100,co tons, This has resulted in a heavy excess of bottoms over demand, and has been responsible for a marked develop ment of the Japanese steamship service in appreciated it all, especially the terms Dr. Ho Japanese and Far Eastern waters. But Kai submitted. He appreciated still more the the increase has not beep shown in freight honour as it was at a time when the College
passengers in proportion to the in-
the turning point in its career. Crease of tonnage, and, naturally enough, (Applause). is friend of his right (Dr. Ila keen competition has ensured-among-steam---Kni)-had-reminded-him-of-the-past-Inhours- ship companies, resulting in a decline of when, the work of the College had to be freight-ates. Pressed by the losses in business conducted under great disability-there being under these conduions, the incorporation of not a roof to cover them and no money in their individual steamship owners into a company pockets. A year agos the College had the good upder the style the Japan Steamship Co np. instone to inherit a windfall representing some apy was undertaken. The commercial and $to,oo, and lately, through Mr. Ng Li Hing, they financial success of the proposed company was, would have a sufficient sum to have a permanent however, fell to be doubiful, and the scheme. building in which education could be more collapsed.
The working of even the more prominent fent, and also the outside public, that a build.the
fittingly carried on. Fle reminded those pre * steamship companies, such as the Osaka Shosening" was not sufficient without an endow----Downes, 3rd-Middlesex-Regi,,-will-attend.--
Kaisha, Nippon Ya en Kaish and Toyo Kisen ment. Hitherto, the education in the College Kaisha, is found to be very unsatisfactory. It is was carried on through the gratuity of the mo known that the working of the Osaka Shoten dical men in the Colony, who gave up their Kaisha for the last two periods, and the spare time and skill, with no remuneration. Nippon Yusen Kaisha and Toyo Kisan Kaisha Only in recent years the Government made for the last business period, b s resulted in A grant to offer them a honoraris, but it was so some loss, and it is feared that the result may slight that it was not worth mentioning. be the same for the present perind. The Osaka What the College wanted, continued Mr. May, paper goes on to say that unlike business on
was permanent lecturers who could davute all fand, the shipping business has to meet with their time in lecturing on theology and an. peculiar and keener competition, and ap it is atamy. To do that they must have money. fesa Tu/rative than business on land, as mayam not going to make any appeal to be seen in Europe and America. Until recent years, the Nippon Yusen Kaisha was able to make a good profit on account of a bounty granted by the Government, and also because of the comparatively limited supply of bottoms in the Far East, Latterly the company has been placed in a very trying position through the strong competition resulting from
For many years the Court held a view, that the
great increase in bottoms withom n
before long they would have a real live col corresponding increase in freis ht and pas lege, where good education could be obtain sengers. It is stated that, in view of theed, and their students entered in the medi unsatisfactory result of its South American ser
cal register of the Colony That view, Mr. vice and other circumstances, the Toys Kisen May hoped, would be realized before he Kaisha has proposed, to incorporate with the left the Colony. In thanking those present for Nippon Yusen Kaisha, and Mr. Acano, president his re-election; Mr. May concluded that he of the company, is said to be conducting nego could not do much for them in the past, but he tiations in persun
hoped to do more in the future-and that would give him a great pleasure in life.
The success of the negotiations cannot be predicted as yet, but the term of the grant of the Government sub.idy to the Toys Kisen Kaisha expires in two years, and the contract with the South Pacific Radway Company for the connection of service also expires at the end of the present year. If the incorporation of the two largo companies is successfully ne- gotiated, it may relieve in 'sotne degree the present trying position of the steamship busi- ness in Japan.- Jupan' Chronicle.
A PRACTICAL JOKE. ̧.
COOLIE AND DISTRICT WATCHMAN FOOLED.
A very amusing story comes from West Point. Last Sunday afternoon, District watch man met a coolie on the Pinya West carrying
shoulder,
L
What have you in that bag?" he asked stopping 1be coolie.
Rice," was the reply. "From where did you get it?" demanded the watchman.
wo
you," the speaker said, smilingly, " 60 you need not look at me so seriously, the appeal was to that generous Hongkong public. At present was no time for the appeal to be mide. The Hongkong public has never been appealed to in vain, and he did not think their appeal would be without success. (Applause),
Dr. Koch proposed a vote of thanks for the Governor,
ENGINEER COMPANY. At West Fort, Kowloon, at 9 p.m. on Wed. nesday, the 25th instant, for technical instruc tion."
TALKOO DETACHMENT,
t
at Taikoo at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, the 36th instant, for gun drill, Sergt. White, R.G.A, will attend.
N. C. Q. CLASS.
part of the afternoon. The evidence of the
A TRIFLE COMPLICATED..
`THE REWARD of doing a friend a
TAVOUR,
21st inst, Doing favours for a friend is not always a pleasant task, as one Chinaman is ready to vouch for to-day. Some time in July last, a coolie, named Wong Ping approached a richer confrère calling himself E Mia and asked for the loan of a couple of dollars. At first E Min took the matter as a joke, but when Man Yau, who reputed to be a well-to-do fisherman, 23rd instant, for infantry drill. Sergt. Downes, heart softened and Wong departed 55 10 At headquarters at 5.30 pm on Monday, the pleaded for Wong Ping, and even went so far as to guarantee repayment, E Min's stoney 3rd Middlesex Regt., will attend.
At headquarters A1'5.10 p.m. on Tuesday, the waiting for his money. One day this the good. Months went by and saw E Min 24th instant, for 15-pounder 1.L. gup drill. Sergt. White, R.G.A., will attend.
week, while chatting with some friends in an opium divan, nt Wanchai, E Min war old that Wong Ping had left the Colony- had migrated to the Straits-and that his second Street, West Point, E Min was very fad, the fisherman, had changed lodgings to much disturbed; he said that if he met the pair bey would feel very much hurt, and took his departure home. Yesterday afternoon, E Min, while thinking over the matter, met an old friend-Man Kau Kan, a paint-scraper-io
At headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 25th instant, for Maxim gun drill Sergt. Whức, R.G.A., will attend. ·
At headquarters at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, the
27th instant, for lecture by Staff officer.
• RIGHT HALF NO. 1 CO.,.H.K.V.A., NICHOLSON CUP.
inslaol.
The next shoot for the above will take place His Excellency returned thanks, and the at Tai Hang Kange, as Sunday afternoon, 29th meeting concluded,
The 200 yards range, will close as soon as passible after 2,30 p.m.
Handicaps are revised as follows-Gunner F. Louriero ar, Günner A. W. J. Peake 11,
Day 15.
THE SIAMHSE ARMĖ.
We learn that the commanders of the different
A
regimenis stationed in the various moms of Gunner II, W. Watling 11, and Gunner J. S.
Siam will in future have to send an annual conference 'which is be held at the War Office in Pangkok, to discess military matters. I his step is considered most expedient as a means of military discipline and of organising the army on modern lines. We understand that this initiative has been taken in connection. with the new military system which is now en. forced in various monthons of the country. considerably licked into slip, and the general discipline and organitzion of forces stationed in the various monthans shows much care a dvigilance on the part of the Authorities, The men are better paid, beter looked after equipped, and disciplined than ever, and doubt with the new military lawa in force, we may expect to see still greater improvements. There is also talk of organising a more efficient gendarmerie throughout the country, and for obvious reasons this work should meet with general approbation. After all a well organized gendarmerie is more important for Siam than a
Of recent years the Siamese army has been
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JOINED
RESIGNED.
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on leaving the Colony with effect from the 24th Gusher H. R. Brewer is permitted to resign August, 1907.
Queen's Rond East,
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their train..
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JAPANESE JOURNALIST ON THE PROWL
THE TRANSIR TELESCÓPE. *
Koba-the foreign settlement. He talks of the imported gentlemen and ladies who are seen Passing the mail, observatory; where the Astronomical telescope is mounted we came to walking about with an air of superiority as if ment, by which records of earthquakes at the to the bypoctile kaikarra people"-apparent. the vicinity of the seismograph. This instry Kobe belonged to themselves." He also refers other side of the globe have been obtained, alluding to the foreigners' servants.. was not permitted to see, Father de Moldrey foreign.community of Kobe are being practised According to our translation, among the explains that the presence of two men in the "Deipaired Battery and fraud, strong supersti passed the little but in which it is enclosed, manner, astonishing dissipation and, immoral, neighbourhood would seriously disturb it. We tion, corruption and degradation in an unusual therefore, at some distance, and proceeded past ignominious, inhuman brutal acts." One Look here, Ah Man," E Mie said, "I have the workshop, where one of the brothers on helped you before, would you do me a favour?" dertakes repairs, and even the making of naw which we live ! And the worst of it is, as the Phudders to think of the awful surroundings in Man Kau Kan replied that if it were in his instruments, to the time-observation apparatus correspondent adds: Much about them is power he would. Min told him of leading The transit telescope, by which the correct $5 to Wong Ping: of Man Yau guarantee time is ascertained daily, is a pay and beasti unknown even to the Kobe people." In ing the loan, and would he mind taking a ful instrument, but so complicated that it fambrica, which is indiscriminately, worshipped trip to West Point and seeing Man Yan would require an expert to do it justice. Six terror of the Japanese," he proceeds, "the Mr. C. F. Bird joined on the 13th September, At about eight o'clock last sight he met one of which shows the true level within husband bas no right to demand fidelity from about the money, Man Kau Kao would, gaver levels are used for adjusting it, habit of revering women bas been developed 1007, assigned Corps No. 993, and pasted to
la excess-Indeed, to such an extent that the the fisherman at West Point. Mag Kau two seconds, on a scale. At night a portion his wife." The insinuation is obvicus. By the Right Hall No..a Company,
Kan reminded the fisherman about the loan of the roof above it is removed. The telescope such forced and foolab statements the writer, and said he came to collect it. Man Yau asked then set to a position corresponding approxi- ssid he would not, until he saw St. He was the star comes across the field of vision the own and those of his readers, and he relates. him to leave the house. The paint-scraper mately with that of some known star. When seeks to show that the morals of the foreigners as a body are such as cannot compare with his asked again to leave and on receiving his time is carefully checked at which it crosens reply; the fisherman picked up a piece of iron the series of spider web threads in the eyepiece. certain interviews with Japanese people of the By a delicately adjusted lever the instrument lowest class in Kobs to prove his statements, the painter's head, the latter ducked, and re- is then tarned completely round, and more which he endured on bearing the revelations.
and also refors in modest terms to the blushes- ceived the full force of it on his back. The readings are taken. Any fractional error is Having tarred all foreigners with the same man sank to the door. Struggling to his feet thus discovered, and the iritsi bervatory brush, this very virtuous correspondent admis once more he rushed to be street and called a pared with that shown by the Observatory that even among foreign policeman, who took the fisherman in charge, clock is recorded in a book. The clock is gain port there are a few exceptions. There are of an open At No. 7 Police Station, Man Kau Ran's wounding at the rate of 3-foth seconds a day, and found some sober, honest and upright gentle- agash half an inch deep, and about eight was four and a half seconds fast at the time men, who can be regarded as the model of inches long, near the right shoulder blade-of my visit. Just above it is the electric device what a gentleman should be. But be urgen- was attended to,
by which the time-ball in worked. Having as many have often urged before-that oug This moming, at the Police Coon, Mas
noted the day's error the Father in charge You pleaded guilty to assaulting the painter stands by the clock with his finger on the cannot fudge by appearances. He is of opinion E. Min's friend and was ordered to pay & switch, and at noon precisely sends the electric
that the foreign community of Kobe je very, very bad; and, as we' hava said, his articles compensation.
The clock has been working about twenty the anti-foreign feeling it is apparently intend THERE has been a long felt need in Tientsin
ed to engender amongst a certain class of; A WONDERFUL INDICATOR, for a servants' registry office, but no one seems
Japanese. We thought the Asahi was.Above. Our next visit was to the hall of the main this kind of thing.- inclined to undertake the trouble which the building. In a room facing the door there is
Japan Chronicle. organising of such an establishment would an instrument that perhaps appeals more than entail. If there was such a registry in Tientsin any other to the lay mind, though the Fathers THE stocks of winter goods in the stores here! many difficulties would be done away with, to regard it rather as a toy. Suspended below are very small; the demand rapidly increasing great extent, as the living places and proper clock is a board on which is placed a sheet and prices very dear. It would pay any Tien- names and characters of all those who obtained of ruled raper. The clockwork lowers this tain merchants to start a branch, here well employment through the office, would be paper to the full extent in actly #ek. A stocked with winter requirements, ——– Cama
Alna Grícia,
Mario of pencils, each of which is attached tod Crifle
resign on account of bad health with effect Gunner W. H. Durrance is permitted to from the 4th September, 1997. on leaving the Colony with effect from the 6th Gunner W. A. Brand is permitted to resign Neptember, 19:7, with effect from the 14th September, 1907.
Gunner E. J. Chapman is permitted to resign
Guaner A. 14. Linng is granted leave of absence out of the Cology for 13 months with effect from the 9th September, 1907.
Corps Drderly Officer: Lieutenant W. M.
LEAVE.
and as he was bringing his weapon down on
MAD, who would give him three cents, and he big landing army, Throughout the length Scott for week ending Saturday, the 28th ine of $to and to hand over one dollar impulse that releases the tima ball on the Bund. would be distinctly humorous were it not for
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" I paid $1.20 for it," answered the coolle, "Then come along with me and show me the person who sold it to you." The coolie could not, and he was inked to No. 7 Police Station, where he told another story to Inspector Collett A man met him in the street, he said, and engaged him to carry the bag as far as the Central Markel. There he would meet
to give her the bag.
and bread h of the country there is need for instant The inspector ordered the bag to be opened, such a military body to afford security for life. And
to the astonishment of everyone present, and property. With such securly the condition especially the coolic and the watchman, who of the peasantry would be greatly improved SAW visious of a case, the contents of the bag and the development of industry and trade were discovered to be sand and stones! Some would increase in proportion, one had played a trick on the coolie and the It is to be hoped; therefore, that annual District watchman hd tumbled into it too. meetings of Military Commander of the various The watchman disappeared from the station by menthons will result in bringing about such a one door, the coolie by another, amidst great desirable st te of affairs and thus contribute in "Laughter, each mumbling to himself, words, a great measure to the growing prosperity of which, in the circumstances, had better be left the kingdom and the peace and security of the 19 the Imagination than recorded. saged inhabitauti-Siam Free Prun
HENRY ARNAUD, no unemployed engineer,re siding at No. 1, Wild Dell, Wanchal Road, was arrested last Bunday afternoon and removed to the Central Police Station, on a charge of as- sauiting the moterman. of tramcar No. 9 Later he was released on Sto bail. Arnaud, it was stated, struck the motorman because the latter refused to make the car travel faster. At the Police Court, on Monday morning, when the case was called there were no signs of Arnaud, and Mr. Melbourne estreated his ball,
12
years.