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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.”
SERVICE,
THE GRAND COUNCIL.
A MEMBER'S RESIGNATION.
[By courting of the "Sheung Po
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 51908.
THE TENTO-MARU”
AN OLD MAN'S DHATH,
FALLS A DISTANCE OF 41 FEET.
WHERE CRITICS DIFFER
Considerable criticism has been passed by
In the early hours of this morning, a' China those qualified to julga 'as the new. T.K.K., who was about seventy years of age, met steamer Tray-mark. It is no secret that his death in a most tragic fashion. The old much of this criticism has been hostile, and man-Li Fesn-resided on the top floer of 2, the beleg se, it is interesting to quote the East Street. With him lived bis wife and opinion of à San Francisca critic who inspected children. – At about four am. to-day, during the the vessel soon after her arrival at the Pacific heavy downpour, the old man got up from his por, what the Tenyo-wear lowered the record bed, and protended to close the windows. In of the Siboda from Yokohama to. San Fran- order to reach a shutter the man had to lean over the window-sill, and in so doing lost his cisco by 1 hour and 8 minuter. We quote as
bitance and fell forty-one feet to the streat. |
follows
Peking, 4th September.. Luk Chun Nam has tendered his resignation as a member of the GrandMy impression is very different from the Council..
Tho Imperial Government has, however, declined to accept the resignation,
MANCHUS AND" CHINESE.
THE INTER-MARRIAGE QUESTION,
reckless criticisms published in the San Fran cisco daily press, and I find that the only material repairs necessary on arrival were overhauling the electrical connections through- out the ship. As for removing air shafts to the extent of 18 too, as so absurdly stated in the San Francisco Chronicle, in order to right 'bad list, it would be necessary to car the ship to pieces, and the effect would hardly be noticeable on the stability. The idea of a lack of stability probably arose, from, the reporter's personal impression, as he looked at her bridges towering above the water-lice which made him think that the ship would be top-liewy. As a matter of fact, those Peking, 4th September
bridges are comparatively light, and as for The Emperor and Empress-Dow-causing any suspicion of being top heavy, this ager have instructed the Board of Rites to draw up a set of regulations governing the inter-marriage of Manchus with Chinese.
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Morocco
LONDON, 3rd September. Germany's action in sending her consul to Foz threatens, to revive the Moroccan question in its most acute form, and in con.
When he was picked up life was found to be extinct. The police had his remains sent to the mortuary for burial,
THE SILANÍ HOUR.
It chanced that on a particular Sunday more ing the sun had been bright and cheerla! and the three of us had, had a long tramp nercas country from Bukit Timah to Pasir Panjang. The shandy was good, the bath batter, and the curry tiffin more than sufficient, topped by a glass of bijau, The af ornoon was bot, and we all want to sleep. Now that is a very improper thing to do and lest the majority of my readers should, of their faith in me, blame themselves,
at once point out that while an afternoon nap. is not an, undesirable conclusion, may, is the very crown, or lap of Sunday luxury, an after rily critic may feel asured that this ship titta sleep is damnable heresy. if when the will compare favourably with other ships of cigar is half way through, the kebud gently her class that are already in service, and which swishes his bamboo broom over the grass, and hve been subjected to all kinds of weather. you mentally consider him an industrious chap, The enform su impressed me particularly as with no great vich except a lack of the sense of being a very comfortable, convenicut, and well-proportion expressed by slowness to respond arranged ship, and one that is certain to be to the call of" puskab," and a cheerful alacrity come very popular with trans-Pacific travel-in bearing the “rudab "—that is a proper frame ters."
of mind for an alternos cap, from which you will wake in an hour, or less, and say to your self“ Dear me, my cigar's out." Thereafter you may again dose, and wonder when the tea's coming, and ruminate in a placid frame of mind on dressing for church, as you dideli go in the In view of the report which recently went morning, or get ing ready for golf, as this is the through Japanese p.pers that Professor Kochthird Sunday in the month, or calling for the
ÇATS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST
RATS.
COMMERCIAL.
YARN MARket,
In their report dated 4th instant, Mesara. Phirozaba R. Petit & Co write
Co-day's Advertisements.
Our last circular” war-dated, the 21st August. The drop in Exchange, forecasted in our last, has been the main contributing factor is keeping up prices at last rail's quotations TDAY, September. which, whila conferring no benefit spoo im porters, tends to make inquiries few and far between. Such as hava coms into the market bave been confined to selected thrands, only those spinojnga showing any signs of action."
Previous forward settlements 'continue to pour into the market; fortunately for dealers Indian rupee exchange is all in their favour and is not expected that arrivals will glot the market.
In connection with the prospect of cotton spining competition in the North China market, the report of a autaworthy feature of Chinese ooserpina ranches, our hands in newspaper published in Tientsin. According to that report the two Chinese officials who had been selected by Taotai Cbow Hueb-bay Managing Director of the future Chinese Cotton Spinning and Weaving Mill in Tientsin, for proceeding to England and other European and Japanese countries, to make personal in vestigations about foreigo mills, wore to leave Tientsia for Europe is the Trape-ilberian route in a few days, at the expenss of the Pro vincial Government of Chibli; because the propand mill will be established by the Pei- yang Vice-royalty. After the rotura of these wo delegates next year, Taotai Chow will then proceed to obtain the sum of Tia. 5,000,000 or $5,000,000 as capital, estiraly from Chinese sources, for the establishment of this mill after, foreign methods, so as to compete with the foreign mills to Chios, and also to check the yearly increased import of foreign cotton and cotton yarn into this Empire. The machinery, which was formerly purchased by the Teriar-General of Lii, for the establishment of a cotton mill at Ii, has been gives to Vice roy Yang of Chihli, who is now consulting the Board of Commerce in Hoking about the par be dry enough to-day. But with it all life isn't machinery from the United States, to that a so bad, and thank God there is a Sunday La- first clase mill may be established in North bour Ordinace for godown fol. That is the China The Chiqeso authorities in North alle 200 pup, and the Silent Hour is a much China are paying considerable attention to the the result of your own frame of mind as of the proposed mill it Tientsin, because if it be pro- other causes outside yourself making for peace.perly msuaged it will help much to reduce the import of foreign cotton yarn into Chion in and quietness. And the result is virtue,
Juture.
QUEEN'S COLLEGE DERM DEGINS at 9 AM, op WEL: ES-
THE HEADMASTER. Hongkong, 5th September, 1908,"
THE TRADE MARKS ORDINANCE, 1898.
No
Application for Re ̧istrativni
7 rade Marks,
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TOTICE is hereby given that The INCOLN. & MIDLAND COUNTIES Davo Com.. PANY, of Park street Works, Lincola, Eng-
land: Manufacturing Chemists and Wholesale applied for the Registration, in Hongkong, in Druggists, have on the 27th day of April 4908, the Register of Trade Marks of the following
Trade Marks
label con.aining in the upper part upos a Trale Mark No. 1 consists of an oblong scroll the name "Clarke's" beneath it being the words "Blood Mixture" also upon a scroll. Between the two scrolls are the words "World Famed". Immediately under the lower band are the words " Warranted to cleanse the blood fron all impure matter from whatever cause arising". In the middle of the Jabal is the picture of the interior of an apothecaries hall with representations-of-persons--therein. Below this picture, and extending to the bol tom of the label are the words " Prepared only by The Lincolo & Midland Counties Drug Company, Lincoln, England". The label is roamented with representations of leaves distributed around and between the devices,
Trade Mark No. 2 consists of the symbol "B41
Trade Mark No. 3 consists of a circular label with the figure of a oude chubby boy is a sitting posture with the word "Lincoln" on a band underneath. In the angular border are the words Clarke's Miraculous Salve Price. ts.ild., 2896, 41.62" Beneath the word "Lincoln is the word " England" in the Dame of The LINCOLN & MIDLAND Works, Liscalo, England; Manufacturing COUNTIES Drug Company, of Park Street Chemists and Wholersin Druggists, who claim to be the sole proprietors thereof.
The Trade Marks have been used by the Ap
sequence there is anxiety on the Paris and bad advised the keeping of cats as a proventive j'nets to be put up, because the courts ought to chass of a new set of spidoing and weavingolicants in respect of the following goods-
Berlin bourses..
The German newspapers are in a chorus of approval at the turn of events, but the French are uncisy, and suspect an intention on the part of Germany to resume a policy of hostility and provocation.
+
The Paris Temps says that an immediate and unconditional recognition of Mulai
·Hafid as Sultar is out of the question, and
herself alone in this matter.
measure against plague, and in view of the investigations which are now being made regarding the dumber and species of cats in the country, the following paragraph from a European exchange to hand by last mail offers interesting reading :-
"The Government intends' sending by each steamergoingto India a number of catsuolil the total of these quadrupeds shippedrenches 300, a. Close medical investigation has resulted in finding that the plague ia todia increases or decreastsig proptern to the number of cats in a.
́epidemicseldom appears; whereas where there
Should it unfortunately happen that the walk was a fraction too long, or that the boy used
Angostura instead of Coq-from such light Causes do evils low-lhe tiffia arguments may ex'end beyond the commencement of the pipe afternoo0. The brain refuses to succumb to
4
Patent Medicines, in Class 3. Facsimiles of the Trade Marks can be seen. at the Office of the Colonial Secretary of Hoogkong.
Dated the 4th day of September, 1908,
The LINCOLN & MIDLAND COUNTIES DRUG COMPANY,
Another significant step in the direction of 818] competition directed against Hamby Mills is the signing at the French Consulate in Koba on August 25 by Mr. Bu, re,resenting the
ment necessary to complete the loan advanced
Germany must not be surprised if she finds place. In houses or huis where cats are kept the of peace, and that is fatal to the calm of the Kanegafuchi Spinning Company, if the agree France regrets that Germany is not of the e do ca's it is found on the increase. As the this withdrawal of blood from it for gastric pur- by French capitalists in the prolence the same mind as the rest of Europe, but she quirements, the British Government will assist -will-not modify her line of conduċi..
Later.
The Gorman Chargé d'Affaires, in an in- terview with M. Pichon, explained Germany's relations with Mulai Hafid, and her viewa regarding his recognition as Sultan.
The British press criticises Germany's basty action, and thinks that she should have allowed France and Spain to, take the "Voitiative.
The press also considers that Germany's action destroys the effect of the Kaiser's Strasbourg speech.
It is stated that Great Britain is awaiting the decision of France and Spain before taking action..
America and Japan. President Roosevelt, writing to the Hon. Elihu Root, United States Secretary of State, concerning the postponement of the Japanese exhibition, says that the people of United States hold' Japan in peculiar ngs of regard and friendship, and that piker nation is more anxious than
ca to make the exhibition a success.
rearing of cats in lodia does not meet the re
Or
poses and instead of peace there is, war, perchance the brain basely cipitulates at once and you become sleepy. Then does evil stalk -abroad-through-the Silent Hour No pap. through wakefulness, and you smoke and jaw, and get thirsty and drink, and read and worry, and wish for four o'clock, and ponder, aver the ills that have befalled you, and those that are coming, and they grow, and grow till the corse of a mis-spent alternoon comes home to roost in wakefulness and irritability. Should the other evil of sleepiness fali upoo you in un-
by shipments from the home country.".
flere we have a chance for promoters of "Cat Clubs for improving the Feline Species is Japan." Mady towns in this country have now their" Face Club for the Improvement of Horse-breeding," with race meetings, pari-mu tuel, etc. with the avowed object of creating a good horse for the purposes of warfare, ie assisting in the destruction of life. Would the obj:c-of a "Ca Club" not be more praise.dus haste you do not escape. Ten chances to worthy, ga its a snl purpose in the preservation one that one of the best begins to boast of of human fe by the destruction of rais? Empty having made a record in size, shape, or quality godowns fr holding meetings for prizat and the fresh laid egg gets inextricably con catching can be found anywhere, and a "pati fased with the "teli azing" of the sambale murue!' could enliven misters. It is also to be just concealed about your person. If you wake hoped that the organisation of "free cat clubs" and throw things at Chuck-a-biddy, as the first (without Ministerial sanction) on the roofs of io, ulse is, the certainty of missing yed shout- the residentit quarters will remain undisturbed ing for the tukang ayer, the kebun, cookin, in future, be exploding Tausan is uttler and sais and the whole retinue to slay the unr bombs of a similar character.- quan Chronicle. seemly cackier, drives away for that day at
LAW AND DISORDER,
BTTLE OF SOUNDS UPSETS THE COMPL SURE
OF THE SINGAPORE COURT,
...and the plaintiff in this action is, in my view, bound by the terme of....ding i dong! dong ding...the contract dated..... Boom
fourteenth day
cast the 5'lent dour, and without it life is a mistake. If you do happen to alɛep, the dog- tired, swinish oblivion is disturbed by borrid dreams and you wake with a start into Black Monday morning no matter what the hour, for it it is one minute to four you are crabbed at losing that minute, and if it is one minute after, you are blessed well sare that you will never be able to get ready-in time, yell you for the boy and sais never so loudly The tea, scalds and the cake crumbles; the foal knows that that isn't a go-to-meeting coat; the boots are as hard as cinderolla's, slipper'; he stud slips down inside; and when the harness is pro- perly a ljusted your cuffs are lung and your Choler strong and freiful. That mis-spent Silent either side, and it ..... Dong I....it may Hour makes the parson tedious and the choir be argued.....Dong!....notwithstanding the unus Nor is that all, for the afternoon ......Dong as laid down in......Doug i Queen's sleep has spoiled the night's rest, and you wake Bench Division ... Dong by which it may the middle of it with an uneasy sense that it be shown...ding ding dingiding...bas como is not yet midnight. Presently the clock down within the provisions of...ing-ingring...... stairs strikes one, followed shortly after by the Hera at all events is Dong!.....not in accordance with......ding: next door timepiece.
of......dang.....dong! diag ! made between .... ding f'dang! dong! ding! partice and that being so.....dong The object of the President's letter is apding it is clear these must be ..... Dang! ...right of action..... Dọng!...if it is shown pardly to set at rest the latest rumours
that......Dong...on the part of....Dong regang the relations of America and Japan, notably in regard to the proposed Chino-American alliance as against Japan...
KILLED BY A PENCIL.
By F. BROWN,
a Partner in the Firm.
DRICHTAL
STEE
STRAITS, CEYLON, AUSTRALIA, INDIA, ADEN, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN POR'S, PLYMOUTH AND LONDON.
French Vice-Consul and M. Gysin. He after- wards proceeded to Osake, to be present at a meeting of the Associated Spinning Companies held there.—-iris-bel-ered-that-Mr-Dato-will- shorty accompasy Mr. Gysin to Pasis on busi- THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL ness of the Company. The amnunt advanced-
STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY. to the Japanese Company by Parisian bankers was Y1,000,000, being interest at 7.5 par
STEAM FOR cent, including commission and sundry charger, and is guaranteed by the Mitsui and Mitsu Babi Banks. It is now stated that the money will be left with the London branch of the Mitsui Busaas Kaisha and will be used to pay for new machinery (Through Bill of Lading inquod for BATAVIA: purchased by the Company. The Company
PERSIAN GOLF, CONTINENTAL, AMERI- bas this year commenced large extensions of CAM and SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.} its works. At the head factory at Takio 31 712
THE Steamship new spindles are being introduced at the Su moto branch, 20,80 spindles for cotton and 300 weaving machines; sad at the Takasago | Captain H Powell, carrying His Ma Futailu factory 23,430 additional spindles. Part Jay's Mails, will be despatched from this of the new machinery-is-already-in operation for BOMBAY, on SATURDAY, the 19th- and it is expec of that all will be sio June or Cargo for the shrive Ponte in connection with September, at Nood, taking. Passengers and
July next year.
the Company's RB Pad 8.000 tons, from Colomba, Passengers accommodation in which vessel is secured before departure from. Hong•.
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"MALTA,"
For the present, however, the export of Japanese yarn to China continues depressed, shipments. having almost entirely stopped, while the home market is lifeless. The redcc Silk and Valuables, all Cargo for France, and Tea for London (under" arrangement) tor of the output by 17.5 per cent for five will be transhipped at Colombo into the mouths from May, 1st last has slightly inf. | Mail,meamer proceeding direct to Marseilles proved the position, but the outlook for and Lendro, oiber Cargo for London, &c. will
be conveyed from Bombar by the R.M.S.
'Parcels will be'meniväď at this Office until Molta das 's London on 25.k October, 1908.
RM. the day before sailing, The Contents and Valor of all Packages are required.
For further Particolars, apply to
F. J. ABBOTT,
Acting Superlatendent, Hongkong, 5th Sep'ember, 1908.
.2
SUPERSTITION IN SINGAPORE.
the export to Chisa is glory, with no Prospecs of improvement in the near fu- turc. A proposal to extend the term of restricted output by five months, and to revive the five holidays a month arrangement, was to be considered at a meeting of spinners fast month. If the proposal is adopted the output will be reduced by 40 per cent. It is pointed out that the total output of yarn in Japan is. 960, 05 fiales, of which 360,002 bales are ex- production is reduced by 40 per cent, it means ported and 600,030 costumed in Japan, - If ibo the discontinuance of nightwork at all: the milli, The total output will then be reduced | to 576,00 bales, which quantity is scarcely sul- ficiert to supply the home demand. As a result the market for Japanese yarn which bas A strange accident occurred at the Angic-terms of the Long Dong something definite and something to turn over been, established in South and Central China for and begin the night, Still dosing, after an during the past ten years, rendered possible by Chinese School, through a slate pencil piercing
interminable interval, wailing and wondering, the outbreak of plague. in India, may be re- the heart of a Chinese isd, named Chew. Hopthe Supreme Court is in process of delivering you hear the single i dong again. Then in the captured by Jadiso yard, 350, the son of Chaw Soo Chuan. Like most judgment and the witching hour of twelve connext ten mis utes three reaches the eas-at least
No, 201ir business transpired in selected threads. school children, the boy, who was about eight Brrives. The interruptions are provided by :--
eight of them, some near, done, distant,” me»,
No. 16-Favourite chops moved at current years old, carried a sharp pointed pencil in
chanical and metallic strokee of clapper on bell, muffled sound of wood on goog, as the his coat picket: During recreation time, he
No. 12-Not much in favour. Small bus somehow for forward, the pencil bring in such
Jaga here and there Justifies his name by prov-ness was done with a slight concession in value, that they were afraid to traverso lonely streets position that the pointed and entered his
No, ros.-"As usual ih demand and are in--on dark nights. bij ́ ́boly." It pierced his heart to the depth of over
quired for at current rates, two inches and snipped. He was taken to the "General Hospital, where Dr. Cooper.extracted thi broken end, but owing to the vital place of
This is what it sounds like when a Jedge in
(a) The Town Hall chimas immediately preceding the striking of the hour;
(b) The Time Gun at Fort Canning: (C) The Town Hall ball striking the and .
hour;ing that be was not so fast asleep that he did.
not bear the policeman tell of the passing of a fraction of his night watch. When the last boom, and the agony of waiting for another, have passed by, it is really time to go off, for sleep defamed maketh the huid ache. Wharis
(d) The clocks in court striking the hour. There are also various aber interruptions of a mere or leis musiçal kind, such as unlimsty
rales,
No. 8-Nothing doing..
No. 6-One parcel only changed hands. Market closes steady,
A, CURIOUS IDEA.
Whenever any public work of importance is s'arted in Singapore some extremely foolish or mal'cions person statts the rumour that the Government are seeking for heads to place in the foundations.
When the Memorial Half was begun, and
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in several other instances, the feeling ran high. among the more superstitions Chinese, even MACHADO'S STRING many of the Malays catching, the infection, so
the wound, the poor lad succumbed, - Finang coughing, shuffling of feet, and moving of that? A cock-crow? The uncertainty is 101, 450bales of No. 121., 125 bales of No. 164, || gress, mid that one head had been secured and
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chairs; together with loud talking and occasion- al laughter at the other end of the Court, and A STEP former is taken by the Fekin Syndi. In sundry mysterious recesses. cale, which doduces that it has received ade in all a little trying to the serves, and the cablogram from its Chief Mining Engineer at judge concerned, and those anxious to hear the the Ja-Mel-Sea Collieries, stating that No. 4 details of the judgment, may be excused if they abafe has been sunk to coal. The coal seam become irritabla, was proved by borehole to be seventeen fest in thickons, and at a depth of 418 fost, and fury ther information as to its commercial quality will be awaited with interest. The recent con
It was rumoured a few days ago, saya a Sin, gapore contemporary; that a hunt for heads in connection with the work on the new bridge at Sales bales of No. 61, 2,350 bates of No, the mouth of the 5 agapore Rivar was lo pro- maddening, and out of bed to find no matches and 715 bales of No. 209.; in all about 3,000 placed in the foundation:. It is now rumoured that another person has been decapitated and till half the things are knocked off the dress- Arrivals-Par steamers Japan, Lightning his head utilised for this parposs. log table; the wick of the lamp will not rise; and Nawang (from Calcutta), and Takasaki happy if the chimney doesn't slip with a clatter Mara and Dreanha (from Bombay), of about turky indeed it wasn't broken--and the watch300 bale stares you in the face- am. The first series
of strokes was half-after midnight į the next the Yesterday, the Singapore Free Press of 29th | hour; thoroughly disgusted, the long-chais alt, says, Mr. Justice Sercombe-Smith endas- and a book are a poor excuus for waiting over youred to make himself board over and above the third series of "ones" when you tem_in the battle of sounds that occurred while he was again and corm the Nony Hours and havin
tida ij pełdictions that the company would soon ́dfilveting a judgment, but bad, for a few mo: "All because of the afternosa aliep instead of bizam coal producer mim à fitifa ngaier, mam to give, na the qnequal contest to the afternoon gap.-W. M. in Singaßern Kras
bales. Mill
Unseld Stock --Aboul 15,000 bales.
Uncleared Stock :—About rapɔo balas, Exchange We quote to day as follows:- fadia T. T at Rs. 133 per cent,
7emand
Itseems incredible that in this enlightened age there can bo'any person, under the British fig, of so darkened intellect as to give cred ence to such absurd reports, but it is unfortun ately true that there are many such in our midst Those who are more enlightened ought to do all in their power to demonstrate to inch sach dperson the absurdity of their bellat, as
opinions might, under favourable conditions, prove & serious menace to the pence" of the
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O. E OWEN,
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