The Hongkong Telegraph.
NEW SERIES No. 8015
CONTENTS.
Births and Deaths.
Leading Articles:-
The Value of Publicity.
The Downfall of a Britishes,
When Typhoons Occur. Chinese Imperial Naval Commission. Concerning the Estimates.
Telegram:-
Shanghai Sikh Police
Lord KitchenAT.
The Naval Commissioners. A Capton-Hankow Railway, China's Navy.
Butler Wright Care.
The Sunulog Railway.
Navy Fundi,
The Waiwapa.
Typhoon at Macao..
· Portuguese Gunboat Macau, Anti-Opium Campaign.. China Merchants' S. N. G Luk Chin-Jum.
Tai Hung-tre
New Ports.
Meetinga
Legislative Council.
The Dairy Farm Co., Ltd. Canton Insurance Office, Ltd.
· Legal Intelligence:- Criminal Sessions. Alleged Forgery of Bills of Exchange. Armed Robbery at Kawloon chai.. Promissory Note Clam..
Sbarks' Fins.
Palioe:
The New Territory Murder.
A"Unique" Village.
Shop-lifter Punished,
Correspondence—
King Edward VII, Scholarships. Miscellaneous Articles and Reports :-
Hangkong's Unwelcome Visitor Typhoon in Honkong.
Macao's Delimitation..
New French Misister,
Arrival of Prince Skup.
Macao Harbour Works,
French Mail Damaged.
Hongkong, Gymkhana Club.
Notar by the Wily.
The British Fost-Office at Tientsin.
An Elephant's Frolic.
St. Stephen's Coll-ge.
Patrolling the Yangiste. →
Harmston's Circus.
Destructing of the Sir John Jackson,
Profession.
Royal Hongkong Golf Club. Boy't Owe Club,
Trade Prospects in Siberia.
V. R. C. Regatta, Quituary
Echo of the Wei Football,
Fature of Robber. Typhoon Warnings. „
Canton Day by Day.
The Anti-British Boycotts in China. British Postal Agencias.
The Japanese Boycoll.
Brport Cricket.
Provincial Assemblies.
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and uncle of the reigning Emperor, he is Mr. Stewart on this subject, we are surprised in a position to be of great service to his to find that he should allow himself to be country in the future. We presume that it annoyed by any suggestion emanating from is too much to have desired that, instead of some mysterious quarter, that the unofficial being at the head of the new Naval Commembers of the Legislative Council are ani mission, His Highness could have gone mated by considerations of self-interest when under the orders of a Scutor Officer like Ad- they come to deal with fiscal questions affect. miral Şah, and have learned as a cadet and ing the Colony. No sensible man either in naval officer himself the discipline and Hongkong or in the United Kingdom would duty, of service is a foreign navy. This give the slightest heed to such a base in practice is adopted among the Princes sinuation. It is one of the cardinal belieft of Europe, but as compared with the entertained by all right-thinking people that conditions prevailing in China ten years ago, the motives of our legislators are as pure as it is decidedly encouraging to find that the the driven snow, and nothing has happened young Manchu Princes are interesting them in Hongkong to lead anyone to think other selves sufficiently in the affairs of their coun-wise. Mr. Stewart may rest assured that he try to be willing to go abroad for the express and his colleagues rest under no imputation purpose of acquiring knowledge. It is to be so far sa those qualified to judge are concerned, hoped that the Commission will not allow and those whose minds are filled with garm itself to be so swamped with entertainments of jealousy, and prejudica ere not worth a and functions that it will have little time second's consideration. His Excellency the for careful and patient investigation of Governor also spoke op this topic, and relat naval matters. Not only in the Governed how the Government was at all times. ment circles of Europe and America will willing to give the real facts to the members His Highness and suite be welcomed, but of the press when these, were desired. We there will be much rivalry among shipbuild grant that to be the case, but if the press ing Gims to outdo themselves in courtesies were to bombard the Government with ques- which they will expect contracts to be ex-tions whenever facts had to be ascertained changed. There can be but little doubt that the suite which accompanies His Highness will be well able to assist him in avoiding such embarrassments. If the Commission is careful in the expenditure of the funds committed to its hands, and makes a thorough study of naval matters abroad, it will deserve well of its country, even though the plans which it may formulate may be long delayed in execution.
CONCERNING THE ESTIMATES,
(z zu October.)
with the consequent result of an appearance exceeded the crime, or that the prosecured, will flow from a region of higher pressure before the magistrate next morning and a tion was unduly vindictive, but there are toward one of lower pressure. It is this Goo Jones wants this suppressed in the certain aspects of the evidence which seem property, modified by the rotation of the day's police news, but is quite willing to read to indicate that the prisoner was perfectly earth and various local influences, which about Brown's little police court episode. innocent of conscious wrongdoing or isten- causes the periodical winds of the world and In point of fact, neither Jones nor Browa tional crime. As an expert accountant, with also the great cyclonic storms which rise in ought to be considered at all, because part what were in the circumstances immense the tropics. The earth is surrounded by an of the punishment of high spirits over sums at his unlimited control, and being envelope or sea of air variously estimated night is not only a bad head in the mor necessarily familiar with the methods of at from 50 to 200 miles in depth. This sex ning but a facial proclamation to the world financial manipulation, he transferred, in of air partakes of the movement of the earth of the now shameful fact. Publication in the perfect good faith and in all honesty of pur and is also influenced to as to cause stmo newspaper of a misdemeanour is part of the pose, sums of money from one account to pheric tides somewhat similar to the punishment; it may be the greater part, and another with the object of, as he doubtless tides which occur in the oceans. The the journalist has no more right to consider thought, legitimately increasing his own in. effect of these tider is shown in the diurnal the feelings of the guilty than has, the judge come. The same thing is done on a smaller movement of the barometer. This movement is very marked and regular in the tropics, on the Bench. If he does agree to suppress scale in Hongkong every day. A shroff, we one conviction, there immediately crop up a will say, receives a note issued by the Hong-becoming less so in higher latitudes. There score of others, to claim the same treatment kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in are two periods each day of high barometer, and what may be a perfectly lionest exercise payment of a 35, debt. He immediately occurring about 10.a,m: and 20 p.m., and of discretion is put down to favouritism, if proceeds to change it for a Chinese note two corresponding periods of low barometer something more venial. is not suggested, with which he pays his employer, but in the at 4 2.0, and 4 p.m. From 4 to 10, dora- Even in such a small matter, it is not at all meantime his little transaction hat netted ing and evening, the barometer is rising certain that sil;nce is for the public good him anything between 30 and do cents, which from 10 to 4. day or night, it falls. The In larger matters the question becomes more is probably more thau bis salary per diem, range of the diurnal oscillation is greatest at momentous. Leaving out those caser in If that shroff were told that he was a thief be the equator, where it amounts to one-tenth which the evidence is such as to be an offence would be astounded and indignant, and yet (0.10) of an inch. Any marked disturbance to public decency-which again is a decision there is little to choose between him and the of the regularity of this movement of the which can be readily cavilled at as in many fallen accountant who went behind the bars marcury will, in the tropics, indicate a divorce cases for instance-one comes to se on Saturday night. We cannot conceive change of weather. In higher latitudes,
we are inclined to fancy that the newspapers dition, blasphemy, political murder, anarchy, that the late chief accountant understood where the diumal movement is not so mark
would in time become the medium of dis and cases in which half witted persons com- the peril in which he was placing himself, ed and local influences may predominate,
seminating nothing but official facts which mit horrible crimes for the sake of notoriety. otherwise he would have baudled the the barometer is not so sure a guide. In
would be bad for the Colony-and for the The reference is obviously the Wyllie murder money entrusted to his charge in an entirely summer, in middle latitudes, the diurant
Goremment. On the subject of opium, case, when a muddle-beaded lading brought different way. He would not have gone movement is more marked than in winter.
members bad, as a rule, arrived at the con- the sentence of capital punishment on his into transactions in silk and lived like a In addition to the diurnal oscillation the
clusion that when indulgence in the so-called head It was argued in this case that full prince on something like $200 a month barometer has other regular variations,
vice was prohibited, absolutely and for ever, publicity of a carefully prepared inflammatory for it was specially agreed that four-fifths of but as these extend over long periods
the Chinese would turn to alcoholic liquor speech might stir the blood of thousands of his salary, that is to say £40 out of the of time they are of theoretical rather
in order to obtain the stimulating effect his native fellow creatures, and inspire them so he was due to receive every month, than practical value
which had previously been found in the use to a like deed of wicked and useless violence should be paid in London, and his prin. The tropical cyclonic storm of the North
of the opium-pipe. Dr. Ho Kai, however, It was seriously proposed that the editors of cipale kucw all about that arrangement. Atlantic is known under the name "West
denied that the Chinese would turn to lo newspapers should impose on themselves a What they thought about his manner of India hurricane," from the region where its
toxicating drink, but His Excellency the voluntary censorship to prevent the publica. living we have not the slightest idea, but effects are most frequently experienced. In
It is to be presumed that after the tremen Governor was not convinced that the wish tion of seditious or revolutionary speeches, they must surely have envied the man who the North Pacific, the Philippine Islands dous spate of talk which deluged yesterday's would come true. One interesting - rp. disloyal sentiments, incitements to mur-could make a couple of hundred dollara look are located directly in the path of the cy-proceedings at the Legislative Council all mark made by Mr. Murray Stewart at der, and such like. The programme of a like a thousand and still keep out of debt.clone storms which occur there. They ap those who have exhibited concern regarding the close of his speech is worth reproducing Press League of silence at first sight looks The curious part of the business in that pear to originate at sea somewhere in the
the Estimates for. next year's revenue and He declared that the Government should an attractive one; self-imposed, it avoids nobody seems to suspect him of dab-neighbourhood of Guam and usually cross expenditure are happy and content to retire leau as lightly as possible on the re all appearance of muzzling the press; if bling in exchange or having commercial the Philippines north of latitude ro N. be- into their modest shells for another period of venus derived from alcohol and added : agreed to by a majority of the responsible leanings. If it had not been for that fore recurving to the northward. In the somnolence. Not that the debaters accom- "A prudential if remote reason is suggested newspapers, it would largely but not en-pass-book he might have been still in South Pacific, the details of cyclonic storme plished very much, but then no unofficial by the interesting fact that when the Opium tirely prevent the dissemination of mis the full operation of his financial deal are not so well known, due to the scarcity member does expect to set the harbour on Farm was first started in this Colony, the chievous statements. On reflection, how iugs, and so far as we can see he usual of observing stations in those walers. Samoa, fire; what they proved was that the Colony Colonial Treasurer, after objecting, in vain, ever, it becomes less attractive. For perly stood to win for he had all the cards Fiji, and the Tonga Islands are, however, is served by several strenuous gentlemen against it on the ground that it was impro Cricketospects of Students in the Medical fectly simple reasons the British Courts of in his hand: What we do not understand directly in the part of the majority of these who have the best interests of the land of per to get revenue from vice, resigned. The Law are thrown open to the public, the sole yet is how the envelope containing Butler storms. The storms of the Indian Ocean their adoption at heart, gentlemen, who are whirligig of time has revenged him, and in- exceptions being the children's courts, and Wright's private pass-book came to be open-have several pecularities which distinguish not afraid to speak out plump and plain when asquch as it is the avowed object of the those divorce suits especially directed to be ed.. There must have been some arrange them from other cyclonic storms and they are at variatice with the Goverment. best and most consistent writers on the opium- heard in camera. That of itself is a strong cat whereby a subordinate could open a appear to occur with the greatest fre: The unfortunate thing is, that it requires question to attack alcoholism once opium it precedem, in favour of publicity. In the superior's private letters and hand the con- quency in the neighbourhood of Mauritius, such an enormous amount of pounding to out of the way, perhaps we should not, alto- second place, the Press League of Silence tools over to somebody else. For ourselves Uniof the earliest indication of the ap drive unofficial views into the heads of the gether disregard the warning. It is at least. will fall if soy proportion of the Praan, gooit we should not fancy the idea of giving any prosch of a tropical storm is the appearance officials that it is seldom immediate results conceivable that a strong sentiment against." or bad, refuse to conform to its imposed body such power and we believe that feeling of the sky" und "general clearness of the become perceptible. One of the features of the use of alcohol may some day sweep Bog obligation, and may be made to fail entirely is generally entertained. But we are not in atmosphere. Tropical cyclonic storms are if any of the same class as the accused clined to reopen what is probably the closing almost invariably preceded by a day of un- latitude allowed members in their reference to humiliation, occasicued, perhaps, by a par a debate on the Appropriation Bill in the land-possibly, at some time of national choose to start a paper, however ephemeral, chapter in a wrecked career. From the very usual clearness, when distant objects not the Colony's affairs. It is possible to deal with row have from destruction in some great or even to issue an account of the trial in beginning we regretted the decision which ually visible stand out with great dis any subject on earth without being called to war-when the voice of the doctors and the pamphlet form. The proportion of people refused the application for a change of tinctness. The temperature at such times order, for the simple reason that, the dialec preacher will be listened to. In such a likely to be affected to evil by publication venue of trial, not because we doubted the is more than usually oppressive. This is tician can submit apparently cogent argu. case, we might receive, some fine day, telo in a newspaper is small. The number that impartiality of the jurors on the Canton list, frequently accompanied by an unusually ments to prove that he is not wandering graphicinstructions to close all public houses will be excited to horror and hatred of the but, simply because one wishes to see a pri- high barometer. Later it may be followed outside the question at issue. Yet it cannot forthwith, and our present and approaching. pernicious doctrine is probably much larger,soner get all the best of the chances for his by a restless oscillating or pumping of the
be said yesterday that the unofficial mem- troubles over the readjustment of the burden The Raub Austrian Gold Mining Co., Ltd, Still another reason for not observing silence ultimate success. If it had been possible to mercury caused by the disturbed conditioners took undus advantage of such pri- of taxation would, If by that time we were Rubber Share Valu
is that sooner or later the journalist's con- try the case in Hongkong even that would of the atmosphere. Then the sky becomes vileges as were allowed them. The effect, largely dependent upon alcohol for re- science.would be shackled. He might from bave been preferable to having it tried in
Overcast and remains so, at first with a however, of bringing in a great variety venue, recur. Should Mr. Stewart's fore exclusive knowledge or deep conviction find the place where he had once ruffled it delicate cirrus haze, which shows no disposi of subjects was shown by the diff bodings come to pass then there will be himself bound by the conspiracy of silence with the best, been on terms of intimacy tion to clear away at sunset, but which later culty experienced by His Excellency the nothing for it but to give up the ghost, to espouse a wrong cause or to neglect with the meagre European population, and becomes, gradually more and more dense Governor to give adequate attention to each But we live in hopes that the Imperial standing up for the right. In fact the test generally held his own as a taipan in a small until the dark mass of the true hurricane in proportion to its merits when it came to Government, will refrain from trenching. of right and wrong can only be applied way. But apparently Hongkong as the cloud appears upon the horizon From the wind up the debate. One fact is beyond on the finances of this Colony for publicly and in the court of public opinion. venue was out of the question and shanghai main body of this cloud portions are detach dispute: the Budget may not be exactly a a generation to come. Mr. Osborne, of
'was refused.
here might have been an-ed from time to time and drift across the popular one, but it is not regarded as upea- course, sang the song of lamentations over other way, and that was to select a jury sky, their progress marked by squalls of rain sisfactory. It is deemed the best that the the depreciated dollar and drew a woe-be- from the Hongkong list, but of course that and wind of increasing force. Rain, indeed, Government could have produced in the gone picture of the half-starved coolie. would be deemed impracticable on the face forms one of the most prominent features of circumstances. While it is not flawless, it "There are those," he said, "who hold that. of it, although many would have jumped at the storm. In the outer portions it is fine abounds in examples of the Government's this depreciated coinage does not affect the In any case, it was a tactical blunder we latter increasing in frequency, and in co
an exceptional situation. Each and all of food and shelter may have risen as a con------ think to suggest that the prisoner feared for plousness. In the neighbourhood of the
of the unofficial members' had something sequence, wages also have risen in sympathy, .The rain area ex- his freedom if tried in Canton. If we were centre it falls in torrents
to may, but there was little that was new This I deny. I deny that the rickshaman, tó face a tribunal of our peers we should tends further in advance of the storm than
In the speeches, The fact is that all the chair bearer, the coal and cargo coolie prefer them to be enemies rather than in the rear. We have had all these evidences the principai questions have been flogged and the host of other daily paid workers, are friends for this reason that an enemy will, in today. The mist-like rain, the sporadic to death. We know to nine cases out of ten, lean towards leniency, rat, and the heavy rain. We leave it to individual member thinks of the military evil arose. On the other hand, it is squa nicely what each earning more to-day than they did before thir whereas a friend because of his friendship others to discover the meaning of all these contribution, the subsidiary coinage ques deniable fact that a ro-cent piece today has and his "outh to be just is apt to swerve to things.
tion, the promise of "substantial" "compen not the purchasing power it had then.”"Mr." severity lest it be said that his impartiality
sation by the Imperial Government for the Osbornebas changed his modus operandi to re- ; bad been undermined by his feelings. But
loss in revenue resulting from the closing of habilitate the dollar, Ashe said in his speech :i it is flat and unprofitabic to consider these things now, for Butler Wright has begun to
the opium divans and the anticipated res-Two years ago I advocated prohibition, trictions on the opium traffic, the collection and rightly so, I think, because I believe it sulfer the bodily pains and mental anguish
(zoth October.)
of liquor duties, the expenditure on public could have been accomplished then without which afflict the prisoner who has not be
In view of the presence in our midst of a works, the cost of the railway and all the friction with Canton. To-day 1 do not ad- come hardened by fepeated terms of incar plince of the Blood, it will not be out of the other matters which bave cropped up since vocate prohibition, because I think it cannot ceration. Nor do we intend to moralise on way to consider what a Northern contempo the present. Governor came into power or be accomplished without such feletion, 'And the subject. We only wonder if this up-ray, the Shanghai Timer, has to say about were handed down to His Excellency by the interests of Hongkong being so interlaced fortunate case will prove a warning to those the recently-appointed Commission for the his predecessor. We are so well ac- with those of Canton any act likely to in...” who being in a position of trust are inclined study of paval matters in Europe with a view quainted with the views of members that volve dissension between the two communi- to develop the "get rich quick" habit, by to adopting the most practical method for those of us in this compact community ties is to be deprecated. The remedy I the use of money, which does not belong to the reorganisation of the Chinese Navy, The who give attention to local politics can al- advocate now is to have a new coinage After a trial extending over the better part them. If it saves one man from perdition subject of a Navy for the Middle Kingdom most repeat the pet phrases of the advocates redeemable at par. To effect this reform it of a week, the former chief accountant of the and disgrace then all we have to say is that is of perennial interest to all intelligent Far or opponents of the several measures and would be necessary that new coins bo struck Canton-Kowloon railway (Chinese section) the Butler Wright case has not been in Basterners and therefore any pertinent re methods proposed, adopted or in course in which should be of exactly the same weight has been found guilty of converting to his vain.
marks with regard to the question will be incubation. No wonder, then, that Mr. and fineness at the old, but with a diferent We cannot guess what particular circum. own use certain sums of money which be-
read with avidity by the student of the rise Murray Stewart thought it wise for a moment superscription. The old coins would then stance has induced a contemporary in the longed to the railway, and he has been sen-
of nations. It is all very well for cy to ride his favourite hobby and refer affect need to be demonetised, and it is perhaps south to deal with that rexed question of tenned to a term of two years' in gaol. One
nics to cavil at the slow going methods of tunately to that ancient curiosity the Clock upon this point alone that any disagreement what should or should not be published in could not but ramark the unusual amount
the power behind the Throne, but it must be Tower. We fancy that while he was culo with my proposal may arise. The profit on the newspapers. But the question is un- of interest evinfpith this case, due possibly
remembered that Rome was not built in agising that monumental travesty of architec. minting should be kept in reserve, not as in doubtedly an interesting ons as every journal to the reputation and character of the man In the midst of a typhoon, it will not be day and that Britain's all-powerful Navy,tural beauty he kept his tongue in his check former yeare passed to revenus, but the Inter- ist will readily acknowledge. Half the time and to the fact that he was a Britisher in the out of the way to remark upon some ob composed as it is of "hearts of oak," was and really enjoyed himself in the role of est on reserve might properly be appropriated of those connected with newspaper work in its employment of the Chinese Government. It servations made by the Hydrographic &ffice built gradually through the centuries, and Philistine. The humour of it was to be as revenue. The demonetisation of the old higher branches is engaged in sifting the ac is fortunately uncommon for people of the in Washington as to the causes, effects and the sea walls which once was England's glory found in the inimitably serious-we had coins need not, I think, trouble the consci- cumulated news, rejecting the unsuitable and British race to betray the trust reposed in the means to guage results of cyclones (they have now been relegated to the limbo of almost written ponderous-way in which ence of Government, because, the operation accepting what is of general public interest them as heade of departments, especially do not-call them typhoons there) as far as forgotten things by the periodical turn he tackled a subject which is usual would cause the community no more loss and can strictly be regarded as "news," when, that trust in so supreme as was given the mercantile marine is concerned: Most out of death-dealing Dreadnoughts, and ly caricatured or lampooned. It is un- than they have already suffered; and in any and not mere scandal. If many of those to Butler Wright, but the event does happen mercantile men will understand without me in inclined to wonder if this anxiety fortunate that the Colonial Secretary was case the Government, if it felt morally who visit a newspaper office had their way occasionally and when it does the fall of the being told the symptoms and condition of on the, part of the Great Powers to vie not in his happiest Irish rein, when it bound to redeem, would only require to do they would make the paper the vehicle for individual is correspondingly great. What cyclonic blows, but for the benefit of those with one another in the matter of build- hecame his duly to reply, but, perhaps, he so in regard to those actually to the Colony their private spite or profit. As our con two years in Hongkong prison means to a whose physical geography has gone astray ing Dreadnoughts is in preparation of a felt that it would be ungenerous to detract for as regards the millions of them in China temporary says: Other people's weaknesses man like Butler. Wright, accustomed to en-we quote. Not, it should be remembered, twentieth century Armageddou. And one is from the fun of the fair and so we got a the Hongkong Government has no responsi and failures may be chronicled; other peo joy the luxuries of the Orient and the alten because we doubt the Intelligence of any tempted to ask: Where is China to come marvellously lifelike imitation of the bility, moral or otherwiss. They were sold ple's misfortunes made the common talk of tions of a bodyguard of servants it, in painful body, but because the Hydrographic Office in? Who can say that she may not surprise, by reaucratic style. Mr. Stewart had a fing. * commodity just us a merchant sells the town other people criticised and made to contemplate. Even in the case of a thinks it fit to give the information anew the world one day with newly acquired power, at inresponsible writers in the press, which his wares, and the Government never have the abject of remark--but not theirs young man such a punishment has a harrow Winds are produced by differences ha at which, if used in the wrong direction, may was neither ill-advised nor unwarranted, fag by promlan, Implied or otherwise, jun Carried out to its legitimate conclusion, this fog effect, but when the prisoner has passed mospheric pressure in adjacent localitics prove menace, to the world? According seeing that he has been made the viction of dertaken to redeem them in no more societ would mean thist newspapers, would cease to the prime of life the portals of the cella. These pressure differences are due principal to the Shanghal Times, the prince is a young an stack by some anonymous correspondent au obligation to do so than a merchaní in un- exist. Jones pamos a picisant evening with must savour of the entrance to the gravely to differences in temperature. In general; man of intelligence and culck perception halling from Cottonopils, But Talle wo der an obligation to receive back monchandise, Giends and gads up the night with "a jag". We do not support that the punishment i like water or any other fluid, if unrestraine, and being a brother of the Pripos Regal - bare de resson to disagree with the views of which her bitem in with cool be r
Japan Cotton Yaro...
Japanese Liginess Revival.
Curative Values of Human Bones,
Military Contributions,
Rasb-Retaras~~~-
Too Coolie Traffic.
Rubber Returns.
Commercial:-
Yam Market.
Freight Market,
Weekly Share Report
Exchange..
Looal and General.
BIRTHS.
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of Ivon Tuxford, of a daughter.
On the 18th October, at 9.15 P.M., College Chambers," the wife of N. Blumenthal, of a daughter.
DEATHS.
We agree therefore that the dangers of at- tempting to suppress news are generally greater than those which follow from publicity. The general experience of the On October 8, 1903, al Hackow, the wife of police, even out here, we think goes to prove Mr. C. M. Banroman, of a so
On October, 16, 1909, at Chiakiang, the wife that. 14 may he on decasions the premature the chance of a week's sojourn in Canton, and mist-like, with occasional showers, these sincere endeavour to meet the exigencies of working classes; that even though the cost
publication of a paragraph has warned the offender that the police are on his track, but in very many other instances the newspaper has given the police a hint, very amateurish no doubt, which has led the professional detector of crime the more easily to full his duty. We would not for a moment sup: port those journals that make a point of posing as amateur detectives in the persons of their special correspondents, usurping the function that is the duty of the police. But the journalist who goes about his daily work discreetly will seldom find it necessary to suppress what it is his business to find out. If the words of Delane, the famous editor of the Times, "the business of the journalist
On October 14, 1909, at Shanghai, Version Beresford, dearly loved eldest child of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Tisdall, of the Russo-Chinese Bank, Newchwang, aged 4 years and 8 months.
On October 10, at the Gorerament Civil Hospital, Augusto Caesar Botelho, chief clerk, Bathoor Office. Age 19. Deeply regretted. Shanghai papers please copy.
At Shanghai, after a few days' illness, the be loved wife of Say Zoong, aged 55 you
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