The Hongkong Telegraph.
NEW SERIES No. 8044'
CONTENTS.
Births, Marriages and Deaths. Leading Articles:-
The Question of "Wireless."
The Interporters, An Australian Picture An American in Hongkong. Without Authority. "Lo,'the Poor Indiao." The Question of Closbes
Telegrams:→
Prince Ito's Assassin.--
Naval Commissioners.
Foreign Navion.
Amoy Railway.
Purchase of Ranks,
Military College,
Tientsin.
Another New Society, Shanghai Native Press. Forelgo Banknotes.
Chinese in Foreign Countries. Peking and the Provinces. Kamchow-Harbiu Railway. Toso Fang Cambiarod. Kiangsu Governorship.
Macao's Dalimitation,
Viceroy of Canton.
Mostings :-.
Meeting of Justices,
Chinese Engineering and Mining Co.:. Kulangau (Amoy), Municipal Council.
Legal Intelligence:-
Under Sastance of Death.
Alleged Bankruptcy Ofences.
The New Territory Murder.
Robbery with Viglenco
Criminal's Attempted Suicide.
Pollos:
Chinese Boys Kidnapped. A Student's Prank.
Miscellaneous Articles and Reports:-/
King Edward's Birthday,
Interport Cricket.
S. S. Palazoan
Loss of the King George. Kitchener ne" Marble Hall."
Macau's Delimitation.
Wireless Telegraphy,
Fire in Whitfield Barracks.
Spurious ladian Yaro.
Kowloon 1. 1442 and 618.-
Notes by the Way.
The Stranding of the Tak Hing.
New Law Court Site.
Far East in Parliament.
Soldier's Sad Death.
Chinese Navy.
Joan-sticks in Cemetery.
CADION Day by Day,
職四十月十年元銃宜
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(ESTABLISHED 1881.)
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1909.
which America is interested will be within remarkable. At the same time he might be call by wireless. After that it would be intent on having a sly dig at the rival city of absurd if the Hongkong Governmicat should Melbourne. But when we read further we place obstacles in the way of those who pro so that he is really only leading up to his pose to introduce wireless telegraphy tothome for he proceeds: To do so has be Hongkong. We should prefer to see the come second nature with these sun-dried Government undertaking the duty, but ingheinlanders and, unless something happens circumstances we suppose it must be left to private enterprise. H
THE INTERPORTERS,
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The Ewe Cotton Spinning and Weaving Cost has been no unusual thing for a message giddy whirligig of pleasure and will take.no To the touch everything is red-hot, And prince of the blood royal on $75 gold a while the mail price is quoted at $2.67 gold.
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Pratus Island.
Opinn Smoggling in Yunsas. *Press Subsidios.
Opium Suppression:
Shanghai's Fashionable Thoroughfare. The Funeral of the Late Empress Dowager. The Harbin Tragedy.
A Japanese View of Russian Women. Manila Carnival.
WITHOUT AUTHORITY.
· SINGLE, COPY,„Ä5: ORETI
We dare not permit ourselves the privilagu licence is granted. But the home Govern
past to Japan the harvest would be the more ment has already taken over Marconi's
potential, even as the high millet of the of commenting of the above lucubration, stations, so that the feature is admittedly
former's Belds overtops the rice fields of the but pass on to deal with some additional success. Only the other day, the Arda of
latter." It will be seen that the language is wonders which the travelling American in the C.P.R. line made a record in the matter
inclined to be flowery but we can endure sure to find in Hongkong. It is not comfort. of distance despatches, and after what was
that so long as the facts are correct. Coming to learn from this sapient observer that related of the public and the White Star
siderable space is given to the various this British Colony takos vitality out of its liner the value of wireless cannot be under
abnormal to them a Sunday was to departments of Butterfield and Swire citizens more than any port of the Orienta estimated. The New York Tribune-the
they go complacently about their daily oc and Jardins, Matheson and Co, and the and that in the face of the published medical paper owned by the U. S. Ambassador
cupations in conditions that would probably Hongkong Club je praised to the skies, reports! We are all described as being to Great Britain-had a very interesting
soon kiil au doncclimatised citizen. Each particularly for its menus, which seem to more or less invalide and derelicts who have article on the subject the other day
morning drought or no drought, the bave charmed Mr. Thomson. One feature fallen back for repairs and when "the "calli which runt in part colloquially: "Bulld
(zand November).”
sun rises, red and flory ball, breath which will surprise residents is that relating ghost-order Halt! I called its all me a station that will enlarge this diakly It was with unfeigned thankfulness that ing heat from the very moment of his to music. We have "superb music on the too willingly obeyed." All wo can? SAY circle by pushing it back 2,000 miles farther. news was received in the Colony this fore appearance above the horizon. At six Parade Ground three times a week" by the of such rubbish "is that it is utter boen. Make it so big and strong that messages noon, just before eleven o'clock, that the o'clock a.m. the mercury is already among military bands, and the hotels delight their When we come across a remark about the may be pounded out 3,000 miles under the P. & O. steamship Palawan had weathered the eighties, and it keeps steadily climbing customers with the Baluchi's band and character of the newspapers in Hongkong most unfavourable conditions; yet make it the storm which raged in the south and up, up, till, often for weeks together, it pipers. In fact, to quote the author, "None we fancy we can discover the author's vision. tell my secrets only to my own men, wherever would reach Hongkong in the early part of reaches wall over the century. What wind of the treaty ports equals Hongkong in mu of a forthcoming review, but then again wa they may be. Build me a station of such the afternoon. What added to the anxiety there, is in mummer is generally botter than sical luxurice so we can only offer up our may be mistaken and not for the world power that the world has never seen its like. and Interest of the community as to the four hottest north-chaters; and when it blows prayers for the betterment of these unfortu- would we be deemed uncharitable." Thera Give me a guarantee that you can do these fate of the overdue vessel was the fact with violence, it comes accompanied by ale ports. Here is another example ofis fine literary flavour in the chapter deal. things, and a well-filled purse is opened to that she had on board the team repreventable simoods of fine sand and dust, what the author saw in Hongkong That Ing with The Portuguese sad" "Camoens, you: for: I deed such a station in my busi-senting Singapore in the interport cricket and that stinge the skin where it touches, gaunt gentleman under a gray Fodora is the which is well worth reading if only to realise Dess. We are told that the Government of matches now in progress in Hongkong, dust that blinds and chokes, and permeates best shot in the Colony. He has just beaten an American's appreciation of the warrior the United States actually said these things Memories went back to another day when food, clothing, bedding, everything. But the the Governor at the trapa of the Koyal Gun and poet who made Macao famous. in the form of an advertisement for bids for out, of a team of cricketers which visited inlander does not bother himself about trifles Club in the Wanchai gulley. He is known have no space to devote to Mr. Thomson's, the establishment of such a station. Strange Shanghai to represent Hongkong only two of the kind. He has his work to do, and ho as a 'manufacturers's agent' but darkly it is description of incidents in the daily life to say, there were dozens of responses from returned; and so gloom was in the air, for su- does it, often the heaviest of manual labour, said that his real business is the smuggling of the Chinese. Whatever may be said of firms financially responsible, and these bids perstition in coincidences dies hard. It, And if he is sinking post-holes, and the iron of arms into China. Anyway as he is only his work, it never palls in its interesting re- were backed by heavy bonds to be forfeited was, therefore, not a particularly bright or of his spade begins to blister his hands, he coos (Australian) he is given the cold velations of what we Europeans have come In case the station failed to make go as to happy band of cricketers that went out to the tien rags around it to lessen the effect of the shoulder at the English club on the Praya. to regard as common-place in the Orient. every requirement. The contract has been field to-day to open the interport matches, fierce heat rays." There is a picture of life When he and a stocky Canadian there get An. Occidental reader handed "The Chi recently awarded to a company of Pittsburg and we can well believe our representatives in Australia. Ia Hongkong when the sun is mad about it they chum and rub Paardencse without a word of comment would in consideration of a sum of $180,000 for the when they state that the nerves of players at its zenith we declare the heat to be due in burg into those whom they call in the hour Gnd an absorbingly interesting study, machinery alone, while the tower is to be built and spectators alike were strained to tension- great part to the humidity of the atmosphere, of their wrath 'soobs,' Pharisees' and 'Lita diamond with innumerable facets in which under separate contract. If the requirements snapping point. But the sun came out when and we point to other places which enjoy a tle Englanders. The Frenchman who over humour, pathos, charm, wonder and the in- are not met in every detail $100,000 will be for the news arrived on the field that the Palawan dry heatora dry cold as the case may be. The hears it all says: Mais en guerre de mime comprehensible are wonderfully blended. feited. The American Government was long was safe and sound. And we can well fancy writer of the article in question makes short que frères." That is the sort of opinion And in reading such a book the Occidental since informed that it was possible to reach out that an audible sigh of relief went up from work of that idea."And the nonsense that Mr. Thomson gained of Hongkong and would not be handicapped by that first hand to Panama, to Gilbraltar, to Newfoundland, to those who have laboured to bring about this is talked about the 'dry heat of the interior, is cosmopolitan population during his knowledge and tendency to criticism, which San Francisco, with Washington as a central triangular duel. Now we can rejoice that and its consequent lessened power for fatigue residence in the Colony, and barring his are the birthright of those whose fate it has base. The big wireless companies also said the Colony is once more favoured by the compared with the 'muggy atmosphere of bitter attempts at sarcasm which becomes been to spend years in Southern China. It can that it could be done, but so great has been sparkling vintage of cricket prowess both in Syd-ey! Possibly regarded from a meteoro-absurd exaggeration when it does not degen- not be said that Mr. Thomson delves very the estimated expense and so uncertain the Shanghai and Singapore, Of our own re- logical standpoint, it may be drier. But the etate into caricature there is a good deal of deep into the mystery of Chinese ways he is content to skim the surface of events and financial return, that none of them dared to presentatives we need say nothing, for their fact that the exertion demanded by slow truth underlying his picture. But what can undertake it. To no individuel would such abilities have been extolled and belauded riding on horseback is sufficient to bathe be said of the following note?: "Every present bis findings, to the reader who may an undertaking appeal so strongly as to until they must feel as if it would be a plea- both horse and sider in perspiration, docs foreigner whose salary is above seventy-five receive or reject them as he pleaser, As we great and wealthy nation with many lighting sure to view the drop-scene for a brief spell. not seem to say much for the dryness from dollars, gold a month retains a passenger bare hinted before this is a traveller's scrap. ships affat. There was the alluring pros-What we are convinced of is that as of yore a practical point of view. As for the manual chair, which is carried by two or four coolies, book, culled from various wanderings in pect of a commander-in-chief of the Navy they will do their duty and nobody without labourer, the sweat fills his boots and flows who are uniformed as conspicuously as purse South Chins during a sojourn of a few years in this Colony. The views of the author Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China. Ailling in the nation's capital in time of war necromantic powers can do more. As for over their tops, Still, it is all in the day's will allow." All we ask of Mr. Thomson is: The Hippodrome, Anthrax in Kennedy Town:
and moving his ships here and there over the the other teams, the Colony's guests for the work, and the inlander placidly accepts it How was it done when he lived in Hong will not be generally Accepted in many cLICE entire Atlantic sa à player might move his once, we trust that the programme of plea as being.so. He has to. But the nights-kong? Did these patricians of the ledger but that only adds piquancy to the volume chessmen. It was a thing the Government sures and diversions, gaiety and variety some of them, at any rate-are too much and the counter also possess racing-stables and we can thoroughly recommend it: to. wanted and the money was forthcoming. If which has been arranged for. their behoof for even his philosophy. The citizen cannot and 40-ton yachts? We pity the poor Am-those who would see themselves as others see them. It is beautifully printed and pro- successful it will give the country a great may have no adverse effect on their powers begin to conceive the horror of them. The erican who accepts the author's statement at advantage until athers have followed its lead in the field. But we fancy these veterans of incandescent orb disappears; the heat does its face value and decides to visit Hongkong furely illustrated, the publishers being the Bobby Merrill Company, of Indianopolis, and installed similar stations. In the past the wicket are insured by this time to the not. There is no hint of coolness anywhere. with the object of careering around like a to be picked up three thousand miles from harm from a round of "innocent merriment." all through the sweltering darkness the month. We cannot refrain from quoting American reviews of the work are already its origin. Newfoundland has heard direct "They have arrived at a most opportune time, cicadas chirr in waves of metallic sound, part of the author's description of the St received and "The Chinese" bids fair to from Panama, and an errant message kod even St. Andrew bar deigned to smile getting on the most hardened nerves. Sleep Andrew's Ball. We may say, in advance, be one of the books of the season, from from Australia has been found lurking upon them, for after their labours they will of course, out of the question.. Even the that the Ball takes place on St. Andrew's which we may gather that Hongkong will around the Atlantic seaboard. But these become recipients of the saint's hospitality, accustomed inlander finds it difficult to sleep Eve (sic) and it is held in St. George's Hall experience an influx of American tourists cases have been rare exceptions. The sta- and everybody knows what that means in in a vapour bath accentuated by the urgent St. Andrew's Hall is not mentioned and next year. tions that sent them can ordinarily reach Hongkong.
attentions of legions of insect pests. So be all the officers of the Society are in Highland only a thousand miles or less, but some
tostes, and turos, and curses the whole night dress while a dozen uniforms and dress peculiarly favourable conditions of the air
through, awakening to find the same old suite [are] Bghting for the card of Miss have caused them to go on and on. The
fiery-faced sua peering at him with promise Anemia and divided dances prevail." That sending power of a station varies greatly,
-Seldom have we read a more pessimistic of many more such days and nights. Laat bonne bonche having been digested the It is generally possible to send farther in the account of the heat hardships which have Sunday our inlander would have hailed as Hongkong reader will be interested to learo daytime than at night and farther in clear to be endured by the residents in the in good working day; and with the arrival of that i weather than in cloudy. In awarding the terior of Australia than that which appears the cool southerly lie would have imagined "For a week previous, practice dances present contract it is specially stipulated in one of the latest issues of the Sydney himself in Paradise. Such is the opinion have been held at five o'clock, so the sets that the three thousand-mile limit is to Frening News, We know that vast suma are of one who is presumably in position to are all ready for rivalry and triumph. There be reached in any and all circumstances annually appropriated by the State Govern- know what he is talking about. If these are Is a dais and the "Distinguished Patronage" storm roaring about the towerments of, the Commonwealth for the purpose the facts, it would actually teem as if the will mount it, though the merchant princes arrests messages, the hundred thousand of "booming" the country and attracting inland blocks of Australia were attended are somewhat sarcastic that the governor dollars is forfeited, When the plant is that class described as desirable emigrants, with greater danger to European life than Cen has the interests of the Chinese more at completed receiving apparatus will of but if the "desirable happens to come tal-Africa. Take an agriculturist from York heart than those of the British merchants, course be installed on every ship of the Act across the leading Article to which we have shire or Midlothian and set him down in that best this has always been the keca question On November 13, 1959, at Shanghal, the wifeerican Navy and tuned to the home losiru-referred he will certainly be inclined to besi- steaming oven and what is likely to happen? of foreign colonies, from Syracuse to the messages sent out must be such as to call than Australia for the scene of his life's wreck, while the less waid about his progeny looks the manllest and has the nonchalance ment. The contract stipulates that the tate and probably to choose Canada rather He is practically certain to become a physical Congo(sic), Macro and Hongkong. The navy forth a response from only those instruments work. We cannot tell whether the descrip-cription of life in Australis as seen through So the army rules the bail, for the officers of the better. But are we to accept this des which is popular, but it carries no women, built for that particular purpose. This in tion of the metereological conditions pre- the interest of secrecy; for, while all such vailing in the interior of. Australia is over- Australian eyea? If it is not absolutely cor the garrison are paid extra allowance for messages would be sent in the code of the drawn or jaundiced, or whether it is a truth-tect then the writer has done a gross in "keep of families when on foreign service. Navy, this might sometimes be deciphered. ful picture of actual life on that gigantic justice to his country; he has traduced it in A German admiral, & French one, and an island. But we should think that no respon- fashion which will live in the memory for Italian man-of-war captain come and bring With regard to the Washington scheme we leafa that in the station the Government issible writer on an important paper would years. But if he has told the gospel truth their staffs. It is worth leaving Saigon, with to erect the pole will be replaced by a con- deliberately go out of his way to disparage then he has done a service to all those who its transplanted opera, to attend the great crete tower of gigantic-proportions. Instead or misrepresent the land which was afford- might be looking with wistful eyes to the ball of Hongkong. It is hot between dances, of a height of 300 feet, it will tower dos feet ing him a livelihood. Taking it then, that great continent of the south in the hope of and you lean over the balustrade of the above ground and take its place among the the story is substantially correct, we find me day starting out to make a fortune veranda. There's an oriental fragrance rising tallest structures in the world. It will over ourselves learning new facts about Aus here.
from the smoking joss-sticks which the shadow the Washington Monument by near traila, facts which had previously only
coolies below have lit to drive thể- mor- ly 10p. feet. It will have a base of soft. been hinted at but never set forth in diameter and taper to a width of eight feet their bald nakedness. The occasion for this
fellow is lying asleep in your sedan chair. at the top. The tower is to be erected on statement arose out of a heat wave, which
You vow that if you are sober when you get some Government reservation near Wa- passed over Sydney in the early part of Octo
in it, you won't lie back and take your ease shington not yet decided upon, and willber when the citizens gasped and growled. Some years ago Mr. John Stuart Thomson as you used to. Down the hill at the water's When till a southerly breeze sprung up and gave was the Hongkong agent of the Pacific Mail edge a-dozen launches are puffing at the be in operation within a year completed it will be one of the most cur-relief. But what," asks our contemporary, Steamship Company and while in that post pier, waiting to return the officers to their ious structures in the world, and a mony. it may perhaps be permitted to wonder,tion he inade a collection of notes on Chin-ships. Laughter is growing louder in the ment to the material of which it is built, would have been the effect produced upon ese life both in this Colony and on the cellar, and everybody's wife is left to her concrete, which the Government is recom-people had no cooling and refreshing buster mainland and these have now been incor circle of a dozen men friends of her husband, mending for all sorts of construction. The sprung up; had the stifling heat become 'porated in a book which is entitled "The She is in good hands, and he socks relief station, will not, of course, be able to receive chronic both by day and by night, for many Chinese." This is a somewhat difficult book messages from the distance to which it can weeks, even monthe? Doubtless, in time to classify because it is more botch-potch send them; for there are no other sending the cititeas would have by degrees, very of generalitics then a deliberate attempt to riations of the same strength. The receiving slow and painful degrees, accustomed them discover the tuner side of Chinese life. Instruments will be of the greatest possible selves to their changed environment, and to That it is racy, readable and realistic to a efficiency, and it is expected that they will be the many alterations thereby induced in their degree cannot be gainsald, but the author able to pick up memages more readily than social and other economics. Nevertheless, so prone to exaggeration in order to the ordinary station; but they have no power there are in this State, and at comparatively procure bizarre effects that on many oc- that goes beyond the best fostrument at no great distance, thousands of our fellow-casions be becomes ridiculous What Mr. present possible to acquire-and-operated-countrymen to whom last Sunday would Thomson lacks to a great extent is, the In the most favourable circumstances. To merely have been one of many months of faculty of exnét 'observation; and it will be gether with this great step in advance a such days. For them the heat, and the more efficient wireless is to be installed on dust, and the generally disagreeable climatic all the principal ships of the American Navy, surroundings would hare held so novelty this having a sending power that will carry whatever. Nor would any idea of attempt. 1,000 miles under all conditions. It is con- ing to escape or minimise the evil weather sidered unlikely that there will ever be in hava oven entered their minds; for the very case of war a gap between the Government good reason that there was no escape pos- FION OF "WIRELESS.” ships or stations of more than a thousand able. For the realdents of the no-parched Mig miles, and these may be filled in so that faterior exist no refuges in the shape of surf th November.)
messages may be relayed home with no great | bertan beaches, to be easily reached by tram. delay. Then the home Government can or train; feed drinks are an unheard of fuxir talk back to the most distant ship direct and ry, even shade itself is often unattainable, instantaneously, if that ship happens to be There is nothing to do but to grip and bear it or a licence to install wire jo the probable zone of activity; the North | So far as the shotch of life in the interior que atlantic the daya bous anerety.com Angly important one, and a twin will be erected on the Pacific Coast, gratulating his follow-citizens on the fact that
at the Government ro- | with a probable chain to Honolule and the fatement before such a ↑ Philippines, and proptically all the world in
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BIRTHS...
On November 4, 1909, at Laohokow, China, to the Rev. and Mrs. A. W. Largequist, a daughter.
On November 7, 1909, at Chefoo, the wife of Jus O. Platt, of C.I.M., Kwaifu, Szechuan, West Chica, of #daughter."
Gabriel).
el T. Davéria, I. M. Customs, of a son (Haury
On November 16, 1909, at Shanghai, China, the wife of L. W. D. Hoffman, of a 200.-
On November 18, 1909, at Shanghai, tha Wife of T. P. Baptisa, a(twin daughters."
Us November 18, 1999, at Shangbai, the wife of E. R. Hooper, Eiq, of a daughter,
On November 18, 1909, at Shanghal, the wife 4.J. Ross Young, of a daughter,
Os November 18, 1909, at Shanghai, to the If of Mr. S. Zimmerman, a daughter.
On November 19, 1909′st Shanghai, the wife W. K. Stanton, of a daughter. On November 19, 1909 at Shanghai, to Rev. 4- Mrs. ). Darroch, a daughter, Eleanor inde.
MARRIAGES,
Da November 16, 1909, at Shangbai, Wil- m: Curwen, third son of William Ourwen rait of Manchester, to Florence Dalay, se 4 daughter of the late Benjamin Fool igh, Shanghai,
2 November 18, 1909, at Shanghai, George Rea, of Shanghai, to Kalberine Louise, hter of George Thomas Inch, of Liverpool
DEATHS.
September 11th, 1909, at Matilda Hos amb, the dearly beloved wife of O. J. in her goth year. R.L.P.' The November 15, 1909, at Shanghai, Lundin, Tidewaitar I.. M. Customs, vember 15, 1909, at Shanghai S. Lar- second angioner s.. Selus, aged 34 er.-Ộn the 18th instant, at Glasgow, George Moffait,
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noted by those who know their Ching that scenes and Incidents of daily life are reader od grotesque and absurd simply to meet the author's craving for a particular word or phrase. Another point is that we are often'st low to discover in what particular year the book is supposed to have been written, but we take it generally that the notes were collated between the last three to five years. The first chapter is entitled " Foreigners in China" and it is one of the most gossipy and descur. sive in a smoking-room style that could well be imagined. We are told about Hongkong's busting port and the use of the stocks la the hen Bagland i ndrited that through the Hongkong, and Shaoghat" exceptions to the usually Ideal climate of flack the only gate "dan fortieth of the at Sydney are so rare as to be noteworthy and Shan to loven, that the lies given to the
*(24th November.)
· That instrument known as the muck-rake --not the American variety of the article.......... is greatly patronised by the Sanitary Board of Hongkong, especially in the matter of graves, cemeteries and garbage. At meeting after meeting the members have held high revel among the graves of "professing Chris- tians" and others who might be. Chinese, Japanese or even Zoroastrians, the only section of the community for whom nobody would say a word being the frankly-declared infidet. The contagion spread to the Legisla tive Council, for a space and members of
fashion over the merits of those who should that august body wrangled in the friendliest
the cemetery which is described as the one be buried in this, that or the other part of.
and only "Colonial."' As we 'have said be fore, it matters not in the slightest to us whether we are dumped in the sea or waited in an aeroplane of fire to the next world when we have quite finished with this sphere, but others hold different views which have to be taken foto account. For that reason. we cannot help being interested in the mean- derings of the Sanitary Board when the mem bere dig among the graves and differentiate. between those who have only lived a few years” in the Colony and those who, to us a Scotticism, have lived a lifetime. But we must confess we cannot understand the enthusiasm which induces a member to run around a cemetery with a tape-line measuring the breadth of lairs and the size of paths as if he were a gravedigger's undert study. It is all in the interests of the public, of course, but to us the conception of mach á pursuit is, incomprehensible, Perhapt our er faculties are blunted by long experience with a hundred like himself in the cellar, of public bodies and the curious ways of where a hasty but gushing bar has been in member, or it may simply be that we are not stalled. The punch counters, however, are
built that way. In any case the activities of erected on the ball-room floor. These unofficial member of the Sanitary Board colonial women drink less during evenings should put the official clement to shame. than mornings; the men seldom; drink dur- While the latter ilt quietly in their offices, ing mornings, but the evenings are very moist, communing with themselves, the former are There is perhaps a famous Forlor Hope, spending laborious days in discovering fresk called the "Ten a.m. Cocktail Club which outrages among the tombs of the departed. wends its way across the bilatering white The latest "find" by an energetic member Prays to the Hongkong Club, but that bo- is a gem in its way, and it would be the longs to the business day, and has nothing height of selfishness to withhold the facts to do with this ball. There is something from the world at large. A certain firm age about the molat, dreamy tropic night which plied for permission to erect a monument bids you stay; the flowers and fems give out over grave and taking it for granted a heavy perfume, which the trople sun would that thee, would be no objection on the burn up. These are the hours the festive part of the Saultary Board proosede, with Colony loves, for it can then forget for a while the work But they exceeded their space the fear of who will be the next to fall asllowance by five and throq victim of sun, plague, cholers, typhus, malaris, square feet, Sombreynle or death-giving Bal-Teo fy. The day after St. might consider that a' tride, Andrew's rises upon a deserted Colony so far, andóm of all contracto as Europeans are concerned. They awaken limits, but on this occasion to philosophize that the abstemious virtues, least one member of it wai of the Saint, and not, his popularity were While other members were call meant to followed, and over the quest run the Colony with an expansire smile sud Hooper, who had been on the similar quotations from native wits who ac. thunderbolt in tha mida of the quired this sort of wisdom before Roshi declaring that the grekiga of