Wireless Telegraphy.
APPLICATION FOR HONGKONG INSTALLATION.
MATTER IN/
IN/ADEYANCE
At the monthly meating of the General Com mittee of the Hongkong Chamber of Com. marco, bald on the 8th inst, the following cor respondence was considored
Hongkong, October 15th, 1909.
Sir-We have the honour to address your goodsell and the gentlemen of the Chamber of Commerce on the subject of wireless telegraph lastallation for the Colony and to submit, for your consideration and approval, a copy of the application we are this day tendering to the Colonial Secretary. We also enclose a copy of the Wireless Telegraph Act of 1903 and a copy of letter under date of 14th instant, addressed to the American Vice-Consul-General in Charge, by the Colonial Secretary.
Your attention in respectfully directed to the importance of an enterprise.such as we pro. pose to the commercial welfare of the Cofany and we would earnestly request your support, in the shape of a recommendation to the erhment to grant the licence asked for.
Thanking you in advance for any interest you may bestow upon our application, and with 'assurances of the highest esteem.We remais &c.,
(Sgd.) KERGAN & ROSENKRANTZ.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY NOVEMBER 26 1900
NOTES BY THE WAY.
SATURDAY'S FIASCO.
20th Inst.
The sudden suspension of deliberations be tween the respective Commisioners entrusted with the delimitation of the boundaries of Maceo on Saturday last had after all benn'for+ sceo. That the impossible situation thus created will be appreciated by students of China's political history goes without saying The Chinese Commissioner's hostile attitude throughout the Commission's sittings and his bughty disregard of the terms of Treatles con cluded with his country is a sign of the times and striking proof of China's retrogression The Portuguese in the progress of nations. Commissioner came with a roadiness to grant concessions to a reasonable limit; the Chinese Commissioner came to place impediments in his European colleague's way. There's the matter la a nutshell and it only remains to be seen with what wisdom and caution China's ection in the matter is going to be marked. Thereby bangs a tale.
THE VOLUNTEERS.
Next to the Interport Cricket teams; our citi Gov-zon soldiers have monopolized the main topic, of conversation at the table d'aute during the past, weck. It has been a talk of Volunteers and nothing else (sic). The tents this your have been pitched at Custom's Pass, is the New Territories, on the suggestion of the G.O.C. in order to bring Camp life to as pear service conditions as possible. The comparative rigour thus entailed has been borne with a smiling face by our gallant defenders, which fact should make us alcep peacefully, in our beds, happy in the thought that our amateur soldiers
INTERFORT TOPICS.
The Honourable,
The Chairman of Chamber of Commerce, Hongkong. Acknowledged 18th October, 1909.
(Enclosure)
Boogkong, October 1ġib, 1909. Sir, We have the honour to address you on
know "all about it."
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KOWLOON I E. 447 AND 678.
APPOINTMENT OF ARBITRATION BOARD"
THE BONERAL OF THE LATE BMPRESS DOWAGER.
A. STATELY PROCESSION,
SPURIOUS INDIAN PARN.
SINGAPORE REPRESENTATION, " The Hongkong General Chamber of Com merce had under consideration the following letter at their monthly meeting an 8th Inst.
Singapore, aznd October, 1909, DEAR SIR,-For some time now this Cham ber has been receiving compliants from mer chants interested in the Yarn Trade, concerning the spurious marking and labelling of Indian Yarns, which practice, It is alleged, is very detrimental of the trade in English full reeled In the month of June, 1907, a Sub-Committes and properly designated Yarns was appointed by this Chamber to test various Importations of the Yarn in question, and be results of these tests, together with the corres- pondence exchanged between this Chamber and other Chambers concerned, will be seen in appendix "H" of 1907 raport sent to you
It will
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the parade which has just bega refreshed, or which is about to be refreshed in a similar manner in a very faw moments, bunda
Rather.
smart,
Driving with the rest of them we have on the road and its wondery now balug. out of the show and in the act of being refreshed wa look on. Isn't it? Scores of well set-up victorias drawn by good-looking horses carry those whe do not own their own turn-outs, Shanghal has the best carriages for hire in the world. They look more neatly like the real thing from a rich man's stable than any other "forhire equipages on earth. On the box sit two glorious creatures. knows everything about driving except how to who are hired with the outfit. The coachman drive carefully, and won be unto the luckless and impericent person who dares to select Bubbling Well Road for pedestrianism during the crowded hour of the afternoon drive.. The footman does nothing after the most approrad and conventional footman fashion of doing nothing. Together they furnish the glory.
They wear long gowns of blue-China hi The Board will commance its alitings at the barriers were already guarded, and between them to be seen from tbls correspondence that been described as the Land of the Blue Gown the matter has already been forcibly represent.but the blue is a different shade than that ed to the indian. Government by the bombay affected by the millions. Itis sombat lighter Chamber of Commerce, but with aegative and there are borders and cape collars and the results in so far that the Yarn still continues to like of that done in white. On their heads is be exported from India, and further complaints the peaked cap of the ancient Chinese aristo of the trouble it is causing among European crate, with its tassel of scarlet falling all about firms have again been received by this Cham it. And, wonder of wonders, the wayfarer in ber..
Shanghai or the impeçasious, may have and enjoy all this grandeur at the rate of $: Mexican.' per hour, which is about 44 cents in real money, But we tire of the pikers.
On the 10th last, the Governor-in-Coancli resumed the property registered in the Land
As I sit here in my room, with the lamp Office as Kowloon Inland Lots 443 and 518 for fighted, and the curtains drawn, it is pleasant a public parpose and it was decided, that a
to recall the varied impressions of this memor Board consisting of three members should be able day, writes a Peking correspondent to the appointed to determine the amount of com.
N. C. D. News on gth inst. They began sarly, pensation to be paid in respect of such resump. tion. Notice is given in the Goseife that the for the stars were still bright when I left home. following Board has been constituted-His There was no necessity to start so soon, save Honour H. H. J. Gompertz, Paisse Judge, chair. the necessity of impulse, the desire to see the mao, the Hon. Mr. P. N, H. Jones, Director of whole of an unique event, and once out in the Pablic Works, member nominated by His Ex-street, despite the chilliness of the wind, 1 was cellency the Gaverner; Mt. R. Shewas, mom glad that commonsense had not kept me longer in bed. For Peking had already begun the bar nominated by and on behalf of the owDBEY
solema business of the day. Carriages, proced of the property resamed; and Mr. I. U. Mirza,
ad by outriders, who carried largo paper las Paisae Judge's Clerk, has been appointed by
terme, swinging to and fro, mat me on their His Excellency the Governor to act as Clerk to the Board.
way to the Imperial City. At the Bet pallou the I could see, as I approached, the outline of a large body of mounted troops moving slowly towards the Chihuamen. The stretch of road between the Sau philou, and the point where the Guteslachieb crosses that of the Hata mén was empty, a light showing here and there from behind abuttered windows; but, at the ead of it, crossing to the Tungchimes, lumbered a long row of carts, heavily laden. Here again the barriers were guarded, and the clink of 7HE NEW 1BRRITORY MURDER. words, and sharp orders to clemey drivers, made me ready to produce my pass. Nobody challenged, however, and 1 turned east,
Supreme Court, on Friday, the 3rd day of December, rgog, at 1.30 pth. Every person claiming compensation wheiber as owner or otherwise by reason of such resumption must transmit to the Clerk of the Board a willten claim stating the nature of his right or interest in the land and the amount which he seeks to recover.
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SENTENCE OF DEATH PASSED.
The final stage of the trial of Mak Tim Fuk for the murder of two Indian constables in the New Territory on the zoth August last was reached at the Criminal Sessions last Saturday bafore the Hon. Mr. W. Rees-Davies, K.C., (Acting Chief Justice), Hon. Mr. F. A. Hazs
the matter of obtaining a licence to establish The Interpori teachsäre amongst us and I am Lisad (Attarony-General) instructed by Mr. F.
and use installations for the purpose of wire- less telegraphy in the Colony under the condi tions of the Wireless Telegraph Ordinance of 1903.
. L. Bowley (from the Crown Solicitor's office) prosecuted and Mr. O. W. Or, instructed by Mr. A. G. Jackson (of Messrs. Johnson,
glad to see that everything which can be done to enable our visitors to carry away with them a good impression of their hosts in nat belag left undone. An extensive pro-Stokes and Master) defended. The following
gramme of entertainment has been drawA up, which locludes a dloner by His Ex- cellency the Governor, That is the only way to preserve Interport amenities and 1, would venture to state, without fear of contra diction that the general sentiment at present is
It up, boys,"
A THRILL OF ROMANCE.
passing through me as I descried the max dive, wooden tower above the Tungchilmon, and saw the first, falat traces of dawn in the cloudy sky. For, out beyond that shadowy gato, lay the tomb, where one of the most not abis women of the last twelve hundred years was to foln her predecessors, and rest, with her face towards the morping,
Acting upon the suggestion embodied in your letter of the 14th instant addressed to the American Vice-Consal-General in Charge We now make formal application for licence to establink and operata a com- mercial wireless. telegraph business within the Colony and bayond its limits with permis inclined to find expression in the words "Keep passage on a Taipo road, where they met sight with beads thrust forwards, peered curiously at
a
sion to do all the things that wireless telegraph companies are legally entitled to do under the Articles of the Berlin Radio-Telegraph Con vention and subject to its regulations and the laws of the Colony.
We would expect a licence giving us the sole right to conduct a wireless telegraph business for a period of twenty-five years with the on- derstanding that the Government would have the right to purchase the business at a valuation at the end of ten years and at the end of the fifteenth, twentieth or twenty-fifth years..
We would agree to receive and transmit Governmental messages without charge and to use every effort in gathering meteorological Information for the Colony,
We propose to establish installations in Ma- alla, Bangkok and Singapore and are making applications to be Philippine, Siamers and Birala Governments for licences. These ins tallations together with our proposed Hong kong station would create a first-class wireless service and would enable us to benefit the commercial and shipping interests of this Oolony and the other countries mentioned in addition to developing a profitable business for
oprialvar.
Under the terms of our agreement with the United Wireless Telegraph Company we have the sole right to deal in and use their wireless telegraph equipment in the Far East and we would install in Hongkong at our own expense a station equal in power to their New York station and capable of communication with Yokohama and Shanghai' on the North and with Singapore on the South.
Upon receipt of a favourable reply to this application we would have the necessary equip ment forwarded here and the station installed without loss of time.
Thanking you in advance for an early con alderation of our application. We remalo, &c.,
(Sgd.) KEEGAN ́ and Ros¤neraNTS, Reply may be addressed to un
C/o American Consul-General.
Hongkong.
The 'Honourable.
The Coloniйl Secretary.
Hongkong..
BORY AS SPORTSMAN,
While on the subject of Interport Cricket am reminded of the cricket match between the Press and the Police on Thursday, afternoon. So far as the Press are concerned, the occasion was "it." Besides giving an exhibition of the manly game in tight orthodox style, the sturdy guardians of the pesce proved themselves delightfal bosts, which goes to show that Bobby can act in the good old way on as well as.off duty.
The Judge's summing up concluded shartly after noon, at the conclusion of which the jury retired to consider their verdict..
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It has been decided, therefore, to approach the Hongkong and Shanghai merchants and to find out if possible, if the trouble is the ramo in their market as it is here. If so, and with the consent of the above merchants, it is proposed to address a general appeal from the three Cham bers to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, it is, in the opinion of this Chamber, a matter which vitally concerns the British Spinners, and if the Manchester Chamber of Commerce can be induced to take the matter up had act in conjunction with the three Chambers already mentioned, and with the Bombay Chamber of Commerce, there is not much doubt that the pressure that could be brought to bear upon the Indian Authorities would be such that it would ba, impassible for them to ignore it.
My Committee therefore invite your con- sideration of these facts with a view to prospec tive joint action should the circumstances appeat to justify the same.Yours, &c.,
A. A. GUNN, Sécretary, The Secretary,
Hongkong Chamber of Commerce.
[Enclosure.]
At the request of the Chamber of Commerce, to consider an application from Messze. Briak- [mann & Co., on the qtastion of Short-Reeled Bombay Yards, the following Sub-Committee met at the offices of the Borneo Company, Lid.,
2.30 pm, on Monday, 11th October -- H: A Low Esq. of Messrs. Adamson, Gil.
fillan & Company, Limited.
PAVILIONS FOR FOREIGNERS. V Not far from the Tuogchihmes, on the left was the jury-Messrs. P. C. Potts (foreman, hand side.of the road, wars the three Pavillons M. Manuk, W. E. Maison, W. King, A. Geracted for foreigners by the Waiwupu. The Coppia, G. M. Smith and G. S. Cruickshank. first two had glass windows, the last was open, It may be remembered that shortly after 8'4 m. and obviously, for eight saving, the pae to make on the 20th August last, two Indian policemen for. But it was not yet hall past five, so I in charge of a treasure box arrived at a narrow passed on, overbearing from a group, which, Chiese sitting on both sides of the road. me," Ahlá.Japanese." The enceinte, between Thinking nothing of the circumstance, the the outer and the laner gates, was blocked by guards were about to 'pass'the men, when the bumping cart and straining mulas, and it was latter set upon the unsuspicious policemen and some minutes before I got through, and saw before the unfortunate men had time to realise the glint of the canal, ronning like a long-blade their position, they were brutally hacked to of steel, parallel with the wall, 4 barricade of death with choppers by the unscrupulous gang, bamboo and cloth, and quite acpasiderable who then made away with the booty and escaped sumber of police,, were evidently intended to stop attempts to approach Erlichuang from the to adjacent territory.
Chibbamed, I wondered vaguelytes 1 stood there-a solitary European is a isi) hat-wheat ther Prince Ito's assassination had anything to do with all these precautions, and later I heard, on very good authority, that fears were entertained of the possibility of some similar attemp. It was clay, I knew, "to get to the road along which the procession was to pass, by crossing the canal, just outside the, Mr. Brown asked if the Chamber of Com. merce could not take up the question of Bom- country and that seemed to explain the strong bay shaft-cooled Yarns again, and after some bady of mounted troops with I. had already discussion-it was decided to ask the Chamber seen leaving the city. For the Lung J Em-Commerce to address the Hongkong and press Dowager, and about eight ladies of the Shanghai Chambers of Commerce and find Oadit, togelber with the secondary consorts of out if the importation of false yarns from Bom Tuogchi and Kuang Hsu, were, in a separate bay has interfered in any way with the Im procession, to precede the funeral cortega, portations of genuins English Spun Yarns into it, at the Tungiuchmiao. On the outskirts of that these ports should unitedly represent the whilst a large number of officials were lo join their respective markets, the intention being Erlichoang, was a fourth Pavilion asserved, an. maiter strongly to the Manchester Chamber of official told me later, for "merchants". As far Commerce. as this I walked, and then turned babk, for it is quite light, and 1, wanted to secure & good place before other foreigners arrived. Shorts after seven the Pavilions wore fall,
THE ETERNAL FEMININE. •
After a few minutas, they returned with.a Under the above beading, a writer in an unanimous verdict of Guilty and sentence Indian contemporary deals with the extremely of death was passed, the prisoner delivering a delicate subject of bat curious creature-lengthy statement from the dock prior to being woman. Whether the writer in question, is a sentenced. misogynist or a hypochondriac I am unable to
"WOMEN. N
SOME INTERESTING OBSERVATIONS. -
Bock on the characteristics of the women-of
tell hit his style of dealing with the ancient pro. JAPANESE VIEW OF RUSSIAN Chibianten, and then striking diagonally across blam is decidedly novel and entertaining. He starts off with the well-known lines of the Lion of the North "Ob woman, is our hoers of ease," etc., and after devoting three columns to ipdl. cate nothing, he ends by presenting a new var sion of the beautiful lines thus:-"Oh woman, "God forgive, you in our hours of casă!" May He judge 'twixt you and me." Lovely woman, what hast thou done that he should thus pour fire upon thy brow? Of course, the fact that he calls himself a benedict of long ex. perience partly accounts los-lhe remarkable patronage with which he handles the subject, Rather, may he not have wasted his heart breaking sighs, intended for an earthly Venus on the desert ait? But fools step where angels fear to tread. It was ever thus.
THE QUESTION IN A NEW ASPECT. But let ur digress for a moment to the type of femininity that we meet in our dear, little, Hongkong. Is she not an ador able creature from every point of view? Dons she not make noble concessions and personal sacrifices for suffering mankind? When John returns to his home nestling in the bosom of Kowloon after baving mayed overnight at Hongkong, does she assail him with a shower of raillery at his disgraceful conduct? No. Poor John, doncherknow, was stranded in a typhoon and who cares to inquire what sort of a typhopa it was? And who ever bothers hubby.to go to Church? Bo it is fortunate for "Beacdict" that he is far removed from this exiled spot; otherwise he would sing a different song.
GOING HOME
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By the departure of the troopship Rewa, also vanished some familiar faqes which shall par-
the call of the East will have none of that burning fascination which at first enthralls the young blood from the old country. Noble sons of Britain-God-spoed i
OUR ROUND-THE-WORLD VISITons.
An Interesting article is contributed to the the leading countries of Europe. The writer begius bis observations by characterising Rus sia as a country of beauties. In fact, he says; Russian women have a worldwide reputation, and his inspection on the spot bas convinced hims that the statement is well founded. Of courie there are excaptions to every culè, and those wives and daughters of mujiks who go about with their beads wrapped up in satin
A LONG WAIT. can hardly be included in the above category: Then opsyed & long wall, which, however, was But there can be little doubt that among the not without interest,, and certainly-hand is re- ladies of the middle and upper classes there is burd; for not since the drys of Wu Tsib-fion has A larger percentage of handsome komen than any Empress been accorded a more magolficent can be found in any other country of Europe,bute. A body of mounted troops heralded Russian women affect a French style in their the approach of the coriège, and after them a toilet, their natural charms being considerably string of cainels, carrying requirements for the heightened by liberal artificial aids. It strikes three days' journey, covered by long cloths of a stranger as rather surprising that though the imperial yellow. Next came a company of in- Russians and Franch have little in common infantry, followed by coolies, familiar. at all their political ideas and lastitations, a great funerals, but picturesque caough with their similarity exists in social fashion. And this yellowplamed bats, and red brocaded coats, likeness is nowhere more striking than in cir, Two long lines of banners, furled and carried cles where the "golden-haired and wasp-waist; | slanting on the shoulder, followed;-gilu" ed" beauties move with so much verve and these, to the Empress on her return from exile, recklessness. The Russians, especially the and carried now for the last time. With them falr sex,' copy French fashion with great began that splendid succession of colour spon avidity, so much so that nearly all society colour, which though I had twice seen the like belles speak French with as much ease as before, had lost nothing of its wonder, but, their mother tongue. If extravagant women indeed, stirred one deeply-not, as, on the are a criterion of civilisation Russia must cer- former occasions, when the sky was brilliantly blue, to a tumult of leaping thoughts, but, on try
this gray morning, to sadness. Fer, after the banners, drawn by white Manchuria ponies came yellow-booded Peking carts, and, borns each by twelva bearers, yellow sedan chaire sxquisite to look at, and going now to be sacrificed and burnt. There followed, in presented, I think, by the Legations, and, after these, banners and canopies of scarlet, violet and purple Lavi came
Colonial Secretary's Office,
14th October, 1909. SIR,-la reply to your letter of the 6th lostant, I am directed to inform you that go special conditions have as yet been" prescribed with regard to applications for licences underhaps no more be seen in the Colony. To them,tainly be regarded as a model civilised coun- Ordinance No. 7 of 1903 and I am to suggest that the best course will be for any intending applicant to forward to this office in writing, fall detalls for his proposed wireless'telegraphic Installation for the consideration of this Goverg- .mont.. Such applications will be subject to the approval of the Secretary of State for the Odlonies.—I am, &c.,
(Sgd.), F. H. MAY.
Colonial Secretary, The American Vice-Consul-General in Charge.
Ordinance No. 7 of 1903........... An Ordinance to authorise and regulate the estabilshment and use of lustallations for the purpose of Wireless Telegrapy.
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Henry A. BLAKE,
Governor.
11th July, 1903. Be it exacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislativo Council thereof, as follows.
E. A Brown, Esq. of Messrs. Binkmann &
Company -F. Hiltag, Esq, "of The Borneo Company
Limited.
The Sub-Committee suggest that a copy of the correspondence and texts la Appendix H. Pages 66 to 76 of 1907 report, made by the previous Sub-Committee, ba forwarded to the above Obambers of Commerce,
It is requested when these replies are receive ed that they may be submitted to the Commit- tes for further consideration and action.
(Sgd.) H. &, Low.
E. A. BROWN. F. HILTON.
Singapore, th October, 1999-
This matte is under consideration.
SHANGHAI'S FASHIONABLE
THOROUGHFARE.
THE BUBBLING WELL ROAD,
An article headed "All Types seen on the Bubbling Well Road," Mr. Frederic J. Haskin writes as follows:---
Smarter and brighter are the carriages of the wealthy, Gayer and more varied in colour Are the liveries of their servants. Slacker and more sprightly are their homes. And the wealthy themselves they recline on the white" cushions and seem content with consciousness that they have come not only to look, but to be looked at. Some of the wealthy ones, reckless of conventions and blind to the anachronism, invade the sacred files of Bubbling Well Road with motor cars thereby disturbing the serene superiority of the Chinese coachmen and utterly upsetting the unities of the pageant.
The people in the carriagoi, after all, make the show, in splendid and solitary state drives a grande dams with silvered hair. Sha is the leader of Shanghai society, and from ber decreas there no appeal save to the mob. She is British, she is rich, she has lived in Chias since giribood, and she is absolute master of the social Who's Who in the Far East.
In the carriage just behind, a turnout of the gapest, isapotherlady, also in solitarysplendour. She wears har jewels, her dress is a trifle loud, she stares at the passers-by. No one needs to has made his fortune at the gaming table and tell that she is the wife of a wealthy man who that she is everlastingly trying to get in" and Here are two young chaps with plak checki, that see in averlastingly doomed to failure. pale indications of moustaches, and that bored look which is inevitably a part of the livery of the young British merchantman, clarks in some of the great English banks or "bongs. They are soldiers of that greatest of all victorious armies, the British commercial service. They have come out from "home" on five years con tracts at low salaries. If theysvold the pitfalls of the clubs, the chit system debis, and the other luiquities of the East, their contracts will be renewed, they will go "home" for a.year, and then they will be in line for promotion and pay. Business boras thom. They talk of cricket and the races, they drink and they alf have their fling. Yet not all of them are ruin. ed, and it le such as those who have belted the world with the scarlet sash of Albion
Then there comes; heralded by the clamour. ing colours of their servants' liveries, a precious pair of rogues from the United States. Men who flaunt their diamonds, who are so disgust. gly opulent that all the world cries out: "Gamblert" Americans bluit for them, but here they are.. The recent administration of American affairs in Shanghal has left them wholly without the support of their bome Go verament in any way whatever. The age of Spain and Hittle Cuba may protect them now. Yet, strangely enough, the ladsence of every European nationality was actively exerted to save these fellows from the wrath of decent American officers of the law.
Here are bewhiskered Frenchmen, babbling with enjoyment of life; stolid German galotly grincing at their English trade rivals whom they have so thoroughly frightened; gay Bel- gians; swarthy Latin Americans, and many who have so long lived and breathod in the al- mosphere of Asia that they have lost the dia tinguishing marks of their nationality.
There are women whose red .cheaks have- been strangers to blushes for ages-brazen wo men who come from the ends of the earth to End that fabled part of the world where there aren't no Ten Commandments," only to find that bera as well as at home they are outcaste, Close behind them comes a carriage with two little painted Chinese women, little dolls sold as slaves to white men not worthy of their colour, One sees the seamy side of life on Bubbling Well Road as well as in less favoured thoroughfares.
faction which illumined the features of the local
The other day, the beaming look of self-satis amid the present savolutionary excitement, and yellow chairs also, two large white wreath. Pageant, Hera may be seen in sharp con- they seem to be thoroughly happy. They are Jebus indicated that something good bad fallen their way. And so it was, for the arrival of the German Mail brought a large party of round- the world. tourists who wore beat on doing the sights of the city. With the approach of Christmastide, the date of the Cleveland's ar rival with 700 tourists on board draws scarer. It is too awful to contemplate whether citizens will then be able to scoure the services of either
rickshan'or sedan chairs. The chair and rick-
CASUAL CRITIC.
THE HUGE CATAFALQUE with its rich drapery of yellow, carried by a hundred and twenty-eight bearers dressed in red. A paure was made just ja front of the Pavilions to allow the Prince Regent, accompanied by Prince Ching, HE. Na Tung, H.E. Liang Tun-yes and others, to thank the representatives of the Legations for their spectators lined up ich either side of the road As the cortège moved slowly on again towards the dark archway of the gate, the sun, for the first time, broke through the clouds. Thus the great Empress, followed by many who had known her intimately, and served her long, passed out of her city to the bills.
Driving in Bubbling Well Road between s and 6 o'clock in the afternoon one may not only ses Shanghal its people, but be may fool Shanghal its charm, Bubbling Well Road is a stage setting worthy of a pretty scene, and no one who loves life, colour, and the pursuit
Here is a man and his wife, Americans, and of happiness can be disappointed in its daily trasts the various types of the lordly white andding pleasantly to acquaintances as they man as he is when he lives far away from his
pass, and all the world seems to know them. own people and his racial home. Here may They are not rich, wa can 400 that, and their be seen, also, the types of those Chinese who
carriage has only a coachman in modest livery, would ape their Occidental brothers in man Who are they? Missionaries, of course, Ameri ners and customs, whether it be for salvation
can missionaries, a part of that great arms of or for in. Hare may be sean, in epitome, a workers which has selected Shanghai as its moving picture of the great human comedy, base in its attack upon the ignorance and sin of the Chinese Empire. Not psalm-singing, albait coloured with the rose, for on Bubbling Well Road sven pinching poverty and sordid laud-faced praters of cant are they. That ma
has brought learning to the ignorant, and be in Babbling Well Road has its beginning laying the foundations of the system, that will sin wear gay livery.
regenerato nil China. That woman is a famous, commercial Shanghal as a mere street without surgeon-physician-missionary. She has labour particuliar or particular graces. It leads outed for nearly a score of years to relieve Chlansa'' into more open spaces, passes by race-track womes from pain and death. The Chinese call " by cricket fields, by baseball diamonds, by golf her the "Genius of the Kalle." She has been links. It marches down long aisles of red and decorated by a half dozen Emperors and Kings. grey
brick garden walls, which enclose She has been covered with honours from the veritable parks in which are set red and grey Throne of Heaven at Peking, and by Viceroys brick palaces. it meanders along the bank of the provinces. She is an American Methodist of a tiny stream which coyly hides with missiódary. But you must not be surprised, buga hedges of graceful bamboo. It gives to-morrow, when you find her name among the peaps of coltivated fields where the farmers list of "those present" at the garden party given plant and reap around, about and over the by the silver-haired grande dame who knows little mounds which are the revered graves of exactly Who's Who in Shanghai: their worshipful ancestors. It declines to ylold to the temptation of green bypathe and lovers' Janos, keeps on past circus grounds and summer amusement parks, through an ugly detachment of necessary shops, and fiunt ly comes to Babbling Well,
The Russians are a large-minded, happy-go- lucky people, quite unlike the japanese, who are extremely nervous and sensitive. (8o far is the possession of "nerves" is coacerbed, this remark will be read with surprisa.] Even despite the fact that the country is burdened with an enormous amount of debt, no prosely tising missions are sent out to encourage thrift japan. Everybody, or at least those of the and economy among the people, as is the case
better class of society, appear to be happy in the pursuit of pleasure and luxurious living. The French, though renowned for their extra vagant ways, are really a thrifty people, they are rather suppliers than consumers of luxuries sha population will by that time be rolling in Russie borrows money from France, and much of this money is spent in wines and clothing wealth, so to speak, but we may trust to Pravi- bought in France. Many Russian society attendance and the latter then joined the somewhere in the heart of the busy marts of dence to let good luck pass our way.
ladies annually go to Paris to study the fashion and to boy wearing apparel. Thus the prodigal and frivolous stylo imported from France is be: coming more and more widespread among CHINESE NAVY.
Russian women, who dress themselves more ly for the sake of being seen and admired, "Chinese official opinion in Peking evidently whereas the French do so in a sonso in a busi- inclines to the belief that the departure of the moja way so as to furnish a pattern to other Naval Commission for Europe is an event of people. It would perhaps be no exaggeration momentous and perhaps far-reaching import to say that the Russiaus are the most extra. ance. Various proposals have been drawn up. vagantly dressed women in the world. The *No person shall establish or use within for providing China with a navy. It has beca onus of financing the extravagances of these the Colony any installation for the purpose of estimated that something like £4,000,000 steil. | women falls on the shoulders of their fathers wireless telegraphy unless authorized to do sing will have to be spent on the construction or and husbands whose lot is not an enviable one. by a licence under this Ordinance.
purchase of warships during the next four years, It is observable, the writer concludes, that 4. & licence under this Ordinance may be
and circulars have already been sent to the Japanese women are fast careering along the lasued subject to such conditions and stipula provincial viceroys calling for subscription. paths of their Russian sisters, and unless this flops as the Governor may from time to time According to a recent report, the War Ministry dangerous tendency la chacked in time the men find desirable in the public interest
has gravaly recommended that the first China will be worked to death to provide (upda to Prosed the Legislative Council of Hong man who can build a warship on the foreign sailsly womanly whims.--Japan Chroniels, *kong, this 8th day of June, 1903.
model shall be raised to the rank of nobility, R. F. JOHNSTON, Admiral Bab, however, seems to have advised Acting Clerk of Councils. Assented to by His Excellency the Gover nor, the zith day of July, 1993/
1. Thix Ordinance may be cited for all pur- poses as the Wireless Telegraphy Ordinance 1903.
The Governor may, whenever he shall * deem it expedient to do so, licence the establish
meat and use within the Colony of installations for the purpose of wireless telegraphy,-
F. H. MAY, Colonial Secretary. It was decided to leave this matter in aboy. anck
NEAR Sonrabaya, a match factory, the first of the kind in Java, has just beon started by an Amb. The News Van den Dag says that the factory is almost in working order, the only thing lacking being some gear on the way from Europe. The labels and some smaller appll ances will be ronde la London, Java wood will be willland for the business,
profiminary inquiry into the whole quastion of naval defence before any definite steps were taken, and it is probably owing to his re- presentations that the commissioners have now started for Earops."—Standard.
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WITH reference to the proposed pardon for the reformers banished in the your of the coup d'etat which, it was said, would be granted after the late Empress Dowager's fanoral, the latest Chinese reports are to the affect that at a recent discussion on the question, the step was still opposed by two of the Grand Councillors, who urged that the pardon was premature and would produce great disorder if granted at this Juncture, 20
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MANILA CARNIVAL,
MILITARY SPORTING TEAMG FROM HONGKONG,
General Broadwood, commanding the British forces in Hongkong, has notified Governor General Forbes that he thinks there will be no difficulty in getting a good team to come to Manila during the Carnival, to take part in the various sports and suggesting that a return meeting be bad in Hongkong when the Manila teams may match their strength with British teams on British sell, says the Manila Times, He also faveurs a rifle competition between British and American teams. Governor-Gen. eral Forges has invited General Broadwood to be his guest in Manila during the Carnival and the laiter has replied that he will probably be able to accept the invitation.
A DESPATCH from Peking says that the Yu ch'cappu contemplates opening a large Prin sing Department under its control in Peking, Capital of Tis, foo,000 will be raised from the differest railways and the telegraph administra tion, and all printed matter for Railways, Posts and Telegraphs and the Chies Merchants! S. N. Co., such as pastags and railway tickels, stamps, etc, will be issued by the Department. Private orders will also be filled. All the printers will be engaged from the southern ports and it is intended to employ forsign anti- FOUR Chinese were last Friday charged at the sans for fine engraving and die cutting. The Magistracy with keeping a gambling-house at manager has recently been visiting the large-240, Hollywood Read. Two of the men ware printing establishments in Shangbal so as to each fined $1,000 and the rest warn discharged. gain information as to their working, and the Detective-Bergeant Appleton prosecuted and scheme will very shortly be carried into effect. | Mr. M. Reader Harris defended.
Scores of camiagos stream by and we look out upon the respectability of Shangbel, the great middle-class, the people who really const. After all, most of the people who driva la Bub bling Well Road in the afternoon are people just like you see anywhere elsa-Just like those who go down to Coney if they liva in Naw York, or to meet the evening train if they live in Humansville, Mo.
The Babbling Weil is a deep spring sur rounded by a low wall-of red and gray brick over which the paw-comer loans to look
Europeans, Americans, Chinese; bankers, upon the wonder of a common ordinary bub bling spring. It is then that one knows that society leaders, gamblers, beachcombers, clerks, the Bobbling Well is nothing; the Road's the missionaries, family, men; rich, well-to-do, poor thing. One doesn't drink from the Bubbling they all drive. And when we go back to the Well, one never looks at it but once, and its Astor House for dinner we half believe the big... only use is to give a name to the course over Sikh policemen know all the time that all the which Shanghallilamust rua sometime between world, for all the ages, is portrayed lathe tea time and dinnertime of a pleasant afternoon. pageant to be seen every afternoon, of a fine Sat bard by that disappointing well is a day, from 5 to 5 o'clock in Babbling Wall Road. Caravansarai, where men and women of Shang.. ha do slight and compare themselves for s dish of tea, peg of Scotch and soda, ora vile SAYS the Poking and Tintin Tins - The imitation of some American born intoxicant. Junior sports has been filled up with ropes for From the low windows of this resting place climbing, laddass, and a pair of boxing gloves, there are several such places in fact that por and is as popular asayar with the boys at Which tion of the pageant which is belag fefreshed by of the boys, we ask?. The one with the fist drink and food looks out upon taat portion of f ́or the qua, with the pair of gloves &