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ELEGRAPH
1HE SHANGHAI PLAGUE TROUBLE
MUNICIPAL COUNOL ISSUES REASSURING PROCLAMATIONS.
VOLUNTEERS RELIEVE THE POLICE,
[From Our Own Correspondant]
Shanghai, 12th November, 845 pm.
HE, Liu Ya Lín, the Oblouse Minister to the Cunit of St James, left for England on board FRX appointment of Mr. Edward Jones, First
peril to the public health the English Mail steamer Arcadie at noon to Boarding Officer, to act Auisiant Harbour
I will be ramambara Maiter during the abrence on foive of Comar, many months ago, Colonel Bedford, the Jocal
affect from the 12th Instant, in gresited, but of the Sanitary Bond, to a lengthy G. W. W, Beckwith or mill farther notice, with | P. M. O, dropped a bomb-shell lato
MASTERS of British ships possessing copies of discourse on the subject of the porn bis das gers coles of the Government by treating the meta
British Signal Manual are informed by the attaching to the Pokfulam water supply, Harboni Mister that limited number of copies Naturally, a bullabaloo was raised at the sime of a new leidet for insertion therein have been and, following: traditional custom, & Com received by him and may be obtained en applica, minion was appointed to go into the matter. then at the Harbour Office,
After be fadlogs of the Commission were
a mida knowa to the public, the matter. If my mimo:y serves me sight, was remited to drema' In abeyance but it ngala rose to the
addressed in the Sanitary Board by All is quiet to-day, The Musi surface the other day by a letter which was Fiseliaty, a member of the Board and cipal Council has issue!
mix miles away for the necessary daily) The reverend monk's reply want where you have a cow you. WOORD, and where you have a woman, AS. WATSON & CO., be the never so old, there you will have dissensions," Be that as it may, there is little room for dubiety upon the point that in Hongkong at any rate woman has been at the bottom of all the chiquism that has crept insidiously into the social life of the Colony. Apart from the boundary line: drawn arbitrarily as between the Olvil and Court of Lequity into the circume stances attending the collision between the the Military communities though not so es, Holming and the at Kwonglung will be atringentlyas in India-iliere are, as we have held at the Harbour Office next wosk stated above, numerous lesser distinctions, all of them affecting our social amenities. We cannot do without certain social distinc tions, of course, any more than an army can do without discipline, but when the opera tion of these unwritten laws amounts to snobbery then a new phase has been teached
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THE British North Borneo Harsid mports that two cooller, one by the Afawsang and one by the Borne were unpleasmotly antprised to a the elves detained by the Police on this ival la Sandikin. The Registrar-la
telegraphed to the Eraiector that these mon mare wanted in Hongkong
"thal ■ highly respected chiste. Now
issued reassuring
and the situation becomes entirely different KATOOR, has just been received from Australia THE Amur railway is being courtracted by bilieve that a serious menace to the public ed in paoifying the Chicese.
So far as the Garrison is concerned, we may safely leave them to work out their own sal. vation on lines which have been laid down
call at Government House, for if he did so
A CONSIGNMENT of wallables, or young kan by a Smithfield poultry firm. The wallaby was seldded in the menu of several hotels at home
Test winter.
is gentleman la question would, kare un proclamations, which have succeed forced labour, shout v.300. prisoners being an-haalth is presented by the Pokialam extrroir Kaged upon the work. It is reported that these la view of possible contamination, and that it. The Volunteers hays relieved the men are so industrious in their work that they would be preferib's to at once close the riser Police and are patrolling the dia show much better results than ordinary labourers, vel in question than whan the trouble" has
not the Russian au borlifes bara decided to fncrease the number of prisoners engaged on abls work 10 2,500, apie adapten as tegan
All
It is noticed is the Government Castle that conditions regarding the nomination of cab didates for the Nobal Peace Prize, 1901 may retary's Office, a ako porabljen lesene.It is notified in the current issan of ika Gever, will disagree byt does it not strike the doctor that |
be learned on application at. the "Colonial Zec
A HARBOUR NUISANCE.
For some time back the Harbour authorities V have been pestered by sampais lying along- side the wharf opposite the Embout Office ad
gone to far for rectification; all of which might affected aron for the preservation of laid us to suppon that, we are on the point f being poisoned to death. With the minest order, physician's argument par is no sensible man the possiblilty of dangor is exactly the same ay in other things which we as a role do not in the least bother about ?.. To, give an fantance,
cloace, or rather, it has been attempted to be proved, that each time we speak through an ordinary, everyday common telephone, we have a thousand and one microbes rammed down our throats, and ouch time we inks op s recriver, an equal number of the playful Imps so merrily down our poor, liule: cars, tins which li la impossible in the nature There are Lundreds of other Mitte precau of things to observe, for the very simple reas
mant Gardie with reference to Gover His Excellency the Governor has been plansed Notification No. 175 of 1910, that an the spy to appoint. Mr. A. O. Franklin to act as Anslyst plication of Mr. J. von Ritgun, M.l. Mech. B., during the absence on leave of Me, Frank M'LE. and 5, Hoogk ng aud M.I.V. Bemor Browna or until further notice, with effect from baren, His Excellency the Governor has buen it has been proved by world-famous men of refusing to mora when told to do so.. A notice the 9th instant.
pleased to grant the applicant provisiesal pro adjusting the soll yesterday in the Sam-tection for farther paried of six months from mary Court, Mr. Justice Haspland faed for the 28th day of October, 1910, for an invention bearing on some day to January a case in which in respect of fire bridge bars for steam boilers, Wong Tix Kin sues Chin Mau Mul for $1,000 panding an application for the grant of Latters la respect of alleged slander, · ́
in Chinese has been posted up warding the imp. people against this practice, but this appears to be iguer d..
pretty definitely by themselves for the ad justment of their internal questions of social status, for is it not written in the books of Rudyard Kipling? £x regarde the non- Service community, however, the conditions are rather different. Time was when the Colony was much smaller, that no Britisher coming to the Colony would have dared to dely the gods by failing to make a formal he would surely have beco taken to task by his Taipan. Then, all were on an equitable plane. Now it is all changed: Fifty per cent, of the griffius coming out from Home I never give a thought towards paying on courtesy cail at "The House," but instead are eagerly soapped up by the lady leaders of this or that clique and thele cara assailed amateur riding contest, which will doubilesa af þulng their earnest dealté that China may be zon that life weuld not then be worth living the Harbear Off;e wharf when told to do 10, by a tirade against the Philistines on the other side. And so the game of cliquiim goes merrily on. Mrs. A. will have nothing to do
A Harmsion's Circus to-night there will be another change of programme and also an ford much amusement to the audience. To: azca. morrow night there will be a special perform
Patent therefor.
Critics, especially in Hongkong, are wrongly supposed to be agin' the Gorerament but I am entirely at cut with te powers that be with
vor, The Water Authorlly gava ample proof
This morning before Commander Ball Taylor, MN, the coxswain of the Government- seam Ismech Lily prosecuted Loung Chal, owner of licensed coolin boat No. 3:70 for havi
ing nalawfully dispbased thi orduis - of the
Karbour Master by failing to clear away from
on the 11th lostan... It transpired that the de fandant was not ́n charge of the s.mpan at the time specified and his Worship dismissed the case. The charge was then pieferred asulast
with Mrs. B. because forsooth, her husband Asaresult of Tavini Tsal Nsi-kuang'a dismissaof the fact that the Chļosse-Gov.remant regard to their decision mot to cioss the reser Weng Sang Mai, who way la charge of the
for not having money ready to pay the indem
has $50 more salary in the Government ser piles, the Board of Finance has proposed that vice than Mrs. Be husband enjoys. Mrs. the provinces should in future be instructed to B. again does not consider it right to ac- remit thoix indemnity is da to the Ching kuowledge by anything but the curtest ro-Bank instead of the Shanghai Total as here- cognition her knowledge of Mrs. C's exist tofore. ence for the reason that the latter's husband
on and so forth, right down from the highest
INFORMATION has been received from the Taimel Beacon has been badly damaged by collision. All steamers are cautioned to go dead slow when passing this part of the river The Green Light on the beacon will be shown as usual,
rampin at the time and who added to bur fence by going on board the Lily and refus ing to go shore when requested to do js She pleaded gulity and was fiand so cunts.
COLONEL PRIOK'S DEPARTURE,
THE delegates to the World Missionary Con- ference held in Edinburgh last Joue hire sent a memorial to the British Government, expres left entiraly fren with regard to the importation of opium, and that the Government will take such other steps as may be necessary for bring fog the opium trade to a ipsody close, in view making an ecdeavour to suppress the evil. In of necessary precautions and that ought to have foreword to the memorial the Bishop of Dorsalified the least sanguine member of the ham paints to the active effacts of Chien to vid borself of the habit”.
Bosid. Personally, I don't see how we can afford to close the reserve't to quenlos until Ir oil supersedes coal in providing the motive we have tha good fortune of hitting upon a plan power of warships. wa may hear more of a pro-011 system of water supply which will elimin- is junior to her own in the service. And so Actiog Harbour Master at Canton that the Ject mooted some years ba k. This was the ale all fear of dry (seasons with which we RTO
the Ailaule to tansport oil from the American construction of a number of Luge pipes beneath periodically faced. A. S. WATSON & CO,, ranks to the lowliest. Yet the husbands
ollfields direct to Europe. Several lengthy
A KIFARTY SEND OFF, THE END OF THE QURUR of these respective ladies probably all
pipelines are already is cia for a similar pur citizens bava decided to part with their quens,odest man. Be-garlanded like a sacrificial At last it would seem that our Chinese fellow send-off which ought to be gratifying to a Colonel Pryor, of the 13th Rajputy, 'had a 1.IMTED,
take tiffin together at the Club and would
pose. Oae fifty-one miter long convays petro. which has serred to distinguish them from bull the Colonel allowed his soldiers to strug keep on the friendliest terms always were
leum from Texas and California across the other races for centurien past. Countless edicis walks of flowers round his neck. The bind it not that the continual nagging at home AMONGST the summary cases on the roll at the sthmus of Panama. A much longer petroleums are passing between high-placed officials of played on a launch near the Arvadis, the F. & and the "curtaig lectures"
o' nights Supreme Court yesterday were seven claims pipe-line is that which connects Bars, on the the land and from reliable scurce. I learn O.mail-ship in which Colonel Meyer is nailing. lead eventually to estrangement, Perhaps against Lam Lin in respect of sums aggregating Caspian Sea, with Batoom, on the Black Sea that the leading pative citizers are caly await Evesy inne except "Daisy, Daity * and the in no direction, has saobbery been to ram more than $1,000. The ulsos Judge distance of 5 mil Over 400,000,000 in the paws of the final order from the seat of Weny Widow," every tone, that is, which in pant as in the case of the clubs of Honged the cases nine die. M. C. Wilson is appear galloss of oil piss throng's this pipe yearly. the mighty to the officials to discard their kong. It seems to be a first principle that log for the plaintiffs and Mr. Reader Herzinfar's Fade: police bave been obliged to or
queunt, From another scarce which I might Indian band feels it its duty to play on thus tem dami-authoritative, 1 gather.that a fitfog occasioru, was religieusly repeated. A old ganize a special detective bilgade to watch demonstration is to be held on December 415 Lang Syne" might have been emphasized a domestic savante in Pali. Information bat
at the City Hall, where no less than a thousand little less, but the real affection and loyalty of hsen received, at headquarters of a thievon'
Chloere will congregate for the purpose of organization called the Whits Apron Bri-for what it is worth and cannot speak to their fasistence on the remembrance which thay will cukloy thei: queuer. I zien this information the miso to their departing CJ'nsel excused on gado. By means of forged testimonials the reliability or otherwise. What is uppermost always cherish of a just chief and a fine soldier. members of the gang, which is several hundreds | In my miod is that those on the spot will be given quite a unique privilege, as it must ba rob their masters. Recently two woman who
admitted on all bands that such a drastic 'NEWS FROM THE NORTH had stoles S500 and $1,000 worth of Jewellery is something very much out of the ordinary
charge after center'es of matter-of-cou se'as gai were arrested by the polc One of them, a The queue has come... to be regarde iĝas German girl of twenty-four, had already com-it is certately difficult to realin bow it can the distinguishing feature of a Chloeman and mitted more than a hundred thefis, When out of service she lived in an expensive flat in hard to remark what a rich harvast would be ever be dispend with. A local cyaśc. was Paris, beautifully famisted, in which the police reared by the lower classes of Chirase by the have found a number of valuabin pictures be sale of their wallom appendages to the traders llaved to be stof m. The woman's last alias world at some fatore date adorn the hard of was Mario Muller, bur she has at least eightens Society mstrass. That is by the way but no but the stepping stone to that goat of a new Intelligent observer of current events in China can fail to realise that the proposed chen, is hops and bihat aspiration of every true
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in all things exclusivenets must be made the the defendant; foremost consideration. It may appear THE aviator Barnes fell fifty feat at Folkestone somewhat invidious to single out one in-and fractured kla skull on 21st Sept. Sir Hiram stance as an illustration of what is meant, Maxim bas abandoned experiments in aviation but at the same time the cass in our mind on the era of completion of a biplane from which he expected the greatest things. He has and that he is acable to trust the workmen, and also that he has been discouraged by the many
is the most recent as it is one of the molt explafond that he le ovarsayanty-two years old, strong, obtala situations in private hontas and
glaring. We refer to the Royal Hongkong holles sone but the its must hope for ad- Yacht Club. Into the ranks of this holy of misssion. Yet the Colony was full of enthu sirstić jachtsmen. Very well," in effect said the Selection Committee, you may sail your yachts as much as you like, but you
∙Cannot come into our circle,"
fatalities.
TWENTY-ONE nations in represented at the International Anti-Unemployment Urnference being held in Paris. The British delegate le Lord Gaorge Hamilton, thear Cabinet Minister And the M. Bourgeois declared that the elements of the problem are hardly understood. The labour market must be universally.organisel. A com. | others, Mos mitten will be appointed to frame a status of inte national organization.
The
The Hongkong Celegraph healthy ko organisation it has become. It
LAST gear 1,665 victims were claimed by the
in human bair and that the discarded locks
sea from merchant'ships. Heavy toll as this sad raviv fied China which is the cherished
Celtsit 1.
may seem, it is the lowest for twenty years. I deaths at sea; but since them in a single year 1894, no fewer than 3,071 went down to their
HE TUAN FAVOM:
(Specially Trániloted for the "Hongkong: „Telegraph"}
to appoint H.E. Tato Fase, the Ex-Vichicy of It is reported that the Prince Regent intendi Chibil, as President of the Bonid of Agriculi
cession in erasection with the late Emprest tuis, Industry, and Commerce, - It will ta me medbered that H. Toxo Fang was recently imperched for taking photo,raphy of the pro- Dowager's funeral by Marquis Li Kae Chico,
Minister to Belgium
NAWIPAPER LAWI,
result has been the formation of the Corinth inn Yacht Club, one of the strongest of its kind in the Far East, possessing a pretty Pavilion and commodious jelty; and one only needs to look at the fleet of yachis A GENTLEMAN who has just come down from the weather here is a great deal colder than it riding at anchor off the Club to realize bow Shanghal on a visit to Hongkang declares that leaves the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club in to the Northern Settlement. On the whole, HONGKONG, SATURDAY, November 12, 191o. hopelessly to leeward. As regards the other however, it resms likely that there is to be an sporting clubs in the Colony, whose portalsarly winter this year. En 1909. the outermost
·SOCIAL LIFÈ IN HONGKONG.
were protected figuratively by barbed wire poris were not frees up notil the 15th of No entanglements to the exclusion of the ember. This year the ice blackade is likely to For many years past, it has been a stead-canaille · (save the mark!), a visit 10
take place if fernight earlier. Ing reproach against Hongkong that its social life has been marred by snobbery, Had Thackeray ever had they misfortune to visit this Colony, he undoubtedly would hare included Hongkong's so-called Society ; in his "Book of Snobs" India is bad that it belongs maybe, to a junior rack-of-szo, ba says, but it did not strike the Chinese engaged upon them, as compared with 20 contemporary by others, with the ratural regThe Grand Council is of opleins thit Cos
the Government service or occupies a sub-fancy, Though many circuses have alaca visiwaniy yosis back, sidiary position in the shipping offices.
A WAIL FROM THE SOUTH. has the total exceeded 2,000, Of last year's balling from the traits the other day. I was reading a certiin pink-hoed "paper victims 947, warn saliors (including masters and when my eyes fall on paragraph which latends to request the President of the Baard The I resident of the Board of the Interior officers), and it8 passengers. The ill-fated ran in a decidedly lachrymara vein bat dos of Foreign Affairs to communicate with the Waratah was responsible for 93 of the latter.pite this fact, there le a touch of bamour in Foreign Minister le Peking that the new Incidentally the Board of Trade White Papersion runs as follows: We cu not bat help papers owned by foreigners should be subject it which is delizhifally refreshing. The effc. which sets oui thèse facts shows how ramack to icing the growing tendency on the pitt of to the new Press lawa, jot Happy Valley any evening or Saturday A UNITED Sister Consal in Chine, having been the past twenty years. In 18g there were exclusive information obtained by as a great
able has beenthe decline is sailing shipsdp ing consin of ads coslemporarias to make use of FOSTIOS STAMPS afternoon will convince the most casual asked whether it would be worth while sending 63 857 employed upon asiling vesselsy kr: your credi ingin at beleg the source of their in- partage stamps, should be pelotad at the p observer that they were missing fine oppor, merry-go-rounds to the Celestial Empire, hur
expensas and considerable tranblo" with ut The Governmest has decided tastejo fatora tupities for stiffening their working teams by advised his countrymen, through a Constage number was at 31,470 Without excaption formatios. It has been part colarly promisest ing offices of 198 Bard of Finates Pad, to the young talent whose only default is Ose was taken to Shunghat about ten yakja greatly lucinated, and to-day there are 11-29 whibent eren pirits as credit for 11. These failing to open their membership lists repart, not to endeavour to sell them theretion. Steamships, on the other hand, hava, paws from eur columen, word for word
each your batean has shown a steady dimin of lite, one piper is particular publishing abroad gals at present the case.
ffed the country, mase of them took menys make mallONALD
newly "paras hara been copied from this
CONSTITUTIONAL CODE,
shit that they have given credit to that paper, aliullosal laws are the fundamental principia loft out in the cold in spite of belug the Conceit has decided that in for their information whereas we have been govamment which most remain uzsitaráds original publishers of the nt was referred to, Lions for the establishment o por items of saws, but would mak nicely voy Wedon't mind copias being taken of any of Costitutional Code should first be prem:
fcaly, that the credit be given to us. What ad. The Gauscil has sacciosad the Apples the writer is awars that the art of "cribbing" High Commissioners for is not merely confised to the dear little spot CosmÍCE Opal Code do you think of fi, gentle mandér? Doubtless ment of Fripes Paton where his, fourcal le pablished. All Scia do
enough lu all conscience. But there, a bard and fast line is drawn between the Military and the Civilian. The other gradations do not count for much. Here, on the other
LO FENG LU'S SUCCESSOR,
go-roands, which forma such a popular Class OLD Singaporean in an interesting later to of entertainment in other countries, dar, the Singapore B. of Frame on wounds and ad- hand, whilst the lines of division are no less
The Chinese Minister to the Court of St. In the Summary Court yesterday, Mr. Justice thers were a good many of us concerned in the ventures* zomarkas-Dorlog the Fetak war definitely demarcated the subsidiary differ- James has passed through Hangkong in the Haziland gave adgmeat in favour of Natha Sghting who had curious and unplassant a entiations are made much more glaringly E. &O, ship readia, Mr. Lia is a quiet Singh, a Sikh, who sand Yang Kam Shing perinoces, and as 3 was second in command 1 apparent. In the early days of the Colony gentleman of strong views which he is in the clerk in Victoria Gaol, for iso, money lent, and came in for my share. Thers with some each man wax sa good as his neighbour and habit of concealing until such time as ex ordered that repayment should is made at the peculiar weapons cand beside the Malay kris the Colonists were ne oun big brotherhood, occasion to refer to these views next Mon-ppered for the plaintiff and Mr. P. S.. Dikon bear a mark on my shoulder, but the man cell for it. A simple method to Adept Grand Counc
presion become a duty. We shall have rate of Bro per month. Mr. J. H. Gardiner and the later is a nasty weapon from, which is to rate a lead out of the Circes Clowa's book excrcite realit in which all met on a level footing, from the day. In the meantime we desire our readers for defandant. Some days go the defendant who gava, the wound, I killed with his own would be the one favon ed by the American secasty for the Governor himself down to the veriest ship to note that a man of ical koportance laws ordered to pay Sig per month in respect of pin before he could do any more harm Editor of the Late Mark Twain's creation, by
and blindly askráWhy don't they give them duties and submit dr ping clerk. Commenting upon this subject, going to London to represent the Chinese a crustic writer once sald that it was only: his two daughters with him and they will the amount of rome $800) It was z‡uted in they do not compare with glass balletupandi li more, get it at the point of this revolver.- - appoint
Empire and the Chinese race. He is taking a debt, owing also so a Sikh money-lander to Bat whilst aclusos can give shocking wound which he would demand the credit; and,
when European women began to coals out no doubt be useful in showing English Court that his salary was $75 per month in here that disservices made their appearance school girls that Chinese ladies of the Tar following description of China to found in and grow apsce).
cei kim male friendships educated class are at least a dullful, gentle the Canak". Aspirals: -" China is a Nation were transformed infotitred, and cliquism and diligent as any ladies in the world of students. Four thousand year became rampant. This is rather a serious has to convince the Western world of the fucius said, “ If a man has learned
What a tank Mr. Llu bag bafore him Ho allegation to make agalust the fair sex, but honesty of his government, We do not the morning he may be content to die befo that it contains more than a modicum of envy him, but we wish him success. Of his suptet, and geoprations have foll
apparent to anyone, who has own ambillout and hopes we shall write in building-up of new Colonies to our next issue. It would be well for Chiu
the world. It boars out the
wo remate, with regret that Dr. Lim Boon If more of her Kervants were like Mr. Liu about the old monk, who eng is not at present with His Excellency, why it that the. Dr. Lin will not join himn tinlil beat anglia)
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employed by the annoy. These ballets method,hich withould understand,gan, pere these. pecalife, missiles were amongst those
THE NEVÄST INVENTION
paturally spilatered to pisces when, they hit a sas tupposed to be in a hurry. Perkant tha Language has bun reduced to a Thonbas4
bone in the body, and I can focalisbains.com. priemeri ineffectual hurry shon, siderably cut about by the doctor to samova the man who works the lite
bar of places, from Gra
railway which
rab costingant suland (when