CORRESPONDENCE.
"BRITAIN'S NTIONAL DEFENC We have received the following fetter from the Imperial Maytime League for publica:
tica:-
TO THE TON of the Hoxazona Telmoratic"
Elz-Wo voolure to express on carest hope that you may be good enough to fad room, kod, if possible, a prominent place, in your valuab'o(columas for the insertion of the ac companying public letter to the Trime Minister of the Vallei Kingdom.
We ask this because the naval supremacy of the British Empire, upon which the position of eich of the grent Dominions depende, must pass within five years' tione, with the passing of our pro-Breadoought armoured ship1⁄4antess a
great shipbuilding effit be speedily begun and
relatoly muistaloed..
To raise the vast sum required by addii al taxation is not at this moment withlo the scope of politics in Great Britain. Therefore the only alternativa is a great Loan. The only substantive proposal for such a Loan which bas been and now is before the people of the Home Itland's in that which has been put before them by the Imperiat Maritime League, wish the soithing weight of support recorded in the letter enclosed..
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 7 1910"
THE DEMOCRAtic bpidEMIC
AND OTHER TOPICE,
TRE CHINA ASSOCIATION
DINNER.
MR W KEEWICK, LIONISED.
I
it
This hiccupy litla is positively-ail that a poor Mathematician can fed larn attempt to trace At the annual dinner of the Chion Association and describe the strange fia,es that are cat ok, la submitting the last coast, "The meden men from London to Lisben, from Gershen Stewart, M. F., said-This meeting chasing each other through the minds of Chaim:n, (Mr. W. Keswick, M. P.) Me, Patataburg to Peking, from Barcelon to Ber has its accions side, but it also has its social lie. Faris has had her share of trouble and side, in which we look forward to a renewal of now some horrible plice called Post-y-Pwydd; old friendships; and thots of you who have or something list, some other name all been enjoying yorricives with some ancient and tangly with the Usic fringe, has made lisolf tried, end, I tras, not too presy crony will, conspicuous by causing Englishmen to use tops, extend your horizin and focus your at force in suppresslog silly, effe:vascant disorder
ordinary plait man naturally rubs histosios upon the health I am going to prop and cries "Grations; what's all this?" when you, that of "The Chairman" Mr. Keswick be loss that with as solmily almost morkable map. (Hear, hear.) 1 believe
was In the year 1855 that he went to Chion, anti before a good many of us present to
it came lata the world at all. (Laughter.) Dig the fifty-five years hy hai gone through sicce then our Chairman hy occurled a mos prominent position la every walk of life which he has been engaged. As regard this Associ tion, he was one of it main stand
bears; he cherished in Its Efancy, and position he holds to-night shies that he is end of our malo towers of strength. He grast interests in the commercial" world in ur own City of Lendas, and in China; and
amounting to alliteration all the Latio races fren Macao to Maleld have got themselves tied up in Political Fursies and at the races of the Nth are wondering who hit Salvation lies in Social'sm or Power in Protection. In one country Jesuits seem to be the dreaded danger and the "wicked szemy." In another, the word "Anarchist seis a whole street on the run. In another the word Charette," far
Burbon' attered in. a. Certald way, will tender a man liable to arrest is D but we dare to
the
bas
COMMERCIAL.
jea Decamber, Fam
clation. Before I sit down there is only cas observation I would make. It is with roférenct to a remit made by Mr. Addis'as if I were one' of thote alereotypol, formal creatures who did. The following quotations for rabber shares not see that it was necessary to make changes; by wire, are supplied by Messrs. Ë. S. Kadoorie and that if a treaty were entered lato, and the &00,— conditions of it were found to be wrong in any son disregarde, and on the other, perhaps, en- respect, they should be on the side of one par forced. That warnol the meaning of my remas", What! Told was that polico should be given of desire for change, and that bitween the par- ties who had entered into the eqisement an arrangement should be made for the chaogleg
a
of those conditions if that were found desir |able-ant that there should be any formal and hard line by which what was undesirable should be perpetuated. That was far from my inter for, It is far from my feeling, and I trost that there is no Britisher here why would enderie the view that that would be the right policy. It won't be a wrong policy. But I conceive that the view I took wit nc:rect one, in stat lng that a perlod should be named, that con ederation should be given. and if possible a change and an amelioration of conditions brought about, Goat-mar, I thank you ex cerd'ng'y for the kind way in which you have received the tiast, and I assure you that the evening i have presided over the Chica As sociation's twenty-first birthday celebration will
choots.)
mention the City'. came-lens foute weight hovily on the spr'ts not only of Editors but of the man in the street. I hope, may hi rimain to keep his lobe a las loz remembrance of pleasure. (Loud
teresi in Chion, for it is perhaps more needed |
Sir, as the fate of the Emplie as a whole wily by di crn'ued by the resonuse to this proposal we think that we may will appoil to the press of thai Empire to let ita voice be beard is sym- in L, (gala wa leave the name to the rander's 'puby with the Leng (e's effort and in difoteligence Reitlemen, howevie Must lous
that 1. effet may attain success,
is ancestry, and highly placed in even a
t be. W. O. a'e table
The Jestiny of the British eples through-ish Ministry, whore initials happen
out all row is evsa now in the Halance.
We are, etc,
10 sudden
at the prevent time than ever before. Wa watt, The company subsequently adjourned to the ior ddition to the anergy of youth, the tipa next room, there to continus for socio whila which our Chairman has at his disposal. And wisdom of experience and matured knowledge looger the renewal of o'd friendships, and the camino cement of new ones, and that social. do not know any man, who, wih all the banquets. In his Parliamentary career-tbla le quite tras talk which in, sfter all, a' chief object of thees
would willingly and cheerially undertake con testing a county division in mid-winter, thrash-
wk he has to, dia mitiers of commerce,
Is the Lona is the possibility of present aliache by Suffragettes armed with dog-whips, fet. In the Federal U sins of the self-gov. Thasix bit once was gentler and still contaies eraing states loberes the bore of future victory I think, a few sweet members, is surprising is the isteroptional competition of the world.ma-kind by using just the right kind of whip for-1 again presama to think-the right kind of man. All there symptoms of a disaite coting his apponent by 5,000 votes, and be willing unknown to the sand and pbilosophical stud satiaughterfand chrome) I myll have look to undertake it again should the necessity arise. of History, have bag, exhibited at various parieds with more er less vitulesco, but always with the sms laevitable end. I am not
HAROLD F. WYATI,
L. GRAHAM, JI. HORTON SMITE, Jolat Hocerary Secretaries,
3, Wenn Der Pat ca Gardens,
Westminster,
London, S.W.
November 4t4, 1910.
[Ereteauro]
HUNDRED MILLION LOAN FOR NATIONAL D'FENCE,
home with him between 3 and 4 o'clock ed on him with wonder as I have waleed
WATER REturn.
Level and storage of water in Reservoirs on the set Decembar, 190.
الا يوسة
CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS LEVEL
1903,
абзуе
19:0,
Tytam...... 17" above) Level
overflow
going to like the trouble to do more then in. in the maralog fer a lite sitting. Tytam Bye. [ 27' 11" below) 25′ below:
dicate the truth shat death is the end of them when trialed by bad physicias, while with really good cursing and proper treatment, the which certainly began 658-dƐrease may ead in renewed life a..d strength, just as typho'd, when S42,-We respec fully submit to you a fac a min, hat recovered from it is sad in many ther list of Officers of Flag and Geber. Rant, 1135 sotirely to clear the spitze of all other en 1 of oths.s, who conc tin affining the'r br. polving and, as it wera, give it a cow lease If in the necessity for the loan offrono yaoof belt. The wave of religious unbelief that
Nation 1 Defence. The total number of there of such rank who have now, at the instance of the Imperial Maritime League, Kve their pable supper to this propos.1, is
f
sparovit,
biz to vaż a weight of exput opinion in fru of the anggestion has already been to by the question of the loan into the f refront
was then
f.esb as a daisy. Asd there he is in the chair, gentlemen, meatary experincce has probably shown himj as lively as ever (Cheers,). As Parlia
when the gene n' piblic se kofy by you thay maan ne diete pre las pretty you.
ay maan po disrespect. Aut perhaps our Cha'r nan does not know, in the clavi'ed
phase he has long enjoyed, that with tis reverent praletarist is bas been biten kay, and is now behind his back, as "Billy ac And in there two wards the public have shown a very true apparition The Chairman, naturally, to his long career, has had differences with ming prople., Us has 'ven is good as he got; and he has always turdily uphold whatever he thought was right.
those two words show that, those diflarecces put aside, tha poblic knew that in the man there is a large element of kindness and manity, and after all in all matters it is the man that counts; and it is also a 1 acknowledge ment of the pareno'al youth which le one of
swept across Eurips in the latter half of the eighteenth cintay seems a singler ending to the amazing deluge of religions fury which ware al tomiu endeavor.during the thin 461. A large number of ohar rs whole of the pn'es' coniugy and the ear's presetativn. men have, in additior, as.you are part of the eighteenth. Otrast the awful elody aware; and road it with their publica-nestoess of the Dutch n Fruch Protest
ants of the time of Qican Anny with their The League has observed with deep satis-scepical cynicism of to-day: the disputes of for that the effect of its success in ariem-
the faturoints and Jesuits ef1710 with the mild and on the whols, rather u interesting control very betwesa the same, or similar parties in the Colic Church of our time. The norm rige of the Tlebs, the passo ato cry for Liberty bood acted, to pass our medical alagy, in "orgive him away, but I have seas cur Chair. much the same way as a purging medicine may, some years ago cert'nly, foot it with the best of them at convivial ontstreiamants. cleating disease, Austria, Germany. Italy, France and Spile bidly reded waking Certainly, when the guasts were aging at a certain dinner which is in my mled up England was iven over to what one of our mot brilliant writers has cal'e 1 "a dingy gener now in Honglong, be arrived ai the Hosour-, ation in chimaey pot hals. Eu those days
abla Mr. William Kuswick, mambar, of ibe democracy acted as an excellent frilans. Trdia Legislativa Cunill of the Colony, head of a them a lot of good, Das of the most curious princely sure, and head of goodses only phenomena observable in History is the recent koow: how many moro things.. Thit was at extraadinary development of weird supirsti.bafat sexon: at 13 be wis fasting. It with . Last of the Opposition, as we hive
tions among big civi'is:d races, especially the youngest, and when he want home at oas Pusly stated, gave us authority to state his that conglomeration araseously and variously click in the morning it was "Billy Keswick' who went home.. I beliers he could do it now. opi is that any "propor adopted by the Goved as the Anglo-Saxss, or murican, or eam at forstrengthening the Navy would have British race and which, I might agusty lad: (Laughter.) We hope he will lang conserve the early serpart of the Unionist Part-Hecate, as more or less English-speaking. Theis interest in China, because he is a most
• rrictical nalitize. La (b'e c ́nnection which warg 'he Europe of our 'a'ber's bov. te happy attributes of our Ch-irman, I wil
vanture to recall again the fat tha', as rls the Navy, the possibility of a 'one his bra mearianed with aproval by the Chancel lo of the Exchequer, while we may now add the fur ber fc: that it his since also received jet mare unqualified adhesion of the Home Scetary in bis published letter of the zoth of
t
th's moth.
We would farther presume to draw renewed tention to the circumstance that the support of the loss by the Opposition, should the Go
e meat pr pass it, is a'ready-aranred,
engjast, given fall and public adhesion
ve
or
Las since, in his speech delivered at Glasgow all manter of dramem, investigators, inquiers quaint motions of spiritualism entertained by
clever fi anciers, advertized by jouralists or dopes, practised by mediums, exploited by
and boomed by M, W. T. Stead, is a good ex* ample of what I call a "Democratic Disease.
coda'rs, as long as he retains that loterest valuable assist to British fodasis in that
which he is a distinguished member and a And, speaking for the pyticalar assembly of
| most humbl; one, we w ut him there as a bul-
to the pri cip'e of a Naval Loan, saying in Went that financial pedantry mus' not be allow- estand in the way of Nationa' security.
r. Bone Law, also, spea icg at Glasgow en the 36th st., has expressed bli agreement. Another ore is the carious colt among that draw blood at every stroke. That may not |
wh the policy of a Ian in an utterance ever more praneu-ced.
Amer; it represents the only great and de- fie Host yet made to withdraw the question of fancial provision for National Defence from the areas of piny politics. It fr ́an effort to ve both the great political parties in one for the pervation of the common Imperial in
keilunce of both.
ths vart Eglish servant-girl, class ard similar minded persons of the works of Marie Corelli. It is positively astonishing. That
Ark agalost a certain impatous man who is scourging the city of Londoy now with whips
be the opinion of all here, but this apicalón Is, I am sure, hold by all--that we wish the Cha'r man bealth, bepploess, and a long life to enjoy 5th: and wheh cld age dos come, as
wash overflow
Tytam 10
overflow
a' roj balaw overflow Pokfulum 2:3 below 9′ ex]" below
1′ 8′′ above") termsdlatoveiflow
overflow
overflow Wong-kal over 3 above) 30 6 below
overdow chung...
STORAGE GALLONS.
1909.
Tytam, 398,970,003 Tylam Byewash... 5,000 Tytam Intermediate 105,711,000 Pokfulam
61,060,030 Wong-nai-chung 30,"01,030
19:0. 334,800,00 495,9′′0 181,011,000 44,330,000 8.0,000
Total....... 6,6,473001 6:0,5,7,050 Consumption of water in the City and Bill District during the mouth of November.
1903.
· 19.0
Consumption...45,574,000 11 3 793,000 galiaus Estimated
population 209,46 *2/1,160 Consumption
per head per *#3.1
19.5 gallons day............. Capstant supply in all districts during No. vember 1909.
Constant supply up till 14 November and fotermitent supply by Rider Mains in Rider Main districts to the end of the month 1910.
KOWLOON WATER WORKS LEVEL
Kowloon) Gravitation Reservoir
τρια
1909,
II' 1' below) overflow
STORAGE GALLONS.
1979. . 1970.
below) 59" below |qverflow
Kowloon Gra-) -
vitation Re- 246,791,000 195,175,000 servoir......}
Consumption of water in Kowloon during the month of November:
1909.
1910
Estimated Consumption ... 74,173,000 23 570,000 gallons
population
04,900 Consumption)
day
90,100
per head per
8.9
81 gallons
The Government Analyst reports that the water is of excellent quality.
W. CHATHAM,
Water Authority.
NEW BOOKS.
UNWIL'S COLONIAL LIBRARY.
A new volama in Udwin's Colonial Library Bicdiose, aathor of "Winston of the Prairie,” Is "The Opium Smugglers by Mr. Harold
'Alton of "o narod," etc.
We would add that this movement, as is there are contagious disease of the mind as ted by the Imperial Maritime League,well as of the body and that these diseases at- mer 17 cas of an entirely non-party tack pations wholesale is well seen by, the income it must, we hope that it will be like the Universis and Colgan ihase of what is will by "as a jasty winter, frosty, bat kindly." stances afforded by the students of Rustian | old ago of Adamễn “As You Liền 1,” that it cow beginning to call is Young China, Gentlemen, ask you to drink the toast. In both countries youngale:s that really need a birching har vintured, not only to interfere with husiasm, It was followed by thres This Invitation' baving been responded to in otter propla's business, not only to disabey chners And a "tiger" Isiw of the great and growing urgency of themselves insteal of obeying thesy that had remukade My Lord and gentlemen, popular navels, tells how a boy, frried to earn their superiors and attempt to make toles for __[p-dekrowledging the compliment the Chair-.
* his out-door story, by the author of many the liatio, as exemplified by the fallen laid down for then already not only to have some difficulty in knowing who I am in his own living, goes to the Pacific coast and rem, s., w ba the 1.s' forialght of six batle presume to raise the'r baby-voices in childish recrguising myself. There are ceisia semials or on a ranch. He and the ranches's son I the Rays Soveralis cf from the clamour about palliical matters, but to use the races of the past which I have a shadowy rhiva in interesting life. They learn all the rf diss the Royal Navy, and la view weapons of their sociors and with an implory collection of: (Laughter) I remember on 050 atom of char till obsolescence of other old abhorrent alike to Confucius and to the Gospel, cocasion-it was a libel, it was en matig only, digging trenches, grubbing op stomps or ios and outs of ranching, spend their days tid. bil's 'p, which to nec lerated by every im to direct lethal weapons against the elder gene-it was reputed that at a cer sin smal or othaling legs, and in the cost of the evening go pnom de in the Dreid ought type, the ration which was placed by Nature and by morning i was found in the big drum. (Legh 1pril/Maine Langue makes the most Law in anibority over them. Fortunately, ter,) Well, it was so good a story that I never
strea'y to His Majesty's Government in Chion this to tak imidi,te measgren to avert the pass brea
a happy movement has thought it necestry to costradict it; bot it ig of: at opremacy at sea,
cbecked; Ets ciucl results I would have taken a v-ry bic đem to hold me Russia may be traced by the gumber of com. Shower, the proposal of the League paratively young brothers who wear moura-
un'ese had been very quiet, and seeing that I had walked home cer sibly before days key fore mes; refereece to the Navy, the disirg. The tragedy of Lisbon is not as dre:dful do not think that I was so very far from belog tushed signatories of the Leagan's Appeal to my mind es the fact that blod has been insight mind. Now gentem, I thank you i ewise in mind the needs of the Army het in Wales during the recent striker; the exceedingly for the klod way in which you have receives the treat of my health.
1 x
*
En be acces ity for aerisi preparation. "destruction of the property of the religious
fo top of of this, alaq, that the Longne hash uses and the desecilen of edifices devoted It bas been a great pleasure to me to
156 MJ'sty's Government, ty adopting the 10- ved loach to provide the fands requisite to +70 National confidence is the whole rrala Nuien al Defence.
We are, etc HAROLD FRAZER WYATT,
simming or canoeing, and dream of the time when they will have a ranch of their own. Many exciting adventures are foralthed by the hurting down of a rang of Chinese and opiam mogalers, who failly become ió 'dingeron, that actual warfare breaks out, which ends in a lege and pitched battle. The orcime of this makes a thilling and satifactory ending to the book.
Mr. Unwin is pobilsking la bis Colonial in the rp'olon of many good juices, one of the Library a new book by Mr. G. 5. Street, who is, very beat of living English casayists. The tile
with many aspects of present-day life in a sin. Feople andQ sessions, and the book den's gelarly urbano and copilvating way. Mr. Street is not a writer who over-sapplies the pati'c. and a new brot by him is always looked tér- ward to 'with In'arest,
this National endeavoury and it pray to the worship of God's less palafal to my bs here to-night, probably, almost certally mind than the destruction of the property of fox the last time that I eta app'ar to this decent and respectable Englishmen in 20 English or Welsh country. This is not simply wages, and one of these in the pleasure of
chair, ("No.") Such a position has 11s ad because I happen to be English; it is only reminiscences, the pleasure of remembering partly so; it is really and iutiosaale becansette thaid friends; all the past friends whosakind" actiors of the alla race; when they are excit
cess and whose lovasiable coastery to me, and ed, exbiblt a certale frresponsibility fam l'arto recogoition ·f the fact that whatever I did war wild animal tomers, but ena in necustomed to deve for the best, even though it may baye exp: 1 fom the Engliba pared sobriety of been wrong. I will never forge', Kwilbaoze conduct in »ide vailance with the barst of of the pleasures of memory to look back upon biggest yet ballr, started from the ·Crystal- undisciplined ferocity bich bas destroyed any sympa by one might have had with the mizers the old filende I made in Chine, whose ac- quaintance I have again had the pleasure of redewing in these meetings of the Oblus As10-
1 GRAI; MH, HORTON-SMITH, Jan Forndes and Honorary Secreter'ex,
Imperial Maritime League.
TB x Ronograbie '
The Prime Minister,
10 wing Stico', SW,
ma Illow the foriber list. of Signstones" and labourers of West Britala,
Abiva referred to
THE TRIANGLE,
Tun Daily Graphic ba ̈losu, described as the Palace on and olt. in qu effort to beathalong distance record, Rasels bring its desiratton, The bellson is carrying Mr. Gradson, the der „vigues, and four pairergers,
Allagats.....................${* Anglo-Javas....too.Ti, 7 Anglo-Malays...mùaan ennoù34}· Balgownies.................................................... $10,75 Bertams...........6 Carey Uniteds........................... ....17/6 pram. CastleGelds 119/- Changkat Serdangs
$84 Okers (put paid)...............$8 prem, Do. (fully paid)...quiz-$.8 Damaniama.....\..............153/5 Eastern Internationals ............13/3 prem. Glonealye ...............$2.00 - Highlands and Lowlands 107/6 Indragiri ........... 5:3} Kamanlage requ.crim5/- prem Kuala Lumpors.......................................165/- Ledbury..........................................71}. Loggia-amomur47'3 .' London Asiatica...
London Ventures... 516 Merliman....... Paja..........rea
Senfelds
mendes
Intimations.
THE DAIRY FARM CO., LIMITED.
CHOICE AUSTRALIAN
BEEF,
LAMB,
MUTTON,
RABBITS
59
Pegobsmmpinomnio...$31
Rubber Trasts.....................................17/• pram. Sandycrofts
ASAHI
ASAHI
Sapongs...............2}}+'
ASAH!
karaofn. 73/9
and
513
SAPPORO
SAPPORO
par
SAPPORD
BIER..
Shelfords.....! Slogapore & Johores
Sungel Kapat......... Tangkihi
Toomaglo...2+b=322125/1 United Sardange .................. United SingaporeS ******** Volted Sumatra...........................8/3 United Langkate
Daffs............10-
Tronoha...9200-92910618 (perne tarm34/6 Para Rabber of per lb.
Plantation............őƒáž
Events Coming.
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Tuesday, 20th December "At Home," Goverum:ot House;
Wednesday. 219! Dacamber.. Hongkong Philharmonic Society CJncort.
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