WEDDING AT ST. JOHN'S
CATHEDRAL.
The wodding took place to-day at St. Jolin's Cathedral of tho Rev. Me. Thornbill and Miss Sinclair.
A very large gathering was prosent. The Bishop of Victoria officiated and was assisted by the Rev. F. T. Johnson. The service was fully choral,
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THE HONGKONG
ADMIRAL HUBBARD,
OFFICIAL RÉCEPTION AT
BLAKE PIER..
Admiral Hubbard, of the U S.S.Saratoga, called on His Excel longg the Governor this morning, A full company of the K.O.YLL with Colours and Band, received the Admiral at Blake Pior Cup tain Mitchell Taylor representeil the Clovernor.
The bride was given away by Colonel W. G.” A.. ̈ Bodford, After inspecting the Guard of
· P.M.O., and looked charming | Honour, Admiral Hubbard, hor wedding gown of whito attended by Captain Taylor, was satin. The best man was the escorted by the company of the Rov. Mr. Hughes, of HLM.S.K.O.Y.L.I., with Colours flying, Band playing, and fixed bayonets, to Government Housė.
Tamar.
Mr. Doniñan-Fuller presided at the organ," and played tho following pieces: Profile, Chun- -son d'Amour, RachnameLemaro;
Anthon, Sond Out. Thy Light," (Gounod), ' and Wodding March..
Mondalesolin's
SAY GOVERNMENT
HOUSE.
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IN SIAM
TELEGRAPH
TUESDAY APRIL
18
THE CHINESE QUESTION come from a desert to a land flow- Au energetic and wise policy to ing with milk and honey, as it break down and roll away this wore. There can be little
or exclusiveness on the part of nothing wrong in the politics of a the Chinese community would country in which no honest and go far to roll away the Chinese industrious Chinaman nood for question itself, Real efforts could one moment lask the necessaries of life, and where in a short space of time he may attain its luxuries, No immigrant Chinaman need suffor indignity at Siam's hands; vory soon he may obtain its honours.
It has been increasingly evident to those who have the futuro of Sinm at lieart that the present contains all the elements, in some form or other, of a Chinese question; and that, sooner or lator, it is a problem that must be resolutely faced.
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1911
LEAGUE CRICKET.
R. E. AND DEPARTMENTS (SHIELD WINNERS) V. THE REST.
place on the H.K.O.C. ground on Saturday noxt, commencing at 2 p.m. sharp. The following havo been selected to represent the rest of the League-Hon. Dr. J. M. Atkinson (Capt.) H. Hancock, Rov. Payno (H.K.C.C. "A") R. E. O. Bird (Civil Service) Capt. Clapham, Lt. Baguall (R.G.A.) Cpl. Dompsoy (K.O.YLI Do Rome, (Kowloon C. C.) E. L. Braga (Craigongower 0.0.) G. A. Cooke, R.N., (The Remnants) and Inspector. Korr (H.K. Polico).
The abovo match will take
the shield and modals will bo pre- sonted by the president, Dr. At- kinson, to the I. E. and Depts., the winners.
LATE SHIPPING NEWS.
ARRIVED.
Kleist, Ger. s.8., 8,948, O. Pahinko,
18th April-Yokohama 8th: April. Mail and Gon-M. & Co.
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be made to stimulate the growth of a Siamese working class which would actand ronot on the Chinese who now hold a monopoly of the labour market. Steps too could be taken to bring about a diffusion Tho view that scoka to know
of the ideas eventually finding the exict form the problem may Having said so much it might expression in legislation and as take may wall hold the boldest in seem that the case for a Chinese administrative acts, which would check. It is pre-eminently a Question is given away. But it is have some stamp of authenticity. question that is instinctively felt not so. The view contended for Lastly, a world of progress might ther than one capable of exact is that it is in the absence of a bo accomplished by the encourage definition and limitation. The definite and sympathetio adminis- ment and spread of education comparatively rocont Chinese trativo policy of breaking in among the members of a nation strike only gives further ground upon Chinese exclusiveness, cou- that has from time immemorial LOG BOOK. fur fours in themselves at once pled with action of wire pullors rororod-learning-It is no doubt At the conclusion of this matoh
vague and indefinito. Concerted in Chino, there lies p real menace. an ovil tlung for auy Governmont STEEL SHIPS' BOATS. action to paralyze official activity In truth, in the centre of the that a large part of its population At the inquiry into the loss of and weaken the vory sinows of capital city, there is a nation should be alien in its sympathies; social life has no swooler savour within a nation, living its own it is a still more evil thing when the Waratah, says "Tho Marinor," some evidence given raises once rather than sedition. No word following its own customs, quite take root and boar fruit from because denominatod a "strike" life, speaking its own language, that state of affairs is allowed to again the general question of perhaps has boon the cause of heedless of and by necessary con causes that are largely, if not whether other methods of more licart-burning than this word sequence unsympathetic to the wholly removable."Bangkok This morning Rear Admiral supervision and inspection of "sodition." Houest, if ignorant steady progressive ideas and not. Times. Hubbard, Commander-in-Chief, ships' lifebonts by the Board of and forcible, expression of strong ions of the Siamose themselves. United States Asiatic Foct, land Trade should not be instituted. portisanship, if lead literally On the other hand, all the world ed officially at Blake Pier at Clearly the boats carried by any construed, may well come within knows that China is stirring, and 10.30 am: and was received by ship are vital to the safety of hor the verbal logal definition of sodi- in the process an amazing medley.
Guard of Honour of the K.O-passengers, and too much attention; and yet judicial impartiality of new ideas, aspirations and am-Port Swettenham last Saturday Y.L.. and a saluto from the tion cannot be devoted to them. shore battery. Captain Taylor, After the Mohegun' disaster steely at the same time hesitate to bitions are being brought to the week, and when between Singa- convict. This much, however, must kurface. To say that such a state pore and the former port, two A.D.C., met His Excellency at boats were washed slivro in bo fairly admitted. The cause of of society will produce adven- the lawling place and escorted spaworthy condition and saved all sedition is incompatibility of turers and wire pullers who will hin to Government House, where many lives, but the wooden boats tempor batwoon the governed and east their eyes across thoir own he was received by E. the were all broken piecos. Still those who govern; its culminating borders to the tens of thousands luter, in the case of the fire on point is the outward expression of of their fellow-countrymon is only Later in the morning IE board the Presidento Roen, the the Governor returned the Ad-ull of ous of those seamless intenton the partof the former to say what all will admit. The miral's call on board the Flag-stoul boats, although the wood-repression on the part of the vibrations of the political wire lattor. All history-and Great will respond in exnet proportion ship U.S.S. "Sarutogn."
been complotoly burn- al out, was instrumental in the loss cause to recognise it isnt its opposite onds. Unfortun- Britain, for one country, has not to the intelligence and ignorance saving forty-eight lives, while
consistent and strong to show how ately, the overwhelming majority the wooden bouts on board the impossible it is to stamp out by of Chinese immigrants to this samme vassol were all burnt up. legislation any widespread de country are amazingly ignorant Here, at all events, is a clear termined fanaticism, whether and almost totally uneducated. indication of the elimination of such fanaticism be animated Add exclusiveness to ignorance
A Chinese got three wooks' one poril of the sen by the so by noble or ignoble, reason and the problem lies in a nut-imprisonment with hard labour of such bonts."
able or unreasonable, motives, shell. The reasons for this for assaulting two Chinese girls We hear from Nowelwng that Thus it is that malysis is state of affairs, as
for 88 in Queen's Road. the steamers in that port are ex-driven deeper and a real issue they more immediately affect poriencing anything but a plen- introduced. And thus, too, it is sant time on the Lino river, owing noeessary to attempt to arrive at to the drift ice that is carried up the approximately true position am down by the tide. It is stated held by the Chinese under Sismeso
Governor.
work had
II. E. The Governor givos an oficial dinner at Governmont House to-night, in honour of Ad- miral Hubbard, tho guests include ing:-Mr. Lackoy, Mr. Milne, Mr. Era, Dr. Wilson, Mr. DuBois, Commander Jayne, Commander Williams, Commander Millor, Commander Edgar, Mr. Cako, Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, Mr, Carleton, Mr. and Mrs. Walker, Mr. and Mrs. Dowley, Commodore and Mrs. Eyros, Captain Hunt Mr. and Mrs. Stainer, Mujor and Mra, Ralph, Major and Mrs. Pyno, that far fourteen vossole sway.
50 Colonel Rowlandson, Major, and have each lost an.anchor with Mrs. Hancock, Mr., Mr. and Misssoveral fatlioms of chain. Faber, Misson Cust and Medløy.
We are desired-to stato that on We deeply regret to announco the occasion of Lady Lugard's the death of Captain Vilhelm weekly At Home on Friday next Peter Krabbo Guldborg which Mr. Tinmmerscheidt, accompanied occurred at Home, says a llangkok by Mr. Danenborg, has kindly paper. Tho nows was telegraphed consented to play the whole of the out to the East Asiatic Co.'s Cosarfrank Sonata and Mr. Don Bangkok office. It is prosumed man Fuller also has kindly pro-hore that Captain Guldberg died mised to play.
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THE Bloomship AAAFGHAN PRINCE,”
He was charged this morning cutting and wounding, but his Captain Thomas, will be despatched for bofore Mr. E. R. Hallifax with Worship, discharged the defond-the above port on or about the 18th ant, saying it was a case for the May, Singapore Police.
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Two tree cutters were fined $15, or one month each, for culling trees the Govern- mont plantation in Aberdoon,
On
A Obinaman was soutenced to three months' hard labour and four hours' stocks for the theft of a blanket from No. 21, D'Aguilar Street.
Inspector Robertson, prose- cuted.
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conveyed via Bombay by the..5... All broken, chafed, and damaged Egypt," dao in London on the 9th Goods are to ba, left in this Godowas, Jano, 1911. where they will be examined on the 21th Inst, at 11 AM
Siam, are not far to soek. It has often been remarked to the pro- sont writer by educated Siamese that the comparatively small population of Siam, is of much But before entering on this benefit in that it softens compoti- enquiry, one position at least must tion and cases the burden of bo accopted and made clear. No existence. At the samo time it Chinese susceptibilities, fanati- is well to recognise that if cism, or "squeamishness" (call it paucity of population brings ad- what one may) can for one moment vantages in its van, it also at Leung Taze and Sz Song were of time boallowed to interfere with the same time entails disadvan- charged this afternoon before Mr. FROM MIDDLESBRO', LONDON or limit the true and sound national tages that infinitely outweigh the J. R. Wood with kidnapping a aspirations held by the Siamese. former. It is easy to son that if servant girl, 13 years of ugo, from So much at any rate must the indigenous population wore the second floor of No. 48, Dos be bedrock principle, dogmatic increased to the pitch that would Voux Road Central. The first in Copenhagon. His 'death re- and unarguable. Any other involve a roal competition, the defendant was employed in the moves another of the rapidly starting point, or rather the whole of the labour market, both above house as an amah, and on dwindling number of foreigners absence of such a starting point, skilled and unskilled, would no the 10th inst. she took the servant who retired from Government renders the whole question monn longer be the practical monopoly girl out and said she would take service under the late King. Capt. ingless, unthinkable and unin- of the Chinoso, A strong infusion her to her parents, but instead of IT "TALIAAPA" CORERSTONDENT] Guldberg, as far as the Danish telligiblo, What, then, are the of Siamese artizans and labourers doing so she took her to Queen's Canton, April 17. Consulate records show, first causes at work that may at no working side by side with the Road to the second defendant, As I reported on the 15th inst., arrived in Bangkok in 1882 distant dato bring about a Chi Chinese would go far to break up who took her to 57, Third Street. Mr. Chan Wai Po, a member of when he was in command of nese Question? Cortainly thoy this Chinose exclusiveness which She was detained in this latter the Self-Government Society, laid the Sinnese brig Foochow. For can be said to be neithor religious is a real danger. A single com- place for three days, after which a personal complaint before the four years he retained this nor social.
parison of town and country life the arrest was made. Customs against a certain foreign position, and in 1886 went home Perhaps there is no country in in Siam will illustrate the point. employee who is alleged to havo to Denmark. On his return he was the world wliose dynasty has 'a No one suggests that there is any ill-treated and insulted him on captain of the old Scottial Orion cleaner record in regard to the olement af danger from the Evidence was called and his board a steamer bound for Hong-tal boat Hongkong. In the early crime and innate littleness of Chinese immigrants who settle in Worship remanded the case. kong, two eye-witnossos being ninoties he was at Home for a religious intolerance. Roligious the provinces and devote them- present.
second time, and camo East again differences may have, indeed, selves to agricultural pursuits, MARINE COURT. The foreigner declared that he in 1892 to join the Siamese Navy, humanly speaking, must necoss-The reason is plain. There is no had been duped by the Chinoso becoming Commander of the arily have-introduced a certain exclusiveness about the up- The two defendants, who did employees into.committing this Makut Rajkumar. In the mud- lack of sympathy, but cortainly country agricultural Chinese not appear when the caso WOR hasty act.
led fighting at Pakuam in 1893, not cruelty or disability.
peasant. It cannot flourish; it heard," in which 16. masters of The Customs Commissioner Captain Guldberg had a narrow Neither can responsibility bo would mean his ruin. He is steam launches were fined for un- asked the complainant whether he oscape of losing his lifo. He was fully attaclied to causes that may brought into competition with lawfully obstructing the s. s. would be justified in ordering the in the act of signalling to the be termed 'social'. His late the
Siamese peasant. HoCatherine Apear in Victoria. instant dismissal of the Chineso ongino room from the bridge Majesty King Chulalongkorn soon. learns tho language Harbour on the 6th inst., were employers responsible for this when a shot from one of the publicly gave utterance to the and comes into touch with charged this morning by P. C. "offonco, and the complainant re- French yossels wrecked the tele sentiment that the Siamose did Siamese sentiment. Vory quick- Roadick and fined $0 or 14 days' plied that the decision rested with graph. The Makut was, accord- not count the Chiness community ly he realises that to him Siam is hard labour each. The fine, which. The Customs officials, but addading to a contemporary account, as strangers in the land. In this an alma mater and no stern was the same ns that inflicted in that there had been intiny cases of "well fought. Captain Guldborg connection, especially, how true step-mother.' He becomes as respect of the others, was paid at a similar nature for which tho was compelled to fire his guns this is, all must admit. It is not immune from sudden panic as the oncolyt Customs employees woro respon with his own lands as well as merely in the lesser amenities of Siamese themselves, no more and Befora Marine Magistrate Coni- sible. In this caso, both the foreign steer his vessol."
social life, but in the widor and no less. How different all this is mandor U. W. Beckwith, R.N., and native employees ought to bo
more vital aphore of all that adds in Bangkok thorois no need to say. P. C. L. Kennedy charged Li punished to serve as an example
meaning to life, that the Chinese Is there any now legislation which Man, mastor of the steam launch for others. The complainant ask
have the opportunity of making may affect him in his person and Kowloon, with unlawfully evid ilio country their second home. pocket? The wildest ramoursing the regulation, for collision would be possible to have numbers injured. Aftor being medically If a soniewhat unparliamentary are afloat. Is there any new stop at sea, in Victoria Harbour on tho placed on their uniforms, so that attended ho was removed to the phrase may be allowed, it is "all in administration to be taken? 13th of January. Accused pleaded they could be easily identified by hospital.
up to the Chinesa himself. His tho passongora in the event of The Blue Hunnel sleamor progress in life, his position, the futuro trouble. The Commis- Bellerophon, which left Yoku- circle in which he shall move, aro sioner at once acted upon the hama For Paget Sound on practically speaking dependent Buggestion.
February 4, grounded at her upon his own character, abilities moorings in Seattle luarbour on and attainments, March 21, but was refloated again without sustaining any damage,
A Chinese sailor fell down the deop. tank of the Indo-China
of the Commissioner whether it steamer Esang and was seriously
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is imagination, undisciplined guilty. It appears that defendent and uncontrolled by education, is had 2 lighters in tow which easily inflamed. No lie is too covered the sidelights of the glaring, no motive too gross for launch. After P. O. Kennedy him to believe and accept if only called attention to the error it endorsed by those of his country was immediately corrected. The mon upon whom he is accustomed magistrate imposed a fine of to look as his superiors.
$3, or 14 days' hard labour. Living ne we have already Tho fine was paid. Can it be said, then, that the pointed out, almost entirely among elements of a Chinese Question his own countrymen, he has no
Certainly his nationality as such constitutes-no barrier and excitos no contempt.
Congresa las granted the stato department's roquest that China bo permitted to educate two of its young men at West Point, The English mail of the 18th Chins offering to bear the ox-March wasdalivored in London on
The assistant compradore of penso entailed,
the 15th inst.
for Siam are contained in causes loaven of things Siamese, Thero Messrs, Essabhoy and Company Crown Land lot No. 1878, political? The view contended is no official or authentic organ reports to the police that he was. 15,207 square foot, adjoining for here is that the political in the only language he knows to to have received two cases of silk inland lot 1714, Bonhaut Rond, situation obtaining in Siam' gives which he may look to allay his from a shop in Canton. When he was put up for sale by publio no ground or colour to such a unfounded foars and suspicious.opened the cases ha found one of auction this afternoon at the Pub contention. Everything seems to No one can pretend that these them contained old bags and lio Works Department. Mosars, insist upon the question above things ought so to be. It is not ashes, dipped in salt water. The
revalue of the missing silk is 8680
The prompt ratification in Washington and Tokio of the now treaty of commerce and naviga
tion between the United States
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and Japan has immediately tions of the two powers Now chased the land for $3,081. The the negative. The crywds of modles but moraly, York Mailky
upast price was $3,041, Chinese who flook to this country
strengthened the amicable rolo A, P. Samy and Loung Kiu pur propounded being answered in intended here, to suggest Itissuspected that the goods were
what theevils themselves anggoat
by
Parcels will be received, at this Offios until 4 r.. the day before sailing. The "No Fire Insurance has been affected. Contants and veins of all packages ara Bills of Lading will be countersigned required.
For further particulars, apply to
E. A. HEWETT, Superintendent.
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