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Yesterday's Debate.
A`READER'S VIEW.
"Outsidor" nddrossos us the following letter:-
Sir,-As one associated with railway construction and inanage mont in other parts of the world, I liave, though a passing stranger,
HONGKONG
SUPREME COURT.
workshops, than our homes can bo econoinically or satisfactorily
This morning, Mr. Justice run without their kitchen. It is quite possible for us at home or
Hazoland, at the Supromo Court abroad to have all our meals sup-gave judgment in the case in plied from the nearest hotel or which Cheong Leo and Co. wore restaurant, but it is hardly on sued by Mrs. G. Monti, to recover economical or satisfactory ar$098.00 for the value of furniture rangement. It might serve to had and received, or the return of lighten the burden of domestic duties. It might relievo mianya the same.
harassed wife and mother of half It will be remembered that ono her troubles if only the cooking of the defences was that the con- and storing could be done from tract was void, on the grounds a monoy-saving plan, und that the woman was of a certain
outside, but it would not bo
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OVERHEARD ON THE PEAK TRAMWAY.
FRIDAY
APRIL 21 1911
INTERESTING TO STAMP LATE SHIPPING NEWS.
COLLECTORS.
ARRIVED. Kawachi Mara, Japan., 6,100, H.
.Peterson, 1st April-Lon- don, 19th Mar., Gon-N. -Y, K.
PASSENGERS DEPARTED. onthe 21st April
Por Asia, for San Francisco,
Li S, until recently trading as Scene: Lower Peak Tram doaler in old stamps and post- station. Dramatia Personzo: American tourist and old China cards under the name Fook Loy hand. Time-11.10 p.m. Won-Hin, in Queen's Road Uentral, at ther:-Rotton.
the corner of Chiu Loong Street, Hallifax to three months impri- was to-day sentenced by Mr. E.R.
unlawful possession of adhesivo Mrs. O. sonment with hard labour for Bartels, Dr. and Jaffe, Mrs. C. & stanips from which marks of Bartels, Miss S. Helms, N. cancellation had been unlawfully Bartole, Miss V. Honly, T. E.
Ordinance, 1001. removed, contrary to tho Stamp Bartols, Mastor House, Kov. H.
'D...
I've knocked about the world a The American:Say, old man,
the cussed places I've been in good deal in my time but of all this is the most wretched and has almost bested some of the informal
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The American-Yes. Do you know what Hongkong reminds me of?
Old China Hund:Something by no means heavenly, I'm sure
The American:-It reminds mo of a joke I came across tlic other day.
rand with interest" your account
spots I've visited.
Old China Hand (dramatically) of the Council's proceedings it cortainly would bo at 'class and that the furniture was-Visious of Sierra Leone, eh published to-lay, particularly in variance with
the establish bought for an immoral purpose. what? Shadows of Satan! Tra- reference to the future working ed notion of an ideal home. It is The facts were fully reported in volled a good deal?
quite possible for the heavy ro- our issue of April 18th."
· of your little railway lino.
pairs of railway ongines and vehi-! His Lordship said he was satis- The unofficial members were eles to be done by private firms and fied that plaintiff's story was true. vory well advised to ask for time outside shops, but not economi Touching the question of tho to consider tho estinintos, sintc- cally done. Such work requires legality of the contract, he was of ment, and proposals of the Govern-specific machinery and tools, and the opinion that the transaction, anont, before committing the rate-such plant is not ordinarily which was the subject matter of payors by their formal adoption, provided in general workshops in the action, was not tainted with But the hon. member who voiced the same way, as in ossentially inimorality and therefore he the opinion of his colleagues seems locomotive shops Thon again, it would find for the plaintiff. Jo to live permitted himself a free is quito impossible to have the nude an order for the delivery of dom of criticism not altogether light repairs dono outside. Some the goods by the defondant to the consistont with his acknowledged havo to be done at once, and this plaintiff unless the parties could unacquaintanco of the facts and can only be secured by the rail, agree to a valuation, whilosho wab figuros placed before the Council. way having at command its own also to receive tho not proceeds of His romarks on theoxcessive cost of means, machinory, and mei. the auction. construction and on the uuwisdom The hon. mombor has not taken of providing railway workshops
are more omphatic than convinc- ing. Indeed ho made the state- ment without any hesitation that the cost of the failway per mile was greater porlaps than any other railway in the world, except may be, ono in South America, and that there was no necessity at all for workshops to be erected. Money in that respect had been wasted."Road in cold print, those
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statements appear luve boon mado not only "without hesitation " but equally without duo reflee tion. Some allowanco must, of course, bomade fortho enthusiasm of the occasion. In opposition, wo are all von more or loss to the use of an undue emphasis, a littlo enviar laying on of the *colours than we ourselves believe to bo recossary. But excessive extravagance in lungunge, as in other things, is a weakness and ought to be guarded against Tho hon nomber has mani- festly overlooked the fact that the very heavy cost of the railway jor milo ja duo directly to its vory short length, and the heavy torminal works including the expansive tunnel. Had tha lino boon one hundred miles long tho avorogo cost would have np- poarod at, say, £25,000 per mile or loss. It would be much more convincing it facts and figures could be givon to show that the actual cost of out-turned work has boon abnormally high; that the
fully into consideration, if at all,
the most important fact of all, and that is that railway locomotivo enginearing is a speciality, and that there are requirements in actual railway working which can only be not by a locomotive ex- port with the, specific experience and training which cannot in the Hamo degree be possessed by the staff of ongineers engaged in general engineering works such as, are found established for other commercial purposes.
Mr. Hind applied for a stay of exciation with a view to appeal. His Lordship granted: dio re- quest, giving a stay of execution for 8 days conditional upon $900 the value of the furniture, and $200 for costs, being paid into court by Wednesday next.
Mr. Hind: But your Lordship, has not found that the value of
io gooils was $900.
His Lordship: Wall wo will put it at $700.
LOG BOOK.
In the interests, therefore, of the ratepayers, the proposals of your Government appear to be WHARF RATES AT PENANG. sound, und deserve the careful The following items in the consideration promised by the un-schedule of oporations for hand- official members of the Logislative ling coal at the Government Council.
whorvos, Penang, subject to the
Old China Hand-You are be ginning to get interesting, old man! Fancy Hongkong being called a jako!
consisted principally of 50 conte The "clounod" stamps, which
rovonuo and postal purposes, wore and $1 stainpe, used both for forfeited to the Crown.
The Volunteer dinner takes place to-morrow niglit.
The 16th was an ideal day for aviation and M. Vallon mado sovoral flights at Kiangwan.
A musical tront is in store for
We refor to ilio. Hongkong. proposed performance of Falante and Salvati, of Italian opora, in vaudeville, Thoy have boon play- ing to crowded houses in Manila and are now one here.
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Bull, W. Bruno, Win. Brassoy, Capt. L.
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child.
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Houston, Mrs.
V. S.
Knox, J.
Kelley, Ensign
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H. P. U.S.N.
Lano, E, J.
Barr, Mrs. and
maid Clark, Mrs. F. Carlton, Mrs. J. Murray, Mr. &
Mrs. E. Clark, Miss II. McMahon, W. Cooper, H. E. Cooper, Miss W. MacKay, Rov.
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& Mrs. J. H. Cogswell,Ensign O'Connor, Mrs.
S., U.S.N.
E. A... Colville,, Mrs. S. Pike, Mrs. H. B. Piko, II. B. &
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Clarke, Chas. P. child Clarke, Mrs. C.
P.
Intimations
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Sond for our AUSTRALIAN
**DAIRY FARM ".
BRAND HAM
The Finest Smoked Hams ou the Market.
·The Dairy Farm Co., Limited.
POPULAR
'ASAHI" BEER
Clarko, Miss A.
Romfroy, D. H. Remfroy, Miss Stevens, Miss Rundgren, F. Sprague, Mr. &
Mrs. W. C.
Nota our Price $12.00 per casa con-
Chon Kwai
The Amorican-It's the big- gest joke I've struck in all my life. Well, I was going to say that one day a man went to bed, rather Joop he dreamed a dream. He points out that owing to the tak-Chin Ding Hong. troubled in mind, and during his The Englishman" (Calcutta) droit that ho saw Old Nick picking up the time of the judgos of up all the principal cities of the the Calcutta High Court by the world and hurl them into the in- rocent sedition trials and other fernal depths of Hades and, lowork, vory serious arrears in or and behold! oach of those cities dinary cases are accumulating. was fearfully scorched and wiped There are now no less than six out of existence. Thon Hong- thousand special apponłą, and two, kong's turn camo. Satan picked thousand regular appeals awaiting Duo, E. lo it up like the rest of them and disposal which means three yours Dong Shoo, Drs.
hard work for the full couple-Davies, E. W. ment of fiftoon judges,
Old China Hand-Well, did
it burn ?.
The American-Burn, man? That's where the joke comes in. It was too green to burn!""
(Collapse of Old China Iland),
A
COMMERCIAL.
SHANGHAI TRADE.
Plouse permit mo to add that I approval of the Governor, will bo have no connection with or in-charged for at the rates as set forth terest in your railway, or its holow as from July 1. Tho administration, or even your tio-"Pinang Gazetto" gives the now vornment. What interests me is and the existing rates, fundoreport on the Shanghai Picco
the subject itself, and I presume to offer those remarks in that spirit of "fairplay" which Bri- Lishers everywvliere appreciate..
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CRICKET.
HONGKONG CRICKET LEAGUE.
New Present Rates Ratos. por ton per ton Stovedoring conl..c.:39 c. 25 Unloading from lightor and stacking...... #45 Unloading and
The following is the table up to From lighter to
duto:
Chib.'
Played.
Lost.
Drawn.
Percent.
rato per yard of formation or tun- 1.. NE. & Hopts 16 12 2275,00 nol work has been unduly heavy 2. Hongkong' A'16 8-3550,00 and without sufliciantrouson. 3. R.GIA.......... 13 6 6146.15
NEWS FROM THE
NORTH,
35
loading into
lighter 35 32
ship's bunkorin.
35
30
70
Bunkering ship at Sweltenham Pior............
45 Bankaring ship at-
Pryo Wharf..... 50. 40 The Gazotto "understands that
is
kot no much as the
the trade has had to contend with
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Chin Quen You Olivor, Miss M. Shaw, Mrs. C. Cratz, Mr. and Simcock, F. Mrs. C. T. Sorper, J. Croflard, Mrs. A. Shoenfelt, Mrs.
Tillsoy, Mrs. Thompson, S.
W Underwood, Mr.
& Mrs. E.
Q.
and infant
H.
odstrom, Miss Davy, S. P. Ems, O. Farmor, W. A; Gordon-Dunster, Mrs. N. E.
C. A. Hendroy,
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Yanmana, E. Vaumann, Mrs.
and Miss Wood, Miss E.
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Yooting, F. Young, Mr. and
Mrs. A.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. FROM EUROPE, COLOMBO AND STRAITS.
118,
landud,
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taining 4 dozen quails or 6 dozin pints. Hongkong, 7th April, 1911.
NONGKONG FOOTBALL CLUB,
THE ANNUAL DINNER will be held on SATURDAY, 'April 29th, at 7.45 p.m., in the Honorare HOTEL. Mombom intending to bo Present should notify the undersigned, giving number of guants they intend to invite.
H. L. O. GARRETT,
Ilon. Soc.
· Colo Hongkong Club). Hongkong, 21st April, 10111008
unless instructions are given to the at 4 pm, will be subject to rent.
Optional goods will be carried on] contrary before Noon, TO-DAY.
No Fire Insuranos will be affooted Goods not cleared by the 28th by me in any case whatever. April, will be subject to rent.
Damaged packages must be left in No Fire Insurance has been offooted, the Godowns for examination by the Damagal packages must be left in the Consignees and the Company's Bar- Godowns for examination by the Conveyors, Mosara. Goddard and Douglas, sigaco's and the Co.'s representatives at 10a.m. on Mondays and Thursdays. at an appointed hour. All claims must All Claims inust be presented within be presented within ten days of the ten days of the steamer's arrival bers, steamer's arrival here, after which date after which date they cannot be ro they cannot be recognised. No clsins ognised. No Olaims will be admitted will be admitted after the goods bare after the Gods have left the Godowas. lift the Godowns...
E.. A. HEVETT,
Superintendent. Hongkong, 20th April, 1911.
On the afternoon of March 31, a wind storm, cyclonic in character, did considerable damage to the police barracks at Supatuum, Siami. Passing over Pan Prapit damaged the roofs of several houses in that. district. Three housesin tho Wat Bonclumabopit noighbourhood wore wrocked, and in Prache Chin road a house was lifted up from its foundations and turned comploto- Messrs.. Noel, Murray & Co.'s
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. ly round. One of the most curious features of the disastor was the Goods Trade says It has been extremely, narrow track of the
THE P. & O. 8. N. Co.'s Gloamship pointed out to us that in our last wind storm. At the entrance to wook's report we made two state-the police barracks are several
FROM ANTWERP, LONDON,
"SUMATRA". ments concerning the markot here stables, for police ponies, all of a which were not altogether consist-
MALTA, PORT SAID, SUEZ, flimsy character. -These were
and STRAITS. ent. In the first paragraph we untouched. Jakowise the exhibi-T Company's Steamship said "It really looks as though tion buildings now receiving their
Consignees of Oazgo by the abɔre- the trade had returned to a more finishing touches escaped,
KAWAOHI MARU," named rossel are hereby informed that normal state than it has been in
having arrived front the above ports, ther Goods are boing landed and for some years," whereas what wo According to tho" Deli Cour-Consigneos of Cargo are hereby inform placed at their risk in the Hongkong wrote in the 6th paragraph was ont," the representative of the cd that their Goods are being landed and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co.'s directly contradictory. It would China Mutual Life Insurance Co., and placed at their risk in the Hong-Godowns at Kowloon, where each Con lavo expressed our meaning stationed at Modan, was arrested kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown signment will be sorted out Mark by at Kowloon, Mark and delivery can be obtained as perhaps rather better had we said there on March 30, on an allega Company's Godowns
Optional Goods will be landed here was roturning, but we contondtion of embezzling f. 8,300. Her ore each consignment will be Buried the Goods are landed.
ouf mark by mark and delivery can be that the actual amount of now is anid to have confessed that he obtained as soon as the Goods are unless instructione are giren to the business doing at the moment does lost the money in gambling.
contrary within 6 hours. not indicate the state of the mar the Ministers of State and other Since the tragedy at Canton,
Goods not cleared by the 27th inak,,' prompt clearances of forward purchases to high functionaries have been Personally, I consider the rail-4. Craigongower 16 7 54 43.75 those rates have been raised owing fill the immediato consumptive protected by strong guards when way could have been inuilt 5. Kowloon 150 5440.00 totllescarcity of the labour supply, demand, which is very general out, and patrols have been re- by contract cheaper than it|6. Yorks 135 8038.16 us the contractors cannot get and is undoubtedly genuine, in inforced to keep watch around hus boon on tho
départ-17, Civil Service. 11.4, 7 0 36.30 | sufficient coolios, and linve had to
their dwellings day and night. montal system, but that does not 8. Remnants ...14 0335.71 put up their rates. The domand spite of all the impediments that The Government even instructed prove that the responsible engin-9. ILK. Police...15 2121133.3 for coolies by the rubbor estates in recent months, week the Provincial authorities to take Bors have been needlessly extra-
said to bo tlio causo.
even less has taken place in the way care of themselves and to bowaro vagant in their methods of work.
of frosh-business, but still tho
of-the-revolutionarios. The average cost per mile, thore-
Ringoon patrol aflicers received majority of importers are satisfied fore, of the work done on your
The Viceroy of Yunnan lins information that there was a largo and confident at the way in which telegraphed to Peking reporting line, is not a fair critorion, or a
quantity of opium on board the clearances are going on. There that the British troops have proper basis of comparison with other suelt undertakings under
They accordingly is still some little difficulty re-withdrawn from Plonma and that boarded the vessel and examined garding the plague restrictions their attitude is rather con- dissimilar conditions. The dun-
tho passengers' luggage. In pos-up north, passengers and mer- ciliatory. gor and, fallacy of judging only negotiate with the Portuguese by averages and percentages have Minister in Peking about ossession of two of the passengers,chandise both being delayed at One gunuer from No. 1 Co., olon Don il petrecutablishing a Customs office in the Langarap and Soru, hoy found some ports in spite of the H.K.S.B.R.G.A., and one from member one little instance, which neighbourhood of Macao. The oxes of hugo Easter eggs assurance that the disease and No. 5 Co. of the same regiment may perhaps be illuminative Board of Foreign Affairs hasTheso, however, word discovered disapponed. This has caused left for Bombay por
to be nothing more or less than goes on When Land Robots-way Cone that in view of the non-settlement tins of opium costed over will natives, chiefly through misun-special leave and the latter on
the head of the of the boundary dispute, it is sugar. Euch tin contained two derstandings arising owing to furlough. Inglian Army, interested in the advisable to establish the Customs balls, and there were twelve balls the non-announcement of changes From America comes the nows offico in Chiness territory, and or 900 tolas in all. The mon with in the regulations, Wo learn of the engagement of marriage of Army Temperance Association. An annual report of its working it would be a good thing if the the contraband were made over to that at the porta under Japanese Mr. W. Hull; formerly American was submitted by the Colonel of chicted. The Board stated that a Customs could be properly con-
the police.
control free accessianqw possiblo, and that in consequence the ship cach British rogiment. One re-
The decision of the new Comment of large quantities of picco port was startling. The Colonel similar Customs office was es regretted to inform the Comman tablished in the Chinese territory merce court of the United States goods has commenced, der-in-Chief that during this your
in Kino-chow, and it was a great holding that transhipment of cargo under revision filty, por cont. of
The Board asked the from the Philippines would not Viceroy whether it could he posai- prevent its cutering the United the members of the association in ble to run it on the same lines as States free of duty under the pro-made known of the competition record the death of Mr. E. F. his rogiment had died, and the other fifty per cent. liud broken those adopted in Kiao-chow, and visions of the Payne-hill-las among German Riffo Clubs in Drossel, a member of the firm of
if so ho would come to an nr-aroused widest cominent ainong China, for the annual shooting Mr. C. Papadopoulo, tho plodge and been severely punished for drunkenness. A rangemont with tile Portuguese business men in Manita. In nomo for the Kaiser's Prizo, won juneral took place on the Oth fuller report was called for of this Minister in Peking, so as to quarters the opinion is freely again by the Hankow Rifle Club, inat,, and was.conducted by the xpressed that the now ruling with an average of 19.5; the Rev. H. A. H. Len, of the China alarming state of things, and the obviato futuro trouble.
means a boon to the islands in that Tiontain Doutsole Freiwilligen Inland Mission. further information. had to be
any steamship line plying between Truppe boing second with 18.6 Dr. Muir, who has boon given that there had only beon two
the Orient and the United States Kiaulschon third with 17.6; travelling through the infected members of the association, one
can carry export cargo without Tsingtau Marine Club, fourth areas for HE the Viceroy of of whom had died of ontoricand the
having to pay duty on Philippine with 17.2, and the Shanghai Manchuria, hus now completed other had got drunk! In regard to
made goods, while in others there. German Volunteers Company last his work, roports a Cheloo con- the provision, of workshops, the
is a belief that the decision will with 15,8. The prize was first temporary, and before returning lion member's criticism' is
Prevent several steamship lines won by Tientsin in 1908 and to Moukdon wrote to Dr. Wait equally, if not more so, the
like the Toyo Kisen Kaisha, the by flankow Club in 1800 and thanking that gentleman for the offspring of the moment or buy
Empress line and others from 1010. The numbers competing assistance rendered him by the than the child of reflection. :: Ex-
making Manila a permanent port were 'na follows:-Hankow 37 doctor and Ins colleagues, and periony has elsewhere and uni Sourabaya is declared an infect of call, as they had planned to do men, Tientsin, 20 Kisutschou complimenting them upon the versally proved that a railway, od portowing to the existence of in order to take advantage of the 25, Marines Taingtau 40, and fact that the plague has been ein no more ha economically and . oholera there.
one bottom regulation
Shanghai, 36,
completely stamped out
WOB,
1.E. Chang Ming Chi, the
Canton Viceroy, has requested the Board of Foreign Affairs to
RUCCOSY.
WORLD'S NEWS.
[FROM "N.-C. DAILY NEW"]
· LORD. KITCHENER. London, April 14-Lord Kit chenor has bought Brookie Park, a Jacobean mansion near Canter-
Arankola.
+
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The results have now boon
1.1.M.S.
Vice-Consul at Hankow. Mr. Hull. has now retired from the Consular service and is managing
a tannery, the property of his father.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA,
Hongkong, 21st April, 1911.
THE
SORROWS
OF-
SATAN
The Cheloo paper regrets to would have been much less if he had
whose
only used.
CLUB WHISKY,"
H. PRICE & CO. LTD.,
12, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong;
and
68, Haiphong Road, Kow
Hongkong, 20th April, 1911,
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