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Sal Kung they make prigs and potentates,'
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Rallway Construction.
The following are the orders (The "Telegraph" Correspondent) of tho day, for the meating on Tuesday, August 27 :---
Letter from Government re-
ruta therein.
Minute by the Prosident of the Sanitary Board relative to 12
Nationalisation Question.'
COMMENTS.
DR. SUN'S DEPARTURE. NOTES AND
Curious Scene Witnessed at Shanghai.
Suggestions.
hits
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At the Police Court, this mora- The police have received
The departure of Dr. Sun Yat- A lottor to the Telegraph" The Japanese gunboat "Uji"four cast, coolice were charged Tion Teze village, in the district on the 18th inst. The intention ly practical suggestion that Asia- ing, bofore Mr. D. Melbourne a report from a schoolmaster in een from Shanghai took place yesterday contained the eminent arrived at Canton yesterday.
with driving their truck on the of Sai Kung, that on the 21st was that General Huang Haing tios who have been sentenced to wrongside of the road. By doing inst. he heard his pige making a should accompany Dr. Sun, and liard labour should be set to some H.M.S. Nowcastle loft Waihai- so they allowed the track to great noise and he looked out of this was the programme until the task by the performance of which wei yesterday for Hongkong to collide with the private rickshaw the window to see what was die very last moment, when the the Colony would benefitmaterial- undergo refit previous to recom- of Dr. Haraton, damaging it and turbing them. To his surprise General, as a result of recently. The special work instanced missioning.
injuring the coolics in obarge of he saw a tiger making off with a events in the capital, decided not by our correspondent would, as the latter, whilst in Queen's Road pig that weighed 102 onttine and to leave Shanghai. Dr. Sun, in bo points out, make it necessary East.
was valued at $20. Next morn- spite of entreaties on the part of for these men to "alcep out," and, Dr. Harston gave evidence and ing he made a search of the loca- his followers that he should like by this means, the prisons would said that three of the coolies with lity and succeeded in finding wise romain, proceeded on his no longer be over-crowded. We the truck ran away and loft the about thirty oatties of the caronas journey alone.
have never quite understood why fourth who was a youth to bear lying on the bill-side about forty The C. M. 8. Anping had been Hongkong should differ from the the brunt of the trouble. The yards away from his premises.
engaged for Dr. Sun's party, und rest of the British Possessions and other three woro guiding the The assistant district officer Dr. Sun's carriages, motor Protectorates in this matter of For the extension of Wong-noi-truck.
and a number of civilisus set off cars and a large amount of convict labour. Everywhere but (chung nullah and the diversion Defendants were fined fifty in search of the tiger but though baggage were sent aboard. Two hore, convict-gange may daily be
of theroad past Inland Lots 1020 cents or, in default, three days they found the lair, that was all o'olcok was the hour fixed for the seen at
work: road-making, and 1927, tenders are being soli-fenol, and were ordered to pay they did find. The striped one departure, but half an hour pro-jungle-olcaring, stone-quarrying cited. Sunday labour is barred. sixty-five cents each compensa is still at liberty.
viously quite a number of people and the like. A few Indian tion for the rickshaw, and the
had-assembled to take farewell warders, armed with rifles, easily coolics...
of Dr. Sun, prominent among suffice to prevent insubordination there being returned students or escape, while two or three and those who havorecently been overacers-in some districts sup- notive in local politics. At ten plied with ondos-see to it that all drove to the Kinleyuen Wharf are ruled out. It may be added minutes to two o'clock Dr. Sun shirking and slovenliness of work
Canton, August 23. in his car, and proceeded aboard, that, in the hill districts of the Recent news from Kongmoon where he received his friends, Philippines, the convicts work on lative to permits for obtaining states that the Sunning Railway The hour of smiling arrived the roads without armed guard. building material and turf. from is being constructed as far as without any nows of General
A Warning to Would-be Crimlania Kongmoon, and it will not take Huang Hsing, but as time wors the Pokfulam Catchment area,
Lettor from Government re-long for the line to reach Pak- on the news wont the rounds that "All their friends would then lative to the erection of 15 water shek. However, as all the water he was busy with an important be able to view them," adds closets and 10 urinals at St. ways to the north of Sunning telegram. At length aya the our correspondent; and heroin 570. Joseph's College, Inland Lot No. district pass through the Eastern N. China Daily News," definite he an important__nsil' forts of Kongmoon, and the mouth information caine to hand that on the head. One of Hong- Imtter from Government re of the river there is very narrow, General Huang Hsing had rosoly kong's most useful in titutions lative to the oreotion of 2 extra the works of the Railway Comed to remain in Shanghai, this is the stocks, and we cannot help water closets at No. 7 Queen's pany, in connection with the pro-action being taken as a protost thinking that tho. abalonmont 101 sootions A and B. Road Control, Marine Lot No. posed bridge across the river, against the execution of the two of those, at Home, was a miserable greatly intorrupt the passage of generale in Peking at the end of surrender to one of those bits Rport of the Select Committed the water. In view of the repeat-Inst week. It further transpired of mawkish sontianout which appointed to consider the minute ed floods at these, points during that the statement regarding the go painfully near to hinting at Sunday Excursion. by the President of the Sanitary the last few yours, the villagers, tologram was true, and that he the growing moral flabbiness of The Sunday excursion by the Board relative to the proposed some days ago, despatched repro-was in fact tolographing a protesi a nation. Is it not an axiom that A.A. "Winghom" takes place to-Departaiental Sonvonging Scheme sentatives to see the manager, Mr. to Yuan Shib-kai with reference punishment, to be deterrent, must morrow. The steamor sails for for the City of Victoria.
Chan Yi Hi, to secure u altera- to the executione. Later in the be exemplary? Naturally Junk Bay at 2 p. and a lun- Report of the Select Com-tion of the constructions in order afternoon it was stated that, even wants to see a healthy balanco drod yards swimming ruco ne mitton appointed to consider the not to cause a hindrance to the bad he desired to go, it would trimmed between old-maidish been arranged, open to all pas-question of the improvement of flow of the water. The villagers have been very difficult for the solicitudo for the law-breaker on sensor. The p204ere offed the storm drains of the City, and also want to see the engineers General to have done so, ne his the one hand, and, on the other, the prevention of the breeding of au requested them to suspend friends were at his house in force d'familiarising of the people with work for the present. A petition determined after the recent events scenes of brutality, such as havə It is notified in the Guvern- Correspondence relative to the has also been submitted to the that he should not go to the north prevailed in Canton and Poking, mout Gazette that the pro-report of the Committee appoint-Governor Goueral of Canton on clamations mado on May Be to obsider the recommenda- the matter.
At the jetty and on the steamer whoreby. punishment loses lialf new consultations were taking its virtue by losing all its dignity, 1010, and on July 22nd, 1912. tions for the taining of nullahs
place, and it is understood thai This much-to-be-desired healthy declaring Bangkok, and Swatow during 1913.
attempts were made to induce Dr. [mean would be attained by such respectively to be ports at which
On the 22nd inst., the Com-Sun to give up his project of exhibitions of convicts at work sa an infectious or contigious disease
Company invited the Committee continued until the very last moby the continued use of the stocks, mitteo of the Yuet Han Railway visiting the capital. These wore our correspondent 'rocommends; prevails, are rescinded.
of the Charitable Institutions to mant before the Anping cast off and by an occasional publio or come to the office of the Company from the jetty, but they were in-semi-public flogging. Surely it Wo stated on Wednesday that Professor Kidd, of the Rhodes
It is reported to the police that
in connection with the report of availing, and at a quarter past is well that budding bracelet- College at Grahamstown, has expressed feare lost the Colonies at Yaumati, yesterday, he was ac- removal within an infected aren. Government to nationalize the after the proposed time of sailing, should be allowed to stand by and..
as a man was leaving a pawnshop
the attempt of the Republican four o'clock, more than two hours snatchers, burglars and raviebers might, in time, "doviale so far from the standard of spoken English, costed by a man who posed as u 9. Correspondence relative to railways. The attendance was a the steamer got undor way. that they would hardly be understood in the Mother Country." Ho policeman and who askort what he tho scales of compensation for the large one, and those present were Sun, who was dressed very plain of transgressors is hard.
Dr. soe for themselves that the way adds that already the South African Datoh are assuming an ex-was taken in a launch to a wharf and lath and plaster walls.
was doing in the pawnshop. He removal of ceilings, stair-linings of opinion, that, since the line ly in a suit of ducks, received u pressionless monotone whon speaking. No Eogliehuan loyal to his and there relieved of property Application for permission to poople's capital, the interosts of ed
was constructed purely with the slight ovation as the vessel steam Dr. Morrison's Protest. mother-tongue will contond that either the Australians or the valued at $3.
retain the wainscotting on the the shareholders would be totally followed by n Chinese gunboat, of China to find a man of Dr. away. The Auping was It is cheering to well-wishers Canadians are in much better caso, whether in their conversation or
Bound floor of No. 206, Ifollywood storificed if the nationalisation of which it had been arranged should Morrison's wide experience and as touching the written English that appears in some of their news-
Road.
railways be carried out. It was sot as an escort to Tientsin. papers. Recently we reported an action of the Archbishop of
Council asking the members to take a serious view of the Pre- new Republic. In a letter to the devided to telegraph to the State
knowledge of Chinese affairs so The local Chinese politicians optimistio of the future of the Melbourne'sugainst the Sydney "Truth," which estimabla periodical
take up the matter, and prevent sident's action in having the two Times" ho protests against the had spoken of the plaintiff as "a crook" and "a moral mongrel,"
the line from falling into the generals executed, and on Satur- alarming reports emanating from adding that the mention of a certain name "must make him mow
the course of the proceedings, stood to have held a meeting of of disruption appearing in the hands of the Government. In day a number of them are under Chim, and the hysterical forecasts. his mendacious mouth and grind and gush his grinders." Other
some present commented on the protest. similar matter, more alliterative than tasteful, follows
aetion of Jim Tin-yau, the deputy
English prese. The protest is by director-in-chief, in taking an
no means belatod, and it is to be hoped that his words will com- official appointment. They sug- gested he should be dismissed
mand attention and respect. A settled, contopted China is surely from office.
Two trains without engine the dosire of everybody, and this drivers, approaching each other happy consummation is certainly at high speed on the same line got encouraged by dismal wail- of rails, automatically stoppedings of the sort which Dr. whon a collision seemed inevita Morrison now
so roundly do ble during a demonstration given ounces. At this stage in her at Watelot, Somerset, recently, history China deserves, and has a Rat return for the weeks ending
by A. R. Angus, of Sydney, New right to expect, encouragement Yang Shu Wen, the now Chi-South Wales, of an electrical de-from her friends. Bho, of course, 10th and 17th August, 1012. Clothing the Police
nese "Consul General at Manila, vico he has invented to prevent has her part to do, especially in Tenders are being invited for English in the Asiatic Colonios is another nutter. Many the supply and making up of the
STRANGE PLAGUE.
wishes to make olear through the accidents. The experiment was the direction of aiming at co- "Cablenów-American" certain witnessed by chief representatives operation and mutual trust be administrators in the East have had grave doubts as to the wisdom following winter clothing for the Mysterious Mortalliy Amongst
statements be made to that paper of British and French railways.tween the overal political parties. and fairness of saddling natives indiscriminately with our language, use of the Tiongkong Police
which were published in the issuo The selection of the railway now too often at cross-purposes In the Malay-speaking districts the problem is largely mot by the Force:-350 sorge suite for Eur-
Pigeons and Cats.
of August 18..
usad for the demonstration was one with the other. fact that "Bazaar" is already the lingua franca, and can be quickly opeans and Indians, and 250 for
The large number of deaths In speaking of the mental marked by steel ramps on inelin- The Danger. acquired by the very dullest Englishman. China und India are leas Chinese: 700 pairs of Chinese among cats and pigeons in En-qualities of women in general ed planes between the rails. Tho accommodating, and, fair or unfair, politio or the roveres, ours must shoes; 400 pairs of Chinoso gland is puzzling voterinarians, Mr. Yang said he did not think shoe, which is fitted on the en- Party bickerings and squabbl necessarily be the coming language of Chiness or Indian in his stockings; and 400 pairs of Chi- who are speculating as to this women were fitted for the ballet gine, touches the ramps with a ings, at a time when solid unity dealings with Europeans. It bobovos overy Englishunan in Hong. nose garters.
mortality having some connection and gave his ransone. He spoke slight impact, and the driver is is most to be desired, can only kong, then, to boar as little a sharp, na possible in travestying the
with the foot and mouth disease, of his experiences as an attache warned if the section is not clear load to one result, and that most dignified of modern languages by resorting to pidgin English. Money-Lender's Claims. More than 600 cats have been at the Chinese Embassy in Lon- by means of a die or whistle. The certainly not the advancement of Woonu understand a coolio's sizing upon soh a word as
talk," Court,
This morning, in the Summary treated in London hospitals indon in the same breath, but Mr. driver may himself stop the train, the Republic. It is this spirit of and making it do duty for "speak,' tell" and "say," the Chinese
before Mr. Justice the last two months and only a Yang did not mean to imply, hef but if he fails to do so, an electri-variance which has been causing being. by nature skilled in making a small foreign vocabulary serve Gompertz, Kishan Singh, a few have been oured, siya n mes- says, that English women are less cal apparatus with which the the irritating resignation of Minis- their turn; but, given the Chines let him be coollé, compradore money-lender, sued A Ping to re- sage, dated July 22.
intelligent than any other women engine is fitted automatically ter after Minister, a symptom or consul who has no word of English, we are far from persuaded over $70 due on a promissory Large numbers of pigeons ro- of the world. On the contrary shuts off steam, applies the brakes which has probably had much to: that he will grasp,“ talkos, "*" wantóhee," ste, more readily than the noto.
lensed in France in, perfect health he has great respect for English and bringe the train to a stand-do with the pessimistic forecasta porrrot form of those words. Why should, we add to his difficulties Mr. F. X. D'Almada é Castro have fallen sick soon after alight- femininity. Then also, Mr. Yang still.
to which Dr. Morrison now refers, by conforming to a silly custom which renders us ridiculous in the appeared for the plaintiff, but the ing in England. The majority does not wish to go on record as This device was shown to work May-be the words penned by eyes of those of his compatriots who already sponk our tongue defendant was unrepresented, of those have died. More than being opposed to the policy of with, perfect success. It was also China's new politionl advisor will correctly? And, further; why ran the risk of debasing the Hong- The defendant urged that he 1,000 English pigeons were relens the United States government demonstrated that the driver of a also be taken to heart in Peking kong English of the future to the level of that employed by certain signed the promissory note sad nection with a race known as the concerned. What he did mean, can telephone to the nearest sta- of the causes which have un ed at Marennes recently in con- where the Chinese exclusion sot is train thus automatically stopped and result in a removal of some other Colonials, by interlarding our talk with usedless vulgarities only $20 was lent him, by Keer Pigeon Derby. Only twenty he says, was that the Philippine tion to get any obstruction of the doubtedly inspired the creakings. when speaking with Chinese, many of whom ingat necessarily, iinitate Singh and not by the plain three of the lot returned to Eu- Islands could be developed much line removed or any defect re of those who are perhaps a little and put into circulation such wordeur phrases, pardonably mistaking bounterfeit for true metal ?
Judgment was given for the gland. Fanciera valued there faster if Chinese labourers were medied, and, he cannot move the too fond of harping un dark pos plaintiff.
mrda at $20,000.
of the future
A Smart Dodge,
months vacation lonve.
Minute by the President of the Sanitary Board relative to appli- cations for exemption from ceiling
of No. 3 Henlth District.
Scaffolding Collapses. The scaffolding rating to: the second floor of cortain premises house cleansing operations in the Correspondence relative to lapsed yesterday, and two Chi-European Roservation and the in Connaught Road West,.cal- nose workmen were dashed to the ground. The injuries theme by this Department against per
List of legal proceedings taken received were such as necessitate sons for breaches of the Public their removal to the hospital for Health and Buildings Ordinances surgical atten·lauce.
1903-1909 for the month of July,
Hongkong's Finance.
They who doign to examine the above specimen of English, will perceive that slangiuess is not the sole fault that may be cast up against it. If this were an isolated instance we should not quo's | The financial statement for the; it unhappily, such "style" is all wo frequently to be mot with in month of Jane, issuel from the Colonial papers-oven those of a fair journalistic standing. For the Hongkong Treasury, shows that on Afrikander, whose accent may be questionable, there is ample ex- May 31 there was a balance of ouse; for Australians or Canadians, who coarson a fine language assets ant liabilities amounting merely to suit the ends of commerce or to give emphasis to malicious to $2,175,582.95, that the revenue or ill-bred remarks, there is nono, Both are sponding large suns
during June was 8001,077.10, on education; both boast that their children enjoy better gehooling loaving a balance at the end of and the expenditure $141,805.95, than lint provided at Home. As well might they love the money in the Exchoquor if the generations to come are to imbibe more and June of $005,384.10. ' more slang, until “Colonial' Welsh,
becomes as "distinct from English og
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1012.
Mortality return from Maçao for the wooks ending 5th and 12th August, 1912.
Mortality return for the woeks oading 27th July, 3rd and 10th August, and for the month end- ing 31st July, 1912. night ending th August, 1012,
Limewashing return for the fort-
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RIGHTS OF WOMEN.
. Manlia Chinese Consul's
Remarks.
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