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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1912.
PRACTICAL LOYALTY AND DISCIPLINE.
**
DAY BY DAY.
So long as we are honestly trying to do our best, we may be sure that those about us are not
likely to misjudge us greatly, either by over or underestimation.
Dead Bodies.
It is reported that more dand bodies have been found by the polics.
Departed.
Rov. Fr. Noval, of the Spanish Dominican Procuration, left by tho's.s. Korea yesterday.
Alleged Thief Arrested. A Chinese who, it is alleged, took a pearl and gold earring from a house in Hollywood Road, valued $17, has been arrested.
H. M. S. Waterwitch. Ohiol Construotor Mr. E. R Bato, of H. M. Naval Yard, left Hongkong to-day for Singapore in connection with the salving of H. M. 8. Waterwitol.
Visitors.
Chan King Wa, the Canton Commissioner of Police, and P. H. Lo, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, are staying at the Hong- kong Hotel.
Unlicensed.
At the Police Court, this morn- ing, eight men were fined $2 each for being in charge of licensed vehicles without themselves being possossed of a licence.
i
Interport Swimming. Arrangements have been made whereby the Interport swimming contests will take place ou Sopt. 19, 20, and 21 instead of the dates originally fixed. Entries will close on Sept. 11.
Many Remands,
"They will be remanded wook. after week until the ship comes back; she will probably be here in about six wooks," observed Mr. E A Irving, at the Polios Court, this morning, when four men were charged before him by L. 8. Glendenning with being board the 8.8. atowaways on Gathrio, now in Australia.
Won't Stay Away.
A NEW VERSION OF OLD MOTHER HUBBARD.
A Lesson in Modern
vertisement:----
ment.
As you truly remark,Tuffy dearbet, our Shoot is cheap, but it at least lacks one demerit, which Deport-attaches to your manners darling,
for it is not nasty.
Meanwhile (with Mr. Alfred
BURGLAR CAPTURED.
NOTES AND
COMMENTS.
An Experience He Will Not Readily. Forget.
The Colonial Institute.
The communication from the The burglar who entered the In the ius of the "South China Jingleuf Pickwick's" immortal house of Sanitary Inspector Mo-Secretary of the Colonial Institute, Morning Post of the 24th ultimo fame) we would reply to your Ewan, in Bonnold Arcade, day, demonstrates the fact that which is published elsewhere to there appeared the following ad-kind enquiries concerning our during the early hours of this that organisation is at prosent in sheet (though you did forgot the morning, is not likely soon to interrogation mark Tuffy!) forget the occasion of meeting an extremely healthy state of noti- Lost-on 20th August Small Fox she's very well-desires her the Scotsman. It appears that vity and the appeal of the Hon. Mr. Pollock, as Local Correspond Terrier Dog, large black patch"compliments--begs you won't between three and four o'clook a "un bead and alightly spotted" trouble yourself lova to Tupman gained ontinue to the house ing Secretary, that many British the uamnof Tuffy. Care of Py"-for which last word (with and, in order to enter the room forward as candidates for election subjects in Hongkong will come in which ho was later captured, he had to pass over the prostrate deserving of widespread response. from of a sleeping omah. This The Institute is doing a splendid
ronnd the body, Anawons to
On the 27th ultime the Busi- ness Manager of this Journal ad- ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE. he did without disturbing the dressed to "Tuffy' care of the "South China Morning Post"a let- ter which (omitting formal parts) road as follows:---
•
Interesting Address by Arch- deacon Barnett. -
lattor but was not quite so for work in the Old Country, and tanato as regards the sleeping the advantages of Fellowship many a Far Easterner basroslised ocoupant of the inner chamber when he has come to settle down at The burglar had just sadured Home It has occurred to us, property valued at $40.50, which
even
We shall be glad if you will allow us St. Stephen's College, delivered cuff links and some clothing Hongkongiles to become associat Arolideacon Barnett, Wardes of included a silver wateli, a pair of however, that there would be groster Indusement atill for kazy Teleg caplit the enclosed an appropriate 'address to the whon, ho was observed by the IDed with the Institute if the local
students of St. Stephen's Collage spector. The latter jumped out
"to inverton page 8 of the "Hong-
("*(* Tuffy's "-adrastis mont was
"Marafing Fo-t is nbore) as at the opening of the term out the same time giving him some tions, lectures, to, so as to slipped from the Bouth Ch's who assembled in large numbers of bed and secured the burglar, branch were occasionally to ar- rango gathering-social fune "prepaid Advertisement,
Tuesday Archdeacon Barnell thing by which to remember his
The
intes are for cash in advance "yng cost par wird for each "insertion
We hope to be favored with this and
"fature orders."
In the issue of the "South China Morning Post" of the 28th ultimo appeared the intimation...
Let erinre lying at this Oflice
"the following Advertisms.
*Tuffy'
On the 1st inst. the following letter was ad rossed to the Office of this Journal:-
"Hongkong Bapt.' ini, 1912. "Hongkong Daily Telegraph. ~ * "Hir,
and Mrs. Barnett have had an ex-visit, and had a whistle blown for bring members in closer touch tended furlough in England. Dagistance.
one with another. Thore is for too little intercourse of this kind
con
After expressing pleasure at be- It is stated that there were four ing back again, the Archdeacon Chinese outside the house who, then our Colony, and we hope the referred to the changes which had Inspector believed, were confede gestion now put forward will be given the consideration it token place since they started for rates of the captured man, and deserven. England, not less than 18 months a European. It is alleged that ago. The greatest change of all the men made off and that the Liberal and Labour. was the change in the govern- Europonu did not bostir himself The Liberal-Lah ar breach in farment of China. Those who had to give assistaner, and said that Midlothian is quite an uncalled- been in England and who knew the affair was no business of his, for addition to the Government's China, had watched this change How far that may be true in a wood; and, as far as we boen his lot often to speak at moment, ns, when the man lihood that what is happening in with very great interest. It had matter for conjecturo at the judge, there is reasonable like meetings in England with re-appeared before Mr. E. A. Irving. Edinburgh may be looked for in. ference to China and its changes, at the Police Court, this morning, other constituencies when 'oord- and now he was looking anxiously no evidence was taken, and the sion shall arise. From the nation's to seo North and South China Inspector was not in attendanco. point of view, the squabble is re united, and trusting each other. The prisoner, besides being grettable; from that of the Gov Until this was accomplished charged with this offence, was ernment, is bide fair to be dis I waw your letter addressed in
Tuffy in the "8.ath 1 hian Chian could not put her foot on further charged with returning natrous. It goes without saying "Motalag Post yesterda". the first rung of the ladder which from banishment on an order that there are faults on both sides. "went to the Office immedis-leads to solidity, strength, and made in 1900.. *-
The Liberal party, oven in its "tely naturally thinking success, and unity was the object The prisoner admitted bein, healthiest days, has ever shown. "dog find hoen fund, but at which every patriot of China in the house for unlawful pur-ilso. timorous; and, in its un "necited your bright? basin should aim. "like?" letter, stating that you
poses, and said that he wanted healthiest, has, descended to s "would insert thund. in your
Changes in the Colony. to raise money for his passage hesitancy for which partial folk "Paper also much per lin.
In turning from the political to Canton. He, however, donienight well use the stronger term of "Don't you suppose that if uhanges, the Archdeacon referred the charge of returning from abilly-shallying. It has coquetted with the Labourites, and, to servo. "I or anyone else thought that to the educational chaugos which banishment. "your old cheap abect was worth had taken plvoe in the Colony. It Mr. Leving said that, if he ploul Ministerial ends, has told the work- ⚫arthing or
road by any was at St. Stephen's, that Sir Fed not guilty to that charge, le ing man what an excellent fellow body, that I would have insered Lugard, speaking from that plat could not try him in that Conil he is only to discover, now, that 14 the ad. in your paper in the art form, reminded his audionos that and would have to send him to he refuses to patted on the buokand “place. In your Intter to the the projcut of the University. A remand was asked for and
the Criminal Sessions for trial. Mor dng Pat," you show your would always be associated in his method of doing business sad "also the fat that you must bg
mind with St. Stephen's College, granted.
Yours,
Tuffy.""
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The Labour man has no patience to vote always as he is bidden. with what he regarde at best AS Laodicean lukewarmness and, at knows what he wants (a point
It is stated that the man was about which the Radioal is not so sure) and he has stuck to his guns in truo John Bull fashion. At tbo same time he must learn to
CHINESE STUDENTS TO TRAVEL.
According to a Chinese paper,
ask more prettily before any Go- vernment, Radioal or Conserva-
The shade of Rob Roy, if it
for ads to fill your Paper. It because it was at the College that and he seemed to have had a worst, as rank breach of faith. He
Prisoner's mouth was bleeding *is pity that you wouldn't the idea of a University for Hongrough time. "get at least one man on the staff | kong was first promulgated. Thus “that would show ordinary human the Arclidencon folt, the Univer- At the Police Court, this morn
"intelligence. The remark made the other day by the Canalian Minister foring, before Mr. C. D. Melbourne,
sity and St. Stephen's were very employed at the house yesterday closely connected. In addition lime washing. Militia, to the effort that those who are loyal only with their lips an old woman was charged with
there was that other link in the OBSTREPEROUS COOLIE. and are unable to shout, are a more serious peril than those actually returning from banishment. De-
educational chain-the Hostel-*| We are afraid that when "Tuffy' to which their students could pass tootive Sergeant Watt stated that disloyal," coat ins truth of a particularly arrosting kind. It was of the woman had three previous wrote that, letier, Tuffy' was after leaving the college; a hand- his fellow Colonials that Colonel Hughes was speaking when he convictions for returning from "huffy" and it would seem
Millonaire's Heir. for Rob Roy's A quolie who was behaving in tive, will vouchsalo him much of very disorderly manner in a hearing. uttered this statement; but if it applios to Canada, how mueli more banishment and, on each occasion,Tuffy's "huffiness" strongly loos it fit England and the English of to-day. The past imprisonment. The woman was unnatural train of thought. Nay three years, service at St. Ste-The latter used his truncheon on by the famous cotoran, must be who was sentenced to six months the natural sequence to Tuffy's very real. friend during his past the advice, set upon tho oficerill haunts the quarters favoured
Was but career and under the guidance of advised to go home by a Chinese Country.
one who had proved himself a
detective but, instead of taking four years have seen the rise-und, to all appearances something of sent to gaol for six months. the ill-of the Territorial movement; and the question which most
{"Tuffy's" product in the shape of phon's-Rev. W. H. Hewitt. people are trying (as the case may be) to avoid or to face, is: How
the man and blew his whistle for Leave of Absence. 'Taffy's' letter tends to indicate far away is conscription now? Those who have given the clearest The leave granted to Major Fother organs thin the heart University, that was now com secured.
that "hope deferred maketh teaching staff, but with the arrival the station, The assistance was is negotiating for the purchase of Changes had taken place in the resistance in taking the man to somewhat porturbed by the state and most honest thought to such a matter have usually arrived at Martin, 25th Punjabis, is amond-
of Mr. F. A. Britton from Oxford forthcoming and the man was the famous Ballikigrain estate ment that Mrs. Ara Willing Astor the conclusion; "Conscription must come, unless!" And they od to read, from 28th August to Biok", and in fact may on occu-plete, and they had a body of refrain from finishing the sentence, because they shun the painful 3181 October, in place of 28th dion affect the mental balance, men in whom he had the greatest ing, before Mr. E. A. Irving the millionaire who perished in for the son and heir of the At the Police Court, this morn«. „admission that only à waking up of the Englishman's dormut viously notified. The leave grant dignation could hardly have
August to 15th October, us pro- for Tuffy' in Taffy's' in-confidence.
man was charged and sentenced shade must regret that young the ill-fated Titanio. Rob's strength and self-defensivė instiņot, and a return to his old, half-ed to Lieut. H. R. O Walker,
Old Boys in England. to three days' hard labour: for forgotten readiness to endure and to obey, can save his children 25th Punjabis, is amended to read paused seriously to consider what
It had been the Archdeacon's being disorderly and to twenty-the district a little too late, from millionaires are to come around from compulsory military service..
from 28th August. to 31st, in Tuffy' was
mangold one days for assaulting the polico. his point of view. Mrs. Astor, if writing when pleasure to meet Even if war could be abolished, says Colonel Hughes, military October, as previously notified.
place of 20th August, to 15th Tuffy' gave vent not only to boys in England, and it
''Tuffy's' wrath, but to the ut-find training would still be advisable, in order to teach the principles of
the report is true, has made good way a great satisfaction to
hoice. that they lad ·
for, the castle is set in military discipline;' and here again he touches a sore spot; for dis-
toranco Finder Rewarded;
forgotten the lessons taught at St.
Aurroundings as beautiful as any cipline, no matter of what sort, is woefully lacking in England just
"Don't you supping that it I or Stephen's. He did not mean
in Scotland, has old historic as sociations, and is you within easy now. We'do not think so ill of the Old Country as to opine that, at Kok, with a bundle of clothing A boatinan saw a man at Máng
"anyuo cha thought that your mathematics, &c., but the leason General Li bas decided to send distance-only some twenty miles old cheap sheet was worth any of how to live a respectable, clean 60 students abroad at a cost of of Glasgow. A young lid's lot bottom, she is any weaker than she was two or three couturies ago;utside a coal godown. Ho
thing or read by "anybly" that industrious life, so that now they. Taels 40,000 per annum. Tle could be cast in worse places hat we do say that she is like a strong man out of training. The old approached the man and the lattor
"I would have inserted the ad were welcomed to the best fami- 5,000 will be assigned for eight lan Billinkinrain, and one can power to think and to act and to conquer is still there, but it is The boatman took the clothing to is read Uy at least some of the fellectual and physical, these old students to study Military affairs the wealthy widow, whom Rob's **in your Peper in the first laos" lies at home and received there os students to study Navy affairs.in imagine him revolling in stories overlaid by a softness and a slackness that arise, partly from the Yaumati Station and it was found local public, the obvious deduction boys were also distinguishing in Germany; Ts. 10,000, for son carried off to marry by força. ran away, dropping the bundle. for, since "our old cheap sheet" gentlemen. In other spheres, in- Great Britain; Tls. 4,000 for six of Rob Roy and of Joan McKay, reative spirit of an age that chafes under rostraint, and grudges that the clothing belonged to an to be made from Taffy's vehement themselves. obedience to lawfully constituted authority; and partly from what Indian watchman at the godown. bolt is that by Tuffy a references before closing his address paid nalogy in Belgium; Tls. 8,000 for The Arohdeacon twenty students to study miner- The finder of the clothing was to 41 To get back to his old standard, the Englishman must put alothes, who valued them at 840.who.is anyone" and "anybody sence, particularly to the work of eight students to study law in K. C. C. American Tournament,
awarded 82 by the owner of the Taffy' must have meant "anyone which had been done in his ab-affairs in America; Tis. 8,000 for "anyone" and "anybody" graceful tribute to the solid work en students to study industrial physical fitnicas, and proficiency with the rifle, very decidedly in the The clothes had been taken from who is unybody," as for example the Senior Master, Mr. G. A. France and mathema s in Italy] Tuffy' and Tuffy's friends," Hancock, who had worthily noted respectively, and Tis. 6,000 for to be worth half a dozen pressed men. Then should not this very
The American tournament at as opposed to, say, our Staff and as Warden in his absence.
aishit students to study political the Kowloon 0.0. has now, con- revolt against enforced service be the strongest argument in favour
general body of readers.
Arohdeacon and Mrs. Barnott 000nomy in Japan. If the funds cluded, and the results are of an ungrudging submission to such training as will make the Lieut. Colonel A. 8. Begbie, 8th that letter Tuffy' had in mind in search of health and happily rich people will be invited to H May; 2nd. D. J. Mackenzje,
Consequent on the departure of Possibly when Tuffy wrote for almost 18 months. Although students to complete their courees.
have been away from the Colony are not sufficient for so many follow potential volunteer an asset instead of a hindrance, in time of war? Rajputs, on one year's farlough, the saying of the Psalmisto let the Archdeacon has beon.success contribute money for the pur-"B" Class Singles 1st., "N. "A (less Singles-1st., G. We are apt to forgot that the success of the Boers in the late war was the following officiating appoint-indignation vex him as a thing fal in his quest no idling has pose, not entirely due to their intimate knowledge of the country; to forgatments are made with effect from that is raw, that almost every man of them had been a markeman and a fearless Major A. C. Ralph, to be offioint Tuffy not content with abus in all parts of the British Isles rider from early childhood. Why the Haldano Territorial solomoting Commandant, Major F. O, ing our "Sheet, derides our have been addressed by the Arch- has been loss successful thau was anticipated is for experts to decide; Sarabourne Palmer, to be officiat meliod of doing business to deacon, and the erection of St. but it needs no expert to realise that, unless England's much vaunted ing 2nd in Command. Captain which we would reply, Tuffy John's Hall, the official title of fourteen days as imposed upon courts, Davidson and Sewall (,) A fine of 85 or in default. Last evening on the Y,M,C.A. *try again" spirit is dead, she can still make a new, start in the P.D. C. Johnston, to be officiating or even madmen have their the C. M. S. Hostel, in Bonham man by Mr. E. A. Irving, at won their way into the comi-Bal volunteer dirpaugh one which, if conscientiously followed up, will Double Company Commander, in tell us so we at lost may or, in striking testimony, to the Arch for being in unlawful possension
methods or so classic writers Road opposite the University, is a the Police Court, this morning, of the gents doubles handjou by drive the hogey of conscription as far away na it was fifty years ago,, Double Company Officer,
addition to his other duties, as decent compan
beating Stevens and Proxham deacon a foresight and hard work f '& quantity of opi
jappears to be over-confidence in herself.
forefront of his life-programme. As a nation we have--and rightly the hut of the Indian. —always scorned the idea of conscription, believing one volunteer
Appointments:
forenoon of lat September
taken placo Numerous meetings.
Oplum
LAWN TENNIS.
Railton; 2nd., A. L. Stein.
Doubles 1st., Railton and Brown; 2nd., Woor) and Green.
Y. M. C. A. Tournament.