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Mail-Olosea per es. Linan at 5 p.m. to-day. St. Patrick's Day, To-day is St. Patrick's Day us wo cannot help regretting and is being quietly observed by hatamotion to sta St Patrick's Irishmen in the Colony. Society in Hongkong should have fallen flat; and we regret
"Dope" Agalo. For being in unlawful possess it the more, inar nuch as understand that the Orangemen ion of opium, a man was fined bave a Lodge in this Colony. If $25, at the Police Court, this they and the Scotsmen can succead morning. in establish ag societies why
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cannot the pakka Irish of Hong kong, of whom there are many of all classes? Perhaps they will be persuaded to reconsider the mat- tae, before another St. Patrick's Day comes round. "Mark Rutherford."
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Station 'Leave.
Station leave is granted to Major F. A. Dickinson and Capt. G. O. Tracey, 2nd Ba. D.OL.L., from 15th to 18th March.
The death of Mr. W. Hale Whito" Mark Rutherford"- which is announced to-day re-
Tai O Market." moves one of Britain's "remost Most probably litotary mon.
Tenders are being invited for Britain will now proceed to dis the preparation of site and the cover this fact which America erection of a Market at Tai 0. discovered years and years ago No work will be permitted on Just why the book-roading pub-Sundays. lie at Home should have frid
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1913.
HONGKONG DOG SHOW,
Accidentally, in correport of the prize-winners, we mentioned Mrs. 10. Mason Hurley's pointer, Some Notes and Comments on Glen," as winning second prize.
Saturday's Byènt,
[Śracial Antrol.]
There was no such prize in this Class; the dog was "highly com mended" and so achieved as To oriticize closely Hongkong's much distinction as though the firet Dog Show would be unfair class had been large enough to and ungenerous to those who admit of a second prize being did everything in their power to offered. make it a succ888. Moreover it
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THE OPIUM QUESTION.
The Latest Step.
TELEGRAMS,
[Our Own Correspondent.]
Shanghai, March 17. Mr. Archibald C.I.E., of the British Logation in Peking, and Mr. King, of the British Consu W08 a success, despite, bad weather, despite the compara- It only remains once more to late at Chengtu, have been ap- tively small number of entrips. express ourand our reader's thanks pointed, with Chinese despite everything. Our con- to the Patrons and the members investigate poppy-growing tention all along has been that of the Committee, to the donors Hanan, Anhui and Shantung, there were dogs in Hongkong of prizes, the stewards and with a view to the closure of clo well worth showing; and this judges, and to the following sure of these Provinces to Indian: has been proved to be a fact. gentlemen who
kindly opium. We further maintained, from the gaarantied the expenses con-
annual nected with the Show beginning, that an show would be an inducement to Hon. Sir C. P. Chater, K. C. owners to exercise greater watch M, G., Hon. Mr O, H. Roes, Hon. fulness over their dogs; and, on Mr. E. A. Hewett, Hon." Mr Shel- doubtedly will be this case... Edkins, H. A. Siebs, R. Laurenz, all sides, we hear that this un- lim, Messrs. N. 3. Stabb, G. T.
One very natural outcome of G. Friesland, E. Ono, H. P.! this newly-awakened interest is White, C, Suhroter, T. F. Hough, the dog world is a suggestion-if W. Dickson, Dr J. W. Noble, it be too premature to call it a Mesers H. J. Gedge, F. B. Deacon, movement that is already astir D. M. Rosa, J. H. McMurtrie, C. among some of the influential H. Blason, LA N. Leefe, Captain sportemen of Hongkong, in favour Douglas, Messrs. G. Lieb, J. E. of the establishment of a local Gresson, and J. Paterson. Kennel Club. We believe that such a club will be founded before very
will be held under its auspices. long and that futuro dog-shows
At Lady May is giving an
THE CHIEF JUSTICE,
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'AIRSHIP GUNNERY." IMPORTANT RESULTS.
Reuter's
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London, March 15.
A message from Friedrichshafen states that a Zeppelin sirship made a trial, in a strong wind, with a machine-gun mounted on the upper deck. Five hundred rounds of ball cartridge wore fired, and the gun was handled with precision and saso. The results are regarded as most important.
Hope for Improvement, The more encouragement from all quarters given to dog-ownere, The Chief Justic, Sir William the greator will be the improve Roes, Davies, K.C., was recently of good strain will gradually be
by the members of the Hongkong mongrels will become "beaati his marriage. fully less." However hard and
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THE DOG SHOW.
man whose own colleagues in a Government office had no iden
for years, that he was the author of certain notable boks. An
A Doubting Hero.
tennis impossible.
Medical Duties.
of Colonel J.M.Itwo, A.M.S.
biography" "The Deliverance, are invited to be present.
"Miriam's Schooling," and "the Revolution in Tonner's Lane" was too careful and severe to embarked on a.. "Namsang,
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One of the first acts of such a Club would be, we im agine, to take the Dog Show
to
adhered to.
allow no
exhibit
Society,
ALLEGED ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE.
Before Mr. Hazeland at the We complained of Police. Court this afternoon a
It...
At all
three-and
at 2
NATIONAL SERVICE. LORD ROBERTS ACTIVE,
London, March 15, Lord Roberta received great ovations at Wolverhampton last evening. He addressed two meet-
thousand people, one of them being presided over by the Mayor of Wolverhampton. He also apoke to a throng of people in the Square,
ie to attract notice. Partly, too, wing is to be erected. The churchesitated Kennel Club would the noglect of his books was due bora a strange appearance yester-possess. to the fact that they made little day during Mass. appeal to the average library reader who is most happy when The duties of Deputy Director entirely into its own handa he can sit in his easy chair and of Medical Sarvices and Ollicer and
OBITUARIES. imagine bimself transformed into Commanding R.A.M.C., South to be entered that was not regis-
London, March 15. "Otto of Bludborg" or some hero China, will be carried out by tered on its books." Then another
The death has taken place of equally dashing. If a book makes Lieut.-Colonel A. C. Younan, matter. the average reader think, he has IM S., during the absence on leave Saturday, in our account of the Chinese was charged on remand Mr. William Hale White, the Show, that exhibits were removed by L. 8. Wills which being con- author, who wrote under the no wye for it.
at an absurdly early hour; and, cerned in a robbery with violence pseudonym of Mark Rutherford."* Seamen's Mission Chaplain.
The death is also announced of since then, many late visitora to The "hero" of "The Autobiogra-
The Rev. D Dynolds, Happy Valley have made the at No 3 Coronation Terrace.
Wong Chai Wan, a retired the Bishop of Lichfield (the Right phy of Mark Rutherford," tortured B.A, the new. Chaplain to the same complaint to us. be religious doubts and fears, Seamen's Afieson will be inducted fucute shops the rule observed at druggist of 3 Coronation Ter-Rev. and Hon. Augustas Legge, whose inmost soul is laid quiver by the Lord Bishop of Victoris Home, which forbide the removal race, said that on March 2 last he D.D.), his demise being very ing before the reader, makes no
a.m. by cries. He was seiz- Mr. Doughty, the oldest clown appeal to the caroless reader. at St Peter's Church tomorrow of an exhibit from the custody of retired to bed and was awakened sudden Similarly, the style of the Auto. evening at 0 o'clock." All friends the Committee till the close ofed by the defendant by the throat, in England, is dead,
show will, we hope, ba rigidly and was told that if he made a [The late Mr. White was for
noise be would be stabbed to merly Assistant Director of Con- Departures. The following details having only three cases, on Saturday death. Defeatlant had two or tracts to the Admiralty. His was permission given to three men with him. One of the chief publications were—The Notwithstanding a considerable number of drawbacks and attract any except thinkers and for conveyance to Calcutta, on hibitore, living at a distant, robbers asked, for his keys, and Autobiography of Mark Ruther
ance, 1885; The Revolution in. difficulties, Hongkong has at last had its Dog Show, and those who scholars. Few authors have write 13th instant, are struck off to remove their dogs early in the he banded them to him. The men ford Mark Rutherford's Deliver- engineered it may not unreasonably dongralutate themselves oheir work with such cultured strenth of the Command accord afternoon. Others promptly folthen opened some boxes and re-
e. Some eight or nino years ingly H.K.S.B., R.G.A.-1lowed the example, with the moved the contents. They were Tanner's Lane, 1837; Miriam's -having accomplished what many well-informed people in the Colons ago Mr. Fisher Unwin, greatly man, I woman and 3 children; sult that business men, who were prophesied would be impossible. The Show was the outcome of a daring, issued five of Ratherford's 24th (Haz.ra) Mountain Battery, unable to reach the Happy Val- the house about half-an-hour Schooling, 1880; Spinoza & Ethic; short series of articles which appeared in the "Telegraph" from novels at a shilling each, and the men; 25th Punjabisley till perhaps three o'clock, had Property iu money and jewellery Spinoza's Emendation of the In-
were recovered...
tion of the Wordsworth and time to time, between last September and the New Year. We experiment was fairly successful N.0.Os: and man; 20th Punjabis the felicity of meeting on their to the value of $406.50 was tellect: Catherine Farze, 1894 but he did not became the rage by men; 128th Baluchistan infan-way a number of dogs which they stolen but three gold rings Clara Hopgood, 1896; A Descrip had come to see at the Show. One
Corroborative evidence was Coleridge MBS. in the possession man observed that, he had paid. argued that a far greater number of social events in the Hongkong any means. Still, from that point try man.
Police Clothing.
fifty cents to see the winners, and given by the other inmates of the of Mr. T. Norton Longman, 1897;
house.
An Examination of the Charge year was possible if the people would but take such matters into "Mark Rutherford" came to be
Tendere are being invited for saw next to none.
The oase bad not concluded as of Apostasy against Wordsworth, Objections such as this would we went to press. their own hands; also that the primary result of a dog show would known, and it is a mark of some-
1898; Pages from a Journel 1900, be that owners would feel encouraged to take greater care as regards thing like fame that Reuter thinks the making up and supply of the
his death worth chronicling. Ton undermentioned summer clothing speedily be removed by the
John Bunyan, 1895; Johnson's years ago that would not have for the use of the Police Depart stringent regulations which a
Rambler, Selections with Preface, the condition of their dogs, and would prevent much of the "crossing"
1007 More Pages from a Jour so common in the Colony, so that eventually the breed of dogs in been at all likely. We wonder, ment:-24 Suits Cotton Drill, for Kennel Club would lay down, by the way, how many of the Inspectors, &c., 600 Suits Dra- and we look forward to hearing
nal; Papers in the "Nation,”****** Hongkong would be immeasurably improved.
book-roading publicin Hongkong bette, for Europeans and Indians, that Hongkong sportsmen are
The Right Rev. "the Hon. know even "Mark Rutherford a 400 Suits Drubette, for Chiness, approaching the Outh is load further stop towards secrecy, con- Augustus Legge, D., 1
700 Pairs of Shoes, for Chinese, with a view to getting a local corning Naval affairs, gays hop of Lichfield since 1801, 400 Pairs of Stockings, for club affiliated to it name?
Home paper Reference has alwas 73 years o of age. He Chinese, 400 Paits of Garters,
Notes on the Enteles.
ready been made to the order was the 6th son of the Earl of for Chinese and 100 Damboo Hats.
We draw attention to some prohibiting the taking of photo Dartmouth. Educated at on Notice to. Muriders. notos on the entries which appear graphs or sketches of his Majesty' and Christ Church, Oxford, ho it is notified that informationed below the prize-list in our ships and the threat of procced-was ordained in 1884 and was to the Unionist party once again has been reveived from the Coast issue of Baturday. It will be ings against anyone who may Hon. Canol of Rochester and When the telegram Inspector, Maritime Custome, seen that, largess the fox-terrier contravene the Official Secrets Chaplain to Bishop Thorold of offico. come through, giving an outline Shanghai, that a recent survey of (smooth), Glass wad flier was not Act. Now they have gone further Rochester from 1877 to 1801, From of Mr. Austen Chamberlain's the south-eastern approach to really number one dog in it. by eliminating from the Navy 1819 to 1891 he was also Vicar spech before the Tariff Reform Taishok Barrier, Bick Reach, This is a matter which can easily List the details of ships arma of Lewisham, while he was Rural League, we scented trouble. He Canton River, shows that the be remedied another year. A ments. To be consistent, this Dean of Greenwial from 1880 to spoke of the "great and bitterly shoal to the south eastward of the well-bred fox-terrier is more will have to be followed by an 1886 and of Lewisham till bis Before leaving the subject, we would remark that there is a felt sacrifices which he and Barrier has extended down river easily acclimatised in Hongkong injunction against the publishers elevation to the Bishopric of Lich- significance in the list of exhibitors, as contained in Saturday's others had made in the interests to abreast of Hamilton Creek, and than a sporting dog or than the of "The Royal Navy List" Mr. field.] catalogue. On analysis, it will be found that only three of our of party unity, but said they did and has a least depth of 4 feet of beautiful German hounds that Jane's Fighting Ships," the
this without abandoning one water over it at low water of wore shown on Saturday, and "Navy League Annual," the The Late Captald J. Maitland Chinese fellow-citizens came forward to show their dogs, and only single aim and on condition that
doubtless, among the anticipatedFleet Annual," and other works half a dozen Portuguese. This is a feature which we hope to see the others were equally loyal; spring tides,
importations to the Colony, some of reference in which such details Captain John Maitland Lennox, Lieut Handing-Lob. R. N. decidedly altered in next year's catalogne. Again, we sus but one adding that if that condition was or two entries from the police and non-commissioned army offers, noted to persist in the sacrifice. from the retired list, has been be looked
Lieutenant F. C. Hanning Lee, good animals of this Class may have been freely given. Whe. lato R.M.LI., died at Chelsea on not observed they could not be
two might succeed in keeping the informa- Lennox was the last surviving
Having sroceeded, to some extent, in rousing the interest of our readers in the matter, we sought and obtained the patronage of His Excellency the Governor,, for the projected show, and then approached various well-known sporting mon of the community aaking them to serve on a Corr mittes. In most cases our efforts were successful; and, in coures of time, a Committee was formed to whose efforts the Colony is indebted for Saturday's Show. The opinions we have heard expressed thereon are very Battering, and encourage de to believe that the Dog Show will now become surual event, as popular, in its way, as the Races, the Flower Show
and the Interport Matches.
The renewal of the tariff dis The Tariff Tangle. puto, coming hard on the recent understanding," is galling in the extreme to those who wish to
NEEDLESS SECRECY.
The Admiralty have taken a
Lennox, an
and none from blue-jackets; nor did many come from commission ed: The latest utterance of Mr. appointed to lako charge of the wire-haired Among the ther, when all is done, they will January 31st, aged 80. Captains 1
officers
of either Servics. We would like to see it generally re- Chamberlain's is that the limit Lobarts and chronometers at Hong well have appeared in a tion from our rivals is very much ton of Lieutenant-Colonel Lord cognised that the Show is for everyone, without distinction of class of compromise has been reached; kong, and will be borne on the Home show; and the same may open to doubt. When unde a George Lennox, M.P., who was or nationality. Here the Continental spotion of the Hongkong while we have Mr. Chaplin de books of the Tamir whilst so be said of some of the bull-terriors new ship is in commission it is the recond son of the fourth Dako public is to be congratulated on the active interest Laken by them claring that it is idle to protend employed, Lieutenant Hanning the Aberdeens and the Champion- not a difficult task for a person of Richmond and Lennox, Lord that there is peace in the party Lee is a specialist in such mat ship Classes. Ideas seem to differ of inquiring mind and persuasive George Lennox was born in 1703 in the proceedings. To them, to the Committee and its energetic there is no pace. The situ-ters, and served in the fleet from as to what constitutes an Irish monners to find out all he or she so that the lives of father end Honorary Secretary, Mr. Greason, and to all who, by oir ready and ation is fraught with danger. I 1800 to 1905, what be retired, terrier; many of the animals wants to know concerning the son extended over nearly 120 courteous help made the Show possible, the heart ke of our Asquith and his colleagues are and was aubsequently employed shown as ench were no more Irish ship even from those whose yeare. Captain Lennox was born readers are due. In this connection we would single out as objects born tacticians, and, itu dit in the chart and chronometer than a dachshund, (apropos, the patriotism is without taint, and on July 1st 1833. He served as offre at Sheerness) He was a Dachs Class was very disappoint we'nhall wander is a fool'e para orderly officer to Colona of special gratitude, the officials of the Jockey Olabe placed ferencesdevelop, it is heir premises at the Committee's disposal, and, further, the the sphere of possibility th
Liberals may chopes a generous donors of prizes, and the guarantors who undertook to se0
ment on which to the event should not fail for want of financial aid.
country.
middy of the cruiser Auora? Fing, and, in the opinion of the disc during the Hoxer Campsiga in judges, did not contain a dog
wa huppose that the Ad Graham, RM
effect moro than the operations, againnt (then their own countrymen sund Forts in
An ther
the 1900 and served at Tientein that would have got even a third koo
duralizm Park prize in Larope)! with the Naval Brigade,
ceiving the modák