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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mr Arthur James Coleman has been

MEMOS, FOR TO-MORROW, they are harsh and unsympathetic and various sub-committees, and the Honor-

Anctiona

their action is calculated to alience the ary Secretary and Treasurer of the Relief 11.m.--Auction of Manila Cigars, at better class. The matter has only to be Fund for the work of love at which they appointed a magistrate for Penang,

Mr Geo. P. Lammert's Sale Rooms. 5.30 p.m.-Ausion of Japanese Curios, &o.. at Mears Hoghen & Hough's Sales Roohisa

5.30 p.m. Audion. of Ponies, at Polo

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p.m.-Performance at City Hall,

- Miscellaneous,

put thus to show how untenable is the heve laboured so well and so long. That position taken up by Mr Lau Chu-pak. work has been extranely onerous and We are naked to hellove that the fine those who have devoted their time and Busceptibilities of Chinese who throw their energy to it are all very busy man their dead into the street as they would Their only reward is the consciousne dead dogs are to be offended because of good work well done. This being

2. Mr.J, E. Nathan, Passed Cadet, - has beun appointed Acting Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court, Paasog.

Mr Edwin A. Brown and Mr John Kerr Blick have been promited to Becond Lieu-

tenants in the Singapore Volunteer Inlan

Gooda per Dehlighahire undelivered after what they have tunted as carrion so it is only fitting that the public press try.

this date subject to rent.

General Memoranda. MONDAY, April 223-

is, reduced to ashes. Of course the should advise them thit the community

Among those who left Shanghai by the agument will not hold water. On in general is sincerely appreciative of R. M. "Empress of China" on April 13 the other hand we are quite in ac-the manner in which they have dis-were Mr and Mrs Hamilton Sharp and Me

cord with Mr Lan Chu-pak in his charged the duties which they... so and Mn C; W, Ure..

3 p.m. Auction of Leasehold Property Mr Goo, P. Lammert's Sales Room. Transfer Books of Yangtazs Insuranco demand for considente treatment of the Association, Ld., Cloce from this date Chinese sick. Whatever measures are ve

to 26th April, inclusive. Goods per Salecte unclaimed after this date at Noon will be subject to rent and landing charges. Goods per Beamohr undelivered after

this date subject to rent. TUESDAY, April 23-

2.30 p.m.Auction of Household Fur alturs at No. 1 Granby Tarate, Granville Road, Kowloon, WEDNESDAY, April 34 +

2.30 p.m.- Auction of Japanese Porce

lain, at Mr Geo. P. Lammert's Sales

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cessitated by sanitary exigencies should be carried out with supreme regard for the prejudices and convictions of the Chinese. Their traditions and customs Should be respected as far as possible. But Mr Lau Chu-pak should remember that that respect would be the more cheerfully accorded if his countryman

generously took upon themselves.

Leave of absence to the neighbouring countries, on privato affairs, has been

anted to Lieut. G. L HAB, RE, from 1st May to 15th June, 1907.

The daughter of Sir Polham Warren unfurled the Blue Ensign at the Shanghai. Yacht Club promises en April 13. The ceremony was an intersting one, and was witnessed by many people.

An order has been promulgated in Peking and has been sent to all the heads of education throughout the Pro- vinces in which strict orders have been given that inquiries are to be made into the condition of feinule education. What the aim of this examination is does not appear. It may be that it is intended Mr Alexander Hosic, H.M. Commercial to increase facilities for female educa Attaché for Chiria, who recently returned tion; it may be that there is some to Shanghai frou 'n vist to Hongkong nad

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THE TYPHOON FUND,

and the drag must be put under the for River Ports and Haukow en route to wheel. We know that there are those

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who think that things are going too Mr F. D. Cheshire, Inspector General of fast, and that there are others that American Consulates in the Far East, left 11 am Anction of Henscheld Furni- GENERAL gratification and a not allo Which party is at the base of this new intends to make a tour of the various think that things are going too low. Shanghai on April 13 by the I.C. steamer ***Takang !" for Tsingtau. Mr Cheshire tare, at No. 9, Koutsford Terrace, gather blameworthy feeling of self-order for the nonce remains hidden. Consulater at Twingtau, Manchuria, Korea-

and Japan during his absence.

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RONGKONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1907.

CREMATING THE. DEAD.

righteousness will be felt by residents

of

forwarded to those who have the care

upon perusing the report of the Typhoon

The Managers of the Chinces section of the Canton-Kowloon railway have

Among the passengers who left Shanghasi Relief: Committer, published in yester-

on April 12 by the M. M. S. "Poly- sent a deputation to the Directors of thenésien were Mr G. D. Advocaat, laber day' CHINA MAIL It is certaluly a Canton-Hankow line in order to srcure Consul-Goners in Shanghai for the fact to be proud of that this compara-information as to the best way of going Netherlands. After short stay in Europe tively small community could raise about their work. Many questions have Mr Advocat will proceed to Rio Janeiro front its own resources a sum more than been asked in the official despatch. The to take up the post of Minister Resident ruficient to meet the requirements what rules should to imposed in the

Directors of the local line want to know and Consul General for the Netherlands at

that pat Actually, an the event proved, there wal

building of the line what wages

We understand that His Excellency Sir no necessity for extraneous aid. But should be given to the workmen; what Matthew Nathan entertained representa it should not be forgatton that a great kind of material should be bought and tires of the Chinese community at Govern. Tur suggestion that bodies which have been dumped in the streets by the stimulus was given to the generosity used; what firms should be approached ment House on Wednesday evening, when he was presented with an address. · No- of the Colony by the gratuitous promise in order to buy material which most be notification was given the press, and we Chinesa should be cremated has been

of the Government to supplement the bought from outside sources. There is regret we are unable to give an account of” CHEMISTS, DRUCCISTS AND made by the Medical Offices of Health.

a mass of other questions, and the allen the function. In a lengthy minuto Mr Lau Chin-pak fund by the grant of an amount similar tion of the larger body is requested that PERFUMERS adyances reasons why this course should to that raised. frum private sarces, the needed information may be at once. The marriage took place at the Church That promise, which it will be remem-of the shorter line. It seems rather of the Assumption, Penang, on April 9, of not be adopted. He urges that dumping is an inturaan practice" and is con

con bared was made by His Excellency the strange that the Company which has Miss Constance Marguerite Plum, daughter managed things so badly, should still of the late Mr J. P. Plum of Germany, trary to the custom and tradition of Governor at a meeting of the Legislative have prestige enough to be approached and Captain L. C. F. Taylor, of Australia, China. In lus opinion the drastic Council, was formally approved by Lord by others who are in earnest to get their the chief officer of the steamer Ba

work pat through; perhaps however Whatt Soon." After the reception, held administration of the sanitary hawa since Elgin, the Secretary of State for the experience has taught the larger body 1894 has caused dumping to be resorted Colonies, who, however, seemed of to and he declues that at the present opinion that the grant was not to exceed time unless the Chinese surreptitiously $125,000, the amount collected up to place the bodies of those who may have the time that he signified his approval. died from some infectious disease in the Whether the sum is to be $125,000 or streets, they cannot escape from the an amount equivalent to that raised by ing,

trouble and suffering as entailed by the Committee is immaterial. One the elaborate provisions of the sanitary

voted by the Government, sooner or laws. There is no need to quote largely from Mr Lau Chu-pak's minute later and the question-naturally arises as it has already appeared in our what shall be done with It. Here it columns. But it is well to recall that in appears to us the Committee has laid speaking of the recommendation to the community under a further debt of Refreshing and Invigorating cremate bodies which have been aban-obligation by making its wise suggesto be incendiarism on the part of Russian The only preparation of its harsh and unsympathetic and says

doned he characterises the proposal astion in regard to improved abelter for soldiers.

that harbour craft. The necessity for this kind which does not lose such suggestions seriously affect the we have pointed out over and over assistance in suppressing Hunghute at its perfume in Hot Water; prosperity of the Colony. This sug- again, and no time should be uncres Alakikokan (1) in Shengking Province, but the Watupu kas prohibited the authorities gestion," he says, "is directly against sarily lost in starting the work. By

at Harbin accepting it. Heat only serves to enhance the range and custom of the Chinese, making this suggestion the Committed its fragrance.

WATSON'S

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TURKISH BATH

SALTS

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CARBOLIC

SOAPS

Recommended by the Medical

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amount or the other will have to be

and not only will it not put a stop to the has given the Government an oppor

态

something, and the smaller one wishes at the bride's mother's house, Mr and Mr to avail itself of what the other, has pur-Taylor left Penang for Singapore on their chased, through more or less trouble,

honeymoon.

Mr E. and Lady Agues do Traford LOCAL AND COAST NEWS-

nru staying at Government Horse. Mr de H.E. Sun Mu-han, Governor of Pok-captain of the Leicestershire County Club Trafford is the well known cricketer-

Tokyo.

may be appointed the Minister to

Peking officiala, zatives of Shansi, have donounced HE En Shan, the Governor of Shansi, on the ground that ho flatters foreigners and neglects China's interesti

The cause of the conflagration in the Chinese City at Harbin, recently reported in our columns by cable, has been reported

whois just on his way home from New Zealand, where ho formed one of the team of amateurs who toured the Land of the Moa. Mr de Trafford was a menibor of Lord Hawke's tena which toured America in 1894. He then played in six iniune

with no average of 17.5 runs.

Lord and Lady Williani Cecil are at present guests of His Excellancy Sir Matthew Nathan at Government House Lord William Cecil, M. V. 0, F. R. G. S.. is Comptroller to HH. Princess Henry of Battenberg and Knight **Chinese authorities hare asked Russian of Justice St John of Jerusalem. He was

Prior to the departure from Shanghai for Szechen of Viceroy Teen Chuan-

bruan,

formerly a captain in the Grenadier Guards and out. Colonel and Hon. Colonel of the 4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment.

He served in the Saskim expedition in 1885. He was later Oroom-in-Waiting-to- Queen Victoría,

given in his honour by M. Ratard, tho Peking, and in consequence have postpicued Consul-General for France. Eh, what?the date of their Hongkong trip. They

propose to return to Shanghai vla Hankow Mr Eitali, Japanese Consul-Gensial, and will probably give one or two more for famine relict in Kangpei, the sun Hongkong. A smoking concert is being at Shanghai, has contributed 91,000 yen performances there before proceeding to being subscribed by several firms in Japan projected if suitable accommodation can be including Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Yokohama secured, and this should prove i popular Specie Bank and the Manchurian Railway innovation in Shanghai. Co., ote.

Syed Abdulradir Abdurahiman Alsagoff,

practies but will also tend to increase tunity of fulfilling its promise in (our old friend Shun from Canton) Scarlet Mysteries are meeting with great According to a Shanghai paper the the antipathy of the better class. We wenner which will be most beneficial toho attended a brilliant reception which was success in their visit to Tientsin and may remark at once that we have con- the Colony in general. As far as relief sistently objected to the administration to those who sustained lossce during the of the sanitary laws in ton drastic a typhoon of September 18 is concerned manner and we have also pointed out the necessity for the Government grant that the prosperity of the Colony has has disappeared. But as the Govern- | been injuriously affected by the Inck of ment has pledged itself beyond with alinary common-sense which has fre-drawal to vote the grant, obviously the quently been exhibited by those who wiseat thing it can do is to devote it to have been entrusted with carrying out prevention for the futuro now that cur Yellore Dragon, for April, is out, and as Singapom yesterday, is one of the best The Queen's College Magazine, The on whose life an attempt was made at

the laws relating to health and for the past has been effected otherwise.usual is of inforest to those connected with known abs in the Southern port. He Banitation. We have insisted that the The Committee has given the Govern the College. Reports of masters are included was acording to adianced proofs of Who's Tho in the Fur Bust-burn on authorities have been so regardful of the ment an opportunity of making of a

na well as correspondence, and paragraphs relating to the school One paris of August 18,1860, and, after being educated letter of the law that they have quite work of necessity an act of grace and the interest just now-We feel sure that the firm of Alssgoff and Coupany as part- in Arabi, went to Singapore and joined overlooked its spirit. Having made it fulllment of a promise. Perhaps the art hot merely expressing our own loner. He is also one of the proprietors of clear that it is impossible for us to be reason that His Excellency abstained but voicing the general sentiment of all the Straits Cycle and Motor Company, and accused of undue leaning towards the from saying anything directly in anewer engaged in education in the colony when a member of the visiting committee to the

wo say that it was with feep regret, almist Reformatory and Chuarantino Station. sanitary authorities we are able to deal to the suggestion from a laudable desiro

amounting to grief, that we tend in the frankly with Mr Lau Chu-pak's arnat to commit his successor in any local newspapers of the approaching depar

THE HONGKONG WEEKLY. guments. It will be seen at a glance way. But the Colony may st confidenture of His Excellency the Governor, Sir that the position he takes up is illogical that the Government is not going to sphere of activity Since Sir George Matthew Nathan, K.C.M.G., for another Highly Recommended. Damping the dent is according to lum repudiato a promise which stands the more marked interest in austion, vtalen

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an inhuman practice contrary to the official records of the Colony and Colonial such marked interest in education, ovinced by the inauguation of many beneficial custom and tradition of Clino. Chemal Office. The honour of the Crown will changes,

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The wild we live in! All the canal

4. §. WATSON & CO, ing the dead, lie ays, is directly against wonro assured, he angle in the castody

the usage and custom of the Chinese of Sir Frederick Lugard as it has always one need now, suffer the agonizing LIMITED,

The position then is that the Chinese been in that of Bir Matthew Nailantiam, as quick rollef may be had by apply may themselves isregard their own Before the year closes we may expect to ing Chamberlain's Fain Balm. Thin fact traditions and customs and endanger seo the work of constructing another thousands of cases. This lialment reliavo date spating notes and social (gossip has been clearly demonstrated in many features of the paper will be found, up-to- the whole community, but if the author typhoon sheller the road towards tos, in the interests of public health completion. The best thanks of the disregard the same ages and customs community are due to the Committee, the

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