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MEMOS FOR TOMORROW,
Miscellaneous.
stimulant. Probably there will be large and increasing demand for light beer, and a local brewery should start
6 p.m.-Aquatic Sports, at V.B.C.'s operations with very fair prospects of
Enclosure, Hongkong.
succdas. There are several other indus-
General Memoranda. SATURDAY, September 91:---
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8.30 p.m.Auction of Household Forti." ture, &c., at Mr Jorge'a Residence
Villa D'Alva,' Kennedy Road. 2.30 p.m.-Auction of Japanose Curios, &o, at Mesare Hughes & Hough'e
Sales Rooms. 4 p.m.--Meeting of Hongkong Polo Club
at Club Pavilion. MONDAY, September 29:-
Goods per Nera unclaimed afior this date at Noon will be subject to rent and landing charges. TUESDAY, September 24-
Goods per Beamaly undelivered after
this date sabject to rent. Gooda per Nippen Mare andelivered siter noon this data subject toront WEDNESDAY, September 25:-
8 p.tn. Auction of Lussohold Froporty At Messrs Hughes & Hough's Sales Rooms.
5.30 p.m.-Meeting of Kowloon Cricket
Olub, at Cricket Ground,
LOUAL AND COAST NEWS.
General Booth is reported to be at work upon a scheme for founding peasant banks in India, in order to release the end-loom weaver from the clutches of the
money-londor,
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1907.
NEGOTIATE |--
It is six months ago to-day since the Commissioners appointed by His Excellency Sir Matthew Nathan, the
The difference between Jack and Jill and the Governmont is that if Jack and Jill had to employ experts“
to sit 300 hours evolving a scheme
of reconstruction or reorganisation
late Governor, to roport on the they would have to pay pretty dearly The King has caused a letter to be Administration of the Tublio Health for it, whilst the Government get the written to the Clerk of the London County and Building Ordinance banded Hie services for nothing. And getting them tries which suggest themselves, the Cound expressing the hope that mentis Excellency their report and recom-for nothing they are prone to value establishment of which should well zo-may be found to preserve Crosby Hall, the mendations. Since then Sir Matthew them on the principle of the old adage" pay those who are sufficiently enterpris-site of which has been purchased by the Nathan has gone and has bean-to that says what is casiest obtained in least
stored Bank of Inilin, Australia, and placed by Sir Frederick Lugard. The appreciated.
onus of determining how for the Valuable time and experience have Commission's recommendations shall been given the Government by men of be followed rests in a sense with Sir businesss; giron gratuitously Frederick Lugard, and the reformers behalf of the general public, and cittier
China.
Examinations in Practies! Susitary Science and for Sanitary-Inspectors will he hold by the Sanitary Institute at the erd
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ing to take the initiative. Just at the present time those who possess the requisite capital are not inclined to launch out into any new ventures, but the existing depression will soon pass of October next. Weekly test examina in the community hope that the the men who have given the time and tions will commence on Monday evening Governor will soon be able to make a braiza to planning a better order of away and then we may expect to see anoxt, September 23rd, from 7 p.m. to pronouncement on the subject. things are worth their salt or they are
not.
movement in the direction of making the Colony self-supporing. We are glad to learn from the Governor that he recognises the importance to Ilougkong
of industrial development because this
is equivalent to a guarantee that com-
10 p.ni. at the rooms of the Institute in Beaconsfield Arcado.
It is obvious that the Government do not fool disposed to "go the whole hog "; with the Commissionere, but there are A Tokyo message states that Mr Hayashi, the Japanese Minister to China, one or two extremely vital points that who is now at Tokyo, las been instructed it is hoped they will agree to. After to investigate the conditions in Manchuria a careful whittling process the points his way back to Feking. Hu will have boon narrowed down to one of Government paues since they interfore with the established order of things.
The established order of things ought sometimes to be respected; it ought most times to be scouted as a baneful
Who is to judge? The history of the past amply demonstrates the fact that the old order was inefficient to a degree, and if it so happens that the persons under whom that old order flourished are, to be the sole judges of
Gooda por Oceano not cleared at 4 p.Panies will receive consitlerate and consequently proceed to the Chinese two, and they no doubt give the whether the scheme submitted by tho
on the date eubject to rent Goods per Potteria undelivered after
this date subject to rout,
TanSDAY, September 26:--
3 p.m.-Auction of Leasehold Property, at Mesars Hughes & Hough's Sales Roovis. 6.30 pura, Meeting of Hongkong Foot
balt Club, at Hongkong Hotel." SATURDAY, September 28:-
Noon-Meeting of Douglas Steamship
Co., Id., nt Co.'s Office.
The China Mail.
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1937.
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sympathetic treatment from the Gover-Capital vin Tauruga, Vladivostock, Harbin,
and various places in Manchuria. ment. The attitude of the Government often makes all the difference between success and failure. It may assist or crush a struggling industry. The Hongkong Government is, in effet, pledged to extend the helping hand which may save from disaster and assure
success.
Bows,
Japan yesterday practically mono- polised our Far Eastern telegraphic Such chapter of necidunta is seldom encountered. First a fire at a Japanese mine, the borrer of which was heightened by the deluge from an inonutionaly opened lock-gate, then the terrible explosion on a Japanese battleship, thirdly the destruction by fire of the Tafoo Maru and lastly the
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experts appointed by the Governor of the Colony is good or bad, well Reaven help us!!
What the Government should do if
Sub-Ideutenant C. R. H. Harvey has bogey, but whatever opinions the it is in doubt about certain questions is been appointed to the King Alfred, flag Government may hold in this respect, Colonial Secretary, the Building Ax- ship of the China Squadron.
Lieutenant R. H. Fitzitoy, Royal Garrison Artillery, has been transferred from No. 14 Company, Shochuryness, to No. 83 Company, Hongkong.
Captain Kincaid-Smith, M P left Southampton by the steamship Kleist on visit to Chips, Japan, and Korea. The ben. mumber will roturn via San Frangisen in time for the opening of Parlinsaent.
Mr T. C. Taylor, M.P.. left Batley on Aug. 23 for a tour round the world. When China Mr Taylor intends to make a study of the unium question, in which he is greatly interested. He will be accom.
Peatus no portion of the Governor's Budget speech will appeal more to those who look forward to the permanent serious maltreatment of Japances depanied by Mrs and Miss Taylor. prosperity of this Colony than his tectives at Shanghai. The stars in declaration of faith in regard to their courses seem to be fighting
The marriage arranged between Staff Sur-
industrial enterprise.
"I think," said against Japan which has only just con Penry Garnons Williams, B.X.; His Majesty's ship "Alacrity." son of Prebend. His Excellency, "we should rather look, emerged from the floods which throat-ary Garnons Williams, of Abercamiais, near ened to engulf her. Koreans almost Brecon, and Teresa Mary, second daughter in this Colony, to a revenue based on annihilated" a detachraent of Japanses of the late Mr Walter Pike, of Woodland industrial enterprise and not entirely to goldiers and policemen a couple of days Heuse, Plymouth, will take place at Singa- our position as a great part." Hongkong ago and in Manchuris, we learn, the pore in November. has been, and still is, the great distri- Chinese soldiery make no secret of the buting centre of the Far Eaat. It has contempt in which they hold the been called a gigantic godown. Prob- Japanese. Then recently a fire co-ing on August 10 while cruising on the river ably its commercial supremacy will sumed the greater part of Hakodate Hasol in a motor-bent, accompanied by Added to this is the shaky state of Count Inouyo, the Japanese Ambassador continue for decades, but many influ-
the finances and the unmistakeable to Germany. The line will entor a ences are at work to weaken its position, disinalination of Canadiane and Cali-Prussian regiment shortly. and, in the course of time, they must foraisns to place the Japanese on an inevitably have some effect. With the equal footing with themselves. The pes- Captain H. M. Closo, Royal Garrison improvement of China ports some of the simist would say that Japan had risen Artillery, has been appointed armament merchandise which was formerly trans-about as high as she oan ever hope to officer at Hongkong. Captain Close has
been a gunnery officer for 11 years, and was:
Prince Kano, nephew of the Empusor of Japan, saved a Berlin family From drown-
shipped here will be sent direct. and that the future will witness a grad, amongst the little handful of regular troops
siege. For his services he was mentionců in despatches, and received the Queen's medal with two clasps.
for some time. Since his return from
ia arriving at their final decision on the subject of the Commission's report they must keep constantly before them these important and pregnant facts:
That the recommendatione wore
to haud the debatable points over to the
thority and the Attorney General and let them fog them out in-consultation.
with the Commissioners.
Compromise is the casence of sucUCES
asked for by the Governor of the nowadays, and to save time and gais effectiveness the shortest out to the goal Colony.
aimed at should be taken: Negotiale!" - That the mon of whom they wore
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requested were adjudged to be the men most capable of giving them. We know two things: We know the That the men who have given them Government officials want to do the best are honourable members of the they can for the Colony according to community, actuated by motives their lights; wo know the Comunissioners of the highest type.
want to do even better than the officiala. They are both on divergent roads en-
That the recommendations are not
NEGOTIATE.
the products of an after-dinner deavouring to get to the same place. consultation, but the fruits of Why not go arm in arm and head to- months of seduoas examination hend? Bury the hatchet of person! and izbour.
feeling and work together for the com- That the old order of procedure has monweal. Quito casy to do! The realm been found wanting, and has been of order is easily entered. The grip is proved grievously inadequate for a handshake; the password :" the purposes of a progressive and constantly expanding Colony. That a new order is absolutely
THE TYPHOON AT TAIPO. necessary for the well-being and good government of the Colony-a
News just coming to hand from the Now new order based upon a foundation Territory shows that the typhoon did tort- diametrically differing from thsiderable darange in the vicinity of Taipo, ono upon which the recent corrup Tho zailway work suffered to some extentp- tion and lax administration restad.natsheds were blown down and timber to That the valves of common sense be used for shoring in the tunnel was opened by the Coramissioners are wished away, whilst in places the embank- more in accord with the traditions ments were affected by the onrush of of British honesty, freedom and water.
THE OVERDUE SULLBERG,
A Search Instituted.
justice than the red-tape noo80 The matshal occupied by Mr Ross, of that has hitherto stranged Straight-the Land Court, was blown down and work desling on the public highway, of the officials was considerably incen- and left Honesty stark and stiffvenienced. on the Colony's doorstep. That, first and last, if the recom- mendatione of the Commissiouers are not, in letter and spirit, praved abortive or ineffective be- Early this morning the German guplat fore they are discarded, a decided Tiger left the harbour to search for trades insult will be offered to the intel- of the steamer Sullborg which has been ligence of the Commissioners, and overdue sines. last Friday evening as advice will have been obtained and inentioned by us on Wednesday. labour exacted from them under false pretences.
ual dipping downward. There is much which defended Kimborley during the also, the comercial development of
to support this view. While friendly Japan proceeds as rapidly as some good
agreements have been made by the judges anticipate it will, this will tend rulers of western nations with Japun to decrease the shipping from the old there is no genuine feeling of goodwill Me Chamberlain has, veturned to High- world. On the other hand it must be between the people of the countries bury from London, says a London paper. recollected that two circumstances are with whom she is on terms of diplo. of August 16, and is likely to remain there in Hongkong's favour. The one is thematic amity. Whether there can over Valescure his health has contiuned to building of the Kowloon-Cantna Rail- be real assimilation between the East improve. The progress has not been rapid, WHISKY, way and the Canton-Hankow line. and West is a matter too vast to be but it has been continuously in the right discussed now. The people who live direction. His oyesight has very much improved, and he is able to morr abont on the Pacific Slope of North America with more freedom than when he first juniense amount of new territory evidently believe that there cannot be came to Highbury. When the weather to foreign trade and the demand and this view is endorsed by the is fine he spends most of his time walking
Is supplied through Hong-majority of the residents of Australia, and driving in the grounds at Highbury. a thoroughly honest way, but there is kong. The other circumstance that However Japad will no doubt be able
WHISKY
OF
These railways will open up an
will
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The Sullberg left Hoihow in charge- of Captain Lupi on the 12th inst, aud the last seen of her was on the In the main wo believe the Govern afternoon of the 13th when she was. went will go about the work of settin
the Sanitary Board house in order in
of "change."
observed by the Captain and officers
of the Ousang passing the Lidrone Islands
It will be remembered that the Onsing, always the danger that essentiale will be believing a typhoon to be approaching, took THE AMOY STORE. Pochon, BROCKETT A PURE MALT tends to discount undue pessimism is to grapple with these difficulties in a the Baptist Missionary Society, and Itev. that the official mind invarinbly has pass and keep on her voyage towards
Rev. C. E. Wilson, B.A., secretary of overlooked owing to the innate dread
shelter early behind one of the Ladrone grond, md whilst there saw the Bullborg the probability that the future policy of more or less satisfactory way but it . Y. Fullerton, of Laiustor, have, says
Hongkong. At the time there was a big the rulers of China will be to encourage induoca sympathy when, on top of her the "L. and O. Express" of Aug. 16, just
A groove is a good thing to get into swell on at the full force of the typhoon foreign trade instead of putting in its political worries, como all these minor left England for a tour through China and
but distressing accidente.
Japen on behalf of the society. They are after & strenuous journey over stoney had not then made itself felt. When the way as many obstacles as possible. Bat,
to reach Shanghai at the end of the month roadways, but a groove is a bad thing Sullberg got out of sight it was after b 'olock in the afternoon and the storm nevertheless, as Sir Frederick Lugard
Arrival in China, it is intended that they to romain in any longer than the centre passed the Ousing about 9 o'clock The question whether a sailor who should spend some time in inspecting the minimum of time necessary to rest the at night. saya, our aim should be to establish had beon in a warehip or the Chins mission stations at Shensi, Shansi and Shan-sore and stricken font.
Whother the Sullberg anchored behind HOLA, BULMA, GIAN, TE MALA GENUINE AGE ourselves as an industrial centre instead station for two youn had ceased to roside tung. During Mr Wilson'snisonco his place
Grooves and red-tape have been the one of the string of islands north-cast of ¦ of being dependent upon oversee trade, in England during that titute was raised at at the Mission House will be occupied by Mr destroying agents of originality in the the Ladrones or whether she met disaster
the Westminster Palice Court on Aug. 10. Daynes, the late secretary, Mr Fullofon The geographical advantages which wo Mr Boyman, a solicitor, said there was a has been granted leave of absence by his official mind in more Colonies than whilst trying to reach Hongkong has yet to be proved. It is to be hoped that the possess have been already noted by some decision that a child been on one of His Church at Melbourne Hall, Leicester.
Hongkong, and, to use a phrase
search of the Tiger is rewarded with success popular with Cousin Jonathan, it is and that the stender will be found keen business man and the production Majesty's ships was born in the parish of Stepney. The magistrato adjourned. the
MANCHURIAN RAILWAY. "up to us" to fill up the grooves, with her officers and crew aboard. If she of cement and flour, amongst other in order that the point might be fully
bura the rod tape, and honestly face is not found it can be taken for granted things, has breu successfully initiated.
Borrowing By China.
the problems before us--from the that she has founded and all bands hare
perished. Great expectations have been built
business point of view. The Russian newspaper "Retch" was
Tito Paking Government uslimales tho upon the mining industry in the New confiscated on July 18th for publishing nu
What would the great merchants, article by M. Klimkoff, the well-knowar war expenditure on the codslanction of the mo Territory and the best available opinion correspondent. M. Klimakon says that pose railway to the north of the Lino on Jack and Jill, do if they found is that they are fully warranted. An Obius is awakoning, and by organising her the Hsinmingtung-Mukden rend, to be eight their organisation awry, if they $15.00, abundance of cheap and good cal will army and feel is preparing for rar, she is, hundred thousand yes. The Chinese Gov-discovered their servants guilty of ton, improving bor ways and communica-ernment intends to completo the work by abusing the hong's name, and if they shortly be available from Borneo, and ong, and Japanese offioom are swarming raising a loan of four hundred thousand yen ascertained that effectiveness was being altogether there seems every reason to throughout Manchuris. The article further from the South Manchurian Railway Com-wilfully secrificed by following the Tom
and Chinese are extremely hostile.
Mulaon Railway Office rill shortly love was in the book 2" Poking for Port Arthur whore he intends to condnet negotiations with the "Japaneso railway authorities as to the proposed lovar
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Tokyo, September 13 While engaged in investigating marino products the training ship. Kaiyomart,
hope that the iron trade, the back says that the relations between the Russiansywny. It is said that the president of the Sawyer polier of doing only that which with twenty students and sixteen others
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manufacture and the preparation of tobacco for retail trade might be ex- tended, and an attempt made to win rom the Japanese some portion of the immense husiness they do in beer There is a strong probability that when
RHEUMATIC PAINS RELIEVED,
on board, drifted southwards of Korea and What would they do?
was wrecked by the high" wayes. Two Being alert business men they would serpses have been found; the fate of the
others is not known. clean out the servants' quarters, they would burn the rules in the book"
The warship Kasagi in proceding to the serne of the disaster.
Tros steamers have gone ashore at
Hokkaido in the stores N.C. Daily
Nowo.
"Sory," the famous female white elephant of the Jardin des Pinutes, and one of the last aucvivors of the King of Siam's collection is dead. She was brought from Indo-China by M. Doumer
the features of the Indo-Chiziose section.
TO one need now suffer the agonizing that allowed such deplorable chaos to CHAMBERLAIN'S COUGH REMEDY dem, as quick reof may be had by experts to provide a new scheme, they pains of sciatic and souto licums become possible, and, if they employed ALIS is a medicine of great worth and applying Chamberlin's Pain Balm. This would adopt the advice of the experts. Prinic Oon, Jender of the Bagobo tribe THIS IS
merit. Try it when you have a fact has been clearly demonstrated in many cough or cold and you are cortal to be thousands of cases. This liniment relioves. If they did not adopt that advice what in the Philippine Islands, hue had a baby pleased with the quick relief watch it the pain and unkes sleep and tots earthly good would have been the use girl boin to him at the Philippine reserva affords. It is pleasant to take and duble, which is alone worth-ranny, timoa ita always be depended upitu. For sale by cost. Sold by all chemists and store of paying fees of a high rate for export on the Jamstown. Ezhibition. She all chemists and storekeepers.
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services?
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