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General Memoranda. THURSDAY, November 28:-

THE CHINA MAIL.

„THE TOURANE'S VOVÁGE.–

At 2 .. this incqning the French mail

steunes Tourane (Capt. Lancelin) arrived in port from Marseilles. She left Mar- soilles on Oct. 37 at noon and through the Mediteranean Sea Eno weather whe ex- perienced. Passing through the Canal a blade of the port propeller was damaged. In the Indian Ocean the steamer encoun- tered story weather, and from Singapore to Saigon, and later to Hongkong a strang North East monsoon was experience The steamer, married a general cargo sad 388 pissongera iu all classes."

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1907.

CHINA'S TREND.

alk

ANOTHER CHINESE-PROTEST,

This Time Macao, It is a wise saying of Ruskin things throughout the world the men who

Another instance of the progedes or look for the crooked will see the crooked, and the men whe look for the straight will otherwise of civilisation in New Chion is see the straight." Liko most of the wisest manifested in the following: On the 24th utterances that form the heritags of "the instant a rather exciting meeting of the heirs of all the sages the dictum is deeply guntry and educated class of the Heung and eternally true. Ite applications to Shon District was held at the Ming Lun phenomena observable everywhere in the Tong to discuss what is called an encroach- movements of the now time in China armont upon Chineso territory by the varied and instructive. There is a sinister

gambitious in India. Instead of wishin to check that growth he hoped that, with proper guidance, the Indinn people would earn a greater shore in the goverment of their country. The Act would only be enforced in those parts of the country where the conditions were unsafe. Reading the objections of the Indian members side by side with the statement of the Viceroy it has to be admitted that His Excellency not only

view point from which nothing can be dis. Portuguese authorities of Mocan, It har cerned except tho unsatisfactory, the dis-been stated for some time that the Maca justified the legislation but spoke in a

couraging, and the "crooked." Pessimistic Government fins a strong destro to anner manner which should satisfy the in-

prophets have no outlook; their horison is certain Chinese territory known as Wanchai telligent Indians that he is in full

narrowed, and they everywhere ses not in the neighbourhood of Macno, and it On Saturday night at the Theatre Royal things as they roolly are, but the distortions, was not until quite recently that the syiapathy with their natural political Hongkong residents will have the opportu- the shades and oven the shadows of shades. natives of Heungshan (which is in close aspirations. The evidence quoted by nity of witnessing a cinematograph The causes are subjective, the effects proximity to Macao) have manifested what thoy call a spirit of patriotism and have the Viceroy is sufficient to convince any reproduction of the great Passion Play despondency and despair.

of Oberammergau, showing the life of It is one of the most suggestivo facta takon upon themselves the duty to look Goods per Prins Regent Luitpold unde- unprejudiced person that the existing Chrise. The exhibition will be given by that men are found to write and speak as after the integrity of their native home. laws had failed to put a stop to a the Cinematograph Pathe which displayed China had not even begun a new On the day stated Wa Sing-laut was departure in her hitherto stagnant national appointed president and Chan Chung- 10 s.m.-Aaction of Naval & Victualling | campaign of sedition which might cause ms at the Cricket Ground on the nightlife. To such critics the naval and military kwai, vice-president of the miceting arulāj,

terrible bloodshed. The Act is only of the Fete. The film is 6000 feet long movement in the Far East during the last the resolutions adopted were as follow

and the pictures are magnificent. In addi-two decades have no significance, the aimed at those who cherish the hope of tion to this special feature there will be present educational and social movements possession of Wanchai, which is Chinese The Portuguese having forcibly taken driving the British out of the country.numerous other films, humorous, tragic, have no value; and in the far-reaching territory, what steps should be taken to

moral, political and national movements oppose them?

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The Chinx Mail.

HONGKONG, TOERDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1907.

THE INDIAN SEDITION ACT.

THE PASSION PLAY,

And, like martial law, it only comes into and pathetic, all being splendidly produced. operation after proclamation. The law-The booking is open at Montric and Co.'s. abiding people of India have nothing to fear. It is only those who defy the law who are likely to suffer and it is in the best interests of the Indian people that they should.

i

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FROM AMERICA TO CHINA,

interview with Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, in which he said he could not understand the opposition of the Canadian people to

drawn out.

they fail to see the genesis of a new ems, in Whatever might be the steps decided the history of our relations with the empire upon, the co-operation of the following of Chinu

districts should be sccured:-Waichow,, To the resident or visitor who has the Sun On, and Kwaisin. seeing eye and the hearing ear, there lies It was proposed that a joint memorial opon a world of evidence that China is ambodying the saniter shoull be sent to (From our Correspondent.)

advancing with quite unmistakable celerity the Viceroy of Contex and similar tele- Loxes, October 31. towards the goal which comes niore clearly grams to be sent to the Grand Council, Wo have the wireless Wives" geross into view with each step in the paths of the Waiwupu, donouncing the enrich the Atlantic at last. Not that it is work progress, Canton, probably one of the ment. Tong Shao Yi, Governor of Mouk- It has been so often atated that ing as fruely as the London papers are largest distributing centres in the world, den, and Thotai Ling of Tientsin (wi Crosby Hall has been finally con telling their readers, but, with the limita and of the first importance in respect of are natives of Houng Shun) were to be in demned to demolition that Reuter's tins of such a new service, we can say facilities for the distribution of food Nut formed of the situation and their support

that this week we have passed many plies is now deeply concerned with the requested. tologram to the affect that the Char-messages satisfactorily across the wide questions of market buildings which it The above were agreed upon, and wires- tored Bunk declines to suspend the ocean and are given a patent of the is desired to erect after the model of have been despatched accordingly, with Reres our Legislative Council be pulling down of the historic structure grant things that are still to come. I those most approved in the cities of what result we are yet unable to record. myself have in two messages through. the west, specimens of which in Hong-We also understand that the Heung Shan stowed upon this Colony a Sedition Billie rather perplexing. As long ago as was from Canada, giving the gist of an kong havo Leon for the past twenty-five Community of Hongkong tako a very keen It was received with tolerance as some- October 5, Mr T. P. O'Connor in

years among those "object lessons" which interest in the matter and telegrams of thing hardly necessary but barmless. On «P. T. O." wrote: "and so Crosby

Governor Des Voux afirmed with truth protest have been sent to influential friends would in time more China to initation at Peking. It is further stated that November 1 at Sirala the Viceroy's Legis Hall, which rose from the ruins of

and even to healthy emulation.

suggestion of self-government in the lative. Council bad a measure dealing Roman edifices Eve centuries ago is no the influx of Japanese, for he considered The market question not alone at vicinity of the encroachment has been with a similar subject before it, but one more." This is a good example off the Japanese were often the equal of white Canton but in every great city of the brought before the Chineso Government -

mon as citizens and workmen. In addition empire is felt to be one of outstanding and regulations relating to same liave been of a much more drastic character. This intelligent anticipation of events. he repeated the promise that the Canadian importance, demanding the attention of measure was to make better provision However it seems as though at last Pacific will soon produce a faster service of all progressives nl not unworthy of the for the prevention of meetings likely to the old Hall is doomed, in spite of the trains and steuners connecting Great consideration of the most intelligently

Britain and the Pacific.

patriotic minde. From time immemorial THE SOUTH CHINA TRADE, promote sedition or cause disturbance of fact that King Edward himself ex-

The other was from New York, sum the practice of holding markets practically public tranquillity. The three Indian pressed a wish that it should be pre-marising the address of Dr Ayers of the as they are held to-day has been a marked An Australian paper arriving by the Inst webers of the Council strongly op served. Public spirit in Great Britain Now York Polyclinic to the New York feature in the life of the people of Chirus mail bus this: A report received from the Delical Society, in which he declared that The institution grows out of the needs of Queensland ageut in the East sinted that the posed the passage of the bill. The would appear to be as lethargic as it musquitous were responsible for 250,000 mankind in settled conditions. Villages, annual meeting of Barrettos and Company, reasons given for this opposition is often said to be in Hongkong. The deaths every year, hird were the direct haulers and staller towns depend on the held in Hongkong recently, showed that the were that important legislation of a Chartered Bank cannot be blamed for cause of fire discuses--malaria, beri-beti, larger centres for the transactions of year's business totallod 7,120,000 dollars, | dengue, filariasis, and yellow fever. haying and solling, to the large to the of which 9,200,000 dollars came from controversial character

Thore is the utmost secrecy on the part agriculturalists bring their produce, the of the Marconi people, however, as to the fisher folk the spoils of the rivers, the brought forward at the Simla session of

tinto it takes to get the messages through, toiling industrialists the results of their the Council, that no necessity existed.

nad I know of any complaints of delay, handicraft, the work of demolition for monthelasting days; but, after all, theffect is that for the bill, that it would intensify and while an effort was made to collect deepen the sense of injustice and injury enough money to save it from its im and the silent resentiment with which pending fate. The apathy shown in the Judian people had been watching this matter by the wealthy people of the course of recent events and finally London reflects little credit upon that it placed in the lands of the police them. dangerous powers without suficient cafe-guards against their misuse. After the ill had been passed His Excellency WHISKY the Viceroy made an effective reply to the arguments put forward by the

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LOCAL AND COAST NEWS.

The gon practice advertised to take place to-morrow has been cancelled.

1

Indian representatives. The Gorern-

Mr Melbourne Innun, the billiard expert, plays, we ruderstand, at the ment, he said, had brought the reasure Hongkong Club on Thursday at 5 p.. before the Simla session because there and 9 p.m. was an urgent necessity for increased

The Kumino Maru (Capt. Mathieson powers to cope with a serious position. ived this morning from Yokohama on The firat luty of the Government was her way to Australia. She has a number of the maintenance of law and order and passengers going south, and brought to porta enrgo of uniors, potatoes and sen the protection of the people ontrusted

products. to its chargo. He denied emphatically that the Government had been frighten-

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Thos.. Zafro (Capt. Á. Fraser) renclied the barbour this morning from Movúla,

ed by a phantom and that the Act just after experiencing a string sensoin and

| passed imputed disloyalty to the masses rough sun throughout the voyage. She

of the people of India. The Govern, carried a cargo of hemp and sugar, and ment; however, did not minimise the number of passengers. meaning of the warnings and anxieties

station trade. The chainau sail thit : the past 12 months' trade was the worst tlist merchants in South China hnd ever.

THE BARRA PAGODA.

Bouze Still A Resident.

When we reported the other days the

the trans-Atlantic comection has buen "days of holding" to meet the requirements crisis.

A system of markets adjusted as respects experienced, chiefly owing to the cotton started on a regular basis and no doubt of an extensive cmntryside is the rule The ordinary cable companies are trying to rule in other provinces. The students of the development of the system will follow. throughout Kwanting, and equally, the appear nonchalant, but as a matter of fact Mencius will recall a notable passage in there is not that real carelessness in their which the origin of monopolies is explained minds that they pretend. They are charging and in which reference is unde to an full rates for press messages for the enterprising dealer who seize on the incident which took place at the Barm. hard distance connecting New York and "conspicuous mound" for the display of Pagoda, Macao, between the managing- Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, where the his goods, thus attracting to himself an committee and the resident buze, the Marconi station is, aud in other ways are undue proportion of the trade. The pas-matter was said to have been submitted showing that they do not want to help sago is noteworthy as illustrating primitive to the proper authorities for investi the enterprise.

conditions in the commercial life of the gation, but so far as we have been There is to be built in Italy the most people. Those conditions have not chang-informed the great representative of powerful set of Marconi towers in the ed essentially during the centuries. Bhudila still maintains his firmness and world. Thence the system is

to be" Conspicuous mounds" and level spaces position as rasidont bonze. Even a bonzo extended round the world. It is on the have beon roofed over us a needed proof higher degree from: Canton was unable cards that messages may be sent before tection from weather, with probably auto make him leave the Pagoda, notwith long from Vancouver to Capetown, and oye more to the merchandise than to mer-standing the severe rebuke he gave him. Mr Murcou even promises to get through chants or customers. The fus, ao far as It is extraordinary that the authorities con from America to the Far East by next we know (save in places like Shanghai and tinue to noglect this mutter. The bou June or Jidy.

Tientsin, where foreign communities muy must be un exceptional entity or demon be said to be paramount), been to syspussessed, otherwise the authorities would tematic endeavour to further imptoronet bo is such a funk. We believe Mr A.... trading facilities by means of buildings Coutinho will not allow this to pass notie erected specially for the purpose.

ed and probably the delay may bo justified. Howwer, we await further developments.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL..

Mr and Mrs Durn arrived from Japan - on the Kunamo Maru.

Our London correspondent scutioned in a letter dated Oct. 21 that Mr. Van Buren was staying at the Ritz Hotel.

We are told that a consiguent of Decree ordering the Crown Prince to of the preceding few months.. It could four recently roached a southern port in a study in Japan, and appointing Prince Ito GENUINE AGE not afford to forget the Rawalpindi fairly lively condition. Upon recovering as his tutor in loco parenti.

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ARMY AND NAVY,

(From Our Correspondent.)·

LONDON, October 05. The official jutimation that the cruiser

The proposal in Canton as respects one market is to use for the purpose a Temple and grounds near the great South gate. The temple has hitherto been sacred to the Gods of Literature and War, and we think the proposal to convort such a building, with its appurtenances into a market The Korean Emperor has issued structure a striking and portinent jus

tration of the march of events, Cantor moves on the lines of Western King Alfred, flagship of Admiral Sir á. W. innovations, the signal, which other Moore, K.C.B., Commander-in-Chief of cities and towns will not be slow the China Squadron and the Fistory to follow, is giros, and a desired impotas Cruiser Flest, is to be re-commissioned, a progress has been given which wo will Singapore, for another two years, effectual

ly dispose of the rumour that she was to do well not to overlook.

be replaced by a battleship. The new crew, to the number of 30 officers and 800 of other tanks, will be sent out to Singa pove by the cruisors Hawke and Crescent leaving Plymouth about the end of next month.

COMBATING SMALL-POX.

Riots, the serions state of affairs in the his breaths after the first shock the open-

ing up of the four used, the consignee According to Manila papers Pollads Punjab, the arrest of Lala Lajpat Rai, wrote to the shipper announcing that the Company of Lilliputians, are doing wall and the daily story from Eastern Bengal four confined "worms, servils, and but their singing and acting are highly spoken FINE MELLOW of assault, of looting, of boycotting and torflies," bat he did not ask whether any and they are drawing big houses nightly.

oxtra charge would be made for the anto. They will be in Hongkong shortly. general lawlessness encouraged by agita-mological exhibits." FLAVOUR.

tors who, by public address and by

Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Com seditious newspapers and leaflets, lost no The mortality returns compiled weekly pay is now actively engaged compling by the Sanitary Board soum to indicate th Century Impressions of Hongkong opportunity of inflaming the worst

that the health of the colony is better this and the Treaty Ports of China, and the passions of racial feeling.

your than last: During the wook ended staff already engaged lina been increased questions at the meeting of the Sanitary loser Reginient, at Hongkong, will be

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effective is it the olti stock i

$15.00. agitators had even endeavoured to tagsper

with the magnificent Indian Army per 1000 of the entire community, against the literary department. Mr Somerset 26.5 for the corresponding week last year, Playa informs us that three members and he trusted that his colleague, and to the week endel November the are now working in Shanghai, one in. Antoy, the Commander-in-Chief, wild conter deaths totallel 139, or 21.0 per 1000 against and five in Hongkong, while at the end of to the troops his thanks for the contempt 22.61 for the corresponding period last this month somo lalf a dozen more in that the vaccine now being used is in the 10th December.

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semination. The Act was aimed, not at

CHARGES AGAINST JUDGE

WILFLEY

WASHINGTON, November 1P.. Lorin Andrews, a practising lawyer of Shanghal and ex-dtearney-Genomi, of tho Hawaiian Lalands, las filed with President

(d) Will; h future, a good supply of Fresh vaccine be got ready, every year, at the beginning of the vacciustion season?

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* (a) and (b); For, there are over 1200 ....... tubes of vaccine lymph on hand.

(0) The accize during the summer

A FOLLOWER OF INFLUENZA.

ANY parsons find themselves affected politient reform nor the freedom of persistent, cough after an. Roosevelt impeachment obarges ngainat months becanog weakened as no buffalo speech of the people of India, but at the attack of influenza. As this dough can be Judge Wifey of the United States Court calves were available. Some havo bem innugumtors of dangerous sedition. promptly cuted by the use of Chamber for Chinus. The claarges are seven in num recently obtained so the strain has been ain's Cough Remedy it should not be bor and are for malfeasance in odice, case-

fortified. Personally he welcomed the growing allowed to run on until it becomes trouble od by alleged misconduct and abusos ne

some Forests by all chemists and store Judge of the United States Court for (d): Yes, as long as I am head of the

China

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The 4tli Batinlion Middlesex Regiment. is bein placed under orders to leave Lou donderry on the 13th February, 1908, for Tidworth Camp, Salisbury Plain

The congregation paid up overy tent of my back salary to-day," amoured the village minister.

How in the world did they happen to do that?" queried his astonished wife,

Tanotubed from the pulpit er plained the good man," that unless I gob it I would not be able to take the three months vacation I had planned.