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BIRTH,

WRENGUTIC-STRIKE.—On Jaapary., to Mr and Mrs K, WENMOUTH-STRIKE, at Lay Rund, Yangtazepoo, n Daughter.

DEATH.

Rond, Shanghai, Roza England.

MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW, Meeting.

THE CHINA MAIL.

OUR LINE.

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 15, 1908.

tunnel is being built on the Italian principle, BY

top first, and now that the axtaration is through the hill progress is likely to be

conclusion that there has been an entire change in the mental outlook of the American people. Not unnaturally our The First Step to Canton, rapid... contemporary, which is strictly Cobdenite

TELEGRAPH.

TEST CRICKET.

Brilliant Batting.

Two Centuries Scored.

All along the route of the first section ENGLAND. On January 10, at 27 Bood in its views, thinks that the govern Territory le

The question of whether the New industry is the order of the day. The ever going to pay the contractors have their forces well in mental policies of the past forty or fifty Government of Hongkong as an investment hand and at the present rate of pro years have been reaponsible for trans-le one that has puzzled thoughtful residents gross are likely to be finished long forming the bold self-reliance of the past it is unprofitable, no matter how pietu- the work is not hurried or scamped by any for long time.. At the present moment before the big tunnel is completed. But

into limp dependence. The tendency resque it might appear upon the map of means. It is substantial to degree. has been gradually growing to turn to South China as stings of red against the Carsful and constant European supervision yellow. The hope is, however, that the of the workmen, who are all Chinose, is the Government for assistance. "We railway that is now being pushed through evident at every point and when-wo cou have," remarke the "Nation," "by our the red hille at our immediato front will sider the dificulty of instilling now ideas vicious system of protection, spread resources that the country possesses. The mind we must congratulate those responsi-concluding stages of to-day's spread the population and open up any and western mothods into the Oriental

wide the nation that Americans pro not platitude oft expressed is that with the ble and wish their efforts deserved succens:

5 p.m.-Meeting of Cauton Medies! Mis sionary Soolety, at Club Theatre, Sha meen, Canton,

Miscellaneous,

Goods per Bentleuch undelivered after

this date subject to rent. Goods per Korea' undelivered after this

date subject to rent.

General Memoranda, FRIDAY, January 17:--

2.30 p.m.-Auction of Household Furni- turo, at No. 10, Knutsford Terrace, Kowloon.

Register of Shares of The Hongkong Land Jnvestment & Agency Co.,Ld, close from this date to 28th inst., in- cleaive.

SATURDAY, January 18-

mert' Salsa Room.

date subject to rent. MONDAY, January 20:~~

Register of Shares of The West Point Building Co., Id., close from this date to 28th January, inclusive. Goods per Wray Cutie undelivered aftor

this date sabject to rant. TUESDAY, JAUNTY 21

Gooda per Flintshire undelivered after

this data subject to rent. WEDNESDAY, January 22:-

Goode per America Maru undelivered

after this date subject to rent.

after this data subject to rent,

able to stand on their own feet; that they must have artificial advantages, and law-made handicaps, or they will perish in the struggle of brains." There is good deal in this argument. Protection undoubtedly induces a feeling of reliance

introduction of railways any country mnat necessarily flourish, that a stream of com- morce is opened up where commerce was unknown before.

We have always lioped that such would

SUICIDE IN GAOL.

An inquest na ligte this afternoon on

the body of Ho Yue, wlin has been in gol awaiting the result of the appeal for ex- tradition by the Chinese Government.

be the case in our possession across the water, and the hope has been more or less backsid np by the knowledge that Chinese are likely to develop the agricultüm) | The prisoner made a rope from blanket

(From Our Special Correspondent.)

ADELAIDE, January 14.

Great enthusiasın marked the

play. Hill and Hartigan batted brilliantly and scored fairly fast.

Both succeeded in reaching the coveted century before stumps were drawn for the day,

upon the Government which does not, resources of the country once trasportation / linings and the string of his nist bed. When the score stood at 397 for

in

to this market is made easy, whilst what tied it to one of the window bars, and ever latent worth lies in the ground will hanged himself

come under the notice of financium whe

are ever ready to plant an industry where profits are a prospect.

railway, and whilst residents know that

A verdict of suicidlo was retumed.

WOES OF PENANG.

Overshadowed by Singapore.

The Penang Gazette" is dissatisfied. Here is te complaint-

seven wickets, Hill 106, Harti- gan 105, both ant out.

Brilliant Display by-Hill.'

ADELAIDE, Jan. 15, 2.30 p.m. This morning the two "cen- turions" Hill and Hartigan This fact is that the Colony of the Straits continued their innings. The Settlement, with all its direct and indirect South Australian was in excel- dependencies, has grown far too unwieldy lent form though he played with

be governed by our official, however

to

10.30 a.ra-Auction of Ladies' Dress and cannot, exist under the bracing Material, de. of Mr Geo. P. Lem-policy of Free Trade. The very word Goods per Persia undelivered after this protection implies belplessness on the part of those who have to be protected. The alert and self-reliant require no New Territory was taken over by the Whilst it must not be forgotten that the

protection from others; they can look out British Government solely for its military for themselves. Consequently we canal in regard to Hongkong it may yet have a commercial and industrial im quite follow our New York contemporary poitance that will be suficient reward to when it urges that long indulgence the Colony of Hongkong for the money lavished upon its upkeep in the time when the policy of leaning upon the Govern revenuo returns were not of any substantial ment has made the idea of standing value. The greatest factor towards this well-intentioned, and its financial afairs caution. He lost his partner Goods per Prinz Heinrich undelivered alone terrifying to the American. That desirable consummation is undoubtedly the have became too complicated to be com when Hartigan had added 11 to outcome must logically follow upon something in being done on the Kowlam potently managed by any but a properly his over-night score, but with cessation of trust in individual initiative side in the way of laying down a line, trained and experienced expert, Every

the assistance of Carter the effort and courage. The shipping of

fow have any conception of the work day the disadvanta es and drawbacks ́ of that this actually been completed during the present system become more obvious. score was carried to 487; at 11.30 a.m.-Meeting of The West Point Great Britain bas hecmas what it is in the past six months. Coukl a bird's oye Living always in

Building Co., Ltd., nt Co.'s Office.

a Singapuro at which figure it stood at the Non-Meeting of The Hongkong Land spite of the competition of subsidized view of the territory be taken a remarkablemosphere and closely surrounded by Investment and Agency Co., Lad., trivals. By pleading that their mercantile change would be observable in nature's Singaporean cutourage-we had almost surince. Through the gunt red hills me written camarilia-the Governer is kept ni- marine can never be worthy of the wealth are fighting their way with pick and shovel together out of touch with public feeling in and commercial greatness

of their with crow bar and dynamite. From Father country the Americane fire practically confessing that they are not "the men The American their fathers were. mariners who wreated the palm is connection with the China tea trade

TUESDAY, January 28 :--

11.15 a.m.- Meeting of The Hongkong Land Reclamation Co., Ldry at Colle Offices.

Co.'s Offices.

NOTICE.

д

Lettera relating to Imaineve' shedd be address ed to THE MANAGER,

Communications relating to news should be addressed to THE EDITOR

Correspondents "must forward their name and addresses with any communications uti-

a

luncheon interval.

Hill's score was then 143 and Carter's 24, eight wickets for 487.

The scores are

AUSTRALIÄ.

Neptune the artificer and the coolie and Penang, and there exists at the same time the four-man shovel and the little train are no local body which can make our claiming something for the convenience, ambitions and aspirations ⚫udiciently the comfort and the use of future peoples. articulate to force themselves upon His

The sea in Hunghom Bay is being manda Excellettoy's attention. The Chamber of to give up its own, and gradually a force! Commerce has not the necessary status or more poweriul than the bosom of dire Par-prestige, being except where purely iminl tington is forcing back the blue waters of mitters are concerned, an unrepresentative V. Trumper

First Innings

dreamed to the Editor, not for publication but from their rivals asked for no bounties the harbour to make room for better things.and effete corporation; while the Penang

or subsidies. They trusted to their own The reclamation work for the railway sts Association, upon which we fouruled euch. G. McCartney

as evidence of greci faith.

All letters for publication should written intelligence and energy and thertion and shunting yard site is proceding bright ho. es, appears to be going the way M. A. Noble...

on our wide of the paper only.

inserted,

there has been a permanent deterioration

Tapace. What six months ago was a dop

295

Second Innings.

0

9

65

34

17

20

25

143

116

24

34

487

Na anonymously signed communications that "won out" to use their own phrase, sen bed and an unoccupied tract of store of any similar institutions in Pening. W. Armstrong . have already appeared in stier papers will be We decline, however, to believe that where dirty junks were cleaned with fire But it is the aystem of administration

P. McAlister and the sapan people spread out their which is mainly at fault. It is time "inters for extre, copies of the Chess Man

belongings on wash daye, now constitutes; that a special group of Malayan, or O'Connor should be west before 17 non, on the day after in the American, character. Sooner or a scene of rare activity. Every day escs evon Far E stern, Colonics was formed

V. Ransford publication. After that over they in Inter the capital and energy which have onds of enth from away in the real hills, who would not, either of necessity or C. Hill, not out..

a couple of pafting engines dragging truck and placed under a Governor-General limited. Cash Hj ets, Credit 20 en pr

cop

won so many victories in other fields and emptying tron into the sea. Hailway inclination, spend the greater portion P. Hartigan Attrations and additions to Advertisements of industry will be applied to shipping lines have been laid, engine sheds have of his time in any particular spot. an Pages 1, 2, 3, 11 and 7, should be sent to cur Office of & Wyndham Street nat later than 11ļand then, we may expect to see our

supremacy seriously challenged.

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HONGKOXO, WEDNESDAY, JANGAny 16, 1908.

AMERICA'S MERCANTILE

MARINE.

LOCAL AND COAST NEWS.

been erected, offices have been built for In such n Federation the different unita H. Carter, not out the staff and altogether the whole of the would be governed by Lieutenant-Gov- | appart.mances necessary to carry on such emors, and then we might hope that tho

Sundries

Total, 8 for

The First Test Match.

Mr F. L. Fane captained the English tears, and astonishment was oxpressed that Humphries was omitted:

a work as the building of a line and the interests of one Settlement would not be establishment of a milway station which systematically subordinated to those of will one day be the other end of a stretch another four hundred miles away, and that of gleaming girdle linking the farthest ronsoriubio and sympathetic, consideration. The Saxonia brought 304 Chinese from cities on the hemisphere, are established would be given to schomes designed to the Straite Settlements.

or in course of preparation.

make each unitsel-supporting and ultimate- The remote importance of this lino isly to increase the trails, the prosperity We have received from the Pacific Mall what appeals when the imagination is allow and the revenues of British Malaya as a Steamship Company several useful and oed a little freedom, and the vast possi- whole. Reorganisation and general de- artistio delluloid pocket calendars for 1908.bilities stir the being with a thrill upon pontralisation on sono such lines as those contemplation of the temerity and powers indicated will have to be introduced before The Chinese Ministry of Posts, and of man when pitted against nature. How long or in very few years a review of the

Gunu, the Notts professional, got his... situation in the Straits will not be a chro century in 2 hours 2 minutes. His strokes. Communications has wired to H. B. Sirover philosophy. has to be left out of the i nicle of past events, but merely an epitaph were so well timed, and had so migh Chêntang Linng Cheng, Director-General question for the moment. What we have in which the word "Ichabod" will figure power behind them that whon they did

of the Canton-Hankow Railway, asking

to do is to congratulate those who are

hin to make a full report upon the pro-responsible for the rapidity with which tho gress of the line.

were lost.

first section of the Kowloon-Crunton Rail- way are doing their part. From Hunghom

very prominently.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

The Englishmen scored freely off Cotter, " but six overs from Armstrong yielded only 3 runs.

not go straight to the fieldsman they were certain fours. The hundred included soventeen 4's. His favourite struke was a drive. Twice in succession "haTM made baď Mr E. A Hewett returned to, the strokes through the alipa. The first was Colony to-day front Singapore,

just a yard short of Hill's 'effort for the catch, the ball going to the fence. The next dropped midway between Hill and the bateman...

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hullaka and tunnels made. This means Lieutenant-Colonel A. Hickman Morgan, the removal of some million, and a fialf D.S.O., and Bra Hickman Mergan hare cubic yards of earth, the employment laft 14, Grosvenor-place for a tour in therafor, of hundreds of coolios, with Capłon, the Malay States, China, and locomotives, trucks, and so on.

Japan.

Reports from Nam Yang, says the Kares Daily News" state that the Japanese troops are commandering any. thing they like from the markets. No At, Hunghom, the reclamation of about Amongst ruout wills we note that Mr payment is made and if any protests are five acres of sea bed has to be made and to Sampson Rostron, Hare-court, Temple, made by the people, the reply is a blow that end the sea wall foundation has been

Brand was in forty four minutes for 30 then smicked the ball on to his fligh and it cannoned into the wicket.

Rhodes was easily run out in trying for a second run.

During Cotter's bowling he had only three men in front of the wicket-mid-c mid-off, and himself t

-OIL FUEL FOR THE NAVY,

Preparations for Supply,

HAIR BRUSHES IN LEA-Way is it that the sight of an American It is reported from Kanazawa that at Bay to the big tunnel through the main flag over the story of a merchant vessel eleven o'clock on Wednesday morning, range work has been done during the let has become almost a curiosity? There Jan., a floating mine which was drifting six months that has transformed the face was a time when her mercantile marine about 80ft. off Najimi villago, Fugeshi dis of things. Great lille of rotting granite!

Dr G. W. McKean, a dental surgeon trict, Noto Province, struck rook and have been tackled by comparatively puny from Pennsylvania, arrived in the Colony was one of America's proudest hoists.exploded. Flying fragments of rack torn coolies and the mountains have suffered. last week by the 9.8. Kures and has Between 1830 and 1860 the American off by the explosion out telegraph wires Three miles, of line have to ultimately be joined the office of Dr Newell Wilson. ships claimed, and made good the claim,some distance away. Fortunately to lives constructed and cuttings and bridges, to be surperior to the vessels of any other nation.. A contemporary writer, De Tocqueville, essuyed to explain the reason of this. American ships, he said, cost almost us anuck to build tboso built in Europe. The American silor was paid more than the European but from the butt of a rifle or a vigorous in dang,, nullahs and sowers diverted and FC., and Beddington, Surrey, a director of the South Metropolitan Gas Company, the American ships could take cargo at We trust this is not a sample of the new this earth down to the son toumporary mited, Rio de Janei Flour Mills and troduction to the toe. of an army, boot,much of the earth dumped.To Hongkong, and China Gas Company, Li- railway in mile and a half long has cheaper rute. The explanation, ac policy of conciliation. PATENT RAZOR STROPS cording to De Tocqueville was that the

boen lid to got at the high portion Grenaries, Lisited, and other Companies,

Another stage is to be recorded in the According to a Tokyo message, the of the chief cutting, which is to eventually

progress of oil fuel in the Navy, The Americans possessed moral and intellec-authorities have decided, in view of the be about 10 feet deep. Now the milway tual qualities superior to those of their great development of railway business in tapping the upper level, by nad The Duke and Duchess of Counaught Admiralty have just isened instructions for bye it will come down to the permanent are to lenvo England for Malta on New the maintenance of large supplies of liquid rivals. Admitting that this was the this country, to establish a large factory at lorel.. This tenupciary line. deas not Year's Day (says "The World) and thoy fuel at various ports around the const for

Kobe for the construction of railway en reason of the superiority of the American ginas, the desire of the authorities being to traverse the route of the permanent fine.are to be accompanied by a large suite, in the use of torpedo flotillas. At Huli a 500- shipping in the early part of last century eventually discontinuo the import of It skirts round it; dodges down the line cluding Lord Lanesborough, who goes out ton hargo is to bo kopt replenished with stationed at Grimsby, Granton, Invergor- cuginos from abroad, reports the "Kobe of least resistence as it were, and shows as the Duke's military Secretary. The petroleum, and similar vessels will be we are forced to a conclusion which can Heroid. It is said that Ms. Iwasaki, explong the zile tango. Then it dips into Duke and Duchess are to reside at the don, Barrow, Birkenhead, and Belfast. scarcely be palatable to the patriotie Chief of the Traffic Bureau of the Imperial whore the work is being done, crossing the Palaco at Valetta, and they will be in the Tanks to hold 1000 tons are to be crocted Shields a contract for regular supply will American of today. If the superiority Railway Office, will be appointed Director old water waka valley on timber bridges. Mediterranean for several months. Lord Haulbowline dockyard. At South

Hero coolies are operating without stop and Lady Lauesborough, as well as the

be entered into, unloes the

the price proves (individually, however, they are not Duke of Connaught's aides-do-camp,, will prohibitive, when a 500-tor, bargo will bo

Place of the M this Teno..

of demonstrating perpetual motion in the also have apartments in the Paince. ALL the public bars will serve you with human) and they are at the res end

Those burgos are to be fitted will pumps sud motors. They are now baing specially The first hear evor browed in South built, and should be in position by the end working on the face of the big hill that Imperial Draught Beer. Ask for it.

of March. They re to be kept roplenish- power house. On the other side of the has to be removed just behind the electrio China is Imperial Beer. Try it,

ed by the Admiralty oil steamers Pot THE BEST IS ALWAYS CHEAPEST retoum and Klink. The Admiralty aro range other gange pro digging their quota TN boying "medicine, a fow pence from also preparing a list of mercantile the

each bottle is no inducement to the available for marrying suplies

MANICURE SETS

SCISSORS IN CASES

SHAVING MIRRORS

HAND MIRRORS

&C.,

in the past was due to the possession of moral and intellectual qualities not pos sessed by the European then the inferiority of the present must be attri butable to the loss of these qualities

of the Factory.

HOW DIPHTHERIA IS CONTRACTED NE often hear those cold which

child caught a severe

RBACKING THE GOSPEL A. S. WATSON & CO. This suggests national decadence, and developed into diphtheria, whom the truth and actually a continuous three miles of

JAPANS AND TIBET,

LIMITED,

By Prof. E. H. PARESE, ALEXANDRA On sale at the 1CHINA Man Off Queen's Rosa Centrul

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that is a sufficiently grave suggestion to was that the cold had simply left the little work is being proceeded with Some of the buyer. He wants that which is most effeconst

sne particularly susceptible to the wander bridges are almost completed; culverts and dive, as it is cheapest in the end. This is justify some boart-searching on the parting diphtheria gera. When Chamberlain' water channels buvo been made, and why Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is so

Cough Remedy, is given it quickly curea

PLYMOUTH, Dec. 3.

popular here. It le guaranteed to do all During this Christmas morning servico of our American cousins, The Now the sold and frysens, the danger of diph the short tunnel in the first section that is claimed for is and its cures of in Manchester Cathedral an unemployed BUILDINGS, York "Nation" has been poudering thora of Bur asla by all odom'sty and átora: during the week in January and the brick factory. For sale by all chemists; and address the cabrogation. Liu wis ejected or any other germ dissase being con has been pierced. Daylight was let in coughs, colds and croup are always satis loader entered the pulpit and attempted to

... 6c Dents, *

Hongkong, November 30, 1917.

over the positica and has come to the hoopers.

work in the tunnel is well in hand. This storakeeyarn.

after a violent atrtiggio.