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MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW.

Avation.

10.90 a.m. Auction of Ladies' Dress

mert' Sales Beom.

THE CHINA MAIL.

connection with sanitary matters has a Commission proved to be unfortunate

Material, &c., at Me Geo. P. Lam- from the public point of view. It may be remembered that a Commission was appointed in connection with the Obser- vatory, the results of the labours of which were of small value. We are not accusing the Observatory in any way

Miscellaneous. Gooda per Persia undelivered after this

date kuhjøor to rent.- Goods per Naming undelivered after 4

p.m. no this data will be landed.

General Memoranda.

MONDAY, January 20:-

Registor of Shares of The Wast Point Building Co.; Ld., close from this date to 28th January, inclusive. Goods per Wray Castle undelivered after

this date subject to rept. TUESDAY, January 21 :--

Upeats of Shires of The Hongkong Land Reclamation Co., Ed., close from this date to 28th inst., inclusive,

CHINA'S CRIMINALS.

A. Prison Iuspaction.

One often says that China is the land of ideals, and s metinus of little olso. The prions that have bron in vogue in the Middle Kingdom during the past ager have been a disgrace to suy people. Now, introduced a low system of prison trent. howover, the Govermunt has not only

built new buildings in which they are detained, but also prison infectors are suut forth from Peking whose duty it is to inspect the several prison in the Props and 20- port. So it has coms to pass that the Board of Law has sout down Mak Hongkwa who is a person of deine note and influence,

we merely affirm that a Commissionment of men civicted of erimu, and also appointed in connection with its working ought to have gone exhaustively into the whole question. This mac supports the view that Commissions are utilised in Hongkong to indefinitely hang up awkward problems. Finally we have

FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1908-

BY TELEGRAPH. BY TELEGRAPH.

TEST CRICKET.

Distressing Conditions.

(Exclusive Service, mijplied by Beuter

rie Bombay)

LONDON, January 16.

The weather conditions for the

final day's play of the third test mateh were very distressing the heat

in order to inspect the prisons of Canton being fearful-110 degrees in the He has already reached the city, and has shade.

Goods per Fixtehtre undelivered after the Coinage Commission. Here was a recoived at the yamen of the Namboi

this date subject to cent.

WEDNESDAY, January 22:---

The Troubless Trumper.

THE NAVY,

Further Increases Possible..

(Excluslee Service, supplied by Reuter,

Tombay,)

LONDON, January: 16.

Earl Gray, speaking at Alnwick,. Northumberland, stated that if the foreign naval programmgs' were carried out in their entirety further increnses in the British Navy would undoubtedly be necessary.

ĮREUTER'S SERVICE.]

matter which affected every member of magistrate. It is his duty to personally Goods per America Mars undelivered the community overy day of their lives, visit the now prison and also to inspect all

after this date subject to rent. Goods per Frias Heinrich andelivered A Commissum was appointed. There the fockups that are used for the detention.

The EydnoyDaily Telegraph" of Dec. THE BOYERTOWN DISASTER. have been rumours of a report having demned to the central rison. Wo do not stage yesterday of the progress of the lêst of prisoners before they are finally con 14 says: There was a prospect at one been submitted to the Governor and suppose that during this inspection the ritel being interfered with. One of the having been sent back to the Commis-men will be allowed to remain upon the players, Trumper, took the international

after this data subject to rent, Goods per Prinz Waldemar undelivered"

after this date anbject to rent. THURSDAY, January 28

Goode per Austria undelivered after this

date subject to rept.

date aubject to rent,

LONDON, January 15.

107 bodies have been recovered from

sion for reconsideration, but no official city wall chain together in the wold and nontuet us mi opportunity to show his the disaster at Boyertown. Gooda por Nippon undelivered after this information has been vouchsafed. The do in the past. The flcials will see to it win recently had occasion to disqualify Glth as they have often been allowed to anunyance with the controlling authorities, community has been treated as if it had that this does not appear whilst the goveTI- no concern in the matter. This again most luspoution is going u is a state of things which could only

NOTICE.

him.

The use of the fidublo was petty in itself. There is a room designed for the 10 of the players in the members"

Lettres relating to business and be addrens-exist in a Crown Colony. But it is not THE ORIGIN OF THE DRAMA. Pavilion, and one of the players put up

ed to Pur MAKAMER,

Communications relating to new should be for that reason any more creditable to

addresses to Tue Entel,

Correspondents wust forward their name

anal addresses with any communications od-

un ecidence of good juth.

All letters for publication short? he written no one side of the paper unit.

those concerned. At the next meeting

of the Legislative Council one of the

An Interesting Lecture.

THE CHINESE IN THE TRANSVAAL

LONDON, January 15.

Ten Indians and eight Chinese have-

anatice an the door infunding all who been ordered to be expelled the. Trape.!.. cared to read that the room was for the vaal for picketing. use of the players and several friends who Me W. II. Williams gavo a very unter.there with the authority of the association, were named. As the notice was not put

Trumper thereupon stated that he would His own captala, Notte, by the way. had not go into the field until it was restored. no knowledge of the posting of the notice until after it was taken dean.............

dressed to the Editor, sed for puidication banofficial members should demand some (taining lecture at the Union Church it was taken down by one of its oflicor.

information in regard to sanitary and Literary Club last evening, taking as his currency matters. The studied cor- tempt of the Government for the rights of the public has been endured long enough without protest.

Natuurously set contarnication that kaer already appeared in other popera veitt bej

↑ inserted.

Desiers for extra copine of the "fuisa Man." should be and before 12 a ta, on the day after plivation After that hour the supply is

rapy.

While it has been generally known | timant. Cash 10 ns, Carlitet, ger that in America the spoils go to the political victors probably few people are aware of the cynical method by which these spoils are distributed. We learn

our (ifine uf S, Queruk, Bond Central before Affretinemente aul Siglow regions which are not ordered for a frul periv! will be rustiqued

lecturer reviewed the story of English subject the Origin of the Drama. The literature leading up to the Elizabethan age, pointing out the influences which were silently moulding the draws of the future And he then showed the ecclesiastical origin of the regalar dman, which, he dechrud, was not taken up per as or for its literary worth, but merely as a popular means go into the field again, of religious instruction to drive homo to the illiterate pooplo the lessons of the Bible. The stage lay close to the altar of the Church, the actors were priosts and

The spectators were kept waiting for a quarter of an hour after the game should have been resumed at 2.15 p., and then Noble and Armstrong induced Trumpér to

DA the lives of the mints and the

Allevutions and additions to Åsleertisements. pa Ingra 1, 8, 8, 6 and 7, chunki be sent to our Offre at 5 Wyndles Street no later than am. Nee Advertisonania słould be sent to from the New York "Times" that the monks, and the drams were founded President has the right of nomination events of Biblical history, which gave for certain Federal offices, but that right rise to mimule and mystery plays. is subject to the advice and approval of From the churches the plays were trans- the Senate. The Senate by an unwrittenferred to the town guilds and then came the formation of eveles of plays and the law, known as the "courtesy of the

open air theatre in public places with Senate," will not confirm a nomination the natural sequel that secular subjects |

natif comntermensted.

Telegraphic Adarein; Mail, Hongkong. Telephone No. 2.

The China Mail

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THE KIANGSU RIOT.

Reinforcement Urgently Wanted.

(Chinese Mind a Permite į

PRKING, January 10.

Ergon requests have been made to

of the Senators from that State, being After giving illustrations of theso miracle tha Peking Government for re-inforce-

a member of the majority party, is op plays bringing the origical drama downmont to quell the Kinngsa vint. posed. In the case of South Dakota to 1800 number of selections were

staged from the Midsummer Night's | By order of the Board of Posts and the two Itepublican Seuators had select Dream, whare the rude mechanics of Communications, special trains are est ed different sets of nominees for the Quinces workshop decide to adopt the various offices to be filled. Obviously temporary role of strolling players and aside for the transportation of troups if he chose one but the disappointed robcurso the lamentable entaedy of Pyramus from Paking to Hankow, thence to the Senator would invoke the courtesy of and Thisby: The pupils of the school

LOAN.

The Question Settled.

(Chinese Mail's Service,)*

PERING, January 16.

the Senate," and confirmation would be acquitted themselves admirably. Mr place of riot.. Among British people there is, or was, a refused. If he selected some nominees Williams then traced the development of fixed belief that the remedy for every from one set and some from another the morality play and the impersonation of THE KIANGSU RAILWAY evil under the sun ia to apprint a the Senate would probably reject the different virtues and vices and the sub- Commission to investigate und report." lot. The method by which Mr Roose.quent introduction of characters repre- senting motod men and women of the It would be of interes), if such a thing velt solved the problem was charac-time

At this stage the drama was were possible, to get a return of the teristic. A number of offices were

a potent factor in the history of the disposed of by the Senators drawing people for it exposed irregularities aud total annual expenditure in English lots from the Presidential hand barwickednosa in high pincos" whiola cafled speaking communities in connection afterwards, we learn, this was found to for reform. The lecturer gave na interest- with Royal and other Commissions. be too slow a method, a cuin was pro- ing description of the old Globe Thestre, The Kiangsu Railway Company has Possibly the practice of appointing duced and the Senators "tossed" for the affer which a brief reference was unde to Commissions first.commended itself to offices. There is something delightful Shakespeare, Ren, Jonson, and a host of consented to the loan from the British in the plan of disposing of important contemporaries who brought the drama to Corporation being made in the. name Governments as an excellent method

the zenith of its fame The elovation-of-of the-Peking Government." Federal positions, quita irrespective of of deferring action or consideration the claims of the candidates, by reporting had fallen was due to the efforts of such the drains from the decline into which it when such was inconvenient.

The apto the arbitrament of "heads or tails." mon ne Sheridan, Addison, Steelo and pointment of a Commission was regard. It would simplify the choice of a Pre-Goldsmith and it then attained a position ed as an indication of the bona fute sident for the United States if the system more worthy of the traditions which made desire of the Government to elicit all were extended....

England the creator and lover of its own drams for over 1000 years.

the known facts before altering or initiat ing legislation. Whether it is 50 re- garded now by a disappointed and suspicious public is doubtful. We have

LOCAL AND COAST NEWS.

a

G.M.S. Hawke and H.M.S. Crescent leave for Lugland to-morrow morning at o'clock with the paid off crew of the King

Alfred.

The strolling players then rendered the tragic scene of Pyramus and Thisby, a play within a play, the parts being splendidly sustained by Masters G. Hobbs (Bottom), F. Hobbs (Quince), M. Silver- stone (Thishy), G. Witchell (Wall)

DR. SUN YAT SEN.

Deported From Annam..

(Chinese Mail's Service.}

PERING, January 16. The French Minister has informed

The Johannesburg Chairman of the

for two months for failing to comply Chinese Association has been imprisoned

with the expulsion hwa,

THE PRUSSIAN LOAN.

...m

---LONDON, January 15: £9,000,000 of the Prussisa Loan bas- been subscribed.

MARA BAA

PERSIA.

LONDON, January 15. Firman Firma wires from Subjlak that he is surrounded by 30,000 Tribes- men and urgently needs reinforcements and provisions; otherwise his party will be cut up or perish of hunger,

THE MONETARY POSITION IN

GERMANY.

LONDON, January 15.

In a debate in the Reichstag on the German monetary position, Count Kanitz urged that every effort should be rude to erect a wall of silver round Germany's stock of gold.

The Govorament replied that while the present gold system must be main tained unimpaired, enquiries had been

instituted which would result in -á-

revision of the coinage law and in increasing the circulation of silver in accordance with the needs of a growing population.

The Government were also consider ing an increase of the amount of silver- receivable as legal tender.

MANILA'S CARNIVAL,

Postponed 24 Days.

A telegram was received in the Colony

to-day from Manila to the offeat that the Carnival has been postponed from February 3 antil February 27.

Accortling to the "Cablonews-American” of January 14 it was decided the previous day to postpone the Carnival. until March 9 but evidently another meeting has been held and the date has been fixed for February 28. Tho paper gives the cause of the postponement ns follow: The postponement was decided en last evening at a menting of the members of the Executive Committee of the Carnival Association, the Governor General,

the Peking Government that the the members of the Commission and the Gibson (Moonshine), and G. Baker (Lion). Governor-General of

speaker and other Assemblymen, held at Annam has the Malacansa. The Director of Health: of

Master G. Stokes attended to the "stage ordered the departure from that the Philippines, Dr Heiser, stated that

properties such as the plan wants."

the presence of cholera in Manila and in country of Dr. Sun Yat Sen, the the provinces hind assumed a threatening leader of reformers.

bad in Hongkong painful experience in regard to Commissions. The year be fore last the then Governor, Sir Matthew.)

The prize distribution at the Bolilios Nathan, appointed a Commission con-Public School takes place on Tuesday, sisting of well-known non-official gentlery 21st., at 2.30 p.m., instead of at

noon, as Srat arranged men, in whom the community had full confidence, to hear evidence and supply The proposed speed examination in students in the Yellow Dragon" for recommendations in regard to the connection with Pitman's shorthand January. The Malacca Cano" once riore SHIPPING CONCESSION. last fuw days a number of Spaniards and administration of Sanitary matters. The Maceh, in order to give students mora

Is been deferred until the middle of appears, and other articles make tho

jouronl interesting report of that Commission has been in time for preparation.

of the defects in the laws and their

Dr G. Bateson Wright gives some excellent advice to Queen's Collego

On the Whampho.

(Chines Maille Service,)"

aspect. Thero wore no great number of cases but whereas usually cholora attacked only the poorer classes of Filipinos, in the

Americans had taken the discuse. Ho thought it bost that the Carnival bo post- poned until the islands could be freed1. from

ohniem.

The Governor General and others said that

Manila had invited

guests from abroad,

that it

was only fair to those pros peative visitors that word be sent to the countries about the Philippines that there was cholera here. He himself doomed it but the Belgian surveying engineers, who famed that we use every precaution to shield courtesy for which the Philippines ware have travelled along the Whampho if the Carnival were postponed until visitors from any possible inconventence.

PEKING, January 10.

The dead body of Mr Barker Jabo the hands of the Government for ten

second engineer of the Hopsang, was Admiral Sir Arthur Moore is taking recovered yesterday afternoon. Mr Barker months but no sign bus been given that an interest in the institutions ustablished met his death through falling inte tho an endeavour is to be made to remedy ashore for the berglit of sailors, Recently water when attempting to tross a plank he visited the Sailors and Soldiers' Homo gangway from the Hopsang to the Hercules any

conducted by Mr and Mrs Emberley, and last week. administration. We are perfectly well gare $0 in aid of its funds. Hona scoured aware that it takes time to draft an a weekly parcel of pozicutients for the place, Having completed his term of five amending measure but ten months is of all heartily supported by Commodore Mr F. A. Hazeland at the Magistracy this purpose of securing a shipping conces

from the Admiralty, which bonn was first years, Juspector Collett sppenrod before river, have formed a syndicats for the suotimo: Inter De Heiser and he thought

more than sufficient. If this were a self-Stokes. governing Colony and such a report as

A delicacy, and a most excellent drinks, that submitted by the Sanitary Commis Appetizing, satisfying and nutritious it sion were in the possession of the has a rare good favour, Imperial Draught 00, Government for even three months and

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morning, to renew his service. After

swearing him in his Worship congratulated sion on the Whampho river.

ms with the Hongkong police. him, and hoped he would serve many more The Waiwapo has not fot replied,

To-morrow evening the hall at the

but, in the meantime, the people of the

immenso assemblage here. that the disease would be emdicated and there would then be no risk in having an

While there were some dissenting voices. most of those prtsont cimcurred.

Moonwhile the efforts of the mon work. ing for the success of the jollification will be directed towel periocting overy detail.

Bells View Hotel will be available for fire provinces through which the dancing. A string band has been cngaged river runs, have joined in a memorial Church, Kowlood, at 11 h.m, on Sunday.

The Bishop will pronohat St. Andrew's

and tho hail for luas been specially pre-

The German cruiser Aroona, cand in

this afternoon, and saluted the port. She remains a few days.

ng public announcement were made DO NOT EXPERIMENT WITH

CROUP. that legislation would be shortly forth- coming there would be suchan outburst W

THEN a child shows aymptoms of pared. No charge is made for admission, the Peking Government objecting to croup there is no time to expori-On Saturday last there were a good many a concession being granted to n forsign of indignation that the Ministry would most with now romedies, no matter how

highly they may be recommended. There people at the hotel and an enjoyable even-syndicate, be imperilled. · Unfortunately the local is one preparation that on always be de, ing was spent.

From the Hongkong Printing Press ponded upon. It has been in use for many ⠀⠀⠀ Government cannot be called into

AFTER drinking, you may you have over Fears and has never been known to fatt, Dariotous enough for the taste and tasted a more dabolous or soon to wo have received samplesof most autistically. BUILDINGS account for, in ovory souse of the phrase, via Chaustorlain's Cough Remedy. Give inviting coough to the oyu to please the pleasbig right than a glass of laniarial dogo Chinese calendars The work is of a **1.) ip, and a quick ours is sure to follow. For most fastidious, is Imporial Draught Bear Draught BeerADVT. Hongkong November 50, 1907. à its sine of Comunisalon. Not only in sale by all chamlata a dator koopen,

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