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MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW. Amusements.

9. p.m.-Performance by Hongkong

General Memoranda,

SATURDAY, February 22:-

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1908.

CRICKET.

England. N. 3. W.

(Exclusive Servies, supplied by Reuter,

cia Bombay.)

LONDON, February 19.

The English cleven continued their

Everyone agrees that the position of A DEAD BOXER CHIEF. FRANKLIN KELLY, B.D., A.P. Mission, of to proceed. But this would not be to colonies is the most pressing of the The future historian of present day hap immediate problems which confront the penings will have many incidents, and garded as greatly lacking in respect by Empire. What is wanted says the evouts to narrate of the character designat the Chinees. Probably, however, if World," is an Imperial Assembly with Yesterday we recorded the death, in ed by Mr Giles as "Strange Talos." there had been men amongst the wide authority; where the principle of distant Kun Suk, of Tang Fu-Haing Amateur Dramatic Club in City Hall,mourners, the coolies would have hardly give-and-take would natumlly establish (or Tung Fuk Thoung), the man who of all been allowed so much freedom. Anyone itself and prejudices would cancel one other was responsible under the Empress conversant with the Chinese Classics will another. Here is the germ of a big movement in the siege of the Poking Dowager for the use made of the Borer easily recall some of the several re-idea-a job for Empire builders !

Legations, and other outward and manifest second innings yesterday and were not 'signa of “China in convulsium". From the fact of a grave announce- treatment of the departed found thereiu.

Tung Fu-Hsiang it was, who, haring all dismissed until the total stood at 150. Goods per Manto not cleared at 4 p.m. There was, at the time when the Classics up his residence in Hankow, where he ing under bis control the Northern Army 12 and his wicket was still intact when mont that a Consul for Mexice has taken the powers of a military dictator, 'n) hav Of this number Braund contributed were being formed, hardly any matter bus had the usual interchanges ofed her in setting up the puppet Emperor the innings closed.

did the Empress Dowager's will; support-I courtesy with the high provincial and Tai-au-te, and in overy turn and winding other ufficiale, we infer that so far from of the policy that was to rid the empire of being "exclusive" as in past days, foreigners for ever more, to establish Chiun is now obsessed with the idea sovereignty in which the Manchus should that the more consulates and consule take a new lease of power, and by the within her borders the better for the pence, prosperity, and happiness of the Empire.

9 p.m.-Smoking Concert at Engineer ferences made to the dead and to the

Institution Room.

BUNDAT, February 95:-

on this date subject to reut. MONDAY, February 24 :--

Noon-Meeting of Hongkong & Wham pao Dock Co., Ld., at Cu,a Offices. 2.15 p.m.-Meeting of His Majesty's- Justices of Peace at the Magistracy.

4 p.m.-Meeting of Hongkong General

Obamber of Commerce st City Hall. Trauafer Books of Hongkong Ics Jo..

Inclusive.

Bloods per Tonkin unclaimed after this

and landing charges.

TUESDAY, February 25 :--

a

that was deemed more worthy of at tention. Moreover, as those old time men increased their wealth, and won higher social position, they never be grudged any extra expenditure upon the

the darkness of former ages, night of arms thrust the State back into

of the situation was in "his hands.

Tho

La., close from this date to 2nd March, funerals of their decensed relatives. There

Tung was the willing and obedient tool is n case in which Mencius was mixed She no longer avoids-on the contrary of his august mistress. His soldiery were date at Noon will be subject to rent up that occurs to us at this mouent. she seekscontact with--foreign countries, turned against her foos and for a tua; A certain Duke was about to pay a visit No longer desirous of abutting her gates until the relief of the Legations, the key she would open them as widely Empress Dowager fled; her schemes came 11.40 Meeting of The Kowloon of respect to Mencius, but was turned

possible that any "righteous nation to naught, and in course of time her trust- Land and Building Co., La., a Co.'s from his purpose by a favourite who which speaketh truth may enter in."ed henchman found his way into Kwa Suk Transfer Books of Hongkong Fire Insurer im as he was leaving his court, If however the Chinese are going in with his troops. There he has evout fit to auce Co., Ld.. closes from this date to The favourite suggested that Mencius their number from Tangtsz ports to hide, keeping up a curtain military state, was too extravagant in his expenditure South America and settling in Mexica with forces suficient to fender him for at the funeral of some relative or friend there may be reasons that we wot not in any time of stress or crisis,

midable--a source of danger to the State of for Mexican Consulates in China.

Office..

10th March, inclusivo,

Goodo per Bentawers undelivered after

this date subject to rent.

MONDAY, March 2-

11.30 am.-Mooting of Hongkong Ios Co., Ld., nt Mesars Jardine, Mathesor Co,'a Office.

THURSDAY, March

Noon-Beeting of The China Fire

surance Co., Tal., at Co.'s Offices. .p.m.-Performance at City Hall. SATURDAY, March 7-

is

It was the second time that Mencius In any event the change of policy bad the control of funeral arrangements, significant and it is no longer just to and they were now much more elaborate speak of China as the most exclusive of In-than on the former occasion. The Duke all the nations upon earth.

was therefore advised not to show

Another marvel has been before as in respect to one so extravagant. That the shape of a sarcastic and humourous Noon-Meeting of The Hongkong Milline the obsequies were more expensive than notice of proceedings before a native

Co.. Id., at Co.' Office,

TUESDAY, March 10:—

on the former ecension was admitted. tribunal in the regular course of its

12.30 p.m.- Meeting of The HongkongThere was a greater excellence in the administrative functions. A magistrate

Fire Insurarea Co.. Ld.. at least Jardine, Matheson Co.'s Offices.

NOTICE

Now we find his donth reported" and

Two of the New South Wales batsmen were out when stumps were drawn, the score standing at 78.

New South Wales thus requires 380 ruus (8 win with eight wickets to fall."

MOROCCO.→

Loan To Abdel Aziz.

(Exclusive Service, supplied by Reuter, vin Bomb ry.)

Lostos, February 19.

The Moorish State Bank, with the

conjoined therewith a statement by the approval of France, bas font

sura-

Viceroy of the province that the wealth in equivalent to £100,000 to Abdel Aziz to estate or property of whatsoever kind,

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

boing confiscate to the State, hns heen duly pay his soldiers whose pay, in grently: in seized and contiscated accordingly. "Tem-arrear. The whirligig of time has brought its pors mutautur et nes mutamur in illis."

revenges, and the irony of the situation is that the property of the great military dictator who stood for all that was ancient in the regime of administration, who was the leading exponent of the old consorin- tivo policy and the chief umans by which the Empress Dowager was to carry that policy to the proper issues; his nestinals- tion of wealth, his land and houses, and all that he died possessed of are to be mand for furthering schemes of education for

coffin, the end, the grave clothes, and in one of the home counties of Kwang the abroad." Hat then the explanation tung appointed an officer to receive was satisfactory."On the first cecasion petitions to be thereafter dealt with according to the forms of law. The he used the rites appropriate to at Letters relating to businena ahmedi! be addrean-

person so appointed tried to insist that ed to THE MANAGER

scholar, unl, on the second, those appetitioners should in presenting their bringing to pass reforms and generally in. Communications volating to airs should be propriate to a great officer." This in- petitions follow the old time practice of advancing Chind into line with Western cident is urferred to here, to obey that it kneeling. The endeavour has provoked and editresses with any commun iectious de was, in those days, considered essential a storm of abuse in the nutive press. dressed to the Buffer, tool for pubtition to show respect to the dead according To read what has been written on the

addressed Tux Enrot.

Correspondenta must forward their names

anerience of goud faith.

AR letters for publication slemid be written one side of the paper only.

to the position and income. Anyone

who has lived in China will also

Warlike Preparations

The Turks Mobilising.

(Exclusive Service, supplied by Reuter,"

ria Homingy.)

LONDON, February 19. nations. Put not your trust in princes," The Russin newspapers in the is the counsel of the Hebrew polist. It would, we pretend, met with as certain Cauensus give detailed sccounts of the response in the minds of many disaffected mobilisation of the Sultan's troops on

the Russian and Persian borders. The example of Tong Fu-Helang will be quoted during the leades and couturies

Chinese.

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subject is to wonder whether it ever was the practice in Chinese law-courte

These papers estimate that in the Na qvonymously signed communications that know that whatever is deno or left for witnesses to kneel, whether they ever to files warning against blind loyalty kare already opperand in other papers will undone in respect of the living, the lead were tortured as the best means of and one-skiul sievation that reeks not of vicinity of the frontiers there are no Anders for extra copies of the usa Man are always treated with the utmost whether there ever was an "audience altars of State. The inwardness of the readiness to advance to the actual getting the truth from unwilling lips, consequences, and lays all it has on the fewer than twenty even regiments in should the sent before 11 .. the day after respect, unless, perchance, it be a. beg-question" or any such thing as a court needs be of the highest type regardless of frontier when necessary.

story shows that in Chinn the patriot must | limited. Cambio r., Predit

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not ordered for a fined period will be continued

ergar in the streets. A decent burial ceremonial with prescribed knockings the consequences to himself, not only from must be armaged for at the expense of and bowings of loyal subjects before the the foes of his country, but first and chiefly

Three of the frontier districts Inve Alterations and addition to Advertisements the living. looover, one need not Imperial Throne. We are grieved it from those on whose behalf the douds of beou ordered to furnish on udditional un P'ergen 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7, should be sent to mar spend many months in Chins without this tendency to ignore the past, to take patriotism were done, and the sufferings si Ofice at 5 Wynikam Street wat later than 1

regiments each. the patriot ondored. Neue Adrarliaments should he went to being requested to assist in furnishing for granted all that has come to China

Mr A. Houry Savage-Lander in China

The Turkish troops are armed with our Ogies at & Query's Boat Festral before a coltin for some poor person. In China in the present, to affect an iguoranes of and the Allios" refers to the "Mahon- the most modern weapons.

the chains and slavery", from which meat General Ting Fu-Hsiang, as bodies are sometimes dumped and left to gratify a feeling of revenge escaped, and generally to put on all the ill imbared soldiery" of this general, the nation has by no means wholly China." It was from the "well-armed foreign-bating a man as oror lived in

when sometimes a corpse is brought and

airs and graces of the free born. No thousands of whom had been for some time placed at the gates or door of some statements are better substantiated than prior to the siege of the Legations stream ine against whom the relatives of the certain that have been made from tima ing isnt Peking that danger to Europeans deceased have a grudge, or a real or to time regarding the 'sudience queer Savage-Lander tather neglects the was expected. In this interesting book fancied grievance. Everybody will have tion," torture in Chinese courts of justice, pictusque personality of the General: a funeral of some kind, and everything and ceremonial of a character to prove In fact buyout entarking that Lo aided from the Austrian project of a milway will be done decently and in order. In up to the hilt that petitioners were once. Tuan be less but littts to say about his home and n abroad. The Austrian and abetted the nvchi-conspirator Prines to Salonika is the absorbing topic at the Christian Churches, in communion required to kneel,

natil cantermauded.“

Telegraphic Address: Moil, Hongkong. Telephone No. 29

The China Mail.

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1908.

DUMPING. THE DEAD.

with which, as is natural at this stage, there are some poor, there is generally

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Saunders. and Brown's patent fire a fund from which granta may be made, alums are being installed in ntions parts

The prevalence of the practice of "Cümp- fing their dead by Chinese must, in order to insure that a becoming of the city. It has taken a long time to

would appear, he traced to deepseated funeral shall be given to the departed,are thosa accorsities introduced..

Retreat is to be sounded by the Pipes aversion to some ride or law at present and there is no fund, except, perhaps, in force, or supposed to be in force, in that for the support of the native and Drums of the 2nd Battalion Comeron Hongkong. It is certainly true, as is pinister, to which the Chinese Chris Highlanders on Fridays on the Murray

Barracks Parade ground. entural in a country is large as Chin, tians are more willing to subscribe.

The Superioress of the Italian Conrent

(REUTER'S KERVICE. "A SERIOUS PROBLEM.”

"Stern Times Approaching."

LONDON, February 18,

The situation in the Balkans, arising

beyood rourking incidentally that after press is condent of a peaceful solution the Legations had been relieved, "Within of the difficulty, believing that Russia the Imperial jaucincts (the Forbidden City) will recept as a counter concession, a the fanatical traps of Tung Fu-Hsiang Danubo-Adriatic, railway.

had intricated themselves, their General shortly before the fall of Toking, having

not anxious to spneil.”“

The London Tiors" sage that the

wisely taken tou daya leave, which he was shattering of the European Concert has Ho might have bd tlist for months destroyed the hopes of reforms in a ter Poking fell entirely into the hands Macedonia; Great Britain is faced with of the Allios uous wore perpetually a serious problem, but is ready to coerce being spread

pread that Tung was returning with his arty to retake the city.

THE LIARS.

To-night is the first proformance of "Tho

that the same depth of reverence in These facts go to show that the opiniones us to announce that anyone desirous respect of their treatment of their dead thich is current in the South of China, of assisting the renovation of the Home Liars" by the local Dramatic Club. Those does not obtain throughout the empire. regard to the respect in which the for the Poor might send donations to the who were present at the firess rehearsal

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Convent.

state that the acting is of a superior type, storting a quantity of clothing from a house sentation.

For returning from banishment and and the public are promised a good pre;;

at West Point, a native was sentenced to

.MANILA'S CARNIVAL.

disgusting

six months' imprisonment and four hours stopks, at the Magistracy to-day.

- Queens Selcoted.

the Porte.

The Daily Telegraph "

mys that the foundations of European peace have | begun to sink, and that stern times are | approaching-Reuter,

JAPANESE IN VANCOUVER.

Arrest of Two Men.

LONDOS, February 18.

We believe that in the center of Chisa, Chinese hold their dead is correct.. 'It for example, there is touch less attention is obvious therefore, that there is some 14. Qts. 2doz: Fiepait to the disposal of the departed deep seated cause for the *... $8.00 $ 9.09

than in the South, and we have our custom of dumping” which is opposed, 10.00 11.00

The Japanese Vice Consul in Ottawa selves secu giaren so shallow, and both to the common fostincts of

has interviewed the Secretary of State, 13.00 14.00

The transport "Hardinge" is expect coffins su Ingile, that both-,carth, and humanity, and, especilly,, is out of

in reference to the arrest of two Japa nase at Victoria on the 17th inst. and 20.00 colin have been disturbed by some harmony will the training of theed to strive on 24th instant with the 13th Rajputs, who will be quartered at Kowloon,

At last the queens are out of their hive, the Department of Justice of British kral accident, and the corpse exposed Chinese and the teaching of their The ship will sail for Kumchi on or about and the drones may know, their identity Columbin has been instructed to take (asya Manila papor.) Miss Margory Habeas Corpus proceedings and to to view. There is, however, nothing religion. The causes which load the burel, with the 129th Baluchis.....

Colton and Miss Purita Villanueva are to preserve the treaty rights of Japan. like this discovermblu throughout the Chinese to act eo contrary to their

A batch of thirty-two gamblers were reign over tho Carnival. It is all settled South of China, and, generally speaking, natural instincts, should if posible, be playing po chec, at Samehuipe on Wednes charming maidens of the fanta are to be charged at the Magistracy to-day with after weeks of waiting. Two of the host- notwithstanding the exception mention discovered, and then, it it could be day night. Mr H H. J. Gompertz after the seccroigts of ilic great fate. They will certificate alleged to have been granted to ext above, there is no nation which, done, removed. In the meantime the hearing the evidence, fined the two keepers, ait enthroned over the deliberations of the and deposited with the Kwong Hing firm, John Sami Hoo at Townsville, Queensland, theoretically. at least, shows so much Government would be well advised to 850 each, and each of the players $5.

Fools and their courtiers, And will make as dismissed by His Honour Mr A, G.

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An application for the return of a birth

Į genuine respect for the dead as the reconsider the question of the diepoent The annual general meeting of the nobles whörarer their royal highnesses muy Wise this morning,, Phintiff's solicitor (Mr

Chincee. It is true they do not always of bodies found dumped in public held in St. Pant's College on Friday, Feb, stult, Colonel George R. Colim, and but defendant's solicitor (Mr Otto Kong

Chutab Missionary Association, will be desira.

Misa Colton is the sister of the Collector Gardinor) wanted another adjournment net in the way foreigners usually act. places. We previously urged that such 21, at 5.15 p.m. The Bishop of Victoria Miss Villanueva is the daughter of Don Sing) objccted His Honor considered 8. WATSON & 00, Take a funeral curtage seen recently, bodies should be cremated and readers will-preside and an address will be given Emilio Villanueva, of Iloilo, a distinguish there had been enough delay and dismissed.

LIMITED,

It consisted of six coolics bearing the will remember that several esteemed by the Venerable Archdeacon Donle, if od gentleman who was the assal of Bulacin

province during the Spanish regime.. collin, and three rickalas in which were Chinese correspondents denounced the scated three female mourners: When proposal as barbarous and declared

A meeting of His Majesty's. Justinos WHOOPING COUGH. of the Pasco will be held at the Magis

YHAMBERLAIN'S Cough Remedy will

WINE AND SPIBIT MERCHANTS,

ALEXANDRA - BUILDINGS,

Hongkong, November 30, 1907.

tha

Mid

China.

the case.

DO NOT NEGLECT THE CHILDREN,

Coolies reached 3 wayside tea uml; that a more humane administration of tracy, at 2.15 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 24th grea ly less the severity of whoop this season of the year, the firet un

natural looseness of a child's bowela should have immediate attention The

fruit stand they dropped their, burden the law would effectually put an end to consider an application from Kakuzoing cough, te quining the uk css thing that can be given is Chamberlain's and reguled themselves with tea to the protice. The laws have been yeteuki for an adjunct licence to sell by sing expectoration edgy and scene call Cholera and Diarrhoea Romedy: retail intoxicating liquore on the premises the ough loose. Any tendency to followed by castor oil an directed with each Nos. 30 and 37 Condatight Road Central promptly counteracted Sold by all chemists battle of the remedy. For sale by all phoumania, de other serious", Fosuits" is

under the sign of Sei Foo Row."

and storakespiro.

chscalate and storekedness,

and fruit. Meanwhile the ricksons less harshly administered and dumping were compelled to come to a standstill continues. The moral is obvious.