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NEWS. OF THE DAY.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1808.

HOME CRICKET.

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LONDON, August 18,

The dollar aands at 1/91 to-day, a fall of - one-eighth since Monday.

The Foresta along the Trans-Siberisa Railway from Tomsk to Krasnoyarak have! recently been on fire.

PARIS, obliquity the Japares of to-day are intensify, by contrast, the misery of the more closely akin to the ideals of the men who is already miserable. "Every- STREET,

fendal ages than the Japanese of thirty body is happy," he says to himself; years ago, and that the Era of Enlight-everybody is rejoicing, I am the solitary

One fatal case of plaguo was reported ened Government, whatever it has done exception. I am the only living thing from Cheung Hing lane on the 13th in other directions, has really retrograd-that is out of place," and so he makes August. ed, not advanced, so far as the con- away with himself. Accepting this view, deronation of suicide is concerned. Here one can understand why, as statisties and there a solitary voice is raised in show, it is not only in the pleasantest protest, and an attempt is made to find month of the pleasintest season that the some explanation fenathe phenomenon.tendency to suicide is greatest, but also, Thus in the columns of the Japan Mail, as has been demonstrated in New York we find a translation from the Seikyo city, greatest on the clearest and wonniest Shimpo, the organ of the Greek Church | days of that month. All the same there in Japan, in which the editor expresses must be something very radically wrong the opinion that the many waicides in our modern civilization when the now cecurring throughout the statistics of suicide continue to showing each day at 2.80 p.m.

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pice can be traced the pre- such a steady increase. The rush of vailing pessimism at present ob-

modern life. ie undoubtedly tending to “It seems to us,” sessing the people.

weakening of mental and moral fibres, be says, "that the old samarai

and more than one nation evidently admiration for suicide, instead of dying ont, lins revived daring the last few 1112 years That public opinion of this kind!

affects the minds of young men and

TSOLE AGENTS in Hongkong and THE Undersigned have been appointed South China for the shore Company's

WHISKIES. HARVEY'S 'SPECIAL $14 per Case.

DODWELL, «lls Hongkong, August 11, 1908.

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Arrangements are well in hand for the forty-first annual Trades Unim Congress, which is to be held at Nottingham, England, during the Gegond week of September.

The auction of furniture at the Carlien Hotel, advertised by bir G. P. Lammert, wil be continued on Friday and Saturday next at No. 6, Ice House Street, coramen

With the best mosquitoes made their |

appearance at Hackney and Clapton, says la London paper. Many children and adults suffered from the painful affect of the bites of these alien insect pests.

On being liberated after having under- gone six months' imprisonment for kid- apping, two antives were arrested rid appeared before Mr J. H. Kemp, at the Magistracy, this morning, on an extradition

requires a strong tonie to bracs it up.

NEWS OF THE DAY. Mrs Hamilton, wife of a well known young women very seriously can not being man, was killed at Victoria Ter FULLERTON.-At "Enverdale" Shang-denied. I public opinion universally minus at Bombay on July 20, by falling warrant. The case was adjourned.

between the platform and the Poona mai) ↑ train when seeing friends off.

BIRTH.

Ini, on Monday, 3rd August, 1903, to bir nod Mrs A. R. FUYARATON, &-Daughter.

MARRIAGE,

condemned suicide, would the news papers go on holding up self-destruction

TENEGRI-TRUMAS,-On 11th July, 1908, at St. Matthew's Church, Notting-hill-as worthy of admiration? We think gate, London, MARIO MASSIMO DENEGHI,

of Novi Liguri, Italy, and Shansi, China, nct." Even pessimism does not lead to to NORAR MORTIMER Thomas, of Shanghai.aricide in all conntrice, but the writer

MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW.

Auction.

2.30 p.m.Auction of Valuable Furni- ture, c., at No. 8, Ice House Street,

Carlton House Hotel.'

General Memoranda,

SATURDAY, August lö

9 p.m.-Concert at the Kowloon Cricket Club Ground King's Park, Kowloos. MONDAY, Anguet 17:-

Goode pez Jenric undelivered after this

date abject to rest.

Wednesday, August 19:-

Goods per Ten Muru andolivored at

noon on this data subject to rant, Goods per Palms not cleared at 4 p.m.

on this dare anbject to rent.

Goods per Derflinger undelivered after

thie date subject to rent. SATURDAY, August :-

The application of the law in Italy against the vas of the knife has produced

excellent results. Crispes omitted with the knife hase diminished by 80 per cent.

Kichitaro Jugi, who was found guilty at the Singapore Assines of murdering a Japanese woman named Taroko, in Malay in Rome, and almost in the same pro- Street, on February 11th, las been sen-portion in other towris and proriores in

we are quoting thinks that it does intenced to ten years' rigorous imprisonment, Italy. Japne, and ho statge bis case

SF

A link with the past is severed by the Two brothers, pearl fishers at Unslow follows: Since the Russo-Japan wor West Australia, hid for security £5000 death at Poom on the 24th July of Patrick cases of suicide have increased to unworth of pearls in old clothes, which they Fitzgibbon. The deceased,“who carne out had placed in a portmanteau. The latter to India is the Company's servico about arming "extent; this is admitted by has been stolen, it is supposed, for the 1842, way in the Madras Fusiliers, and took part in the second Sikh War, was everybody. The fact show a decline in sake of the clothes alone, that fortitude and moral courage which

• Worcestershire, who played Sussex at Worcester, defeated the latter cleven by an innings and 108 runs.

At Taunton, Somerset were victorious- by seven wickets, while Notts were superior to Derbyshire at Chesterfield and won by ten wickets.

The matches between Yorkshire and Surrey, at the Oval, and that between Lancashire and Middlesex at Liverpool were drawn.

PROBABLE STATE VISIT

TO BERLIN.

NEWSPAPERS SAY VISIT

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ris Bombay)!

LONDON, August 12, According to a etory which is appearing in several newspapers, a State visit by. His Majesty King Edward to Berlin has been arranged.

AMERICAN TRADE.

ROOSEVELT SENDING COMMISSION TO REPORT ON

NEW OPENINGS.

(Frons Our Chim Curvespondent.)

LONDON, August lă. The Birmingham Post announces-

A Tokyo message' to the N.C. Laily present at the battles of Chillianwals and that President Roosevelt in sending & egables. a man to overcome instead of News says that Japanese in large numbers jorat and later on my service during commission to Siam, the East Indier

succumbing to the difficulties of life. Outwardly Japan is developing great strength, physical, commercial and financial, but inwardly she is displaying astonishing weakness. That many people are disappointed with the results of the war can not be denied. It raised the country's reputation; it added to her

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and India to report ag to the suitability of these places and what openings there!

is likely to be for trade with America.

President Koosevelt intends to

replacing the strikers on the Canadian the Mutiny. He retired about 1868 and Pacific Railway The conductors and en-died from paralysis in his glactieth year. gine drivers are supporting the mechanics

Since the first American production of who are out on strike. Altogether ten thousand men are involved.

The Merry Widow," at Syracuse, in --A Pioneer special message says that September of last year, says a Home paper, the suit brought in the Court of Arches Mr Henry W. Savage has paid in royalties encourage the establishment of factories against Rev. Canon Thompson. Vicar of nearly £23,000. When the piece has run in the Philippines and to supply new Eaton, for refusing a gould-be communit: full year it is now playing on the roof

York--the amount of royalties will be not these factorice.

Noon Meeting of The Hongkong and

cant communion on the grounds of his of the New Austordain, Theatre, New markets for the goods manufactured at Shanghai Banking Corporation, at the anterial resonroes, opening up new baring married his deceased wife's sister fur short of £30,000, or an average of more

City Hall. MONDAY, dogust 24:-

Nocn-Moeting of Hongkene & Wham- pna Dock Co., LA, at Co.'s Offices.

NOTICĘ.

Lellers relating to breineno-alaulā be addrena- alto THE MANAGER.

fields for commerce and industry, but its psychological effects were distinctly bad, and, considered from an economic

has been decided against the vicar.

than £500 per week, which is probably a new mark for sustained returns to authors from any dramatic work.

*DEATH OF MR PERCY

LANGLEY.

At the Magistracy to-day, four men were charged with stealing a gold watch,

The death is announced of Mr. Ferey Who is the tallest man in the Far Langley, hom typhoid fever, after a fov From the evidenco it transpired, that the point of view, it bas added so much to defendants stole the watch and then East? Recently, the Sian Clever boosted days lluese. Deceased, who was a brother the financial burdens of the people as to endeavoured to induce the owner to pay that Siam possessed a ton, in the potson of Inspector Langley, and was held in very drīvo many people to despair. It is a them $50 in consideration of which his of Mi R. Watson, manager of the Wolfram high esteem by a large number of friends, Communications relating to news should be singular thing that a nation which dis watch would be returned. sentoaco of wine at Koh-Samui, who starts öft. glia, was in the service of the Deck Co., at three months' imprisonment thin his stooking feet. The Finzerof datayo Aberdeen. He leaves a widow, for whom addressed to THE EDITOR.

played so much fortitude when confront-

imposed.

explained that at Ipoh the brothers Pearse much sympathy will be fell. Correspondenta must forward their names

could give Mr. Watsu an inch or two, fress na porodul foreign, fox-should

A MANRY LREDING TRANS«^ ^- and address arith my communications ma-

With the enviction of Cifto, the whoreupon our Bangkok contemporary,

ACTION, " Arased to the Editor, not for myllication but appear so pusillanimous when battling naval officer who was convicted of selling points out that Mr J. S. Smyth, of the no evidence of good faith.

with the difficulties of everyday life. plans to a foreign country, the trouble Bangkok Dock, could probably give Mr

At the Supreme Court, this morning, All letters for publication should be written But this seems to us quite certain: the does not end, for a Pacis contemporary Watson an inch or two, white, if former befors Ms H. H. J. Gompertz, Acting No anonymously signal communications that prevailing suicides are the result of the states on high authority that if he be residents are to be reckoned, Mr. Reginald Puiste Judge, Ip Kee sued Wong Hos

sent to Devil's Island the cost of seeping Tower, at dao tine Pritish Minister at have already appeared in other papers will be prevailing pessimism, and this pessimis him in prison will be at least £2,000 a Bangkok, anust have beon taller than Lau, compradors of the s.8. Hellas, for $184

on uno side of the paper only.

inserted.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Orders for extra copies of the Casa MAIL is the result of the misplacing of hopes. gear. This will include the pay and main-either. ahould be sent before 11 am, on the day after. The visions of happiness that a victory suggested that the condemood officer should tenance of ten guards and an officer. It is -pakliaution... After that hour the supply in limited. Cash 10 play frouit 20 m, per over a foreign foe was expected to yield the interned either at Lamaigue: Fort, hare all proved to be deceptive Toulon, where Abi-el-Kadir was confined, or Sainte Marguerite, where Bazine was on Pages 1, 2, 0, fi anà, should be sent to our phantasms. The nation is suffering for some time. Oftesat & Wyndam Street not later than 11 from the pangs of digilnaionment." If am. New Advertisemente should be sent to

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Telegraphic Address Mail, Hongkong, Telephone No, L.

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Gunner H. W. Lester has resigned from the Hongkong Volunteer Corps and Captain G. G. Wood has been granted leave of absence out of the Colony for six weeks with effect from the 10th inst.

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The long talked-of project of construct our Office at 8, Queen's Road Central before ISIKAWA has immed up the ing a waterway to connect the Baltic with situation. rightly then Japs may the Black Sea has been discussed of late in

The following had the honour of dining happier mental the Russian Ministry of Ways of Coat Government House on Tuesday, 12th emerge inta condition when the sun of prosperity munication, and that Ministry has no inst: Hon. Mr May; Hon. Mr Leving, ordered a number of engineers connected Messrs Wodehouse, Messer, Dealy, Kuzep, begins again to shine upon her. Then with the Board of Home Waterways to Lam You Tuen, Pau Yau Tsun. U Hoi the sooner this comes about the better, make the necessary preliminary teclinical Chau, Yung Sin Po, Chan Lok Chnen, Tko,

Japan, however, is not the only nation surveys. The projected canal, in the and Wei Wa Lun.

making of which several rivers will be

It is rumoured that His Excellenay Lord which is at present witnessing a turned to account, will hare its northern pletkor orduicides. The United States end at Riga on the Gulf of Rigs, 39 miles Northcote, Governor-General of Australia, south-west of St. Petersburg, while the is likely to pay Japan a visit on his way is also in a bad way froud" a similar southern end will be Kherson, on the right back to England. One report states that

canze.

Last year there were 10:782suk of the Duisper, and 95 miles east he will arrive there in the N. F. K liner north-east of Odessa. The inmenso import Kumano Mura towards the end of Septem- suicides recorded, and, as Mr Grones ance of this cansit, hoth from enoto and ber. KANAS remarks in an article on the strategical reasons, is obvious." probleme of suicide in McClare's Miga-

The China Mail.

HorGKONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1908.

SUICIDE IN JAPAN AND AMERICA

being money lent.

Mr E. J. Grist, of Messrs Wilkinson and Grist,, appeared for plaintiff, and Mr R. Harding defended.

Plaintiff said he advanced the defendant 3200 in Chinese bank notes, for which he received an acknowledgment. This apopt was equal to $181 in Hongkong currency. Plaintiff, on being cross-examined, said he ovided at the French College, Canton.

Why did you call yourself a truder 19. the writ-I did not know the customs down here.

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Do you speak French? Yes.

I put it to you, you ware not living ut Chatou at all; you were living in Honam?

I have lived in Honani...

You've lived thicco ost of your time

I went there when was very stall.

Have you any property little onough for my education at the Collage.

What is it --Money-

How much have you got $200 odd. How much interest do you get on it?- Four per cent.

Per annum?-No, por mouth. "How much do you pay for your clothes ? The Maha-Bodhi, the journal of the Who do you want to ask muu, these In las recently published account of Maba Bodhi Society, writes as follows que fod I am aning the nma for Tartt scems little reason to doubt that, if the present rate of increase be the Oxford University Press Mr Falconer Savo as from our friends," is a well-money.

Mr Harding repeated the question maintained, America will in the next Madan describes the Oxfent English known saying, and Mrs Besant posing as a suicide is becoming something like a

fier years lose in this way nearly as

Dictionary as the greatest literary work Buddhist is doing Baddhism incalculable. Several tens of dollars a year..

Yong des brother had wife Damód Ip mania among berta' classes of Japanese.

ever produced at Oxford. It is expected harm. We have repeatedly drawn atten- One can

that 1912 will see the work completed. Sion to Mrs Besut's animistic ideas which Lung Shi-How do I know lier name? not to-day open a single

Calculations have been made as to the are thoroughly contrary to Buddhist ideas newspaper published in the island en- pire without eoming across paragraph.

We have

contents of the Dictionary up to and in- sad abhorant to Buddhists.

reiterated that Mrs Besant, who takes

my lives as were lost in battle by the

What Don't know the name of your Union armies in the five years of the

brother's wife! What used you to call her Civil War In the United States the

His Lortship-Probably he called her

largest number of suicides occur in

cluding the last published portion. The emotion as the guiding principle of life mother inlaw, auntie; or something of that main words number 104,094, the special can never as a teacher of the purs reasonsert.

Witness-No, 1 called her Ali Só. made to explain why the first month of 29,534, and rubordinate worde 11317 where frou a prominent Sinhalese Bud Mr Harding said the defence was that

Bieber's Standard; Walkins; and A.1.5 cents Der doz after pamgraph dealing with cases of June and many attempts have been contributions explained under main words of Buddhism. The letter published olse

A.B.C, 4th and 4th Editions;

Tamarrons No. 299.

self-destruction, and seldom do we find one word of disapprobation of the crime

PATELL & CO., Bottles charged for at $1.20 accompanying the reports. Indeed, the aura y could concinng more, persoas total, 104, 46. The Chartrativo quotations, hit allow the danger of the leachings of the defortlaut rout to the wituasi apit nur

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than any other month that life is not for which the Dictionary is famous, now vacillating mind like Mrs Besant's. Mrs quested hin: to ask Al So whether she exceed ono million, or to be exact, they Desant has boon trying, uneuccessfully so could lead the defendant #200 Da handed per dozen and credited in tendency is very much the other way,

worth living. Why, when nature is they ember 1,089,450. The pages, apart far, we are glad to say, to reconcile the Mawh 5th the Amount" was some native newspapers actually ex full on being returned in

tolling suicide as the finest of heroic most smiling and happy, aliould these from introductory matter so far, viz., to irreconcilable. As she may influence, with over to the defendant at Ah No's house ni good condition.

acts No thought soms to be given men and women be more inclined Premious" (it should be explained that her specinus arguments, then not con-twenty cent pieces. Defendant gaya her neither 31" mer is finislied with ersant with the tenets of Buddhism, we au seknowledgment which he read out, again repudiate her ydsstionable right to self-destruction, involving as it es so say November or February, when the read sush portions as are already published not to ako ber statements and the woman said she wanted it in self-destruction, favouring a one com air is full of chit and discontent? at due rapportons (agen dagindo pat prad our readers

IMITED,

to the extremo selfishness of the act of to part with life than at a saget number 9.431, and is a man were pose an teagher of Buddhism, and war and which was in the plaintif's nanÍC,

————— A STUBBORN DISEASE.

WATSON & 00, grent pecuniary privations for those left Mr Kushan's explanation is the most take him nearly twenty-six years. behind, neither dook the cowardliness of ingenious and pinusible that has yet the step strike the average Tsyantee. In been suggested. The sunshine, the bine Fast, the conviction, is steadily forced skies, the Idafy trees, and the singing upon ono in residing the various counte birds of June increase the happiness of PREVISIONS & WINES, HONGKONG CHINA & MANILA, that in this particular plusse of mental the man who is happy already, but they

her inme Defendant wrote anočtior knowledgement in Ah So a name, but by inadvertence left, the original one o

A MESSAGE FROM AUSTRALIA.

ESSAY Williamzon & Co., Jandah table. When the defendant left the hevane Queensland, wewe Chamberlain's tho wants noticed the original sokmo HEUMATISM is considered by the Colle, Choler and Dark Remedy, Redgamer, aud gave it to plaintiff to hand medios! ion to be the hardest af enjoys a prost Tepatation in chers Paris.bres be defendent, but the plaintif failed Fosse there is to control, bát Ohazaberian's It: bad elmsted Trome Yeally remarkable to return it. Bu Paw Palm has réunizable power over its out and there is ily & home without His Lordship gave judgment for the One application well give ralli, For sale #baturtra NAMI Kate and defends and the plaintiff was adrede so

Leave the Colony as soon as possible. tarekesperson by all there and scorekeepers,

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