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THE CHINA MAIL.

MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1908

NEWS OF THE DAY. Admiral Robley D. Evans has been

PARTE, it will fortunately find the merchants or possible to begin to smoke, notwith regulation will be arrested by the police, China and Japan in a better position lo standing the edicts, and the supposed and severely punished With the Lake advantage of the opportunities borne necessity of securing permits before co-operation of the foreign Consuls and the recipient of a great nation on his. retirement into private life at Lake. on the incoming tide than they have opium can be purchased at the oper Municipalities in Tientsin, theanti-opiam Mohonk been in other periods of trade-revival, shops. One other fact perhaps deserves cruande in North China is making

For trespassing on the premises of Experience has been a hard teacher, but recording An opinion is wide spread satisfactory headway. No one can buy Mr, Milfs, at Kowloon, three natives were the lessons learnt during the past few amongst the more intelligent Chinese foreign ur native opium without a Ened 94 or seven days each at the years of leanness, wo feel sure, will not in the country districts that in certificate issued by this Burean. This Magistmey to-day.

JUST RECEIVED

A New Consignment be forgotten in the coming years of Hongkong there is no let er hindrance order has now been extended to all the

PARIS MODES and GOWNS.

plenty. One thing is, very gratifying to those who wish to smoke, and this districts in the Province by command in this connection and that is the steady attitude is considered strange, and is of Viceroy Yive, who has caused certain increase in the power, resources and not regarded with: auch favour. The kinds of foreign anti-opium pilla to be consolidated wealth of the Hongkong question of the effect of the prohibition mede for distributing to poor opin and Shanghai Banking Corporation of opium-smoking upon the Colonial smokers who cannot afford to buy such There are very few ren still in the East revenue is not looked upon as being very pills themselves.

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its career of usefulness could, even in into China, so now many of the people! HARVEY'S 'SPECIAL $14 per Case. their wildest dreams, have imagined are looking at the condition of things what colossal figures it would put before in Hongkong with great perplexity, and its shareholders in the present year of fail altogether to understand why we, Like the proverbial grain of the friends and well-wishers of Chinx, mustard seed it has grown into a mighty are not taking some immediate steps to

prohibit the use of the drug.

MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW.

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OPIUM-SMOKING AND THE SUPPRESSION NDIOTS.

NEWS OF THE DAY..

From Messrs Sheway. Toines & Co. the agents for Watson's Scotch Whiskies, comes a very handsome blotting book and dosk prompter. On the cover is a pleasing

thograph of sheep among the heather.

There were 373 European and 186

and 198 European and 2,073 Chinese visi Chinese visitors to the City Hall Libery, tors to the Museum daring the week onced 23rd August.

Besides paying 50 cents compensation, John Henry Bower, was fined $4 at the Magistmoy this merning, for being drunk and refusing to pay for the hire of a rickshaw.

As will be seen from an advertisement

appending cleow bases, the Raltimore Hotel is to be reopened again under entirely now management. The hotel has been

first class residence for tourists and others. entirely renovated and will be found a

..

The Chief Justice, Sir Francis Piggott, gave judgment for the defendants, in the one case and in the counter claim for li Po Yug, at the Supreme Court, this morning. The litigants were the Hip On Insurance Co., and others, against Li Po Yung and Li Po Kam.

The Annual General Meeting of the

·Hongkong Civil Service Cricket Club will. A. telegram of Aug. 10 to the Nichi be held at the Club pavilion, Happy Nidhi says that Mr M. Hanibara, the Valley, on Monday, 31st instant, at 5.50 second Secretary of the Japanese Embassy p.m. sharp, for the purpose of receiving in Washington, sustained severe injuries the Report of the Committee, passing the ta kis foot, in New York, while trying to Accounts, to consider alterations to Rules stop a runaway home. It is stated that and electing new offers and Committee. probably the foot will have to be amputa-

ted.

In this connection it is interesting to learn from the Peking correspondent of the NC. Daily News that Viceroy TUAN FANG and Governor Cesc CHI-LA bace] Two or three facts stand out prominent jointly reported to the ENTERS-DOWAGE? ly. amid the" present

uncertainty about the prohibition of the growth of regarding the progress that the Chinese antive opium in Ranchoatu. Huaianfu Government is making in the suppres-and some other districts where the aion of opium-smoking, both amongst nativo drag ia produced in large Lettera relating to business should be address officials and the masses of the people. quantities every year. The bemorialiste now than befcra.

allo Tux MaxADER,

NOTICE.

addressed to "THE EDITOR,

Communications relating to news should be Many stringent edicts are now being published in the capital, and the so- verest penalties are threatened, especially

Correspondpas must forward their nomen and adiresu with any communications ad-

dressed to the Editor, not for publication, but for officials and those who continue sa evidence of good faith,

-to smoke opium in secret. Reports from

announce that, as nearly two years have

The conlios engaged in the work of rebuilding the offices of the Pacifio Mail Steariskip Co., (recently deraolished by the Commander Penry has sailed from the typhoon) are proceding slowly space 1::60: United States for the á retia. His stemmer, far they have just completed the rafting the Roosevelt, is thoroughly fitted out of the first floor, prior to its being plaster The explore: expresses his determination eri, while others we cautiously piotang up spend three years, if necessary, in at the ground toor. What do they expect to tempts to roach the Pole, which he thinks. fnd there? is more within the region of possibility

to

What is described as one of the longest judgements given in the Singapore Courts was rendered by the Anting Chief Justice, The Hadow Mail publishes the fol Mr A. G. Law, on the 5th instant, in

BANK KOTICE.'

now clapsed since the issue of the anti-loring-

It having been suggested by the Hankow in Edicts, and as nothing has been actually done, with the exception of the General Chamber of Commerce that in oon;

All letters for publication should be written different sources tend to show that the closure of the opium dens in Chinese sequence of the excessivo heat at presont decessed Chinese merchant. There were

en one side of the paper only.

No anonymously signed communications that have already appeared in other papers will be

which it was held that. Chinose law and custom recognized polygamy: The case was one in which a dispute had aticon regarding the distribution of the estate of s offerts to suppress the quantity of the territory, to show that the Chinese prevailing the hours of business should be six wives in the case, and his Lordship beld curtailed, notice is hereby given that the that all should take shares in the estate, drug consumed are not without sove Government is really in earnest, they Foreign Exchange Kautks 17ll only be open though he thought the first wife might have longer share than the others. It was measure of success. For instance, the have issued stringent orders to the for public business between the hours of greed, however, that all the wives should

hare oqual shares. should be sent before 11 am on the day after quantity of opium imported into China various agistrates throughout the 10, and 1, until further notice on publication. After that hour the supply in this year is less than was the quantity Province of Kiangsu commanding

Hankon, 11th August, 1908. imited. Cath 10 cts., Credit: 20 ets, per imported last year, which again was less them to prohibit the planting of any Alteratione and additions in Advertisements than that of the previous year. Some kind of native opium within their

inserted.

Orders for ozira copies of the 'CHINA MAIL.

copy.

and after to-moITDW.

An English Blue 'Book just issvéd.

Ion Pagen 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7, should be sent le our travellers also state that, in the opium respective districts from the latter part reveals a sharp conflict between the Ear Tient-Colonel F. Burnard, who presidod

| Office at 5. Wyndham Street not later. Fan 11

until candermended,

Telegraphio Address: Mail, Hongkong. Telephone No. 22.

The China Mail.

“otherwise rendored brilliant service in Indo-

A number of prizes were presented at the recent general meeting of the Frenc Goographical Society The Ducros-Aubert Prize (gold medal and £1,400) went to

of Crowe and the Premier of Natal Lagari. am. New Advertisements should be sent to growing districts of Ching, the land un-of this year. In its place the fields are ing Dinizula's salary. Mr. Moor protested over the French Commission of Delimitation with Siam, by which important geograph- our Office at 3, Queen's Boud Contral before der opiam cultivation is diminishing, or to grow corn, wheat, or other pereals against payment, and declared that the ionl work was accomplished, and has

Advertisements and Subscriptions which are las diminished greatly. These and other All farmers have been instructed to native unrest was the outcome of the

Home Government's interference. A dis- Chica. Marquis de la Mazelièra received not ordered for a fixed period will be coinued statements would seen to indicate that destroy their opinn steds. If they cussion also took place in the House of the Francis Garnier prize (metal) for his book on Japan. The Armand Rousseau there is somerling really tangible being have already planted seeds, they must commons on the affairs of Natal. Mr

prize wes given to Lieut. Raymond done. On the other hand, the frequent dig them out of the ground and sub-H. P. Posso said all sections of the House

recognised that Natal was bound in honour Barthelemy for his patriotle efforts to appearance of anti-opium edicts, and the stitute for them corn or other cereals,

to pay Dinizulu's salary, even after his develop French, influence in the interior criticisms in the native papers seem to otherwise they will be arrested and arrest for inspected treason.

of the great peninsula of the Far East. Medals, of silver and bronze, are to be demonstrate that the results are not so punished and their Gelds will be con-

These is, uccording to the Daily Tele. forwarded to most of the other French substantial as the more anguine could fiscated to the Government without the graph, no likelihood of the drastic scheme zasmbers of the Franco-Siamese. Deli wish, and that there is yet much to be slightest mercy. According to a for the reduction of the day, formulated mitation Commission. done ere the goal aimed at comes memorial from Viceroy CHANG JENTHEN, by Mr Winston Churchill, being adopted

The importance of studying the clectri- by the Cabinet, though some of the pro within sight. Travelling through the at Canton, similar stringent measures posals are regardent with favour, Thé cal phenomena of the air is noted editorially country, lately, a correspondent of the have been taken to restrict the suggestions were of a most revolutionary by The Electrical Review. Says this paper character, and could have been carried"Although there are many observatories China Stail tried to find out what was cultivation of poppy in the Lisngkuang through only by a united Cabinet, sup- which record the conditions from day to Tur mercantile communities of the Far being done, and low for the sororal Provinces, which produces the best ported by the full strength of the party in day, but little is being dous in an experi East are aceastamed to look to the addicts of the Earsson was affecting native opium in China, commonly the House of Commons, and almost from mental way. During the past year the the test it was apparent that no such Meteorological Departinent at Washington, dresses delivered from the Chair at the the actions of the people in general. It called Kangas or Canton opium. masure of unanimity could be anticipated, sent up a number of balloons with record half-yearly acetings of shareholders of may be sited that the result was en- Recently Viceroy Hi Las reported either among the Prime Minister's collen- ing devices, and fortunately secured about the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking couraging, and that there is no doubt that the suppression of opium growing goes in the wider sphere of the party Corporation as throwing some light that the steps recently taken are not in Yunnan Province was, proceeding

Hosügone, MONDAY, Aṛgust 24, 1908.

THE TRADE BAROMETER OF

THE FAR EAST,

vine-tenths of them, after they had made their fight, and thus obtained a large

we are to get any really valuable informa-

benefit humanity,

A correspondent of the Times lount of interesting information. But if pon the prospects of trade for the com- altogether alertive On the pas-upace, and added that this fact might writee over the appropriate signature of tion which will lead to something, suce ing six month; and they are sekian sage boat there was but one opium he quoted to foreign countriesBis det, qui cito dat!" urges that what experiments aust be carried out on a much disappointed. is therefore a subject lamp alight, and the man who lay beside interested in the opiam trade as an ever rewatts might be in store for the larger scale and wera much wider terntory for rejoicing that the note pitched last it, with his pipe and supply of the indication that the Central Government troops that took part in the Zakka Khel than has been done. It can hardly he and Mobninud expeditions the question dortod that the electrical condition of the Saturday was even more cheerful than drug, was well on in years, and also in Peking has the cooperation of all the of batta should not be overlooked. Lie air plays an important part in catara nsual, Indeed, is spirit of smiling optim: well on the way to physiral decay. But Provincial Governments in this in-points, cut itist the wear and test of Ac phenomena. It must have some effect ian pervaded the meating, indicating this man as possessed of the regular portant reform. The sction of these woutrements and clothing was extra-upon all seimil and vegetable life, even ordinary. The troops were constantly on though this be slight, and must also be à that in the opinion of the men who permit, which told his life's history and three Viceroye in suppressing the the more and when links were called factor, in affecting weather changes. Here is a fill where those who are wasting guide the policies of our greatest bank the quantity of cplom he was allowed growth of native opium within their offices and men had only the bare ground ing corporation the trade, barometer of to smoke per diem. In one town visited, jurisdictions has met with the approval on which to rest their weary limbs, much valebic bins and money in uselessly when jagged rocks, dust, dirt and heat Playing with balloons might add greatly the Far East may be said to read Set inquiry elicited the fact that the dene of the Peking Covernment, and pinged karos with everything In additur scientific inqwledge, and perhaps fair." True, as Mr Moxox pointed indeed were closed throughout the place, instructions have been issued to the tion to this, owing to the suddenness with out, the past six months have been but that the shops were allowed to other Viceroys and Governors through which both expeditions were determined

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL a period of restricted trade, but the remain open, that the shopkeepers might out the Empire advising them to exert upea, ofhours were obliged at a moment's notice to provide themselves with the nec

The Queen of Spain is to spend a fow outlook is now most promising. Money, supply the needs of those who were themselves in following the good ssary additions to their outfit for a retke with Princess Henry of Battenberg according to Mr Sun, is abund provided with permits by the Govern- example set them by their colleagues in pigning and had to purchase at a heavier in the Tale of Wighs, probably arriving in All brands of Manila Diga aut at the chief business neutres in mont. These facts would seem to in- Kiangou, Kunngtung and Yunnan Houtlay then would have been the case had September.

more loisare been possible. As

Ls a matter of kept in stock, in fine condition. China, are especially Shanghai: the dicate that some rand advance has been such means opium will be suppressed feet there is zover any question of batia kuat un August 11th, aged 91: She leaves

nocasions, but monsoon seems to be favouring Indin unde, and this is encouraging for the before the expiry of the ten years fixed being overlooked on thei

14 grand-children and 41 great-grand- adict of whether the authorities will take the hint children to shom hor lows. more generously this year than last; future. On the other hand, much by the first anti-opium

conveyed by the writer's signature is an basinees is reviving in North America, smoking still goes on in the homes of September, 1900.

other matter. Further we read another issue of the both the United States and Canada the people, and there was a feeling baving a phenomenal harvest to gather amonget those interrogated about the North China Daily New The Provincial in from their taeming fields; while in condition of things, that this smoking at antropom Bureaunt Tiantaia hasised the Far East stocks hire been consider home was rather on the increase than an important notice in connection with 8. WATSON & 00 ably redused, though they remain suff otherwise which, of course, as the dens the abolition of the oplam trade in Chips. crently large to keep prices down to a are closed do is what might be ax It has prohibited from August 10 the LIMITED.

level that should encourage consump-pected. One caso came under our selling of opium pipes, lamps, and all in the stomach or grampolica Ithan pro- tion. All these things, point, in the informant's notice whers a middle-aged other articles India opinion of the Bank, to a commercial man has lately taken to the drug, which throughout Chihli Pervince BUILDINGS. revival before long When it does come shows that even now, as things are, date those who offend

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