THE CHINA MAIL.
Football Season, NEW RED SEAL THE CITY OF PARIS, amanitarian ideas generally nor find-rindividual soldier has no responsibility.
1908-09.
VICTROLA
RECORDS
2 PEDDER
PHONE
SAY IT.ing fault with the more humane system
59 0.
JUST RECEIVED
prevailing at the present time, we still see that there is some justice in the complaints of the old-timers" that coddling has been carried a little too far in come branches of life, and that
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 1908.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
The French Mail of the 18th August was delivered in London on the 17th inst.
A SINGAPORE BANK- RUPTOY
Were he compelled to shift for himealf and provide his necessaries a little oftener, he would soon realise that there was not much to complain of in the way the professional members of his regiment Tammany, New York, has been presented The Bankrupts, rhannes,
Mr Richard Croker, a former hoss of
with the homomry freedom of Dublin.
(From Our Oven Correspondent)
SINGAPORE, September 18.
have been committed to months cater for him. Until a few years ago the sailor had no special departments to The population of Ireland in 100 simple imprisonment
for
indulging in
Janier Club' RIGOLLETTO QUARTETTE A New Consignment the tone has come for talling a Luli co wolton him. He belonged strictly in the doctesed by 16,074, owing to comigranta hazardous estaide speriations
FOOTBALL
BOOTS
$5.00 PER PAIR,
Caruso, Abbott, Homer
OF
1.
more than balancing the excess of births over deaths.
that we may take's survey and deter
and Scotti.
LA BOHEME QUARTETTE PARIS MODES +An Old-time Seaman brings out one heen prepaid properly it must be al Princess of Wales for the Imperial and
step-and-fetch-it-order. The cooke gave mine where limits may be safely placed. his self-prepared meal the regulation In a letter to the United Service Gazette, tima in the ovens or coppers. If it had
and GOWNS.
Farrar, Caruso, Viafora and Scotti.
LUCIA SEXTETTE Sembrich, Caruso, Scotti, Journet, Severina and Daddi,
&c.
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Excellent Cooking by: An Cusono, for Over seventeen years chist cook with the lato Mr J. W. Usborne.
Macao, May 18, 1908.
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WHISKIES.
HARVEY'S BECIAL $14 per Case.
DODWELL, ♣ CO, Hongkong, August 11, 1909.
Mr J. Longstaff has been commissioned to point portmita of the Prines and
Colonial Club,
right; if it happened to turn out a failure, well, it was his own full-so said the
For trespassing at the Mortuary, it cook. Under these circumstances it takes having been broken open twice during the quantity of piping Magistracy to-day. last few weeks, and s stolen, a native was fined $10 at the
DR SUN YAT-SEN.
www
BRITISH GOVERNMENT- RETURES HIS SURRENDER.
(Wen Tez Tat Po's Service)
PERING, September 17.
H. E. Na Tung, and B. E. Yuar Shi-kai both requested the Briti Sapper Harwood, R.G.A., whose Minister in Fakiog. Sir John Jordau, to communicate with the Governor of
language was stated to hare ben ac disgusting while on a tram car that a comrade and to put his hand over defeu Singapore asking that Dr Sun Yat-sen dant's month to stop him, was food 810 be deported from the Colony. The
aspect of the question which is well worth discussing. He takes as his text the suggestion recently advanced that the soldier should be fastructed in some JOHN & ROBERT HARVEY & practical methods of preparing his own with any description of jeant that the 3 very little practice to conect a dish CO, LIMITED..
mends when on the march, and say mess xoay be served out with, and some that this should have been done years of us prided ourselves on our ability in agd. The writer then proceeds this direction. Unfortunately, this-art To a naval man, the way the soldier will soon be as dead in the Navy as it is Las been for years coddled up is in the Army. A fat has gone forth,
at the Magistracy this morning, for British Minister refused their request 111 bordering on the ridiculous, not only that food is no longer to be prepared by behaving in a disorderly manner.
the soldier, but the officer as well. the various messes in a
on the ground that Dr Sun Yat-sen ship, but that Someone is told off in the regiment to the cookery staff is to take couplets
tarber of the King's peace. being a political refugee, was not a dis Perform every little duty that is out-control of this matter. In most ships side soldiering propar, The excuse, no now the men draw the provisions and, Toronto, who was employed as a school doubt, is that if the best is to be got take the quantities to the galley and tell out of a man he must be eased of all the cook they want so-and-so. The outside labour, with the result that the see no more of this until meal time Transfer Books of Hongkong Cotton Army possesses a splendid lat when they go for the finished article. be saved by this errangement, Spinning Wearing & Dyeing Co., Ld., absolutely unresourceful men.
Inclusive.
HEMOS FOR TO-MORROW. Auction.
11 ..--Auction of Meguidcent Irish Linens, Jr., st No. 5, Doe Four Road Central, formerly occupied by Mutual Store.
Moating. Noon-bleeting of "Dougins Stsanskiy
Co., Id., at Co.'s Offices.
Miscellaneous
General Memoranda.
MONDAY, September 21
Hoods par Ville de la Cietat unclaimed after this date at Noon will be subject to rent and
landlag charges Goods per
· Austria undeVvered after this dlace subject to rent, TOEDAT, September 22-
2.30 p.m-Auction of Japanese Curios and Embroideries, &u, st MrGen. P. Lammort's Roles Beam... Goode per Pathan undelivered after
|
This is
Time may
in
October to join the Methodist mission Three ladies will go to Western China aries. They are Miss L A. Kort,
teacher and who will teach the missionarica children; Miss Switzer, of Science Hill, Ont., a graduate nurse, who will, with Miss Pleworm, not as nuwes Tire latter will be supported by her brothera nud sisters.
P
Au inquest has been held at Woolwich
died suddenly on the steamer Mercedes,
TANG SHAO-YI TO VISIT ENGLAND.
A POLITICAL, MISSION.
(Wish To Yat Po's Service)
PERINO, September. 17..
close from this daze to 28th Sept not new, it has existed, at least; for food may be better prepared, waste may on a Chiraman named Chan Chung, whof
twenty years; before that time thee eliminated to a certain extent; but writer has no experience to guide him, the loss of resource that is bound to follow will be hard to replace. During But during the 1884-6 ile Campaign
the last few years the Navy has changed there was ample opportunity to judge
out of all recognition. The seoman's the amount of resource our brothers in
clothes, which be exco took a great arms could boast of, and I am bound
pride in, or most of them did, are all to say it was of a very minute descrip- tion. Some may say that the Nile made on the slop system. Raw material is no longer carried for the use of the Campaign was unique, and the soldier
scamon. Certain stock sizes are carried was suddenly dumped into an unusual
by the clothing department, and the element. Tras, certain aspects were
man must take the nearest fit he can unique, but food is food all the world
get. Should it require altering he must
The Feking Government has directed the lying off Woolwich Arsenal. The H. E. Tang Shao-ri to visit England station with a cargo of condomed Govern vessel had just returned from the China after his mission to America is accost
meat stores. When she was ten days out plished. He is to inquire into something from Hongkong a case of beri beri occurred important councoted with a political amongst the 47 Chinese on board. When question. the Mercedes arrived at. Gravesend the
this data subject to rent. Goods per Rendaran undelivered after
this date subject to rent. Goods per Oriental not cleared at. 4 p.m.
on the date subject toʻront. WEDNESDAY, September 93:
"
6.16 p.m.-Meeting of Victoria Racres
tion Club, at Gymnsalam, 6.10 p.m.-Meeting of Kowloon Cricket
Club, at Club Pavilion. TRUESDAY, September 24:---
Gooda per Prin: Waldemar undelivered
After this date subject to rent.
FXWAY, September 25:-
T
crow were examined.. No case of iss
was then found on the ship, but on the 14th of August shortly after reaching the Arsenal, Chan Chung, a fireman, complained of fever, and died anddenly late at night. Capt.. Goodwin, R.A.M.C., Woolrich Arsenal, who had nada s post-mortem examination of the body, stated that there was no trace of infectious disease, and that death was probably due to augins pectoris, arising E in could ent from an enlarged heart-
over, and my experience was that the do it himself. But there lies the sailor would make a feet, while the sol-dificulty. Many
dier starved and grumbled. If there is out and make a snit of clothes, bot one thing the soldier excels in, it is low can pull to pieces and build up
5.30 pm-Meeting of Hongkong St. grumbling. He seems to have a grow! afresh so, as to make it present
Andrew's Sonety at City Hall, SATCEPAT, September 26 →→
Noon-Meeting of Hongkong Cotton Spinning Woring & Dyeing Co., Ldr, at Masers Jardins, Matheson Co.'s Office. TUESDAY, October G
4.30 p.m.Auction of Lossenshold Pre- party, at Mr Gao, P. Lammart's Sales Rooms.
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Mr Consul General Willor returned ready for any and everything that able. This has been recently recog from the Philippines by the Tean to day. comes in bis path. The writer once nised, and men are now being trained |
At Centre Street, West Paint, a took passage in a transport, as one of as tailors' to alter, and keep in repair thiness woman committed suicide by
a very few seamen, the remainder of the kits of the ship's company. Soon
the cargo being odds and ends from there will not be a man capable of sew- different regiments then serving in ing on a button; indeed, at the present Egypt. Coming from a man-af-war time one frequently meets a man who, where everything was rough and ready, when found fault with, says I can't so to speak, we felt suddenly dropped repair it, sir.' Iteady-made clothes may into heaven. The accommodation was he a great convenience, ready-made food good, the food excellent, and the may be a great blessing, but the Naval variety certainly much superior to what man will soon drop-down to the level we had been accustomed to. Well! not of the soldier, and fail to move
many days had passed before we were without to use a common expression. approached by a few, what we should
term in the Navy Sen-Lawyers, as to whether we thought the food was fit for
taking opiuma on Thursday.
The Hon. Reginald Lister, Councillor to the British Embassy in Paris, exceeds Sir
G. Lowther as British Minister at Tangier.
CHINA'S NAVY,
NEW HEAD. SUGGESTED.
(Wah Tas Yot Po's Service.)
FERI, September 17. Chiang Chih-rung and Yuan Shi-kat recommend that Yan Cheung is compe tent to take the post of President of the Naval Board.
THE TOBAGOD TAX.
SUGGESTED INCREASE
IMPRACTICABLE:
(Wah Ti Yut Po'z Bereite.)
PERING, September 18.
The arrangement for the taking over by
The proposed increase of the cigarette Beleinum of the Congo Free State includes tax has been reported upon by the payment of £2,000,000 to King Leopold Curtis Commissioner General no being
for giving up his rights.
The Venice Sanitary Convention has at variance with treaty provisions, and removed quarantine restrictions against therefore impracticable. Hongkong while similar restrictions bare been someved at Madras and Burns.
ready welcome among Mr Sergeants Hong- kong friends.
We note that Mr Philip Sergeant's new
Napoleon's Enchantress” It should have a. he has his mother with him. It is book is entitled "The Empress Josephine,
the intention of the writer to try and belittle his churns in the land forces; they are splendid fellows, and better Mr F. Ellis and ME. W. Godfrey are could do with it for ever. Thie anewer
comrades one could never wish for when appearing for Mr Harry O'Shea in the ibal institutod against him in Shanghai. thrown together. At lus special-job His paper, the China Gozat, is accused of evidently did not meet with the approval he has few equals, but it is the lack of helling Judge Wildey, of the American Alterations and addition to Advertisements of the deputation that waited on our little practical training that makes him so Court. Ofice at 5 Wyndham Street not later than 11 mess, and presently an officer came along dependent on all the vasions camp
Orders for extra cupies of the Cana Man should be sent before 11 am on the day after human beings. We said, Yea, and
Timited. Cash 10 M., Credit 20 da, per
publication. After that hour the supply is
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on Payes 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7, should be sent to our
a. Now Advertisemento: should be sent to
our Ofies at 8, Queen's Bond Central before
investigate the complaint of the followers for his ovary day needs. -$16.50.
Robert Porter & Co.'s
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THERE is well-marked tendency now.
TYPHOON WARNING.
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS IN CHINA
THE EMPRESS DOWAGER'S
VIEWS.
(Wah T-Yut Po's Service.).
PERING, September 18. The Empress Dowager has personally instructed the Grand Councillors flat ☀
abould at any time within the allotted ...The following telegram, from the Ainen period of nine years any Province be can Consolate: General, was received from found to have reached the required
be Manis Observatory at 3.55” p.m. September 18, 1908.-Cyclone or typhoon standard of enlightenment, the Can- developing E of the Visayas Islands. stitution shall be granted to that Pro
viaco forthwith..
The ... Navy is fast travelling on this same path, much to the regret of all trained under the old system.”
KOWLOON TELEPHONE: CABLE CUT..
Teleptonic communication with Bor- con was interrupted for 8 hours this morne
been
Judgment for Flaintif
troops. On this particular day the complaint was that soup, which was very excellent and loaded with preserved vegembles of a úcture that we had never There is a good deal of practical com experienced in the Navy, was insipid, monsense in "An Old-time Seaman's”; being quite devoid of seasoning, What protest. Anything which tends to spoil | happened to the cook, am sure I forget the inndiness of the soldier or the Hongkong, FRIDAY, SEPT 18, 1903, but a few days later it was this particular sailor is to be deprecated. Of course in owing to an underground cable in soup again, and again there was a times change and we have to change Kowloon having exposed and out by vigorous outcry. This time there was with them if we wish to keep abreast of some person unknown. too much seasoning, in fact, someone the general advance, still for all that THE HONGKONG BANK CASE atarted the yarn that it had been made there are many details connected with with salt water. Kettle after kettle was the older order of things. hoth in taken to the upper dock for the officer the Navy and Axtuy which need to make an inspection. Presently an not have been so ruthlessly sacrificed. orderly was sent bidding us to appear The more we can make our soldiers and before this tribunal to hear what we had sailors independent of outside help the to say about it. Whether our insides better it will be for both services; and were copper-lined or not I am at a lose the better able will they be to face the to state, but we one and all thought we sudden emergencies that inevitably arise had never tasted such delicious
in their professrom, soup before, and we were not emggerosing A NEIGHBOR'S KINDNESS. one little bit, it was simply grand. Of 1R W. J. Fuller, J.F., starkeeper,
Rendehham Bouth
whewan woffering from severn crimps Mod
adays to make things as comfortable as possible for everybody, to smooth dow the roughncesco and to eliminate the hardships which our fathers thought so necessary to the proper building up of character and the due maintenance of discipline. In all walks of life we age it; from the highest to the lowest no rank is exempt. The schoolboy has decidedly an easier time to day then did his father; the artisan and mecherac
is protected in a thousand ways unknown
Calle, Ukolera and Dilypho
The Chief Justice, Sir Francis Figgotty gave judgment for the plaintiff, Lau stan Che otherwise Iau Hok Shim, at the Supreme Court to day. Plaintif sod the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corpora tion for the recvery of thirty-four lite deeds, alleged to be the property of plain tif, and wrongfully detained by the bank. defpulante, naked for stay of execution
Hon Mr H, E. Pollock, K., for the
for three months lo cumble the Bank toʻ consider their position.
Mr VL. Slade, for the plaintiff, objected is the action was in China.
Defendants agreed not to proceed against
HATE TELEGRAMS.
(FROM THE **8.G. DAILY NOWS.")
́H&U SHIROHANG AT PORT ARTHUR
TOKYO, September 13. Port Arthur was hung with fings, and
Inter procession took place last night in
honour of the visit of HE Hou Shib- chang, Viceroy of Manchuria.
THE AFTALEMENT OF KOREA.
Tokyo, September 13.- The number of Korean rioters killed, from January down to the end of August, in 876. Those taken prisoner ampum: to 223. Thirty-four rifles and nine guns have been capoured, and there have been 384 encounters between rioters and the troops
YALU FORESTRY.
Torso, September 14. Detailed regulatious for the joint Chinese and Japanese Talu Forestry Company were signed at Mukded yesterday,
The Company will be launched on the 20th instant
watu, otilěrná tôi bé lodged in, a vectral de
to his forebeare, while there is no gain contes, our evidence did not altogolbar | writeo! OH (was onlied to a son, a penghita the plaintiff for three months, and the deeds | saying the fapt that conditions are zauch counterbance that of all the other but who really thánght he won puurt kalp. 00, ter for the soldier und sailor in His it went's long way, and we had to put gave hits the doses of Chande MAJESTY'S Bervice than they were less up with black locks and unemplirnea and in a few hours ha bad qulus KUNST than a quarter of a century ago. Whiletary marke for sathe time. All these fully and alle vormen not quarrelling with the spread of complaints are due to the fact that the po*!
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