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Hongkong. April 16, 1907.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

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MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1909,

DOG SHOOTING.~~

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The Happy Valley in the home of sport in our Colony, and we look upon it as such. When wayport, we mean sport, such

as football, cricket, golf, and also the ** sport of Kinga" These, however havn been recently added to, but we cannot say improve or to upheld the old tendition that that the addition has in any way tonded to

PARIS, community as a whole the proportion of for everybody. With the institution of "slackers" to be found amonget ne is a system of municipal government we STEDET.

fairly largo, Selfishness is rampant in a foal sure that many activities now almost rather unusual degree, and where there moribund would start again to life; is selfishness one may look in vain for men would have an incentive to work any interest to be taken in the general for the common good, and the force of Ready made Day and Even-wall-being of the common weal. We their example must inevitably have

ing Gowns, Paris Models have some excellent lol institutions decidedly stimulating effect upon theatre Britisher loves trae sport. Any in Hata and Toques, of a literary and musical character, yet whole community, intellectually, artio- Laces, Trimmings, Under-bardly one of them can be said to tically, and morally. clothing,Boots and Shoes, Hosiery and Gloves, etc., etc.

HEMOS FOR TO-MORROW.

Auctions.

NEWS OF THE DAY,

morning a policeman may now be seen in

Happy Valley with a gan under bis arm, securely ensconsed beiind soms bree, waite ing for something to make its appestance When it does appear it is in the shape of

THE ANGLO-GERMAI

FRIENDLINESS.

TO BE STRENGTHENED BY

KING EDWARD'S VISIT,

(Exclusive Zervice supplied by Beuter,

Bomboy.)

LONDON, January 18,.

The programme of King Edward's coming visit to Berlin does not include the customary review of troops.

The official Norddeutsche is confident that the visit will strengthen the Anglo-

some poor dog or deg, as the case may be. The Lusitano Football Club are to On Saturday morning one poor beast wes hold a dance on February 6,

dospatched, but two shots was required before the deed was accomplished. We reoegnies the fact that while the training Gerraan friendliness, which has already of the ponics at the Valley is in progress, it is been evinced in the co-operation of the

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posess a healthy vitality. What do we hear nowadays of the Odd Volumes? what numbers comprise the audiences which patmuise the lectures given 679 under the auspices of the Union Church

Saturday's football matches, with notes Literary Club, or the TM.CA.? What on the games, will be found on Page encouragement does the Colony give and 3, to anyone to go to the trouble of pre- paring an elaborate lecture on -A scientific, literary or miscellaneons subject ?None whatever. There is a

10.30 am-Anetion of Meurs Jays'

Whole Stock-in-Trade at No. 14, Den Venz Road,

5 p.m.-Auction of Valuable Postego Blamps, at Mr Geo. P. Iamwart a Sales Boom.

Amusements.

The Standard 01 Company's, barque Comet sustained no injury in running on to the reef in the Pole Tujoh Straite recently

Corporal Russell, of the R.G.A., had while he was taking part in a match on his arieket bag stolen at Happy Valley

pu-Barudiono Grand Cirrus at certain amount of fustian current Causeway Bay.

regarding the musical tastes, ap-Saturday. titudes, and abilities of Hongkong, yet

$ p.m.-Performanod at City Hall

Miscellaneous

.

somewhat dangerous for dega to be allowed.

THE TURKISH ARMY.

to scamper over the courses, but surely a British and German troops in west more humane manner of getting rid of them world be to station some coolies round the

Africa. enclosure, or particularly at the village and, where it is said these dogs come from, armed with switches or something of that

the desired effect. If the Captain Super- sort, and we feel sure that this would have

intendent of Police has issued'drder that all degu found straying on the Valley wore

TO BE REORGANIZED.

(Better's Strvica toʻtha Chino Mall r Copyright protected under Ordinance 3 of 1894)

LONDON, January 16,

A fire which started at the rear of the to be shot at sight we wonder if His Ex- Register of Shares of West Point Build- the Philharmonie Society has a des-Palico Hotel, Cobu, was not put out untiDelaney the Governor is aware of the fact 1 perate struggle to make ends meet and nearly half a million pesos worth of damage be allowed, and we feel sure that if it was We hardly think so, otherwise it would not

brought to the Governor's notice the. At Constantinople it has been propo- ordet would be rescinded at once. Bssed to employ the British, French, and

Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Bocisty

ing Co., Ld., closes from this data to 18th Jan., inclusive. Register of Shares of Hongkong Land investment & Agecey Co., L., closes from this date to 28th inst., inclusive, Goods par Awa Maru not cleared on

thla date subject to rent.

General Memoranda. WEDNESDAY, January 90:-.

2.80 p.m.-Auction of Silvar-War, &c., at Mr Gev. P. Lammert's Sales Dooda per Lutzow andallvered after this Goods per Andalusia undelivered; after

Rooman.

date subject to rent.

this date subject to rent. THURSDAY, January 21 ---

10.30 a.m.-A notion of Household For

Sales Rooms.

sometimes can only manage one concert was done.

in the season. True the AD,C. if

Frederick Beid, an anemployed ong- it puts on a modern musical comedy-ineer, was fined one dollar at the Magi-den are we sou a branch of the Halina Gendarmery officers in re- stay today by Mr J. H. Kemp for being in Hongkong 1. We used to have, but we organizing the gendarmary and other drank and incapable in Queen's Road Central.

are afraid that like many another local vilayets at Macedonia. institution it has died a languishing death

save the mark-can dmw crowded audiences to the Theatre Royal for a week. But that is another story. The Volun toer movement, also, dess not Hourisk. as it should in a community composed of such a large proportion of young men as we possess; it is, perhaps, only another

instance of the slackness which has

There were 323 European and 172

Chinese visitors to the City Hall Library, and 185 European and 2,545 Chinese risitors to the Museums during the week

euding 17th January,

In connection with Harmaton's cirons,

nitare, at Masars Hughes & Bouga spread like a dry rot throughout the f which opens to-night at Causeway Bay, a

8.15 p.m.-Annual Meeting of Y.M.CA. Goods per Karonga undelivered after

the date subject to rent. Parody, Januncy 99 :--

Erebauge Banks Cloved Chinese New Year.

Gooda por Malta not cleared at á p.m.

on this date subject to rent.

| Saturday, January 29 :—

Mr A. J. Brackenbury, Private Secretary,

9. Delhi

Colony.

special servico. of cars will run between the venue and the Post Office before and after each performaNCE,

Regarding civic life in Hongkong, of course, a rather different set of conditions

P. Fladgate, the third officer of the confronts us, though some of the... Zafiro, was charged at the Marina underlying causes are the same. There is Court to-day with deserting his ship on the 15th inst. The ass wun remanded, but the barest skeleton of civic life visible

to HE the Governor, leaves by the here because the Government olcadikand defendant was allowed bail in $190.

agenda"

Gooda per Slavonia undelivered after

this date subject to rent. Monday, January 25:--

Goods per Polynesien auclaimed after this date at Noon will be subject to rent and landing charges. THURSDAY, January 28 :—

11.15 s..- Meeting of Hongkong Land Reclamation Co., Id., at Co.'s Offices. 11.30 a.m.-Meeting of The West Point

refuses to allow the opportunities for its development. Freedom to manage its own municipal affairs is one of the strongest instincts of the Anglo-Saxon race Ite roots run back to the primeval Folk-thing which regulated the village affairs of the primitive communities which found sustenance on the sandy beaths lying between the Elbe and the Weser, in those far back Jays before the pressure of population made Communications relating to news should be the hardier chieftains take to this long ships and find a more bountiful living

Building Co., Lt, at Co.'s Offices, Noon-Meeting of Hongkong Land In- vestment & Agency Co., La., at Co.'s Offices.

NOTICE.

addressed to THE EDITOR,

Letters relating to business should be address.

12 THE MANAGER, Onrespondents must forward their nomce and addresses with any communications ad 3,50

dressed to the Editor, not for publication Bus as evidence of good faith,

Per Bottle. $1.05

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Ali letters for publication should be written on one side of the paper only.

No anonymously eigned communications that have already appeared in other papera will be

inserted.

*tion

A now departure in Hongkong is signalised by the issuing of election address by candidates for sosts on the Sanitary Board. Those of Dr Belilios and Dr Fitzwilliams appear in our advertising

columns,

A Chinese barbor for snatching a gold Control yesterday was contanoed, to one ear-ring from woman in Queen's Road

year's hard labour at the Magistracy to-day and was also ordered to receive twenty-four

strokes.

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for want of encouragement. Only tha]

other day we published a letter asking for AFFORESTATION IN THE chickons from the market, but surely this a more humane treatment of carrying; last example of cruelty to animals is

deserving of more than possing notice from those in authority,

SANITARY BOARD

ELECTION.

The nominations, which closed on Satur

UNITED KINGDOM.

A HUGE SCHEME RECOM- MENDED.

(Reuters Service to the Ching Mail: Copyright protected. » under Ordinames of 1894)

LONDON, January 16

day, for the two vacancies on the Sanitary Bourdare se follows:-

A Royal Commission recommende Augustus Shelton Hooper, proposed by an afforestation chama to embrace an Sir Henry Berkely, K.C., seconded by Mr area of nine millices of adres in

D. R. Law.

Gerard N. Lloyd Fitswilliams, M. D., the United Kingdom, the scheme to used by Hon. Mr H. E. Pollock, K.C.,be financed by a loan. seconded by Hou, Mr H, W. Blade.

It is estimated that the income Raphael A. Balilios, M.D., proposed by after eighty, years would amount to Mr W. L. Carter, seconded by Mr F.17 millions, and that the scheme Maitland.

would provide amployment for thou-

Buds.

Horace Parcy Smith, two nomination papan; proposed by the Hon. Mr Wei Yuk, seconded by Mr C. Lafrente proposed by Mr A. J. David, seconded by Mr Ho Fook Wednesdayanan te pa

Folling takes place at the City Hall on

The Bishop of Chichester has just been invested as Provincial Grand Chaplain of

A native was charged at the Magistracy Susser Freemasons by the Duke of Rich to-day with returning from banishment mond and Gardos, P.G.M.

and also with ssealing $400 from a fellow

passenger on the s. a. Fatahan. He was

the second.

in the island of Albion. Our forefathers sentenced to nine months' imprisonment beloved in the principles underlying on the fire charge and three months on the system of the village council and they have transmitted the instinct in much of its pristine vigour to their descendants. But the powers-that-be in Hongkong have steadily ignored the just demands which the Colony has from time to time

The manager and the city editor of} El Renacimients, of Manils, have been

put forward for leave to manage its purely municipal affairs. Even when

sentenced to six months' imprisonment and

The Pope has conferred the Order of

night of St. Sylvester, on Mr John Melville, ex-superintendent at Scotland Tar, for the services he rendered be

AMERICA AND VENE. ZUELA.

DISPUTES TO BE REFERRED TO THE HAGUE

(Reuter's Service to the China Mai Copyright protected under

Ordinemos

of 1804)

LONDON, January 16. The United States and Venezuela

European society, in protecting the lives have agrood upon a basis for the of kings and other rulers, during has long settlement of their existing disputes professional career.

by a reference to the Hague Tribunal,

AMERICAN TRAIN DISASTER.

According to a Tokyo telegram printed heavily fined for libelling Dean Worcester, by N. O. Daily Neus, the four of the one of the members of the Philippine Com-Koraan Emperor through the southern mission. The sentence is expected to have

portion of his dominiona is having a salutary a good effect."

effect. Among others it is noticed that many Enzens are now cutting of their top-knots.

With the goncurrence of the Bishop of

Kobe Mara was leasing the Central Wharf, A few days ago, while the steamer

Orders for sarà copies of the 'Chewa Mari. should be cut before 11 am. on the day after publisation. After that hour the supply is 1.50 limited. Cash 10 ct.. Credit 20 cts, the Chamber of Commerce undertook at Shanghai, for Dolny, the wash of her pro- the diocese, the Athanasian Creed will no Alterations and additions to Advertisements the Government's request to ascertain peller drove a large sampan filled with longer be used in St. John's Cathedral, FINEST PALE DRY, NUITY 2,15 am Pages 1, 2, 8, 6 and 7, should be sent to the the fealing of ratepayers on the subject wharf, where the frail craft was dashed to recital. This tee step, following the seven passangers underneath Heard's Hongkong, on the days sot apart for ite

pieces against the piles and six of the pas- example of the Church of Ireland, the angers were drowned before help could Anglican church in Japan, and elsewhere, reach them-Shanghai Mercury.

should meet with a great deal of approval.

Chilon Rail-price at Matinees only to all SUPERIOR LIGHT INVALID,

PORT:

Play Wednesday and Saturday.

Per Bottle,

BOOKED SEAL CAPSULE......$1.25

Performance at 3,30 .. therp.

parts of the Circus.

Font Office and the Circus before and after the performance.

D

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Box at Chairs... $18.00 Single Beat in Boa... 8.00 Dross Circle Chairs, 2.00 Stall Carpeted Seste)..... 1.00 ellery.

0.50

COL. R. LOVE Manager. Heizkosy, January 11, 1209,

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VICTORIA CINEMATOGRAPH.

EVERY SATURDAY,

GRAND MATINEE, 4 p.m.

Songs by Miss MONTEZ and MES LAURA DIAMOND

EWO PERFORMANCES NIGHTLY

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Telegraphis Address: Mail, Hongkong. Telephone No. 33.

The China Mail.

A SIGN OF THE TIMES

a.m. Now Advertisements should be sent in and obtained a practically unanimous bafora 3 p.m.

vote in favour of local autonomy, the Colonial office flouted this expression of opinion and took steps to Get up the During the early hours of this mom- emasculated institution which we knowing a burglary was committed at No. 46.

Connaught Road West. It

Eppears that i as the Sanitary Board, wherein the entanco was effected by means of the use popularly elected members are in a of a sliding door, the thief evidently minority and are too frequently given to rasting his hand through the aperture and sliding back the bolt. He then got parlerstand that their opinions are away with sorestoon picoes of clothing, HONGKONG, MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1809, listened to or rejected at the whim or valued $60, and money to the extent of inolination of the official majority. No$1,500. The police have the matter in

handi wonder then that in times past we have heca presented with some

Le pitiable

The Bar of Carice Printing and Fab- THE nomination of four candidates to tacles in the way of public apathy and of the most artistle calendars we have seen lishing Company of Yokohama, send us one

contest the two racant seats on the lack of interest in urgent social con- this year. It is a triumphant picos of Sanitary Board is, we hope, the larbinger cars, and things have happened to the ye sabdued tiuts, of Kusunoki Mannshige, colour printing, a beautiful study in warm, of a revival of a better state of things in dediment of the Colony which might the famous warrior statesman of the first the public life of the Colony. Hitherto never have come-about-had thaze bean half of the 14th century. Kusunoki is it has been frequently asserted, sod

s depicted in an hour of idleness playing the any decent civic spirit in the place. gakkin, of which instrument he was a con- with all due gravity, that Hongkong's Let us hope that we are now on the noisseur. We congratulata Mesara Thom These Wines are specially recom- principal output, youy in year out, is an threshold of a healthier er, and that the & Sous on hair truly artistic handiwark manded, being af superior vintage, old, abnormal variety of slackeres that awakening of a sense of common interest and thoroughly matured, and, in fun there is no civic lite in the placa: tha: publicspirited men can be counted on

NOTE--Fort, after removal, should be

rested for a Month before use.

Wine required for IMMEDIATE use should be ordered to be decanted before: being sent out.

condition.

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will be the precarior of better things to

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come. The Sanitary Board, however the fingers of one hand, and that public opinion, what little there is of that must be remodelled; it must become precious commodity, goes for naught so purely elective body and be given power

▲, 8, WATSON ₺00, far as the administration of the place is to govern our town life so other Angior concerned. We have always considered Saxon communities are allowed to do

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this to be too sweeping an indicimant, for The strangling grip of the Colonal

of course it can not be sustained in its

Catirety.

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FIFTY KILLED THIRTY: INJURED.

(Reuter's Service to the Chins Mail: Copyright protected under Ordinona 3 of 1894)

LONDON. Jautary 17. As the result of the wrecking of the Denver-Rio Grande train at Glenwood Springs, fifty persons were killed and

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