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PARIS, effect the desired purpose of Reform, they now occupy. But meanwhile the whereas the crying need now, as ever, present condition of affairs in Fubkion is for "men," house!, faithful, self is anything but cheering for a social denying men who will put public reformer to contemplate. Ila terrible, interest before personal benefits, and stagnant apathy must be town away will be willing to risk something before anything good can be accom- themselves in order that. China may plished. But where will the breeze take her place among the strong arise?, nations of the world.

CLEARANCE

SALE

NOW ON.

MARRIAGE

As regards the part of the Province recently visited by our correspondent be finds that trade in decreasing rapidly. Both in quantity and quality exports are za much less than ten or twenty years Faper, tes, lumber were all flourishing industries until recently, but

Forsuzu-Mark.--(in the 24th March at

KLEMOS FOK TO-MORROW, ·

Meeting.

dre

SHACKLETON'S ACHIEVE-

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THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1908,

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The German Mal of the 24th February was delivered in London on the 24th isat. HGG

· A practice for the grand military tatto held on the Hongkong Cricket Club ground this morning, and was vory in- testing.

SOUTH POLE TEAR

PEACHED.

WHAT THE SHACKLETON EL PEDITION, REVEALED

British Fing Höisted,

(Reuter's Service to the China Maii; Copyright protected under Ordinancs 5 of 189)

LONDON, March-24 Lieutenant Shackleton's Antärolio

oxpedition, which left New Zealand.

H.E. The Governor was entertained at luncheon on board the U.S.S. Char- leston to-day by Admiral Harbor, at which the following ware also present- Judgo Thayer, General Broadwood, Mr Wilder, Com. Wright, Com. Buchanan, Its dogged that does it "pus the wise Colonel Bayard, Mr H. P. White, Captain in January, 1908, as returned all welk old saying of the Yorkshire tykes and it was Taylor and Captain Heathcote. dogged jiezseverance in the fire of Almost insuperable difficulties which cabled Lisat Shackleton, R.NR., to plaut the British flag at a spot 88 degrees S. 23 min. E. on the 26th of December. Lieut. Shackleton who, we believe, was formerly an officer in the service of the P. and O. Company, was

Lieutenant Shackiston cables to the Daily Mail that he turned back on According to the Japanese pewspapers January 9th when in latitude 33 the volcano of Yakegatake, in Shinsha, degrees 23 minutes 8, and longitude 162 which has been quissant for many years. East, eleven (100) miles distant from broke out Juto activity on the 13th of the Fole. He fixed the magnetic pole in fire simpltaneously with the big earth-latitude 72 degrees 75 min, & and

oruptod.

The British flag was hoisted at both points.

LATER.

Shackleton describes the narrow, de- In the Daily Mail Lieutenant-

capes and the grens hardships OI-

A contemporary records a very pretty joddent in the intercourse of the two monarcha at Berlin. When the King, who

overesat on his arrival, the Kaiser took the garment out of the hands of the servant degrees of latitude.

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St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, by the rapidly decaying and utter rain lies Rav. F. T. Johnson, M.A. GEORGE ahead unless some means are devised to GRANVILLE SUTHERLAND, Joungest son of the late Rev. W. Forsyth, D.II. of aber improve the situation. It is not because cand in command of the expedition which take which did so much damage in Yoko Longitude 154 Fast netby, Strailepoy, N.B.. to MARGUERITY

Commander Scott lead to the Astarotio ahama. A great quantity of ashes were Bazar, eldar daughter of the late Frank the natural advantages are less than few years go, and the story of their perils, |Mair, Esq,, of Dundee, N.B.-

before, but somehow or other a blight adventures, and the partial achievement of their object is admirably told in "The sears to have fallon upon the district, Voyage of the Discovery." On reading perhaps because opini, gambling, thons thrilling pages the merge man

that the men, who suffered the privations of the people. From a scenic point and discomforte which that book describes would have had enough of Antarctic ex iture,&e., at Mr Geo. P. Laraments of view this is one of the most glorious ploration to last them for the rest of their himself. Not only did he do this, but he twenty ounces daily--and had to

portions of China-magnificent moun-lives. But the Lure of the Unknown Goods per Bendoron undelivered affortains, fertile valleys, enormous forcats exerts a great a fascination over the bonita of men in the twentieth century as it did in the day-dawn of history when Ulyssos set out on his voyaging, and the Phoeni clans penstrated to Ultima Thule in quest of strange things wherewith on their return to startle the minds of home-keeping youths. So Shackleton tried again and this time has nearly succeeded in reaching the goal of his hopes.

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of pine, fir, camphor, bamboo, and other trees, plenty of water in innumerable streams and rivers, their

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this data subject to rent, Monday, March 20:----

and rapids-indeed, one is rarely far 10a.m.-Military Gun Practics. 2.30 p.m.-Auction of Chine Bronzas away from the music of running water Jade & Ivorien, &c., at No. 15, Peak in travelling through the district. Road (Upper Albany). WEDNESDAY, March 31:--

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APATHETIC FUHKIEN.

Though the South Pole has set yet been really reached, Lieut. Shackleton hea pene tasted so far South that he has discovered the end of the earth to be raised up in a lump, some ten thousand fact high, and on this dreary plateau, he beliovos she Polo to be situated.. Another discovery he has made is that the reputed Pular calm does not exist. Rizards, fiercely drifting

who brought it sad put it on his guest They were on reduced rations--

insisted on fastening all the buttons with fight against blizzarde travelling the greatest care. Perhaps Edward VII. seventy miles an hour, in drifting is the only King in all history who has ever snow and 72 degrees of frost. The besu valeted by an Emperor.

party, frostbitten, reached latitude 88 degrees, 23 minutes 8 on the 16th of De cember where there is a plateau tex thousand feet high.

d Lieutenant Shackliton believes the Pole is situated on this plateau. =

The reputed Polar calm is nonexis taut

FLOGGING.

No scurvy was enfiored by the mem- ber of the expedition throughout the voyage, but there was some dysentery, the effect of eating horseflesh.

BERESFORD RETIRES.

REMARKABLI POPULAR

DEMONSTRATION.

(Beuter's Service to the China Mall;

Copyright probcted under Ordinance 3 of 1894)

LOSTON, March 24,

The Japan Mail writans it really necessary, wo wonder, to add Blogging to im prisonment in punishing Chinese criminals? So long as we can remember, the practicn in the Hongkong Supreme Court lass been such, and though ocasional protests have not been wanting, the thing has gone on without interruption. The present Chief Justlos, Sir Francis Piggott, is just the man to put a stop to the custom if he deem that public morality would be saUE=" ed by so doing. Usage would count for The Mlina Mail enterprise costly at the outset but ell snow and frost off degrees intensity are very little in his eyes. Yat he showe what one finds in this uninhabitable region no sign of a disposition to abandon the efforts of exploitation would be amply of the earth, surely the weirdest, most in autom.

On the 24th of February his There are hospitable place imaginable. HONGKONG, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1500, repid in the long run.

Honour sentenced no less than 7 men to enough minerals to make much of the Englishmen mist feel a gearous thrill | bo whipped, in addition to long terms of Province a "Black Country," were thening through them to-day when they imprisonment. It seams to us, and it must read of what their countryman las achieved.scim, we think, to all who pause to think, hidden wealth duly brought to the He has nobly sustained the reputation of that by thus taking up and applying in a West a remarkably varied province surface, as it surely will be some day.

Lerd Charles Beresford, in hauling the race and may take his place with that British Court of is a practice which down his flag at Portsmouth yesterday, noble band of heroic express-Frobisher, figures araang the recognisat abuses of Fubkien is, and yet how backward in Another proof of the backwardness of Gilbert, Davis, Franklin, Naxes, to mention Chinese Coarts, either the latter are thanked the large crowd that had many ways! It has not begun to share this part of the Province is the continued but a few-who dared the perils of the icy justified or the former is degraded. Eug-assembled to bid him farewell. Bo very much in the new life which alrendy use of opprobrions epithets. Whereas regions, not for the sake of material gain is criminals are no longer logged, be emphasized the Admiralty's authority to

but for the pure joy of explestion. The case it is clearly recognised that such renova ally one of its officers or men. has metamorphosied many of the North in the region within, say 100 to 130 miles merchant service will be proud of Shack treatment fatally breaks down a man's A remarkable popular demonstration felon, for he comes of the ace and the er sud Central provinces. One of our inland from Amoy, where the Amoy breed which has taken the old red ragelf-respect and correspondingly dimi-awaited Lord Charles Beresford at correspondents recently had an op-dialect is spoken, one seldom now hears to the uttermost confines of the earth.

nishes his chances of ever again becoming Waterloo. a respectable member of society. The portunity of revisiting a portion of the the term "Foreign Devil," this term

penal tribunals thus become destructive of Ting Chow Prefecture after five years, is in most frequent rise in the Ting Chiu

morality instead of constructiva. Does a Chinaman's self-respect belong to a cate and he was struck more by the Prefecture. Education is much more) F.M.S. Bedford was flying her paying interior order of bong that his sones of Second Subscription List.

gory of lighter gaalities! Le ho auch an continued deterioration than by any backward and the newer influences do off pannant this morning.

shaine is not impaired by treatment which WHISKY manifest signs of reformi.

reduces an Englishman to despair! If so, The roads, not seem to baro penetrated far he finds, are in a worse condition, the among the recesses of the mountainous now policed at in annual est of Tls the ground right to attack thom on the second list of substriptions to the pro-

The model settlement of Shanghai is

the Chinese; roadside is are dirtier and more region. Whether it is because very few 684,000, exactly double what it cost in their judiciary worse. They can answer pose Hongkong Univanity

simply, our laws suit us, and so does our Previously acknowledged untidy: the number of empty houses people from the district go abroad, or

method of administering them. You your Mr Sin Tak Fan is far greater; indesd, in plenty of because they baye seen fewer foreigneri

selves show by your practice that you do Yuen Shing and Co..... The Shanghai Valunteers will cost the pot asteams us worthy of better things. Yeat Hing Lung and Co. instances, the houses have collapsed than the older region, it comes upon one Municipality Tls. 19,875 this year; the toporary's protests and adds Bratal Kweng Man Tai The Jupes Chronicie endorses its cou. You at Hong and scores are in process of rapid decay somewhat as a shock to have the offen-Fire Brigsėę T75, 43,020.

Municipal Public Band Tle. 41,440, and the punishment does not care barbarism. The Hop Hing Hong The not infrequeal rest-houses on the sive title flung at the stranger in every

Hongkong Courts are checking penal ro Tak Dhoong Hong Form in Chion by their action in ordering Mr Yeng Hai Pong

Mr Kin Tai Long main roads are also in tad` repair. In town and village. Funkien shows the Country Challenge Cup, hold under the high ethiant standpoint of the two journals Mg too far

The final run for the Broke Croas prisoners to be fogged."

We admire and quite appreciate the Mr Ng How C fact, the one word that most filly folly of any generalization in dealing with auspices of the HK,A.A.A, will take quoted above, but we think that had they

Ming Yue Tai... descrites much of this part of the China, the heal differences are innumer plaec next Sunday, starting from the Kew more intimate knowledge of the true Time Shing Tat

loon Cricket Club.

conditions of thinge prevailing among the Hung Kee Hong province is "dilapidation," it applies to able, and affect habita and customs as

Ficus and criminal classes in Hong Man Fat Cheung- village and town alike, as well as to the well as the vernacular. The morality

ong they would have written differently. King Wo Hong.... The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice It was only after a copro of mild

Mr Uan La Phuon punish- main arteries of trafo both by road and of the mountain district is worse than in Memorial azid Affliated Hospinte bega toments had completely failed in its object Yue Wo Lang

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Thero Beetas to this keen observer, so far as external marks go, an utter ab- acase of "public spirit" ; nobody seems freedoia and intercourse between the at the Bankruptcy Court, this morning, from the record of the particular form of THIS medicus is well known for los

crime, and that immediately following an THE is motor to care in the least, from the Mandarin sexes and this leads to much open im-granted an order for adjudicition in the when the charge sheet was the which is always more or less prevalent at

the result has been most salutary. The last CHAMBERLAIN'S COLIC, CHOLERA The Chief Justice, Sir Francie Piggott, wo months ahow a complete disappearance AND DIARRHOEA REMEDY..

bie ramshackle untidy Yamen to the

case of the Hang Wab firm. Mr F. X. Al-kaviest on record. morality; immense sums of money are made e Castro applied for the ajudication

agriculturalist in his cften dirty and unwasted on the temples and in feasting order on behalf of the debtor.

comfortable house. All friends of China are thankful for the promise of reform made by the Government at Foking, and for all the many proofs of true apprecia tion of China's necessities manifested by

the

and this helps to keep the people poor. What is needed is not so much a new religion saa new individual and social morality; not a mere external l'airiotis that utters the parrot-ery "China for the Chinese" and demandas unity of feeling

Mr Morgan Phillips who proposed the resolution at the Shanghai Ratepayers meeting that the Yadkinggang be culvert- ed, war sonrcoly complimentary to the

military man who had reported in favour of that creek being retained as Shanghai's first line of defence. In one part of his address he said...Those of the Hongkong

to drive out the hated foreigner, but a Generals I have known were gentlemen of

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Prince Regent, but in face of what is to be seen in Fubkiem, a natural fear arises that most of these attempts at reform will tail of their purpose bocause incere Patriotiem which shall lead to great amiability, and the most courtly ap pastice and manner, but as far as fight of the apathy and indifference of the moral revolution whereby the man who ing was concerned or tacties, in my ex- mass of the people. There is a sad really here the true interests of the perience in Hengkong, it was the General's

wife who did all the skirmishirg.” lack of interest in the new regime; nọ

people at heart shall unite to make One seems willing to sacrifice anything to best of what Providence has to improve the situation.

endowed them with. In intellect and Whether the coming constitution will effect a much industry alike Chica is an enigma: the is full of wealth while superficially desired Change Temzing to be sen, but

poor. The Chinese people also are no difficult to sec where a sefficient number of or less an enigma for they are full of interested, well-educated, loyal men power and ability, too often excercised, The German, as soon as he vigorating. are to be found, worths of

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