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formed into public charges by the suppression of the establishments which they belonged, Furthermore, when it in borne in mind that the State will be obliged sconer or later to appro priate enormous sums for replacing of the primary and secondary schools, the idustrial and manual training schools, the agricultural schools, and the various cther educational, philanthropic, and charitable undertakings which have been wiped out of existence, and to provide several millions annually for their maintenance besides, it is evident that the law against the Congregations, considered merely as a financial enter pride, was about as fint a failure as anything could be."

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 26 1909.

HONGKONG ORICKETERS.

“NEWS OF THE DAY,

431 per cent. Victorian Govaramunt Team-of one-and-a-half millions has beco Issued at 98.

THE SHANGHAI MATCH.

(From Our Oun. Correspondend.} As tho Paling Daily News has been

SHurair May 283 the Wawapa is said to ho anxious to obeck match. Shanghai won by 37 runs. criticizing and, mtirizing the Government, Following are the full scores in the

its freedom of comment.

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guard on the saaling grounds of Alaska,

stitute,

SHANGHAI

FIRST INNINGS

リ V, E. Lanning, b Garnett

L. Walker, b Garnett

IF

The Bishop of Victoria will give a series of hyo Bible Readings on the Epistle to the Philippians on Thursdays at 11.30 am Ất his residegen 73, The Park (Mount Kellat), commencing on May 9th,

D. B. McEwan, o Brierley, b Garnett

G. C. Dear, st. Green, b Garnets G. M. Billinge, not out...

The

A: Caruthara, aGreenway, b Garnett

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hardships he encounters in carning bread. But when a mere boy takes to crime, the chances are that He has deliberately chosen crime as a career, because, he has been brought up with false ideals, because he has been given wrong standards of living. The criminal of fifteen to twenty, as a rule, has not even so much as tried to live honestly. During the 24 hours ended at upon

bas grown up to consider work to day there wore two cases of plague noti-Anderson, o Beird, bAnderson dishonourable, to believe that the world, both being Chinese subjects from Capt. Barrett, Lb.w., b Baird

Yaumsti. Oro onded fatally owes him a living, and that it is his

W. H. Moula, a Greaz, b Anderson business to collect the debt by hook

The Amarican government has issued A. Lanning, a Innes, b Garnett... by crook. He becomes a thief

ordura for the maintenance of a cluser C. G. Humphreys, at Green, b swindler because he thinks it a finer Rate by peachers are faamd..

Garnett. thing to be a thief orn swindler than

The Bishop of Victoria bogs to no. be a cabinet-sinker or a plumber."T?

It is rather a gloomy-picture here knowledge the receipt of $368.37 from the presented, but perhaps its shadows have committes of the recent Garden Fete for been mentionally darkened in enhance the equipment of the now Seamen's In the appeal to newspaper readers, over One the most painful consequences attuned to the call of the sensational of the secularization of France, says and bizarre. Be that as it may, However, there is little doubt that France has not Mn. Samous, is to be found in the laiciz-I ation of the hospital service. Religious she fondly imagined had been detar- yet solved manny of the questions which

R. N. Anderson, b Baird nurses have becu replaced by lay mined by the great revolution of over.

The annual Whit-Monday picnic in Capt. Barrett, L5.w., b Baird nurses who are ignorant and brutal a hundred years ago; neither has she Wanchai, will take place as usual to Tai A. Lanning, o Garrett, b Baird

connection with the Wesleyan Church, W, H. Moals, b Baird... Telographic Addrane, Math Hongkong. Suffering is especially rife in provincial succeeded in developing such a condi Mui Temple Lanriches will leave Arsenal. G. Humphreys, a Byrne, b

districts. The same observant writer tion of affairs as best conduces to in- Stroot Fer at 1 pm, while launches will dwells upon the disasters that bare stilling a spirit of content and peaceful also, call at Stonecutters, Kowloon, and

satisfaction among the lower classes of LS. Tamaz at 12.30 p.m. particularly overtaken two forms of the population. That M. CLEMENCEAU, education-agricultural and industrial the Premier, is fulls alive to the needs and Shanghai Bank, loft Shanghai on May Mr W. Adama Oram, of the Hongkong Agricultural instruction based on exact of the nation and ie prepared to grappleth on a year's leave. The pravicus cure, at-No. 11, Conduit Road, Rapeciouce, be says, was introduced into with the problems now confronting him Wednesday night Mr Oram was entertained A. Carruthers, not out

some of the seminarics as early as 1547. is shown by a speech of his, made the at dinner by Mr. H. E. R. Hunter, who "The churchmen were among the Erat, GAMETTA. Ho sud Every-reformer Shanghai branch.

other day at the unveiling of a statue to succeeds him in the management of the The guests included if not the first, to appreciate the mag bas necessarily two enomies-the reac-many of the chief brokers and business men nificant results that might be" obtained | tionary, who wishes to return to forms of Shanghai, A large number of friends by applying the discoveries of science to of government that havo failed, and the assembled on the jetty to bid Mr Om

demagogue, who bids so recklessly for good speed and a pleasant holiday. farming." It is hard to say how may:

popularity, who uses the liberties attain- of these farin schools have been closeded to marshal in their ignorance the Bads," has been soconded for service Lient Anderson, b V. Lanning.....

Lieutenant James R. V. Jackson, The Lient Green, b Carruthers W but one authority puts the figure so popular masses, and to precipitate them under the Colonin! (fice, with effect from Capt. Garnett, e Humphreys, L.V.

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Garnett *** L. Walker, st. Green, b Garnett. : V. Lanning, e Green, Baird

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C. C. Dew, a Green, b Baira... D. R. McEwen, st. Green, b Garrett 82

G. M. Billings; c Beasley, Bagnall

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"HONGKONG. FIRST INNISON. Capt Beasley, c A. Lanning, b Ham.

phreys ..

bigh as to indicate that the total into enterprises of violence at the risk rosted has been filed by the promotion Capt. Baird, b Länning...

ture, &c., at Eyrie, Ko. 13, The agricultural instruction in France of ending in the worst of reactions. of Second Liotenart O. E. G. Davidson, Lieut. Bagnall, c V. Lanning.c

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been reduced almost half, with no prevision for replacing what has been lost. "It would not be easy, to discover an example of greater folly in the history of modern peoples."

Turning to another aspect of tho present situation, Mr. Sassens declares

It is our role to live in the present and to face calmly and resolutely the problems it sets before us." This is an admirable spirit to cultivate, and therein lies the hope of France..

ad Battalion, Hongkong" Lieutenant Davidson received his commission in *The Buffs" in August, 1965, and has put in most of his asrvice in the Bad Battalion in

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Billings Lient. Byrne, e Dew, Billiega Lient. Innes, c Barreit, b Humphreys 28 Second Capt. Brierley, c Walker, b Hum

phreys · ?.

South Africa and the Est. Lieutenant N. S. Hart, "The Bufs," whe was a safemunerary to the establishment Lient. Crookenden, c Walker, b whilst employed as aido-de-camp to his

Billings... father, Sir Reginald Bart, R.C.B., Inte commanding the troops in Cape Colony,

Capt. Greenway, not out

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COOLIES AND FISH-TANKS. ·

The discussion at the Sanitary Board Goods par Sydney unclaimed after this that the French themselves are becom- meeting on Tuesday in regard to the ques has been restorvik te tão establishmoat..

date as Noon will be subject to renting aired at the increase in crime, kets has served a desful purposa.

tion of responsibility at the public ranc- and landing charges.

Mr THE STAR CINEMATOGRAPH. Gooda per Benmohr andelivered after wakina ERICSĊning Mecretary, in which he called attention to a

SECOND INNINGS. and its cause, iz his opinion, is called t

Cupt: Benaley, Walker, b Billings-10- This place of amusement is becoming Lieut. Green, c Walker, b Billings 25 of religious restraints. An American T breach of sanitary laws by a coolie increasingly popular with the public, thanks Lieut. Anderson,c and b Humphreys 22 consul-general of a large provincial city solved the amount of consideration that mont. A special attraction for the present Capt. Baird, o Moule, b Billings

employed in the fish market, hardly ra. to the cortizond enterprise of the manage: Capt. Garnett, e Lanning, b Billinge 66 told him that he and all his neighbours was its dat. From the language used the week is being provided in the engagement

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invariablywent armed fox fear of the public were led to infer that officialdom of Dante," the marvellous magician. Lieut. Bagnall, a Lanning, b Billings 24

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while the phrase "after dark" could before & largo audienco, and proved himself Lieut. Innes, not out,

responsibilities, Last night be made his first appearance Lieut. Byrne, b Billings... mitigate the offence, on the supposition, of conjuring were most bewildering through- Lient. Crookenden, b Billings only have been introducol in order to an illusionist of the first order. His feats Capt. Brierley, b Billings we suppose, that what the eye docen't out, concluding as they did with the Capt. Greenway, b. V. Lanning see the heart won't grieve.". But thi cremation act" or the burning of a livo isouciant bearing on the part of the man. The pictures, too, are well worth

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Shelton Hooper and he pressed his ques- but in theme instructivo as well as amusing. authorities was not to bo tolerated by Mr staing, not only being distinct and clear tions until he had obtained from the Hand There should be full houses all this week, of the Sanitary Board the admission that

the official who is responsible for seeing that the marketa aro conducted in scor-

buon, a long-established custom, we under

A DESERTER FROM

HONGKONG.

Kitchen, a stoker in the Royal Navy, who Wont out by his wanderings, Harry surrendered to the Nottingham police on on the 17th April, confessing he was a

deserter, related a remarkable experience. kong in April-last, and embarking s He left His Majesty'a ship Hart at Hang- second-class passenger made his way to Shanghai. Being stranded at the latter

vessel na & stowaway, but being discovered

-Total

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Billings took eight wickets for 73 runs, Laaning one for 72, and Humphreys ono for 39.

The golf match has been abandoned.

THE SHANGHAI ALHAMBRA.

(From

BLOCKADE RAISED.

own Correspondent.

SHAKOBA, May 26, The blockade at the Alhambra was ›

From there, after being accommodated at It is stated that at Peking the membera assilor's home, be worked his passage to of Legation are indignant at the California, and from an American port Municipal Council's procedure. subsequently succeeded, by similar means,

in reaching Liverpool, whones he tramped to Nottingham, which in within a few miles TEARNS HEADACHE CURx absolutely authorities. Mractised was handed over to the naval opiates, no had after-effacta. It will not of his native plaen, Sutton-in Ashield. The cures headaches of all kinds. No tail. All chemists. Insist on Steatas, 33

"Apaches" (gans of thugs). In Paris According to the official reports of the the "Apaches are estimated at 30,000:

Minister of Justice, for a number of years preceding 1904 there was an annual increase of about 5,000 crimes, The strikes which have been paralyzing which was not counterbalanced by any the Department of Commununications in corresponding "increase in population. France, though now happily at an end, The chairman of the committee on have caused a good deal of attention to judiciary reform of the Chamber of dance with sanitary requirements is the be directed upon the Republic by those Depaties recently reported to that Madini Uicer of Health. We hope students of the times who desire to body an increase of 30 per cont.

that we shall tot hear of any more cases of coolics immorting themselves in prohe 19 the bottom of such movements since 1901 in the total number of the fish tanks even after dark," but know- as to ascertain their underlying crimes in the country. If the last five ing the cookies to be but famas and Chin- motives and their probable effect upon years alone are considered, the criminal Oficer of Health not to relax for a moment se at that we would advise the Medical. the governed and the governing classes.

more appalling. his vigilance in the interests of hygiene and On the whole foreign journalists take Criminality,' says the eminent scienist sanitation alike, for, as a matter fact it has rather a gloomy view of the present and sociologist, Dr. GCTAVE LEDOS, and, for the cocles to eller the place, he secreted himself on a Japanese removed to-day pending the case to be ORIENTAL

condition of affairs in France and more has augmented in proportions that are whenever they wished to tako fish out, in on the voyage he was landed at Nagasaki,ought before the Court of Consule, Turkish Bath Salt discontent among the profeturiat fors murders, while the sum

than one declares that the increasing veritably terrifying: 30 per cent. for the order to save themacives time and rouble. Softens the water, and imparts a delightfuture. The entire divorce between This statement almost passes belief, but shadows a great catastrophe in the nearoriminality has doabled in five years.

DEATH OF MR ROBERT ful fragrance to the skin.

D. WATT. church and state which the last few Dr. Loy is an authority whose word Robert D. Watt, superintendent engineer

We regret to annoubes the death of yenis have seen, is attributable in dingoes. "In this connection, another of the Taikoo Docks, which sad event A, 8. WATSON & 00, all degree, in the opinion of many dreary and dreadful fact (which no one occurred at his residence at Quarry Bay on

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average age of criminals is getting typhoid fever and Dr. Black was in attond... workingman when he saw the Congres to be younger and younger. More than apro. tions expelled and Charch property 60 per cent of the immates of the Watt had been in the employ of Messrs For more than twenty years the late Mr confiscated, imagined that the money thus obtained would be devoted to the

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- befooled. At least that is the theory such a terrible rate ? "It would not be passing the Monument at. 3 o'clock.

The funeral is to take place this evouing advanced by Mr. Gaspory, an American air, of course, to assign this abominable journalist, who has spent the best part state of things to any one cause; but it House of Lords contained a severa indict Lord Robert's recent speech in the of his life in France. Writing in the

is scripin that the lack of religious ment of Mr Haliano's Territorial Army Boston Traveller upon the result of instruction at the public schools and the scheme Lord Roberts said. An imy the separation of Church and State truancy and juvenile grancy due to foreign invasion We have neither su

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