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bafternoon, a
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THE TROUBLE NEAR MACAO.
SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1910
RAMBLING NOTES.
In those protis times it makes one rub
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of the thought.. but I can't restrain tho suggestion, that the Honourable Member would be a strange agreement which could scarcely meant what he was saying. It als eyes when the newspapers come out be rendered completely null and void be with thrilling tales of a piratical foray right sideration which he thought reasonably
csusa a bumble employen asked for con
PIRATES STILL SURROUNDED.
Although the island of Colowan is still at Hongkong's back door. Whoa the due, It is understood that in August or Sop surrounded by Portuguese troops affairs Colony was drst started pirates were s
Ono nocasionally finda one's salf in a bit tommier a Siamese commission will visit are considerably subdued, the authorities plentiful in its neighbourhood as black-
I of a predicament amid the social whirl of purpose of arranging #proférring to allow the robbers to surrender borries are in an English lane in August the East. A friend of mine tells me that England for tho
and Great Britain had a good deal of ho has received from a lady friend a very contracts for the supply of a large quantity or cleu they will be starved out.
The Red Cross Society is still at work trouble in exterminating the posts. But kind invitation. Bab vnfortunately it is arms and munition, batteries of heavy
whoro practicable, roscuing the wounded, we suucsedod and the goatloman of piratical written in a backhand semwi, and ho ge, and the like.
doesn't know whether it is an luribe to jo whom every attention and consideration instincts cleared to other and more dinner" or to tennis." He has spent The Secretary of State has communicat-is being shown.
congenial places in the hope of pursuing The subjugation of the pirates soonts their pofarious calling, with a mers reason to the Government of India that Inscary ön vesaola registered in the British Isles now only a question of time as in any aventable amount of security, are subject to the,, provisions of the the besieged outlaws are bound either to
The Canton dalts has been a haunt of Employers Liability Act and entitled to surrender, starve or taka their own lives.
a couple of hours in trying to decipher the word, but can only recogubo a couple of * in it! What can the poor man do? It would hardly do to appear in evening nor would it meat the case to turn up st dress with a tegnis meqnet in one's hand,
or she will give adequate return / compensation for injury, otu.. as in the Probably they will adopt the more expodi-pirates from time cut of mind and it will tennis in a dross skirt, Thero's one solu-
Į service for the wages paid. Other times.. other manliers: the babit of thought which treats all labour as merely modified form of serfdom is laughed out of court to-day
as having outlived ita
case of British sailors.
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tious method of onding their own lives continue to harbour these unplanmattion of the dificulty--dooling in rather than give in. However at the present gantry, I imagine, till China takes up in real earnest their thorough extermination time things are quiet.
THIS
Cinematograph shows now play in the Considering the important part which
publio anasements of the Colony, I sm The lighting at Colowan, four miles from glad that the Legislative Council are con- Macao, however, was quite a bolt from the sidering an Ordinance to place then under responsible control. The Rezistrar-General blue. I see some of the Chite papers will be the official, I understand, who will are inclined to blame the Portuguese for bare the Cinematographa in hand and he will undoubtedly exercise his powers with
time, its credit and period of usefulness, history, and will last but six and a half | messaga was received from Macao saking allowing the pirates to settle down in Colo-rise discretion."
and in ita place we find the mora equitable spirit of the twentieth century
which is ready and willing to pay a fair Per Doz wage for a fair day's work and is equally prepared to remunerate over-time oa arrasonable scale.
Th
$31,80
64.80
100.00
icreased--by the amount of duty
MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW. Miscellanoops.
9 ..Excursion to Masso by 8.8.
Sut An.
General Memoranda,
TURSDAY, July 19:-
Sanitary Board Meeting.
Friday, July 22 -
11.07.m.Full Moon.
SATCREAY, July 93:--
9.15 p.m.-Concert Kowloor Cricket!
Club.
The China Mail
HONGKONG, SATOrday, July 18, 1910.
. OVERTIME.
It seems very late in the day to-dise
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NEWS OF THE DAY.
The English Mission Church, Kowloor, has been deleted from the list of places of i worship licensed for the selemnization of marriages.
A pair of corsets purchased at a sale for twopence by Miry Fordham, of Hadstock. contained ten sovereigns which had been stitched up in them.
A burglar complained at the Old Bailey Eitat a confederate burgled his house and stole the proceeds of a robbery which they End committed together.
years.
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S. Daoud, a Washington astrologer who two years ago foretold the death of King Edward and described the circuma CRUISER LEAVES HONGKONG. banens accurately, professes to foresee that King George's horoscope is that his riign Since writing the above we learn that will be among the stormiest in England's shortly after 11 o'clock this morning a
for tho despatch of the cruisor Rainha Don Amelia, which has been in Hongkong wan, but I think the criticism is a little harbour under steam in rendicos for unfair. The Chinese pirate, like men of emergencies for some days past. She was immediately cleared for action, and left at about noon for the seat of the trouble. So Fay wo have not heard of any frosh develop ments in the situation, and we presume
carrying out of the throat to bring the pirates "into" submission unless they gave themselves up within a stated period.
This afternoon we enquired from the
his kidney elsewhere, is "the mildest man who ever scuttled ship" when you meet him at home, and we have no doubt that while in Colowan tho pimtas very muccessfully disguised from the officials
I thought it would not be long before the American humourists would be poking. fun at the high-cost-of-living question now
so aariously agitating the wago-amera of at allowing the lambent flame of isoprossi the United States. Earo is the first attempt ble high spirita to play over a serious. problem
The Jara Bode gives particulars of juist operations by Dutch and American craisers against pirates on an islet in the Southor Philippines. The pirates had fed thigher aftor committing robbery and murder, in the Celebes, Five of them i were cŝught, and the stolen property was that the cruiser is required to help in the their manner of life. Of course their has gone up a quarter on the pound."
recovered. The fact is brought out that the Amorient nuthorities did. Enely best to hant the pirates down.
Was it forgetfulness, or an emphatic Portuguese Consul (Mr Leiria) whether expression of lack of interest in its con-any intimation had been received of further corar, which caused but six mombora of trouble. In reply to our enquires he stated the Hongkong Philharmonic Society to that the Raigha Don Amelia, left at Boon turn up at the annual moeting last night? today. but beyond this he could give no A quorum not being present the meeting information. He added that be was, of and to be adjourned. Surely. Hongkong course, aware of cortain other facts, but he boasts of more than a bare halt dozon was in such a position that he could not genuine lovers of husic?
well say anything.
The Opinum, a pewspaper at Saigon, enlla attention to the fact that the famous railway from Tonkin to Yunnan has done
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neighbours know what kind of men they were, hut it was not in their interest. to give them away to the authorition,
[F. Macno succeeds in elencing out this
Yen. air," said the sales-lady, candy
Regretfally the young man walked away and called at another shop.
"Yes, sir," explained the anles-lady there, towers have gone up this weak. Roses are a dollar more on the dozen."
With a doleful look the young man left the shop, murmuring to himself:
"The higher cost of loving will work
hardships."
post of pirates and all the kidnapped little boys who formed the excuse for Portugal's interference are returned to their parents,ninny our new neighbour will have accomplished one good thing in the cause of our common humanity,
The depression hanging about the Baling- tang Channal has had the usual effect of sending up the temperature in Hongkong and I suppose in a day or so we may hear. of a typhoon breeding
RAMBLER.
BANK NOTE WARNING.
It is notified by the Colonial Secretary'a Department that information has been received by the police from the Ta Ching? » Government Dank, Canton, that a con.... siderable number of forged bank notes- A purporting to be ter dollar lank notes faced by the Ta Ching Bank are in circulation. As a considerable number of were typhoon permanently anchored in the said ten dollar notes have boon found
the China Sen.
and then we shall have some relief. well known member of the Observatory Staff has often heen quoted as saying that
(From a Special Correspondent.)
MCA, July 16. Reacte work amongst the wounded is out Hittle for French trade. So far rail being conducted expeditiously by the It is "suggested that Mr T. Kato,buisses with Yunaan does not bulk large, soldiers and everything is being done for formerly Japanese Minister to the Hague, and the railway has not furthered French their comfort as it is believed that mABY) |
But, A British bo ulected Mayor of Yokohama in succession commercial interests.
syndicate intends to try where French if not all, are more or less innocent victims the Balagtang Channel life in Hongkong The latent information from Colowan would be quits unbearable. Old resident island is to the effect that the troops are in of the Colony will agree with him. possession of many of the principal villages. About a dozen children and a number of men have been captured and it is under-
to the late Mr Mitauhashi'
Mr W. S. Moss and Mr H. Blum, both well known residents of Yokohama, bure been the victims recently of riding
severe, including several brukau ribs.
traders have failed, and has established
itself in Toukin with a view to capturing the Yannin trade. The Opinion bitterly remarks that, should success attend the syndicate, it will show the foily of France
benefit ber commercial rivals,
accidents. Mr Moss's injuries are very in wasting millions upon this railway to stood that real of the children have
Harvard's famous "crimson,” which
been recognised as the kidnapped children
from the schoola.
to
be in existence in this Colung, all per
sous are warned against Recepting the said forged notes.
The imitation tea dollar Ta Ching ** Several lucky people have had an opportnotes are a very clever and exact imitation unity during the past few days of taking a of the genuine notes issued by the "T ever Hongkong's very own particular Ching Bank" both as regards the general railway, and all have come back full of design, the English lettering and the admiration for the beautiful scenery deceive any ordinary person to whom the Chinese characters and weald probably through which the line runs as well as for differences between the genuine and
Mr H. . Paliner, who was coce as been the badge of representatives of sampan was made by a number of pirates the capital workmanship' which has been put fraudulent actes had not bean explained...
retive member of the Hangkong journalistic cuss the principle of payment for over-profession, and of inte years has served on ime, or in other words, for work done the staffs of several newspapers in Japan, in hours which do not come within has been appointed Secretary of the Nippon
the limits of an ordinary working-day.
S. MOUTRIE & Co., In England and the larger dominions
LIMITED.
Hongkong. April 16.-1907
POWELL'S
Just Received
WHITE
MUSLIN
Race Club.
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On another page of this state of the of the British Crown the matter has China Mail will be fened an article taken from the Peking Daily News which throws long ago been adjusted airably considerable light upon the provent cendi- equitably and over-time pay has become tion of currency before in him. I telly but an ordinary incident in the scheme locks as if a satisfactory beginning, bas nt.
Last been made. of inductzial life! The short discussion
which took place in the Hongkong Legislative Council on Thursday was therefore remarkable for the enunciation uf some liter diets which soned strangely despotic in the opening decade
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incident which is that Lord Gladstone, a
A very daring attempt to escape in
and after 4 savere struggle they were eventually captured.
One of the men who were captured, it is stated, is a well-known pirate.
that University in many a hotly contested struggle, will soon be an obsolete tradition. The "Corporation" has decided that ther arg too many variations of the colour on the Harvard, flags, and banners, and has officially adopted, lastend, a
new colour.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. called "arterial blend." The name suggests that it might, more appropriately, have
It is gazetted that Mr C. W. M. Reck- beer selected as the symbol of a radical with, Assistant Harbour Master of Hong- school. The colour now to be discarded kong, has been permitted by the Admiralty
Europe.
TRIAL TRIP,
into the railway from Kowloon right to the frontier. Forite scenic attractions along the railway should draw good custom. It will be something to our advantage in the days to trial trip round the Island of Hongkong The .. Sarie Bandjer departed on her come to be able to dangle the delights of a this afternoon but we shall not have any trip to Taipo before tourists who hesitate details of her performance before going to to stay more than twenty-four hours in the press. It is anticipated that the rug will Colony because there is nothing for them prove most enjoyable. The owner, bir E. to seu. In the future we are all going to C. Wilkes, has invited a number of local blazon abroad the undoubted fact that gentlemen to be present. Lunch will be Hongkang is one of the beauty spate of served alt under the awning. A stean earth, and that the hinterland of Kowloon launch from Bike Pier this morning cup can offer bits of scenery surpassing the eyed the party on beard and no doubt"
they will thoroughly appreciate this opport unity of negotiating the Island onder zicat favourable circumstances..
Riviers for loveliness.
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Kitchener
be off
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was first adopted, almost by accident, into retire from the active list of H. M. 1858, when Harrard sent a boat to a leent Nary on pension and to assume the rank of
Commander as frog June 4th, 1910. Nicola, the magician; has been drawing regatta,, Dr Eliot, the President of the crowded houses in Shanghai. The police, University. was a member of the crew, It however, provented him from carrying out occurred to them, just before the race, that
**Mundus," of the World, hears thah it is
Talking of trains, a home paper rominda one daring feat--that of being manacled and they had nothing by which their friends the Duke of Teck, Prince Francis, and United South Africa, has a sense of steamer, was purchased by Mr E. 0. extremely likely the Queen's three brothers,
us that General Botha, frst premier of The Sarie Bandier, formerly & Dutch- then thrown into the Yanping-rang were might distinguish them, fund, this friend Prince Alexander, will be given the style bumcur. One of the inahes of comedy Wilks in a damaged condition, brought to ho had to release and save himself by his boats. Accordingly. Eliot and his friend own endeavours,
and title of Royal Highness before long, that lit up the tragic page of the war Hongkong for repairs and has now beep Crowninchick went into the nearest This would be in accordance with a pre-occurred towards the end, when Lord thoroughly overhauled. Her boltom was of the 20th century. We know that] The Gazette publishes a despatch from clothier's shop, where they say a pile of codent set up by Queen Victoria, who made Kitchener and the Beer Commander-in practically removed and replaced, many as a general rule mercantile assistants, the Secretary of State covering an Order silk handkerchiefs. They bought some two of her sons-in-air Royal Highness Chief were discussing terms of peace. There now plates and frames are added and clarks and others engaged from Home in Council providing that Tarish bips in of these und tied them round their heads. Prines Christian and Princo Henry of werd vent fruit sa intervien ble ether repairs affected. The ship is 20
a working basis was agreed upon. At the on an agreement running for a term ports of the United Kingdom shall be Fence the Earvard crimson" which has Battenberg. A cimage such as this makes end of one of these discussions Botha got classe 100 AI, at Lloyds
exempt from the provisions of the Merchant been so well known is American college a great differença as to precedence in Eng-up and remarked: "Well, I'm afraid I The work has been done by the Hong- of years and "paid salaries month by Shipping Act, 1804. relating a life-saving athletics.
Iand, but it would probably not be re- really mast
off" There's no burry." kong and Whampoa Dock Co. having taken mouth, were once supposed to have appliances on proof that they have complied
cognised at any of the other Courts of haren't a train to catch, you know," about a month to complete, and has been
Answered r Basantly. You pledged their immortal suals to give with the Danish regulations on the subject.
The old controversy as to the validit
that's just what I have," was Botha'a reply, completed to the satisfaction of Eloyd's Next morning the chief of staf raported a surveyor and the owner. Electric Light every hour of their waking life to digir Mr G. Bernard Shaw's Intest declara. of Anglican Orders from the point of view.
The report of the, Parliamentary Com- successful Boer raid on a British armoured of the Church of Rome scems likely to be mittee the Royal Civil List is to the sin on the Delagoa live, only a few miles: Bag been installed. She is now in first employera, and that when pressure of tion is that Viscount Gladstone
banished to South Africa by command of stirred up by the publication of the life of effect that it sees no reason for altering the off. Eatba bad caught that train !
class condition, and should prove a valuable work in the office necessitated labour Lady Constance Lytton, because when he the late Cardinal Vaughan, in which two List and is satialed that the provision
acquisition to hor new owner, Mr Wilks BLOUSES. Į tatil long into the night no extra re- was Home Secretary he sanctioned her long chapters are devoted to it. The made in 1901 is adequate to maintain the The dissertation on the subject of "Orer. having beer successful in selling ber to the
muneration was to be expected. Some being fed forcibly while serving a terin of London corespondent of the Manchester dignity of the Crown. Queen Alexandra time" at the Legislative Council meeting North. She will farve in a few days,
imprisonment as a Suffragist! In course of Guardian, inspired probably by a certain is entitled to an annuity of £70,000 and a was decidedly quaint. Read in a certain cases were brought by aggrieved parties time this version will come to be beliered well-knownzenlous High Churchman" similar annuity should be assigned to despotie: But considered rationally it WHY SUFFER FROM RHEUMATISMT
frame of mind, it might appens grimly in various law "Conrta from Yokohama in preference to the true rendering of the who ought to know, prophesies the 4pQueen Mary in the event of her widowhood, becomes amusingly funny. The Egyptian
is a mistake to allow anyone to suffer WHITE
pearance of some answering volumes or In the event of the Prince of Wales marry compared with a modern employer who
taskmasters pale, into insignificance when troux: rheumatism, sa the pain can down to Singapore and it was held harmless noucntity, was sent to South pamphlets, including one from the port of ing, his wife should be allowed £10,000 per would "sack at a moment's notice a podr
always be relieved, and in most cases a that if the agreements thale no provision Africa in roward for much subservient Lord Halifax, who, ho has always under annum. An annuity of 220,000 should be over worked clerk who dared to venture to Pin Balm. The relief from pan which it curo effected by applying Chamberisin's 'PRINCESS' for over-time pay none could be legally
party hackwork.
stood, intends to write on the subject. Ho granted to each of the King's sons, to be ask for extra pay after working may be sit affords is alone worth many times its cost. Nothing seems to be too bad for the publication of the short letter which Popo the daughtere should receive £6,000 yearly.
arges, too, that the time has come for the increased to £25,000 upon marriage, while night! It's Folly too humorous to allow For sale by all chemists and storekeepers. UNDERSKIRTS, not so bars in their interpretation of Japanese papers to say about the Anglo-Lex XII wrote to Archbishops Templa and The total amounts to £634,000 compared
Japanese Exhibition and its officials, says Maclagan in reply to their answer to his with £621,000 during the inte reign. the agreemente and so has come about the Japan Chronicle. Having styled the Bull. That this letter was received at a system of paying employers a bonus Exhibition as misleading and quite unlike Lacbeth was admitted at the time. It The death occurred in London Inst ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS. at the end of the year over and above exhibitors, the officials are now coming in need for its publication, as it did not go and well-known artist. Born in Wexford Japan, having criticised the oxbibite and was, however, stated that there was no month of Mr Harry Furniss, the caricaturist the emoluments provided for in the for some of the blame. The Tokyo Mainichi boyund an acknowledgment. It is generally in 1854, the son of Mr E. Furnise, so dilates on the lack of constion-sense shown believed that the latter did not carry the English .engineer, ho settled in London at agreement,which in most cases representa
by the officials connected with the Exhibi-controversy farther, but inasmuch as it was the age of nineteen, and for many years remuneration for extra work done dur- tica. There is so much red-tape about the first official letter that had passed was contributor to the Illustrated London ing overtime in the course of the these individuals and their methods that between the Vatican and Lambeth for News. The Graphic, Black and White, welvemonth. Civil servants. Lowever, Tokyo" Mainichi thinks it will be very
unless some improvement is effected, the centurins it had a certain historic interent,
Illustrated Sporting and 'Dramatic Nera, cannot be dealt with in similar fashion. difficult to derive thone advantages from In their case therefore the only equitable the Exhibition which should be obtained, What with the superabundance of red tape
SOCIETY.
in 1880, but after time left to start a course is to pursue the system, wiopted and the noticeable scarcity of clothes on
comic paper of his own-Lika Joka-which Substance for alguie at Homo and pay for overtime work in the wrestlers, there seems to be no pleas Owing to only ais persons putting in an was saything but a success. He toured
ing the Japanese critica of the Augle appearance at the annual meeting of the America, Canada and Australia as Marke accordance with a graduated scale. Jaanzese Exhibition. It is a curious fact Philharmonic Society, so the City Hall on lecturer. Hir illustrations of "Happy 2.15 to 11.3 P. For it stands to reason that if the that while all the English papers have been Friday proming, the meeting had to be Thoughts," "Iocomplete Angler," "Com
full of praise of the show,, the Japanese adjourned until the 29th inst.-Mr Barlow Blackstone," Lewis Carroll's "Sylvie and artisan and mechanic. through his newspaper correspondents saem to be uz said he hoped there would be a good Brano" were among his best works! Trade's Union can enforce payment fer snimase in damning it with faint praise, if attendance at the meeting as they did not
pot praising it with faint damas, overtinan, surely an educated man, even
merely wish to pass the report and accounta but also to discuss matters of importance though he has not a Trade Union to
and interest to the society.
'EMPIRE'
CINEFLATOGRAPH THEATRE, PREMIER HALL OF THE COLONY,
Vaux Road Gestal
Opposite Central Market.
Performance:-7.15 to 9 and
GRAND SUCCESS of the Queen of the Banjo MISS LAURA & DIAMOND.
chimed. But employers generally were
W
COMING -Miss MAGGIE FRAZER buck him, is entitled to similar treat
and LITTLE PERCY,
GRAND MATINEES:
SATURDAYN #nd Sundays, St 4 P.M.
AT REDUCED PRICES.
A STRAIGHT TIP.
Ente and take a bottle of Chamber- But Colic, Chairs and Darrbors
HONGKONG PHILHARMONIC
sad the principal -magazines of England
and America. He joined the staff of Punch
DTS
AVOID. ALL DANGERS. YSENTERY is a dangerous disease but can be cared. Chamberlain's Calio, Cholera and Diarrhoes Remedy has been zuccessfally need 'in. nine otidomics of
Dr MACKENZIE'S STOUT
Form.
KL 185
ANALYST'S REPORT.
COPY.
HONGKONG,
R.
GOVERNMENT LABORATURY.
Hongkong, June 20, 1910.
STOUT.
--) Dr 01 ́skonzie's Burton on Trent.
Invalid Stout, specially brewed for the East.
Received:-Un June 15, 1910, from Mensin L. PRI E & CO., Dongwang,
RESUTS OF ANALYSIS.
100 Buid parts of the same cnotain :-
Bolid matter
Ashi...
Frea aldanneetje Parcentage of alcolint
***
Epositio granity at 15,6% e in Arsenio
The results show that the sample is both' good and sound.
5.49
"30
5.90
1.011
brent.
(SZ) FRANK BROWNE
ment for clerical or other work done Hemedy with you when starting on a trip. SAFEGUARD AGAINST ILLNESS.. daring hours over and above the limits it out be obtained on board the trainsAKE its rule of your home to koep drogatory. It has never been known to It must obtained of water, Urolazite Mchaubead of Cole, the trees, equally ravumble for children of legitimate working day. The often cause sudden attacks of diarrhoea, Disthoes Remedy as a safeguard against and ada te, and when redgood with water
snd it is best to be prepared. For sale by bowel complaints. Formala by alichemists and awe tehod, it la plósa int to take." "Wor Messrs H, PRICE & Co., labourer is worthy of bis. hire, and it chemist and storekeepers.
and stora keepers.
| sale, by“ Dakemlets and statekeepers,
"HONGKONG.
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