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OPIUM IN CANTON.

NEWS OF THE DAY..

The opium question in Cantún still draga

The following appeared in Lloyd'a | the most important being the still

its weary way atong, to the groap loss of a Weekly News of August 14-Fron: Perak, further increase in the amber of the marchants dealing in the commodity Malay States Mr S. G. George would persons certified insane in England and and the general dislocation of business. The like to hear from the relatives of Grabani Wales. On January 1 the number of officials at Canton refuse to budge from George, son of Richard Chine-Georgo, who

their position, notwithstanding all that was married to Mario Louise Butt, dangåtar | certified insane persons undor care was is said to them by the Wai-wo-pu, and of Edward Buts, master marinos. 130,653, a-number exceeding that re- the latest euggestion of a compromise,

said-to-omanato-from-tho-British-Charge the evening of the 90th ult. the corded on January 1, 1900, by 1768, ns Affairs, in indignantly rejected. The Customs officials at Bangkok searchod the compared with an increase for 1003 of whole questions very exasperating luggage of a Japanoso passenger arriving in Per case of 1 doz. 2703, of 2000 for 1807, and 2009 for for the imposition of a further tax on raw Bangkok by the Nuca Tang. One of his opium is a distinct violation of the Chefoo trunks, a large one, had a false bottom 1906. The private patients under care on convention. But the people in Peking holding 312 bottles of morphine. He was January 1 last numbered 10,610 (males though concoding this, evidently are not arrested and handed over to the proper 4629, females 5904), an increase on the strong enough to enforce their will on tho

authentics. recalcitrant Cantonese, It in a repetition figures of the preceding years of 226, of the old, old story which has been told

The protected cruiser Gloucester, built or 21 per cent. This increase was 43 with variations over since the opening of by Boardmore and Co., Glasgow, on her in excess of the average yearly increase Peking and Canton are leisurely bandying official trials stoomed for aight hours at thre words the losses to those engaged in the rate of 26.3 knote, boing one and a quarter far dhe ten years 1900-10. The paupertrado must be piling up to an enormous knots ahead of the contract rate. She will patients under caro on January 1 were extent. It is only such a complaisant Power now pass into commission. She is one of the Town class, to which the Newcastle, H.M.S. Bedford's successor, also belongs.

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interminable length.

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118,901 in number (inalcs 55,121, females 63.780), amounting; as last year, to 91.1 per cent. of all the cortifed insane. The average annual incrcnèo for this

PARSEE NEW YEAR. class of patients during the last ten years was 2187, so that the figures To-day is the New Year of the Parseo 100.00 for 1910 are as much as 663 Community. King Yezde zard, last of the below that mean, and 861 below throne of the Persian Empire to-day 1280 ancient Zoroastrian. Kings, came to the

the increase for 1008. The rise yours ago This morning the Parsen Coin. * Jaron" and in the numbers of insane outdoor munity calebiated the paupers is quite an exceptional feature, since for several years their number had TISDALL--On 13th September, 1310, at Creggau", The Poak, GERALD, the been falling. In the counts and beloged son of Mic and Mrs. A. TALLhorough asylums there were 1473 more pauper patients in residence at the beginning of this year than on January 1. 1909, an increase of nearly 1.6 per Cont. The criminal insans (mles 785, females 251) show a net increase of 19.

The number of certified insane on Jun- uary 1 last was, in relation to the whole population, as 36,1 to 10,000. On this basis it is interesting to ascertain, from

aged 1 week.

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MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW..

Auction. 2.30 p.m.-Auction of Household Farni. taro at Rock Villa, No. 18, Wong Noi Chang Road.

Amusements.

9 p.m.-Performance of Warwick Major's

Comedy Co. at Oity Ball,

General Memoranda,

FRIDAT, September 16:

Board.

2.16 p.m.-Mooting of the Licensing the statistics given, in which occupa

tions the proportion of insanity is greatest and least. The following are the highest recorded:--

SATERDAY, September 17:

Noon-Meeting of Chins Light & Power

Co., Id., at Co.'s Officos. 3.30 p.m.-Gymkhann at Happy Valley, 9.16 p.m.--Hongkong Cricket Club Con

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SUNDAY, September 18:-

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9 a.m.-Excursion to Macno by 5.0.

Sal An.

MONDAY, September 18:-

12.62 p.m.-Full Moon.. THURSDAY, September 22:-

V.R.Q. Annual Aquatic Sporte, 1st Day. FRIDAY, September 23:-

V.R.C. Annual Aquatic Sports, 2nd Day.

The China Mail.

HONGKONG, TULsday, Sept, 11, 1910.

LUNACY,

Is the, alress and strain of modern life- proving too great for the weakening mental fibre of the European races?

Occupation.

Civil and mining engineers Warehousemen

Ironworkers

General labourers

Per 10,000

52.5

17.1

40.0

30.1

30.4 .95.5

Pensioners........... "Costers anil street sollers

Artists (painters, sculptors etc.) 27.3 Domestic servants (feruata)... 25,2 "Livery stable keepers 20.0

Architects.....

... 19.5. Shopkeepers and dealers...... 10.1" Domestic servants (male)

17.2 Merchant service

10.9 Musicians..........

16.0

15.6 ....... 15.2

Commercial travellers....... Lawyers.........

On the other hand, the ratio is either

Hamazaro" ceremonies at the Parece Clab, under the Pace Dustur (priest) M Dianek Beranjce. The businesses of al Parses firms in Hongkong and Canton are closed on accourt of the occasion. We wish our Parsee renders, one-and-all, Bappy and prosperous New Year.

*NEWS OF THE DAY.

The .. Mongolia brought a big con- signment of cigars from Manila for the United States.

It was the stoner Kiangching which lost her funnel, during a trip up the coast damage and sea able to proceed to from Hongkong. She suffered no other

Calakiang.

The old Tudor mansion Porter's Gango, Southend, at one time the residence of Disraeli, has been sold, and if the efforts of the townspeople to save it fail the estate is to be developed for building purposes.'

After a big and interesting struggle Carl Schlechter won the first prize of £100 in the Latornational Chess Tournament which has been proceeding at Hamburg. His store was 11k, compared with the 11 of Duras, who won the second prize of £75

£0. and the 10 of Niemzoowitsch, who wont

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To-night the Warwick Major Comedy Co. will present for the first time in Bong kong the famous fire not play "Old

Heidelberg." Judging by the booking at Montrio's a large crowd many he expected at the Theatre Royal to-night. Tomorrow the Company zerort again to farcical comedy when the troubles of the young man why nover moves without carrying his "goode and chattels" with him should be produc

tive of much laughter.

News comes from across the Atlantio

that arrangements are being made by more than 2,000 Scots, mostly from the United States, to churter two Allan Line-steamers to Glasgow in connection with a "Back to

abrand is surely something new. What Scotland" movement nort year. "Back to Scotland" morument among Scots

does the old rhyme concerning the northern portion of the kingdom my "But if all the inds that leave thes deil an ane gange seer back."

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

The steamer Tjitaroem, built for the

Lieut. J. W. Clayton has, the Admiralty Jara-China-Japan Steam Navigation Compounce, been appointed to the Minotaur.

ploy, has been launched. The steamer

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1910.

Coryniaux.} CAPITAL AND LABOUR.

FOUR SERIOUS DISPUTES.

(Reuter Service to the thing Bắn

Losos, September 19.

At the opening of the Trudes Union Congress at Sheffield the leaders are faced with four serious disputes between capital and labour, amely, the boilor munkers, the South Wales miners, the Great Northern Railwaymen'a dis putes and the threatened Lancashire Colton lock-out.

THE LATEST ENTENTE ENGLAND AND AUSTRIA. (Rentay's Service to the China Mail.)

} Laros, September 13. The Austrian Press is delighted at Lord Rosebery's visit and declares that it marks a significant change in the attitude of England toward Austria- Hungary, while the ill-feeling created over the annexation, of Bosnia is dis. palled and the old friendly relations re-established.

TURKEY AND GREECE,

ANOTHER WARNING..

(Reuters Service to the China Mail.).

LONDON, September 12.

A Constantinople despatch states that the Turkish Government has communicated officially to the Greek Patriarch its prohibition under pains and penalties of the proposed National Assembly as being contrary to the law of the State and the Patriarchal privileges; and also as being likely provoke disturbances.

ANNOUNCING KING -GEORGE'S ACCESSION.

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LORD ROSEBERÝ IN AUSTRIA.

(Renter's Service to the China Mail)

LONDON, September 12.

[Coryniour.] THE ANNEXATION OF KOREA,

RIGHTS OF FOREIGNERS UNCHANGED.

General Tersuchi on the Situation.

(Independent News Agency's Service to the Chino Mail)

Toxo, September 13, y Resident-General Viscount Terauchi, correspondent of The Times, is reported in an interview accorded Mr Brown, a

to have said that the rights and privi- were infinite in duration and even after Jeges enjoyed by foreigners in Korea

the lapse of a decade he saw no reason why'n chango need be made. Viscount Terauchi does not expect that any neces sity will arise randuring it advisable to change the customs and usages of Koreans in order to assimilate thệm with those of Japan: but as there is no great difference in the origin of the. languages of the two nations, the Japanese tongue will shortly be adopted in common use.

Vice-Resident-General Yamagata left Seoul yesterday for Japan.

To safeguard the public peace political parties in Seoul have been ordered to dissolve.

CANTON OPIUM TAX.

BRITISH MINISTER ACTIVE..

(Wah Ta Yat Pola Service),

PEKING, Suptember 12. The British Minister, has again ap- proached, the Wai-wa-pu insisting that the Viceroy of Canton Bo immediately ordered to withraw the tax ou prepared opium.

AMERICAN TOURISTS IN

HONGKONG.

There arrived by the sa. Mongolia yes- terday a party of 114 American tourists The Emperor Francis Joseph of}

who are visiting the East under arrange-- Austria-Hungary received Lord Rose-Among them are many promicant business. ments made by the Los Angeles Kaniner.

bery's Mission announcing the accession people. The party is in charge of Mr W. of King George V. with the utmost M. Milne, cordiality.

Resebery at his apartments in the His Majesty afterwards Visited Lord

...

Among the party are Mr Ben A. Packard,

Mc Emil Ganz, President of the First President of the First National Bank of Douglas, Ariz., with his wife and daughter; National Bank of Phoenix and twice Mayor

has a length of 420 meles, breadth of 64 The forthcoming wedding of hir R. FoImperial Castle of the Hofburg, which is metres, and a width of 30 metres. While Master to Miss Bertha Maude Lagar, who sn unprecedented mark of favour. of that city Mr E. Hiblard, President

the keel was set on October 20, 1909.

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Twenty yozis having elapsed since the cession to Germany of Heligoland' by Great Britain, the prried of immunity from military service secured to the inhabitants ia 1800 expires. Henceforth the islanders will be obliged to serve in the army or navy like all other German subjesta.

It is stated that the Tis, 3,500,000 which the Total of Shanghai borrowed

from the foreign banks as per cent. to relieve the money market is belog lent to the native banke at 9 per cont. The difference, Tis. 175,000 por annum," will, it is said, ba devoted to charitable purposes.

The question is suggested, by the steady given as exceedingly low or too small-President Taft his approved estimates rise in the number of insane people to afford a reliable basis for calculation" ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS. reported by every nation of importance in the fallowing occupations :-- on the European contineat. For many Rom. Catholic priests. Scientists.

Monica. years now we have all been familar

Nune in Great Britain with the baffling")

Church officers. Chapel officers. phenomena that while we see steadily Cemetery officers.

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Literary men." Veterinary surgeons, Cooks (not domicatio). Bill discountors. Brokers

Betor, car drivers. Say, service (share). Tin miners,

Lead miners. Lapidaries. Shorthand writers.. Undertakers......

asylums are filled to over-Bowing and Editors.

Journalists. that on every hand large extensions Reporters. are being made to the present establish- ments. Of course a good deal of the increase is due to our modern humanly small proportion of cases of general paralysis and delusional insanity, but

ia to arrive by the s.a, Macedonia, is announced.

His utmerous friends in Hongkong will be pleased to hear that Capt. E. P. Kitt, of the s.s. Mongolia, has been acquitted of all blame in connection with the recent standing of his ressol of Shimizu." The steamer was undamaged.

The King recently gave Mr Bertram

Mackennal. A.R.A., a sitting at Mari borough House for the new coinage. Mr Mackennal is an Australian sculpter and was the Brat native of the Over-scan Dominions to be elected Associate of the Royal Academy-.

Banos of marriage. inve, been pat up, and M. Durieux, hor fornier stoward, will! shortly marry Baroness Vaughan, who was the morganstic wife of Leopold, King of the Belgians. The future bride is 27, and the bridegroom about 50 years of age, M. Durieux is well known in soveral sporting

to be presented to Congress this fall for the increase of the enlisted force of the United States army to 87,000 men. At the present time the maximum fores of the army is 70,000 and the additional 17,000 will allow organizations to be recruited to about 70 men cach instead of almut 565, which is now the limit in the cavalry and infantry eats.. branches.

An official announcement states that owing to numerous complaints of the com

Other unusual attentions were shown the Mission.

YUAN SHIH-KAT RETICENT.

(Wah Ter Yat Po'e Servicc.)

Yuan

of the Grupo Nuts company, and Mr Isnac Taft Stoddard, who was a former torritorial secretary of Arizona, nod who is n cousic. of President Taft.

POKFULAM WATER SUPPLY:

At the meeting of the Sanitary Board this afternoon tha Colonial Secretary wrote. the that the fences to preclude access to the tunnel were reported on the 23rd ulto by

PERING, September 13. Shib-Kai has informed Grand Secretariat that he has no in tention of re-entering official life.

CHEKIANG RAILWÂY

TROUBLE.

PUBLIC STILL INSISTENT.-

(Walt T'es Yot Po's Service)

[SHANGHAI, September 13.

the. Director of Pablia Works to be com plete with the exception of the fixing of a fow wires which must await the completion of some work that the military authorities were carrying out in the stream bed. The military authorities were requested on the 29th ulto, to have the building rubbish scattered about on the hillside opposite the Mount Austin Barracks tidied up and the ground tarfed where necessary.

Dr. G. H. L. Fitswilliams minuted. It A largely attended public meeting has been hald in connection with the of the Government has been to hand, is interesting to note that since the reply Chekiang Railway matter, and it has building oporations have actually started been decided that over a thousand share-

on the catchment area. Paragraph 3 states

The appointment of General Sir Archi-holders shall proceed to Hangchow and that this is and has boon for many years

turian instincts. It is within the re-gher proportions of mania and a sufficiency of the lower denominations ieace of Lord Kitchener. Be that as it

In circulation.

urge on the Governor that he make forbidden. efforts to re-establish Tung Sou Chin as General Manager of the Railway...

ANOTHER VISIT TO EUROPE.

bald Hanter to command the Forces in Gibraltar has given undoubted satisfaction

Hon. Mr E. A. Howott-The report of parative scarcity of shillings and sixpences is the Service, for he has been out of har The agricultural class yield a relative-in active circulation the Royal Mint has vers ever since he relinquished the post of

the sub-committeo has been subjected to a suspended the issue to the Eank of England Commander of the Northern Army in

zood deal of criticism both in the Press and of haul-mowas sad florins. The last of India. It is understood that Sir Archibald

elsa where. As the matter is agair Sofors these coins will not be recommenced until owes his present appointment to the influ

the Sanitary Board I take this opportunity of stating my ors idea, and I believe that collection of people of middle age when dementia, especially senile cases. There

may, it is well known that during the early

of the other two members of the committeo, days of the South African War, when the village idiot wandering at large was are more women than men among the

(Wah Tez Yat Fe's Service.). was that the Goverment should no longer The most curious tact in the Mint General Hunter was shut up in Ladysmith, the ordinary accepted phenomena of

na Second-in-Command to Sir, Georgo

PEXING, September 12. dely in constructing the proposed bow insane, and more single persons than raport just published in the disclosure that White. it was he who organised the famous

roservoir at Tytam, and thus make it rural England; te-day the poor creature married or widowed. The death-rate last year. A tabalar atatement of the silver the Long Ton" being put completely out going on a visit to Europe, travelling away with Pokfulam until the Tytant HE. Laing Tung Yen, the expossible to close Pokfulam reservoir. I do only four five-shilling pieces were: lagood

sortie on the Bour, postion that resulted in President of the Wai-wa-pu, is shortly not think any of the sub-committes con- hoa vanished from the sight of men, among the mentally afflicted is more issues shows us that they were distributed" of action. When he called for volunteers via Siberia.

templated that the Goverment should do being confined' either to the lunatic than six times as high as the general andry persona." It would he interto carry out this daring night attack every

achemo had been completed. ward of the local workhouse or cared for death-rate. Twenty-five case of sukide ting to know who harp the coins, which man on parade offered to follow him if he in the more elaborate asylum set apart among patients-occurred last year.

will, of course, become of enormously would show the way. increased value to numismatists. They are for those of freble mind. This removal

The figures which we have just probably the last crownpieces to be struck. of the idiot or imbecile from the Erdin-discussed are not flattering to our report to a King George coinage, but it is Lord Kitchener, and though this is only to The War Ofico have at length decided, in London. No reference is made in the it is reported, upon some sort of work for ary everyday life of the lower classes modern methods of life, and the fact understood that no more frabilling and bo of a temporary character, it is a sign of has of course sent up the returns very that engineering, the most wonderful four-sbilling pieces are to be made. Be returning grace. He is to be invited to act Recognised for the past SIXTEEN YEARS as The WHISKY greatly, but still it only partly explains phenomenon of our age, beads the list, the latter were minted and now £149,476 satuma manoeuvres in which the Regular MILD,

tween 1887 and 1850 £535,136 worth of

a Umpiro-in-Chief at the forthcoming

troops of the Aldershot, Southern and Eastern Commands are all to take part.

There is considerable dissatisfaction The area covered by those operations will amongst the fireman of the Colony at pro- be an exccodingly wide one, and will have sent in consequence of the removal of the Salisbury Phin as its contro. Usually the

the increase. There can be little doubt seems to show that we are, in somo lines worth have been melted. That leaves that the appalling misuse of drink is of life, really making too great a demand 918,245 doable-flortus in existenes. still largely responsible for the pro- upon the limits and capacities of the duetion of much idicey, that insanitary human machine. conditions of life also contribute to the weakening of the mental fibro; that ertain relationships in parents also conduce to the same distressing phenomena; while many of our insans fall into that hubit by reason of their announced, been appointed be the Rayala inability to meet the shocks and, haz. Asthar, 8th inst, and to the Olio ards of onlinary life, owing to the (st) and as interpreter. in Japanosa, on

recomtalasioning, andated. presence of some unsuspected organic disease which, at the moment of danger, wenld do woll to visit the Empire One lovers of the music of the bagpipes throws them off their balance.

matograph where Mr Baaside regsies the The sixty-fourth report of the Comandise with delightful Scottish music missioners in Lunacy, issued in London bye" on Friday orening.

Miss Addie Leigh is to sing Tosti's "Good

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The home battalion of the King's Own Harlour Office to opposite Status Whar!. tions is filed by the Duke of Connaught,

Government Gro font From in front of the position of Umpire-in-Chief at these opera Unlike some Whiskies, Club never varies in quality. Our Yorkshire Light Infantry has prepared a big draft to join the 1st Battalion at removal of the moprings of the now float this year with his preparations for his visit It is maintained that in consequence of the but His Royal Highness will be too busy Hongkong on its arrival there.

there is a delay of half an hour is getting to South Africa to undertake the work. Lieut. O. Neill James has, it away when its services are required and in Should the invitation be sont to Lord Kit

bro, when the matter of moments are of chener, it will be his first experience of the greatest consideration, such a defauros in England, and it is expected might be attended with enormous and that he will make some exceedingly valuable serious consequences both to life and pro- coposts. If he declines to accept the post perty, more especially as there appear to it will be filled by Caneral Sir John French, be no need for its removal from ita formor From the Fire Stadion. In all maters of Connaught in the first Instance. The position, which was in almost a direct lines who was named as the successor to the Duke whore Ore is concerned, the one ides should suuress, Will look for about a week, and appliances may be a brigado cannot be said prepared by the General Staff at the War bo eficiency but however up-to-date the very interesting scheme is now being to be efficient when a delay of this caterm.co has to be contended with,

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