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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 319T, 1904,

The planting community in Ceylon are agitating for the appointment of a Government rubber expart adviser there as part of this Guriens staff.

The wedding of Mr. F. M. Porcher and Mis at length in the Malay Mail, Mr. Porcher went home from Selangor aot long ago.

E. C. Davidson at Buxton, Norfolk, is described

are not to be reached as Hongkong is by a reach pessimism through pride of intellect. There was no plague caso to record yesterday, comfortable steam liner trip, nor can the Quite as numerous are they who, looking

The Portuguess gunboat Din is waiting here voyager expect to fiul carichment so aud-for no other life, expect too, much of this to take the Bishop of Macao, who is expected

If these amant desires took the by the next mail from the west, to Macao. denly as the Arabian sailor did, and yet one. have his lines cust in such pleasant places forn they once did, and the form of the

Two hundred and forty-three deaths were as this port may justly be considered to be militant, animal strenuousness preached by registerol at Singapore during the week ending Unfortunately, too many of our immigrants Kirise, there might not be so much harm on the 13th August. The ratio per thousand imagine that it is practical politics to "eat done. But the simple thrills of were exis-is 51,27. their cake and have it," and the cake of tence bave ceased to satisfy. The result, in their eating is frequently of most indiges-the Fast, where the daily round and com- tible quality. Cocktails and maskoe" is mon task" is gray-bordered often by lona- certainly far from being a fruitful policy, [liness, is disastrous. The expounders of the and yet it about describes the attitude of faiths are surely aut altogether blamoles". a large number of men who, discovering Just as our teetotal contemporary repels às that the nose is not so much slave to the by the extremity of his colt, so the preachers grindstone of duty as it was at Home, take huve perbaps done, and helped to cause the The proverbial dl, and shockingly neglect re-action they now observe with so much! the grindstone. We recently published a regret. Self-control must have been the comment by our consul at Chicago, who real aim of earlier Buddhism and of earlier Orer-zealous disciples, by DISPENSARY, very much admires the methods of the Christianity.

American employers, in carefully selecting misinterpreting that aims as self-abnegation anitable men, and then spontaneously and self-annihilation, have they not render- If rewarding them according to their meded really good advice non-effective? In the Orient, in consequence, no doubt, of they had not pushed the peukalum so far frequent disappointments, the employer has in one direction, laply it would not have come to look upon his assistant as a person swang so far in the other. from whom little is to be expected, and to whom no more is to be paid than seems to keep him from grumbling. There is nor that recognitios of tautual interests, and whole-hearted conperution il pursuit thereof, that Mr.

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No task of civilization has been so pain- fully laborious as the subjugation of appetite: those who, derry appetite together do but dicomage, it may be, sŪNIA who might otherwise understand that life CARNEGIE obnined is no pilgrimage upon which the wayfarer by shrewd policy of payment by should afflict his soul.

The man who results. The system of contract preaches the other extreme of "Fit, drink

with agreements,

periodic, automatic and bo merry, for to-morrow we die," does increments irrespective of merit, seems far no better, for the morbid reflection tacked from perfect. Between the right-minded | on to his otherwise sound advice spoils it, Literature teens employer and the properly purposeful em- and incites to excess, ployee there is no need of such an arrange

with stories of people who, for the gratifica- ment, which is case guarantees fulf Lion of present desires, sold themselves to satisfaction to either.

the Devil. The cream of the old-fashioned story ascally came with the debtor's dodges to clude a settlement of the bargain. The man who has, in order to drown his canni> given himself to drinking, finds it, and must find it, next to impossible to evade a final payment for his weakness. What is wanted is a healthy public opinion, iselining neither to the foolish teetotal avoidance of the good things of life, nor to the false pride of the taproom that makes to many men

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On the question of alcoholism, to which no consideration of the relations out here of master and mal is complete without refer ence, so prandiment a factor is it, we have no sympathy with our weekly contemporary in Shanghai, the journal with "Water is king for motto. Uubrtunately, in the Orient we have been obliged to regard that King with undiluted suspicion. The Union has for a very long time been filling its editorial

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C. G. McVey writus stating that ho is willing to accept. Jack Burke's challenge to light any middle-weight boxer in the Colony for $500 asido, the winter to take the purse.

Sam requires a motor van for carrying bal lion, according to the Automotor Joareal. The Royal Mint authorities at Bangkok, Sima, are desirous of obtaining a motor van for the trans- for of ingots, coin, etc.. up to vas tou.

Mc. Thomas Sutherland, noticing misleading references in the press to "blockade ruuing." wrałą to the Timer pointing out that the aver- age freight for weight cargo obtained by the dacca was only twenty live shillings a to for a royage of 12,000 miles.

The promise to withdraw the Volunteer risers from the Hed Sea applies only to the tessels that have passed through the Darda nelles. 11 is understood that very shortly cruisers duly commissioned at the Baltic ports wil proceed to the Red Sea.

An intellectual wouman is zu aburuality she har the brain of a man in the body of woman. Intellect in woman has so dazzled us by its brilliance that we have failed to recognise it as disease. like gains in man and the pearl in an oyster. But, nevertheless, it is à disease, and must inevitably be the south of the race in which it is fosterol.—Sydney Telegraph.

The Gornan stawer Hooley, 777 tons. Cap- tain J. Terren, which arrived at Colombe on the 120k Angust from Cardiff via Port Said, loaded with 3,000 tons of Cardiff coal for Singapore, caught fire and had to be misored at a distant both. The the originated in the portaids caal hunker, where a large quantity of coal was stucked. The ship's appliances were used to extinguish the tire.

않았다. 초 per ton seems an anormous pries to pay for potatoes in Singapore, but all the same, says the Straits Thus, it is being paid. Messrs Thompson. Thomas & Co. of the Australian Stores have lutely bean selling potatos at that pries. In explanation it must be stated slut the potatoes koll are 踺 new choies seedling

columns almost exclusively with teetotal afraid to own that enough is as good as a philosophy of the kind that consistently feast. Either asceticism or debauch is Iul. A. S. WATSON & CO. Fefers to wine as a mocker and alcoholic There is surely a happy mean, in which a drinks as a sure of the devil. It is quite man may laugh and quaff, enjoy friendship pathetic to find such a legal echo of the and freedom from thought for awhile'; and blue ribbon tracts of Home continually yet retire sober and respected to a healthy lifting up its wice to such a tune in a repose? Thut healthy opinion, which will community where, if water be king, it is wipe out of isoner the unnatural total racisty called Northern Star," which is a very (as a bevenge) a King deposed from his abstinence iden, must also include a eternary cropper of fine shape and quality, and the most disease-resisting and weather-defying high estate, and left with but few adherents, dismissal of that amused tolerance which

potuto vet raised, There cannot be any wisdom in these vain sees in excess only an accidental slip about. repetitions of an oft-tuld take that a one which there is working particularly unmanly. believes; or if believed, a tale that by too] Until then, we must expect to hear both much iteration has lost ita forre, like the employers and employed complaining, aların of "Wolf" in the fable. Wine, taken in ordinate quantities, is no mocker, save that it sometimes enables the driuker: to mock at melancholy. In any case, graut- On the 19th August, at Pinder. Chine Roading to the editor of our northern contem Hongkong, Jose Maria Gores, aged 4 years.

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porary strong reasons for so everlastingly emphasising his convictions in the matter; of drink, it is about time he should discover. that the objections of reason are of no sail against anything that procures for man the feelings of pleasure he craves for to brighten life. It were au nausing thought, but for its element of gravity alluded to, that these lucubrations should be, as they probably

The English nail of the 30th July was delivered in Loutien on the 29th inst.

The Japanese, it seems, expect to inherit Russian concessius in Corea, for it is reported that M... Okura, of Messrs. Okura & Co. ul

·Tokyo, who obtained the contract for preparing the timber sized by the Japanese army on the Yain, to be used us siempers' for the Soonl-Wiju Hailway, is trying to obtain a concession from The Governor of Samoa. a Gerinau eslay in

the Corean Government to cut timber in the! the South Sea. is making arrangements for the forest on the Yalu, should that taken from the importation of from 300 to 4*** Chinese Russians fall short in supplying the require. labourers for the use of planters on the islands.ments of the railway. It is believed than autho

rities are inclined to grant such a concession to Me. Okura.

The Volunteer affresca concert, postponed ust Saturday un around of the weather, is to

take place at Headquarters (the Volunteer

Parade Ground) on Friday evening, the 2nd prox. commencing at 9 o'clock.

TELEGRAMS.

(KAUTAR'S SERVICE.]

BOXING.

LONDON, 18th August. Jeffries has defeated Mouros in the Recond round for the world's honing championship at San Francisco.

HUNAN-HANKOW RAILWAY.

THE

WAR

ĮPROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.]

FALLING BACK ON MUKDEN,

LONDON, 30th August.

Anping and Anshanjnn (?) are captured by the Japanese, It is The local gentry of Husan compiled regula. reported at St. Petersburg that the tions for collecting capital for constructing Russians are now retreating to Muk- railway between Hanan and Haukow, onch

share at 50 tals with 6 per cent. interest den, and that important rearguard per auum, as well as further dividend

if there is profit, and to bo subscribed hattles are imminent, as the Japanese by the natives in the 67 deperiments of

the province of Hunnu. The way of paying are still pressing the pursuit.

for the share is very peculit; when t'e intended subscriber of a shave Lus to pay he will pay two sheng per our skin product of rico, for which the silwng Administration will issue a receipt. The total tributs of rice of the Innau gentry.amounts to about 50 or 60 million shib, of which two sheng per shih is to be paid us shares of the railway, which menus soyen dreight hundred thousand trols per year, and after twenty-five yeafs the sum of over ten million taels can thus Le collected.--Sin Wan Fav.

JUSTICES' MEETING.

LIQUOR LICENCES.

A meeting of Justices of the Peace was held at the Magistracy Fosterday afternoon. Mr. H. H. J Gomperta presided, other Justices present being Messrs. J. H. Kenap (secund police magistrate), F. J. Badeley (captait superinton- lent of polica), C. D, Melbourne (first olerk of tho Magistracy, the Rev. F. T. Johnston and A. S. Hooper.

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[We are failed to trace “Anslanjan on any one of eleven maps. There is un Anshanohau on the line to the north of Haicheng; but that was long ago passed by the Japanese forces. The general effect, however, is that Liaorang and the strong defenses to the north have been abandoned, and that Kuropat kin is engaged in a running fight. A Russian admission of a retreat to Makdan may be read, presumably, as an ultimate falling back on Horbin.]

SEARCHING FOR THE **SMOLENSK."

LONDON, 30th August.

It is announced to-day that there

are now seven British cruisers starch-

called to consider. frst the application of one

Mr. Comports said: This meeting has beening for the Russian cruiser Swadenst, Anne Marshall for the transfer of her publican's Just heard of in South African waters. licence to sell and retail intoxicating liquors on

the promises situated nt Nox. 21 and 23. Fot- tinger Street, under the sign of the "Criteri on Hotel," to ous George Green.

Mr. M. J. D. Stephens, solicitor, appearing on behalf of the applicant, said. In this case, your Worship, Lappeur for Mrs. Marshall, who is desirousof transferring her licence to Mr. Green, She has been carrying on business for 11 or 12 ears, but finds the work too much for her. he works at least 19 hours a day, there being no Europeau to help her. Mr. Gmen has been in the Culouy for four mouths, managing the business for Mrs. Oliver at The Now Travel- lers Hotel. Mrs. Oliver is his aunt. Mr. Gresu was for some years in Now York, where he applied for his papers of citizenship, and the negotiations were in progress when he came to Hongkong. I think the police are satisfied with Mr. Green, and refer you to their report. Mr. Green is a carpenter. by trade, and he carried on his trade in New York till he came here. Mr. Bedford, who has been in the Rifle Brigade, will be in the business

He has bud assisting in the mangement. licences some years ago in Hongkong.

Mr. Gompertz We shall consider the appli #ation in private

I have

to inform you that your application has been granted.

The next business is

to consider an application from aus Louis Comar to sell and retail intoxicating liquors on the premises situated at No. 61, Des Voeux Road, | under the sign of The Main Hotel." Doas

anyoca appear for Mr. Cemar?

[They have a message for her, whom they find her, that should somewhat chagria the offi- dors of the Smolanah. E is from St. Peturns burg, and way be embodied in ons word "Desist.]

[EEUTER'S SERVICE.]

A CONDITION SINCE COMPLIED

WITH.

LONDON, 28th August. News from Washington says that Japan has handed the Secretary of State a note to the Powers, stating that unless Russia disarms the worships in Shanghai forthwith Japan will be forced to take whatever steps she may deem necessary for the protection of her interasta. The Secretary of Stain was careful not to disclose the attitude of the Government, but assured the Minister that America hoped for a continuance of Chinese neutrality.

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SEIZED OR SUNK.

Feb. Tik-British steamer Forton Hall wized.

14.-British steamer Fu-ping fired on. 15.--British steamer Mai-jing fired on and

Beized.

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20-2 and 0. liner Mongolia chased. 22-British steamer Rosalie suizal, 21.-P. and O. liner Mombasan tred on

and stopo 'd.

26-British steaner Erickdale stopped

and turned back.

26. British steamer Benalder stopped. 27.-British steamer Orirt seized.

Mr. G. K. H. Brutton, solicitor, said: I do, your Worship. Mr. Comar has for some time had an adjunct licenes. Before he came hora ho held licences in Calenta, and also in Penang: he has also been in Nagasaki. He has been here some time. I do not know if any objection to tho application has been made. He has spent a The company promoter seeking for new worlds to conquer has his eye on Tibet, and is

great deal of trouble and money on the busi- ness, and if you do not grant him à fall only awaiting developments. The following licence it is imposable for him to make a Mar. 12.-N.D.L. steamer Stuttgart stopped. companies have recently been Mr.-J. Grant Swith memorialised the Jus Copper Mines of Tibet. Limited: Lhasa Gold

registered fiving. People in the neighbourhood lave 17.-Italien oruiser Marce Palo fired on. tices with a view to a reduction of puklie huuse

no objection-ar there is only one objection | May 3.-P. nad O. liner Geiria stopped und lienees yesterday. Glancing through a copy Limited: Load Mines of Tibet. Limited; Tibet Mr. Noronha has no objection. He told Mr. June 18-British steamer Allanten sind,

Mines Limited. Lhasa Exploration Company from a mau on the opposite side of the road.

searched,

Mines and Minerals Company. Limited Tibet Justices, we find ourselves unable to agros with Mr. Smith's methods of advancing his views Exploration Company. Limited: Tibet C

M. Francois Deloncle, the Deputé of Cochin poration. Limited and Goblfields of Tibet China to the Freach Parliament, passed through Limited. It reads like comedy, but as far as the Singapore on the 17th August by the Ernest registration of the companies is concerned it is Simons to Salzon. where a French cruiser | fact. availed his arrival, to convey him to Haiphong on a special mission to Hazei.

recently, had almost misled us into think. ure, read only by the people who agree with of the printed matter sent by him to the Mining and Finance Company, Limited; Tibet Cornar that he wonk be very pleased if his July 0.-British steamer Cheltenham saized.

their sentiments, and who do not need the Unhappily, how. warnings they convey. ever, over-indulgence in stimulants is so fainfully apparent in its local results that there is every excuse for the over or erroneous emphasis wo have just alluded to, The dipsomania, intermittent or chronic, is a familiar figure, giving amusement to

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and a plausible tongue, brought to bear upon us in a busy moment ing that at Hougkong the conditions of the labour market were needing immediate and radical alteration. The serial article based on a "beachcomber's" contribution, which appears in another column, will be found sufficiently muggestive of the source of the representations which turned our attention to the possibility of unifying and con- fluencing the charitable organisations of the thoughtless, pity to the humane, dis of its really artistic and most useful Hand Hongkong, as well as to the supposed neal appointment and annoyance to the employer, book of information for shippers and passen-ocensions on board the Portuguese ganboats of a sort oflabour bureau that should facili. and trouble to the authorities. Very few gers." Experienes on some of the beautiful tate the fading of suployment for de-of the people so affected by the behaviour Tessels of the company warrants the kindliest

of the drunkard enter into consideration of comment on their catering for passengers. serving applicants. Such a movement, and

the causes of his habit. Those who smile at During the re years Lord Curzon has bụện such an institution, may quite possibly te

him are contemptuous; those who regret his Viceroy, 1946 miles of new railway were desirable, notwithstanding that we have, on

state do not search out, excuses for liim; the opened in India. Many new lines are in course reflection, been tempted to revert to the

others are only too fain to disunies him of construction. They will be opened at the long held conviction fant in the average altogether, and to look out for another who average rate of Life miles your. British community no one who is able and does not succumb to the temptations of willing to work need sufer want. Certsia-

the Orient." Why do so many bright and

Dr. Carreira d'Azevedo, who arrived ju Hongkong by the Chasan, has sturted practice The Nippon Yuen Kaisha has sent as a copy in the city. He is not without experience in

In connection with the new British muil

contract, a foreign correspondent has suggested

to the Postmaster-General that the Federal

the Far East, having ben on three previous

cenos were granted. Mr. Comar is a British subject, and he is doing his best to carry on his hotel in a proper way. I would ask you to grant him a full licence,

Mr. Gompertz: We shall discuss this in The Justices have decided to

Cumeru.

refuse this application.

Mr. Brutton: Could you give any grounds?. Mr. Gompertz: No, we do not give you any

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13.-F. sad O. linor Malacca seized. 15.-British steamer Dragoman stopped. 15.-German steamar Prinz Heinrich

stopped and mails seized. 16.British fateamer Persia stopped and

mails seized,

16.-British steamer Hipsang torpedoed

and sunk.

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20.-German steamer Spended suited.

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21--British atesmer årdove seized.

Mr. Brutton: It would help Mr. Comer in

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24~~~British atonmer Knight Commander

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24.-German steamer Lisboa stopped. 24.-German steamer Arabia seized.

House.

Bengo. Din, and Zaire as surgeon captain. He giving him information how to carry on his is still attached to the Portuguese Navy, and is out here on furlough with the permission decided not to grant it.

Mr. Gomperts: No. simply, the Justices hav

of his Government to practise. For the last two years Dr. d'Azevedo has been engaged in several of the principal hospitals in Lisbon, and has mude a special study of tropical diseases. The medical profession is not over-represented in Hongkong, and Dr. d'Azevedo shonk make o

success.

TAOKOW RAILWAY.

»y - 28.—P. end 0. liner Formova seized.

FOREIGN JOURNALIST DISAPPEARS

IN JAPAN.

The wilway built by the Peking syndicate has been completod hetween Huaiching and The friends of Mr. Norman Cullen, who Tackor. This railway, says a native paper, has came to Japan some months ago as the corres- been fullt by the syndicate for carrying all the pondent of the Loudon Daily Mail, are much waterials and products of mines of the syndicate, concerned by his sudden disappearance. He A correspondent of the Osaku divinichi at and the syndicate has no right to have any had lately been suffering from a severe illness, the front writes as follows: The Chinese passenger traffic by the train. However, the and was about to return to England, when on award round the dead bodies of the Russians syndicate is selling tickets to passengers and the 4th instant ho left his quarter at the Bluff which are left in large numbers on the battle carrying salt. The focal magistrate has ordered Hotel, Yokohama, and after spending the field. Their object is to strip off the uniform the syndicate to stop the carrying of passengers night at a friend's house in Tsukiji, departed and to steal what they can. The Japanese when and salt. The eyniliate not obeying the order, thence in a jiurikisha. He was traced after- possible drive the Chinese away and inter the referred the matter to the Waiwapa, and the wards as far as the Uyenn Station, but from Russians. The Chiussa are quite indifferent to Waiwops referred it to Shang Kungpao, there no clue to his whereabouts has been found, the war, and are found working innocently on Sheng Kungpao simply answered that the though every effort has been made by the

ly in the case of Hongkong, while we have otherwise sensible men take to drisking Government should stipulate that mail steamers uo wish to paint the lily, to gild refined In most cases it begins, we suppose, with must use Australian coal between Australia and gold, or to exaggerate its possibilities of

sheer boredom. Thal pessimistic malady Colombo, both ways. Mr. Mahon is said to be prosperity, there appear to be ample that takes thought for the morrow and the impressed with this extraordinary proposal and portunities for the young man of ability willing to work and zarious to succeed. It past, and seeks in the collection of sensations will give it careful consideration.

forgetfulness of the torturing thought that! The Daily Chicle tells a good story about Ims boen mggested that many have been nothing much is "the good of it all," the late es-President Kruger. When the first Lempted come here by too glowing

mainly responsible.

Australian contingut arrived at Cape Town to accounts, and that their disillusionment and We are convinced, moreover, that the loss tuko part in the Boer War, Mr. Kruger is said their farma, driving horses or oxen as if they} provinsial treasurer shall levy taxes upon the British Consul through the authorities. AR, disappointment have been great. Such a of taiths and the modern scurning of to have asked General Joubert if he knew any knew nothing of the fighting which is going on sale of passenger tickets at the rate of 5 persire the Japan Advertiser, he was in a very thing about these Australians. "I only know almost in their eight. They take little heed if cent. cach, but the syndicate does not consent to weak and depressed condition, occasioned by his risk is always run by those who expect too religions has helped greatly the neglect of tut eleven of them ones beat all Fagland." | a shot or two from big guns falls near them, the lery of taxes, and accuses the Magistrate illness, his disappearance gives great anxiety t much. Quick returns and big dividends go the old, manly virtue of self-control. Life

* Good God:" cried the President, "wo are and only run away for a time when shot falls Lu. Magistrate La esys that he is simply his many friends in Yokohama. Mr. Cullen, to the very lucky few. If there are any is no better understood since superstition is lost, thirteen thousand of there have just land. Hike rain, but when the firing stops they return anting according to the instructions from his who canus last from Cairo, had left the Mail's Spain's Valleys left in the world, they being swept out of it, and it is not all who ed."

and begin to search for the bullets and the shot. chief. The matter is still pending.

service and joined the staff of the Advertiser.