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WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

The Coaka Shimpo ie organising a 1,000 mile bloycle race. The event is to tako plaos sema time next month, the route being from Osaka to Tokyo by way of Kyote, Tea in Ise and other places in Gita and Prefontures on the Tokaidu. Several entrion have been received.

and his curear was rathar romantio.

A few years

TELEGRAMS.

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NAVAL DISASTER AT TOULON,

*LONDON, March 13th.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 15TH, 1907.

| doubtless a gain to the cause of knowledge reject them as useless towards our object of puyana had two корз Dhritarashtra in general that the very suspicious fabric on restoring history. In this respect myth (Tsingyang), who lived by the river which has been erected the structure mis has frequently a part to play more impart. Sarasvati in the heart of the kingdom named Chinese History, should be exposed ant than pretended bistory itself, as not ad Pandu, for whom however the Chine:

Ch'ungyit, i.o. Dwaraka but in seeking to demolish one unsubstantial | being subject to falsification to the same substitutes atructure Mr. ALLEN has only succeeded in foxtont; and in this case we find that the Dwaraku not being a person but the naine A. S. WATSON & CO., reeting anotion orally Himay and un-myths of the "Bhi Kug, and in a levées of Krishna's kingdom), who live in the A Vladivostok telogram on February 25 said substantial. While it may be affirmed degree even those of the more corrupt 4Shaomote district by the Weak water, Lake that Yi Yong-ik dind there. The political without fear of contradiction that the fabric Ring," prove to fit in wordorfully with the Lob. Taking advantage, seemingly of his efugee tutely visited Japan and Europe and

An explosion of a compressed-air which has up to the present passed curront still more badly manipulated tales of the sence, though the story finds another stayed in Shanghai for some time,

ago he was a very prominent figure in Seoul torpedo, followed by other explosions, incomprehensible exense, Dhritarashtga as "History

Mahabharata in China is a thing of invon- Indinn

AD] Raunnyan('singgang) assumes the throne, which is

on the battleship Jena, had frightful tion and barefaced forgery, it does not especially the former. As there is no possi-quiesced in for some time; but eventually uecessarily follow that all the evalences on bility of the one having been founded on Daraka's grandson Karma (Kayang) which it is pretended to be founded are the other, and each describes the position of succeeds to the throne as the Emperor

affairs in the lands north of the Himalayas Swarga (Chwanhuk).

Ail the other stories of the Three conclusions where both are in harm any, and Sovereigns" and "Fise Emperors" on we are thus enabled to carry back the muin | investigation equally turn out to be mer facts of the history of the Aryan races in rehashos of comparatively late Indian stories, both the north of India and in the plains of and it is not till we arrive at the Tis (devas), Eastera Turkestan for some hundreds of Yao and Shun that we como on even a years. More, the juxtaposition of the two genuine myth. The myths never had their throws a flood of light on the connection of origin in China, but can be traced to the both with the early Iraniane, and exoth. Chen immigrants

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

WATSON'S

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SCOTCH

BLEND

THE LEADING

WHISKY

equally untrustworthy.

at the some epoch, we are justified indiawing

who entered China)

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mort yesterday offered for sale by publicauction Dock.

Eg order of the mortgages Mr. GP. Lam. Csults. The Jeniz sank in Toulon taukivan Inland Lot No. 10 together with killed, and 200 injured.

A hundred men are reported all erections and premises (if any) thereon. The

Much ares of the lot is 15,28) square feet, the term of damage was occasioned in the dock- lease 75 years and the Crown rent $73. The yard and in the town. property was sold to Mr. Sun Choong for

LONDON, March 14th, 313,900. Messrs. Johnson, Stoles and Master

The deaths from the explosion on were the solicitors for the mortgagee.

the Jena at Toulon number 114.

A trader of Wing Lok Street, by unme Lo

We have been careful in not using in connection with these evidences the term | documents, bemure we may safely assume that there are not, and never have been any documents in the caso. The invention of writing in China is a thing of comparatively late growth, and was even in the days of

Yin, was searched curing from the Canton The cause of the disaster has not yet Conrucios ia o embryonic a state that

steamer yesterday morning for onl um. Instort been discovered. though it might be malo to represent facts

a number of latters addressed to shops in Hong- to a certain extent, it could not express plifica some of the more debated points in some twelve or fifteen centuries before kong but unstamped were found upon him. Hej KING EDWARD AND ALFONSO.

Christ. Here Mr. ALLEN is wrong in was arrestet and convicted by Mr. Huzoland stating in his introduction that there is of bringing letters into the colony without nothing to show how the Chinese" people the permission of the Postmaster General and errors here. The Chinese people may be allowed to have been the original inhabitants of the land, but it is certain that some twelve hundred

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the curly history of Zoroastrianism..

come to inhabit China. There are two

yeara B.C. JAM alien tribe, closely connectol with the Aryan settlers about the same period in Northern India, also entered China, and brought, an in the former case, their own language and

fined $100.

LONDON, March 13th. King Alfonso is better. He will meet the King at Cartagena on the 18th inst.

GREAT FIRE IN ITALY.

*LONDON, March 13th.

A big fire at Borsano near Milan

sider the Isast rubbisk of the dozen's cargo We dare not specißcally refer to what we com-

of rabbish in No. 5; wo tremble and admire. This Sbungbai freelanos of journalism is quite capable of doing good, but wo four that Mrs. Grundy of Hongkow will say the nakedness of Trail is obscene. As Dickens says in the Cricket on the Hearth," "The kettle began it," and this keitin (however black the pots may has made five thousand people home- refutation of the saying that a walched kettle

*There telegrams, delivered late, were never boils. Ono Watt is said to have profited by { pablished in our o'clock Extra yesterday.] stadpinga kattle; so olan may Shanghailanders and others. Bat they must not try to tie down

A HANDSOME GIFT.

LONDON, Murch 14th. Mrs. Russell Sags, widow of the . great American financier, lias given £2,000,000 to improve social con- ditions in the United States.

the corresponding words, nor het as a medium for thought. It was not indeed till So much for Mr. ALLEN's suggestion as some three or four generations after the to the probable forgery of the muss of the death of the Master that his historical extant Chinese Classics. In endeavouring

lectures" contained in the Tro Chwen to rehabilitate the undoubtedly genuine, wera reduced to writing; and the record of far as they go, remains of antiquity to be WHISKY the "conversations" of the sage contained found here and thoro amidat the mass of in the Linyi," bear on their very face rubbish depominated the“ Chinese Classica" the evidence of still later, probably Han, we must not be supposed to have a word to reduction to writing. Writing during the say in favour of that extraordinary aspeia- time of T'IN SHI HWANOTI, was, as wetion of misunderstood myth and downright learn from the nearly contemporary record in /utruth and forgery which has up to this civilisation. The early bistory of the wil it) promises also to end if, It is a patentless,

been miscalled Chinese "History." For it countries was in fact in the main similar Mr. ALLEN has hardly spoken in sufficiently and so it is that the myths of the two, when. strong tens of reprobation. Mr. ALLEN carefully studied, show so close a reasts gives a series of translations from SEMA Fance. As in the case of India we cannot accept the Vedas and the Nahabharata as Teiss's work, the "Sbi Ki" or "Historical having any claims to be called historic, so Record" which show to what a bath's neither can we look upon the ballads of of absurdity a men of more than wyer China as truthful records of the past. Both, age ability can permit himself to descend however, can throw a very important when be rares the straight path of historical light on the primitive conditions of Eastern The very absurdity of SBEMA's Asia, and both ure equally well worthy of efforts, when he attempts for himself to study by the oriental scholar. wake history, may be lookid upon as one of the strongest proofs of his utter incapacity to have furged any of the existing classics. Unfortunately Mr. ALLEN has made an attempt in his translation to render into English the characters used by the author to represent proper names; the effect is

the "Shi Ki," in but an inchoate condition ; and SBENA TIEN records how the minister THROUGHOUT THE EAST LISSE was the first to introduce a method of writing which could be intelligible in the various languages and dialects then current. We must then dismiss ne little more than a fable the prezended burning of the ancient ** literature" pat forward by the literates of another age as a screen to their own bare

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faced, and generally ignorant fargeries, That in a moment of anger at the tirades of the scholar SHUN YUYUEH, who essayed to teach him how to ralo the State his prowess had wou, Sun HwANGTI did order his books A. S. WATSON & CO.. to be burnt is likely enough, but BEMA

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TEN does not add that the hasty order was ever carried out. The absence of the books was, in fact, mainly brought about by their non-existence, added to the general confusion of the times. It is perhaps a pie a of good fortune, jo some respects at last, that the recension of the ancient terry remains should have fallen to the

lot of the ignorant scholars of the Has, imasmuch as the style of the few genuine remains still existing is in marked contrast

the productions of the forgors. It is, however, unfortunately a fact that owing to the primitive and imperfect system under

to

truth.

bizarre-almost as much so as SBEMA's Own

attempts to invent history. Here are a few lines copied faithfully:

:

The wedding of the son of His Excellency Wu Ting Fang to the eldest daughter of the Ho Dr. Ho Kai took place yesterday.

Mr. E. D. C. Wolte, who has just returned from holiday, will in a day or two take his seat

magistrate in the Second Court,

Viceroy Blum has not yet gone to Baoch was sa 'commanded, He has pleaded contioned iil-health, and a temporary substitute has been appointed.

the lid,

Rather a pretty tale was told at the Magistracy and the here, a lakong, who was charged with yesterday but Mr. Melbourns did not believe it

salting a Chinese kirl, was discharged without any aspersions on his record. The girl said that the defendant was eating dumplings in East Street and when he caught sight of her obopping firewood on the side walk his numerous disposition was touched and he made advances which the girl reseated Annoyed at this ha told her to go upstairs as that was net a place where she should obop firewood, She did so and he followed her, striking her over the hoad Then he changed his mind and took her to the Police Station and abarged her with a car. travention of the law by breaking firewood on the footpath The Inspector said that was s

case for a summons and fudicated the esurze to be taken. In the meantime the giel look out a summons against him for assault. As already atid, the Magistrats did not believe the girl", story and the defendant was discharged,

Poalan has a widespread reputation for its

Yellow Emperor lived on the hiftock of Hsion-yuan, and married a daughter of Westera Kange, namely, Lei-tsu, and aba was Yellow

The operations associated with the annual Emperor's principal wife, Sho bore two cous, both of when descendien's possessed the mobilisation took place on Wodooday and this was Ching-yong (Azure Molo) who came the Vulunteers were not invited to take part. native glass ware, its pottery and ita coal. All empire. One of them was called Hsuan-bsite: Thursday, On this occasion, for some resgun, down to dwell on the river Chiang,

The other called Chang-yi (Splendid Ides) came down

The Dake and Duchess of Manchester, who the glass ware and pottery used in that part of a woman from the hills of Sha (ie. Sz-ohway Government House daring their stay in the by Foshan, while its coal has long boon esteeme to dwell on the Jo water, Chang-yi married bare boon the guesta of the Governor at the Empire has for many years been supplied

(Splendid province), who was called Chang-pc Servant. She bore a son Kan-yan Emperor died and we baried at Ch'inala (Bridge mountain), and his grandson, Ch'ang. y's son, High Maie, that is Emperor Chanu ba came to the throne."

NEW MILITARY OFFICE.

LONDON, March 14th. Ap extra military commander for the forces in the Mediterranean has been appointed at a salary of £5,000. The first holder is to be the Duke of Connaught. --

INDIAN LOAN.

LONDON, March 14th. An Indian Ioan of two millions is announced,

PERSIAN AFFAIRS.

LONDON, March 14th. Two thousand Persians have taken

hour the supply is limited, unly supplied for¡Cash which the ordinary student, more especially Male) who hed the virtua of a holy man. Yetiolony, left yesterday in the yacht Margaritu the best to be had in the nativo market, except refuge at the British Consulate.

P.O. Hon, 188,

BIRTH.

On January 20th, at St. Sowe, Francs, the wife of E, U. Love, I. M. Customs, of a son.

MARRIAGE.

On March 7th, at Sanghai, Joras RangesB Lyness, to Epreu MARION CRANKON.

LCNGLONG OFFICH: DA, Die Veux Hold Ct. LONDUN OFFICZ: 131, Fenstürbeet, E.C.

HONGKONG, MARCH 15, 1907.

Wz have received from the . P. C. K. a

should he belong to one of the "services," lensus Chinose, that the personal study of styl is not encouraged, and the text is gen rally droned out in R vernacular paraphrase wherein all consciousness of the hythm of the original is completely

obscurel.

for Manila.

possibly hard coal. It has long bosa the desire of the native workers in glass to be able to pra

Excellency the General Offloer Commanding

Tho inspection

takes place on Saturday, 23rd inst.

of Volunteers by His duce window glass, but have never succeeded in

making anything better than very amull panos, reboarsat will take place on Saturday at the unequal to the increasing demand. Now st And those in such ennall quantition, as to be quite

Headquarters.

SENSATIONAL CHARGE.

LONDON, March 14th.

Lord William Nevill has been

Now we may much simplify this, while at the same time translating more faithfully,

last, however, a company has been started, said charged with the theft of jewelley and if wo treat the Chinese characters sitaply as the sounds, for which alone they were The entries for the Oxford Local Examination be partly Chinons and partly German, which intended, without striving to introduce into to be held in Jaly next closed at noon, Saturday, has spent several hundred thousand tanks in the bail has been fixed at £10,000. - them an element of hidden meaning never 9th of March, and the Foes and Eatry Forms erection of a modern plant, from which they intended. Such is, us anyone can see by

were forwarded to Oxford by the Gertzen Mail are now turning out window glass, under the

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195 candidates, 16 Senior, 40 Junior and 49 It is to be hoped that this new enterprise may becrowned with success, for if it is, it will no doubt give employment to many workmen.

BENEFIT CONCERT.

DROP IN CONSOLS.

LONDON, March 11th, Consols are at the lowest figure they have bean since 1866.

Mr. ALLEN has thus been led to confuse the few genuine remains with the vast and preponderating use of verbiage in which ten minutes investigation of the Chinese Wednesday the 15th of March. There were supervision of experienced Gerinan workmen, The Daily Press, they are concrated. Another disability

arises from the very nature of the medium shop siges in the Queen's Road, the Preliminary, including one girl in each section The authentic works of antiquity have ali ractise of the Chiness with regard to foreigu propor names. With this expinna-

A are broke out between three and four been handed down orally, many of the tien we may proceed with our story:

o'clock yestunlay morning in the back part of

[EBUTER'S SERVICE,} ballads of the Shi King" for close un #

"Hwangti lived at the Hienyuen hills, sad the godown at 4. Si Ou Lear, and when the book entitled "Early Cluse History; thousand years, before at last they were married a somas of Biling called Leiten, Brigade arrived the old difficulty with respect

THE UNITED STATES. as his favourite wife. Shabere him two sons, Are the Chinese Classics brged?" by committed to writing. During this period the descendents of both of a hans subsequently 1e water was experienced. After a considerable

LONDON, March 12(b. Philanthropic motives and the desire to hear

The Governor of California, u his HERBERT J. ALLEN, semeline. H.B.M. the language underwent a profound changes capied the throne: one of these wat aniled delay water was obtained from the sea and the the many excellent artists who figured on the Consul at Newchwang. The 5. P. C. K. from being like its neighbours in the West rather Dead) Water. Chengsi took to wife two buildings. By six o'clock the outbreak was audistes to the City Hall last night on the Roosevelt had complained to him that the Changyi, and lived by the Yok (Woak, or firemen were able to ooofing the fames to the programme doubtless attracted the large message to the Assembly, says President before this show themasives superior an inflected speech, it sufferal the usual woman from the Shirt Mountains called controlled, theagh the attendance of the firemen ocasion of the concert arranged by members of action, of the Legislature re exclu-ling Levant vulgar credulity whichgould retard decay to which language "Ta subjected when Kayang. Kanyang, had the ability was necessary fill about noon. Dumag's was the Masonic Loige, Naval and Military, on Japanese, bad had an unfortunates effect on

who to a knows the progress of Christian knowledge in the learned by an alien race; and becazne

Buge. Hwangti did and was buried at deno, to the extent of $1,500. The premises behalf of the widow and children of the late the President's efforts to secure the ex- future, through the ill-founded fear of reduced to what may be best described his grandson Changyi, succeeded; ha was

Kiaoshan, and Kanyang, who was the son of were insured for $7,400

Blaf-Segt. Blogg. Mrs. Newborn was the through a frank acknowledgment of the for the understanding of four readers, the Emperor Chiweuhn,”

Feng Huai-tising, one of the two men scous-

clusion of Japanese labourers by a friendly stor of the evening. Her brilliant rendering errors.of the past, destroying the founda- 15 ↑ **pidgie." wherein first all It requirics but little acquaintance with ed by the mat Collins as his sccomplices and of "Carman" and A. Woodland Madrigal agreement. tions of religious belief, We have therefore inflections were sloughed off, and secondly the simplest canons of historical criticism to fellow-anarchists, has been released by Vinárny elicited su encore which would not be denied.

see at once that this is "fated," and cannot Yuan Shihkai, as it has been proved that Feng Madame Collier-Parry, rasant no reason to express our suprise at the the remains of the speech which survived be accepted as history in any sense. But the was a victim of Collias's revenge. It appears in the coloury, also made a good impression. The Japanese question this session.

arrival Society having given its exequatur to this became reduced to use of monotonous mono. somewhat crude production of Br. HennERT syllables. Regarding the antiquity of there to put forward as genuine the most unblur the Russo-Chinese Bank at Port Arthur and Badcook, G. Lammert, L. L. Broughall, P. W Chinese chroniclers, though-they were ready that Feng who prior to 1904 was compradore of other soloists wore Mim Feanent, "Messrs. ALLEN'S. Hitherto credulity for various fragments it may be said that the oldest doing forgeries, had not the gift of imagina-one time in that port, in onsequence of which Gibbons, Oxberry, and W. Laukie. Mias Blair caused the arrest and punishment of Collins at Goldring, H. Williams, E. G. Jordan, J. causes, principally ignorance and remoteness not date back more than a thousand years tion, but were dependent on older stories. the Ialter, when arrested for carrying bombs, gave from the schools of modern thought, haze B.C., and that the earliest figure that The source

of inspiration here in the revenged himself on Feug by "confessing" appeared in a dust, Mr. Joki contributed a a recitation, Mr. and Mr. Jordan reigned supreme in China, so that Sinology emerges from the use of tradition is the Mahabharata, the great Indian epic which Fang as his accomplice. Fortunately, for Feng violin solo, Mr. Astlets applied an sshibition lias come to be a breword zu e historical forerunner of the pay kingdom of the tells of the internecine ware of the Kauravas the charge las fallen through and he was of balancing, and Mr. J. B. Northam furnished and philological world. If ALLEN hugheas, whom about 1,200 R.C. we and and Panclaras. The outhaes of the story ralessed. shown himself an adept a historical appearing in the then comparatively fertile were in the hands of every Indian Buddhist criticism, or had made a

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LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.

The Juda-Chins dr. Namsong from Calcutta and the Straits left Singapore for this port on Tuesday, the 12th March, attornoon.

The State Legislature of California has decided to abstain from netion on the

THE COLONIAL CONFERENCE.

LONDON, March 12th. It is announced that ex-General Botha attends the Colonial Conference.

ACCOUNT IN A FRENCH BATTLESHIP.

LONDON, March 12th.

French battleship dena lying ut Toulon, A compressed air torpedo bursting in the

exploded the magazine. There was a large rew on board, and it is feare that the explosion will result in a serious catastrophe.

BULGARIA.

The report and statement of accounts for the gave selections during the evening, and Mr. deep study of the land between Sha Chow and Lake Lop. priest, and Indian Buddhist priests were a year 1906 will be prevented to the members of Grimble officiated at the piano. canere of philological researd, we could That there exist a few fragments of still plentiful in China about the beginning of the Kowloon Bowling Club at the anaast most- have welcomed his little work a valuable earlier myth is undeniable, but the myth is the Christian era as blown leaves in auturi ng on Mouday next. The report states that assistance to our knowledged the past of not of China; it is Asiatic in the widest With this hint we cas read the whole, the club is in a good state and that the debt extremo Oriental history. Mr. ALLEN is sense; und belongs to the same body of tale. Krishna (the Dark) ie. Hwungti swing to members for loans has been consider. unfortunately a tyro in both those sciences, ancient myth as underlies the stories of with same meaning, is king of the Pandavas ably reduced. The membership aambere 88,

LONDON, March 12th. and so his attempt to intoduce some Aryan Tadia, of the ancient land of Iran, and lives in the bills of Gadhura: he has three less than last year. Reference is made in

The death of M. Petkolf is looked upon as many wives but the best beloved is Radha, the great interest taken in the matchon playe

The NY K. str. Kunase Moru (Australian measure of commonsense in that very of far off Hellas itself,

a serious loss to the country: particularly against the Civil Service and to the varions Line) left Koba via Moji aud Nagasaki for this bizarre subject, Chinese sebahrahip, will,

Ent the rejection of these fragments as (Leitsu), who bore him two gone.

port on the 13th March, and is expected to in view of the present anrist in the competitions which took place during the year arrive bere on the 19th March in the first instance at least, bare rather the veritable bistory by no means implies that teller of the talo gets confused, but the for prizes presented by Messrs J.M. Henderson,!

Balkans. Dr. Stanikoff, the Minister for The IG.M. str. Menila bas left Sydney on Foreign Affairs, assumes the position of we are to condemn them as forgeries, or story proceeds on the lines of the quarrel president, A. Kitobie, vics-president, and James Tuesday the 12th inst., p.m. and may be Fremier. The assassin of M. Petkoff is a

between the two cousius. Krishna Dwai Neish.

sipacted here on or about April, 3rd,

contrary tendency. In the Log run it is

Here the

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minor ex-official.

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