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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1907.

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the true andness of age; its chief tragedy, ↑.. The New Territory contributed another. surely, is that it makes people too old to plague case yesterday--the 10th of the season. play truant.

The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Aliated Hospitals acknowledges with thanks the following donations to the funds of the Hospitala-

Some journalistic hacks, cursed with an uuprofessional knack of sincerity, must A. S. WATSON & CO., often share Hauter's lament when things

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seer out of joint—al, cursed spite, that... Lever I was born to set it right." Sometimes people waliciously say of surgeons that they are too fond of culting and dissecting, and if there be in the world any creatures whom a fellow feeling should make won- drons kind, it is the people mentioned in the first three words of this paragraph. Ax a rule they do not love-the-knife, the newspaper surgeon would often prefer engas WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, calling for bitments nud unguents; a

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Gold abounds in Celebes, but the record of mining companies there tells the same stoep of dismat failure. One of these ventures-the Belang Company-fared no bettor than the others, and made over its prospecting rights to the Bekal Company. Rumour now saya tist prospecting on behalf of the latter looks so promising that it will take steps to secure the whole concession:

The

Inspector Langley, who is more particularly known by (some) Erequenters of the magistracy the clown is often a melancholic person, yesterday by the P. and O. 8.8. Nile,

na “the powpan of the sai." left for England the critic of the breakfast table may be Inspootor goes beme on special leave which naturally indisposed to criticize. But fatis cccasioned by the necessity. of undergoing has hung a brassplate at his door, and an operation for appendicitis. During his be has 12

as he is called.

It is ubssues fuspector Kerr will be in charge nowadays more or less of an open secret, of of Timolateoi station. course, that newspapers are written.by Nesh and blood creatures of Suite enpreity; but owing to the old-fashioned fiction of omniscience, their limitational doings are: apt to be judged by Olympian standards. To be silent is forbidden, and to speak is often to canse offourd. The American Press

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Hongkong, 25th March, 1907.

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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apparently deemed best in that go-aheut. money-making ometry, and like the Press in other lands, it gets kicks as well as half- pence. Lately, in connection with its treatment of the Tha murder trial, it big

had to endure an extraordinary diversity of criticism. President Roougrest has brought things to a head by ordering the Postmaster-General exclude from the United States mails all newspapers-publish- ing details of that trial. The demand for fall reports is undoubted, even among English readers, and it is difficu!! to settle just where to draw the line. The journalis wooing the public is faced with the difficulty against which OVID warned lovers. He Fennot be sure whether no does not mean yes"; whether the arguments for and against L certain courge are of sfucerity or eant, earnestly meant or just said for the sake of decorum, It is amusing to note that

the dissemination through the medium of the pabile press, of the details of each musations! criminal cases, is favoured by influential Indies of ministers of religion, by the Union Fed ration of the Evangelical Ministers of Providence, R. I, and the Hampden Associa ting of Congregational Clergymes at Spring. field, Mass. The reason assigned for this singuriar decision is that the cass furnished the greatest moral leeson of the age

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All letters for publication should be a site of

disbelief in the suggestion that tracy people ne side of the paper saly

read such alter as they would a text-book of ethics. It savours of the notorious humbug of some of De-Fox's-preface.

No anonymiary supremusications that he already appeared in other papers will be unutied,

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Three handsome up-to-dato Branford motor ears have, heen received by the Shanghai Municipal Council, and went into service on April Sih. One of the care has been assigned to the Police force as to the Heath Depart rent and one to the Public Works Department. These cars will now onably the heads of the different departments to exercise wide saper. vision over their various departments.

Erines Ranjilsiabj har out the following message to the British nation, through the Birmingham Cosette, and Express in response to congratulations on being officially recognised as the Jam Sahib of Nawanagar :–“ God bless I hope still to retain the regard, affection and the Emperor King, his Empire and his People esteam of my British friends and the British Paldic by playing the Game on another Geld. RANJITBINUJI, Porbandar, India,"

The English Bishop in Bombay Presidency is having trouble over the question of ritual The following is the conclusion of the Clergy's latter of protest to the Dishop: We fool in duty bound to state definitely that if, in spite of what we have written above, your Lordship insists upon our compliance with the directions 1) as to oxcluding baptised children from the Eucharist, and (2) as to no celebration of the Holy Eucharist without three communicante, we bate up option but lo refuse obedience.”

given in St Andrews Hall on Saturday evening Mrs. Belitios, Mea. Newborn, Mrs. M. Long- in aid of the Y.M.C. A. Library Fund will be

ridge, the Rev. M. Longridge, Mr. G. P. Lammert, Mr. H. J. Reid and the Alexaudra Quartette, Miss Blair will recite a piece set to music, Miss Clarke accompanying. Mr. Jok! is on the programme for violin solos, Alto- gether the programme contains the promise of a first-class concert.

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CONTRACT FOR HONGKONG DOCK CO.

SINGAPORE, April 10th. The Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ld., has secured the con-

tract for the repair of the steamer "Netherton". The amount of the tender has not been announced.

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THE KING'S TOUR..

LONDON, April Htb. King Alfonso and several of his ministers have started for Cartagena. Owing to the condition of the Queen of Spain, their departure was deferred to the last moment, and they will return immediately after an interview with the King.

"Is no voice going to be raised in protest against the flooding of our papers with the garbage of America Why are we compelled to prove into our houses the loathsome story now advertised on the boards and flaunted in our faces. To puro-minded me and women who feel their responsibility for what is read in their booseholds it in intolerable. By forbidding the paper curiosity is roused by admitting it we defile the minds of all who teach it, our young one of us are exempt from temptation. Can people, our servants, yea and ourselves, for nothing be done - A Member of the Mothers' Caion in the Guardian. The Nation (New York), says: The facts in such a case as this notorious murder trial ought to be given to the public. They are of immense interest, psycho logic and moral sad crimini. But as regards the uanseating form in which they are told by wituosses, that, surely, is a place at which the scrupulous editor would wish to draw the line."Captain General of the Spanish army, as

token of sincere friendship.

THREATENED STRIKE IN PARIS.

Losops, April 8th.

LATER

King Alfonso has appointed King Edward

A giguatic food trades strike is organis-

Ow Tuan wae charged at Singapore Police Court, with having enticed away the legal wife of a fellow-Celestial. Mr. Count appeared for the prosecution and asked for a postponement to the 10th instant, which was granted. He also asked that the woman be sent to the Hospital oring in Paris; the date of the strike isa the Chinese Protectorate. She was in the care secret. The Government is prepare to of Inspector Hart, He had no doubt that take strong repressive zueasures. | Lusportor Hart was an excellent guardian (laughter), but he thought that the Inspector

would like to get rid of her. To this latter- sentimont, the Inspector promptly responded, saying that he would like to get rid of her as quickly as possible. Asked where she would like to go, the woman said thatshe wished to ge to the accused. She was a woman and not s child. She did not wish to be sent to

home. Mr. Gaunt asid that he must strongly objast to the woman's going to the accused, but the Magistrate said that, as there was no charge against her, he had no power to send her any where against her will. She accordingly rejoined the scoured, who was released on bail.

By kind permission of Lt. Col. Price, D.8.0. and Officers, the Baad of the 129th Duke of Baroan Connaught's Own Balachis will play the follow- ing programme of music, at the King Edward Hotel, during dinner, this (Thursday) evening:→ March... The Daughters of the Civar," Staurt Overture......The marker of seville," Song................................ “ Love's Old Sweet Song," Selection: **The Jondokers," Sullivan Landler "Alplers Lust" Vaiu,

In the Twilight, Keter Bela

.......... C Selection......Rip Van Winkle,... Planquette The Pelo Galop.

.... Martin

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SUPREME COURT. Wednesday, 10th April.

PIRATES CAPTURED IN HONGKONG.

Piracy is not so romantis as in the olden days. Whether it be that the piratas suffer from the degeneration which is said to have overtaken so

suy of the mau rass or not, at any rate there is no gainsaying the fact that they are not How the picturesque figures that they once wore. Indesd, they are anally most uninteresting does not comised itself to the community they men and wore it not that thoir manuor of living would attract little notice. Moraliki look- ing pirates could not be seen perhaps than the ten dirty ankempt Chinamen who after haddling in the dock at the Magistracy stood up yester day to face Mr. Hazeland when they worssisted. to be man doncerned in the piracy of two junks up the West River rather more than a week | ago. ·

It appeared that on that occasion the two Babing junks were attacked by the robbers aħn put the crew in subjection and sailed down the isor. After about seran days they put the. crew ashore near Macao, from which place the men ultimately made their way to Hongkong and reported to the police what had happened to them. They added that they were certain the pirates were in Hongkong and sure enough soare fed to the two junks being found at Samshuipo. The ten mes on board wore arrested and after appearing before his Warship were ro manded. It is believed that the Chinos Govern- ment will apply for their extradition.

Probably emboldened by the success which attends their lawless raide in the Kwangtang afield. They are actually appearing in Heng- Province, the Chinese piratos are going further kong barber, and it is more than likely that had the band which entered the port on Monday not been captured promptly, some deed of violence would have resulted in our immediate

ACCIDENT TO H.M.S. "TRAFALGAR." sighbourhood. Ou the day in qusation the

LONDON, April 8th. The battleship Trafalgar" ran on the rocks at Devil's point, Devonport, but has been towed off.

CHINESE PLACE NAMES.

A VIENUL COMPILATION,

In the spring of 1996 a joint Commission of the

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water police were informed by two native saa men of the capture of twe juaks-osch having of ten men on the West River. The junks are a "unaga" of 600 piculs sud carrying a crew

valued at $1,000 apiece, while the clothing and jewellery aboard at the time is stated to be worth $100. The pirates are alleged to have hoarded the junks from sampaus, envored the crew with rifles, and then put them in the hold where they Fere detained

the

Chinese Imperial Post and the Imperial Tele- for seven days and afterwards landed. graphs was formed at Shanghal for the purpose Thon the rascals brought the vessels on of afstematising the romanisation of names of

to Hongkong, appearing in the harbour as places in China, One essential condition an that the names so settled aboald be suitable for pooosful traders. They ignored the fact, how- telegraphing, and this precluded the use of ever, that a seamen from each of the captured hyphens, aspirates, and diacritic marks. Sub- junks had escaped during the affray on jeet to this restricting, the syetem followed, has West River. These men, it appeare, cams to MR. A. G. WISE (Pussa Juon been, in the main, the Nanking syllabary as

given in Giles' Dictionary, except for Kwaug. Hongkong and reported the ogcurrence, fung and a portion of Kwangsi, and partly for therefore the Police were on the lookout. Fukien.

Where in the north the southoru, or That skilled officer, Detective Sergeant Wil- has been substituted for the local ch (as den, was atang the number on the watch for in Peking, Tientsia, Tainan, etc.), it was

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION

CLAIM FOR MONEY LENT. The case was concluded in which Ho Yee lleued Ip Ches-po to recover 895), money lest

on December, 17th.

At the boy's swimming matches in a provincial As the old cook crows, the young one learns town in Australia two of the three competitors wore sons of horse traicers, the third the son of] a clergyman. As they represented rival Atorganisations, the betting was keen, and the young sports saw their opportunity. The trainers Bous agreed that it was a good thing to let the non-favourite win, and back him. They gwam a good diuish, a realistic finish, and were besten, to the entire satisfaction of all the competitore, but not entirely to the satisfaction of those adherents abo, considering them too young for guile, bad backed one or both to win.

The Socialist party organisation at Paris hea established a branch in Tenkin. The members last month. Their sambers are on the increase, of the latter beld their first meeting at Hapoi and they have set to work to had out how far socialist ideals can be carried out in the Colony. The head organisation at Paris has asked for reports on political and social conditious among also be made how far the labour laws in force in Europeans and natives in Tonkin. Inquiry will the parent country can be made applicable to the Colony. A socialist library will be established. The Toukin brauch will endeavour to enter into communication with the socialist party in China and Japan. Business matters are transacted by a Secretary who holds office for only six months. The post is then held by another member who, after serving a like term, passes it over to some other gentleman, the names being taken in alphabetical order,

Mr. E. Harding appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Otto Kong Bing for the defeudant.

Mr. Harding-I anderstand my friend has

evidence they are going to give. subpoenaed the Bank, but I don't know what

Mr. Koug Sing-Neither do I. His Lordship.I know what they ought to give.

Mr. E. O. Murphy, clerk in the Hongkong and Slangbai Banking Corporation, said the defendant withdrew $1,000 from the Bank on November 23rd,

His Lordship was of opinion that there was no case for the defendant to meet, and entered judgment and costs on his behalf.

FIRE.

What might have proved a disastrous fire was discovered in the New Travellers' Totel, Des attendance of the Fire Brigade under Captain Yeux Road, yesterday morning, but the prompt Lyots prevented it from spreading. It is thought that ac oil lamp which stood on a table in the passage and which was the only light in the place was the cause of the couflagration. kened between three and four o'clock in Be that as it may Mr. Oliver was .DWG- the morning oxing to the heat and the smoke, and looking up the flames bursting into her apartment raised and is very short time the Brigade, for. Quickly the alarm was tunately able to get plenty of water, was playing succeeded in extinguishing the fames. By en the conflagration. In half an hour they had that time however practically the whole of the staircase was destroyed and part of the roof | immediately above had collapsed. A good deal of the furniture was damaged by smoke and water, and the total loss is $2,000, The premises

the letters would allow the romanisation of non- he was successful in apprehending them at considered that a special rulo-for-pronouncing: the-pirates, and~from information received" English-speaking people to be mal as far as

possible. The settled forms of names of Samshuipe. There he captured ten meo, all place

long connected with Foreigu said to be Wost River out-throate, and found trade have been left generally unchanged; that they had taken sut licenses for both junks. hat the same respect has not been shown The men are at present charged with "bringing to the cocentric spelling of the writers on

the Taiping Rebellion or of the railway stolen property into the Colony," engineers who have surveyed so much of the country in the past few years.

A PRACTICAL DYER.

During the bearing of na sotion before His

The romanisatiin as now settled will noi satisfy sinologues;, but it is designed to provide a settled form for the ass of corres pondents writing or telegraphing to places copying faithfully a postmark or letter-hend, Court yesterday, Mr. B'svenson (of Messer. in the interior, with the certainty that, in Honour the Puisne Judge in the r'apreme their communications will reach the indicated, and will not be sent elsewhere place Deacon, Losker and Deacon; proceeded to Where other means of distinguishing places examine & witzess concerning the dyeing haro failed, an abbreviation of the name of the basinere. Honakod-You're a dyer in this firm province has been sufixod. A list of these and dye cloth? Yes. abbreviations, as well as of the post offices in the Empire, bas just been published by the Iuspectorate General of Customs Statistical Department) at the remarkably cheap price of twenty-five cents. It is a book that should be partienlarly as a gazetteer of Chins, found useful in many ways in many offices,

If you want to know that at once, go and osk What do you pay for dye-I don't know.

the accountant.

But you're a practical par?—Yes, I'm a man of thirteen years experience.

And you don't know the price of dye ?--No it's not my business to know the price or raine of things. I'm there to obey orders and dye clothes not to inquire about the value or prica of goods on the premises.

PRINTING WITHOUT INÉ.

maker of printing-ink, according to a writer There are gloomy times in store for the

the near future solanes in to place the printed what would you pay for enough dye to dye in the current Strand Magazine, for in

Well, if you wanted to dye your clothes word before our eyes by a process in which them I wouldn't pay anything. I'd nao my

The magazine quoted reproduces a page ink will not figure,

and the effect is remarkably good. The experi from a book printol in the new typography,

Hia Lordship-I suppose you would.

master's dye.

that such reports are devoure as mere potography, It were but honest to admit that it attracts by reason of its human interes", a true story of real life, and granted that it is universal and natural to feel enriosity as to var environment, savoury or HONGKONG, APRIL IIra, 1907. ansavoury, it seems a little hard to blame

the Press for printing what in any case is "On, to be in England, now that April's relevantly spoken in open court, and dis here Yesterday it was no ill thing to be cussed and passed on from month to month, in Hongkong, for the time of the singing of in homes as well as in public places. If the cicadas had come, and with the ther civilization should ever emancipate itself mometer mensuring seventy-two in the from the fig-leaf modesty that is believed to shade at eight o'clock in the morning, for be really visa culture, it will one day be those whose temperament disposes them to

inore consistent, and admit that naked be glad in the sunshine, there was incentive truth in a newspaper is no more capable of to that "shrill, silent music" that vibrates mischief than the dicentions Oriental litera. the chords of the healthy human diaphragm fare that is thrust into the hands of Sunday There was a purple haze, and the sea was a school children. The Rev. Mr. BOWDLER luoguorous beauty diaphanously clothed; the

was a much maligned man. It is possible bleak uplanda of Kowloon across the water that if Miss NES 3r had been lees ignorant, became the shining ramparts of a Delentless handicapped by the conspiracy that nble Land; and the cicadas, making their drapes the limbs of pianos and ignores hilarious début, were insistent of the fact vital facts, she would have had less painfa! | that the pageant of summer had begun its testimony to give. However, all this is at the warch. Thoughtful looking men descended present merely to talk ofbelling the from the Peak tram station, with bats cat"; the time and the courage sed the tilted more loosely, and rests decerpt or RICHARD who will do it are yet to come, unbuttoned, and though habit took then Meanwhile, the public should be as indul straightly to their several places of business, gent as it can be, and n orer bastily it was easy to imagine an involuntary pause, condemns our American contemporaries, in and a regretful glance about, just before whose motives there may have been a they passed under the intel, from the mixture of all sordid. It is amusing and for a navy in the past was to furnish ships for of the institution. The evidence not only fallen considerably in S. Japan, owing to the to the transport of troops in Manebaris:

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not uninstructive to find Japanese contemporary denouncing then in the interests of decency and morals,"

are Insured for $5,000.

SECRET COMMISSIONS..

The commercial world New Zealand bas

menter. Mr. E. K. Davenport, states that

the constituents for the blackening of con in the paper, which was made from New- portions impressed by the metal were contained fo, the in

A GRUESOME DISCOVERY.

trunk lying near the roadside Thinking that Early yesterday morning a lakong on duty in Des Voeux Road was surprised to find s

feet, from a commoreis! standpoint: bat what Plainly, the invention is far from being per- a field for economy in the production of name- papers alone such a discovery opone to view! some burglar bad left it there, the lukong took it will Saturate a hundredweight of paper. If apaned it. They found that it contained the It is said that three-half-pence worth of solution jo No. 7 Police Station where a European offleer different solutions are found to produce difforony body of a little boy who had died from smallpox. colours under the electric shock the doom of the ink-makers is amongst the portents in the sky.

WEATHER REPORT.

THE FAR EAST,

RUSSIA'S ALTERED FORITION.

The St. Petersburg Telegraj throws a striking light upon the changed and weakened position of Russia in the Far East with regard

Thus speaks the Saturday Evening Review newest recruit to. the procession of new publications at Shanghai Yes, Chica needs 1 Davy; 1w0 of them. constructing it, but 100,000,000 taels. Throw Let her spend not 12,000, 00 tals annually on the money around in haueber, in bales. China's been scanda sad by some revelations which experience with a navy in the past has been of have been made in the course of the trial of a natura to foster a keen desire for more. A charitable institution op 12 charges of fraud the late master and weretary of a large all the world knows, the only use the ever had and false pretences connected with the funds the following report

The Hongkong Observatory yesterday lasted On the 10th at 11.55 a.m.-The barometer har sunt open air to cleistral silence, from

other countries. Is there any reason to believe showed that the prisoner was well paid, but be the piping of Pan to the figures of com-

once? Two of the swiftest torpedo konts the that she would not again undergo this experi- he was unable to resist the temptation to rob the neighbourhood of Korea Straits.

was a man of some mesue, despito which fact depression, which is now moving Eastwards in merce, from fluttering fritillaries to rustling

Russians had in the late war-one of them transpired that he had been in the babit increase of pressure has occurred, the barometer tho institution under his care. It further Except over the E. coast where a slight counterfoils, from sylvan verditure to silvóz

auccessfully escaped from Port Arthur and of receiving from tradesmen who supplied is inclued to fall again over China. quotations. There be prosaicsouls a boalready

carried important despatches to Newchwaag on his private aesonnte amounting to as much light variable winds may be expected in the

Gradienta continue slight in the South. and alooked-for hindrance. the home "douceurs" in the shape of rabate comment that the weather is become "sticky," du Japau, under which, not only is the carious (the Bourokoj)—were taken

public excluded from the court room wherever after the Boxer troubles. Japan has quite a but not yet the time when "Nature pants. statements offensive to morals or public peace number of cruisers, torpedo craft and gan "demoralising to commercial life, and offers at 10s.. to-day, 0.03 inches,

from Chiosrand jury made a presentment, in which Sea.

Formoss Channel, and the N. part of the China

and every stream looks languid." There are forthcoming, but no such statements are

Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending allowed to be printed." was energy abroad, yesterday morning, the

boats which were built, or, paid for by China, energy that sets lambs askipting; and ofJspar, and the gratuitous lengths to whick And they want more ships. Yes, by all

to-morrow is as follows:**

The forecast for the 24 hours auding at moon Those who know the verticular newspaper and England, France and Germany, a few Zephyrus passed on the naughty whispered it often goes, will thrust tongue in cheek at means encourage China to build a hage navy message of that arboreal devil-or is it a that, and suggest the trail of the missionary, the bigger the better will the powers like it.

Hongkong & Neighbourhood Variable winds, Io Japan of all countries, where a sort of It might be a good plan for Chirs to send Dryad who so long has made it his or Edenic innocence prevailed until foreign representatives abroad to ascertain just what her business to tempt little boys to play prudery interventd, such comments are a

types of ships the powers would like best to two years. On such days as these we realize distinctly retrograde step.

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and saving.

"Better still seems to as the system in vogus

have."

The

per cant.

they urged that the system shown to exist is incentives to obtaining contracts by means The Wellington Chamber of Commerce joined which cannot be regarded as strictly honest.

General hints that it may be necessary to legislation similar to the English Prevention of in condemning the practice, and the Attorney

Cotraption Act, Rader which any person fouth coast of China between corruptly accepting or agreeing to accept any Bouth coast of China between Hodgkong and Lamecks secret commission is liable to imprisonment for

Hongkong and Hainau

Formosa Channel

It is reported that the Ministry of War was about to sead nat to Vladivostock a great the preparations therefore had been made, when quantity of guns a few days ago, and that all

Russia no longer has the right to transport the authorities were aut auerpectedly by an It appears that troops or war material by means of the Eastern China Railway, which, although it is still in Russia's bande, was declared to be international after the Partsmouth Treaty, and that the railwagen be used by Russia only for the purpose of sending out fresh troops to take the place of these already stationed in the Antur light; fair..

and Ussuri Territories. Therefore, Russia is Same as No. 1, connected now only by sea for the purpose of aapplying its military seeds in the Far East. Same as No. 1. Thus it may be asked, in this state of affairs an anexpected result of the Portsmouth Treaty, or Sames No. 1. or has Bussia to face here an unknown and

secret clansy of that Treaty ? "