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CORRESPONDENCE.

SANITARY, LAW APPEALS.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "BAILY PRES."] Hongkong, 6th May 1908. SB-The Her addressed to you by Mr. Marcus Slade, on the subject of the now Ordinance, stated with cogency and clearness reasons in support of the contention that there is need of improvement in the provisions made for appeal against the decisions of the Building Authority. The existenen ef that need was referred to in Mr. Osborne's speech on the scsend reading of the Bill, when he urged (hat there should be acie more simple form of procedure, To-day in your columns, he anggests D40. He saggeals that the President of the Sanitary Board should be the constituted advocate of the property owners' - viaws in combating those of the Director of Public Werks before the Governor in Conucit. At first

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 8xx, 1908–

BOARD OF TRADE SUPER VISION, CHINA: THE ABOLITION OF OPIUM. † instilbly follow suit, and the temporary evasion

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In the Bankraptoy Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court yesterday an interesting point wes raised by the Official Receiver (Mr. Wake Mr. Wakeman mid be understood that accounts were sent to the Registrar.

Hin Lordship What has he to do with it.. Mr. Wakeman I understand he supervises the accounts. Lo stands in the place of the Board of Trade

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His Lordship-No. The accounts are only Mr, Wakeman Perhaps so, my Lord, but sent to him for audit. that has been the practice here,

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of the regulations for consumers becomes matter of secondary importance. It is undeni The Times correspondent wrote from able that the latter are generally ineffective. Shanghai on January 20th-On November at present, except in certain large cities, 21, 1906, the Chinese Government approved the Carbon sad Tientsin. In Peking, for in regulations, recommended by Tong Sha-3stance, opiam is freely sold to-day to non- (now Governor of Pengilan), for the gradual registered applicants, and opiam smoking, suppression of opium enltivation and consump-requisites are still openly on sale, "Registration' tion throughout the Empire. 80 wide is the of smokers bas been carried out in a desultory manner in certain districts, but the regulation Area and so many are the social conditions and interests affected by these regulations that it is

appears to be used in many cases as an opportu impossible to state any generally applicable nity for the Yumen rpunere rather than a reports of observers in different parts of the Kwang tung, for example, that at Lofan, conclusion as to their present results; and the deterrent; a reliable witness reports from where the magistrate insists upon the registra country are so cendieting that judgment, must be suspended pending further systematic en- tion of all purchases of the deng, Honnces hare quiri These are new being conducted in bech freely issued practically certifying that overy province by Consals and missionaries

6 years of age, and therefore entitled, under within the next few months we should the kalet, to clemenoy. In most of the provin be in a position to form a reasonably accurate cial capitals the public opium divans have been

olosed, but jast to the prospects of abolition

a in England the closing of a of the trade and the progress actually made. public house is often followe! by the opening of Reports were required by his Majesty' Miniatur convivial workman's club, so here we find con Heat Peking last summer frem most of the samplion transferred to social meeting-places these had been where the Eliet enters Dot. But it is no small Board Consular districts, bat ans

arald give but little information as to the hat opiam smoking in public line become ot compiled after the poppy sowing season, they thing, in the opinion of respectable Chinese, illegal, but bad form; no longer are young the habit, and it evidently of the first importance. The general tainment tempral to rednen the area under cultivation; a question consensus of opinion, however, recognizes a

y and continuing impulsa from people, and the regulations, hed produced no other result, Japaaese allies: st, present, however, this remains to their credit. From many rural especially the educated einwsex, against Uio use of districus it is reported that the dena bave opium, and an earnest effort on the part of the not been glosed, but have been convertel into flicisis in many districts to suppress it; at the Gorernment offices for the distribution of same time it recognizes the many oud graat opium," for the bonellt of the local off sials. difficulties that bawat the path of this nation reform, the inherent tendency of the average mandarin to issue regulations, leaving their roans to Previdence, and the, serious financial problem to be faced by the Government when deprived of the revenes which it now drives from the opium trade:

Mr. Wakeman asked, who is the Board of opinion Trade hare?

His Lordship aid he could not any. added that the Ordinance excluded the of Trade supervision. That power was taken

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sight, the simplicity of this method is edulated away for a specific purpose, and there was intention or power of the local authorities too in the tea shope and other places of enterof the British Government would gain!

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to prove attractise, but second thoughts ggest a twofold objection. In the first place it only applies to enser in which exemptions on provides that a first appeal stall be made to the Sanitary Board. Auming a case in which this first appeal bad failed, assuming, that is that the Sanitary Beard had confirmed a decision of the Building Authority, it is difficult to see bow the arrangement could be relied upon (0. work satisfactorily from the properly owners' point of view. The President of the Bourd possibly grading with, possibly bearing stated his agreement' with, a majority of members in opholding the Building Authority's decision, would hardly be an ideal advocate for the

nothing whatever corresponding to the Board of Trade here.

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Mr. Wakeman-1 was under the impression that I had to discharge the same duties as the Board of Trado. I have fraquently dože so.

His Lordship-Yes. The procedure is the old no Board of Trade Supervision bors. procedure. Ther is

JAPANESE ARMAMENTS.

We note that the Japan Adestiser also calla attention in the remarka! le chenge of face of the Jopen Mail. A leading articler in the Advertiser reade as follows:

The sympathetic interest aroused in Europe and America by the Chinese Government's declaration of its intention to suppress the opium habit has been sufficiently proved by the attitude of the British, French, and American

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The Government has not had the conrigs of its convictions in regard to the enforcement of the regulation against opini-moking oficials it is notorious that vory large percentage of the metropolitan mandarius-estimated at 60 per centro addicted to the habit, and few, if any, take the decree darionaly: On October two Imperist Princes and the two chief offoils of the Censorato were ordered to resign their posts and give their entire attention to the eradication of their craving for the deng," and in the mnie Edict it was commanded,

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and military oficiais in the provinces who, it was feared, "might not all hava obeyed the original Edict." Nevertheless, improvement is to be recorded in the fact that, in nearly all recent appointments to vacaat efflves, non- smokers have been preferred.

"A few weeks ago we took occasion to point appellant. Even if possessed of a high character out. the fct that as Japan was practically Government-an attitude which while accara extraordinary act of mercy," that no additions) for impartiality and therefore to he trusted exempt from being embroiled in war for sometaly roft-eting the humanitarian tendencies of time limit of three mouths be allowed to civil ten years to come, there was no necessity for the Western World, suggests also the philan any iLoreans of seval armament, species in thropists optimism. It is charact wiiio of Fiew of the fast that the stipe now being built there banesolent people who rightly despair of would be obsolete before say occasion for using Utopia in their own neighbourhood to look them would be likely to arise. We also for it on the other side of the world; it advanced the argument that Japan should I isk, for this reason that the Bishop have foreseen the world's mood of jealous of Southwark and that most estimable section andeavoured of public opinion which has been forced to suspicion and should to allay it instead of fostering it by increasing recognize the impossibility of securing The Jepan Mail, with its legislation effective for the suppression of her armaments. usual tilly afrotation referring to us as a the liquor traffic in Christian England are Yokohama journal, instead of observing the able with but little effort to imagine the opium ordinary journalistic courtesy of mentioning habit of some hundred million Chinese reformed

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Hangkong, 5th May, 1908 opium into China shuil be reduced by one-tenth annually. The Chinesa Govorament has ex- pressed its greateful recognition of the spirit in which this measure has b'on adopted. In this countries it way be observed that the attitude in fores and effect it supported by our the Mikado's Government shows no signs of active sympathy with the anti-opium movement, its in petion contrasting strongly with the rigorous prohibition of the drug in Japanese territory. It is matter for very general oritism that the THE Japanese representatives, in Manchuris openly At An-tang. encourage the opium trafic, for revenue par poses, in their settlements. for instance, the opium dess and gambling houses closed in the Chinese city have been moially encouraged to establish themselves Jspanose quarter, where they pay tarea The in the Jap patimated at yen 350,000 per hrun. question of opiuma abolition, thus complicated by extra-territorial rights, becomer a national problem which alle for all the ability and energy at China's disposal..

THE FRAUD OF MATHEMATICS.

WHY ALGEBEÃ ̈OUGHT TO BE ABOLISHEV,

stating the case against himself, the fact list he condemned the arguments which it would be his duty to advance would hardly tend to give them weight, and in the event of an appeal thas put forward being dismissed, the pro perty owner would hardly feel secu:o in the belief that bis casa had been adequately repre mented. On the contrary it is at least probable that the landlord would prefer to be press himself or in the person of a representative This the amending Ordinates for as it is, but the wording does not indiente another illustration of the Occident's strange with poble impulses and faith in the morality of intends to enfores the anti-opium regulationsĮ „ccount of human or other susceptibilities, but

tendency to apply to Jajan standarts which o Western country acknowledges to be applicable to its own case, and asked why this country should be the sole exception, feking also the

cur fellow creatures are laudable sentiments, but as the Hague Conference has shern) they are frequently anprantical, ignoring the hard facts of life, and mieguided in their appliostion.

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will be allowed to argue his case. The owner or his representative is marely permitted to be present. To remedy this by enst ling cases to be argued before the Governor in Council is the first important suggestion and jealousy being excited against it should beef existence in Chino, recognizs in

argument at the time, because very properly or the trouble by the Yokobara

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To sum up there is evidence that public opinion seriously desires the suppression of the opium trade in China. There is evidence of recognition of the force of this opinion on the part of the Central Government and of sympathetic co-operation on the part of a certain number of tftcials. But there is no oridenes at

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(BY MARCUS FOODWARD.] When you have loathed mathematics from your suth upwards, because you have not understood them, your loathing is unreasonable, and you re wise to keep quiet about it. When yon meet a mathematician, and bad that his mind is utterly subordinate to figures and symbols, that he explains Nature by amwhorical ROBINSON velnes,

works out everything by a rigid order of thought thos you know that Nature is never because you are baffled, you may even think you rigid, that no two wares are over the same yet, ought to admire the mathematician.

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Co. Liu,

Hongkong, 8th May, 199,

in the spirit in which they were framed, no evidence of any orgnization or reconstructive mesenres to that and The Edict is typical of. the opportunist policy of the Throne, and its that force of public opinion which produced it. But when somebody who does anderstand the fulfilment must depoud on, the maintenance of

In the event of completa abolition of the higher mathematics comes over to your side, a sufficient warning against weakening its popular autiopian movement one of the most made by Mr. flade. It would were only just means of defence,

a delusion, and that algabra ought to be Wa did not attempt to controvert this hopeful signs of an awakening national gas-opium traffle the loss of revenue to te faced by and roundly declares that they are a fraud and {

the Central Government amounts to elose on but they recognize also that, here as rujence,

But be also said: "It is on algebra that wo for stating a case bat a'so for hearing and

gewhere, prople cannot be made merel by Act £1,500,000-2.0 small consideration to the Board abolished as a mighty hindeance to thought- that opportunity should be grea'ed not only

Mr. Hoyenden challenged the professor on the Auswering objections mised against it. Any

farliament and that, in any case, the bong of Revenue. The loss to the provincial then you may whoop in joy, aut fearlessly shake must mainly role"; and thereby hangs a story. overnment of today is very far from being treasuries is largely a matter of surmise, but

a fet in a Secior Wrangler's face.

That most original of men of science, Mr. point, and wrote to say that algebra ought to system which retning to the Director Public journal itself. In its issu: of the 21t instant. La regenerating moral fore. On the other hand, the best authorities place it at about 25 millions

Frederic Hovenden, F.L., F.G.8, F.R.M.S., be destroyed, bacana common sense must abhor author of " What is Heat "eballenger of alla system which statee that the same is" and Works the last word in secret conclave plac-s in a discussion of the recent action of Congress there are not wanting competent critics who af tarls, or between three and four millions

"When I say that tables 29 chairs-13 the fappellout at a serious disadvantage. At in defeating the four battleship plau, the Maver that the Chitose Geverame f, recogniz sterling. It is evident that the whole system the fame Mr. Sledejéiris out that even if points, precisely. 1s we did, to the unique ing as usual the strength of public opinion in of government requires that new sources of physicists, inventor of apparsins for making a not." To which the professor replied this concession were made there would still position which Japan bolds sad to the impor- this matter, intends to turn the anti-opatam income be provided to replace these ravonnes, the invisible visible, and apostle of the theory

Lance of her availing herself of the opportunity crusade and the sympa by of foreign Govern

but of theas there is as yet no sign. In addition that ether is the governing factor of all life-table-chaire, I mean by, or multiply to the direct loss of revenus from the opiam Mr. Hovendan is on the side of the posta ashy, something quite different from what I mean Government monopoly in remain the importance of publicity being givinaforded by thet position to forego all anxiety ments to its own benelit by the creation of a

against be mathematicians, and is prepared by ie 5 a 315. One is arithmetic. The opium trade, funds will have to be provided for an

other is algebra; and a mighty useful science coincident with abolition of te imported drug, efficient pratentive service as well as for to give them all grace of heart.

it in to the proceedings. The a gameat in favour about armament increase. It excents this

То Mr. Hovenden replial offering to

which and the attitude of some of China's highest absoletly safe from iursion. of making known, in nomu form accessible to extraordinary volte fee in this fashion:

it possible

"Eighty per cent of human suffering and to perform the

houses and te farmers who discostinus poppy. the public, the reasons for decisions arrived at Eran. were

Tong) justifier this opinion.

Pending_definite information as to the growing. The financial and economic aspects misery," he said to me gravely, "arises from give the professor £50 if in public ho multiplied

at the question with ward to cleins for exemption is based on inconceivable feat of landing an army of loials (eg. Prince Ching and Chang Coikponsation payable to the owners of opium are thereforo seriour,

form of ignorance educaled-ignoranca dus to as a physical operation,

Is not algebra hugger-mugger? a very real neod for precedez is enabling pro alfation-e--er shore, they would.

sure as the sunrisas refinction of opium growing in Sz-chuan and and it is dificult for Bay on cignorance, especially from that most terrible & tables by 3 chairs and produced 15 table chairs

false.eduvaliðu," with the fiscal policy of the Cuinese Govern- perty owners to gain some fairly d Baite idéa be swept into the sea

meat to assume that it ona sikker afford to lose to recapitulate the intentions of the Chinese of what they may expect nader given con und seis. Japan has also made such adroit and other large producing districts, it is of interest and

far-seeing uses of her opportunities that the

thoes oping ravennes or that public opinion ditione. An intolerable harde bip would arise if now finds herself a repeated member of a group Government, as promulgated by Edict, and to

will accept the impration-of-aby now form the power of granting exemptions were-to-be--of-great-lowers, linked together by alliagers place on record sob results as are vouehod for

of directation calculated to wake good such exercised in a capricious manner and even the and ententer and standing towards each other by reliable witnesses.

lorges. in such relations that their union onstitutes an Bxistence of uncertainty constitales a genuine absolute gurantee of pouse in the art. If ever since history began to be written there has born grievance,

Mr. Osborne's 16dy does not touch this a country se fortunate me to be able to dispense and use of opium throughout the Empire of the arms of opium enltivation in China metaphysical order of thought, derived from

with a buge army, Japan is that country to-day

The ar gees eren farther and now endorses precisely the ERG conclusion we advanced from the self-me argument which it so lately sought to controvert. It says:--

But the real, the imperative, consideration

appeel exey if by so doing cases will be welti.

plied but the present suggestion would seem

number.

There are 1bas seen to Lo two distinct peints at issue; exemption on one hand; interprotation ca the other; with some simple form of appeal needed for botk. It is the earnest hops of many who, like myself, support the main principles of (Le Bill that the Government will And a means of removing this flaw. "Olberwise thers will be failure to secure that absence of

#Japan

By the Imperial Edict of November 21, 1996,

The first test of sincerity and efficiency the Chinese Government announced ite inten

in of completely suppressing the production remains meanwhile to be shown in the reduction

On this enential point faw authoritative reporta within ten years. Land under poppy cultiva tion is accordingly to be reduced by cutouth snnually, and rewards will be given in the ever been cumpiled, and thes, like the extet of local and personal initiative rather districts where the ahel tion is completed before reports on the effect of the dict, indicate the the expiry of that period, AR opium smokera she ordered to register themselves, s'aling the then any systematic guiding force.

is that Japan is paralysing her financial lap amount of their consumption, and no opim

Chronicle

EDUCATED IGNORANCE.

There is no doubt that all chemical and biologies phenomena are physical phenomena— life is made up of the grouping of sabatoms, atoms, and molecules, The interpretar of Nature, the physicist, should be the high priest of knowledge; but his mind is s'altitiod. by a

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The Seoul Prear says-Our local "English": the ancients, which is physically impossible ia contemporary produces a remarkable statement Nature. I refer to absurd mathematics.

which Mr. H. B. Halbert bas issned through the Arithmatic is common-sense mathematics, Fress in connection with the widely fament grissence, as far as I understand his letter Nor, and this is the second ejection to

addition to position, and subtraction from poi Thonght so much of by our contemporary, it, dory it held out any remedy in cases of

and recognises three factors only position, led murder of Mr. Stevens. This statement is tion. Now, algebra abrogates these simpler. dispute over the interpretation of the Ordin-

While in Manchuria a marked reduction is fondamental concepts, and brings the mind that it is elevated to the ignity of a prominent ance. In the majority of such anses the new

of relationship in which the conductors of the proposals would have the tens of doing in order to strengthen her military our. She may be sold to persons, unregistored. Smokera vouched for by missionary observers due no into the region of pure abstractions. Algebra place in its editorial columas, This is, however, can be respectable newspapers in America are reported away with all possibility of chiaining redrers is trying to do too much. Her financiers and under 60 years of ge must decreas their don't to the personal influence and energy of says that objects can be maisiplied together, no surprise to any body, consid ring, tho kiud to have laid the moral responsibility for the against fabity readings of the law. Herein ber businessmen are anxiously debating some allowance by one-6th annually. The decree Tong Shac yi-in Sza-chaan, the great produc- and the predunt can be quite forsign to the local journal stand to Mr. Hulbert. Not a few is felt to be another grievance, the removal means of emerging from the present depression.ordered the compulsary closing of all opium densing centre, where aine- oaths of the pope'a inn multiplicand; and sath an order of thought

shoulders of Mr. Hulbert who has been and is What mosis could be more effective, more (e, public ersorts for smoking on the premises) are addictol to the use of opium, the Edict is arises as that one Dulch cheers es of which is the aim of Mr. Pollock's proposal, natural, than to reduce needless expenditure within six months and prohibited the sale of reported to be a dead leit-rin most districts, multiplied by one Busuish orion, and the opera dastardly attack upon Mr. Stevens on the On this fundamental error algebra orecte a still condnoting in the United States un anti- There smoking requisities after one year. Wine shops while official depots for the sale of the drag tion will produce one pork pie. Thai. proposal ie based upon the idea thist by and thus ease the people's burden!

of Japan who would not

Japanese orusade of the most rebement type and other places of public entertainment may not have replaced the former private establishmorte,

A enormous mental edifice, which must be abolished creating a body of precedents the meaning of is no friend

such ย step. Its enty op. permit opium smoking on the premises. Shope to the grout indignation of conenmers.

Here are some of the things that can be done and who had been going about among, the doubtful sections would in course of time So welcome

her cuemies I where opium

reporting from personal obeesration in Honan, ponents would be

months before the recent tragedy in San Fran- mast be officially registered and mado plain. There is an objection to making the coring pozeral elections, the Sciyu katrade or anything connected with the correspondent of the "North China Daily News," we are to make progress,

emerge with a substantial majority, they will must show su annual depresso in their business states that in order to comply with the terms of by algebra: Something can be subtracted from Korean resident of the Pacific coast only a low find within their reach such an opportunity of under pensity of confiscation. Officials through the Edict, and at the same time to temper the something half a time to produce two some oisco. The statement which Mr. Hulbert has just to hold out shope of nitimately reducing the benefiting, their country as hos seldom fallen out the Empire must set-air examplo to the wind of reform to the farmer, the area under things; something can be added to something issued and which our local English contemporary to the lot of any political party anywhere." people, distributing anti-opium medicines and onltivation has been reported at 25 to 30 por half stims to produce bella something nothing

seriona charge which a thoughtful saction of certain mathematical conditions algebra, the Press of his own ecustry has made against Two important conclusions may safely be encouraging this reform; they themsalves, if cent, above the acraal bgara, so that the stipu can be subtrasted no times from nothing to has editorially endorsed with oxident pride may

that addition is the same as subtraction, and that.

him. The performance, we are constrained to drawn from this endden conversion of our opium smokers, must either discontinue the into roduction of 10 per cent, will loava produce any number of somethings, while anitor be regarded as an answer to the significant and

The first and most signifi-practice within six months or retire from offies. things as they are for some time to come. It is

Bay is not particularly felicitous, its effect, contemporary.

is the testimony it furnishes These regulations were issued by proclamations evident that roless the civil administration dis-

SQUARING THE ORANGE.

are straid, will be bad for Mr. cant one

coarpionons by their absoner, the abolition of

Fancy multiplying an orange by or into an to the probability that the Government throughout the Empire. and were welcomed by plays qualities of energy and efficiency hitherto mething can be multiplied by or into itself. is beginning to restite the huge mistake the Press pative and foreign

It has been said by a writer well versed in opium is likely to remain a matter of local

orange to produce an orange of the second Halbert. Referring to his visit to San

heard while recently in it has been making, and the other corroborates

Under these circumstances it may be mattor power or multiplying this product into another Francisco, he says: "Nothing that the remark which we nowadays so frequently Chinese affairs that this people loves regulations option hear that the Mail has ceased to be regarded as but abhors regulation. The Eliot was therefore

regarded it from the ontact a1 a counsel of per Crown Colony of Hongkong and the foreigner the cube of an orkuge. Fanor multiplying mind to go to the useless and foolish extreme of

a lide into a line to produes an area or any sense an influential journal. Japan hailed with applause, but native public opinion for regret, but bardly for surprise, that in the orange to produce an orange of the third power Francisno indiested any intention or frams of Settlements in China there exists some fection. Imperial Ediots in China, as has been

not condone the murder, he says it was "wholly well said by another writer, and sa foreigners differenos of opinion as to the immediate multiplying an area into a line to produce a attacking the person of Japan's best known know to their best, cannot hi enforced except is expediency of totally suppressing the opinm cube. It is impossible, physically, but it is foreign helper in Koren." Mr. Hulbert does

de about. diBoutiles insemuch so far as they are endorsed by public opinion, trade. In Hongkong the question presents possible in higher mathematics."

How the fallacies encouraged by algebra, wrong, as great a wrong to Kores as it was to Neither the sets, nor the omissions of the peculiar

Colony's revenue is affect everyday reasoning may be shown by two Mr. Stevens." That is what anybody who at suthorities at Peking buve any permanent one-third of the

from the oplum farm, while the simple examples. The physicist, thanks to his all pretende to respectability is bound to say effect on the life of the masses, except so far derived

cient preventive service training in algebra, does not not hesitate to publicly concerning a marderous assault on as they register the movements of popular seat costofa

to declare that LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.

meat and deward," In the present instance and police supervision is no light burder. multiply unlike factors: and he thinks that when any individual. Ir. Halbert, however, is not to be wondered The J.-C.-J. Lijn str. Tjipanas leit Singapore" Tu the opinion of Colciel Gedka, the the populer sentiment undoubtedly existe, but Looked at from the philanthrophic and moral multiplying concrete aambers together the not satisfied with the denunciation of the for this port on the 5th inst. at 3pm., and may Military critic of the Tageblatt, Mr. Haldane's since it is by no means unanimous or universal, standpoint, it appears to be unquestionably the product gives definite ideas, telling how to in-deadly crime, but goes on

ges by the declaration, Mr. Holbert, under the pretence of Dew Territorial Army, which is of little it is no matter for surprise that the enfortement duty of the British authorities in and near crease or decrease either of the factors. For the murder was be expected here an or about the i1th inst.

assame the sincerity and validity of the to multiply the pressure of a The N.Y.K. str. Yehoshi Masu (Bombay Line) value" oat ofer the country no protection of the regulations is irregular and variable, It China to take the lead in this reform, and to instance, Sir William Ramsay does not hesitate at. In justification of this unfortunate Jeft Singapore for this port on the Gili inst, galust invasion. For protection in such is also a characteristic of the Chinese peop! Chiness Government's aetion, if only to prevent volume to get energy. This shows the fallacy analysing the motives that led to the crime,

case, he says, England mast now, as heretofore, and expecially of the pessaniry, that they lake

repetition of the well-worn charge that A manbas assets £1,000, and liabilities £10. makos serious charges against the memory of the Japan Advertiser rightly observes, any and is expected here cu the 12th inst.

form their conduct to a very considerable extent Flest, and he adds: The MM. Co.'s Cargo Boat Meinem from depend exclusively on the superiority of her their opinions from the educated classes, and England's action, or inaction, bas forced opian According to the algebraist or physicist, is the dead man in language which is so bitter that, The English Government will. however, be upon the example of the officiels and gentry; upon China. In the foreign Settlements. namorical value is 10.000. He is solvent, Another Korean able to read what he says would unt enabled by this lary, which is to be organised, therefore we find in a large mejority of the Shanghai, Tientein, and Hankow-loss of man has assets £10, and liabilities 21,000, and only not regret the act bat be impelled to Those who have sold themselves for the task of though in somewhat lox fashion, in time of reports from rural districts (as distinct from re enue will no doubt willingly be faced by his namerical value, though he is é bankrupt, duplicate it should opportunity present itself." There are signs that the tide is turning inciting a simple and credulous people to revolt peace and which may be described as being in the towns, where public opinion emanates from the Municipalities rather than assume

to employ the whole Army schools and the Press) that the exccess or failure responsibility which would be condemned or for political

against mathematics, four years ago, at Camagalust the inevitable and against its best, base our claims to a civilization inperior to that British Association, Professor. Horace Lamb being split but they may posibly have to European Continent and also to obtain recruits confessed that in these rural districts the results of humanity and altrusim apon which we bridge, before the Mathematical Bection of the interests, have already to answer for much blood comparatively easily for the expeditionary are generally disappointing.

HOW TO BE BRAUTIFUL-Keep your com It is evident that the sincerity of the Chinese of the East. Whatever the results may be the made this remarkable statement: "Now, the answer for more. Army. England thus retains the system

the spontaneous evidence of British sympathy trouble about their foule." And last year s rendered ber such eminent services in the Government sud the prospect of eventual Chinese people cannot fail to be impressed by physicist and the mathematician alike are in Eighteenth Century, and by means of which abolition of the opium trade depend, first and The Silk ez R.M.S. Empress of India which she secured her supreme position in the world. foremost, upon affective reduction of opium for their efforts, however unpractical, towards well-known professor said: "I wonder if it is plexion, Air Ellen's Créma Charmante, Lait left Hongkong on the 9th ult., and Yokohama Fo long -the retains the supremacy of the production within the Empire. If the drug is reform; it is no doubt consideration of this possible to bring to the thousand wranglers Charmant and Special Skin Tonio and Pondre en the 16th ult,, arrived in New York on Tues-

seas tho is perhaps noting rightly, but it permitted to be produced, no process of regula nepeat of the question which has led the who are teaching in Great Britain a considera Charmant will enable you to do it. Her day, the 5th inst, thus making a transit of 261emains for a great war to remove the doubts tion will prevent its consumption. If produc- British Government, in ponenitation with tion of the awful waste not merely of time, Specialities for the Skin are the stuity of a days from Hongkong, sud 19 days from Yoko as to whether sho can retain this supremacy tion, pari pussu with the reduction of importa the Government of Indis, to accept in but of mental power, that is going on in our lifetime. A. StWatson & Co. Ltd., Sole Agents which are constantly being raised by experts tion, is totally curtailed, consumption must principle the proposal that the import of Indian common methods of teaching mathematic.”

friction in its operation, the attainment of which is one of the avowed objects of the Government-Yours ptc.

M. STEWART.

Europe left Singapore yesterday at 4 p.., and is expected to arrive here on Tuesday after- ncon, the 12th ins!.

The N.Y.K. str. Aki Mayu (American Line) left Kobe for this port via Meji and Shangbai

17th inst.

MR. HALDANE'S ARMY.

A GERMAN VIEW,

on the 5th May, and in exproted here on the stale of incubate protection of the Colonies of the regulations is secribed. to the energy or by the civilized world. The situation evidently

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The I.G.M. str. Manila left Sydney on Tues day, the 5th inst. p.m., and way be expected here on or about Wednesday, the 27th is st

The C.P.R. str. Lennon left Vancouver D. on Tuesday, the 5th inst. for Hongkong via the usual ports of call.

abroad silber

is also 10.000.

THE TIDE TURNING.