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A. S. WATSON

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2ND, 1909.

the accession to power of the new Regent he had daily to breathe. It is quite trueYesterday was the birthday of Her Majesty

thist some alleviation would be noticed of the worse evils with which the Empire is permeated: if any of the higher officers of the Court held this opinion, those hopes have long ere this yielded to the evidence of hard facts. Personally everyone must & CO. form a high opinion of the present REGENT, As an amiablo young ruler who places the good of the State far in advance of his own private pleasures. But this ariability may be carried to such an extreme as of itself to become a danger; and this we believe to be the prosent predicament. This weakness of WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. initiative is especially marked in the failure of all the well-meant schemes for the reform of those abuses which are gnawing into the ritals of the Empire. This is exbituted strongly in the manner in which the recent Viceroy has been got rid of, and still more

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that TUAN FANG has never been an innova tor: constitutionally, he would have prefer red that reform should have come from conviction of the people themselves, but here knowledge itself was a crime. He knew from personal experience that affaire more rotten, and he felt that in their remedy Tay the only hope for his country. Lu JUNBIAND and the other leaders of the party of reac- tion knew this also, but their knowledge wns centred in the loss of perquisities; this was a tangible issue, thecondition and well-being of the Empire was a thing too remote for consideration. TUAN FANG, they had reason to suspect, was disposed to second, the EEGENT in his efforts towards financial reform; and so, disguise the fact as he would, was a real enemy to the cause. Such has been the reasoning of the reactionaries,

do to parade these opinions openly; publio opinion had not yet been "educated" up to the point; and here was the dilemma. It was at this moment that one of the junior Censora came to the rescue. It was omincus that he bore the name, and was indeed

Queen Alexandra. All the warships in port, TELEGRAMS. the occasion, and a royal saluts was fired at noon. British and foreigu, dressed ship in honour of

At Macro on Tuesday evening shortly after six o'clock a fire brake out in the neighbourhood of Patane, resulting in the destruction of three

dings. One was a joss-stick store, and the others were rice and tea stores.

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THE LORDS' AND THE BUDGET.

THE DIVISION.

LONDON, December 1st. Lord Lansdowne's motion has been adopted in the House of Lords by 350 votes. to 75.

demoralisation,

LATER.

He hoped that one of the conse quences of the struggle would be a reformed House of Lords, fearless, independent and strong.

THE REICHSTAG OPENED.

LONDON, December 1st. The Reichstag has been opened by speech from the Throne which refers to the prolongation of the Anglo- German Commerce arrangement, and expresses satisfaction with the spirit in which the Franco-German Morocco arrangement is being carried out. Confidence is also expressed that the continuance of the Triplice will conduce to the preservation of peace.

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE POLICING OF KENNEDY ROAD,

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "RONGKONG DAILY PRESS."]

A few weeks ago a European lady was there Sin The unsafety of Kennedy Road, espe- cially ita Eastern moïety, has becenie a bysword.

Yesterday afternoon one of the Northern Chinam who come to this Colony at this time of

Rock and relieved of a considerable sum of money. Where were the police! One gonerally sees, on an afternoon, an Indian policeman hear the the first bonoh (conating from the western end of this road) making love (P) to amahe; as to the rosil, they might have been in Jericho.

It behoves the powers-that be to attend to this matter before they are rudely awakened one Ene morning by news of a cold-blooded murder. I have seen on several occasions suspicions.

and they readily saw that to be successful,

that he intended to vote against the in the feable manner in which the attempt action must be prompt. One of the out

The Archbishop of York announced has been made to cast the odium of award visible signs of adherence to the Party

motion, because he failed to see that most disgraceful" and disreputable trans has been the cult of the Dowager TRI HI;

the Budget had enough in it to justify action on to the shoulders of the present and the aim of Le and his adherents has

the unprecedented course contemplat-attacked, gagged and robbed. This is wat one Dowager Empress Yr LUNG. It is known by all outward measures, to emphasise to most of those intimate with the affairs the fact in her funeral ceremonies. This

ed by Lord Lansdowne's motion.

of many cases in which footpads have interfored of the Court that the present Dowager gave them the opportunity of at once ex

While it is reported that the loan question

with pedestrians that has reached the ears of is about to be settled at nti early date, another

Lord Curzon declared that the the public. Emprese, widow of the late Emperor pressing their admiration of her reactionary report says that the officials and gentry at Budget tended not towards WHISKY KWA Hst, is physically unequal to the tendencies, and also of belittling the Hupeh province have raised. Tls. 20,000,000 regeneration, but towards social year with pelts for sale, was garotied at the Big

social

OF THE FINEST PURE train that would be entailed by active meniory of the late Emperor; this has been for the line, and that they hava appointed a participation in the work of administration, the true "inardness" of the display at the representative to proceed to Peking and pre- It is, therefore, in the last degree inadvisable fane of a woman, whom personally not one

vant a foreign loan from being concluded. that she should be tempted into sporadically of the crowd who joined in the ceremonies The annual bazaar in connection with the Lord Curzon declared that it was interfering in affaira of State, and more either loved or respected. But it would not Asile de la Saints Enfance, is announced to the inherent righ

of the Second especially in the choice of high officials; it

take place at the City Hall on Thursday, 9th. is, therefore, extremely unlikely that the

inst. The French Sisters, who are noted for Chamber, as a last resort, to compel actual Regent should havo invited her

the excollent work done under their supervision, reference to the people.. collection of useful articles on view, and it is interposition. When, however, we come to

a. splendid look into the affair of the dismissal, the very

hoped the public will bestow their patronaga first-name-that appears in connection with

a freely and sasist, this praiseworthy institution descendant, of the man who, above all others, tlie pretended "charges" is that of a younger is responsible for China's present degrada official bearing the very ominous name of

tion. China is not the only country where Lt. The name of La bodes no good to the party ranks before patriotism, and he had present administration, and the official who come forward with a definite charge which has put his name forward in connection with the public conscience, carefully trained for the present scandalous incident is a grandson the purpose. could ostentatiously accept. of the Lr (La HuNG CHANG) who figured so TUAN FANG had committed a breach of the GUINNESS' STOUT argely as the subsidised betrayer of his principles of Feng-shui. In the Roman country to Russia; and whose shuffling with Empire in its most rotter days as IN PINTS & SPLITS-

then Russian Minister to the rotten, in fact, as Ching of to-day- Court of Peking was really instrumental a charge of impiety was over the most ef in bringing on the Russo-Japanese war, fective means of getting rid of some public which has practically resulted in the loss to man whose superior virtue had cast an A. S. WATSON & CO... China of her Manchurian provinces, over unpleasant shade over some popular vice; which she has to all intents and purposes on LI KEOCHI's shoulders was cast the role lost the control. This chip of the old block, of playing the ignominious part of public who has assumed the lead in the intrigue accuser. It is not necessary to pre-suppose that brought about the fall of H. E. FUAN that any individual in the plot, cased one jot FANG, is known as EI KEOCHI..

or tittle about the principles of feng shui, or Now, any.. one who has had any experience of Chinese whether the spirit of Tsr Hr were hurt or etatéaraft is quite aware that the inner otherwite by TOAN FANG's crossing the route of the procession in his chair. TUAN

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however sacred. The real causes are much

FANG as a possible reformer, and as a friend of the Rzer, had already been condemned by the Party; any stick will do well enough to beat a dog. The dog has already been condemned without a hearing; that is no matter, he has to be beaten, and the choice of weapons is perfectly immaterial.

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Such is the present position of the Regency Faking; the regency of Prince Caus stands on the same pinnacle of instability as the royalty of King MANUEL, What usur- ance association would care to accept the risk of either?

The Victoria Regatta is advertised to take place on Saturday, the 11th inst.

looking Chinamen prowling about this road, and on at least thres pensione ono of them fast asleep on the last bonch of this road in broad daylight! Yours truly,

A, RESIDENT. Hongkong, 1st December, 1909,

ALLEGED FORGERY OF A WILL.

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DAIL REFUSED.

An ungenal case was mentioned before Mr.

E. R. Hallifax at the Magistracy yesterday Wong Yull' Shi was arraigned on charges of afternoon when a Chinese gentleman named

falas declaration forging a will, uttering a forged will and making

The South Manchurian Railway Co., a Dalny

Lord Crewe, in winding up the contemporary says, began to supply Fushan debate, warned the Lords that they coal laat spring to silk and match factories Hongkong and shipped thence to its destination with the Commons', which they would about Canton. The coal had been landed at were steering their ship to a collision

by junks. In order to save the sundry charger find bigger and stronger than theirs, for the transhipment, the Company has succeeded in arranging with its agents that the coaling and that the opposition were commit- steamers shall proceed direct and discharge ting the most tragical blunder. The their cargoes at the points desired.

Government did not welcome a crisis,

the interests of the country and the a but were prepared to face it because

Empire depended on the maintenance of a reasonable balance between the

cher the Government were rojected or governing powers of the state. Whe

not, they would henceforth have to work to obtain guarantees to prevent the indiscriminate destruction of

Wood at the Magistracy yesterday on a man, An exemplary sentonce was imposed by Mr.

against whom there were two previous convic tions and who cannot be banished, as he claims to be Hongkong born, for having en found guilty of snatching a gold earpick from the the sot and arrested by a district watchman. head of a Chinese women. He was caught in His punishment was twelve months' hard labour, four hours' stocks, and to receive twelve strokes with the birch.

LATER.

Consular advices from Siberis note the pre- the prospect of a rapid increase, owing to the work put a climax and a crown, sence everywhere of American machinery with legislation, on which that night's thousands of new farms acquired by the great influx of emigrants seeking permanent homer. Farme sa large as thons of Illinois, Iowa, and

The result of the division was the Dakotas, are being ran either by single received with applause and some his. and the American harvester, mower, hay rake, sing in the public galleries.

families or by combinations of men and women,

An enormous force of police had

and gang plough are thoroughly appreciated. There is also a good field in Siberia for the in- troduction of improved American gold mining been posted outside the House in machinery. Germany does not seems to compete anticipation of a demonstration, but very strongly in this line, and it is only recently the crowd was a must orderly one. that English manufacturers have begun to realise its possibilities.

Lord Lansdowne's residence was specially protected and the whole of Mayfair was patrolled by police.

The Straits Times of the 22nd ult. has the

following report of the wedding of Mr. H. F. Campbell, of Hongkong-A quiet but pretty

A Cabinet meeting is being held Co-wedding ceremony took place at St. Andrew's to-day, after which Mr. Asquith will

The mill of the largest Russian Flour pany at Harbin has been destroyed by fire.

The English Mail of the 3rd October was delivered in London on the 29th November,

deeper, and indicate serious danger for the Administration, if not for the Empire. TUAN FANG was known to be a man of culture and of thought. He had made himself liked and respected by both Chinese and foreigners with whom he bad coma in personal contact. In the discharge of his official duties his personal honour had never been called in question; and he had per-- sonally kept himself aloof from all the intrigues that are the standing disgrace of Ir any evidence were nooded as to the school of the late L HUNG Chang such the present administration. To men of the utterly disorganised condition of Govern conduct is little short of criminal, as it. R. Wood Festerday fined a native $50 st the For carrying a revolver without a licence Mr., ment in China since the decease of the late would leave no scope for those peculiar arta Magistracy yesterday, Emperor, it may be found in what we cannot

by which Li, the prince of intriguers, came refrain from calling the criminal dismissal of TUAN FANG from the Vice royalty of the be one of the richest men in the world. It need excite, then, but little wonder that senior province. It is not, of course, that TUAN FANG so overtops all other statesmen all those who favoured the doctrine that in the land that his dismissal taken by itself office was made for man, and that the holder would be an act deserving of reprobation;

had the divine right of the enjoyment of all however much we might under ordinary its possible perquisites. should to a man circumstances regret his dismissal as an able find themselves personally aggrieved by the and faithful offisial, the act could not be promotion of a man whose career had hither described as oue of wrong-doing.

to been a protest against those doctrines.

What

A sleeping passenger on board the Kwong Sai had a basket containing pearls and valuable jadestones stolen from his side. His loss is estimated at 3113.

Mr. A. R. Tacker, residing at the YMCA. inform the police that on Monday night a lady lost a gold chain necklace inlaid with pearls,

valed at 8155, either on the way to the City

Hall or on the way to Kowloon.

a

Cathedral, on Saturday afternoon, the contrac

ting parties being Mr. H. F. Campbell, of go to Sandringham for a meeting of Messrs. Shewan, Tomas and Co., Hongkong, the Privy Council for the purpose of Kent, who arrived from home with the English proroguing Parliament.

and Miss Ellen Rachel Brown, of Folkstone,

performed by Bishop Forguson Davis, assisted BYE-ELECTIONS ABANDONED. mall on Saturday morning. The ceremony was.

LONDON, December 1st.

by the colonial chaplain, the Rev. H. C. Izard. Mr. William Stopani, manager for Mesara, Shewan, Temas and Co., in Singapore, acted as bout man, while Mr. Gomrie gave the bride

It has been agreed by the political away. Little Mary Irard was the bridesmaid, and Mr. B. Salamaan officiated at the organ. parties to abandon all bye-elections, in After the coremony a reception was held by the view of the early general election. Rev. and Mrs. Laard, ut the Parsonage, at which were present Bishop Davie and Mrs. Davie, and

number of the bridegroom's former Hongkong friends, now in Singapore and Penang, The health of the newly-married couple was given

A woman ongaged by a contractor who ta by Mr. Stopani and was enthusiastically drunk. erecting the office on the compound of the The happy couple loft by motor for Pasir

makes the dismissal of the Viceroy a maiter/ TUAN FANG had been sentabroad ona roving Contral Police Station was hit on the head Panjang, where the honeymoon will be spant. out of the commen course, and one importing commission zo discover how it was that China, yesterday by a piece of timber from the scaffold.

from being in the forefront of the nations, had fallen so miserably as to have become & byeword for inefficiency and dishonour. It

ing and had to be sent to the hospital.

WEATHER REPORT.

the following report:

The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued On the 1st at 11.55 a.m.-The barometer has risen considerably in E. Japan, and fallen moderately over N. Chinn yesterday, is moving away over the Paci

The depression lying over T.E. Japan The highest pressure is shown over 3. Ofina

danger to the State, is its object, and the manner in which it was brought slut As

For returning from banishment a Chinese a fact the air of Peking is charged with

was his misfortune that, in the quest hoone year's imprisonment and four hours was sentenced at the Magistracy yesterday to intrigus of the most dangerous kind; more so, indeed, than during the worst period of found in all the nations of Europe a sharp stocks. His exonse was that he was on his way the late Empress Regent's control. While line drawn between public and private emolu- to Singapore. the Dowager Tar Hi was alive her comments; and that office, instead of being a

The case against are natives who were manding force of character spread so much perquisite, was looked upon as a trust. He arraigned on a charge of armed robbery at awe through official ranks, and the danger of moreover, found that those countries where West Point, concluded before Me. J. R. Wood'st being detected was always so imminent, that this principle was carried out to its legitimate the Magistracy yesterday, his Worship commit a very present feeling of personal fear kept conclusion were of all the most powerfuling all the defendants for trial. within bounds the practice of intrigue, itself and respected, and the conclusion he had to one of the very worst features of Chinese draw was that the system that prevailed in Club, Kennedy Road, Mrs. W. J. Williams, political life. The withdrawal of the strong China, to an extent unknown elsewhere, of Litt. B., will deliver a lecture entitled "The hand has been followed by a recrudescence treating the revenues attached to an office as Many-Sidedness of Charles Dickens as seen in of the old evil, only in the aggravated form the private property of the possessor, was The lecture is open to the public, and the chair David Copperfield," with illustrated readings that temporary suppression is apt to en. really at the root of the present condition of will be taken at 9 p.m. sharp by. Mr. P. H., South coast of Chins between

This orening at the Union Church Literary

gender. Great hopes were entertained on decay which he felt in the vary atmosphere Holyoak.

Modorate to fresh monsoon may be expected in the Formosa Channel and the N. part of the Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending

Chiro Ses.

THE CHINESE NAVAL COMMISSIONERS.

LONDON, December 1st. The Chinese Naval Commissioners are now visiting Devenport.

CONSECRATION OF FAR EASTERN BISHOPS.

LONDON December 1st. The Archbishop of Canterbury consecrated in Westminster Abbey yesterday the Rev. Wm. Anthrows as Bishop of Hokkaido, the Ven, Arch- deacon Bannister as Bishop of the moderate; fine. newly-formed See of Hunan in Raine as No. 1 Central China, and the Rev. Arthur Eame as No, 1.

Lea as Bishop of Kiushiu, Southern Same as No. 1 Japan.

N.E. winds,

at 10a.m. to-day, 0,00 inshes.

The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon to-day is as follows Hongkong & Neighbourhood Routh soest of Chins between Formoss Channel

Hongkong and Lamocks,

Hongkong and Hsinan.......

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seated, and Mr. F. X. d'Almada e Castro (of Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, Crown Solicitor, pro- Messrs. Almada and Smith) appeared for the

defendant.

was charged with forging a will, uttering á Mr. Bowley said he understood the defendant forged will, and making a false declaration.

want recasting, and that will be done later.

His Worship That is no, but the charges

Mr. Bowley-On the two former charges the defendant is liable to an extremely heavy penalty. I understand that by means of this forged will be obtained a sum amounting to over $100,000.

Mr. Almada That is not so.

bail, Mz, Bowley?

His Worship-I understand you object to

Mr. BowlayYes.

defendant obtained a sum of over $100,000 is Mr. Almada My friend's statement that the not correct. There was a rum of $100,000 odd at but after deducting a large sum. for holi-

citors corts, there was a balance left of about $80,000 for división. The estate was to be divided into four parts, and supposing the share of the defendant amounted to 璠 fourth part of 880,000-

His Worship Whatever the size of the

share, I don't think it has any effect on the

C$50.

Mr. Almeda-It must have. Your Worship

must ale take into consideration that the defendant in interested in large sums of money in Hongkong, and that the estate was not finally divided.

His Worship Just now I know nothing of the details.

Mr. Almada I am putting these facts before your Worship, and they will be proved.

His Worship The charge is uttering a forged will, for which the maximum penalty is life. I eannot accept bail at this stage of the proceeding,

Mr. Bowley then stated that he would not be prepared to go on until Friday week.

Mr. Alando-The man will be remanded from Friday till Friday week, and the prosecution objects to bail entirely,

Mr. Bowley-I don't object to bail in the mam of $100,000,

Mr. Almada-8100,000 is absurd and prohibi,“ tive. The estate is not worth that much.

His Worship (to Mr. Bowley)-Your $100,000 amounts to no bail at all. It is prohibitive.

Mr. Almada I cannot find it.

His Wership said the 10th instant was the first available day be hal.

Mr. Alpsda-I must ask your Worship to take into consideration the question of bail My client will have to make up his accounts.

His Worship What is his interest in the Colony P What does he do

Mr. Almpia--Nothing. He's simply waiting to receive all the monies in the estate to which he is entitled.

His Worship-Ho has no business a the Colony ?

Mr. Almada No. He is a gentleman.

Alada-Refuse bail just because His Worship-I think I must refuse bail.

has a busipase here. He has as much interest

in the estate as the prosecutor.

His Worship formally remanded the case until the 9th instant.