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beneficient enterprises of civilisation, the moral and material improvement of the native races, marked out by King LEOPOLD," he wrote, “represent an achievement very similar to that accomplished by his

father & CO. illustrious

and predecessor. the one convorted the cockpit of Europe' into the most prosperous State of the Continent; the other has founded in Central Africa a vast dominion where the only seriousand promising attempt has yet

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A typhoon warning sent from the Manfla Observatory at 2 p.m. yesterday reported "elom or typhoon east of Visayas Islands moving W.N.W.

The only item of interest on the agenda for the meeting of the Sanitary Board to-morrow is the report of the committee appointed to, inquire into and deal with complaints against the Kowloon scavenging and conservancy con tractor.

The Hon. Treasurer of the Alics Memorial and Affliated Hospitals begs to acknowledge-

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THE JAPANESE BUDGET.

Toro, December 19th.

The Budget has been circulated

been systematically made to redeem the with thaaks the following donations to the funds among the leaders of the political

A. B. Watson & Co., Id. Guodes & Co.

negro race from the curse of age," of the Hospitals:-

what When Mr. BOULGER refers to

unmerited consare he terms "some on the part of a few English critics, he dis misses the criticism with the observation that "it would be impossible to expect that in a work carried out under the conditions

prevalent in this part of the world, a mere handful of whites among millions of blacks, sunk, for the most part, in the lowest stages of barbarisin, superstition and can- uibaliem-there should not be some re- grettable occurrences, some acts of high- handed authority, some arbitrary measures Cuilitarism like LOTHAIEE's execution of STOKES. The marvel is only that they have been so few." In marked contrast to this statement of the matter we have the publi- cations of the Congo Reform Association, giving us a vastly different picture of the conditions prerailing in the Congo, and MARK TWAIN, a couple of years ago, under

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His Excellency the Governor has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty the King, to Ordinance No. 44 of 1909.---An Ordinance to smand the Stamp Ordinance, 1901, Ordinanse No. 45 of 1909,—An Ordinance to

amend the Squatters' Ordinance, 1990; and to Ordinance No. 46 of 1909-An Ordinance to amend the Liquor Licences Ordinance, 1898, and the Liquor Licences Extension Ordinance, 1908, and to repen! the Liquor Liceticos Amend- ment Ordinance, 3902.

parties.

P. & O. STEAMER DAMAGED,

LONDON, December 19th. The P. & O. steamer "China," with any passengers on board, when Australia, yesterday collided with the Leaving Tilbury Docks, bound for

· RANDOM REFLECTIONS.

Christmas is coming and so are the appeals to our pockets. Circulars from merchants shower upon us, and the seductive claims of the jewellers and the toy dealers are not to be resisted when gifta have to be bought.

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The Garette this week announces six public holidays withins period of six weeks. There is Christiana Day sad the Monday following; New Year's Day and the Monday following Chinese New Year's Day (February 10th) and

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day following. And in the very next week The main features are a readjust-pierhead, extensively damaging her we have the Annual Race Meeting, which prac

tically mosas adding three more days to thə list." ment of taxation, and the increase of stern and rudder and the ship had to Times may be hard, but we do enjoy ourselves? official salaries involving nine million he dry-docked..

The Company arranged for pas-hich certainly does not apply to Hongkong. The estimates of revenue and ex-sengers and mails for ports beyond Her our winter is a long spell of delightful penditure balance, the amount being 534,172,706 yen

yen.

The War Office expenditure ahows a decrease of eight millions.

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THE NORTH POLE CON. TROVERSY.

Yesterday afternoon a bazaar was held at the Catholic Union, and judging by the large at- tendance and the thriving business done, a godly sum should be realised for the object for which the bazaar was promoted-sireat charity. Various stalis, containing every kind of toy imaginable, filled the building and adorned the compound, and those in charge did not neglect their duty in disposing of them. The band of the Rajpats, under the baton of Band-tracting the affidavit, though offered a master Coke, played plossing selections of bribe to do so.

music.

The greatest nnessiness in reported to prevail in official circles at St. Petersbacg owing to renewed reports to the effect that the Russian portion of Sagbalin is steadily passing into foreign hands, in the same way as Kamschatko has been practically taken possession of' by Americans. In defiance of the laws, says a St. Petersburg correspondant, Japanom work- men have overrun the coal and naphths districts, and it is now reported that Japanese syndicatem ses raising funds for the general development of the Russian section of the island.

LONDON, December 18th. Capt. Loose absolutely denies re-

THE LATE KING LEOPOLD.

STORY OF A SECRET MARRIAGE.

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LONDON, December 18th. The cause of King Leopold's death was embolism.

Marseilles to go by special train to Marseilles, and proceed thence by the steamship Persia," the Company paying for any necessary hotel accommodation.

BISHOP INGHAM'S VISIT. The Right Reverend Bishop Ingham, in com. pany with the Right Reverend the Bishop of Vistoria, raturned on Saturday from a week's visit in the country districts east of Canton. During the tour Bishop Lander dedicated three churches in different villager. These buildings

been ancestral hall and after being renovated at the expanse of the residents, they have been handed over for Christian worship. Large numbers of those who were interested in the Gospel attended at every service, and before leaving the district the Bishops WON present at the half-yourly meeting of the Chinese Church Council.

During the present week Bishop Ingham's time will be oneupied with engagements in and around Hongkong. On Wednesday at 5.30 p.m he will address Church workers in St. John's Cathedral The Bishop and Mrs. Ingham will евте for Colombo by "the sa. Della on

the influence of these records, astonished the world with one of the most scathing indictments against a monarch ever publish- ed. It was entitled" King LaoroLa's Soliloquy." The King is represented reading the mournful catalogue of charges brought against him and the little book is illustrated with photographs of mutilated natives. It will suffice to make this one quotation

His awful shadow lies across the Congo Free State, and under it an unoffending nation of 15,000,000 is withering away and swiftly succumbing to their miseries It is a land of graves; it is The Land of

A marriage. which had bean arranged for Graves; it is the Congo Free Graveyard. | Saturday but had to be postponed owing to a It is a majestic thought that this. the three days delay in the arrival of the ship which ghastliest episode in all human history, is the brought the bride from home, was celebrated work of one man alone: one solitary man Hongkong, by the Rev. C. H. Hickling, M secretly married Baronces Vaughan at Ameries-A. Proclamation:-

just a single individual-LEOPOLD, King of A. S. WATSON & CO.. the Belgians. He is personally and solely responsible for all the myriad crimes that LIMITED,

have blackened the history of the Congo State He could have prevented the

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS

Haarkone. 13th December. 1909.

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crimes by his mere command withholds the word-for his pocket's sake.” Few books have made a greater sensation

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yesterday afternoon at the Union Church,

F. Hicks being married to Miss May Pearos

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His will fills a whole volume, and by it he leaves to my children fifteen million francs received from my father.

The newspapers quote the King's Chaplain as saying that His Majesty

San Remo in 1908, by which marriage Trino. Miss Margery Brown was the bridesmaid it is said there are two children. They and Mr. H. M. Bain the "best sasa." Many allege that the Baroness alone was friends of the newly-married couple afterwards tendered their felicitations at the residence of present at the administration of the Mr. and Mrs. A Ramsay, and Mr. and Mrs.last sacrament. Hicks left for Canton by the night steamer.

LONDON, December 19th.

Christmas Day.

THANKSGIVING DAY IN AMERICA.

Thursday, November 25th, was officially pro claimed by President Taft as Thanksgiving Day in the following terms:-

"By the President of the United States. of

The winter of cor discontent "is a quotation

weather-at any rate it is this season and the depressed business man forget his cares. Some. thing of the wild joy of living is understood when one breathes the pure air of our bills and

bracing atmosphere is enough to make the most

dales, and it is not, extravagant hyperbole to say that a ramble over the mountains thems daya is an exhilarating as wine.

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But there is one aspect of the present spell of fine weather which is gradually forcing itself on oven the least observant. The long drought is telling syverely on vegetation and gardeners are having an anxious time. Native shruba and trees are suffering in a manner which surprises the oldest resident, and the turf on our tennis courts has acquired the tint of hay.

The rough weather experienced outside the harbour had an untoward effect on the local matrimonial market, which for two or three days laat week was unduly depressed. Eventually as the expected steamers approached, the market strenghthened and ultimately closed" with buyers, and brides strong in demand.

It is rather a remarkable occurrence that two

weddinge fixed for Saturday had to be postponed owing to the belated arrival of the brides.

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Clergymen out in the East usually find that. their labours are not so highly appreciat. ed as they would perhaps be at Home,

but

it Bishop Awdry ever had any doubts on the point they will be set at rest when he reeds the fluttering obituary netices inserted in the Eastern papers on the

"The season has returned when, in accordance with the reverent custom established by our receipt of elographie nowe of his death, which forefathers, the people of the United States are happily turns out to be untrue. wont to meet in their usual places of worship on Magistrate to return thanks to God for the a day of Thanksgiving oppointed by the Civil

Someone has been entertaining the British great mercies and benefits which they have public with an article or the subject of the enjoyed

During the past year they have been highly Chinese anal. He declares that in the Far pleased. No great calamities of flood or Esat there is no servant problem. Probably tempest or epidemic of sickness has befallen there ain't, but if he ever attended a mothers by wars, or

We have lived in quietness, undisturbed meeting in Hongkong he might be lod to think

rumours of ware. Peace and

industrial production animate a choorful and serious one, too. I have heard it said that all resolate people to all the renewed energies domestic pence is at and when an amah is of beneficent industry and material and moral

introduced into a household, progress. It is altogether fitting that we should humbly and gratefully acknowledge the Divine soarse of these blessings,

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The British Consul, dealing with the trade of The Pope himself has telegraphed UNLI COMMunzcations relating to the new in the world in recont times than did this French Indo-China, refers to the minerals there. I that the late King Leopold and plenty of bounteous crops and of great that there was a servant problem, and a very

mordant and bitter satire on the Congo A good deal of activity has been manifested, he Administration. It is satisfactory to know, especially in Tonkin, in prospecting and Baroness Vaughan were married.

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that Belgium is making an effort to put a top to auch ghastly atrocities as have in the past been charged against the adquiris tration;

The Independent State of Congo was annexed to Belgium last year, but Great

new. Colonial administration pending the

reserving areas. The results, however, have. hitherto been comparatively disappointing, and owing to difficulty of access, poornoss of deposit lack of capital by the promoters or other cauSDI,

OPIUM UPPRESSION,

the rale has bean for these enterprises to end in THE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT'S POLICY. nothing. An exception must be made in re- Bard to the deposits of coal in Eastern Tonkin,

of Haiphong, have been worked for some years

LONDON, December 18th.

Britain has withheld her recognition of the the coal mines of Hongay, on the coast, north The Master of Elibank, replying to with considerable success. The coal is a deputation from the Society for the receipt of satisfactory assurances on the thracite, and, besides being consumed in Suppression of the Opium Traffic, points on which the public opinion of the factories, etc., and sold to Chinese, is mixed read a telegram from the Colonial civilised world has been so deeply moved. The with about 20 per cent. of Japanese coal and 10 HONGKONG OPRICE: 10A, DES VEUX ROAD C Belgian Colonial Minister has promised the per cent, of British coal tar and manufactured Office saying that the traffic in Hong. eventual abolition of the forced collection into briquettes, which are used by the steamers kong and Straits Settlements had been of rubber and freedom of trade between the of the Mesangeries Maritimes and by the local largely reduced, and it would be natives and forcigu traders. A guarded. A special briquette is manufactured suppressed in Ceylon if the present reference was made to the subject in Mr. similar coal are worked at Dong-Trion, Kobao, policy were continued. He further ASQUITH's speech at the Lord Mayor's and elsewhere in Tonkin. The production of declared that Lord Morley, the Earl banquet last month, in which he indicated zino also is increasing, the principal mina PERHAPS no monarch of a civilized State that very careful examination would he being in the Thai Nguyen province of Tonkin. of Minto, Sir Edward Grey and Lord has in recent times been held up required of the conditions and reservations Zinc now takes a regular place in the list of Crewe, representing the nation as a to such public execration as the late accompanying the Belgian declaration on exports. Alluvial tin is being worked in Tin-whole, had undertaken for the parts King LEOPOLD, not as the Sovereign the subject. We judge from a recent Thus, near Cao-bang, and is said to give good India concerned to extinguish the

Belgium, but as the Governor telegram that the German Government prouise of future development. Wolfram ors

traffic within a decade if China's of the Congo Territory in the heart is satisfied, and we infer therefore that comes from the same district.

operation was effective.

HONGKONG, DECEMBER 20TH, 1909.

The German Mail of the 17th November was delivered in London on the 17th inst..

of Africa King Leorotp himself had the guarantees are so far satisfactory as been the real and sole Governor at least to prevent the Congo being officially 1835 regarded by Great Britain as "an outlaw of the Congo territory since "For absolutism incarnate," wrote the State.". Secretary of the Congo Reform Association in the preface to MARK TWAIN's scathing satire on the King's administration, "the Congo Free State which is neither State nor Dependency, but Slave form offers ne parallel." Yet the King ever posed as a philanthropist. He was a great benefactor

to the Church and a generous supporter of the Arts and Sciences. He regarded and proclaimed his African enterprise as govern ed by a desire to promote "the moral and material regeneration of the natives of the Congo, and in Belgium this view of the unterprise wus widely accepted unti

The German cruiser Schurnizoral, with the Commander-in Chief of the Gorman Squadron in the East, Rear-Admiral von Ingenobi, on board, arrived in port on Saturday afternoon.

The order regarding the mussling of dogs which has been in force at Kulangen (Amoy) since 28th September was rescinded on the 11th instant, the Health Officer for the port haring declared it to be no longer necessary.

The Tear has given his assent to the resolu- tion of the Cabinet to appoint a special com. atmittee to arrange for the colonization of the For Best Pho-committee will in partiostar

for the use of the navy. Other deposits of

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS.

Saturday, December 25th, Monday, December

27th, and Saturday, January 1st, will be observed public holidays, Thursday, February 10th, will be kept as a bank holiday, and Monday, January 3rd, and Friday, February 11th, will bo observed as public and bank holidays. His Exileosy the Governor has excluded the Polis Magistrates Department from the opere tion of the Public Holidays' Ordinance on Monday, December 27th, Monday, January 3rd, and Friday, February 11th..

DECORATIONS FOR OFFICERS OF THE L. M. CUSTOMS,

By Imperial Edit the decoration of the Order of the Double Dragon of the Second Division has been conferred on

Mr. A. H Harris, formerly of Swatow and now Commis sioner of Customs for Kowloon and District, and that of the Third Division on Mr. R. A.

any rate, the Commission of Inquiry was draw up a comprehensive schome for establish hold and revealed a state of affairs which ing Russian settlers on lands along the Amursioner at Swatow. eried aloud for amelioration. Ten years railway. ago Mr. DEMETRIUS BOULGER, who will

At the Supreme Court on Saturday Mr.

Currio, now in England, lately Acting Commis The decorations have been granted on the recommendation of the late Canton Viceroy, for

THE CHINESE NAVAL COMMISSION.

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"Therefore I hereby appoint Thursday, the 25th day of November, as a day of general thanksgiving, and I call upon the people on that day, laying aside their usual vocations, le repair to their charohes sad unite in appropriate ser rices of praise and thanksgiving to Almighty

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In witness whereof I have horennto set my to be affixed, band and caused the seal of the United States

Afteenth day of November, in the year of our Done at the city of Washington, this Lord one thousand, nine hundred and nine, and of the independence of the United Straits the one hundred and thirty-fourth

(Signed) WILLIAM H. TAFT. "By the President:

P. C. KNOX, Secretary of State."

MR. ROOSEVELT AND BRITISH RULE IN AFRICA.

In one of his latters from the heart of Africa Mr.. Boosvelt says:-

The English rule in Africa has been of in. calculable benefit to. Africans themselves, and indeed this is true of the rule of most Europeon nations. Mistakes have been made, of course, from co-hat they have proceeded at least as

int they are proteccomplish too much in the

LONDON, December 18th. The Chinese Naval Commission have inspected St.-Nazaire.

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LONDON, December 19th. President Falliéres has entertained the Chinese Naval Commission at luncheon.

THE BRITISH ELECTION

CAMPAIGN

By the departure of Mr. E. H, Hinds on Saturday by the Prins Ludwig, Hongkong lost a genteman who has long been the amateur billiard champion of the Colony. During his eleven years' residence here he has had the satisfaction of playing world-famous exponents like Roberta, Stevenson and Inman, and proved himaalf to be a worthy foeman, The biggest

break was made only few weeks ago. break ever made by Mr. Hinds is 199, and this previous record, I believe, was 187.

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There are some candid fólks down in Aus-

tralia. A reader sends me a clipping from the advertising columnus of an Australian news- paper, and I observe that "respectable person wants washing, ironing or cleaning,” · How is it that the Hongkong papers do not publish adver tisements like this? Perhaps the rassou is that it is so very obvious that many persons in Hongkong want washing, ironing or cleaning.

Down in Singapore there has been a nows-

paper discussion of the subject of the queue, sud

way of beneficence is from a desire to exploit the suggestion of some of the writers was that

the natives. Each of the civilized nations that

the Singapore Chinese who showed a greater tendency to discard this-appendingo were conse quently more advanced than their compatrioti at home. Naturally there were a few who dis

has taken possession of any part of Africa has had its own peculiar good qualities and its own peculiar defects. Some of them have done too much in supervising and ordering the lives of the natives, and in interfering with their prac tices and customs. The English error, like our agreed with this point of view, but it seems to own under similar conditions, bas if anything, me that the mere fact of making such a doper- been in the other direction. The effort histure from "olo custom" as is involved by cutting been to avoid wherever possible all-interference

with tribal customs, even when of an immoral the quone is in itself an indication of progress. we know, the Chinese are very and repulsive character, and to do no

more because, s than what is obviously necessary, such as in- strongly ruled by the dead hand of the pat, sistente apon keeping the peace and preventing and it requires some little thought and no little the spread of cattle disesse. Excellent reasons resolution to break from tradition and west can be advanced in favcar of this policy, and it must always be remembered that a fassy and the hair as Western en do. ill-considered benevolence more sure to itself; while awaken resentment than evƏN

things

One advocate for the retention of the queue is worth quoting. He wrote: "During my boyhood, I happened to be up a certain tree for self-indulging purposes, and when I

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the natires are apt to resent that are obviously for their ultimate welfare.

Yet I cannot help thinking that with caation and wisdom it would be possible to proceed somewhat farther than has yet boon the case in the direction of pushing upward some at least enshrouded among the ramifications of that tree, LONDON, December 18th. of the East African tribes, and this though I one branch upon which I was standing, gave recognise fully that many bate of way, and failing to grasp at other branches, I Eight members of the Cabinet and a-low and bratalised type. Having said this was freely forcing my passage through the eleven Peers were participating in the ash in the way of criticism, I wish to the dig branches, when, fortunately, my useful append- tribute of unstinted... admiration for dis- Election campaign last night.

interested and efficient work being done, slike ge got entangled and suspended me. In this in the interest of the white man and the black, way I probably escaped some broken limbs. Mr. John Burns delivered a fierce by the Government officials whom I not in East Therefore, I would not now join myself to the

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