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THE HONGKONG DAILY PELSS, MONDAY, JUNE 9TH. 1910,

THE SOLAR ECLIPSE.

· HOBART IN DARKNESS

For once in a way Hobart was the most im.) portant plase in the Southern Hemisphere on May 9th, being the nearest and in fact only place of any note from which the total eclipse of

miles in breadth) locks like an ordinary sheet of water of somewhat reddish hue. On resok- ing the shores, however, wo found the water was only a few inches deep, and covered a hard surface looking exantly like pink marble. This bored and found to extend to a considersbis is: an immense deposit of soda, which was depth, thus indicating an area of at least twenty

square miles of solid soda."

DEMOCRACY AND THE CRIMINAL.

The

VESSELS EXPECTED.

THE FRENCH NAIL The M..at. Armand Behio, with the

French Mail of the 8th il, sad misils from

London of the 7th ulting, teft Saigon on the 3rd last, at 1 am, and is expected to arrive hore this morning, and will probably leave for Shanghai and Jazan an the same afternoon.

THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL.

The N.Y.K. etc. Fawata Maru (Australian Line) left Thursday Island for this port via Manila on the 26th it, and is expected here to-day

The IG.M. str. Cobim loft Sydney on the 4th inst, ut noon, and may be expected here on or about the 26th inst

THE AMERICAN MAIL. The P.M. str. data loft Yokohama on the

30th ult, and is due here to-morrow.

the aun might be visible. Between 3 and half a fow soore people, mostly women, made

to the higher positions of the Domain, WAY overlooking West Hobart, and facing Knock Lofty, behind which towers Mount Wellington to the north. The atmosphere had a clearness When President Taft, speaking at Chion go that is often seen just hofors or soon after rain, some menthe age; deplored the provalence of and the clouds were clear in outline, while the crime in the United Sates and the complete river looked like glass. But over to the west breakdown of the administration of instlee, he behind Knook Lofty fringes of mist hang from placed his finger on one of the most sinister the clouds, while the city itself was covered by a blote on the escutcheon of triumphant de thin vail of pale emoke that was pressed back moerney. Confirmation of the statements which upon it by heavy damp air Light rain was President Taft made on that cocarion comes falling over the city and on the western from an American writer, Mr. H. C. Weir, who hills. By half-past 3 the mist and erept states that 10.000 persons ara tanrdered in the downwards till the ontline of the lesser hill United States every year, and not more than 2 of Knook Lofty in the foreground showel per cent, of the murderers are punished. sharply against the wall of grey mist. There was remaining 98, says this writer, excapo absolutely just a touch of darkness in the gray that indicat free! Surely there is not another civilised ed the mountain behind, and it seemed that country on the face of the earth where it Mount Wellington would soon disappear, tear un life is held so cheap. In the lesser arimes ing only the gam-fringed hill that alopes up the proportion of offenders who escape is hardly from West Hobart to break the sombre skyline, less remarkable. Mr. H. C. Weir declares This frequently cours en dendy per the that occasions stranger would gain the impression districts of New York are given their freedom that only flat country lay behind Knook Lofty, by the ward politicious, the implication being, Then suddenly, yet almost Imperceptible the of course, that the criminals are ready to repay mist had risen. The dall

and only a exploitation of the public. When President strip of white flooey clouds trailed over the valley. Taft spoke on this subject at Chicago he But heavy grey takes of rainctends still hid expressed bis admiration of the prompt and the rooky top of the peak, and there seemed no efficacious methods by which justice is ad the Straite and Hongkong on the 27th ult., The Indo-China str. Luisang left Calcutta for possibility of it dispersing. Raia began to fall, ministered in Great Britain. It would ap- and is dus here about the 12th inst and the feeos of white cloud above the valley pear that in this matter, which is the pivot THE CANADIAN MAIL. was torn and ravelled like a tattered voil. But of every genuine elvilisation. democracy there was little or no wind in that altitude, and needs to look to its methods. No doubt the though the highest clouds were drifting slowly problem in the United States is complicated by eastward, and the smoke of the city slanted to the enormous influx of illiterate or poorly educat wards the sea, the white strip between the el immigrants from South-caster Borope. hilltops scarcely moved; its for only changed These people are accustomed in their own with kaleidoscopic frequency.

countries to the most ruthless methods of police repression, and in the United States they find opportunities for committing crimes which were

Wellington became again via of Mount their liberators by assisting them in their

By 4 o'clock the sky had began to darken. A white olond above Halley had mingled with the

The PM. str. Mongolia left San Francisco on the 24th ultimo for Hongkong, via Honn lalu, Yokohams, Kobe, Nagasaki and Manila, The TK, K. str. Tengo Mars left dan Fran- and is das at this port on the 24th inst. cinco on the 31st aftmo, for leon giang ran Honolulu, Japan and Shanghal, and is no to arrive here on the 29th inst.

THE INDIAN MAIL.

and the Straits left Singapore for this port on The Indo-China ute, Fooksang from Caloutta the 1st inst.

cover on the 25th sitimo pa, for Hongkong The CPR str. Emprese of China left Van via usual ports of call

MERCHANT STEAMERS.

The NYK. str. Tango Maru (European Line) left Shanghai for this port on the 3rd inst., and is expected here to-day.

and more then he that hid the mountain tap impossible in their native lands. But unfortan Tine) loft Bingapore for this port on the let misty fringes of TILLING

the mountain had disappearately, the connection between the ward-politicians

of

The N.Y.K. str. Hakata Mare (Bombay inst., and is expected here to-morrow.

the 31st ultimo a.m., and may be exposted here The H.-A. Linie str. Silvia loft Hankow on to-morrow.

The "Ben" Line str. Benledi from Antwerp and London left Singapore on the 2nd inat for this part

ed, the eastern suramit of the nearer hill having and the criminal classes in the great sities the horizon to itself. The outlines of the city the United States is too apparent to be over buildings became indistinct. Beneath the film of looked. The administration of justice is milky smoke the clearent elends over Lindisfarne, poisoned at the fount. An experiment has with their tauts of steely green, grew dull and recently been tried at Galveston, Texas, and in The 0.8.K. str. Tacoma Meru from Tacoma sombro. The green foliage of the gum trees on some other cities, of placing the civic govern-left Manila for this port on the 5th inst., and the Domain grow gray as the rain rastladment in the hands of commissioners, who are Among them. It was dusk. The lights twink solested not for party reasons, but for their

is expected to arrive here ta-morrow. ed out over the efty, and then at a quarter past probity, and who are given & free hand for a Line) left Nagasaki for this port on the 3rd The N.T.K. str. Kumano Maru (Australian four the shadow smothered the town like a pall. term of years. They are virtually municipal inst, and is expected here to-morrow. The dusk had quickly succeeded to light, but dictators. The experiment has bean so 2008- the darkness that followed the dusk onme scaner ful that a suggestion has been made that it even then the gloom that followed the snuset in should be tried in New York. Even as far as the tropics. It was night, and the street lights it has gone already it supplies a curious com were most of them still unlit.

montary upon one aspect of demogratis govern Yet the darkness was unlike that which apment... A frank return to the methods of abso. companies true night. It was not the black intim in a democratic country is a significant ness that obscures a etarless winter, midnight, proof that the best friends of democracy are not A man could not recognise his fellow at 20 fost blind to one of its chief weaknesses. distance. But one could noe people moving and the Irunks of neighbouring trees, Enock Lofty Icoaned in formless bulk against the darkened western sky. Yat the light, wish as it was, wes different from the clear illumination of the stac or young moon, it was moes like the light through chinks and cranies into a collar or which altern through blinds and curtains into a darkened room. The gloom was uncanny, and it did not need a soientist to tell that it was no ordinary darkness that had fallen in sudden manner.

A group of schoolbeya, who had ceased aky- larking when the phenomenon commenced, broke the silence with ribaidry of youth folga- ing terror, and shouting out mock sapplicatfora and promises to be good as the people began to move sway, the rain damming on the umbrella as they left the shelter of the trees.

It was 19 niinnies past 4, four minutes after the darkness lud come, when a

a change became perceptible. It was getting lighter. According to the scientifle estimate, the totality of this eclipse ended at 17 minutes past 4. Yet the gloom had been gradually lessening for a minute or more before the fact was generally perceived. Thou a weight seemed to be lifted. Free trunks changed from formless giants of the night into ragged, leafy- -topped gams. The sky lightened, bat in different fashion from the lightening of dana. It was more like the reversal dusk that

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falls after sunset in winter. As the event NAPIER JOHNSTONES great grey outline of Knook Lofty took its properQUARE BOTTLE

shape and beyond its summit a dark strip of the

body of Mount Wellington proped indar the

vel of clouds which had lifted clear of the near hilltop, the lights in the streets faded to pale and sickly yellow. A ravelled lesso of white cloud trailed above the valley, that sepa rale Mount Wellington and Knock Lofty The relection of the street Jaapa on the wet pave menta was no longer visible from a distance. It was daylight the dull daylight of half-past 4 o'clock on an antan afternoon, and a rainy afternoon at that.

Those who had waited for the eclipse on the helghts of the Domain had an nocomfortable walk back to town in a steady drizzle, and fog obscured the estuary up to the wharfs,

But

| over at West. Hubert and across the river to the Lindisfarne and Bellevue the atmosphere was still clear. In the city, though the eclipse was expected, the enddanness with which darkness fell took nicat people off their guard. Just before the obecarity reached its climax there was a rush for matches and tapers in the shops and offices; and it was quite dark before (714 the majority of the business pinces were lit up. Lights sprang inte heing on the shipping in the harbour, and steamers bound for river ports holsted their masthead lamps and fixed thair

red and green sidelights. It is as human le joke as it is to pr, and the spirit of the jester was not confined to the school-boys in the Domain. For ten minutes "Good night, Instead of "Good day," or Good afternoon," was the facetious greeting between those who passed along in the sequi darkness of the stress. An interesting fast in connection with the

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OCEANO, British str., 2,345, F. W. Davies, 28th My May Manila 25th May, General Dodwait. OMURO MARU, Japanese str., 1,770, 8. Takagi,

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PRUYEN, Fronob str., 1,300, Varozti, 3rd June

Mitani Basna Kaisha, Coal

PriSAN VICE, German str., 2,957 Rolmers, Int

Saigon 30th May, Rico Bradley & Co June-Bangkok 24th May, Riou and Wood

Butterfield & Swire. RAJAH, German str., 1,272, HC-Robar, 30th

Norddeutscher Lloyd May--Bangkok 21st May, Hies and Wood

SALAMADI, Dutch str., 1,237, T Roadshor, Lab

Jane-Balik Papen 24th May, General SADIE BANDIER, Chinese str, 667, J. Martin,

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29th May-Singapore 22nd May, Wood and Iron-E. Wilds.. BEANG BRE, British str., 5,849, W. T. Larkins, 3rd June-Singapore 28th May, General--- Chinese...

SHINOBIE MARU, Japanese str., 2,784, K.

Mato, ut Jano-Moji 26th May, Coal- Osaka Shosen Kaisha,

SINGAN, British str. 1,017. F. Jamieson, 2nd

Juno-Haiphong 29th May and Hoihow 1st June, Rice-Butterfeld & Swire. Burrow, German str. 1,857, B. Auders, 1st June-Hongay 30th May, Coal-Ham- burg Amerika Linge. SUBANG, British str. 1,267, Picknell, 2nd

Juno-Chingwantao 28th May, Čual... Jardine, Matheson & Co SUNGKIANG, British str., 987. H. A. Hards, 2nd Jane-Iicilo 29th May, Copra and Sapan Wood-Butterfield & Bwire.. SUVERIC, British str, 4,011, Cowley, 4th May-

Seattle and Manila, Flour-Dodwell & Co. TAIWAN, British str., 1642, A. Jenkins, 28th

May--Saigon 24th May, Rice-Chipase, TEAN, British str. 1,346, A. W. Outerbridge,

3rd Juze-Manila 31st May, General TIKING, Dutch str., 2,888, E. H. Kroes, 2nd

Batterfield & Swire.,

June-Moji 27th May, Cosi-Java.Chinn- Japan Lijn

WONGKO1, German str., 1,115, H. Habetson,

2nd June-Bangkok 27th May, Ries and Timber Butterfeld & Swire. YAPATA MARU Japanese str., 2703, K. B. Sakuma, 31st May-Moji 25th May, Coal ---Mitsui Bassan Kainba

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VISITORS AT HOTELS

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The N.Y.K. str. Mielimu Mare (European Line) left Singapore for this port on the 3rd inst, and is expected Lore on the 8th izat

Mr. E. W. Adammz The Mogul Line str. Ghazee from Unitedir. F. B. Adams Kingdom left. Singapore on the 2nd just, and Dr. D. C. Aish is dus here on the 9th instant morning.

Mrs. BM.A. Aper The NY.K. str. Awa Maru (American Line)

maid left Yokohama for this port vis Kobe, Moj and Shanghai on the 30th ult, and is expected hare on the 12th inst.

SHIPPING IN PORT.

STRAMPES.

ABORIM, German str, 1,001, 0. Kumpel, End June Bangkok 26th May, Rice-Butter tield & Swire,

ANHUI, British str., 1,250, J. B. Harris, 29th

May Shanghai 26th May, General Butterfield & Swire.

BINHTHUAN, French str., 984, Chornienne, 3rd

Jane Saigon 29th May, Rise and Flour Chinese.

BOURBON, French str. 997, Rossé Farst, 24th May--Saigon 20th May, General-Man Fat

BUJUN MARU, Japanese str., 1,304, Y. Faseno,

29th May Shanghai 25th May, General Ogle Bhosen Kons

CHESTAN, British str. 1350, Lloyd Jongs, 22nd

May-Shanghai 1941-

Mr. G. L. Lord My. D. Macdonald. Mr B. Mande 1 & Dr. 0. Marriott

Mi-e H. A. Massey Capt. J. 3'cBride Mr. F. E. McHugh Mr. G. C. HoIntona Mrs. Hesson

yr J. H. Backhouse Mr. F. Au

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Mr. A. A; Boury Mr. J. E. Clouza Mrs. J. D. Champlin Mr. M. O. Claes Mr. 4. L. Gondon Mr. F. S. Colay Mr G. Curry Br. J. E. Dorian Mr. A. E. Dunrigh Mr. H. Fisher Mr. & Mrs. J. H. Flaber

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Mr. A. Gand-t Mr. D. M. Fraser

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Mr. F. Gordon Mr. V. Goulbourn Mr. C. B. Gives

Mr. L. S. Hans Capt. T. P. Hall Miss Haver

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Mr. J. E. Monagh Mr. John Mereɔki Mr. D. M. Mickie Mr C. J. Milliros Mrs J. J. Mioor

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CRITO MARU, Japanese str., 7,250, William Woodus Greene, 30th May-San Francisco 3rd, March, General—TK KA TË OFE CRAIOVAS, Brifish str., 2574, B. C. Edmonds,

30ta May — Kamila 26th May. FAUSING, British sir, 1410, H. Malkin, 29th Dr. Fanz

May-Saigon 24th May, Rice Jardine, Miss Desch Matheson & Co

Mr. R. T. Cözənn

Mr. & Mrs. J. Gibb Franch str., 639, Ji Pannior, 31st May Miss Gibb Haiphong, Pakhor and Kwais Chor Wan Miri, Hey 27th May, General-A. R. Marty, SEM. A. Bisink HIGANG, British ete, 1,536, A.; G. Smith, 2nd { "1. E. Hollows

June-Saigon 29th May, Rico and Paddy Mr. Kennedy

Chiness.

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odlipse was lint as dusk was falling the fowls LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.,

went to rout wherever they were kept;

While s

few birds that had been twittering in the trees grow silent. In this case, however, dewa just before 4.20 was not cockczow as far as the fowls were concerned Posibly the roosters were too surprised to grow. From the scientific observers point of view the eclipse was a failure. - Bat It was none the less an interesting phenomenon.

A LAKE OF SODA,

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completed.

* Lake Magadi isbottom of a valley

picturesquely situated amid.

weird surroundings at

thousand feet deep. · On-one-side are

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on another a range having an altitude of eight thousand feet. There is no sign of human life, but on and abont the lake are immouse number of fam ingoes. From the surrounding mountains, the

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LIGHTNING, British str., 2,122, A. E. Goutles,

31st May Singapore 25th May, General David Sassoon & Co.

LOYAL, German str., 1,237, R. Wegner, lat

June Wakamaten 25th May, Coal Sander Wieler & Co.

MANCHE, French str., 1,281, Gary, 27th May

Saigon 23rd MAUSANG, British

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