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HARMSTON'S

GRAND CIRCUS

AND ROYAL MENAGERIE OF PERFORMING WILD ANIMALS.

GRAND

OPENING

NIGHT!

TO-MORROW FRIDAY, OCT. 28TH.

AT 9 P.M.

Location: CAUSEWAY BAY.

THE BONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27TH, 1910;

THE LATE MR. W. C. COWIE. Wnt out to Borneo and, taking his lito in |

his band, sought out and met the outlaw INAPIER JOHNSTONES'

in the midst of his armed followers and had several interviews with him. The than Bultane

WHISKY.

D

SHIPPING IN PORT.

* STEAMERS

Out Bangkok 12th October, General- Butterfeld & Swire.

AUSTRIA, Austrian str., 4,871, G. Rainiob, 23rd Oct. - Kobe vis Shanghai, 14th Oot,,

-Sandor, Wieler & Co.

Волок

A correspondant writing in amplifiastion of the notices of Mr. William Clark Cowie, the of Sulu, the son of the chairman's old friend, "SQUAREBOTTLE" Axaxx, Germen atre, 1,001, Simkwits, 200 chairman of the Court of Directors of the wrote to Mat Salleh's wife that he, the Sultan, British North Borneo Company, which appeared that his word conld be implicitly trusted.

looked upon Taan Cowie E

*** father,"

and in The Times of September 19 and 21, myn

Probably few people in this country are As a result of these interviews Mat Salleh leid ongnicant of the fact that but for Cowle's down his arms and there was pense for a year; prescience and extraordinary influence with the bat be revolted afresh, and he and his followers

the had eventually to bo exterminated. Sultans and Bajabs of the Eastern 31,000 square miles of rich territory

On all possible occasions Mr. Cowie zovir the colony of British North Borneo-an area failed to say that he regarded himself and for the nation, looked and in the and that ha have

under the Spanish agate of the when the Colony, with its fine zaval harbour passed due course of erents, sharing the fate of the hou

more than twice the site of Denmark- would the Company but as the trustees to the time 1

OUR NEW ALL STAR COMPANY OF LONDON AND CONTINENTAL ARTISTES Philippines and Suln Islands, have become and great natural resources, would be taken

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PICCOLO AND FIORI (CONTINENTAL COMEDIANS)

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BUDSIT, TRAMP CYCLIST.

MIBG JESSIE BOWER,

Song and Dante Artiste.

DICK HAYES.

Talking and Singing Clown. NOVELTIES, The Mirthful Mimis.

AND THE CHAMPION ALL ROUND DUO,

to

possession of

scone

of the United States barred over and directly administered by the British our commerce and our laws, instead Government. In the teeth of great oppor of being, as to-day, a colony of vast possibilities tion Mr. Corrie not only ceased the Colony to he within the cirds of the British Dominione commooted by sable with the rest of the world but A detailed account of his first voyage to the built the first and only railway in Borneo, prac of his future activities, as mentioned in tically across the island; and in all ways he no The Times of September 2 21, reads like a chapter conducted the administration of the country out of a sea romance. The Argyle, in which he that Mr. Chamberlain, when at the Colonial the Chartered Company

only or Office, said it was a tiny steel or chiaf shipped engineer, iron sch

schooner-rigged screw steamer of 14 tons that had never given him a sleepless night. Had register, built at Glasgow a 2 for smooth water traffic, and sure craft the been a more self-seeking man Mr. Cowle would undoubtedly have been marked out for high honour; but he himself would have pro- capabilities may be gauz to her engine.ferred to be remembered as one who had found

the

her steaming won from the

that

by

&

frot she had only is.

bought * mere launch in fact former ship's captain named Peter Orr, at very low price, partly in order to save his Singapore, and also because passage-money to ho knew of a likely market for his purchase. The little vessel appeared so inadequate for a age of 9,000 miles that he could not induce

bat

to

W

North Borneo a pirate-infested wilderness, in which neither life nor property was secure, and had left it sa safe for all comers as his native land, with every prospect of a prosperous and happy fatare.

THE CULTIVATION OF THE "HOMER."

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Hitherto the emigrant who returns, after the lapse of many laborious years, for a well- earned holiday in his native England has had rather a dismal experience. He

has come back trimful of enthusiasm and ferrent affection for and its people, and ho expects that his

ote that his MI

g his country will be returned to some extent. differences in man- ner and dress, the outward and of life in

How environment, which

October-Haiphong and Hoihow 23rd Oct, him from his

Gonoral-A. R. Marty, stay-at-home -countrymen, строе him

HALLAB, Norwegian str., 960, A. Korudson,

25th ceived with chilly politeness, that he is

Oct-Haakon 17th Oct., Bails and regarded "Colonia" over

ven if that o objection-

Iron-Aagaard, Thoresen & Co. HONGKOU, British str., 2,550, R. Bainbridge, able word be nobused it his presence, that there is really no place for him in the routine-file of

23rd Oct.-Singapore 16th Oot, General his old home. Relations and mannations have

Order. disappeared or been dispersed, so that there is no time to hunt them up, and a visit to his birth- of which seem to place, the scenery cropit during his long have grown meagre and absande, proves rather a depressing business. (to nso the Leicester Many such "homers" phrase) feal poignantly the truth of the lines:

All things now appear sɔ small

That once appeared so big; The elephant of former days

Ta professional seamann to ship with him; Enally bo was abie angage a cook and to recruit three adventurous young amateurs, including

Mr. Cowie, to accompany and serve ander him in various capacities, "With

With the exception of three days' steaming the voyage out from Glasgow, which occupied five months, was and from first to completed under canvas, last full of curious experiences. The Argyle

wrecked in a ww nearly

frightful

gale off the Times in the Suez Canal through coming in go-lucky crew raised and repaired her, and continued the voyage with most of the stores water spoilt. They careened her

mad OD the Aden a and removed the

in the hope of propeller in ber rate of improving

sadjing

and finally reached their

aftor enduring for destination months the miseries of semi-starvation.

First, Admiral" under the Sultan of the Rhio and Lings Archipelago, in command of Lest consisting of several large revenna-cutter. and innumerable native like yachts, the Argyle, an

a trader with bis { profuzis, and subsequently pa u

Mr., or Captain Cowie, own vessels and she was then generally called, soon began to and influence knowledge of acquire his unique

a the natives of all rants. By intuition he with Beorned to

point of comprehend the native

in his observance le was always scrupulous in their etiquette and customs, and, with the of the pirates, whom he

Has dwindled to a pig, fought exception of self-defence or when he came upon them red which were written by an artist who wúa so handed,

his attitude towards them was one of ill-advised na to revisit the scenes of bis

while they on sympathy,

their part

anshildhood And so the "homer," after some gave him an trust and friendship which in many experience of hotel life and restaurante and (mplicit mos amounted to affection. He was friendly with theatros, departe as quiets not made good

as he came, fooling the affota Sultan

who had shadowy that

that English North pisims co

h bospitality has ceded him the in case, and moved by a sudden nocens, of Muara,

which, with the coal maizes in this, the loss galenlated customs and Peninsula of he discovered and developed, he afterwards sold more exuberant manners of his adopted country, to Rajah Brooks of Sarawak. He was also on Ass fair-minded tnt, he seldom blames his termon of alone intimacy with the Sultan of Salt, English

the failure of his holiday: English friends for ally held the country, though he did he sees that they are too overburdened with nothing it and spent most of his time in business to be able to take him about and give the Sulu Archipelago. The Suluw, we are im the "

"! good time he has given in the past staunch Moslema and & fine fighting race, though to them or

or their sons, Dimly he understands formerly addicted to piracy, were at this time that no man, after all, can possus two homes at almost

distrasted by Europe; the same time. But, in his heart of hearts, be but Mr.

came and went among them feels he has not been well treated. with the utmost freedom, and it soon came

There are many reasons- sentimental, politi to be said of him that he was a welcome cal, commercial, &c.-why the homer" should guest where others could not land without not be allowed to leave England with any sense

who

of Br

ho

sir lives. Wallace in one of his books of dissatisfaction. If he does his value

whose name WAS

187

of his first mooting with Captain Cowie, actor of Imperial cohesion is obviously dimin

every

one's mouth and this must have been about the beginning of Western Canada or any other of the

just thonished. Nobody who knows the vie intime of the Spanish-Sulu war in 1875, which gave countries within the limite of the Empire Captain Cowie his great chance in life-8 war will challenge the validity of that statement. about which singularly little is known in this But since it is seldom possible for the

stay country, though its seriousness may be judged te

from the routine from the fact that out of 8,000 troops with which at-home Englishman to escape

of business to entertain a visitor from the the Spaniards, after several attempia, succeeded Dominions as he ought to be entertained, in capturing Jols or Tianggi, they lost 2,000 there is a

need for the organiza killed in ons engagement alone.

tion of

one

Васи

iping festivals as that

should be most useful to the

hnd

For centuries the Spanish anthorities in the which was so great success at Leicester last Far East had been timidly encroaching on the week. The Leicester Festival has already dominions of the Sultan of Salt, and now, bent important results. A number of Leicester on getting possession of the whole of the coveted

emigrants have

gone out with the departing territory by

bold stroke, they, in addition homers," who will see that they do not waste to land operations, established a blockade of time, money, Bad energy by the search for an Buin and the archipelago of that name. opportunity of self-investment in unsuitable This blockade lasted three years and was only localities. A record of the addresses of former this and terminated by the intervention of the Great Powers, wise lind been unsympathetic towards it citizens of Leicantoe will now be kept, from the beginning. During its continuance fature. In at least one of the Lacusbiru mann- adventurous trader in the Far East at fasturing towns the possibility oing disonstoc holding a A to at it at dafianoa, though often with similar home-coming festival is being sin diré conséqueness to themselves. Mr. Cowie was by responsible persons. The exchange of

on the side of his friend the Saltas, courtesies between Leicester and Milwaukee wan ough, of course, he could not rander him user significant feature of the celebration in assistance. But he was quick to seo and point the Midlands. Why should not other Eng

English ent to the latter that though the Great Powers cities and towns enter into more intimate rela would eventually intervene to compel the ex- tions with the industrial faci beyond the Atlan sation of hostilition which were crippling their tie, where their old citizens have achieved & trade,

view of her maritices they would position Spain from acquiring territorial com-, proven The Sultan agreed with this vi

10

Botive another

not

generally

of influence? Of course, the American must not have the cold shoulder. He feels (as one of the returned Leicester

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SHUANGH CHTUER. Extract from "The Contributors' Club" in October issue of Atlantic Monthly:-

I never had a rich anole in China, but I am and rights that he is "a kind of honorary citi- blessed in having other relatives there. What the whole of North Borneo with absolute zen of the British Empiro." The United States strange and costly broideries, whit fantastic possession to his friend; nominally in return for is not a foreign country in the senso that Gor-carvings, what ugly and venerable idols, en-

amall subsidy, but in reality with the object of many is, and such kindly sentiments should be crusted with age, they send me!

zaborly fashioned oddities which speak of ascouraged. baulking his inveterate enemies.

The Festival of Empire, which is to be held civilisation so different from ours! Odd and The imperative indispersability of Mr. Cowie's infitence and personality in this ac year at the Crystal Palace, will also help to odder still, they make my rooms their horns. quisition

in the following fill the eloarly proved

of the ambassadors manner. In order to secure financial backing smbas gap to which allusion has hoon made. The And oddest of them all, the "shuangh chi'u-er." "shutosh chi'a-er" (an asacosssful movement, the famous for the development of the country, that gentle swimmer Mr. Henry, who is travelling round the attempt to render the Chinese sounds into

ta the support c

of athletic bodies for English) lie silently upon my dosk, but re- held some unratified and all but worthless claims

the Festival,

Wa

next

Tho

HAI PING, British six., 1,267, Waggott, 20th Oct-Wala via Shanghai 17th October, Bics-C. E. & Mining Co

HVICHO, British str., 1,217, B. Forsyth, 23rd October-Tientsin 16th October, General~~ Battordeld & Swire.

BUYER,

British

tiah str. 1,275, H. Mathias, 9th Oot.-Wakarmaten via Swatow 8th Oct., Coal -Butterfeld & Swire,

INDRATUSA

British str., 3,182, Mansfield, 4th October N York 22nd July, General--- Jardine, Matheson & & Co.

KAJUNA MARU,

Ballast Order. 21at October--Tai str., 1,436, 8. Sone, KAMIAN,

British str., 1,142, D. B. Davies, 16th Oot -Newchwang and Chefor 9th Oct, General Buiterfeld & Swire,

CHING, Chinasa

KLARG

str., 1,002, Bressamler,...

11th Oct.

Oct.-Haiphong 9th Ock, General

Tung

Libe

KOWLOON, German str, 1,487, A. Enigk, 21th Oct.-Wahu 15th Qot., Rico-Hamburg- Amerika Linie.

KWANGLER, Chinese str., 1,468, Lincoln. 25th

Oct-Shanghai 23rd October, General...--- C. M. 8. N, Co. KWANGTAH

Chinese str., 1,536, Pratt, 22nd Oct-Shanghai 19th October, General- C. M. S. N. Co.

KWONGBANG, British str., 1,428, Bishard, 22ad Oot-Satow 21st Oct., General-Jardine, Matheson & Co.

LIGHTNING, British str., 2,122, L. P. Smith, 24th Oct-Calcutta 6th and Singapore 17th Ost. General David Bassoon & Co. LOONGSANG, British str., 1,076, F. Wheeler, 24th Dot-Manila 21st Oct., General- Jardine, Matheson & Co.

LOTHIAN, British str., 3,222, J. Lockhart, 25th Oct.Shanghal 22nd October, General→→ Dodwell & Co.

MINNESOTA, American str., 13,323, T. W. Gar- lick, 22nd October -Seattle 19th Sept, via Manila 20th Oct., Gonéral-Nippon Yusen

MONTEAGLE, British str., 6,163, W. Darison, R.N.R., 18th October Vancouver 20th Sept., Lumber and General Canadina Pacific Railway Co. NIKEO MARU, Japanese str,, 3,429, M. Yagi, 25th October Nagasaki 21st October,

Nppon Yusen Kaisha.

str...

1,787, E. J. Buller, 25th Chinwangtao 18th October, Coal

-C. E. & M. Co.

PERSIA,

British str.

sir., 2.744, A. Lockett, 22nd October-Mexico 27th Sept, and Moji 18th October, General-Eng Hok Fong.

FETCHABUEL, German str., 1,374, C. Gosewich, 14th Oct-Bangkok and Hoihow 13th Oct,

Meal, Wood-Batterfield & Swire. Rice British str., 1,065, Jas. H. Scolt, PREUMPENH,

23rd Oct.-Saigon October, Rice and General-Wo Fat Sing PONGTONG, German str., 977, Bätefübr; 20th Oct. Bangkok 8th and Kohsichang 12th bar, Rice and Timber-Norddeutscher

BANGT, Brit, str. 1,234, Pottinger, 18th October Pakhoi 10th Ocotoer, Salt and General, Butterfield & Swire, SHANTUNG, German sir, 1,000, IL. Oltmanns, 22nd Oct.--Bangkok 13th Ost., Ries and General Butterfeld & Swire,

SAMSEN, German str., 998, R.. Petersen, 25th" OctBangkok 17th and Bwatow 24th Oct., Rice-Butterfeld &

& Swire.

zan joined his interest to that of others who world and Mr. Forbes Donnis, who is preach me as audibly as any bland Oriental TJIKINI, Dutch atr 2.826, H. Koops, 8th Oct.. in the area in question, the amalgamation ovent onlisting the support of the constries and cities would ever permit themselves to reproach their nally blossoming into the British North Bornse of the United Kingdom, and that their sag- Company. But the

with

the Jultan

a

host My sister, who sent them to me, is ridden

uрox

me.

Hence, the bestowal of "shuaui“ bi'u-er."

pany soon came to presentatives of the congestions are well remived everywhere. Theides by the belief that I am a literary msn. Every whe without loss of fine repadinted his agree of series of "countries-at-home days" is literary mau (in Chins) has "

the ment, hauled down the Company's flags and re hoisted his own. Mr. Cole was sent for in hot haste, and it was only by his intervention

negotiations with the other members of the Company-but at the time was partner with Mr. Cowie vorious

in

ventures-com- trading Bented to restore the status quo..

excellent; it will give

Shuangh chi'a-or,

obi'u-br" country associations their in Landou a fine opportunity of naing

"although the name may influence Imperially. All the great transpor tation companies seem that the Sullan, who had rofused to reopen is best to regard the Crow to help. But it sound like a disease, is not a form of writer's "their" parpoes is Palace function cramp. On the Contrary,

the doable as, is a special sense, London's home-coming to prevent it. The words: mean festival. The fact that it is making god pro- balls," and "shuangh chi'n-ar are two iron

WL | gress innst not deter the provincial cities from bulls, an inch or so in diameter, which nestle in the right hand of every Chines man of following Leicester's example,

ANGLO-CANADIAN.. letters for hours each day, one being revolved London Morning Post.

about the other until they are worn bright. They are just large enongh to make a handful and the action of shifting one about the brings

the fingers into play and lands ther that suppleness and digital dexterity which is Chinese necessary in the manipulation of the

what

Since I became their wner I can soarely desist from handling them hours apon end. By some miracle of welding, the "shaangh chi'n-er" are fashioned hollow, each with a small ball within, which gives forth a gentle, not unmusical clanking, na ther

ON SALE.

A TABLE OF THE

RATES OF EXCHANGE AT HONGKONG

Mr. Cowie did not join the Court of Directors till years after the Cherter had been granted, aud at a time when the Company's fortunes. were at a very low ebb. In the literal senso of the words, he devoted the whole of his energies and his life to improving them, and had the LABUAN COAL.

satisfaction before his death of seeing the Com pany in a sounder

more commanding post. OTICE-THIS COAL can only tation than it had ever occupied before. When obtained from THE LABUAN COAL in 1898-9 the Court of Directors determined FALOR CO. LD. who are prepared to Supply try a peaceful solution of the dificulties with For FRESH COAL straight from the Moner Mat Falleb, a Barnen malcontent who at the Steamers load at the Wharvo. Quick despatch head of a following of Bajaus or ses gipsios-the Telegrams: "Labor Labuan."

erstwhile pirates-had been raiding and loot. ing and keeping the Colony in a ferment of petty warfare for years, Mr. Cowrie PRESS"

N

BRADLEY & Co., Agents, [931 Hongkong, 12th August, 1909.

to

or

Demand Drafts on London on the day of preceeding the departare of the English

Mails; also Table of the Yearly Approximate Averages for 36 years

FROM 1874 TO 1909.

Price $2 Cash. On sale at the "Dart

Olce, or Local Bockanollers.

lettering-pen or fine-pointed brush of

a

fascinata me.

They Lase

are moved.

other

TJIBODAS,

and Balik Pappan 30th Sept.,

str., 2.953, T. Zwart. 23rd 15th October, Sugar sad Cotton-Java China-Japan-Lijn. OSHING, British str., 1,127, Hussey, 22nd ONGBEING

Oct., General and October-Chefoo 17th

Matheson & Co. daman at 1,002, Fr. Bücking, 6th

Beanie

TSINTAU,

OctBangkok 25th Sept., Rice and Wood

Batterfeld & Bwire.

WONGKOI, German str., 1.115, H. Ibbeken.

24th Oct. Bangkok 16th October, Rice-

& Swiro Butterfield

ATBRING, British str., 1,424, Payne, 21st Oct. Java 10th October, General-Jardine, Matheson & Co. YUNNAN

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British str., 1,206, Owen, 13th Onf. 9th October, Rios --Batterield &

Zarmo, British str., 1,618, A. Fraser, 24th

October-Manila 22nd October, Goseral Shewan, Tomes & Co.

BAILING VERANI..

ARROW, British barque, 2,971, Melver. 20th

May-Anjer 8th April, Kerosens Ol Standard Oil Co.

DEKELTAN, British 4-masted bargne, 1,799, Brett, 27th August-Menado 30th July, Ballast Standard Oil Co.