RANDOM REFLECTIONS,
Wore it not for the Port Offee notices and the appearance of the time-honoured greetings in the win lows of the booksellers it wenld be dimoult to resting that we are not far off Christ- mas. The weather certainly doesn't suggest it but all the same if we wish to remember tha folks at Home we runst be taking thought very Roon and deciding upon the pronents which havO to be sort.
It is remarkable how quickly we become sc. customed to a new condition er to a new service For instance. here in the Sibarian route, which has been utilised for the despatch of lotters to- and from Europe for a year or so, displacing the elder servico vid Stez so much that the lattor in now described as natiquated. It dons seem a bit sudden to allude to the long sea route in such a disrespectful manner, but the Hon- Mr. Osborne bad good reason for doing so, After all, time is money. Which reminds me of the old sow,
Time is money, and manoy, it is timas z
And don't you be forgettin' it:
Lot's all get money if we can
But don't got time for gettin' iL"
If the Hon. Mr. Murray Stewart had been able to whip up tho quofisial members of
LOCAL SPORT.
RESULTS AT A GLANCE.
LEAGUE FOOTBALL..
H.K.F.C. Naval Yard... Bust
0 R.G.A.
3 R.E.
3 Kowloon...
LEAGUE CRICKET.
.101
(9 wkte.).. Kowloon
(6 wkta.)
(G wkts.)" ...138 Police
43
Departmentals 160 C.C.C
Poliou
Rommante boat H.K.C.C.
NOWLE,
29. Taikoo
LEAGUE FOOTBALL.
K.P.C. 4. R.G.A.
... 14
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 31ør, 1910.
The
KULANGSU (AMOY) MUNICIPAL
COUNCIL.
The minutes of is mooting of the Coung held at the Board Room, on the 11th October, are follows:
3
THE POSITION OF RUBBER.
A WOMAN DESPOT.
fundamental rules of international smity which prescribe the sanctity of foreign Ministors and THE LATE EMPRESS-DOWAGER OF their canidenses. But for Jung Lu the Lega-
CHINA.
tions and their inhabitants would have beòn
From The Times of October 7th destroyed before the arrival of the allied troops.
In an article published in the Financial and Much has been written about the remarkable Two Ministers, Yuan-Chang and Han Ching. Comurcial Supplement of July 29 the inferases woman who for fifty year, until her death in Cheng, were so horrified at the barlarism of an was drawn from statistics them available that Present Mesara. W. Kruss (Chairman), November, 1908, played so large a part in the attack the Legations that they commit the prospects for an early recovery in prices of
history
of China Tan Hei has buen depicted suicide after having addressed unavailing Loe, J. Mencarini, LL. Thomas, W. Wilson, by various writers from curiously opposite proteats to the Empress Dowager against so indiarubber were not encouraging. The course the Health Offloor and the Secretary.
of
picture represents the monstrous a violation of the law of nations. One
of the market since then has fully borne out On the motion of dr. Brune, sponded by Mr. Emprens-Dowager as a charming and simple out
A TRAGIC DIARY:
that suggestion. Not only has there been no Montarini, and carried unanimously, Mr. Windy, of exquisite manners, fend of literature,
poolry, and
the drama. The other
portrays
Chine Shan's daily diary records the strange recovery from the depression then prevailing, Wilson was invited to take the seat on the s tyrannical, ez el, and licentions. There are changes of mood among the people of Peking at but the fall to values has continued almost Council rendered vagant by the retirement of elementsof truth in both pictures, but both suffer that time of crisis. First, there was force without interruption up to the present time. Mr. Wilsons, boing present, from oraggeration, The Empras Dowager was xultation at the prospect of destroying the fated the docline since the last vook of July. Mr. Fenwick,
not the innocent, gracious old
foreign devils" or driving them into theses, has been much more sevore than that recorded acospted and took his seat.
Jady who
Then doubts and milos benignantly at us from the red at the discovery that the Boxers were not in the previous three months. Fine hurd Pars
misgivings and Sually despair Mr. Wilson was cloated vice-chairman, vice of books and magazine artist to the bullet proof, and that their vaunted magical was at the end of July quoted at ab: ut 98, J.
by
ladins 021
Land." Nor is it
Her
written
obstacle that
M. Fenwick, and the Committees wara tompor
just to paint her powers vanished at the grim touch of war. The match between the Hongkong Football rily ro-formed as follows:---Works, Messrs, Krase und Los; Finance, Mespre. Wilson and
capriotous tyrant, whose scandalous Bore is an extrast from the last day's entry, per la fall of roughly 23, since the beginning amours recall those of Mesaling and Julia when all was darkness and confusion among the of May. Yesterday the same quality was sold Club and the Royal Garrison Artillery took
at about 6s, por lb., n. Tarther decline of 38. 34,, place on the ground of the former Clab at Taudzurabara, Watal, Messrs. Mencarini and Agrippina. The real Tea Hei was a woman of distracted Chinese
I have just heard of the death of my or 36 per cont., and compared with the highest Happy Valley on Saturday, the result being Thomas. Letters were road from(1) Mr extraordinary gifte, intensely vital na
A. C. Mutton, of tho New Amoy Hotis, born to command, avid of power and love, a win for tho Artillery by one goal to nil.
old friend, Hau Tung, the Imperial tutor price paid on April 20th (12. 4.) the fall remoreclose in rushing every obsta
and Grand Secretary. He has banged amounts to 64. 4, per ib., or over 5: per cont. auinanoa caused stood in the path of her ambiiions, ruthless, himself in his house, and eighteen of his tenins were evenly matched, and there was little complaining of tha between them throughout the game, the soldiers by cunt dust from a cont yard at Langtow, and though net ornel; bold, yet superstitious, in
womenfolk have followed his
example.
Ha At the auotions this week amoked sheet planta- scoring their one and only paint just after the the Secretary reported the notion taken; (2 when a man's expasity for deviiso action was
was true patriot and a fine scholar. Alas, tien sold at 58. Sd, as against 128, 104, on aaited to a woman's mutability of mood. In commonooment of the second half. In the Eual rum Monsen, Wales and Audersou requesting short, à character rich and complex, in which
alam! From all sides I hear the same piteous April 20th, a loss of nearly 58 per cont. story. The proudest of the Manchus have: stages of the match Barlow and Goldenborg, permission te reinove certain stone which is in bad and goed, great and small qualities were come to the same miserable end. The betroth- two of the civilian players, were laid out, but the way of the foundations of the houses they inextricably blended. they had recovered before the whistle called are building, and permission was granted; (3). Mr Chon Tak Hao was granted permission to
a halt,
NAVAL YARD " ROTAL ENGINEERS.
A FASCINATING STORY.
erect a gate to his new house, providing he house we have the Empress. Dowager to the life.jdest son the same evoning; all his womenfolkfacilities were withdraw, but this can hardl
fulfils conditions; (4) and an application from Settlemen was refused.
no doubt,
Council for Thursday bo might have scored the rogult being a win for the Yardors by three Ng Goan to remove water to pluses cutside the Chinese State Household It is a narrative compelled tho Empresa Dowager and the the ranid-and grent increase in supplies in gon
win on Thursday. The Hon. De. Ifo Kai, Hon, Mr. Hewett, and Hon. Mr. Koswick were all absent. Had they been present to have given their votes they would bare ontnumbered the Government and carried the resolution by sher weight. Still, I suppose the result would have haon much the ammo. The resolution would have bose passed, but the Government would still have declined to accept it.
This match took place on the Naval grennd,
gooks to nil. The Engineers wore aggressivo in the opening stages of the game, and the first half was well word before the Yard toom warmed to their work. Before the change of ends they had registered one gaol, and in the second moisty, playing with more vim and combination, two more points were recorded.
The Government Analyst, Hongkong, re- portod on the seventeen samples of milk for warded to him on the 23rd September, as follows:-"I am of opinion from rosalts of analysis that all those are genuine milk. (Sigued.) Frank Browne, Govt. Analyst,”
REABONS FOR THE REACTION. Various reasons are put forward to explain of Prince Ch'an, whom he was to bar this remarkable reaction within the short space married next month, has committed suicido, of are months. A favourite theory moribes In this book) by Moara. Bland and Back-
with all her family. It is indeed pitiful, The aged diarist lizuself was murdered by his the duoline to over-speculation on the part
gortain big Eastern The authors have given us
people whose fluancing narrative of the Life and Times of Tan Hai," compiled from had previously iakon poison sad died.
be reckoned to be more than an incident in the papers anil the private diary of the The sutry into the city of the allied troops downward movement, The real cause is. Comptroller of! that holde one with an intense fascination. Emperor to flee from Peking, rea in the junction with the fact that one of the largest Thin sobar record of events surpasens in intariat harry of preparation for fight the woman's consumers-Damely, the United State- the wildest fanoles of romantic writers. It tigorish spirit associa itself
has found that it was necessary to curtail brings home to the Western mind with vivid
All the concabines were summoned to sp. demand for the commodity. The motor-or pear before her Majesty at 3.30 a.m.; she had industry in Americs was proveeding at a rate effect the strangeness of Chian, it utter
previously issued a decree that none of them far in civilisation patrifod
of the Jaarket, requirements far in excess of the unlikeness to saything else in the world, its by conservatisms, the
The so much so that one of the leading mannu- would accompany her for the presents. initiative of its people withering under the Fourl Conentine, who has always been insu-factores
of that country
found
himpil crippled The Capt. Supt. reported that the following clammy touch of the dead hand of the past,
bordinate to the old Buddha, came with the with an uns in stock, doweling to reports.
ki rast and actually dared to suggest that the about 4,000 automobiles, and had to sespond cases had been dealt with at the Mixed Courts governing classes honeycombed with Played on the Military ground, this match
Buparor should remain in Peking. The building operations. And while such impor ended in a win for the Buffe by three since the last moeting-Summonses-Assault, corruption, the masses patient and enduring, but aver and anon flaring an in wild rebellion,
coustumers had to withdraw from the As far as the play wont 2: obtaining money by also pretensas, the stoical indifference of rich and poor to
5 moment's hesitation she shouted Try at we may, it seems impossible to forget Baols to uil,
and cattlo to stray, 2 suffering and to dosil, and the fatenso version
to the cancels on
"Throw this continued to arrive in increasing quantities the Clook Tower. The timepiece having struck the Kowlooni tea showed up well, but their fir-allowing piga
wretched minton down the well." At this the Moreover, what happound in Amerion occurred work for a long tits, and prior to that the lighting-line was weak, and thus the many oppor- throwing rubbish, &c., on the public road,4; of all clas
poror, who was greally grieved, foll in a lansor degrea in Europe; any firms using Emperor, tunities they had wont by the board. When the cruelty to animals, 1; dobt, 3. Summary or want of light had made it impossible to sedend half was nearing an end the soare stood Arroste-Breach of sampan regalations, 1;
his knows in application, but the rubber found. miriable; if not imperative, to Empress angrily bade him desist, saying restrict new purchases, sad the result has been what the hands indicated at night, it seemed as
at 1-0 in favour of the Buffs, but in the dual robbery, 1, theft, 4, being in possession of
that this was no time for baulying words. a steady accumulation of supplies. The if no attention were being paid to the ancient
"Lot bar din at earn," alolen property, 1; asusult, 2.
abo said, "15- 8 weakness was accontursted in a marked degron Now, however, it is being dis tages two xuere opportunities offered and smart
warning to allundutiful phildron, and to those by the fast that during t landmark.
theboom birds who, when fledged, peck out their spring a number of guined in a cost of fresh paint, but even with work combined with straight kicking saw another
f speculators, small and la that assistance we cannot regard it other than two goals added to the score of the soldiers,
mother's eyes." So the eunuchs Li and Sung had bought rubber forward delivery, and thuir fook the Pearl Concubine sad cast hor-down #forts to "cul their lossus on falling tha large well which is just outside the Niug market had a most demoralizing influenca Shan palaeo.
"has boon." It will rejoics many people to know, however, that it was not going ones more Jesterday.
i have just heard a good story, perpetrated in Hongkong the other day, which is too good to be allowed to pass into oblivion. A rosel had been chartered to convey cattle from hera to another port, and the owns naturally did. not wish to and any responsibility for the mortality of the animals on the voyage, but there was a such proviso in the dead of charter and a frosa one, embodying such a clano, had to be prepared. This was done, and the parties wore about to sign the document whod one happened to glance through the document which had boon typed by the lady elork and was horrified and amused to read that the owners would not be responsible for "the morality of the captain," intent of "mortality of tho cattle." Why won't people learn to write legibly!
*
BUFFS KOWLOON.
CRICKET.
c.o.c. p. DEPARTMENTÄLS, This League match was played on Saturday and resulted in a draw. ScorON :—.
› DEPARTMENTALS. Capt. Addison, b_Jammort ..........
Cpl. Campion, o Carralho, b Carrie
Rev. Foster Fogg, b Lammert
Lt. Williams, e Viroanh, b Currie.....
Capt. Boll, rau ont..........
Col. Stacpole, b Lemmert
9. M. 8. Davis, b Jammerb
Lammert
pl. Taverner, J. V. Braga, b Taylor Cpl. McGregor, not aut... Cpl. Ostnati, o Viviash, Sir. Hobbs, did not bat
Extra
Total (9 wickets) Bowling Anniyais.
.L. B. Lammort........ 13.9
P. Curria....... 15 H. Taplur. 19 J. Dragana a
0.00
49
2
23
E. . Braga, e Davis, b Addison
R. A. Carroll, b Addison..
H, Iran, Davis, b Osman.....
I. E. Lammert, i.tw. Addison,
W. EL_Vivonch, b Orman
J. Y. Braga, b Adlison .....................
J. D. Norin, not out...
L. A. Rose, not ent
...160
H. K. Taylor, K. Phillips and P, Curris
did not bat,
Bow. B. Pegg
Extras
16
Total (6 wickets)
141
Howling Analysis.
4
31
3
Sir Frederick Lugard, whom we shall be welcoming on his return to the Colony to- morrow, is credited in an English periodics) with the story of a fury old, colonel's visit to a village barber. The ofloor pounced into the shop, placed his sword beside a chair, and said, "Skaro me, sir, and beware; if you out me I willout your hand off." This threat was foo much for tho man in chargo, and he called-an's- sistant, telling him to shave the gentleman, sad informing him of what to expect should the razor not not properly. The boy promptly got to business, and when the operation had been
A police team journeyed to Taikoo on Friday to satisfactorily performed the colonel inquired, "Weren't you frightened at all" The boy try conclusions with a molested team of the eplied in the negatire, and, asked his reason, Taikoo Bowling Club for silver spoons presented esponded. Woll, it's like this, sir. If I by that Club. The result was a win for the
Capt. Addison Corp. Ouman Corp, Campzon. Corp. Taverner
BOWLS.
POLICE #. TAIKOO,
DON'T WORRY.
OPTIMISM THE SECRET OF LONGEVITY.
"Sour milk is of no use if you sherish sour thoughts. Late in activity, but passivity is death itself," was the burden, of an address given last month by Dr. Stenson Hocker, at Brompton-road, Tonies, to the members of the
classes to foreigners FLX barbarians without Kate. Against this background of a stag. nant civilisation stands forth a vital, arresting, commanding woman whose word-wax law in Chins for half a ventury, and whore memory, in spite of her faults and sins, is still cherished by the people over whom she ruled.
Withings in no mood for argument.ket for indiacueber, supplies of raw material
013
daty.
From their distant retreat in Hsinnfu the
Order of the Golden Age, s society which oxists Tasi Yuan conspirand enunter-plots. Dee in snoh tragio sirenstencca.
DX
in the
to
for furthering the progress of fiamananoss audith the ruler of Chics. The the head of affairs until her death in 1908. and into Belgium 5,260, tone, »a against 4,6:0
Aloe
By
the promotion of a diototic life.
He maintained that the question of the avoid. of premature death could be accomplished by the observanso of a regular diet of two meals with an interval of sovsa hours between soli All excean, whother in werk or in pleasure, he said, should be avoided, and a spirit of optimism should be cultivated. He had observed, he said, from a long medical practice that the headaches of child. hood or bad eyesight, both signs of waskly constitution, could be overcome by a proper training, while the old where vos doors in business should not have their lives
shortened med by a single day if they met worry in the proper spirit. Dieting was
enough for with it must sincere and persistent thought on a bigh plans. Quoting Buddha to the effort that we are made of thought, a proposition which had been peraphmsed by every philosopher since his day, Dr. Hocker said that while he was not prepared to go all the way with these who main tained that
ght be cured by organis evils might thought, he was convinced that very many bodily maladies might be overcome by it. He orged on his bearers the necessity of keeping in touch with nature in a reseptive mood so that from it might be absorbed the rasgnetic radia. tions of the earth,
ΠΟΥ
THE SILVER MARKET.
The following extracts are taken from Mosars. Samuel Kontagu & Co.'s circular
of the 6th inst.:~
The month of September witnessed some
Tu Hai sprang from one of the ohtest Manshu clans and was born in November, 1835. In 1850 the girl was chosen by tho young Emperor's mother se ona of his con- cubines.
She soon became first favourite
INCREASING SUPPLIES. of her work and dissoluta lord, and April,
The imports of indiarubber into the Tuited 1856, presented him with au heir to the throne. Her force of character immediately fugitives retired in 1992 to the desecrated Kingdom amounted during July and August to impression Royal palace. ospital Moanwailo to appen the Powers the 5,460 ous, as against 4,763 tons last year, and
from shored a keen interest he has puno, Ale Boxer fendera had beau punished, having beou during the oight months Janaury speedily a dominating factor in the Court, given the alternative of execution or suicide, August to 31.580 tons, as compared with 22,560 Her coolness and intropility checkmated the Some of them died with that calm dignity and to, on juures of 1,700 tons and 9,020 tons,
which ht raud after a series
duries are characteristic of the Chi-respectively. The imports into France du Compare
the eight months were 11.840 tons, an against The indomitable old continued at 10,220 tons in 1909, aut iueroase of 2,620 tonn TED emerged as Emporer having died, her son, a lack of 6. Taught by the bitter and tragic experiences tous, an increase of 650 tons. The imparts into
to the throne, gucceeded
arone, and Tzu Hai, as the of recent years she realised that the time hind Germany during the same period aggrerstel infant's mother, became Regent.
With the collapse of the Tai Yusa conspiracy abs took up the same of reform, which she had ingrosso of 2 810 tous,
come for grout changes in China. Accordingly 12.500 tons, as compared with 9,690 tons, an (1861) the Express Dowager became de facto. ruler of the Empire. The frat Regency (1861-a din po nitely abandoned the principle Septemb-r 30 stasant to 28.63€ toas, as against mes be described as Tau Hai's tentativo issued in 1901 definitely 27,640 tons last year and 28:230 tons in 1908; period of rale, in which the fasted the sweets, centuries, the couer store of Chiscao, politics, of absolute antoorney which had been for while avoiding the
appearance of power."""" After a brief intorrol came her second regener A few years later cause a decree promising con- (1875-1389), and then finally the period 1898 stitutional government, and this force old 1906, during which the Empress Dowager body might live to witness the convening of the first autocrat actually expressed the hope that she usurped the imperial prerogative during th ifetime of the Soversign.
Chiness Parliament. Truig a marvellous career and a strong personality. Both are presented to us in this volume with graphic power. (including Chitcho) is estimated at 4,700 tons, London Daily Chronicle,
The receipts at Para from Júnuary. 1 to
and during the remaining three months of the roar the resuipts are exquoted to be fully equal to those of last year.
The stocks in Liverpsol of Pars and Caucho
rubber on fire 1st ist, were estimated at 1,740 tons, as against 340 tons a year ago and 200 tons in 1908, and the total visible supply of Para
1908, red with 2,440 in 1909 and 3,270 iu
TYRANNICAL BUNUCHÈ......} Womanlike Tan Hai had her favourites. Those were generally enanobs, who, safe under hor protection, exercised a tyrannical influence in the palace, and amassed vast wealth by bribery BIG LOSS BY A FOREIGN FIRM AT United States have been starved of rubber and appropriation of public funds.
SHANGHAI,
It must not, however, is supposed that, tha
daring the current year. No official details are Available of the quantity shipped to that country The inuer history of the Celestial Empir and the Manen dynasty in the lat
from England, but it has takon during the At the Mixed Court, Shanghai, on the 24th sight months 1,420 tous from Germany, os seventy years is inextricably bound up
700 tona Just
Four: 3,040 with that of the palace sunuchs and their inst., Mir. Teb. Assistant Magistrato, and Mr. W. against far-reaching intrigues.
Of those R. Brown, British Assessor, luvestigated a case from France, as against 1,150 tons, and the last, who has survived her, Li Lion ying, in which Messrs. Ilbert & Co., the com- 1,080 tons from Belgium. as against is known by the nickname of Cobbler's plainants, have been robbed of 100 odd hales of tons: while the direct shipments of rubber
other
отег
and
family dared evor aspire. The blackost stain on the character of the
defaulter. Ho
fo
- tone
750
It
hud out you at all, I should have had fret policemen-by-15 points, the score at the nighted appearance. Tizin ohзure was owing to tha and bia young wife. Jealong of power, sheened to opo bad guaranteed the in 1912 at over 5,000 at 4,000 tons, and
obnace. I should have finished you off for being. safety."
29
Polico Taikoo
..
BOXING.
The #ght between Bill Lewis and Petty
urvasis in that of ostbful Emperor to plunge into dissipa
to
the
January,
of his BOD.
Taking existing
tons.
PROSPECTS.
and prospective supplies into
assume that no permanent and important re
wax Ld," from one end of the Empire to the solton yarn of the value of about $28.000. A from Brazil to the United States during the as the chief squeezer and arch villain of for weeks ago a shroff named Chu Lingor, list half of the year reached 7.790 tous
His influence employed by the complainants, suddenly ab cannot be doubted that palace tragedy. mone Imperial mistress was indeed remark-conded, and it was subsequently learned that commodity will go on increasing of this useful The Brazilian abis. On all occasions, exospt Stats audiences, the bales were missing from the godown where Government and its production to be one of she was wont to treat him with affectionate thay had been stored and abetting to the output in every way in its power; large now A coolie was arrested the host sources of revenue, and is encouraging familiarity, and to allow him a ser-gene to and charged with which no courtier or any member of her own i shroff to abscond, od in custody to have been discovered in the territory of the the Jatter to be a virgin forests of rubber trees are reported to
recovery in the price of silver on the whole,
finet, it possible, the shroff's arrest. The Amazon, and a portion of them is already being the market showed a lous artificial and restrain: Empress Dowager is her treatment of her son police have been anne se fal in looting the
exploited. The ontpat of plantation kinds is also growing apsce a computation recently following reasons: Business in the Indise was determined not to Fiold the ruins of
before the Court The published estimated the output of 17 leading govern
was also
on remood, and the Eastern bazaars entered upon su active phase, of which ment even to her son, and she dreaded the birth was
dern companies next Who the splendid condition
heir to him. The heartless mother encour broff, was also in attendance. of the
tupradore, country had already given promiss. The result
The father of the shroff stated that when his en to it being beyond the risk of failure {tion. Led by the eunuchs to hamute of vico, ho sou absconded be laft behind a number of rubber consideration, it does not seem agreasonable to Down in Manila I understand the Scottish
of the rainfall
the only danger, and that s mixed up in roan
rosnys drunken brawl, undermined reel rehearsals for the event have already began,
lay in the chance of the negligible ons, lay
supply bis constitution, and in
1875, died, or shares and the title deeds for a piece of land at and it is reported that this year's dance will offer Petty will be brought off at the City proving to supione, China, also, was a free in Chinese court parishes" ascended the Drag Jessfrid. These hul been handed over to the pavery from the present basis of values is now to Witness did not know the be expected; but that, on the contrary, prices wherebouts greally surpass those of previous years. I hear Hall on Saturday night, as well as a number of Mer at the low prices quoted at the beginning of on and was wafted on high," · Hia widow, the complainanta
month, and confluuod to give s
are more likely to continue to s ek a lower level to give support virtuous Al-u-te, was with child, but the Dows that the Hongkong St. Andrew's Society have preliminarios. Mr. Whittaker has arranged market until the price nes
Dested 25d, when there
Егартем ager
promptly nominated the
The compradore also denied knowledge ofte where they were, say, in 1908, Any вад of The Market during Prince Chan as securel e piper for the ball, and if it bo so the what should prove. an exceedingly interesting was some profit-tting. A with a strong her daughter-in-law; Ass protest against this give security to appear before the Conrt two that the present prise of 61. or below is due to heir to the throne, ignoring where the shroff was, and he was ordered to speculative ventures, based on the assumption current wook hat now will be appreciated by those who keprogramme, and no doubt it will attract & large undertone, both Infint for the relzetence of † the claimg of his posthumous heir the Emprava on security, while the coolio was again remanded American Combination—as in so persistently
been seading -
nd
orders wrong to the memory of her dead hinabaud, and weeks henes. The shroff's father was released artificial depression on the part of an Anglo- and were it
asserted do not seem likely to be promising in enstody.. to unload mach of their Al-u-to committed suicide. were group to unlo
propositions they have the
healthy.
THE RECENT GODOWN FIRE AT been invested in shares of rubber-producing In consequences of the vast sums which bare Nearly a million sterling wa
Space will not permit of dealing with shipped to Bombay
SHANGHAI
companies, orouts in the market for the raw in Septembor, of which over half has not yet the promising beginning of the Reform more- ment of 1898, the endden blighting of the
materal are of much grester public interest than arrived;
spite of this, there is still a
formerly, promion on the price of forward allwer on this Dowager by the resetionary party. Let us reformers' hopes and the capture of the Empress
Shere quotations have usturally responded I to the decline in the price of the com aide. As the Bombay stock is giren to-day as
modity, bat proportionately the depreciation bas about 16,000 bars, exclusive of what is on the pass to the Boxer rising and the attack on the
bean less severe in the case of The cause of the fire in the Sino-Belgian established concerns, it being pointed
shores of the water, it is obvious that there is plenty of cash gations in Peking in 1900. This Boxer
chief rising Ind its
that silvor on both sides.
ext in anti-foreign Bank's godown on Friday morning is still motive feeling. So long as it promised success the unknown, "spontaneous combustion" being the
of the principal plantation companies Empress Dowager amiled upon the movement, latest official explanation. The insurance on thing like le. 6d. per lb., even a lower level of
are to
produce rabber at a
at a cost of some Masara. Hocaits & Goliamid's circular and ostentatiously patronised its leaders. The the godown as far ascertainably amounts to saya :-
failure of the attack on the Legations in 1900 was due to the wisdom of some of her advisers, restrain the Bozer fans do all they could to
fanaticism and bamper Borer leaders, polisy of the
Bome extracts are
given
"proper music" for the reels.
Eren under a democratic form of govern-
the ou
bay
heldulative
number of sportsmen to the Theatre Royal.
to bur Lewis appears at the V.R.C. to-night to give | the; training exhibition. He will box a number of
mext there seems to be the same tendency at in rounds with his principal trainer, Capham, and go, the tendency would to die man to do
others for government officials to put on side, The Philippines have resolved to grapple with this problem, and it is reported that a bill is being introduced into the Legislature to ensure a "square deal" to all persons having need to transact business in inelar, provinsial
municipal ofloss.
ON
The bili is dir.
will then go through the course of training which has qualified him to win so many big Byhts. The display will be well worth seeing.
- JELLYFISH MORALITY.
BISHOP OF CARLISLE'S STOUT DEFENCE OF MARRIAGE VOW.
bat, in
The Silver market during the past week has continued to show a firm undertone, and with slight duetastions the price, which was 243d. on the date of our last cireular, bas advanced
to
THE BOXER EINING.
The Bishop of Carlisle spoke with no uncertain tinctly a novel one It provides that sil votos on the serious problems raised by the government officials and empleyes shall talk in Diverso Commission at the Carlisle Diocesan a respectful manner to those who-call at their Conference. The habit of calling black things offices to transact business; that they shall not by white names and wicked things by soft sobri-
quete ia
for much responsible
of the jelly.fish be looked at "in a harsh tone of rolos" nor morality of the present day, he said. All man- 25d, which we quote to-day. The shipment treated with coldness and disdain; they shall ser of confusion, fills the air regarding the this week to Bombay is very small, but there the not be kept waiting, but their wants shall marriage question, but in the midst of it all one has been a good deal of Lucian bear covering, writab during the siege of the Legations. be attended to with promptases and dis- truth saines forth clear. No real Christian and China has been a good buyer for forward. It is a human document of unique interest,
is the most sacred delivery.
and Bich It is the
a doubt that marriage bonds.
to their wants immediately they skall ha politely only more foundation naked to ***ke a seat.”
The
THE INSURANCE,
about three-quarters of saillion teele and is prices than is now ruling would still lears a distributed as follows:-
L'Urbain ... Phoenix National Union Patriotic
Insperial
Taels.
80,000
82,000
this
the
book from
70,000
30.000
Sun
63,000
Now
of batred of the
Union
Zealand Commercial Union
25,000
15,000
45,000
30,000
Batavia
30,000
A
Messrs. Ballard & Hunter King, Son & Ramsay
51,000
patol. When it shall not be possible to attend | wwa lose of all a family life, and our in very dight decrease în the tank of rapsas | nsent;"
In another paragraph | boundon duty therefore is to set forth thes who were expecting the Thar GovernIncidentally. "the old Buddha," 23 th 24th}
to
an inside view of the Boxer more-
appears to have been
move in spite of the excellent ment strangely compounded CurreLOY, TESSTVO,
forsign in India, must be a disappointment
devils, of patriotism, and thone the introducer of the bill has the foresight to wickedness of undermining it.
Whatever else may be said about marriage, mant to buy silver before the end of the year, Dowager was popularly known, is revealed provide that every government offlow shall be
it is at least a vow deliberately and solamnly as that support to the market now looks more very unlovely light-vindictive, caliona, and supplied with the number of chairs sufficient mado, rule in the house of God, sad s remote; but the up country demand is expected capricious, and overflowing with hate of the for for the needs of the public. Officials or sm-breach of that vow therefore is a treacherous shartly to increase, and, with the probablity of eignars, and wager, if she dared, to violate those ployees who shall fail to preserve this conduct dishonour,piew of perjury, a profane and an Chihs continuing to buy silver against their abominable falsehood, and everyone who commits exports, we see no reason to expect any set back in their offices shall be dismissed from the service. that branch should be treated with all the con at present, and there might even be a farther. G. P. Bland and J. Backhouse. London
• Ohaus under the Empress Dowager, by Roderice Bandol, tamely, contempt, scorn, and ostracism dus to slight advance,
wanton dishonour.
Homemana.
Total......
50,000
579,000
On the rear part of the gedown, which was fortunately not very much damaged except by
water, there is Chinese insurance to the extent of about Th:300,000 Shanghai Times.
comfortable margin of profit, and that as meet of the companies making returns show increasing outputs, the effect of the fall in price may be partly counterseted by the larger production.
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS,
The P. M. steamship Korea, which sailed from this port on the 1st inst, arrived at San Francisco on the 28th inst.
The C. & M. str. Eubi left Manila on the 28th inst., and is due here to-day at daylight.
The LG.M. str. Yorck left Shanghai on the 29th inst, at 5
st 5 pm, and may be expected here te-morrow at 7 s.m.
The North German Lloyd's str. Prins Walds- mar lett Kutchinatsu on the 30th instant, and may be expected here on or about the 3rd proz,, at daylight.
The str. Capri left Singapore for this port on the 29th instant am, and may be expected here on or about the 5th prox.
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