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TO ENGLAND, BY THE SOUTH AMERICAN ROUTE.

HY THE REV. F. T. JOHNSON, The following letter from Rev. F. T. Johnson, former Chaplain of St. John's Cathedral, to his friends in Hongkong gives an interesting account of a trip home by the South American route:-

-I left Hongkong on May 7th and after spending five weeks or so in Japan sailed for Yoke him in and, we arrived in Honolulu early on July 5th and left late in the evening of the following" day, no we had two full days in which to look about us. You have probably been in Honolulu, so it is not necessary to tell you nurthing about the place. What impressed be nest was the surf riding by the patives at Waikiki Beach. Our first port

from Yokohama in the steamer Hongkong`

of call on the American continent was Manzanillo in Mexico, where we arrived en July 18th nad stayed thirty hours. The tv is only a collection of shacks on a semall strip of land between the sen and an evil-smelling lagoon, and its sole in treest lies in the fact that it is one of the very few places on the West coast of

THE HONGKONG DAILY - PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 81ør, 1918.

Most of the big towns have English SUICIDE OF MR. E. J. CALDRECK. | mails were being sent round, I should

have been sorely tempted to try my luck Clubs, and if travellera do not know any- one in the place the British Consul will

The mystery of the disappearance of had it not been for a heavy fall of snow which took place a day or two before my always put their name up for temporary Mr. Eaton John Caldbeck, a City wiffe arrival in Valparaiso and which did fur- membership. I found people most kind merchant, whose body was washed up 201 ther damage to the railway and cost in the respect. several lives. This decided me to round by the Straits of Magellan, and hen on August 27th I joined the str. hari, belonging to the Pacific Steam Navigation Co.. I found that several of my fellow passengers had actually started for Buenos Aires a fortnight or three weeks earlier, but had been unable to get through and had to return after spending several days at Los Andes.

a big and is like Valparaiso is quite there is little level ground between the hills and the sea. It has quite a number of lifte worked on the same principle as the Peak Tramway. levels.

THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION AT

SHANGHAI,

RESULT OF THE POLLING.

Pulling took place on Friday for the

E. I. Ezra ... H. Figge

H. C. Gulland W. L. Merriman

A. Hide

E. E. Clark

A. S. P. White-Cooper A. R. Owen

370

B31.

616

514

300

4777

40%

361

313

With regard to money, it is easy to the marshes at Lydd during the gate of election of Municipal Councillors. The reckon the cost of tickets before starting. and an ample margin should be brought 7th December, was solved at the inquest, result was declared about eight o'clock as

The jury E. C. Pearce...... for contingencies which are certain to when a verdict of suicide while of unfollows: occur, and everything is expensive. The sound mind was returned. English sovereign is legal tender in some added that there was not sufficient evid- countries, and needless to say is gladly takon anywhere. With regard to books, ence to show how he got into the sea, and only read those which buppened to come tives. Mr. Caldbeck, who was in affluont it is difficult to give any advice, as I have expressed their sympathy with the rela

but I believe that the Ton Recircumstances, publics," by Robert Potter, and the books circumstances, was a member of the firm of on each of the Republics in the Progress merchants, of Rangeon-street, London, of the Nations Series give reliable in E.C. formation. The two on Peru and Chile by Mr. Sackville Waring Caldbeck, of St. by which access is given to the higher Reginald Enoch, are the only two that George's-court, South Kensington, a wine H. Barham, H. Hanbury, H. F. Lawson, went for a few days to Santiaga, where Benail" and "The Old and New Per, in China and Singapore on and off for The number of votes cast for these gentlo- ! Mr. J. L. Blanch, brother of Mr. N. F. by Marie Robinson Wright, Argentina,

latach, if Messrs T. Cook & Son, showed by W. W. H. Koebel, Trade and Travel in South America," by Frederick me much kindness.

This city is situated in a plain between Alcock, Along the Andes and down the Amazon," by H. J. Mozans, and "A the cost range and a spur of the Andes. Woman's Winter in South America," by and the view of the snow-covered moun- Lzins to the East is simply magnificent. These mountains, some of which are as high as 15.000 feet, are visible from all points, but the best view is to be had from a small hill. in the middle of the city. Santa Lucia by name.

Charlotte Caшегол

Spanish is the language spoken in all the States, savo Brazil, where Portuguese is spoken, and my experience is that even little study of a Spanish phrase book and a bowing acquaintance with a limited number of Spanish words will prove most useful, though English will serve in most

There were fourteen candidates, the five unsuccessful ones being Messrs. W.

Seven of the elected candidates were

10 years. While in Hongkong he was me was not announced by the scrutinners. attacked by a bulldog, and had suffered ever since, and was never free from pain members of the old Council. The new He members are Mr. Merriman and Mr. A. His general health was not good. suffered from gout in his eyes, which was S. P. White-Corper, who fill vacancies aggravated by his use of a motor boat and errated by the retirement of Mr. H. de the effect of the salt water when travelling Gray and Mr. W. R. Burkill. fast, as he liked to do. He underwent an operation to his eyes two years ago, and suffered agonising pain. It was feared that he would lose his sight, as it had gone rather worse of late. He saw his brother nt the beginning of Decen-

As there appears to be some doubt in complained of pains in the head and the public mind in regard to the new dizziness, and one of the clerks had been in the habit of walking with him from his commemoration stamps, Reuter's Agency City office to Mark-lane Station for foar is requested to state that the appended he should become dizzy and fall on the list gives the exact details of the issue. way.

After his brother disappeared the

Mexico where the railway comes down to seemed very fertile, nud, thanks to the places, especially in Chile and Argentine. bor, when he was very depressed.

the wo

Salina Cruz, where we arrived

The country on the way up, save where we were going through the mountains,

1 aroma bush, the same, I think, as the Aus tralian wattle, salmon-coloured poppies and a kind of red lily locked very pretty. As I said before. the Gravia left

For the next few days wo had an unex pectedly good passage, in spite of a fire aların one evening about 9 p.m., which, though the fire proved not to be serious, showed how easy it would be to start a

on the 21st and left the next day, a few hundred miles further south, is much Valparaiso on August 27th, and the next more imposing, and here the Mexican Gov-day we stopped for coaling purposes at erament has evidently spent a consider-Lola (Coronel), the port of Concepcion, able amount of money in making wharvos and docks. The heat, however, was ap- palling and quite prevented me from going about much, though some of my fellow passengers went up by rail to Tehuanteper and spent the night there. So far we had not more than a dozen first class passengers, only four being Europeans, but at Balina Cruz we took un some twenty or thirty, as at present the T.K.K, offers the best and quickest west count route between the States and Mexico in the North and Peru and Chile in the South. Other lines stop at many ports in Central and South America o the way while the T.K.K, gees straight to Callao.

We arrived at Calino on July 31st and For remained there until August 6th. the first two days I went up to Lima and stayed at the Gran Maury Hotel, poor accommodation at £1 per aliens, but the

butter on I returned best to be had; but to the ship, as Callao is only nine miles from, Lima and there is an excellent tram service between the two towns. Limu is interesting froin an historical point of view, having been founded in 1332 by Pizarro, whose mummy is to be seen in glass case in the Cathedral. It is said to be the most conservative city in South America at the present day. The streets are narrow and one can still see old houses with beautifully carved wooden balconies, evidently relics of the days when Lima was the seat of a Spanish Viceroy. The presidential election was just coming on when I was there, and one afternoon 1 was the (unwilling) witness

panic, but on Saturday, 31st, we had a resendously heavy son. I do not think I have ever seen bigger waves, and as the weather was misty we thought we should not be able to make the Straits, but woul have to lay too until the weather cleared. Luckily an improvement took place just in time and we were able to get in, though, as our skipper preferred to go through the narrowest part in daylight, we had Next morning the scenery was to anchor for the greater part of that night

hills snow-covered magnificent. glaciers on all sides, and as we had ice and snow on the decks it is needless to say that it was bitterly cold. Early in the afternoon we reached Punta Arena, the most Southerly town in the worll. There are a few whaling settlements far ther south, and I got ashore for a short lile, but was glad to get back to the pleasing warmth of the ship's smoking

r..out.

On Tuesday, September 3rd, we touched at the Falkland Islands for an hour or two, but there was no time to go ashore, Port Stanley, the capital, seemed a fair. sized town and it was a pleasure to know that we were looking at British territory for the first time since leaving Hongkong. but the place is bleak, tresless and windswept: no place for a summer holi- day,

On Saturday, September 7th, thefirario arrived at Montevideo, and I went up to Buenos Aires by the night boat, which is not unlike a very large Kilan. stayed at the Phoenix Hotel, a comfortable in its charges, My first day'a lodging hotel and moderate, for Buenos Aires, only cast 35/-, while at the Plaza Hotel, which is owned by the Ritz, I should prob ably have had to pay considerably more later, however, I was able to get cheaper quarters.

I had heard a lot about B.A., as the after a day or two I felt that the half

THE EYRE DIOCESAN REFUGE.

ANNUAL MEETING.

The annual meeting of supporters of the Eyro Diocesan Refuge was held at the institution yesterday, a large number of ladies interested in the work being pre- sent. The Bishop of Victoria (Dr. Lander) presided, and H.E. the Governor, and Lady May were among those pre- sent,

of An encounter between the supporter City is known to all good. Argentines, but watter of the prevention of malaria.

of one candidate ami the police.

Re-

volvers were used freely and over twenty people were injured What impressed me most was the rapidity with which nun combatants songht s'elter up staircase and down neighbouring streets as soon as the ring began.

It's

had not been told me. The town spread out for wifes in every direction. docks are of vast extent, its park especially at Palermo, are well laid out. The Avenido di Mayo must be oro of the finesh streets in the world and certainly, if, as one is told, money is easily earned it is equally freely spent.

He

following letter to the witness was found

in a drawer at the office :---

1. Rangoon-street. The mental strain I have gone through for me time past has quite unnerved me. I am fighting harit I fear I am going mad. against it, God knows. If I don't wired, forgive me for my rash action.

Mr. Caldbeck added that his brother had an hallucination latterly that he was rather badly off, which was not the case. He had considerable menas, and had no in hiu financial difficulties whatever business. Sixteen years ago he had sun- stroke in Japan.

The evidence of Dr. Oliver went to show that the body had been in the water from sight to ten days. The neck was frac

tured, but he (Dr. Oliver) could not say if this were caused after death. It might have been caused by the propeller or some other part of a boat when attempting to leave it.

On the clothing was found a portion of a single ticket from London for Dieppe, rie Newhaven. It bore no date,

DEATH OF A NEPHEW OF SIR PAUL CHATER.

We take the following from the yoon "Gazette of the 17th inst. :-

CHINA'S COMMEMORATION

STAMPS.

It may be added that there will be no

further issue. They are the first govern ment stamps ever printed in China and they are of exceedingly high quality. The stanips were printed at the Chinese Government Engraving Bureau.

Denomin

3

Revalu

tion:

Republic

Vniue

cents. 300,000 300,000 300.000 200,000

11,000

£2,000

2,000,000 2,000,00

120,000

300,000 300,000

30,000

8

250,000 250,000

40,000

10 16

20

300,000 300,000 -100,000 150,000

90,000

82,000 100,000 150,000

60,000

50,000 50,000.

50,000

1

dollars. 50,000

2

50,000 100.000 50,000 50,000 200,000 50,000 50,000 500.000

3,900,000 3,000,000 $1,210,000

THE P. &O. NARRUNG.

The P. & O. Narram, which was so badly buffected off Ushant last month, originally belonged to the Blue Anchor

directing

INTIMATION.

OVERWORK,

FATIGUE,

EXPOSURE.

The Food Question

All disappear or are alleviated by the gentle stimulus of a glass of PEMRTIN'S CLUB SHERRY. The delicious aroma, together with its inviting comfort, drives away weariness and cheers on to further

efforts.

SOLE AGENTS.

H. RUTTONJEE

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Wine and Spirit Merchants.

131

Chs. J. Gaupp

& Co.,

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CHATER ROAD.

JEWELLERS AND OPTICIANS

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JEWELLERY

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ENGLISH MOUNTED CHINESE JADE

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MAPPIN & WEBB'S

P.S.-III disappear my grave will he the The annual report and balance-sheet,, and all funeral rites and expenses will

be saved.ack. presented by Miss Pitt, showed that the receipts for the year had amounted to $10,610,20, about one-half being derived A balance of $185 remained in hand at the end of the from laundry work. year. The report stated that there had beer-occasions when the conduct of the girls had given great trouble and caused much anxiety, but on the whole it had been good. Eleven of the girls were mar ried, the refuge having well maintained its reputation for providing industrious, well-conducted wives. The health of the inmates had given great anxiety, the number of cases of malaria having been appalling. Dr. Sibree had reported that almost every inmate had suffered from it. " There were 37 cases in October, 45 in

Line of Messrs. W. Land & Sons, which CHRONOMETER-MAKERS, was later acquired by the P & 0.

WATCHMAKERS. November, and 23 in December. They were glad to hear that the Government was now considering the removal of the

Company. The Waratah sho belonged to the fleet, and we note in the latest causes of fever, and trusted that action The report ended

papers to hand that Mr. J. P. Farrell, would soon be taken.

News reached Rangoon yesterday from M.P., had given notice of his intention to with a warm and grateful eulogy of the work accomplished by the founder of the Calcutta of the death from pneumonia at ask the President of the Board of Trade institution. Mis Eyre, and said that her the age of 66, of Mr. John Chater Jordan, the following question:Whether he is. ΟΠ A brief aware that, on her last voyage from death in September was unspeakable barrister-at-law, who was

Dr. Ace Stere (the Hon. Medical Off holiday in that city. Br. Jordan, who Australia the errunga (sic), which no was the nephew of Sir Paul Chater, the narrowly escaped destruction last week, leath cer of the institution), emphasised the well-known Hongkong resident, was in during one of the storms in the Indian necessity of having an isolation room, as the eighties superintendent to the office Ocean, fell over to an angle of 54 degrees, when a suspicious case came in bey did of the district magistrate, Rangoon. He and was for a time in such danger that not know where to put it. She also ap-

and he came out here as barrister in the boats to be lowered, to save the pas pealed to the Government to assist in the went home in 1889 to study for the Bar the officers were on the point

The Rishor said he always thought that 1893 and practised in the local courts ever ugers and crew; whether she is sister institution the most interesting of the sites. He was Municipal prosecutor for ship to the Warutch, which it is believed een organisations, and the workers a considerable number of years and also capsized off the African coast wing to a great opportunity for those girls, who was much respected by his brother lawrers the circumstances, whether his Depart- be continued on the list of passenger boats in that building believed that there was conducted ail excise prosecutions. He top-heaviness and bad building; and, in come from the lowest of Chinesa society, and the general public. He leaves a wifent proposes to allow such a vessel to The work that was being done among the and large family to mourn his loss.

Mr. A. Agabeg in referring to the death on so long a voyage.”’ girls reached far and wide, and many who came there were wonderfully influenced. of Mr. Jordan before the Chief Judge,

SKYSCRAPER'S RECORD.. On Friday, September 13th. I started Many had got married, and the instity said that the sar had heard the news with tion received suplications for more wives deep regret. He was sure that his Honour During our stay at Callao two of my

on the last stage of my journey home in

than it was able to supply. One man would hear the news with equal regret.

1.100,000 SQUARE FEET OF FLOOR AREA, fellow passengers went up the Oroya Rail.

wrote rather quaintly from. Singapore to Mr. Jordat was a respected member of was, which crosses the Andes at a height the steamer Aragon of the Royal Mail

He was popular and was a say that be bad had a wife from the in the Bar. of 15,565 feet and claims to be the highest Sanship Co, which called at Monte

A gigantic skyscraper, to be completed railway in the world, hut as

St. Pernambuco, Vincent. Madeira. he would be much obliged if they would gentleman. He was a very large-hearted

rival, as regards six, all other office Lishon, Dixcoes (Oporto), Vigo, Cher

please send anther. (Laughter.) It was man and was very much liked and in New York by January, 1915, will out- sururke or mountain sickness, did not

respected. a little alarming-but he added that he

The Chief Judge said he had heard with buildings in the world. The New Equit go; they told me that as an engineering bourg and arrived at Southampton on

much regret of the news from Mr. Agabegable building-which is to occupy the site work the railway was most interesting, October 5th. At most of these places it but the scenery was nothing very wonder- was impossible to go ashore, but I'mati did not want the wife himself, but for a

friend.

H.E. SIR HENRY MAY, in formally of the death of Mr. Jordan, who was one of the cld building, which was burnt ful, mostly bare rock on which very littlenged to do so at Santos, the great coffee Etow could be. On our way down the part of Brazil, Bio, Madeira and Lisbon. moving the adoption of the report, said of his Honour's oldest friends, coast after leaving Callao we touched at The proper thing to do a Riu is to gy that he was in the Colony when the in- Honour quite agreed with all that bad down last January--will not be as tall

up the Corcovado Sugar Loaf Mountain, Pisco in Peru and at Areca, made famous in the war between Peru and Chile just but for this there was no time, and I had stitution was first opened, and he would been said by Counsel.

motor drive like to remind them that it was given by over thirty years ago, and Iquique in Chile. There was very little of interest to content myself with a

As for its harbour, its beauties the Colony, the late Mr. 6. R. Belilios. The Government gave the land-the more to see at any of these ports, the country along the superlatively fine Avenida del a former resident and grent benefactor in round each of them, like all this west

cannot be easily exaggerated, and even Foust south of Guayaquil, is absolutely Sydney (tell it not in Australia) must, in valuable portion generally fell to the lot bare except where soine system of irriga

my opinion, yield pride of place to Rin of the Government-Mr. Belilios gave the

Judgment has just been delivered in the in this respect, the towering hills over building, and he designed it for a Re- tion has been adopteri,

formatory for Chinese boys, desiring that the latter city create an imposing effect they should have an industrial education High Courts of Justice of France in the for infringement brought by which is not given by the well-wooded there. His Excellency then referred to

the uses to which the building has been action Madeira and Lisbon are too near home

put since its erection, and said that it Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company slopes of the harbour at Sydner. to need description, but for exciting ex-

the chief as at the suggestion of Early Lagard against La Société Francaise Radio that it was eventually handed over to the electrique, La Companie General Radia- Periences commend ne amusement, where visitors are expected to go up the hill by railway and cerne down institution which now occupied it. A

They

ports Maritimes á Vapeur. The case was by road in a wicker basket fixed on well assured his hearers that the Government télégraphique, and La Société de Trans- on by ropes behind. greased runners with two man holding would do all it could for them.

People living in thought that they had destroyed the

The late Mr. Whitelaw Reid's news- Dréfus and Clément. The judgment was His Exellency next

papers were responsible for a good tobogganing on the Peak Road, where the was still so rife there must be something the Court, Judge Bonjean, and the Judges corners are not more sharp nor is the more to be done,

referred to the Chairman's remarks in unanimous, and its delivery occupied 2 road more steep than at Madeira.

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan regard to the satisfaction the girls who hours and 12 minutos. It covers 137-type-

the former is reticent, as voluble as had been married had given, and said his written pages, and constitutes a record Christinas morning story, which is printed experience was not so fortunate. One of for length in the French Courts. In then the front page under a double column in his usual declared to his men complained to him some years result the Court declares the validity of headline.

tactful fashion. ago that the wife he had procured him all the claims of the Marconi patent. All visited his dentist and the latter, who is "One of the worst cases of destitution had a very bad temper, and asked him asked if he might use his stick, and he accounts has been ordered, to arrive at told him that whenever a man wanted the amount to be paid as damages to know," he said, "is that of my wife's

The Court washer-woman. the Marconi Company.

How is that?" asked the famous to take a step which he thought was would receive Banction from the author-

defendant Companies, and a perpetual niceessary and he was not sure that it further orders the confiscation of all ties, the best thing he could do was to take infringing appuratus supplied by the banker. action and ask for sanction afterwards. injunction; the defendants to pay the This judgment is of the highest import (Laughter.)

Dr. SIBREE seconded the adoption of costs.

ance, and will have far-reaching effects, The following were elected to compose the the report, which was agreed to. Committee for 1913:Mesdames Alaba for the defendant companies have sup- ster, Bell Bowley, Barnett, Churchill, plied all the wireless installations to all. ment including the Post Office, the Hailifax, Harston, Irwin. Kemp, Lander, the departments of the French Govern- Pattenden, Pollock, and Schultze.

Thanks to H.E. Sir Henry and Lady Colonies, the Marine, and the Army,

was not

very well at, to time and rather dreaded / Video, Santo, Rio de Janeiro, Bahía. Atitution and she was so successful that

Mar.

His

MARCONI PATENT VICTORY IN FRANCE.

as the Woolworth, Singer, or Metropolitan towers, but its office flour area of 1,100,000 square feet, says the London Telegraph's correspondent, will be greater than that of any two skyscrapers put together.

According to plans filed with the Build

81637 Equitable ing Department, the building will have thirty-seven stories in the shape of a huge H, and will be about The cost of the ground is soft. high. £2.800,000. said to be £2,7000,000, and of the building There will be forty-four passenger and can fright lifts.

I wished I had time to go ap to the old Inen country round lake Titicaca, Cuse amul La Paz, but this was impossible.

I would strongly advise anyone who thought of making this American tour to allow at least an extra fortnight for such He should not take his an excursion, ticket further than Callao, as on arrival thero he could decide how to go on. trip up the country from Mollendo into Bolivia and coming down the coast again by the Antofogasta Railway would be well Hongkong might easily try this form of cause of the malarial trouble, but if it heard by three judges:-The President of HOW. MR. PIERPONT MORGAN'S HEART WAS

passengers comfortable.

tu

He

the defendants

are

bo

A FEAT OF ABSTRACTION.

TOUCHED.

worth doing.

On arrival at Valparaison August 16th 1 said good-bye to the Hongkong Mara. She is quite a good vessel; the

On the whole, despite the fact that I cabins are excellent and the food fair. but I fancy she is a good deal better than did not get across the Andes, I consider that my trip home via South America was a decided success, but were I to tak the other two vessels ca the American run,

the trip again I should prefer to arrive Her officers, especially the Captain. Mr. 1. Sagara, and the Chief Officer, Mr. T.

in South America either in November or Satow, did all in their power to make the May, and not, as I did, in the middle of what could be done. The man eventually infringers, and an investigation of their opened the conversation

winter. It should be remembered that It had been my intention to cross the even in the summer the west coast is never very hot-thanks to the Humboldt cur Andes on my way to Buenos Ayres from Valparaiso, but I found that the Trans- Andine Railway had been badly damaged rent which comes up from South Polas

regions. by snow and landslides in the early part

The scenery is good, but not until one of the winter, and under the most favour- has reached Valparaiso, though occasion able conditions it would be necessary to ally glimpses of the Andes may be seen travel on mula back for several hours at from the sea.

Acconag, the highest If conditions an altitude of 8,000 feet..

is visible on a clear day from Valparaiso. were not more favourable one might easily mountain in all the Americas. 23,354 feet, Both the P.S.N. Co. and the R.M.S.P. be delayed in the mountains for several days, with poor accommodation, at ex-

Co. have excellent steamers, well found orbitant rates and with little to eat save

in every respect, and their tickets are in dog and biscuits. Still, the saving of time ter-changeable. The hotel accommodation

is so considerable, less than two days as is fair, of course, on the Spanish lines, against twelve, that, in spite of the Bri- but off the beaten track I am told it is May for their attendance terminated the which embraces the station of the Eiffel rish Consul General, who told me that even exceedingly primitive.

business.

Tower

The

"Her husband died and left her with to work," the dentist replied. 13 children, only five of them big enough dentist appears to have proceeded to pile on the agony in a double sense, for next Dear Doctor.--You hurt me like the devil yesterday, but your vivid story about day he received the following letter:

the widow and her 13 children was equally effective. Enclosed and my cheque for 810,000 which please turn over to the washerwoman, and tell her from me she was fool to ever have thirteen babies.

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