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RANDOM REFLECTIONS. The manifold sins and wickednesses he Press, are a perennial topic with She clergy and ministers of all deuomi- sations. The reason is probably to be found in the fact that the Press is an institution which, conscious ita power, usually treats these attacks with the easy indulgence of the narvy, who, what asked why he allowed his little wife to scold him, perpetually without pretess, replied: Well; it pleases her

and it doesn't hurt me."

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 302H, 1911.

In England it is the invariable prác tice to hold an inquest upon the body of 2 violent every person who comes to end or dies suddenly without medics! attention. In Hongkong there is no such rule, the matter being left entirely to the discretion of the coroners, who are also the magistraten From most points

CORRESPONDENCE.

A GRIEVANCE.

THE BANK OF CHINA. HONGKONG SKY-SCRAPER

COMPLETED..

An enterprise which forms a landmark in the history of Hongkong the Colonys sky-scraper-entered on its final

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HUNGNONG

DALLY PRESS."]. SI-notice in your to-day's issuerst

in Queen's Road Central, is ready case in the Magistracy Under the head-stage, this week, and the Bank of China, occupation; The stam ill be for receive customers in the new building ou Thursday. We learn from the manager, Mr. Tauvee Pei, that there will be no formal opening by any lecal dignitary. although the completion of a scheme of

really considerable blowing of trumpets. such importance would amply excase a But the Bank of Chink intends to leave its present insignificant feruises on the Praya and take up its position in the handsome new Bank, on Thursday, and,

of view the Home practice seems to be Pawnbroking Problem," is the better of the two, fer. though the which Mr. Lo, in defending his client. made quite un-called for remarks that immediate cause of death may be per- feetly obvious, there are often surround-may lead to some disagreeable rofections ing circumstances that call for investi- upon the Portuguese community. There gation, and blame can be apportioned was absolutely no cause for him to hurt the feelings of the Portuguese com or sinister rumours silenced. By way omunity, who are well known in the recall "the fatal Colony to be a law-abiding people. He accident which befell a European bay had better confine himself to his own

strengthen his case.-Yours, etc.,

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illustration let me

As a rule, too, the indictment is allowed" to pass unheeded because it is couched in such general terms that those newspapers-and they constitute the vast werk or two back when returning with community when he steky comparisons te by midday, to look as though it had

majority-which know themselves to be bove reproach do not deem it worth while to offer any defence, while the other have no defence, to offer. With out any hesitation I, should place the Press of Hongkong in the first catégory. To judge by its contents; the British community would appear to be paragons of propriety, "untonched by the breath of scandal and dividing their time judic. iously between commercial transactions, social gatherings, religious and philan- thropic effort, and outdoor sports. We have, ir: fict, nearly rralised Str Edwin Arnold's ideal that a newspaper should be like a sun-dial and record only the bright hours of existence

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his mother by the launch run, I believe, under the aegis of the Government to and from Stonecutter's for the conveni- ence of bathers. The published reports stated that the little fellow overbalanced and fell into the water, and that no trace of him could be found till next day, though the launch was stopped and several people dived in to rescue him. Rumours now in circulation and in direct this statement. What degree of credence is to be attacheti to then I do not know, owing to the absence of nay, sworn testimony, but it seems pertinent to ask at least, how the boy came to fall overboard and if any life saving appliances were carried by the

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The Rev. J. Kirk Macunnchie, how ever, thinks otherwise. "Glancing over a launche number of copies of our local journals, lie while an his way out to the Colony, The little incident which occurred says, he gained the impression that the

Hongkong, August 20th,

SUSPECTED ARSON.

A KEROSENE FIRE IN WINGLOK STREET.

Attempted arson is alleged in a report of a Chinese shop occupying the ground received by the police from the manager The floor of No. 2, Winglok Steet. manager, states that he was asleep in the front part of the shop when he was awakened by one of his foki with an alarm of fire. At the back of the shop he saw smoke filtering in through cracks in the back door. There was also strong smell of kerosere. When the door was opened, a pile of waste paper saturat; ed in petroleum was found burning furiously immediately outside... The man ager and his fokis got buckets of water and managed to extinguish the lines. Near the door. was found" an empty

which had contained kerosene, The

always been there.

Messrs Little, Adams and Wood are. the architects who have supervised this great project, which has cost $200,000, and has occupied the period since March 1920-about 18 months. Mr. Foo Sik, the builder is also the owner of the site. Mr. Foo Nik is Enancier who has pût up many large buildings in the Colony in the last fifty years. The architects and buikler are to be congratulated on the splendid addition they have jointly made th the architectural features of

Victorin

main pre-occupation of the place must recently at the meeting of the Sanitary bottest and second floors of the house available to

be Palice-court cases, That was be Board, furnishes an excellent, illustration fore the war. Since then the contents of the bureaucratic systen unter which have bern rather more diversified. but,

we live in this Colony. Maybe there even so, he hopes that neither our mentality nor our morality will be are convincing reasons why a lavatory judge century bence by the seeming should not be erected at the children's proportion in which our attention is given to sport, crime, scandal, business playground on the Peak. but, if so, and the public good. If our great surely the Board, which bad recommend -grandchildren take our Press as a whole ed the provision of this "convenience, they will form a pretty just conception of were entitled to be told what they were

instead of receiving a dat non possumu

us and our tastes, for the Press is

mirror as well as it mouthpiece, and it you don't like your reflection in it that in largely your own fault.

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from the Government. The opinion of the official Head of the Department out- weighs the views of the Board, and, when it is pointed out to him that his advice with that tendered by the Inspectors of to the Government is in conflict, also, the Board, no attempt at justification is offered. The fiat has gone forth, and to question it is lèse majesté. To cite the reports of subordinates is on and, to guard against, a repetition of it. such documents will in futurs bo with held. We'll larn yer."

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are occupied as a Boarding House so that if the fire had involved the building there might have been great loss of life,

WEEK-END ACTIVITY. POLICE AND REVENUÉ MEN BUSY.

The revenue officers inade several raids during the week end and Mr. Orme's at the Magistracy, yesterday court. morning, was strewn with opium smoking Nine divans materials in consequence. were visited and 17 smokers were fined.

had not been paid, were seized in Wan- Over 120,000 cigarettes, on which duty

chai.

The building is a six-storeyed one, reinforced concrete framed. It is 50 feet high, and when the next-door building is completed, in the same style, the whole block will measure a hundred feet square. two To all intents and purposes. the buildings will form monster cube,| within a few fent of being 100 feet wide, by 100 feet deep, by 100 fees high. The the same height, for the Shanghai Com- adjoining premises are being rebuilt, to

fmercial and Savings Bank.........

The ground floor of the new building is arranged a banking premises for the Bank of China, and the upper floors are The bank let as offic treasury, in the basement, is built catirely of reinforced concrete, with walls 2ft. sins. thick, lined with asphalťe to Keep the place dry, and further lined with painted brickwork.

The faced in

stone, un to the first ferel, and above that in rubbed green brickwork, The general effect is admirable and imposing. The green ribed facing bricks form a new feature in building decoration, so far as any large building in Hongkong is con- cerned. All the floors and roof are of concrete, and the whole af the woodwork is of teak.

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There are two handsome entrances to the Bank of China, and the other. in the building; one, in Queen's Roail; to Duddell Street, for the use of tenants The police arrested a man, at an the upper floors. Two Penrose passenger address in Dea Vanx Road West. on lifts serve the tenants. The building

"has Saturday, in connection with the disa flat roof, so we may yet see the example covery of a revolver, ammunition, mor of New York followed in Hongkong and phia and a knuckle duster. Yesterday have roof supportdances beneath the stars. toorning the man was remanded, on the application of Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton. who appeared for the defence. Bail was fixed at $3,000.

SPORT.

WATER POLO.

the world, we live in than about the Personally I am more concerned about impression which will be formed of us a Some of us hundred years from now. are so comfortably placed that but for our newspapers we should know nothing of the temptations, trials and tribulations The of our less fortunate fellowmen.

The building is heated by means of publication of facts unpleasant in them-

open fireplaces; these being one of the selves enables those who live in a world

most suitable means in this climate. apart from the toiling masss to realise

The Sanitary Board, it may be men

Messrs, Matthews of London, have sup- the need that exists for the efforts

plied the fireplaces and Mesers. Shanks, Ministers of the Gospel and philantioned, is the only administrative body

the sanitary fittings. The water-carriage thropists, and often constitutes & greater in the Colony entrusted with an un-

official

system is

James majority, but, although its terror to the evil-doer in high places

Mr. Orme has a cheerful way of look- Gibbons. Et Ployed. Messrs.

London, have supplied powers are so restricted that it may be than the punishment inflicted by the ened to a debating, society, yet, to ing at the cases which come before him general iron-mongery. All the counter Iaw. As the Rey A, N. Rowland ro

guard against accidents, a part of the in his rangisterial capacity. A week or Ettings in the Bank are of bronze, locally There is an exterior fire escape marked at Shanghai Jast month, "so long as we have our newspaper we shall majority is nominated and a cadet is two ago he rebuked a police officer for made Dever cease to be religious, for by the appointed to preside over the meet saying that he had to obtain medical staircase; it is so placed that it will spe aid of its mirror our sins are kept everings. Two members of the Executive attention for two men who were injured next door, also, when that building is

fracas at Cheung-chow. You inished. Council are included amongst the official in before us."

element, but, even so, the Board is apt didn't have to," declared his worship, Mr. Maconachie, on the other hand, deemed competent to grant an applica who explained that broken heads have a fears that the effect on the vast majority tion for the installation of a modern knack of mending themselves in China. of the distorted news" they read is sanitary system in a dwelling; for that It is possible that the police officer was bound to be in the direction of vitiating the sanction of the Governor-in-Council not aware of this racial peculiarity, but

The R.G.A. beat the Wiltshires yester the mind and degrading the appetite. must be sought in all the circumstances even if there was no necessity to summon The minds that are so easily affected it is amazing that anyone can be found medical aid he may have "had" to do day evening, at the V.R.C... by 5 goals to to the it, none the less, in order to satisfy his nit. The gunners were strengthened in must, fear, be already defiled and willing to sacrifice his time

Possibly it was debilitated. I have never understood, Bodrd's affairs, yet the vacancies are ignorant conscience.

In spite of Mr. Orme's comfortable faith in the stack by playing Capt. P. Havelock for example, that our Judges and Magis. nearly always contested. trates, were an unusually depraved class this, there are people who profess to ability of nature to repair unassisted Davies; who beat Wood on three occa believe that if the non-Chinese unofficial any damage done to the human body

In the second game, the VR.C., de- So, far as the "lower orders verned, it may bo doubted if they read in members of the Legislative Council were that made him assess the value of a feated the .A.C. by & goals to it. the newspaper dnyibing worse than the to be increased from four to six it mouthful of ear at 85, though the police Finch and Rodger played well for the were of opinion that the victim's dis losers, "bat the younger members of the dramas they are compelled to ste enacted would be impossible to End candidates:

figurement would be permanent. Quite team were suffering from "nerves" in before their eyes. The moral of even the

A number of people, however, are the opering half. The teams crossed worst criminal or divorce case is that

The Open Letter addressed by puzzled at the fenient treatment of n the way of the transgressor is hard."

Junius" to the unofficial members of Chinese youth who made grossly offen-over to it in favour of the V.R.C.. If the masses, like most of us, are attract

Finch and Rodger, no further scaring ed by the human interest" there are the Straits Legislative Council, and re-sive overtures to a European lady. Mr. and, owing to good defasive work by and produced in the columns of this paper Orme gave the young blackguard the took place until a minute and a half from invariably other less personal

time, when Logan beat Simmons. "objectionable" items provided for their a few days ago, is not without appli- option of paying a fine of 826 or of acceptance the powder concealed in the cation to Hongkong. The particular set going to prison for fourteen days, on jam, as it wero. The Einstein Theory of circumstances which led the writer the ground that this class of ease is not even though garnished with bright and to frame his indictment are peculiar to common. That is happily true of many vivacious missionary news, would "leave the Colony in which he resides, but other crimes, such as regicide, criminal them cold," I fear, at present, just as the following passages might be taken assault and garotting, but the punish- religion did till the Salvation Army to heart with advantage by the unofficial ment prescribed by statute is pretty CHINA AND THE SHANTUNG popularised it with red jerseys, tam-members of our own Council, especially severe, nevertheless-because we do not bourines, and hymns set to music hall those who are nominated by H.E. the want them to become common. tunes to the horror of the staid and Governor: respectable.

are con

When Mr. Miconachie lameats the space which the newspaper editors devote to the outre, the abnormal, and the dis- torted, ho should derive comfort from the reflection that there are some things. such as the death of Queen Anne, which are taken for granted, and quite pro- perly so. Imagine the consternation that would be caused if this journal appeared one morning with such announcements as the following:--

Yesterday passed without an earth- quake,

Mesira. Ellis, Dee and Co are, our advices lead us to believe, still solvent.

The sa. Typhoon, which left London last week with a full passenger list for Hongkong, is, we rejoice to learn, still aBoat.

Our esteemed fellow-townsman, Mr. Beer; was perfectly sober last night,

The Municipal Engineer did a good honest day's work yesterday.

The manager of the Cash Bank has not disappeared and is still at large.

"Mr. Blank, our readers will be glad to know, was seen yesterday spending a portion of his hard-earned wages in buy- ing boots for the baby; while his wife vas heard singing cheerfully at the washi tab.

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sions.

5.15 p.m.-H.M.S. Tamar e. H.M.S. Foxglove.

3.45 p.m.-Lusitano r. V.R.C.

QUESTION,

[ABIATIC NEWS AGENCY.] Your chiefest function, which you The Committee of the Chamber of

TSINANFU, August 16th. are empowered to perform, Conimerce are proposing to treble the

In reply to an enquiry of the members which if you leave undone makes you a membership subscription. The majority of the Provincial Assembly of Shantung superfluous encumbrance, is continuous of us would be overcome with nervous relating to the rumoured direct negotia ly to counteract, by such courage and prostration at the idea of asking for our tions between Peking and Tokyo for the persistence as may well bring you into incomes to be increased three hundred foal acttlement of the Kisochow Ques- flistavour, the evils that flow fromper cent, at one fell swoop in order to tion, the Foreign Office says that there perhaps the only vice that can seriously meet the high cost of living, but it is is no truth in the report. The telegram be imputed to the Government, a vice natural, I suppose, for these commercial adds that since the return of Mr. Obata, inherent in its nature and the nature magnates, who are always thinking in Japanese Minister, he has not touched of all Governments, procrastination." millions, to do everything upon the upon the Shantung issue nor has the Some of you have expressed an em grand scale. No wonder many of their Chinese Government changed its attitude. phatic difference of opinion on the assistants" are such magnificent fellows. If the Japanese guards he withdrawn principle of bills; but, as that is, wel. If the present proposal goes through a from the stations of the Tainan Kiaochow comed, it is not courage. Some of you vote for the Legislative Council in this railway, then it will be the duty of the asked questions difficult to answer, Colony will be a greater luxury than Chinese Government to despatch efficient but, as that is traditional and, though ever, and Constitutional Reform will troops and police to take their positions

for the protection

ction of both foreigners and unwelcome yet expected, it is not become a necessary economy.

natives along the line, without any direct great courage; but a merciless attack

bearing upon the Shantung issue at all. Finally the Government says that its policy ca the Shantung question can only be changed in case there are unmistakable signs on the part of the Chinese prople majority of them prefer direct that the Sino-Japanese negotiations.

In reporting this message to the men bars of the Provincial Assembly, the Chairman said that in the master of Bine- Japanese direct negotiations in regard to the restoration of Kinochow to its owner, it rests more with Japan than with China, because in order to convince the Chinese people of the necessity for real. The Housing situation in the Colony Bino-Japanese intimacy, friendship and was thun tersely summed up the other co-existence, in the Far East, the Japan- intentions nday-The official majority on the ese must show their good

Council vote themselves all the houses, towards China by deeds and not mere they want and don't care a hang what words, so as to change public opinion becomes of the rest of us get ther in China towards their nearest neigh-

hours of the samą FACE.

against this inherent vice of Govern

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ment persisted in, until you become While appreciating the skill and cour regarded first, as a nuisanes to be age with which the captain and offccra humoured, then as a force to be reckon handled the Aki Maru in the typhoon ed with, and lastly, as the intolerable which she encountered in the East China Baviours of your country, this in in-Sea on her way from Nagasakr to Hong- deed courage.

kong, there are those who would like to The public had no voice in your know how the vessel came to be in the Appointment and so has taken little difficulties against which she fought for interest in your conduct; and that you forty-eight hours. Is it not the purpose have thus escaped the criticism that of meteorological observations and wire electorates level against their leaders less communication to save ships from cannot afford you even a negative these perils ?.. satisfaction; nor that on your retire ment there will be recorded in the minutes of your Council with all the

sentimentality of: traditional 'by, an over».

epitaph rappreciation by the Gavern ment of the valuable services you have rendered."

The only difficulty about this sort of "news" lies in the possibility of somebody discovering an innuendo in it, and of anyone who should happen, sight, to be omitted from the review, regarding the omission as an oblique "reflection on him. The Law of Libel robs the Pros of much potential brightness."-"

(Continued at foot of next column.)

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