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SHOTS IN NATHAN ROAD.

THE HONGKONG DAILY • PRESS, WEDNESDAY,

BOATSWAIN" IN A TYPHOON,

INGRATITUDE.

ROBBERS CHASED BY POLICE SENT TO PRISON FOR FAILING TO SERMON BY THE REV. COPLEY

WORK AND DISCOURAG- ING OTHERS.

Shots were exchanged in Nathan fond, Kowloon, yosterday morning, between police and armed robbers, "though no-one The boatswain and nine other Chinese was injured' and no arrests were made.

members of the crew of the Norwegian str. It appears that in the early hours of the Childar were brought before Mr. N. Aall, morning "four men broke into the house Consular Judge, at the Norwegian Con of a Chinese clerk, employed by the Kow loon-Canton Railway, in Nathan Road,salar Court, nt Shanghai, last week, on this charges of refusing to perform their and held up the occupants with daggers and a revolver. The indites were gagged duties during the typhoon of August 24th, at Shanghai. Sentence of 30 days im- and bound, and the robbers looted the house, carrying away with them clothes Prisontent was passed on the boatswain, nin! jewellery to the value of $653. They the rest of the accused being discharged were discovered by the police when they the Consular. Judge "deciding that they got into the street, and a chase ensued would probably have obeyed orders had The mbhers fired at their pursuers and it not been for the influence of the best the police returned their fire. No-one swain, seems to have been hit, aud the robbers got away, though at the expense of a quantity of the goods they had stolen.

FOUND IN THE SIDECAR, A Chinese plamber employed at the Taikoo Dockyard was charged at the Magistracy yesterday morning, before his Worship Mr. J. H. Wood, with the theft of a length of wire netting. It was stated that the defendant hid the netting in the sidecar of a motor cycle owned by Mr. J. Russell, foreman plumber at the Dock- yard, where it was discovered by an

Indian watchman.

XOYLE.

The Rev. H. Copley Moyle, MA.. Senior Chaplain of St. John's Onthedřai, preached the following sermon in St. John's Cathedral on Sunday morning

S. Luke xvi, 1 Where are the nine ??

SEPTEMBER

BACKREACH OF CANTON RIVER BLOCKED.

·STRANDED M.B.K. FREIGHTER COMPLETELY. BLOCKS TRAFFIC.

Yesterday morning the following ines- age was circulated from the Harbour Ofice~~

"Backreach completely blocked for all traffic: request Hongkong steanera may: he informed.".

The message was received in the first

The Gospel for to-day is the record of the healing of the ten lepers by our was going up to Blessed Lord, Jesus Jerusalem when, it's certain village, He

mander of the H.M.S. „ficult. met ten lepers. "Being forbidden by the place by the Commodore from the Con-

The backrench is that of the Canton Jewish laws to come close to healthy people they called from a distance to Jesus to have mercy on them. He said river. Fortunately, the other reach of unto them Go show yourselves unto the the river to Canton-known as the front- When told that the captain and chief priests!" It was the duty of the priests reach can he used by traffic so that the offeer on the previous afternoon buil de to examine those suspected of leprosy blockage of the backreich is only a mat pond that he had consistently refused to and to declare them either diseased orter of slight inconvenience to shipping. perform his duties while the vessel was in healthy as the case might be. These From what we can gather the blockage danger, the accused said be had fre lepers might well have said amongst of the backresch is caused by the strand- quently been asiaulted by the captain themselves that as they all had leprosy ing of a Japanese freighter the Accused denied having done no work on it would be useless to go to the priests, Ryusha Maru, which has gone aahore in that occasion.

"He had picked up but instead of arguing so they did what the river a few miles to the south or broker bottles and put things in order.”

Jesus told them. "And it came to pass Canton. She is lying" right across the The Captain: That is not the boat that as they went, they were clennaed." river, completely blocking all traffic. One swain's duty. He should have been amid. What joy must have filled all their hearts of the Hongkong, Canton and Macno, ships to give orders in the event of any as they felt in their bodies the restored steamboats attempted to make Hongkong thing going adrift. When No. 3 hatch gift of bealth, which they had never ex-by the backrench on Monday but found pected to feel again. One of them could it impossible to get past the stranded was broken open, he was not on deck.

Accused still insisted that he was on not conceal his gratitude and rushed back vessel. The river boat was compelled to deck. The whole trouble was caussi beto Jesus Christ to express it, but the make her way back to Canton" and to use cause the captain refused to pay his others were so taken up with the gift the frontreach for the journey down. At they had received that they gave no that time it was not known to whom the pasange back to Hongkong.

thought of thanks to the giver. And steamor belonged. Later in the day, how- Jesus said Were there not ten cleansed, ever, the Captain of the Kojun Mary re- hat where are the nice 1"

ported at the office of the Mitsui Busan Kaisha that one of their steamers, the

Was nshore a little! south of the" Maeno Forts in the back

Mr. Russell stated that the defondant necasionally cleaned his motor cycle, and

A fireman' on the Childer said that the sometimes rade it between the workshop ship was in danger of being lost. He and the dockyard gate. He had no rightsisted two officers to batten down, the to the wire, and no right to hide it in hatch. He had no time to notice whether the sidecar of the motor cycle.

the crew were on deck, but on being Defendant denied stealing the netting pressed admitted that be did not see the and was remaided in police custody till

prisoners during the typhoon. "I am

So our subject this morning is "In gratitude." We all resent fiercely the sug-Ryushu Maru, gestion that we are ungrateful but can we say that the average of one who freach. We are informed by the M.B.K.

ten o'clock this morning for further evi-ind there was one sailor, on board," said shows gratitude to nine who do not is that the stranded vessel does not appear

donee to be brought.

BONGKONG "AND, OPIUM. PHENOMENAL CULTIVATION GLUTS MARKET.

YUNNAN MONOPOLY NIPPED...

The Peking correspondent of the Peking

and Tientsin Timea 'writes:—".

According to the International Anti Opium Association, Hongkong has a big task in preventing the entry of Chinese opium into the Colony. The Chinese pro duct is less than one-fifth the price of

the Consular Judge to witness, when he had concluded his evidence.

Sentencing the boatswain to 30 days, fr. All said he had power to send the man to prison for two years. He could think himself lucky that he was getting off so cheaply. The other seamen would be discharged, as they would probably have done their work but for the bad in fluence exercised over the crew by the man responsible for their conduct ut a

so very unusual? I'remember many years ago in England talking to an old lady who made it a rule to send presents at Christmas to a number of poor people who lived near her house, sometimes the present" took the form of half a ton of coal, sometimes of tea and bacon, some- times of blankets or other useful things. I was surprised on one occasion to learn that of the ten or a dozen recipients of these presents only one ever took the trouble to go and thank the giver, per haps I should not be so much surprised how for a longer experience of the world

yet what u hateful and contemptible thing Thunted by nemall Chinese boy with it is. Our great writers have denounced the words "Ja Lo Kani, Mo La Kirai," it ... Shakespeare writes "ingratitude *Indian devil! Indian devil!" a Sikhis montrous" and "Sharper than a ser watchman replied by, hurling a stone at his tormentor, with the result that he appeared before the Magistrate (Ir C. D. Melbourne) yesterday morning

A SMALL BOY'S TAUNT.

to be in any grave danger and that no difficulty will be experienced in re-floating her. The vessel, which is one of those chartered by the M.B.K., was on her way to Canton with a cargo of 2,000 tons of coal. She has a gross tonnage of 2,880.

It is not known in Hongkong how shỏ" came to go ashore,

Indian opium, and the phenomenal calti. INDIAN CHARGED WITH ASSAULT, shows how common is ingratitude. And mind when the body is overcome with

vation in the neighbouring provinces has inade such a glut in the market, that out lets for its disposal in the South are limited, and markets can be found only nt a distance,

Practically all the Southern provinces have produced opium greatly in excess

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ness instead.

But God has also given us minda There 18 a peculiar temptation to let our minds must in the tropics. It requires a real effort to cultivate the powers of the

hent That is no doubt the reason why so few people read books-bere which really require thought. But God who gave us our minds intends us to use them. pent's tooth," Again he writes "I hate It is a favourite device of anti-Christian ingratitude more in a man, than lying writers to try to make out that Chris vainness, babbling, drunkenness or any taint of vice," Again he attributes the ty does not, teach us to use our minds. Nothing could he further rear death of Julius Caesar to a heart broken the truth. It is true that the appeal of by ingratitude. And again he BAB that

the Christian religion is Erst of all tọ

of the local demand, even under conditions | charged with assaulting the boy, which allow open and free use by the The ind told the Magistrate that people.

number of other small boys had been the winter wind" is not "so unkind the heart of man, but it is an appeal to throwing stones at the Indian, and he as man's ingratitude." Let us candidly his intellect as well. There may still be threw stones back at them, hitting titask ourselves whether we are ungrateful. some misguided but earnest Christians First of all me we grateful to those people who think they honour God by discredit- who have done us good? Our parents ing the intellectual achievements of man

have we been duly grateful to them

day have come to see that there are Very often we are apt to take all the kind, but they are a small and diminish- ing number. Most earnest Christians to

many things which God has left to man's

Questioned by His Worship, defendant admitted that he had been drinking, and said he could not remember very much

The Yunnan monopoly of which we published much a few months ago, giving the games of the lenders, and their inten tion, with a capital of over 81,000,000 to export 400 tons of opium to North Chica The British Government made representa of what had happened. He was a watch-work and care and thought which our

has been ripped by diplomatic action, tious to the French Government, and in man on the 8.5. Churn hot, nnd his haat parents bestow upon us as a matter of structions were cabled by them that all had left the night before without him, further export through Indo-China must

The Indian was ordered to pay the lad stop. Pending these proceedings 150 tons were exported, and Yuunan opium has a dollar compensation, and was fined $3 appeared in many of the recent Customs as well. seizures as Northern ports.

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Whether alone or in conjunction with a commercial combine, it is undeniable That provincial monopoly exists in Yunnan, from which officials and mer- chants are reaping large sums of money. The Central Government has declared that

it is absolutely, opopard the re-legal- sation of opium, and if they had the power they wou'd enforce their deter- mination, but the facts are patent that at least eight provinces have virtually established Ital monopolies independent

The irony of the situation

ion is that the monoplicy exist in spite of the Central Government, and the proceeds are avail. able only for provincial conflicts.

THE PAPER CURRENCY IN KWANGSI.

PENANG MOTOR TRAGEDY. DRAMATIC STORY AT INQUEST.

course, and to give them no thanks. A little consideration of what a

intellect to discover, and unless man uses bestows of love and eare and self denial cover them. The more we know of nature parent his God-given intellect he will never dis

on n child, may well turn ingratitude to and its working the more we shall be thankfulness. And let us never fail to led to adore the great ruler of nature, express thankfulness when we feel it only then must be on their guard against After all most people like to be thanked the danger of exaggerating the powers even though they may not do the kind of the mind, and they must have the At the Coroner's enquiry into the death of deed in order to be thanked. A due conspint of humility for "a little knowledge Mr, J. Coombs, who was killed in a matursideration for the thoughts and feelings is a dangerous thing." As the Inte poet accident on the Batu Ferringhi Hoad Pen- of others will make us ready to express aug recently, Mr. W.. L Morgan, one of

our thanks even to servants, and coolies, the occupants of the car, in his evidence.

us, and it is stated that he saw the light, of the other for services rendered to car approaching and he thought he said wonderful how often n cheerful pleasant something to Captain Cooney, who was at

word of thanks will make the wheels of the wheel, but driving slowly. The car life run more, smoothly, took the bend, then he felt a slight impact Immediately, witness, felt this he stood

up

Tennyson wrote:

Let knowledge grow from more to more . But more of reverence in us dwell; The Christian faith contains intellectual problems that can furnish matter for earnest study by the most intellectual of men, while at the same time the Gospel

is an simple that a child can understandi it. If we are grateful to God for the powers of the mind which He has given

as we ought to show our gmtitude” by

letting our mind dwell, constantly-upon-

If we owe gratitude to many of our in front of Mrs. Coombs, who was seated fellowmen how much more do we owe behind Captain Cooney, to see what the latter was doing! Witae thought Cooney it to Ainiighty God, for He made us what was going to pull up on the straight. The we are and gave 'ds all we have. Body, next thing he felt was a jarring of the car soul and spirit we owe to Him who made over the rough. He leaned over Cooney and took the wheel, because he realised us and redeemed us and sanctifies us DISCOUNTED, AT 89 PER CENT. that Cooney was going to hear the left Our presence here God's House shows edge Witness tried to bring the ear out that we at least acknowledge our debt The following extract is from the with the wheel and found the front wheels of gratitude to Him, but docs that sense Canton Dasty Fematemeter.

According to a Cantonese merchant, who over

bad locked. Then he felt the car slipping of gratitude really play any large part in

edge:

Witness, I go the

dur It is often strange see how returned recently from Kweilin, the cap turned to Mrs Coombs and find "For small a part thanksgiving takes in the ital city of Kwangsi, the paper currency Gol's Sake, Jump #Witness made a grab prayers of some who are really trying to there is worth 12 per cent of the face at hor and tried to

fle thought

that appointed by the Peking Government, is what must have happened was this: "Mr. not very large place, and if we were

And remember we must show our grati mill putting these valueless papera on the Coombs hearing we say jump, must have ungrateful it would do so.

God has given us our bodies to use for tude in our daily lives. Many people market and enforcing the merchants to jumped a bit too late, and, instegul of His service. He wishes those bodies to regard their daily lives as a hindrance take them without discount. Several rich jumping on the road as she thought she be well and strong and in good health, to religion, whereas their lives ought to and and he gives us food to keep them be the expression of their religion. God the car came down on her. -1,

of God, His love, His power, i wod has no And God has also given us a spiritual nature, by which we can have communion with God, if we neglect, that nature we ourselves a great wrong.

value. The bogus governor in Kirein was more or less Palither out. The rest live Christian lives. Yet it ought to are guilty of grent ingratitude and do

merchants were recently arrested by the Fould, she jumped ahead of re-healthy. A scientist has told us that the bas appointed our lives just as much as

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bogus Governor for refusing to take the member very much after that, The first farmer's tail is 5 per cent. of the energy He has appointed our religion. Prayer paper notes at full value. All their real thing he would remember was rolling down expended in. producing a crop of wheat and church going and craments and estate was confiscated as a punishment for the incline, He got up and called out: The other ninety-five per cent. is the sermons are not relixion, they are only 4 their conduet, bengkong tanker tourt.

The cause of the great depreciation of anybody hart and Captain Cooney aniverse taking advantage of the chance parts of religion, Religion is a thing for

Answered: No I'm not hurt. No Round the paper notes is dus to the fact that came from Mrs. Coombe. He found her which the farmer gave it. In other words every day of our lives. It is to make usE the Kwangai militarists issued numberless under the car dead, men fault

man has contributed 5 per cent. and God humble, peaceable. bonest, truthful, in- 05 per cent, to the production of the dustrious and kind. If God aces there papers recently to meet the demands of Captain 4. C. Cooney admitted that he the soldiers salaries They find this the had no licence, and only a motor cycle wheat harvest. What thanks then we owe qualities in us He will recognise at Le casiest way hi raise money for military once in England He had driven the to God for feeding our bodies.

really grateful, for all that He had one sama car several timove,

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