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WHAT IS REALLY WRONG WITH CHINAT

NO LONGER A VAGUE PLACE BETWEEN

TARTARY AND ZIPANGU.

UNMUZZLED DOGS.

OWNERS FINED IN COURT.

Mr. E, D, Paföitley war fmed #s{ by Mr. Williams at Central Mogi- tracy yesterday for allowing his. ủng to be at largo without a

When the Bumbona wa

occasions.

dog.

was told

Mr. R. G. Gordon of 354, The

thing is a notoriously, controver 1 nëd by "sailare who carried home | muzzle, siab subject and not only does barbario surioa of intricate design called and his Worship was sinologue fight sinologue with a bitterness" anequalled oven among and lurid tales of the East, à revolu- that the dog was a little ono, ho savants, but also among business-tion occurred and, from an idyll smilingly remarked that it had mon journalists and missionaries China became a melodramus. Grave formerly belonged to him he hav the attacks, parries and ripostes are fierce and frequently each neweamer

mandarins were replaced by sinistering given it to Mr. Priestley.

Mr. H. Wohtlake was summoned In every sphers proves, to his own Chinese, soft footed and inscrutable, satisfaction, that his producessors and opium dens took the place of for allowing his dog to be at large were wrong. The most recent quei-: tion is whether all is well with China pagodus. It became a country of without a muzzle on two separate no; and the majority seem to steret societies, of unspeakable cach count, the defendant romark On boing Aned. §4 on think that all is not well. But, crimes and tortures. The secret cd that he had recently shot his while agreeing that there is some- thing wrong with China, 1 intend societies were powerful, ruthless, exercising the newcother's privilege crafty and ubiquitous; the tortures of not agreeing with my predeces were inflicted by save Chinese as wil na by gigantic executioners, who had been recruited from the Interior. The vice was not, how over, a Chinese monopoly, for josu- houses ceased to be temples but be. came buildings from which valuablò It was his submission that tho' or sacred idols could be stolen and manoeuvre would have been entire China was full of hidden treasure.

ly successful if the Tekooka Since this revolution the capital of Maru had done what plaintiff said China had been transferred from was the obvious thing to do, name Khanbalun to the Sink of Iniqly to have dropped both ancliora. ty, with its various hella--drink-As it was the manoeuvre was near- ing dancing and opium-smoking- and all that was implied by the sony successful and undoubtedly had

the affect of minimising the damn men term Shanghaied."

age done,

"JOY:"-TERKDITS:------

In weekly paper some time ago there was published an entirely charming article which tended to prove that China did not exist. But the anthor misunderstood the Chi- nese problem: China does exist very definitely, and that is where the trouble lies.

Fabulous but Real.

G:no le the Dragon Throne..

Now one travels to the Eust by P. and O. and, after passing through the hands of a modern and heart breakingly efficient Customs service,

Peak, was not 13 on pleading guilty to a summons nocusing him of having allowed his dog to be at large without a muzzle.........

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There was a time when China was n vague place between Tartary, and Zirangu: an empire that was hign called Cathay, and which numbered

Japanese Captain's Report. among its owns Xnonda. Khanba-

Dealing with a report made to te, Kinsa and Zayton: a country

the Japanese Consul by the Cap- that traded with Ormuz, Araby and

tain of the Tokooks, Maru, Mr. Ind; a country, in short, as charm

Potter said that the Japanese ship ingly fabulous yet as undeniably

was wholly and continually in the real as an unicorn. From this coun

one finds China is a Nationalist Rowrong from the time she altered try came laquers and porcelains, public, whose form of government is course at 7.43 a.m. on account of quaintly decorated, and misleading.based on the latest development in the appreach of a fog bank. Acts

y accurate travellers' reports. On

polit enl thought. Gone is the Dra of default alleged against the these reporte the imagination of j

gon

Throne; trains. have pierced the defendant Captain were that e Europe worked and produced a huge walls of Peking, teams grind was on the wrong side of the fair- realm of Chinoiserie, Chrysanthe mums and scaly, crawling dragons of Past the Forbidden City there and way at a time when he must have bronze, whither man could travel in bicycles abound.. Pagodas are com-known by the bearing of the King- naratively few and do not seem to au's signals that an inward-bound fancy and, escaping from the every have been built with a view to ship was coming in. darness of life, attain full stature. people living in them. Cabarets Ho felt he must say that the It was a pleasantly topsy-turvy coun- and Clubs Arc commoner than course taken by the Japanese ship try, peopled with grave mandarina

ocium-dens and "mahjong is was nothing short of madness, no and sprinkled with pagodas. Long played by European ladies at ten it was imperilling not only hir rails and queues had the men and

parties, where cocktails and Indian own ship but also every other in- minute were the feet of the women.

tea aro drunk. Instead of flying ward-bound ship. They had a queer, speech, full of

Counsel referred to a question Ritchin in cross- quaint courtesy, and an even quain-kitee or rescuing people from a ter writing which started at the Crie death one goes out for a ride put to Capt.

or a game of golf; instead of pro-examination, that the Captain of wong side of the page and ran White

ducing an apt and elegant quotation the Japanese vessel was justified in down instead of across.

from immemorial classics, Aaltoring his course north-east, so signified mourning to them and the

secret password, one discusses the that he might get acrcas the fair Chinese compass pointed south. It

weather or the price of silver. The way for the purpose of anchoring was a country where the day was

Chinese, too, disappoint us, for they in what he believed was called the spent wershipping one's ancestors.

are neither superhuman aor inhu-foreign man-of-war anchorage. enerating Confucius, obeying the

man: One's servants are neither

Anchoragez at Hand, Emperor's commands with trembling drinking ten and Aving kites; a country with a vast examination system: a country, finally, where one had an ape and elegant anotation by immemorial classics for every cvent in life. "

China Became a Melodrama.

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could have anchored quite safely

on the starboard side of the

fairway Without having to go all the way across the fairway. Also, there were buoys for anchoring purposes behind him where the wenther was clear. where- as the fog was in front of him, and he could have gone to those buora. which could be seen.

soft-footed nor particularly sinister; Thore was no justification as he quetes have almost gone out and the grave mandarin is replaced by an official in a San Wan 1-shang" or an astute merchant, neither of hom have very long finger-naila, or are adverse to a jest or a glass of beer. China, in fact, is found to be an actual country and the Chi- nese real people. And, likeable As time, went on the Gobi was cir cumvented, the ships of Europe though the people be and charming reached China and merchants as well as is the country, it must, of neces as Missionaries visited the Central Feity, be vastly less charming than Flowery Kingdom. China still reth China of imagination, for it is mained, for Europe, a country of an axion that, on closer nequain the mind, but, as the leisurely India-tance, the picturesque is usually man was replaced by the clipper found to be smelly. hurrying home with a carge of teas Thank Heavens there" is still with delicious Banes Oolong, Thibet! Pekat, Hyson and Echen-and man-

COLLISION CLAIM.

ADMIRALTY ACTION IN SUPREME COURT.

S.S. KIANGSU AGAINST TOKOOKA MARU.

As a sequel to a collision at Kowloon Dock Point on March 22, 1881, between the s.. Kiangeu and a. Tokooka Maru, an action in, Admiralty Jurisdiction was com- merend in the Supreme Court yes terday before the Chief Justice (Sir Joseph Kemp). The Harbour Master (Hch. Comdr. G. F. Hole,) sak as Assessor.

The China Navigation Company are claiming against the Nippen Yusen Kaisha for 840,000 damages and costs, while the latter coun tor-claim for $40,564.

Plaintiffs were represented by Mr. Eldon Foster, E.C.. together with, Mr. F. C. Jenkin, R.C. In structed by Mr. M. M. Watson, of Messre, Johnson, Stoken and Mas- tor, while Mr. H. G. Sheldon, in structed by Mr. E. SC. Brooks, of Messra Hastings, Dennys and Bowley, was for defendanta

Plaintiff's Cass.

:

M. O. G."

The distant signal of another ship was heard at 7.45 on the pert bow, the whistle being one

long blast, which obviously meant that the other ship was in fog:

Capt. Ritchie came to the con- clusion, which was the only son- clusion he could come to, that the other ship was outward-bound, which, in fact, it was. It was the Tokooka Maru leaving for Shang- hai.

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He put his engines dead slow, altered his course to nurth-west by sat, and blew one long blast, hia chjert being to get over to starboard aids of the fairway. It would be established that it was the practice not only in these waters. but it was also required by the rules of the road and seamanship, that inward-bound and outward- bound ships must kpop to the star- board side of the fairway."

康

Signals on Port Bow.

was

Capt. Ritchie carried on his course and Apeed. Various signals were still heard on the port bow, all of them indicating that she an outward-bound ship, and none indicating that he was departing from the usual and proper practice of keeping to the starboard side of the fairway.

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At about 7.50 a.m., the Japanese. ship appeared in sight through the fog at a distance of three to four hundred feet, according to the, other side, and at a distance of between cze to one and hall cables, according to the plaintiff.

In his opening address, Mr. Petter said he did not think there would be any dispute so far as the

Mr. Potter stressed the point respective courses of the ships were

bhat, according to plaintiff's case, the concerned. On

morning of March 22, the Kiangau (Captain points on the port bow and that the Japanese vessel was about two Kitchie), inward bound from Swatow, was approaching Hong the was under weigh, and had, in Kong. There was a threat of fc fact, considerable headway on her. which passed, and at 7.35 a.m. the In an effort to avert, collision. ship cleaned Lycmun Pass, Fog Capt. Ritchie put his shop full again threatened and there was spood ahead and ordered the helm visibility of about half a mile, but hard aitarboard, in order to prvot his ship round the bows of the Tokooks Mars.

Captain Bitchie put bis engines at 1huff speed and set his coures west.

north-west for Kowloon Point,

(Continued on next Column)

Mr. Potter submitted the truth was that the Japanese Captain did not really eonsider the ncsition at all, as if he considered it his duty to anchor, he coull ensity have done so in the vicinity of where he was at 7.43. with perfect safety,

the The Court, adjourned at close of the ning sitting until 10 n.m. to-day

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