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MATTER THAT SHOULD BE

LOOKED INTO.

The following is an account of a man's death as furnished by the police.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 19, 1901.

CANTON NOTES.

THE HOUSE TAX.

(Fin Our Own Correspondent.).

CANTON, Srotember 18th..

No attempt has yet been made to collect the

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racks. They husband of any woman who offended became liable, and was punished. Towards the conclusion of the hearing a com- promise was come to on the complainant being compensated. Fifty rupees as compensation were handed to the complainant The ques tion of a soldier's wife being subject to military law should be settled by some competent au thority, “d

PROFESSION AND THE MAN.

"Ali p.m. on the 18th of July, Kwong Cheds Ni, aged 33 years wasgni ployed with others courthouse tax." On the contrary, notice has been ing earth from a building site in Third given that ten days will be allowed in which Street to the Prays Reclamation opposite the to hand in the tax. After the ten days have Gas Works. On that day the truck was hely elapsed the people are to receive warning to laden with earth. As deceased and two others pay up, and only after this warning has been were descending the hill with the loaded disregarded will steps be taken to collect. It track, decensed slipped and fell under the wheel is evident that the officials are doing all they of the truck. The wheel passed over

can to prevent trouble. From reliable sources his feg and brake it, he also received other in- learn that the people are willing and ready juries. The injured man was taken back to to pay. his quarters at the building in. Third Street

The Shun Tak district seems to be in a very and allowed to remain there until nearly 7 pm, unsatisfactory condition. Bands of blacklogs when his fokis removed him to Hospital (Tunghave been collecting blackmail from beats and Wah) in a chair and the unfortunate man died villages. A few days ago à demand was made third act with Julia Denton," abe said. He before arrival there,

The body was admitted into Tung Wah Hospital and removed to the public Mortuary later-on by the Tung Wah authorities,. There are no suspicious circumstances: the man met his death party by this own carelessness. This is the third accident that has happened

SHUN TAK,

upon a silkworm establishment for several The same night the buildings were fired and thousand dollars.The-demand was, refused. thousands of dollars worth of property destroy- ed. Another way of raising money is to kid. the last two or three weeks several women pap women and hold them for ransom. During

Notices of Firms.

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have appointed RW. S. ALLEN to be MANAGER of our HONGKONG BRANCH, and so have Charge of our fatecosts in the Far East, including the Philippine Islands.

SPERRY FLOUR COMPANY (INCORP.), SAN FRANCISCO,

CALIFORNIA. Hongkong, 18th September, 1941.

NOTICE OF REMOVAL.

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I BEG to inform my Patrons and Public Generally that I have REMOVED my Stores from No. 13 to No. 5. D'AQUILAR STREET.

H. KUTTONJEE,

Hangkong, 19th April, jönni (

5. D'Aguilar Street,

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Intimations.

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED,

"I have simply married a profession TM And she clasped her hands and looked gently in dignant. He smiled as he smoothed his clean- shaven face with a caressing hand, He thought it was subtle flattery," "Say you have married into the profession, beloved," and he held out. his hand gracefully towards her. She ignored it softly. Even now you are rehearsing your looked a little agitated, and appeared to be on

with a sigh. Then he leaned over the piano the point of speaking, but restrained himself where she was seated. "Carina, if I tell you you are the whole world and heaven beyond to

of his reflection in a silver framed, mirror me, will you believe it" But as he caught sight

HOLDERS in the above Company will posture; however, prevented him from making be held at the Company's Office on SATUR- further use of the glass, and the anxiety in his DAY, the 28th instant, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Mana- eyes as he gazed at his wife touched her. Hegers, together with a Statement of Accounts to was rather pleased she misread the look; it gave 30th June, 1901. a tender cadence to her voice as she murmur- ed, "I should believe because I wanted to be lieve it, but" She broke off and let her hands fall suddenly with a little discordant crash on the keys. Irving Euston straightened himself. It was such picturesque joy to him to woo his wife. She was so picturesque herself small and fair, with eyes like lakes-no, stars, stella della mare-and he-he never thought of her without himself-such a fine contrast? Tall,

to the truels coming down the fill too heavily have been kidnapped, and as much as $1,000 he hastily changed his attitude. This fresh HEORDINARY MEETING of SHARE.

laden. The Contract's name is Lik Kei No.

53, East Street

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THE HONGKONG FOOTBALL CLUB.

The following is the Report for the Season 1900 1901.

To the Members of

The Hongkong Football Club, ` The Committee have the pleasure to lay before you their report on the last Season,

The Accounts attached show a balance of $94.53 to the credit of the Club on August 31,

1901.

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Considerable expense was incurred in repair. ing the Club Matshed, which was blown down twice by typhoons, early in the season,

A large number of interesting and closely contested matches were played under Associa tion and Rugby rules, and the form shown by the players was, il anything, better than that of previous years.

The Six-a-side Challenge Cup was won by Mr.-A. R. Lowe's team. Mr W. H. H ward

kindly presented six medals to the winning

tcam.

The Club team was defeated in the third round of the Shield Competition by "H" Com pany, R.W.F., by 3 goals io r.

Seventeen team entered for the Shield Com-

paid for the ransom of one person. The dig. trict magistrate boasts of the number of heads he has taken off, but it is generally believed that if you will only pay the price, you may do what you like in this district. Both the U. S. and the British Consula have asked for the removal of this official, but he seems to be able to hold his own against all odds.

EXAMINATIONS..

Notice has been posted that hereafter the second literary degree, Ku yan, will not be conferred upon any person for a money con

sideration.

A PEN-PICTURE OF PRESIDENT

MCKINLEY.

The late Mr. GW. Sicevens when writing letters to the Daily Mail on the Presidential election of 1897 gave the following description of Mr. McKinley --

If you want to see a President candidate you ring the bell and walk in and see him. This is what he is there for.. I rang the bell

and walked in; Mr. McKinley was sitting on a

rockin, chair in a little office not ten feet from

dark, commanding, her-well, he really might say it, she had said it herself often-her God He held out his hands like a munificent deity, } "But? Shall there be reservation be (ween us?"

She rose and met his eyes as she folded her hands together. "I was wondering when the Man died," she said; and they gazed sadly into each other's eyes'

"Or was he ever barn ?"

"Alas: dear, are we nat all simply mario- nettes, pulled by some mysterious fate across

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 3rd to the 28th instant, both Days inclusive.

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 18th September, 1901.

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the door. His strong, clean-shaven face has a suggestion of drones trading, there is the life's stage?" And absorbed by the dramatic A Act 2 COMPRADORE from

same lofty and massive forehead, the same ma stiff power of chin and jaw. Clear eyes, wide

reflection Euston beat his head in thought and took a few strides in the direction of a long mirror. The room abounded in them. Carina

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petition, which was won by the Siege Train nose, full lips, all his features suggest dominant sank dejectedly into a low chair by the fire. It Order of the Board of Directors,

Football Club.

The Shield Fund shows a balunee of $48.21. The Club how consists of 245 members. During the year, 4 new members were electad,

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The Seventh Annual Dinner took place at the Hongkong Hotel on the 6th April last, and

24 members ware present.

The Annual General Meeting for the purpose of receiving the Committee's report on the past senson and for electing the Committee and Officers for the forthcoming season will be held in the Cricket Pavilion on Thursday, September

26th next, at 3 o'clock.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, President. JH. T. MCMURTRIK, Capt. Rugby,

A. R. Lowe, Capt. Association.

J. C. M. JOHNSTON, Hon, Treasurer.

H. W. SLADE,

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will and energy rather than subtlety of mind or emotion. He had on the frock coat in which he was presently to address deputations, and loosely tied brown slippers, in, which he was not. He also was not unmindful of the spit. toon. Yet with that he is gifted with a kindly courtesy that is plainly genuine and completely winning. I am no more prejudiced ia favour of the apostle of Protection than any other Englishman, yet it was impossible not to feel- absurd as it seemed that be was really glad to see a wandering newspaper correspondent

from the country against which his whole policy has for years been directed.

ALLEGED BRITISH POLITICAL SCANDAL,

(AMERICAN CABLE.]

LONDON, August 17th, An anonymous. "etter to the Spectator recent ly declared that C'écil' Rhodes, by a contribu- tion of £5000 to the funds of the party, bad in- duced the Liberals to abandon their policy as to Egypt, which favours evacuation. Thereupon the Spectator insinuated that this arrangement explained the tenderness which the Liberals displaycul toward Mr. Rhodes in the inquiry as to the Jameson raid.

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, on be Lalf of himself and Sir William Vernon Harco, declared the story "a lie from begining id ond," "To-day Mr.

Rhodes writes to the Spectator, promising to get the correspondence on the sublect from Bouth 2:8.20 Africa and to publish it, adding that "the

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From the comments of the Liberal papers it now appears conclusive, that the late Mr. Schnadhorst, the Liberal organizer, accepted £5,000 from Mr. Rhodes. The Spectator itself repudiates this version and charges the Liberal party with accepting a bribe. ARRESTING A SOLDIER'S WIFE,

was impossible to reach him. His heart, his There mind, his soul, were all extinct. remained only the Profession. His honour?

Could it be reached by that? Or her honour would he dramatise that, and act the outraged hushand on the domestic stage?

She bent her head on her hands, and the firelight stone on her hir

"Why grieve when Fate compols?" he said, gently, as he moved slowly up the room again. "We are as happy as universal imperfection permits of happiness in imperfect mortale,

Boileau has said—-”

;

She raised her bead."That evening I first wore that white chiffon teagown you said I was perfect-jast six weeks ago."

He stopped behind her chair, and mechanical- ly kneaded the cushions that were piled on the back of it. "Yes, that was the first night of Bruning's play. It was divine, that second act. The love scene brought down the bouse."

Carina rose, and drawing hereself up, stared angrily. at him. “Then' that was only a rehearsal too," she said, scomfully and before he could answer, she added," quickly "What aro you playing to-night??

Euston's eyes shone. "A quaint litilo tragedy called 'Love' lies bleeding,' ' I wish-upon my word it is ten thousand pities Julia Denton could not have seen your attitude in the chair by the fire. Perhaps, after all she is hardly petite enough for such a posture,"

"I fear I make poor understudy for her." Carina's voice trembled a little, but he did not notice it,

"On the contrary, it is the who is your under. study, he catches very quickly at my sugges tions. Now bor sobbing in her sleep was a perfect imitation of you, only the exquisite gres of your abandon in sleep was lost, because she had to do it on a 'sofa."

He did not notice Carina's face. She was' hardly breathing. Her pyes fastened them- selves in awful lustre on his face, When did I sob in my sleep?" she asked at last in a curiously still voice,"

"Sunday night, my Carin, It was the most divine thing I ever heard or said. It would

have made our fortunes on the stage. Still must say Miss Denton caught the idea beauti- fally.".

he sat down to the supper table he noticed a- crumpled paper besides his plate. For a long time he sat with it is his hand, staring at it, and his face grow grey and old, Then from babit, whenever he was experiencing & now emotion, he turned to the mirror beside him, i

"Drowned "--she was going to drown bonell)

fist

A case interesting to British married soldiers was heard in the Bombay police court the When he came home late that night and let other day. The wife of a lance¿corporal in the bimself into the little fat, he sighed that a man. Oxfordshire Light Infantry' charged a colour of his sensitiya genius should have so many sergeant of the same regiment with assault | stairs to climb after a hard night's work. An and wrongful confinement. Her husband had been placed under arrest, and the complainant came out of her room and asked the reason of her husband's arrest. She was told that if she did not "shut up" she herself would be made a prisoner. The defendant almost immediately ordered up a police guard and directed the complainant's removal by main force to the guard-room. For the defence it was argued that the complainant, be. og on the strength of the regiment, was amenable to all the pains and penalties incidental to a breach of military discipline as much as any ordinary soldier, and that the defendant in taking the action, he did was dead sweation, why did you

under the bona fide bellef that he was don

"Damn you!" he shouted, shaking at his grey, haggard reflection. "Damn you you miserable fool, you shall drown with her la And seizing bis hat, he flung himself out of the

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