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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1904.

of trade much of the agricultural wealth of | the district of Heungshan which the line, is destined to tap, and so ultimately redound

MR. F. B. Deacon, hon, secretary of the Hong- kong Gymkhana Club, has requested us to state that, owing to the alterations in progress in the

All commaulcations futando for publication in The "HONGKONG TELEGRAPH should be should be accompanied by the Writer's Name and ready to carry the produce and the wealth khana Club will hold no meeting this month.

actrowed to The Editor, 1, Ice Howe Road, and

Adurow

Onlinary business communications should be addressoil

to The Maunger.

The Editor will not undertake sa be responsible for Any rejected MS., nor to return any Contribution.

SUBSCRIPTION RATES (IN ADVANCE). DAILY $30 per annum, WEEKLY $13 per anum,

The rate por quarter and per monsen, proportional. The daily in is delivered free when the address is sccomible to mowonger. Da espios scut lɛy post an

to the benefit of our shipping which is here Hongkong Jockey Club's enclosure, the Gym-

of the neighbouring districts of South China to any part of the world,

LOCAL AND GENERAL

bank, and

THE Medical Officer of Health Toporta lit, did sitaman, the head of, a since noon of yesterday, nine further cases of bad of the most earnest and dayout men in any plague have been notified. Two of these were rank of life. from Caine Road,

AN Imperial exhibition, designed to demon strate that the Empire is self-sustained in the THE Daily Express asserts that all the mari-production of all Hecessaries and luxuries, is to time nations with the exception of Great Bribe opened in London in May, 1505. thin are favourable to the holding of a diplo matic congress for the purpose of considering COLONEL Younghusband rebuked and fined an abbot at Gyangtee for allowing monks to fight. The abbot prayed for forgiveness, alle ging that the Lassa officials compelled them.

PRESENTATION TO POLICE, S This afternoon all the members of the

the adoption of an international code of mari- time law.

THE issue of a London County Council loan (£5,000,000 worth of 3 per cents, at 490) was EARL Selbourne, First Lord of the A'miraty, covered 40 times over.

speaking at Bath, stated that the recovery of the remains of an optical tube and the marks on the conning-tower of the submarine A:

.

A NEW Australasian swimming record was es-

In contradistinc lon to this there is the Ritu Society much appreciate ecclesiastical millinery alist party Thoro who are ita votaries, in and elaborate paraphrases of Roman Catholic ceremonies. They peruse itle manuals and treatises which go in excessively for Mariolatry. and other religious devices. Confession is and invocation of saints, and possess medallions

openly advocated by the unmarried priests, and it is a fact that at the Roman Catholic shop in Paternoster row where penitential Instruments are sold-such as disciplinge, hair shirts, and crosses with sharp pointa-practically all the purchasers are, so-called Protestante. Every Ritualist seems to have some limit which he

additional $1.80 per quartor in charged for patage. tablished at Auckland the other day by Cavill, showed that she had dived directly she police who could be spared from duty attended will not exceed, and not many emulais Father

The portage on the weekly is to any part of the

world is 30 cents per quarter. Single Copies Daily, ten cents: Weekly, twenty.

five Cents.

The Hongkong Celegraph

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1904.

THE RAILWAY QUESTION. In an editorial in the columns of our junior morning contemporary the writer once again brings to public attention the dilatoriness on the part of the British concessionaires to construct the line between Hongkong and Kowloon. So long as the agitation is kept up on plausible grounds, we think it will be 33.00 generally admitted that the stimulating effect of public criticism might succeed in arousing

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the inactivity of the Syndicate into action. At any rate, pressure might be brought to hear upon either the British and Chinese. Corporation or the Government to prosecute an undertaking which a concensus of public opinion in the Colony pronounces as of paramount importance in order to preserve the commercial integrity of this important British port. This end is more easily attainable by agitation on sound and well-defined lines such as those, we presume, which must already have been in view by the leaders of public opinton in Hongkong when the pronounce that the construction of the line of rails 10 ment was definitely asserted in high quarters

connect Kowloon with Canton, cannot, with safety to the interests of the port, be much longer deferred. Any alarmist view of an imaginary prospective competitor to Hong kong, however, when expressed in public

A. S. WATSON & CO., print, is to be deprecated. Such a view is taken in the article of our contemporary to-day. The proposed Macao Canton railway is trot ted out as the bugbear of which Hongkong

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who covered 220 yards in 2min, agsec.

COMMENTING on the declining birth-rate, the Daily Mail says that if Australian population does not increase, British power in Australia is

doomed,

THE Daily News states that the Czar wept on hearing of the palevsk disaster, and exclaimed. God wills it. Itis plans are in

scrutable. His will be done."

LARGE contracts are being entered into by the shipbuilding firms at Elswick (England) for the construction, after the war, of men-of-war to replace those lost by Russia.

A CONSPIRACY IS reported to have been hatch. ed in America to assassinate the Pope. Italian Government has been informed, and The

the greatest vigilance is being excicised.

SOUTH AFRICAN shares show great activity on the Stock Exchange, and values have risen many millions of pounds during a recent week. The buying is being done principally by

professionals.

NEWS has been received from Thers-lay Island of the death of Captain James Usher, the well-known Torres Straits pilot. Deceased was well known in Messrs. Bums, Philp, and Co.'s service.

For the fourth time Edward Sharp, an un employed seaman, was charged before Mr. Gumpertz, by Inspector Gourlay, with being drank and incapable in the public street. $15

14 days was the result.

A MYSTERIOUS explosion has occured in a St. Petersburg hotel, one man being blown to atoms. He is surposed to have accidentally knacked over an internal machine. It is believed that a Nihilist plot against some prominent personage was intended, the acci dent frustrating it.

A YOUNG Chinese beachcomber bumped up against a native farmer, in Connaught Road, yesterday, and, shipping his land into the

detected the mer. Three seconds more would have taken the submarine underneath.

mitted suicide.

Polish frontier, instead of to the Far East.

unkind permission of Lt. Col. Ironmonger and will play at the Hongkong Hotel to-morrow officers the Bad of the 93rd Burma Infantry

(Saturday) from 8 to 9.30 p.m. PROGRAMME. March...

"The Uhlan's Call". Overture. Siradella"

.Eilenberg ..............Flotou German The Caterpillar and the Rose.....Carry ..." Kitty Gry

Bionckton Benefizlanten “.

.....Gung'l .Berger

a full-dress paride, at the Central Station, when the Governor's award was presented to Maturin and go over to Rome. In this High Sergt. M. O'Sullivan for proficiency during the Church set are much more fashionable people Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Artillery, Government, Mr. F. H. May. C. M. G., accom-though they are quite fit to "be in Society," It is reported that General Altvater, Acting past year. HE. the Officer Administering the than in the Low Church confraternity but has disappeared. He is supposed to have companied by Mrs. May, Mr. R. A. B. Ponsonby, they are not much to be seen in smart sels, improbable, General Alivater disobeyed the Thinking that war was

Private Secretary to . E., Captain Hodgson,Within limitations, Lord Halifax is the head of because they disapprove of a good many things. the orders of the authorities by sending seven arrived at 3.30 pni. H, E. inspected the men, this section, which is active in East-crid work. A. D. C. and a party from Government House, batteries of light m uatain infantry to the in company with Mr. Badeley, Captain Superin-aristocracy in London, but it is a little apart. There is, of course, a regular Roman Catholic tendent of Police, Mr. Ponsonby, Captain This is first of all due to the fact that very few Sergeant O'Sullivan was Hodgson, and Mr. Wodehouse. Subsequently.

of the men have been to the great English called forward, gratulatory words and His Excellency addressed a few con- Public schools, and, secondly, because the o him on the prefciency he community is always suspected of a desire to had shown. He said it gave him the more proselytise, which causes its lightest words to pleasure to note that he was the successful be viewed with suspición; while, thirdly, the candidate for the year as he was a countryman more limited scope of the education, and the of II. E.'s, and had proved himself a credit to

fact that a good many popular books are inter- the force, and a worthy member of the come from joining in the free and often brilliant con. dicted to Roman Catholics, rather kinders them munity. He had, H. E, added, much pleasure versation heard at the dinner parties of the best in handing Sergeant O'Sullivan a handsome gold watch. His Excellency then referred to inter-marrying of cousins or some other cause, gets. A graver fact is that, either owing to the the excellent work done generally, and es- MR. Gompertz, Police Magistrate, has expecially in the late Fire Brigade contest. the great Roman Catholic families, and in these there is a large amount of insanity in nearly all pressed his determination to put a stop to the He called upon the sucessful competitors, days of discussion upon heredity many people morning sentenced a large number of Chinese these columns, and presented them each destruction of trees on public land, and this a list of whom has already appeared in

are absolutely terrified at the least suspicion of to pay fines of $5 each, with the alternative of with a handsome gold watch-charm, while

this. seven days' imprisonment for breaking off he congratulated Mr. MacDonald on the work branches from trees, along Plantation Road and of the Chinese members of the Brigade, for at Magazine Gap. Several of them pleaded which he was mainly responsible. H. E. then Many, of course, are attracted by the tomfoolery, and has hundreds of really aristocratic votaries. that they had broken their carrying poles, and announced that the Kowloon Godown Combat the underlying leaven of common-sense has them, as they cust from to cents to 30 cents, Brigade at the last fires, had offered a beautiful of silly, imaginative women suffering from wanted new ones, but did not wish to pay for pany, in recognition of the work done by the done a great deal of good in the case of heaps cath. They were severely reprimanded and shield to be competed for at the annual con warned.

tests of the Fire Brigade. He congratulated Sergeant Grant for the proficiency shown by his section, which had placed it at the head at this year's contest.

Selection. Herric England " Song. Selection Sale Cake Walk...." Jvily Ngtoes"

God save the King.

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THE cost of cremation compares very favour. ably with that of ordinary burial, the average cost of the latter all over the United Kingdom

being Lo Cremation, even in its initial stages, costs at Woking £6, which includes a simple urn for the ashes; at Golders Green, one guinea for residents and three for out- siders; and at Glasgow, L3, though this price could be reduced to tos were the process more

generally adopted. In countries where it is Jargely practised the cos: is comparatively ring. Thus in Denmark it can be done for

The Force was then put through a few drills, after which men were dismissed and the

function ended.

the

try, but it is discussed everywhere in Society,

Christian Science has not captured the coun",

week, one of the six most notable duchesses in nerves or hysteria. At a dinner-party only last England said, "Woll, we may think Christian Science rubbish, but it has improved the man- who has gone in for it, and they are all happier ners and disposition of every woman I know. into the bargain. Be it added; the Christian Science meetings are attended by a far larger percentage of gentlemen than you can see in any Church of England service.

And so I come to the core of my subject:

what is the religious state of the sets really known as Society, not only the "smart," but also the "best," those containing the real leaders

of aristocratic thought My reply would be

[35 should hold in dread. The article recites latter's pocket, extracted hats purse containing 8s, at Zurich 35 6d, at Breslau 35, at Padua as conts each, from the shop of Wong Hing, No. that the feeling is on de polite scepticism.

A CHEE & CO., 祥 利廣

17, QUEEN'S ROAD.

FURNITURE

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DRAWING ROOM,

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FURNITURE.

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three hours in the stocks

a few preliminaires relating to the concession

$3.99, and sucia keys and papers. I his morn- granted to Senhor Azevedo Castello Branco he went to three months' hard labour, with that are already familiar to readers of diegraph months ago, and associates the visit of Mr Chan Fong (a member of the Luzo-Chinese Syndicate formed for carrying out the preliminary survey of the line to the St. Louis Exposition with the idea of obtaining assistance from Ameri- can capitalists. The assertion is also made

MRS Ashmead and her son have been arrested accessory to the death of two young women at in Philadelphia, U.S.A., on a charge of being their domicile, in suspicious circumstances. A: the inquest the Coroner, Mr. Dugao, refer-

4d, and in Japan for is gd.

a

A MARINE IN TROUBLE.

A Private in the R.M,L.I., of H.M.S. Bum- der, was charged this morning, at the instance of Inspector Collett, before Mr. Gompertz, with theft of two bottles of whiskey valued at 35 24 Queen's Road, and also with assaulting Wong Br, the general shop assistant. Wong another soldier, went into his shop on the 12th Hoi, the accountant, said that defendant, with inst, at about 6 35 pm, and white witness was talking to the other soldier, he saw defendant pick up two bottles of whiskey and put them in his pocket. Witnessed asked defendant to pay for them, but be refused, and walked out low the defendant and get the money or the of the shop. He told the shop assistant to fol whiskey back. The assistant said that he fol

Religion is freely discussed, much read about, and the present fashionable verdict one of "Not proven." You would be astonished bow girl of six-and-twenty knows on the subject much the average young married woman ar superficially, you will say. Possibly; but she

has taken the extract of the concentrated. thought of many of the greatest thinkers.

dabblers in religious matters. You will find Society columns week after week are lively Scores of women whose names figure in

THE sale of the well-known Sydney-owned barque City of Hankew to the Admiralty for service as a store ship at Sydney is reported. The vessel has been secured for service as coal and store hulk, and will be used principally in connection with the new flagship Eury slur, miralty by Messrs. Nelson and Robertsbu, and The vessel was placed under offer to the Ad after the usual survey she was inspected by that the line will naturally be built by the syndicate had a creinatorium for burning every way adapted for the requirements of the the whiskey, when defendant struck him over f copies of Emerson's Essays, af Renan, of Vice-Admiral Fanshawe, and found to be in lowed the man and asked him for the price of they possess well-thumbed and annotated Americans, will join the transcontinental line infants, dead or alive, with a view to destroying pavy. The City of Hankow is a Clyde-built the eye, causing a painful abrasion. He then Taine, and of a dozen translations of Asiatic vessel. She was launched at Glasgow in 1869.went back to the accountant, who immediately of Buddha, and are familiar with Americau ́ad- creeds. They know the Koran and the lenets

red to the alleged existence in the city of a syndicate for the conduct of Itegal p actices. Mr. Dugan declared that he had evidence that

evidence of malpractices.

ONE of the experts in the Department of Agri- culture at Washington has discovered that Bordeaux mixture-a well-known agricultural vermicide, composed of copper, sulphate of time, and water-will destroy mosquitoes and make stagnant pools as clear as crystal. As mosquitoes and stagnant water play a large malaria, the Department hopes the discovery part in the dissemination of typhoid and may bring about a considerable diminution in typhoid and malarial lever cases.

ships af at, and she has many fast passages to took the soldier to the station, Defendant In her early days she ranked among the fastest blew Whistle and a constable came up and her credit both in the China and Australian stated that he went into the shop with a com- trade. The City of Hankow is an iron vessel rade and bought two bottles of whiskey, and of 1,133 tons.

paid $1 for them. As he waing the shop he was suddenly assaulted al men in. Court the other day, when the names of a num-struck one man, and was then arrested and THERE was some amusement in a Sydney the shop, and told to return hiskey. He

monses charging them with selling pak-a-piu ber of Chinese were called to appear on sum tickets. Twenty-seven Chinamen were con- cerned. In some cases the offenders feared

at Canton, and will provide the necessary coastal terminus. Portugal practically will have nothing to do with it, and as Belgian

aptations of Eastern notions. Moreover, they capital has supplanted American capital on the Canton-Hankow line, by a transaction in

They are inclined to dabble in palmistry, and read books on telepathy and spiritualism. shares, it is likely the proposed Macao- Canton Railway will eventually come under

are not ignorant of crystal-gazing. They bave the same ownership, which is nominally

a smallering of the scientific attacks made by Belgian and may be French.

they have gleaned at least the demol'shing Huxley and his followers on Scripture, and In reality, the substantial facts in connection with

re-called, said that no money was paid by de only as they are destructive of the old beliefs, taken to the Police Station. The accountant,

aspect of the Higher Criticism. The sermons the proposed survey and the contemplated construction of the line, assuming the

of men like Canon. Henson are quoted so far fendant to anyone in the shop.. ratification of the concession was effected,

His Worship held that the change was confréely pooh-pooked. "I really don't see how and the infallibility of Holy Scripture is as reported, by the Waiwupu on the 4th

clusively proved, and while be greatly regret Christianity can last in the face of what wa GENERAL Booth, of the Salvation Army, is obliging and indifferent fellow-countrymen had ted to have to convict a man who bore a good know," said an Irish preress, fast night. You March last, have not been altered since the organising an Imperial Labour Bureau for the come forward as willing substitutes, ready to character, as his captain testified, on such a WHITE TURKISH TOWELS Syndicate was formally constituted under purpose of sending "submerged" emigrants undergo any punishment that might be im- petty charge, he had no option but to send him think that any passing ware of aristocratic know very little," was the grave reply, if you where they are most needed.

An appeal is posed. The work of evicting the proxies was to hard labour for fourteen days on the charge indifference can affect the faith of the country » made for £1,000,000, and it is hoped that the

carried on briskly for about half an hour. In of theft, and order him to pay a fine of $10, or British and Canadian Governments and the

the case of one defendant. Qon Vick, Senior-undergo a further fourteen days, for the assault Australian and South African States will sub- Sergeant Kelly was positive in his identifica. scribe £50,0 0 each. A conference of Salva

tion. Scanning his notebook, he took a glancé at the voluntary defendant, and then remarked, tionists from all parts of the world is shortly to

'He's not the man; Quon Vick has a broad be held in London, and afterwards General Booth intends to visit Australia in furtherance face and a pimple on his nose." Then the man of his scheme.

without the pimple was summarily passed out, It was ultimately before the Court. The hear

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the chairmanship of Minister Branco at Macao weeks ago, as fully reported in these columns at the time. The composition

of the syndicate is a Luzo-Chinese one, the subsequent admission of another PHOTOGRAPHIC of expediency, it being considered of distinct member having been made on the grounds DEPARTMENT. DEVELOPING and PRINTING

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PROMPT RETURN. Hongkong, 8th January, 1904.

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with First-class Builders. A large stock of Canadian Asbestos and

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Hongkong, 3rd May, 1904.

Should it

being sentenced to imprisonment and some

FROM A LONDON CLUB WINDOW.

BY A MEMBER.

With London putting on its annual clean face of white paint, and with a large prepony

is of no national consequence. The fashion. And that exactly sums up the situation. It able Bible of the moment is Omar Khayyam, that apotheosis of matter-of-fact pessimism, Among clever, refined ladies immortality seems to be dreaded, not desired, and this craving for Of course, all creads are discussed and, sup. eternal sleep is a curious contemporary feature. ported by women, whilst the lay male does his

THE death is recorded in German papers of ing of the case against those who appeared was derance of notable people still away, it seems daily task of work or pleasure, and merely

advantage to the promoters to have a mem ber associated with them whose influence in financial circles is not to be despised in a matter in which monetary assistance is of Herr Franz Burich, whom the Germans claim no little consideration. The fear of the

as the inventor of picture postcards. No Eng- concession passing into American hands lish illustrated card appeared before 1891. The is more imaginary than real.

first French card appears to have been issued at the time of the Tsar's visit to Paris in 1896 ever be in British interests to acquire it was long believed that nothing could be shares in the concern, there need be little found, even in Germany, of an earlier date apprehension that American capitalists than the Nuremberg Exhibition card of 1882: will absorb the entire undertaking. The But cards were, it now appears, printed in coincidence that one of its Chinese mem- colours from Herr Borich's designs as early as bers happens to be an American subject with 1872. Research has also brought two earlier large landed interests in one of the districts sets of cards to light, through, which the sailway is designed to pass

THE best method, known in Calcutia to-day

adjourned for a week, while warrants were

ordered to be issue for the absentees.

THE report of Lord Cromer, the British Minister in Egypt, on the state of Egypt and the Soudan in 1903, has been published. The report states that the future of the Soudan depends mainly upon good administration, the increase of population, improved communi- cations, the cultivation of cotton, and cheap fact. The result of the inquiries as to the approximate population of the Soudan, made of the Soudan, is amazing. Sir Reginald by Sr Reginald Wingate, Governor-General

Wingate estimates that prior to the Dervish rule the population of the Soudao was 8,525,000, disease during the period included in the whereas now it is only 1,870,500. Deaths from estimate numbered 3,50,000, while deaths a steamer and every carpenter on board a sail from external and infernal war numbered ing vessel could each devise of himself the best 3,250,000. It is desirable, the report states, to method of applying the gas in the event of a encourage Egyptian immigration to the fire. A supply of charged cylinders can feadi- Soudan In dealing with Egypt, the report ly be obtained for each voyage, The verpease hints that

does not alter the fact that, were international consideration to play any part in future, and for extinguishing fres id ships' holds with the least possible damage to the cargo, is, says tical, in the syndicate, the British element isfied carbonic acid gas discharged from cylin at the moment. it appears entirely hypothe "Max" in Capital, by the application of liqui-

second-hand information, but base our asser- not wholly eliminated. We write from no ders into the hold. Every engineer on beard tions upon indisputable knowledge of the actual facts. There is little fear that the Macao-Canton railway will act as a fact

or to usurp the position to which Hong is very little, and the possession of these oppilbur kong has attained in the trade of Bquthan-may mean the saving of the vessel; her China. If anything, the Portuguese line will cargo and crew, when, without them, all might emp (581 assist in bringing to this important entrepôt be lost,

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opportune

fulfilmy pledge to write on the listens to the feminine view. But the neurotic subject of relig ons Society.

keen for or age religious belief on the old woman of this dod in London Society is as lines as was the fair sex at the French Court of Louis XV. It is this lack of religion, at the her air's so shifting, her underlying sentiment Is anything worth while? Phare written no helm which makes her life so responsible,

popular eulogistic treat se, bilt I have told the truth as seen from within. Others can deduce

As a matter of F, Society is so large, and consists of so many cliques, that every form of belief and unbelief has room to flourish and obtains some followers. Therefore, the sweep ing assertions that Society is irreligions, which one often hears made by people whose know, ledge of it is acquired second band or from the servants' hall, is absolutely ridiculous.

There are many very “churchy" sets. First of all there is the Low Church set. This con whilst the younger adherents are either spi sists mainly of elderly peers and pecresses sters of under ded age or foredoomed nature to be unmarried. Sundays, but have cold, suppers, and eminently respect.ble; they never

aries are late on sup osters of missionary work rom meetings at which a bevy of ladies, and a

quently made These are the taxpayer has borne i

folk who have throw on they usually hay

other

lessons. What I have set down is sober fact, and has not been over-stated

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