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"OPUS MAGNUM EST.”

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1904.

When the Rev. Dr. Gomes descended from the rostrum it was 5.20 p.m. He spoke for exactly twenty five minutes.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, MACAO. | ese, who were prominently identified with the ceremony. This done, the Bishop assisted by the Rev. Frs. Ariaga, Luz, and Alvares, LAYING OF THIS FOUNDATION STONE.

walked along the circuit of the foundation of the future church, scattering holy water as he pronounced the prayers in the meantime. The

Aller some hesitancy, some person in the antiphony Bent fundada est was ontoned. Re crowd led with applause to the address, and ready to be lowered into position, Mgr. Castro Macaentes! Viva os Portuguezes were heard turning to where the cornerstone had been loud calls of "Viva St. Paulo Vivo again recited prayers and stood watching the

ess it was lowered into the pit under the rather doubted the propriety of this later pro- It seemed as if the entire boly of the populace direction of Foreman Camerto, and so, con-reeding much as all adinired the brilliance of cluded the ceremony.

the address and the gennine feelings that;ing spired it. The spectators dispersed amidst the blessings of His Lordship the Bishop.... T

Abazaar was hold immediately after and continued throughout the evening till midnight The special attractions have been arranged fur Saturday and Sunday next when a large number of visitors and patrons are expected from Hongkong. In connection with the open air fête next week a special feature will be the pyrotechnic display.

REV, DR. GOMES'S ADDRESS.

VIHE RELIGIONS OF CHINA:

7th inat.

to the Portuguese settlement. At one time it reverend gentleman that, when he had taken Inçado stands as the most interestinotch The woodwork particularly, executed entirely theories of the supernatural and taught that chia. Some found being vanaditim, didimium,

At the present time the moment is opportune for us to present to our readers a historical sketch of the building whose conspicuous religious monument and landmark in Macao. The is extracted from an article on "Religious Memories" contributed by W.L.H., from Macao, to the Mangalore Magasine and printed in the Jone, 1902, number of that publication.

After briefly reviewing the history of the

almost on the point of annexing acertain portion much of the beauty of the speaker's rhetoric Portuguese settlements in China' the writer of Our Lady, of St. Paul, and four Jesuit saints Buddhism, which was at present being simul.who was the original finder. It was therefore

Macao, 4th December. For seventy years neglected and uncared for, the ruins of the old Cathedral of St. Paul in this city, begun in 1602, and completed in 1623, once again claim the hallowed memory of its former sanctity which, for close upon three quarters of a century, has been desecrated by the unholy and ungodly usen" to which

At 4-45 pm. the Rev. Dr. Antonia J. that sanctified spot had been applied since the Gomes, D.D, having received, kneeling, the memorable night of 1834 when a destructive benediction pronounced by His Lordship the fire reduced the sacred edifice to asbes. It was Hishop at the foot of the altar, proceeded to shortly after the hour of eleven at night after ascend the pulpit (a temporary erection the bells of the clock in the steeple chimed for

the assembly meanwhile gathering around the last time that the historic building came

at must advantageous positions in order crumbling to the ground as the devastating to listen to a discourse the eloquence of element was working its havoc in the city of whose language and the sincerity and Macao in that fateful year of 1834. Since that fervour of whose appeal have rarely-and long period of time many and varied have been probably never before-fell upon the public car the suggestions for the treatment of the ruins at Macao. It was evident to the thousands that have excited the admiration of avery visitor whose eager eyes were concentrated upon the

his stand at the rostrum, the Father became was mooted to rebuild the church, at another it was proposed to demolish the monumental sensibly affected by the large crowd before him, façade, and later the sale of the granite his first words of the splendid' discourse being used for the splendid flight of steps at the en- uttered in a visibly affected manner. In the trance to the cathedral was spoken of, Still brief space at my disposal I cannot but very more recently the Vandalism of property owners, concisely present just a bare summary of the most salient points of the soul-stirring address, with the sanction of the Municipal Council, was of the majestic entrance for purposes of resi- being lost in translation. Dr. Gomes took for dential buildings. But the timely intervention his text Gen. 28, 16-Pere Dominus est in loco of the ecclesiastical authorities happily averted isto, et ego nesciebam. "Verily, this place is what would have been not short of an archacholy and I knew not," He pointed to those ological catastrophe, and thus the splendid venerable ruins, that immense pile of granite approach of St. Paul's has been saved, let us

creet as a plumb-line and indestructible, that ma- hope, for all time.

gestic façade, which has stood for three cen- turies in all its architectural beauty, an avid- THE SCHEME OF RE-CONSTRUCTION.

ences acclaiming the sanctity of the spot. With the arrival of the Rev, Antonio José Religious sentiments were bound up in that Gomes, D.D., of the Portuguese Mission, the gigantic monument, and many had admired in idea was conceived for the restoration of the it the wonders of art. Those souls that were old church in all its former glory. How his animated by faith read on that broad page of conception took form and how it developed granite, writ in black letters, the most shameful will best be seen in the perusal of his discourse history of paganism over Christianity. Those ou the occasion of the laying of the foundation were sacred precincts that at one time had been stone this afternoon of the new church to be the nursery of many Portuguese missionaries dedicated to the Portuguese patron St. Anthony. in China, of many preachers of the Gospel, of The ceremony took place at 3 p.m. to-day, ín many messengers of civilization and of many the presence of the largest concourse of people martyrs in the East. Holy were those sacred that assembled at any public function here. precincts where were interred the remains of It was performed by the Right Rev. Don Jodo their elders, for there was the cemetery of their Paulino d'Azevedo e Castro, D.D., bishop of the ancestors. But, the Rav. Father, said: No, no, diocese of Macao and member of the Council that place could not be holy when, ten months of H.M.F.M. the King of Portugal. That an ago, for the first time he ascended that monu unusual function was being enacted at the site mental flight of steps that led to those veperated commonly known as St. Paul's to-day was ruins, and beheld the sights that met his gaze. sufficiently evident by the number of flags that How could a Christian temple be turn d into a floated from masts erected over the long stand public heathen sink, the roaming ground ing pile of granite that did sentinel duty for of the most anclean of the lower forms of Macan, for as long as the Portuguese settle-animals, and a terrace for the drying of jess ment is old, acclaiming to the world the fact sticks? Yet when he looked up and beheld the of its being the first seat of Christian evange Sign of the Uross, the image of the Virgin, and liration in the Orient. The flag of Portugal the statutes of the saints adorning the niches and along its ridges other flags were placed for pyramid amidst the most nauseous and infec- ornamentation. The face of the muss grown ticus surroundings, his clerical spirit received a walls was out-lined with wire-suspenders for rude shock. Yet acne the city of the holy the thousands of coloured lamps that illumi

name of God impassively contributed to that nated the whole façade in the evening during

most odious profanity. He, as an adopted the bazaar that was held for the Re-construc- child of the land, appealed to Macao, to that cit tion Funds. A huge matshed was erected that was the most precious jewel set in the against the interior of the wall for the accom.

Portuguese Crown, the centre of Christian civi- modation of several hundred ladies and gentlelization; Macao, the Rome of the East, the men who witnessed the ceremony from this point, loyal city, to allow him, to speak openly and For the Governor, his suite and the naval mili-without reserve what he felt by an imperious tary, and civil functionaries a special booth was

and irresistible force to say that day. Dr. erected and suitably decorated, while for the Gomes then proceeded in caustic, but withit representatives of the Press of Hongkong a sincere, language to lay the blame for the -stand was out ua in a couanianca position. The church dignataries occupied seats at the altar in another shed, and the populace throng ed on the ground at every point of vantage. It was observed that some Chinese, to gain a better view of the scene, climbed to the very top of the façade and monkey-like watched the proceedings from their dizzy perch. There were a good fow at the Monte Fort looking at the crowd below from that height. The inevit- able kodak-bearers were there too, and some

says:—

time and against all protests, Avanie! Avants, | 'ful church, as is amply testified by the mogu-

west along that undulating line of hills with | ́a reconstruce co de São Paulo!!--

mental façade still standing almost intact. Fr.

the bold, rugged peaks stretching towards the... | Jaric, the bistorian of the Indian missions,

function of the Shabo and Lango, and breaking" says that St. Paul's of Macao was similar to St. Paul's of Goa. The façade is all of granite interesting works, including "How to be happy will find a continuity of gozzons in parts very The Rev. E. J. Hardy, MA, author of many suddenly off north of Yangpingia. Here you richly sculptured with allegorical and mystical though Married, which, by the way, has much weathered and showing little signs of the devices, the only fault perhaps to be found attained to the penny edition apotheosis of pyrites once contained. Where the seam, of charged. Only the front was of granite:ing under the nuspices of the Hongkong Odd gullies or appears on the northern or weathered with it being that it appears somewhat over popularity, lectured at the City Hall last even which this gozon is the crown, crosses the

concrete, composed principally of ferruginous H.E. the Governor presided over a fairly large. The works carried on in various places are the walls were massive structures of a kind of

Volumes Society, on "The Religions of Chian sides the hatives have successfully tapped it

notwithstanding its refractory nature, sand form deriver and feet, ixed with gathering, and introduced the reverend gentle merely surface, and may be looked upon in the mud from the river and a little time..

man, who having admitted that his subject was a Fr. Alexander de Rhodes, S. J., the celebrat very largeone indeed, proceeded to treat princip nature of prospects. They are not bad pros ed missionary of Cochin-China, writing from ally with Confucianist, Buddhism and Taoism, pects other, as material taken generally at the Macao in 1623, says of St. Paul's college and The first supplied the Chiness with mamals, the native workingspanned out at from 3107 dwt. pet church: "Our Society has a large college here second appented to their spiritual nature, and . Such a retum should under ordinary cir which can be compared with the finest in Eu Taoism to their gambling interest in chance cumstances prove attractive; but under the ex- rope. At least the church is the most magnifi- and luck. He thought Confucius had been traordinary circumstances of cheap Chinese cent I have seen, even in Italy, excepting St. senselessly overestimated since his death and labour, and proximity to railway transit the Pater's of Rome." There may perhaps be said that his great influence might be account-prospect looks most alluring. So alluring, in... some exaggeration in this judgment of the en ed for by the fact that his writings were used deed, that since the region was visited a com thusiastic missionary, but his words are on

sa text books in schools and for competitive pany has started with the assistance of foreign record to show at least what impression the examinations. This great teacher.laid no claim capital to operate some of the minds on modern edifice made upon him. The writer has had to originality and once said he was only an lines. Judicious management should prove the the good fortune of hearing an old and highly editor and compiler of the works of the ancients value of this area, though it is by no means one enthusiastic over the beauty of St. Paul's when honoured Portuguese native of the colony grow yet there was no doubt that many of his pre- of the really rich areas of Chilli

capta were learned from personal experiance.

Some of the rare earths may be found near it still stood in the first quarter of the century He refrained from committing himself to the Great Wall immediately north of Liu. by skilled Japanese workmen, was praised as men know nothing about the gods, but that rubidium and lanthium. Reports of natives they should live as if always in their presence. stated that "white fron sands, or what we exquisitely beautiful.

The church stood until 1835, when it was Asked if there were oud word which would know as platinum sands, were to be found near burnt down one blustering wintry night. The serve as a rule of conduct for all life, he replied the Shaho. They certainly brought in con frontispiece, as has been said, still stands al- "Is not reciprocity such a word ?-What you siderable samples which had passed through...- imost intact, with even the fine bronze statues do not want done to yourself, do not to others," many hands, but it was impossible to ascertain

Corning to the subject of this paper, Religious is that?" visitors exclaim, as the outlines of the and espoused by the Chinese, was a beautiful secured, whether it lay to the north of the Wall still in their niches. "What fine old cathedral taneously derided and advocated, and neglected difficult to say in what region these sands were Memories of Macao, we shall see what was the majestic ruins come in sight, from the deck of religion when missionaries first brought it to

or the south thereof. To the north of the Wall rapid and remarkable development, of one

of the steamer upon entering the harbour, China some 250 years before Christ, but gate, known as Taoliangkow, about five miles, departmel ofthe colony, that of education, under the auspices of the missionaries, In 1565. form some idea of importance of the mission and an idolatory imported from India quickly iron is found in quantity with the usual asso From the rains of the material edifice they may being brought into contact with Taoism a cliff overhangs the river, in which titauiferous the first Jesuits entered the colony, and in a few years they had founded a missionary, cal do they think of the heroism which sent forth of earth by its doctrines of heaven, purgatory

which had such a beautiful church; but little became debased, accounted for the inequalities ciate of platinum, in very small proportion, lege. In 1595, the college was bumt down from St. Paul's so many generous youths and transmigration and nirvana. Instead of a fixed must be sought some distance south of this This left the impression that platinum sands but it was immediately rebuilt on a larger and inore commedious scale. There were seventy

men of mature age, ready to sacrifice their best heaven and hell for which no one was good position in the immediate vicinity of the Wall missionaries were ever expected to reside up to the pit or the stake, in imitation of the to his own place, which he had prepared him almost an impossibility. or eighty rooms in it; not that so many strength and talent to carry the glad tidings" enough or bad enough it proclaimed a heaven itself. When the journey was made the river to the gentiles; ready, too, to gire themselves and hell of many mansions-each person went

was in flood so that sand prospecting was there at 1 time, but Macao was the headquarters of the Japanese mission, then Divine Pastor who laid down his life for his self. He who was without desire, dead to him. in its most flourishing period, and it often that the Fathers of St. Paul's used to keep with of Buddha-thou shalt not kill any living sheep. Fr. de Rhodes, among others, records self, atone lived. Of the five commandments happened that large bands of missionaries reverential care the relics of their martyrs in thing; thou shalt Hot steal; thou shalt tot com- had to await there the monsoon that was to take them to, their field of labour, Japan, whenever any relics were to be obtained. mit any unchaste act; thou shalt not drink any Then, many of the rooms must have been They were all labelled and kept in good order, intoxicating liquor-the ordinary Chinese occupied by the young members of the Society,

as long as the Jesuits were there; but later on, Buddhist obeyed whichever suited him. European as well as Japanese, preparing them and particularly, at the time of the fire, things Taoism was followed by class of peo

fell into confusion, and the relics were thrown ple who worshipped men who had been selves for work in the mission where so many together with no label or mark to permit of famous, as discoverers, statesmen, philanthro of them were to shed their bland for the faith which they preached. Japan is quaintly called distinguishing one from the other. They are pists or women celebrated for domestic virtue, by an old historian of the Society in Portugal, preserved in the domestic chapel of the and bel aved that bumam beings became spirits "the pet mission," awing, no doubt, de-ite Jesuite, once mare established in Macao, to and are happy in a future world. At the pre- popularity among the youthful aspirants to

whose hands they reverted several years ago, sent day, however, the religion had degener- missionary life. Leon Pages, one of the late

In the same chapel there is another relic ofated into little better than a system of fortune historians of Japanese missions, calle St. Paul s

far greater interest. It is a part of the forearm telling and an emporium of incantations against College at Macao "a training school of marlong. When the arm of the Saict was severed were very contradictory and Chinese consider of St. Francis Xavier, a bone several inches evil spirits. The three doctrines, however, tyrs." As an educational institution, St Paul's was soon provided with two masters of Latin, to be sent to Rome, two or three pieces of edit safest in the uncertainty as to the best two professors of theology, one of philosophy, the bone were removed for distribution among way of teaching the regions of the blest to take

the missions which had been the scenes of the passage by all three of those religious routes. ment included a library, an observatory, and

Other speakers included Sir Henry S. Berke an apothecary shop. Where in those early went to St. Paul's of Macao, as representing and after votes of thanks nad been accorded days was John Havard, the pioneer of higher

the mission of Japan, and, also, perhaps, on education in the. English calonies of North

account of Macao's proximity to the scene the lecturer and H.E. the Governor, the pro- America?

of the Saint's death. The Island of Sancian is ceedings terminated, only sixty miles from Macao. The relic is ea closed in a handsome silver reliquary which family in 'whose house the relic, though belong- was made in London at the expense of a pious g to the cathedral, was kept after the burn. ing of St. Paul's,

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From Taoliangkow or Liuchia fake either a ged bound Shaho, or take a pany as it is exhi dat bottom boat along the picturesque and rug. lerating riding country, and make your way to the old military capital of eastern Chibli known as Yungpingfu, a thriving trade centre, which long ago should have been made a treaty, town, giving foreigners the right of residence for trade purposes. The people and officials of this town are most friendly to foreigners, and it is an interesting old town to the east of the Shaho just above the junction of this river with the Lanho,

floated from the apex of the historic monument of that façade, solid. and standing like a and one of belles-lettres, while the establish Apostle's labours. The principal of these reley. Hon. A. W. Brewin, and Mr. Dyer B..ll, country.carries a coal measure. The formation

fine films must have been obtained in the splen did light of the day.

THE CEREMONY,

The ceremony was somewhat delayed. The Bishop, accompanied by his Private Becretary, the Rev. Fr. Sarmento, and the church digna- taries arrived on the grounds at 3.10 p.m. and walked up to the altar. His Excellency the Governor was conspicuous by his absence, his aide-de-camp being present on his behalf, It was also noted that the Jesuit Fathers were not present although a representative of the Italian Mission in Bangkong (Rev. Fr. P. de Gabardi) and two priests of the Mission Etran gérés were amongst the several thousand peo. ple who were present. There were also the Seminarisis of St. Joseph's College and the girls of the Collegio Sta. Roza de Lima with the Sisters of the school.

The A. D. C. to the Governar arrived at 3.45 p.m. and immediately after the ceremony began with the blessing of the salt and water. Then the ground was blessed. The spot was marked by a plain black cross; it is a usual ceremony in the Roman Catholic ritual in the consecration of a church or a cemetery. The blessing of the corner-stone was the next pro ceeding. His Lordship with the silver trowel made the sign of the Cross on each side of the stone, then going down on his knees His Lord ship recited the Litany of the Saints. After the entoning of Mane Surgens Jacob, repeated by the Chorus of seminarists conducted by Rev. A. J. Roliz, 3 J., and the singing of Psalm so Mist Dominus, there was a long Interval to allow of the signing of the paich- ment which was afterwards enclosed in a glass tube, and with some Portuguese and Hongkong silver coins and a copy each of the four Hong. kong daily newspapers and a copy of the Boletim Ecclesiastico soldered in a sinc box this in turn being deposited in the foundatin stone. The inscription on the parchment was written and is follows :---

scenes of profanity thai desecrated the hailuess of that spot la the apathy that allowed such things to come to pass. He characterized that indifference as an effrontery to religion, to Art, to patriotism, yea, even to hygiene itself and to public health. Referring to the pre- cious Christian relics, he spoke of the attempts to despoil the façade of its bronze statutes, and the broken colonnades that withstood fire and wind in the memorable typhoon of 1874. as the work of preservation at the hands of God to the present time.

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flow many noble martyrs and illustrious missionaries, brothers and successors of St. Francis Xavier, e jayed for a longer or shorter period the maternal hospitality of St. Paul's! Blessed Charles Spinola was there about the year sixteen hundred, and according to Pagès, it was he who designed St. Pauls church, the magnificent façade of which is still standing, illessed Francis Pacheco was professor d theology there for several years, and among the students at the same time was Blessed Didacus Carvalho, who was martyred in Japan. in 1624. One cannot pass the ruined portal of the college, now no more, without going back in memory to the days when so many men of heroic mould daily passed that threshold. The church of St. Paul's was hagan in- as we be seen by the inscription on the corner-stone, but it was not completed until about 1623. The story of its building shows

THRILLING EXPERIENCE.

FIRST WOMAN CAPTURED IN PRESENT WAR.

perience of Miss Karrell of the Russian Red Few women in the world have had the ex- Cross, who was captured by the japanese and arrived in Chaína-tho-day-penre” yoxerday with an Uaaka bullet wound in her arm, saya the Chefoo Daily News, Miss Karroll is prob. shy he shot Red Cross nurse who has been

taken prisoner on either side.

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK.

An interesting circumstance in connection with the opening of the now Nagasaki offices of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, on the 14th uit, was the presentation to the Corpor- ation, by the Chinese merchants of Nagasaki, of a pair of beautiful silver vages, bearing the following Inscription, in English on one and in Chinese on the other:

Corporation.

To the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking

The prosperity of commerce depends great. ly upon the circulation of money. Until the establishment of your Bank at this port in 1896 the merchants of Nagasaki had difficulty in securing advances of money through the secur ity of Banks. Since then the credit of your Bank has been shown to us as well as to for been greatly profited through securing advances of money from your Bank.

As your Bank has just been rebuilt, we beg to offer a pair of silver vases in token of con- gratulation and remembrance."

Further south there is a shallowing of the Lanho, which is used as a ferry crossing at a place called Chihmen. Overhanging this which the market road lies. This hill is of red town there is a small kidney-shaped blil over sand-stone-with-an-outcrop of argilacions lime stone, with here and there a streak of carboniferous slate The undulating low hills east of this abound in small fossils and the and quality being similar to that the Linhsi section of the Kaiping collieries. Linhai is however on the so ther side of the railway. and gives the impression of the complimentary dip of the field which runs along the northern side of the railway from north-east of Kuiyin railway station across the Lanho in the direc tion of Funinghsien.. This may appear to be p tinuous. It iwisie, and undulates where it is vary big field and so it would be if it were con not intermitted by small hills suddenly rising from the seamingly level Chiblian plain. At the same time there is no doubt but that this is only a section of the famous Kaiping coal field.

pingly, crosses the Shaho and Lanho through The great high way leads through Yung Machlan, Supernat

Shahovi:

Through

out the whole of this journey from the time the - Lunho is crossed the indications of iron are is a small hill chiefly composed of magnetite at not wanting. In the vicinity of Shahoyi thera

one time worked by the Chinese but discarded for the sake of working the brown haematite and black band, found to the south-west of Tai

Lichiakow. The native work on the iron deposits is very small in extent and primitive.. resulting iron which goes to market in Yong! In execution. Wasteful as the process is the pingfa and Fengjeahsien is wonderfully good,

haw intimately the interests of religion were affected by the vicissitudes of the colony, and downs of commerce and war. In 1607, one of to what extent the mission felt the ups and where every attention is paid her in order that eigners. We, the undernamed merchants, have pingche, and to the north in the vicinity of Macao's riskly inden vessels from Japan, bear ing the fortunes of many of the wealthiest colonists, was lost on her voyage home. The following year another vessel of the colony was captured in the straits of Singapore by the Dutch, and on the same day that the dishearten ing news reached Maçan, three ships of the same inveterate enemies and rivals of the Portuguese sailed boldly into the Macao roads and took possession of a vessel all laden for Japan, while the crew happened to be ashore: Such losses weighed heavily upon the little colony, and many a work of zeal projected by the missionaries had in he delayed, or given up altogether, for want of the alms which in

the time of prosperity flowed in so generously, Among the delays was that of the building of St. Paul's church. The edifice had been planned on a grand scale; and as money was wanting to execute the plans, work was dis continued.

Things went on in that way until an bour of

WHERE TREASURE LIES

The young lady came direct from New. chwang and is a visitor at the Russian Consulate she may speedily recover from the effects of her imprisonment and the awful sights she has been forced to witness in the line of her duty. Stay-at-home people have not a good conception of the horrors of modern warfare. They find official reports cold and matter-of-fact; so are the majority of newspaper reports. Judging from these, they think men die without agony, and that there is no suffering but the chagrin of Eefeat. But if you would know of war's darker side, of tears welling from dying eyes, of loving letters written at death's door and dictated by strong men who e life blood is steadily ebbing, physical and mental anguish the dying and of the beart-rending combination of

suff-rer go to the Red Cross nurses for they

The description of a prospecting journey alone can tell you the truth. They will not through the metropolitan province of Chidlr speak of the clang of steel against steel, the the Great Wall, but south of this historic closed about the gold and copper region, near

shouts of the victorious, and the thrill that comes to the victor when the bayonet goes

out of account when nations prepare for war

Miss Karroll is no exception to the rule, Like the majority of her sisters of the Red people. It was at Putilo Hill, eight days ago, Crosshe deserves the applause of all civilised

that she was captured-At Putiloff bill, the japanese suffered a reverse, losing a battery of eighteen guns-Mia Karroll was away on the lifeless battle-field, after night fall; striving to locate the wounded by their cries, when a squad of Japanese made her a prisoner.

IN CHINA.

The following interesting article was speci- ally written for the Shanghai Times and ap- peared in a recent issue *-*

SHIPPING SUBMARINES.

He spoke of that day as a day that would be indelibly engraved in bis mind, when in the morning the sacrifice of the Muss was again offered after o lapse of seventy years. He alluded to the work of re-construc- tion as a work of Sed. Opus magnum est i It was a great work, a colossal undertaking, a gigantic enterprise; but it is as it should be, because it was God's and for God. Dealing with the arguments which he had heard ad vanced against the project he alluded first and foremost to that which stated that there were already too many churches a Macao and why

The Fastern Timer of the 16th ult, sayı- build a new one? In the speaker's opinion it was an illogical argument. They were there

The Kunagawa Maru, which arrived here on that day not to build a new church but to

the 23rd inst. from Seattle, which she left on restore one which for seventy years has not

the stb init, brought the five submarine boats had a substitute; one that stood in all its gran-

for fapán, about which so much bas appeared" deur some thine hundred years ago! When

in the American papers recently. Large crowds gambling dens sprang up in their midst,

of those the skin gottle and masy snapshots Hourished and multiplied, did the voice of

of the operations were taken by members of of those boats in Seattle "fantanism" raise against the increase of these gaming-houses? When prostitution became

structure. The first place any indication of the Press. Two engineers and three artificers rife and honses of ill-fame increased in numbers,

home, but of other things that are generally left Bold was observed was near the head have been sent with the boats to superintend was it heard that there were too many places of

waters of the Tachihbo (Great Stone River) the putting together of them. It will perhaps infamy and vice? Because of that silence was

be remembered that about a fortnight or so ago to the west of the Chibmêochi coal field. Macao labelled across the map of the world with common peril brought the different sections of

In this region the feruginous grarites are

the Gromobot left Vladivostok 'and 'ran' on a the stigma of the Monte Carlo of the East.". the settlement more closely together, and when It was not possible that there can be too many the trial was happily over, gratitude and joy

the seams are not much more than 7 inches her. As it happened, she stumbled over a rock! very hard and the quartzite streaks very rock, and it is believed that she was ordered to Narrow. Down to a depth of 50 or 60 feet watch for the Kanagawa Mars and to capture houses of God. Let there come to Macao the opened the purses of the merchants for the triumphs of Progress and Civilization in the completion of what was to be, and in fact has

generally the case in North China, and they The present war then will probably also give wide. They run more oast and west than is and hence the submarines got safely into port, railways and the harbour improvements with been ever since, the principal monument their concomitants-commerce and industry- of the city. On the feast of St. John the

leads off the wider and richer seam running marice boats in practical naval warfare, and but she must outshine in her religious fervour lapist, 1622, a formidable fleet of Macao's

thus give the impression that they are simply us the first illustrations of the working of sube, and the magnificence of her religious institu. implacable enemies bore down upon the little

north-e..st and south-west through the Wall east the lessons taught by it is so far as naval. tions. The reverend father's emotion was peninsula, as if the Hollanders were deter

of Pingliengkow, then between. Pongs'enshan operations are concerned, are a veritable wind- plainly visible when he asserted, with all mined to make themselves masters, once for

and Taolalying to the low hills west of Fun fall to the naval powers of the world and will; sincerity, that the idealism which he had in all, of their rivals' prosperous colony. There

Inghalen. Here to the south-west of Pinglien- save them many costly experiments, and many were sixteen vessels, with about eight hundred view was one inspired by God. The cherished

kow the first alteration between greenstone so costly that they could not have been mada hope of the restoration of St. Paul's in all its

men. They began the attack in the cool of

and shist takes place, and the quartzite forma at all except in naval warfare. prestine glory was an ideal inspired in him by the morning, confident, no doubt, of having

tion is richer in sulphides of copper and iron God, with Whom nothing is Impossible the hot part of their work over before the heat

and the amount of gold contained is increased, To preserve the venerated ruins amids: of the day would be on. But the sturdy Hol

Cros-ing the river Shachingkow (Lower their unholy and ungodly surroundings was landera little knew the valour of their oppon-

Gold Gullle) from Tastaiying one enters upon a standing shame to the colony he che ents, who, though few in numbers, were pre- D. O. M..

an agglomerate formation, which might be des rished as the home of his adoption. Hepared to offer the most determined resistance.terest to the commercial community of Hong-cribed as iron banket, extending away in the Veteren medeni B. Maries Imm..pridem sacram would sooner see its fast vestige removed; Every man in Macae was to be a soldier, if sot kong, relates to the sugar consumption tax :--- direction of Tungnanying (South-east Camp), Divi Pauli boc tempore appellatione celebratam indeed, see the last trace erased of Macao, a hero. Not only did the wealthy merchants

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Proposed a region full of interesting legends. A peculiar The Asahi publishes the following letter from: jamdiu vetustate collapsum novi conditores ut the beacon of the faith of their ancestors. In leave the breezy halls and the cool retreats of

rato, Already further Total, geological phenomenon is noticed. in this its correspondent at the front, referring to the Antonii Sancti Olisi ponensis opiferi vanera. St. Paul's rebuilt he hoped there would be their gardens to shoulder a musket at the front,

per tookin, increased. Increase. neighbourhood, an 1 that is the association of adventure of a Russian lady —"On the night, tioni inserviat restituendum curavere Pant. raised a majestic basilica to correspond with but even the missionaries, knowing well that Class 1...... Yr.oo

so sen Yr.so this iron agglomerate with a small coal field, of the 15th it, a Europanu lady was observed, Rom. Pio X. Carolo I., Lusit. Principe Macaon. the glorious traditions of Macao. Reverting the issue was a question of life and death for 11.... 1.60 Y2.30

3 90 which it overlays to the south of Turgranying to be slowly approaching the position of the Antist Joan Faulino de Azevedo et Castro

to the subject of ways and means, he took to their work, took an active part in the prepara-

I, 2.20 3.30

6.00 and west of Taötalying The coal is good, ex- |· advance guard of the Centre Army Corp., 4, Martino Pinto de Queiroz Montenegro hanc task those "men of little faith" those with tions for defence. Fr. Rho, an accomplished IV,.. 2.80

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7.00ceptionally free from sulphur, but in parts as- sentinel stopped her, and conducted her to the Mac Provin, anno moderante molitionum whom money was every consideration. The mathematician, who later on took a prominent

sociated with nitre, which latter is found in headquarters of the Corps, where the lady stated, morarum locata fundamenta prid. non. dec. speaker continued: Money was secondary, part in the celebrated astronomical work of the

regions a little further norib.

that she was a nurse, attached to the Russian. MDCCCCIV. anni B. Marie Imm, solemnis | It was not gold that was wanting. It was the missionatics at Peking, rendered valuable ser

North-west of the coal field thers li`a bill. Army, and that she had lost her way in the quinquagenariis primum redeuntibus. absence of the will that must be felt; for, v.ce in the principal fortress situated on the

called Tungteisban or Copper Iron Mountain. course of a walk and happened to reach the Rendered literally into English that historical turning to the sacred books, be read in them summit of the hill bear the college,

There is really no copper on that, which is Jepanese lines. The lady, who gave her age." document reads: "The people of Macao have Repleta est terra auro et argente-" the earth The assailant landed in a quiet little bay,

nothing more than an outcrop of magnetité," | ss twenty two, had in her possession a photo- decided that the ancient church which, cenis full of gold and silver1"" He called upon and being much superior in numbers to the

The region is very broken and setled with graph taken of her in company with a Russian, turies ago, was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin the Mocasseres, the Portuguese and all who force sent against them, they advanced with

numerous deep, dry badded gullies, giving am- officer, and from this. It is supposed by soms" Mary and known as Paul's Cathedral, be now spoke the common tongue of Camoens, if thers liule opposition towards the city. But hardly

ple opportunity for geological study. This, that learning her lover was taken prisoper in re-constructed, and dedicated to the great had been one there pressat in that vast at had they rounded the bill near the shore, and

however, militates against the quality of coal the recect fighting, she had ventured so far, with Patron of the Portuguese, St. Anthony, during sembly who was opposed to the re-building of come in sight of the town, when the fortress

and the facilities of working the same. In fact, the object of seeing him, Others, however, the pontificate of Pope Pius X., in the reign of the church let him leave those precincts. After opened fire with four pieces. The principal

any coal mining in the region can only be on a | believe that she is spy sent by the Russian Carlos I, King of Portugal, being at the time a pause, as the speaker observed that none left gun, under the direction of Fr. Rho himself, Death Duties-From the 1st April next.

very small scale, but in this way when operated | Commander in the belief that the Japaneig the Bishop of Macao Joko Paulino d'Azevedo he called upon the assembly to all pledge with threw them into consternation by lis Brat well- Salt Monopoly From the 1st June next.

with the iron should be most profitable would, not take a hospital nurse prisoner and Castro, and the Governor of the Province him, as their minister, for the reconstruction of directed shot. That was the beginning of their Other taxes-At the date of their proclama. Keeping to the bigh road towards Liuchis would send her back. But the young lady ab, Martinho Pinto de Queiroz Montenegro,, Fourth St. Paul by each contributing what came with rout and of Macao's glorious victory, "which"||tion,

near the Lisbo"the prospector will come on solutely refused the offer of the Japanese Com®. day of December, 1904, in the year of the fifth in his own sphere to the accomplishment of may be spoken of at greater length in a sub

'I'10' also reported

that it is estimated the part of the road cut over a low granitic bill; on mander to send her back, Her muai, motive Jubilee [soth anniversary) of the Immaculate the desired end. Painting to the foundation sequent paper.

following yearly revenue will accrue from the the sides of which may be seen boulders of appears to be her determination to meet, her Conception

sions he said: "Let that store be the testi. So grateful were the colonists for Fr. Rho's Cereal Import Tax-Rice, Y2,021,377 Beans, starved quartz, seemingly lying independent of lover, now in the hands of the Japanese. She It was signed by all the clergy present, mony of our pledge. Over that stone, which services at the critical moment, that they $447,008; Gonia (Sesamum orientalis) flour, | any quartzose load.

has braved the piercing cold of a winter's night the officials and heads of Government | has been well and truly laid to-day let there be resolved that St. Paul's should be completed || Yas,468) "Whest, Y112,909) Bading (Y1,594) Change your course here, alther to the sarth, "and the risk of being shot by the Japaztag departments" and others, Including Chin- | raised a majestic basilica that will stand for all | Without further delay. I6was really a beatiti" | "Flour, Y203,62x ; Others, Y$8,440,00

Boast towards the Great Wall or so the south" | "quipost to see the man shu loyan,”

SUGAR CONSUMPTION TAX.

We have received a copy of tables showing the proposals of the Japanese as regards the increase in the present taxes, the imposition of new taxes and the increase in the Customs Duties. The following table, which is of in-

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We have it on the authority of the Asahi that the vduous increases in the present taxes and the laying of new taxes will be executed from the following dates ---

Land Tax, Income Tax Business Tax, Patent Medicine Business Tax-From the 1st January next.

Stamp Duty From the 1st April next. Mining Tax-From the same date on which the revised Mining Regulations will come into force..

LOVES AND WAR.

RUSSIAN LADY'S Adventures.