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On 15th September, at Shanghai, the wife of GILLEIFIE EDWARDS, China Navigation Co., of 105. Shanghal, the wife of Mr. H. BORNER, of a daughter,

On 15th September, at

A. 8. WATSON & CO. ARNOLD HOTSON, of a 900

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On 16th September, at Shanghai, the wife of On 17th September, at Shanghai, the wife of A. GOLDMAN, of a daughter......".

A DEATHS. On 15th September, at Welhaiwel, FRANK BAIRD KEID, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, aged 53

On 15th August, at Shanghai, TAZE MING SHANG, aged sixty-six years, late member of the Court of Directors of the Imperial Bank of China, etc.

way lay.breakwater 11penbare sacrificed during wise bo aved, were

more accessible shelter prov

of thousands of our floating "who Buch necessary"

the tens

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 22 1905

certainly! hot balconies and for people: jjunctato

Wered out of window

The Hongkong Telegraph those who, by their munificence, would wille

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1905.

“OUR PUBLIC REQUIREMENTS

It was inevitable, of course, that another législative afternoon should, for the most part, be consumed in the discussion of the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for the 'forthcoming fiscal year. But there is always consolation for, the dreariness of. figures in the important announcements frequently made by H.E. the Governor, or FINE FLAVOUR in the interesting suggestions coming from certain Unofficial Members of the Council. Thanks to the clear and useful speeches of the Hon. Mr. Robert Shewan and the Hon. tions of H.E. Sir Matthew Nathan yesterday's debate was of more than ordinary interest and affords much material for reflection. Among the salient point in the speech of the Hon. Mr. Shewan, to which His Excellency

AND

THE British Squadron was to bave left Wel- haiwei on Wednesday for a ten days' crnise to Cheloo and in the Yellow Ben, and will probably leave, Weihaiwei for Japan the first week in October

was

French

success the fent arran

course of

going on the visit,

lose upon the follow

the shipping interests at this port.

scheme to be brought 1 public THE Indian teas of this season, notably those funds not forthcoming in the affection of the of Darjeeling, are the finest for the past, ten immediate carrying out of this utilitarian years. Thitty per cent. of the sales in bond in

London rai pár lb and, we may also add, philanthropic project, on average we venture the assertion with some degree of confidence that, among the unofficial and leading members, of the wealthy Chinese citizens in our midst there should be found ingly co-operate with funds towards the com-Tax old bulk Kwong lot, which had been pletion of a public work, which should really anchored off the Luneta beach for some time, fall upon the exchequer of the Colony and dragged her anchors during the storm of Sun whose execution will tend to preserve many day night and is do the beach, high and dry, ureful, and valuable, lives, while it should near the Elk's Club, Manila relieve shipping of the Ivexatious bin. JUJITSU is evidently making rapid strides at drances which are too often experienced home, as the London city policemen are now during the period of storms in this harbour adopting those methods to stop rudaway by the desertion of the indispensable smaller homes. Nothing is said about using it to overwhich is loc craft as a measure of safety and precaution. Asto the expression of the Governor's attitude towards the removal of the Clock Tower, which at present stands in the way of traffic in one of the most congested parts of the city, we voice the opinion of a large and by no means unimportant section of the com- munity in expressing the views of our esteem-

MELLOWNESS Mr. Gershom Stewart and to the lucid explana-ed Chinese fellow-citizens that the removal

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Per Dozen $16.50.

thought it to reply, in that on the subject of

education to which every paternal Govern ment invariably devotes much thought. In his address on the re-assembling of Council a fortnight ago the President, reviewing the education vote, pointed to the proposed diminution in the expenditure under this head, from 3.95 to 2.73 per cent of the Colony's revenue. From the Budget framer's point of view rigid economy is regarded with a high degree of favour, but A. S. WATSON & CO., It dovolves upon our guardians on the legis lative assembly to protect the public interests, and in drawing attention to what we may term a false economy in the retrenchment of

LIMITED,

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

Estanlished A. D. 1841. Hongkong, 22nd July, 1905,"

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of this obstruction to a site destined for it at the base of Blake Pier will be regarded with much favour by those who contribule such a preponderating share of the re venue of the Colony. It is not often that

Chinese" give expression to their views or

public matters, but those views when ex pressed are generally well weighed and worthy of consideration in the highest quarters. As sucir and having correctly, gauged the feelings of those who are the most capable and reliable judges of publie opinion amongst the Chinese in our midst, we would appeal to His Excellency in defer ence to the wishes of his subjects to have re-erected on the new and most suitable site the Clock Tower which at present serves no useful purpose and which, on the water front, will be a piece of architectural embel- fishment as well as of the utmost utility

would be more pop thas Admiral Togai the fleet which however, I am assured Admiral Kamimura! wil

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THE following

land and the Far:

The troops with artill

haul road hoge op motor-cars." THE Sarawak Garzite has an interesting article reason. on the mosquitoes which commonly infest of Nov houses there. It appears that the jungle mos- | Egypt, proboscis half an inch long and legs an inch pore quite in the worst of the lot and that he has a king: long.

JOIN Rac, unemployed, and George Steele, before Mr. F. As Hareland this morning with clerk, of Queen's Road Central, were charged being drunk and incapable in Queen's Road Central last night, Pleading guilty they were fined Sa or seven days.

THE boycott's death in Shanghal was indubit.

week when the Standard Oil Company sold forty thousand cases of kerosene oil in open market, the first sale of the kind since the boy. cott began on the 25th of July last.

ably proved in Stanghal on Friday of tast

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and Derby Regiment, and t64; Roy

ent Regiment, at the

will be reached lons, particulars of which have blan

following, Malta on the 13th, Port 17th, Colombo on the soch, Singapo cember 7, and the outward half of the

fiven. "The

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be finished at Victoria saven days the 14th to 22nd the Danera will lie at Hong- kong. On the latter date she will begin the

expired men and invalida-Singapore, Dec 27, Colombo, Jan. 3.1906, where she will embark No 92 Company R. G. A, for home; Port Said, 165 Malia, 20th; Gibraltar, 241 and on the 19th she is due to arrive in Southampton Water, on completion of a voyage of nearly 20,000 miles,

homeward rus, and wil call hefollows fer

ALLEGED PERJURY,

OWING to the stringent measures which have been adopted by the Ipoh police, the ricksha coolies have gone out on strike. It is re ricksha coolles in their opposition to the men- ported that the gharries will join with the sures adopted by the police. The ricksha coolics in Taiping have also struck work. No rickshas are in the streets and the public are charged with having committed paijury greatly inconvenienced,

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ACCUSED COMMITTED 'FOR TRIAL. The case agiinit' LUP|ng# Kwal, whoi

making a false, declaration in the Prob Division in the goods of Li Tai Hipg, deceased,

was resumed before Mr. Hazeland; this; After

| the expenditure on education we think the within a site now so conspicuous for the in front of the City Hall last night, the wall.noon.

beauty and prominence of its handsome public and private buildings. Another mat ter which the Hon, Member for the Cham ber of Commerce thought the Government might look into was that of the registration of Chinese partnerships. The question was raised as far back as 1874 when the Chinese community of the Colony presented, a petition suggesting that a system of registra

MESERS. Hughes and Hough' put up for sale, known ponies "Black Cherry" (late "Highland Chief") and "Grey Lance," but as the highest bid on the latter did no rise above Soo this hack was withdrawn, the former falling to Mr. Gegg for $125, The newly arrived Tientsin ponies were knocked down for 515, 520, S40, and $45, respectively.

The Chinese Go

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commissioners. gate the

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TO THE EDITOR OF SIR-In a colur

Frair of the 16th-in very on the above int ing: interest not only his Lordship the also to others living far.

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Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, Crown Solicitor pro

Gar secuted, and Mr. J. Hanson, Chief inspector of

ation of thei and betting Detectives, watched the case on behalf of the police. Evidence was led showing that the defendant swore that the signature to the will the effects obti of the late Li Tai Hing was that of the test "ally the tor, signed by him in the presence of the though dir

Pages Roffractice one and defendant,

A clerk from the Supreme Court testified to Mr. J. Dyer Ball spoke to the administering the held by var the signing the declaration in question, and ition of his Lor

hon: member for the Chamber of Com merce has carned the encomiums of every right-thinking individual in Hongkong. It is true that the public schools and colleges on the Island, and the elementary schools on (3 the mainland, have trained a large per- centage of what may be termed transient residents, but on the other hand it should not be forgotten that those very residents, the so-called subjects of China, contribute tion should be introduced. This resulted to get some warm clothing, the second to buy oath to the defendant, and the algoing of the races, and set i

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in some form or another their quota to the general revenue' of the Colony. Posted as we are on the threshold of the vast Chinese Empire it has been our honour and our boast that we are in the position to 84, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, set them the example of all that is good in

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WHEN three Chinaman were placed before from banishment, the first said he came back Mr. Orme to answer to the charge of returning

some food, as he could not get app, outside the Colony, and the third said that he was only passing through to another country. Twelve months hard labour and six hours' exposure in the stocks, and re-banishment on expiration of sentences was the Magistrate's award in each case.

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declaration,

contention

within the ma nos fall such a plea

The chief writer at the Registrar General's office said that is the will produced the whole

in fact of it except the characters standing for the testator's name were in one and the same hand-writing, and the character "Lin" was'in- correctly written. On the executrix's déci

tion Lordsh the characters appeared to have been written By kind permission of Lieut-Col, A. G. Fitton, by one, and the same hand, as there was the D.5.0, and Officers, the Band of the 2nd Bath same mistake in each. Is the document algo The Queen's Own" (Royal West Kent Regt) ed by the defendant the characters also ap will play the following programme of music,peared to have been written by the same band, during dinner, at the Hongkong Hotel, to morrow, 23rd inst. -

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Dr. Jeu Hawk, Resident Surgeon at Tung Wa Hospital, spoke to his signing the death certificate of the deceased,

The widow of the deceased said her hus

་་་t: -," band did not make a wiil on the sath February She was with him the whole day. She did not. know defendant by sight, nieznu

The sergeant interpreter at the Central Police station said he read the charge and ad

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THE 5. F. Prais remarks that Sir Matthew ministered the usual caution to defendant who Nathan, by his successful lastitution of a Volos- made a statement to the, effect that on the teer Reserve Association at Hongkong, has done 9th February he went into the much to give affect to those principles of indi of No. 13-Albany Street and saw vidual responsibilities that might properly be others there and deceased hande held to devolve upon men of British nationality paper will and, asked bim to siga resident in the Colony, In Hongkong it is furniture and effec H.Es view that much remains to be done in and ker son, the way of bringing home to certain individual and then I British subjects the idea that they should not Tal Hing

in the framing of a draft Ordinance, but various suggestions being made the matter was shelved for three years after which the Chamber of Commerce approached the Government. Nothing, however, resulted, and four years ago a Committee. went thoroughly into the matter and arnved the matter, not only of Western civilisation, at the conclusion that as it would be but also of Western learning, and of elevating impracticable to give due effect to legisla the Chinese minds by the system of education on the subject it would be Inadvisable tion which we have inaugurated and im to introduce any measure. It was thought proved in Hongkong. We are fulfilling that that, in consequence of the difference be leavening mission which has its own reward, tween English and Chinese law as to the So utterly infinitesimal is the proportion of liabilities of a partner in an insolvent firm, 2.73 per cent of our total revenue devoted the Chinese would not be inclined to regis to the promotion and spread of education inter their true names, and that any such Hongkong that it is almost unnecessary to registration would, therefore, tend to fraud reiterate what we urged in a previous article and litigation. But as we pointed out at the some eighteen months since, when we said, time, within the past two decades the volume "we think it will be generally admitted that, of business locally has increased enormously in the matter of education the Government and the number of Chinese firms carrying on business now has likewise greatly aug should not be too parsimonious. Inproportion to the revenue of the Colony the expenditure mented. The difficulty to be contended with now is in no way minimized; on the under this head is certainly anything but

contrary, it has been accentuated to a degree *and we cannot too strongly that if honest traders are to be protected, extravagant* recommend liberality in respect of education the Legislature must step in and afford that in the Colony," In the home country we assistance which firms doing a legitimate have an example of progression rather than business in Hongkong expect from the retrogression in the matter of public instruc-Government. As we have previously. tion, as the following official figures will suggested, if we wish to cast about show-In 1872 the cost per head was for precedence, we can find it in our £1.7.51 în 1879, £116, 104, in 1895, neighbouring French Colonial possessions 11. 19, 14 and in 1901, £2. 6. 8. in where, we believe, registration is compul SANDEMAN & CO., Tuis in itself should be sufficient not advocating the emulation of France la voluntary schools and £3.0. 2. In board sory, though whẹn looking to them we are proof that in this all-important matter retrench her business methods in their entirety We GIR Henry Arthur Blake, who is now proceed ment is a step in the wrong direction if any might advantageously select the grain from lag home on a holiday from his Governorship altempt is to be made at carrying out the the chalf. But whatever method of proce- of Ceylon, is one of the not many cadets of the real object of education, and of doing what dure may be taken to attain the end in view Royal Irish Constabulary who have achieved is surely incumbent upon the Colony. But there can be no doubt that, registration le marked distinction as Constables Colonial, says of this enough. We turn to another matter desirable and advisabin. From the first there the P.M.G. The son of Peter Biske, of the

His real bent was demonstrated when the of no little importance brought forward by has never been any doubt on which the, his start in life was, no doubt, indicated. the Hon. Mr. Shewan, and refer to the wishes and convictions of the community made him R.M., and then special R.M.8bhe breakwater, at the West end of the har tay, and let us hope that in the fact of went Governor to the Bahamas, and from bour, as planned a few years back by Mr. H.E. suggesting the question should again to Newfoundland, and from Newfound R. K. Leigh, of the firm of Messrs. Leigh be discussed by, the Chamber of Commerce be Captain-General at: Jamnica;) and Orange, which with such modifications, if

twice "extended quite raspinal best bim, to succeed Sir. any, as are desirable might, fa our opinion, be

public appreciation. Hongkong Ceylon. He once had a famous fath the Ralph Beron, who, after hi $20.00 to $42.00 adopted in compliance with the urgent need of

Miss Osborne, the Irish And boir, was always

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17, 1905.

there is no uneasy semi-consciousness on the part of Government of haying shirked legislation on ao fimportant a subject, vis

the shipping community. The present condi tion of affairs involves an unnecessary ex- LOCAL AND GENERAL penditure to the shipping firms in the desertion of the barbour, by junks and THERE is to be

from the shipping limits match in Shanghai, making will be disi

smaller craft useway,Bay" as soON; WE

to the shelter at

the first signal of an approaching typhoon Is hoisted. Oring also to the congested.com "dition of the small area enclosed by the Co

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poss

bo "passengers" while others do the work anyone write the Very much the same failing prevails at Singa- wrote pore, says the Free Press, as Major Broadrick "after pointed out in his remarks at the last, genom bis trin meeting of the S. V. Corps He deplored a tendency in the British community to lapse from any very general desire to undertake

volunteer service.

coolies