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_BIRTH_

On in October, at Chefoo, the wife af tot No doubt Australians Canadians, West G. SMITH, of a son.

MARRIAGE.

On and October, at Shanghal, LILIAN ALICE, daughter of James Park, of Melbourne, to HENRY EDDAR, son of the late Thomas R. Kimpton, of Melbourne,

Che Hongkong Celegraph

VISITORS

ARRIVE IN HONGKONG,

Among the arrivals at Hangkong to-day, ́are several distinguished Englishmen including Sir Michael tick-Beach, M.P., Sir Edward Boyle, K., and Mr. Balfour Brown, x.C. These gentlemen, with whom are Lady Lucy and the Misses Hicks Beach, are on their way to Singa- pore in connection with the Tanjong Pagar

but he bas refrained from pushing his claim. I be the real explanation, then all we have | MIC DISTINGUISHED ENGLISH

aid of the Hongkong Y.M.C.A. is with-. drawn our contentions for an "open door" policy has been, accepted and acted upon, so that the main grievance we voiced against the Y.M.C.A. is cleared away. Still the paragraphs extending over a introductoryTM

do not lead to that halcyon the sentence which states that any persons who might apply" will be admitted, comes with a rush at the very end of the Committee of Management's slate- ment, without point or flourish. Perhaps we have been over-strenuous in appealing to the better instincts of the Committee of

Indian creoles and all the rest of our kid dred beyond the seas would be equally ineligible in the same circumstances be cause they did not happen to be Europeans Oh blessed word! The wisdom of the Hongkong V.M.C.A. has evolved in, the word "European "a modern equivalent ofview that blessed term "Mesopotamia, and roll UNGKONG, TURSDAY, OCTOBER ID. 1905, it round their longues with equal unction, Yet these, very same non-Europeans), most of whom would doubtless fancy themselves the equal of Europeans generally, those very same Japs, for example, who are honoured

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Dock Arbitration.

Shurtly after noon the distinguished party went to Leadquarter House where they were entertained at tiffin by H.E the General Officer Commanding, Major-General Villers Col. Fillon, 0.5.0., and Major Chichester,

TELEGRAMS.

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THE NEW DOMINION

RUSSIA OPERATING MINES

CHINESE ALARMED.

[From Our Own Correspondent}

Shanghai, 10th October, 1.35 p.m.

It has transpired that the fact of

the Committee of the Young Men's Christian | by ‘our King, would be readily admitted to Management, but, at any rate we have led Hallon, and Mrs. Hatton with whom were also Russians operating the mines in the

Association have at last condescended to reply to what they term the." scurrilous" and "rancorous" remarks--although we are cer

in the majority of our readers will scarcely. endorse these terms--which have been made in this column regarding the working of the, Association. The Committee do not, deign to answer seriafim the statements we made on the questions with which we'dralt, hold ing that the real charge" against the mem

DOGbers of the Society is that they have "deli, berately decided to exclude from their mein bership certain classes, namely, non-Euro peans and Service mens." According to the statehient, which we publish elsewhere in this issue," the Association consists of 160 members, Bọ of whom are righteous in dividuals, while the other, 8o are free-lances, notmadic persons who do not claim to belong to any church. Of the first 80, thirteen compose the Committee of Management, which takes the credit for all the transactions that have served to evoke the criticism of those who are interested in the welfare of dox.pts: $25. Per dos pis. $3.25 the Association.. It should be understood, in the first instance, that whatever we tave Light Ale 41 $18.

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young man in the United Kingdom and America. His arms and objects in the West Farè irreproachable; it has the sympathy of plus $2.40 the quire community, and any criticism that has arisen with reference to the Hongkong branch has been the outcome of a spirit A. S. WATSON & CO..mate of sorrow than of blane. In the first place, then, when we suggested that class distinctions were being, fostered within the Association we were stating a fact which was admittedly a regrettable feature of the Hongkong branch. It is not denied by the Committee themselves that class distinc tions-or as it is euphemistically described [37 "certain limitations to membership"-have gained the support of those responsible for the management of the organisation. And the amazing "plea is put forward that pro bably each one of the So who are church. guers and Christians' is actuated by a certain amount of class prejudice.. In the case of a society which designates itself as the Young Men's Christian Association this admission of fallability and weakness is at least creditable as an evidence of sincerity, alhough it is an unworthy stain on some of

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vinced from the results of the meetings lately held behind locked doors at the Y.M.C.A. this spirit of exclusion is not generally shared. The very fact that a meeting of members specially convened to discuss the question of whether Service men-the wearers of His. Majesty's uniform-should or should not be admitted to membership was of the opinion by a large majority that they should be ad- mitted indicates clearly that class distinction is not the fetish of the members generally, if ibe of the special tenets held by the

une Committee of Management. Then again on the question of the admission of non-Euro- peans, can the Committee of Management honestly lay their hands on their hearts and ,declare that the Association is absolutely free Of from the non-European element ? course they cannot. Any non-European,

any Y.M.G.A. in the United Kingdom, ir not in America. But then only the aristo. tracy of Great Britain come to Hongkong to corn a livelihood-and to complain that they cannot live on their incomes and they could not demean themselves by associating with lesser mortals. It is a sad commentary on the ways of the Far East to-day. The associates, "those inconsequent nogligable people who don't go to church and profess

nothing, are not responsible for anything

We

are

told,

them to consider this question of class die tinction and class prejudice, and if we have induced then to admit "not only Service men, but any persons who might apply" our end is attained.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tix English mail of the 9th September was delivered in Loudon on the 7th inst.

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THE Chinese Government has telegraphed to the Viceroys and Governors to ascertain: whether the abolition of the tikin stations can be carried out at qace.

D.AA.G.

This evening the visitors will be the guests of II.E the Governor, Major Matthew Na thin, and to-morrow will continue their voyage to Singapore. The Jahan Mail makes the fol lowing reference to iho visit, to Japan, of the Ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer

*To those who saw the eminent British

statesman when he landed in Yokobaina on Sunday, the nickname which the House of Commons tacked on to him in years gone by, istack Michael, emed hardly to apply

New Dominions has impressed the Lama with the extent of Russia's power.

The Chinese being greatly alarmed, have been ordered to be military posted in the territory.

[In connection with the above wire the fol lowing telegram, dated from Paking, on 3rd inst, and printed in 'the'N C. Deflewk, it of: interest-It has been discovered that certain

But thought time has blanched his erstwhile Chinese official has privately sold petroleum raven locks, it has not bowed the tall, thin, minent Kuchien in the New Dominion to Rus wiry figure, and he still carries himself asians and negotiations are now proceeding. between the Waiwapo and Mr. Pokotiloff, the though quite unconscious of the burden of

uaian Minister in Peking, in the matter, ILK, T.] years."

GĦASILY FIND

IN THE NEW TERRITORY.

A TOKIO despatch to the Shimpo says that Ia Sapiember, 1903, one Lo Sun Kin, a farm the battleship Retvizan, which was raised aer, living at Au Tai, in the New Toritory, few days ago at Port Arthur, has now been re-disappeared and was seen no more in his na- named the Hisen, after this province in which tive village. No suspicion was aroused at the Nagasaki is situated.

THE U.S. Cruiser Cincinnati, which recently went aground in the Bungo Channel on her voyage from Japan to Shanghai, arrived at Shanghai on Thursday, the 5th inst, and moor- ed at the Norddeutscher Lloyd Buoy.

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THE Government has selegraphed to the Viceroys and invernors, requesting them to consider the advisability of imposing a poll tax throughout the Empire. The adoption or rejection of the measure depends on their reports.

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is reported that a Chinese commision will done at the "club." One can imagine.be he sent by the Board of Revenue to investigate stinging attack which a nienber might the minting of copper coins in the varicus make of an associate who attempted to provinces. influence the Y.M.C.A."Who is dist speaker" a member would 'trenchantly re mark. "Only an associate, a Philistine in the camp, a momentity, a presuming And the poor associate hondescript." would be squelched once and for all: But these associates, join on account of the club features of the Hongkong Y.M.C.A. It would be in- teresting to learn, what those club features have been in the past. A billiard room, will perhaps a single table, a reading room with a few magazines and newspapers, a lilary with some standard authors repre- sented in it; and a balcony, where they may listen to the strains of the Hongkong Hotel band on Saturday nights. There is or was a swimming clubs, and perhaps there were other features of abounding virtue not known to the public; if there were, we may be quite sure that they were all extras,”

THE work of floating the Novik at Korsakoff and "extras" which could be taken advanis progressing. As the nature of the damage tage of by outsiders who had not paid the is not severe, she will be floated in the near initial fees. The system in vogue at the YM. Fature. The Nichi Nichi says that the cruiser CA. is vaguely described as the metropoli- was built under the special instructions of the tan plan." Taking the word "metropolitan "late Admiral Makaroff to mean towns such as New York, Boston, London or Manchester, is it not, absurd to precipitate such a system upon a tiny spolin the Far East, where the conditions are so en. itely different? If they had said they followed a "cosmopolitan plan." one could have understood it; but preserve the Hong-southern and northern troops of the Pei kong Y.M.C.A. from the rabble, the non- European Christians. Of course, there is a Chinese Y.M.C.A. here, and it is admirably conducted. But just as all Chinese might hot care to rub shoulders with each and. every European who traced his origin to the purlieus of Soho, or the alleys of Montmar- tre, su every non-European might not desire to come into contact with Chinese with whom he had no interests in common, and for whom association and good fellowship would be impossible on either side. It is hai to-day. Mr. Pollock was retained for the all very well to say that the backers of the plaintiffs in the case of Messrs. Dodwell & Co. V.M.C.A. have told the Committee of. E. J. Moss, at the Supreme Court, which 'The opened on Thursday. He was introduced to Management to move with caution.

Mr. Justice de Sausmarez on Wednesday and Committee have moved with such an

admitted to practice in the Shanghai Supreme excess of caution that they have never succeeded in paying their way. have charged a big entrance fec, a compara lively large monthly subscription, and have determined that all the so-called "club features" should be considered as "extras" and paid for accordingly, yet there is no money in the venture. Month after month the backers have found that as the result of this wonderful caution they were called up to pay but sums from the guarantees they had offered. Would it not be wiser

They

if

CAPT. F. S. Ward, aide-de-camp to HE the General Officer Commanding, requests us to contradict the statements which have appeared in a morning contemporary to the effect that he had shot four pigs, and that he was bitten by a scorpion while in Bortico

yang army were to commence military man

uvres from Sunday last at Hochien-fo and all the foreign military attachés in l'eking applied to the Waiwups for their permission to proceed to the scene of the maneuvres,

IT is reported that the U.S.. Government has recently wired to the U.5. Minister at l'eking to inform the Waiwupu that the bill relating to the Chinese exclusion treaty will not be placed before Congress till January, 1966: However, further details are still awaited. M. 11. E. Pollock, K.C., returned from Shang.

Court,

time, but later, two men and a woman, neigh bours the man Lo, also disappeared, and it was. then believed that they were concerned in the mysterious "disappearance of 1o. Last month the two men returned to Au Tai, and as their conduct appeared suspicious their affairs were investigated, and from certain in formation received by the police, the backyard of the house where Le had lived wat dug up, and his body was discovered, and identified by the neighbours. I had a wound through the back of the neck-evidently inflicted by a knife which had been inserted in the mouth-while

THE BRILISHI SQUADRON

IN JAPAN.

DRILLIANT FUNCTION;

[From Our Own Correspondent]

Shanghai, 10th October, 1.85 p.m.

Admiral Sir Gerard Noel, the commander-in-chief of the British China Squadron, held an "At Home," on board of his flagship, the Diadem, at Kobe yesterday.

In the evening he gave a dinner

to.

n rape was tied tightly round the throat. Nearon bourd of the Thadem at which a the body was a knife believed to be the one large company was present. with which the wound in the neck had been

"It was a most brilliant function. inflicted. This knife when shown to the

*The squadron left Kobe to-day. neighbours was recognized by them as the pro-

[In regard to the naval assembly in Tokio petty of one of the men who had just returned to Au Tai, after nearly two years' absence. Bay, various references to which have already The men were, then arrested and now await appeared in, our columna, a recent number their trial on the capital charge: A curious cir. of the Jupan Mail costains the following cumstance in convection with this case is the paragraph fact that, after having been buried for upwards of two years, the body when exhumed appeared to be quite fresh, and showed the mark of a blow inflicted on the forehead by some heavy blunt instrument. The neighbours upon the finding of the body sente that they remember that the two men' and the deceased had a quarrel just before the mysterious disappear ance of the laster, owing to his advising them to call back the soul of one of their kinsmen whu had just died, and one of the men, now arrested, is said to have Aung a stand, force- fully at his head. The woman concerned 'has not been traced so far.

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KITTENS AND OPIUM.

A 'CUTE TRICK:

When the cargo junk 223 arrived in the harbour yesterday Sergeant Garrod, in the usual course of his duty, boarded her to search for anything illicit. He found pathing and leaving, the junk when two little kittens in a basket attracted his admiring attention. He picked one up and stroked it, and then found both his hands smothered in opium, and ao examination showed that the kittens "little Marya" were smeared thickly with the drug. The owner's arrest was followed by a fine of $220 or three months' hard labour,

BEFORE the Hon. Mr. Baul Taylor, Marine Magistrate, Mr. Metvor, Inspector of Junks, prosecuted Cheung Wing Tai, master of junk Choy Lee for persistently refusing to obey complainant's orders. omplainant found the junk in question alongside the Naval Yard THE other morning as the C.N.S. Manchang Extension without a special permit, and told was going up the river at Shanghai she ground. the master to go to the proper junk anchorage,ed off the Footung Point, and, the tide being Asthe man demurred complainant warned him if on the ebb, remained there until noon, in spite he were not away within half an hour he would be of the efforts of the lug Fukles to tow her off. prosecuted. The junkmaster ignored the order, When the flood made she was towed off, with

out having suffered any damage... hence these proceedings. Asked what he had

"The great naval demonstration which take place in Tokio Bay will probably be in the middle of October, A powerful British Squadron will be present as well as a large part of the japanese fleet. The occasion will mark the end of the war en sea. All the auxiliary cruisers will then be releared and there will be

of a celebration in honour of the restoration peace. A grand banquet at the Palace is spoken of We presume that Admiral Togo and his distinguished fellow-commanders will be oblig ed on that occasion to show themselves to the public and to receive the, ovation which their countrymen long to give them..

The following items bear out the report which appeared in our columns several weeks

since :--

The British Consul at Nagasaki bas informed the Nagasatt Press that H.M.S. Hizia (torpedo depot ship), accompanied by five torpeda-bost: destroyers, will arrive at Nagasaki on ('ctober 13th and remain until the 27th. Admiral Sir Gerard Noel, K.C.B. Commander-in-Chief of the China Squadron, will visit Yokohama,

arriving there about October 6 h, and Kebe about 21st, with a Squadron consisting of the Diadem (flagship Andromeda, Hogue, Sutlej, Astics, Bonaventure, and six torpedo-boat destroyers. This squadron, or part of it, will

init Nagasaki at a later date, not yet fixed

The Mainichi states that the Imperial Household will give a banquet in honour of the officers of the British and American warships during

the visit of the Squadroni to Japan:", Among those who will be present at the Imperial Princes, all the Ministers of State, the banquet are the Crown Prince and all the other Foreign Ministers at Tokio, and a number of the highest Japanese Officials: even

Admiral. Noel, with the Diadem and three other ships, estered Chinampo on, the 23rd: ult. The British Squadron was warmly wel H.K.T] Comed by the local Japanese residenta-ZD.,

ONE curious result of the American boycott came to light yesterday when Sergeant Watt

the Committee of Management showed some to say delendant said he was "very baty." FIVE cooks from "Leighton Hill Road and discovered in the Wong Chai firmatisa Wing

we venture to think, who has the advantage enterprise instead of so much caution ? We of influence or position will find his way to submit the idea with all diffidence. And now membership-and good luck to him. So as to the Service men who applied foradmis. that on the point that non-Europeans are sion. Kipling has written of the people who not admitted to the Y.M.C.A. we would sub-speak of the “thin red line of 'eroes" in time mit that the Committee of Management of war and can only find contemptuous phrases have failed to make out a good case. Why do for the soldiers and sailors in the piping times they not say at once that non-Europeans or peace, Of course, peace prevails to-day and non-anybody else will be admitted provided we have no use for the "soldiers of the they can obtain the support of a few of the King" or the men of "the King's Navee." leading members of the Committee? For Perhaps the soldier is himself to blame, for that is what it amounts to, and we defy was it not a soldier who said to a black the Committee to deny it. After all there water-carrier "You're a better man than 1 are many non-Europeans whose society amo, Ganga Din"? But, seriously, is if not and fintellect are quite on a par with some to the credit of these soldiers that they of the European members. There are no should have desired to join an organisation doubt many objectionable non-Europeans, such as the Y.M.C.A. even if it were the but who will dare to say that all Europeans Hongkong branch conducted on the metro in Hongkong are such delightful companions politan plan? The entrance subscription is and bear such immaculate reputations that not a light one, and much self-denial must they would be entitled to admission to any have been represented in the saving of the institution? Moreover, members are elected money required; for a soldier's pay is emali hy ballot. If the Committee desire to ex- and his needs" great. Now we are told that clude any candidate for admission they have Service men will be admitted. And here Co.,

only to exercise their privilege of the poll. follows the extraordinary words" And any Many a young man who has been born in persons who might apply." What does Hongkong--and that would seem to be a that mean? May we take it that after a misfortune to plague their whole liver in the the Committee of Management have eyes of the Committee has been approach the error of their ways and that non-Baro ed on the subject of joining the Y.M.C.A., pesna are actually to be admitted 2. If that

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Hongkong, 15th June, 1905.

Pressure of business cost him $20.

A SPECIAL telegram has already appeared in our colomp on the good impression which the new Allianco has made on China, and we now learn that their Majestics, the Emperor and the Empress Dowager, are quite satisfied with the Treaty, and Prince Ching thinks that by the new Alliance China has been saved from the incessant intrigue and aggression which Russia, Germany, and France have hitherto cast around her, and that from now the integrity of her terri- tory and the protection of China's interests in guaranteed. H.E. Viceroy Yuan Shih-kal is also impressed as to the benefits the Alliance between Great Britain and Japan will confer upon China.

Morrison Gap Rand were fined. Sio cach for being found in the servasis' quarters of the residence of Mr. Goldenberg, No. 4 Morrison Hill Road, without his permission at 3.30 am. to-day. As the men had not the wherewithal to pay their fines some of the residents in those localities are having trouble today: regarding their calinary arrangements,

ON Bunday nighta Chinaman was passing along Bonham Strand when he heard sounda issing from No. 17 which told his evidently practiced ear that .. gambling game was in progress within that house. Fecollecting that his purse was emply he saw in this circumstance a finè opportunity to replenish bis fands, and accord. ingly, seizing the opportunity, thus presenting THR Nanfangpao understands that an ad- itself, he rushed into the house, and into the ditional viceroyalty is to be created in China, room where the gamblers were playing, yelling and that the new Viceroy will reside at Mak-police, police. Instantly there was conster des and have jurisdiction over Kirin and Hei nation in the hearts of the gamblers, and a langchiang. The Government proposes to place hurried fight, heller skelter, ensued, the the three provinces of Honau, Shantung, and players in their hasin to get away from the Shassi under the jurisdiction of the Viceroy of supposed minions of the Law leaving their Chibli. The attaches and interpreters attached paraphernalia and money behind them. The to the Commission going abroad have left alarmer promptly grabbed the money, amonni Peking for Shanghai, but the date of the quite unknown, and then did the vanishing act,

since, Bot: departure of the Commissioners, is undecided and he has not been seen or heard

H.E. Yang, Minister to Japan, has been one man in his haste to get away up on to the commanded by Imperial Rescript to effect the of missed his foeting and fell plumb 10 the arrest of the Chiness, Revolutionary Fanty to street below (rpm Japan, the Peking authorities being censin that the bomb outrage, was perpetrated by

revol

ked up and

Lok Street a large quantity of American cigarettes wrapped in labela bearing what was supposed to be the British American Tobacco Company's trade mark. The cigarettes were seized and the owner arrested and charged be- fore Mr. F. A. Hazeland with the infringement of the trade mark of the company, and the case

I was 'remanded.

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

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