1907-10-04 — Page 1

The Hongkong Telegraph.

NEW SERIES No. 5581

CONTENTS.

Births, Marriages and Deaths.'. Loading Articles:-

Hongkong's Finances. Hongkong Trade-marks Ordinances. A Social Event in Hongkong *A Budget of Bills.

Hongkong's Alleged Duty to Chion. Hongkong Budget Debate,

Telegrams

Disaffection at Nanning. The Kanchow Rising. The Wuchów Emeute. Shangli-Chinking Railway. Anti-Catholic Outbreak, Shipping Disaster.. Typhoon Warning.

Moetings:-

Legislative Council...

Douglas Steamship 'Co., Ltd.

Hongkong Cricket Club

Royal Hongkong Yacht Club.

Hockey-Club.

Kulangau (Amoy) Muoicipal Council,

Police:-

The Hongkong Tragedy.

Sampin Woman's `urprise,

Chinese Recruits' Error,

A Bluejacket's Experience.

Cowardly Assault at Wanchai.

Correspondanoo-

A

Tabacco Trade Exhibition...

Miscellaneous Articles and Reporta :—-**

Fashionable Wedding in Hongkong,

The Wuchow

meie.

The Railway Affray.

The Cubicle Question. Steel Cruiser for China. Accident on the Glaucus.

The Portuguese Consul

"Old Glory"

Lusitano Club's "Smoker."

The Lone Hand."

The Dairy Farm Co, Lid

The Late Capt E. H. Grainger,

The

New

P. O. Steamers.

The Gymkhana.

Death of Mr. Lau Chin Ting,

Opium Shops in Chian,

Fourteen-year-old Girl a Suicide.

Hongkong Volunteer Reserve Association.

A Popular Naval Annual.

The Pekin Syndicate.

Canton Day by Day.

Raub Gold Mine.

Wuchow Notes,

Interport Cricket

The Shanghai Share Case,

The Protection of Trade-marks.

Buxerism in South Kiangsi.. Commitution for China.

Shooting Accident at the British Barracks, i

Checking the Arms Traffic.

The launch of the Tenyaimaru,

Life Insurance in Japan..

The Movement of Gold..

Japan's Customs Revenue.

Commercial;-

Exchange.

Local and General.

-BIRTHS,

OnSpenbar xo 1907, a M kenshan, tự ETHEL, OSBORN, wife of CHAS. R. LAVERS, A son (Themlore Harding), **,

On September 21, 1997, at Sochow, the wife of Dr. A. G.. HARN, of a non, va

Os September 21, 1927, at Shanghai, the

wife of A. G. HICKMOTT, of a son..."

On September 23, 1907, at Leer (Germany), the wife of H BOERTER, of a daughter.

On September 31, 1957, ai Sha għni, the wife of W, AUG. WHITE, of a daughter;

On September 24, 2007, at Shanghai, the wife of R. W. THOMAS, of a daughter,

MARRIAGES...

On September 23, 1907, at Shanghai, HENRY WILLIAM PILCHER, to REBÈCA, second daugh ter of the late James MacCormar, of Limerick, Ireland.

-On September 24, 1997, at Shanghai, OWEN LEWIS ILREKT, second son of the inte Owen Ilbert, MA, of Thurlestone, S. Devon, and GERTRUDE MARGARET HOWARD MONYPEN. NY, daughter of the Reverend Phillips Howard Monypenny, MA., Hadlow Vicarage,. Ton. bridge, Kent.

DEATHS.

On Reptember 21, 1907, at Shanghai, WARD

FAVORITE, aged 29.

On September 26, 1907, a Shanghai, Henry EDWARDS, Electrical Engineer, Shanghai Dock and Engineering Co., Ld., aged 28 years.

∵聪七十二月八年三十三赭光 ®

affairs for the forthcoming year has been so arranged that reference may be made to any and every subject with, the utmost facility, so that the beads of departments and others whose business involves daily, reference to the Estimates will find the subject of their quest at

MAIL SUPPLEMENT.

(ESTABLISHED 1881.)

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1907.

五拜藏

就四月十英港香

$15 PER ANNUM.

SINGLE CORY 25 CENTE

and Press reviewers are not likely to find the technical qualifications, not to speak of his Works Extraordinary—the water'works. The | etc. As to invented words, it was held that lencies entered into residence Mate Govern.

a moment's notice, while unofficial members

selves befogged amid a labyrinth of figures and cross-references as not infrequently hap paned when the Budget was built up on the old plan. The classification of the depart ments, the statements regarding the proportion of the taxes and the rate they bear to the total revenue are decidedly important innovations. For example under Class 1, taxes are divided into light dues and licences and internal reg VODUC. From these it is estimated a total som of $4,165,710 will be derived, which

equal to

68.49 per cent. of the Colony's revenue. Under Class 11 we have the estimated" 'Egrnings of Government," amount- Fing to $798,310 or 13.81 per cent of the Colony's revenue; Class It. "Rents and In- terest in expected to provide $794,750 or 12,76 per cent.; Class IV., Miscellaneous," $69,100

is

to be exact-than ́" a very subordinate officer in Government intends to expand on the barbour it is proposed to affix it is not a registerable one of the happiest evenie in the history another department, where no practical or of refuge? findeed, we would submit that the trade-mark; but a device which merely suggens of the Colony-the marriage of Miss "Hild technical knowledge- is required Closaly Governor's plan is more to be censured than the kind of goods to which it P allied to the Harbour Department is the that of enthusiastic beads of departments who good marks the well-known device is a Brackenbury, the frised and companion.

of & Lady Lugard, 10 Captain Taylor, the principal Observatory, the director of which is no officer toge to do more than they can possibly achieve milk maid carrying two pails was registered A.1.C. to His Exceliency "Sir Frederica who, by virtue of his special knowledge and we come to the last of the items of the Public a trade-mark in respect of condensed milk, Lugard, the Governor. Since their macel scientific aitaiaments, is ineligible for pro Kowloop gravitation scheme, which, fortunate. absorbine," as applied to a chemical pre- ment House, the old red pile has taken on motion in any other department of the Guvern: for the residents de the mainland in apparation, was not an invented word because it a new colouring. For some Velf, I might ment service. Mr. Figg's personal emas, prating completion is given a vote of $44,000 was simply a common English word with a have been an official mausoleum, whraca mosts, including exchange compensation, next year as compared with $1,097,000 for the cummon termination added thereto. he word strange edicts emanated ; but with the coming amount to $4,500 per annum, and the entire present: The Tytam scheme, with which we tabloid." however, was held to be a dit. of a Charming chatelaine, accompanied by, services which the Observatory is called upon are more immediately concerned, is assigned tinctive fancy word and praerly registered in couple of lover whose secret was known to to performs for the Cology costs no more than $15,00> as against $995,000 which was provided respect of medicines, and "Bovril" also passed all, there has been

transformation scene, and $18,662 which is a reduction of about $2,000 for the current year. And the miscellaneous for the same reason. As to words in a foreign even the phlegmatic Indian sentries to-day on the current year's Estimates or a mere water works are to receive $25,000 as compared language being treated as invented words there have bous infected by the bacillus of hilarity. pittance of $1,500 per mensem. It will thus be with the $64,000' allowed for 1907. With these seems to be some difference of opinion on the seen that the whole of the Observatory staff. figures before our readers, we seed do no subject, but Lord Herschell has said: "1 am

All the world loves à lover," and when di a suspicion of romance behind it all, the and other charges" do not cost the Colony, more than inquire whaibes the Colony bad not prepared to go so far as to say that a cum- for the nonce finds there is little else worth. much more than the salary which attaches to that abundance of financial resources whichbination of words from foreign languages solite one of the higher-paid offices in the administra. could justify our holding the reins of public known in this country that it would suggest no tive department of the Government service. It works in order to let loose the bridle in favour meaning, except to a few scholars, might not be should be pointed out that the Observatory of an already expensive administration which

"Mazawatted" as a trademark for a ture of the Colony ? Compared with the wet Ceylon tea was held to be an invented word, and astronomy, three computers, two tele graphies, a watchman and three coolies, total revenue, exclusive of the amount derived although compounded of the word Watter

which means in Cingalese "estate" or " gar den," equivalent to 22.15 per cent of the net revenus of the Colony. We have eliminated the opium revenue advisedly, for it cannot be argued that that revenue costs any money in the general administration since it is paid in lump sums of iwelve monthly instalments and requires no excise service by the Colony to ensure its collection.

'staff consists of four exparts la mêledgalery coats ́a percentage of 17.12 of the total expendi.ded as an invented word.""" And on that | showered upon them could have bean 'exceedan:

is

talking about. The happy couple came a long ful whether the good wisher which were way to celebrate their nuptials, but it la doubt.

or more honestly offered to any other centre of British life. It is needless to refer to the enthusiastic demonstration which greeled and acclaimed their entrance into the

or 1.1 per cent., and Cinsi V "Land Sales," besides a telegraph messenger-P total of from the Opium, Farm, the general administra" and "Mart," which is part of the word married state. We need only say that if they With regard to the thirteen individuals. The incidentals in 10 which requires the sum of $1,038,10% Maradhat" meaning "delicious.". But the find their courna set in as pleasant grooves' as

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HONGKONG TRADE-MARKS

ORDINANCES.

(30th September.)

mere misspelling-of-a-known-word-or-com-it-has-been during their way in Hongkong. bination of words will not constitute an invent and the auspicious opening to ed word?"

new life For example, sach words as tros augury of what is in stare for them, then "Unceda" as applied to biscuits," Phiteesi" their future is bright and assured. In common for clothes or boots, "Rausgard" for water with our readers we offer our congratulations proof garments or umbrellas, and "(wanta" to the newly married couple, whose happiness would not be considered invented words. Chap. has given a zest and a flip to life in Hong- ters are devoted 10ld marks the " Period kong. of registration," the "Effect of Registration. under the home Act of 1935," "Action for in- fringement and passing off," the "Assign- ment and transmission of trade-marks," and the "Merchandize Marks Ordinance."

The ap provided for the registration of trade-marks, pendices include Ordinance 16 of 1873 which

A BUDGET OF BILLS,

(and October.)

is no anseemly interruption on the part of Provided that all goes well, and that there

CS.0." or forgotten "C.O.." the reader is Master of Hongkong, does not belong to thefion of trade-marks has been brought underthe 1 Ordinance 18 of 1898 which, amend the law on some queralous questioner, the member

of

0,000 or 4.82

per cent." Estimates of expenditure, general administra clude laboratory expenses and the prioting tion is calculated to cost $1,058,107 or 17.13 per Rudt distribution of the meteorological register cent of the total; law and order $9431433 ur 15.37 which is issued daily throughout the year for per cent.; public health 5732,167 or 11.85.per the benefit of the shipping community. It may cent; education, $200,026 or 3.24 per cent debe argued that the Observatory officials are en lence $1,231,494 or 1993 per cent.: public titled to house accommodation, etc, but she very wasks St,528,520 or 24.74 per cent.; and non-nature of their duties renders it imperative that eff:ctive and charitable services $481,778 us 7.85 they should be on the spot, day and night in per cent. While we commend the form of order that the news of any sudden convulsion classification adopted by the Government, we of nature may be spread broadcast over the would offer one suggestion which we believe Colony. Were the director of the Observatory would materially enhance the value of the ex- from the salary point of view to be compared plugations accompanying various items in the with the secretary of any local company he Estimates. We allude to the footnotes, which would be placed in a most invidious position. in many cases tend to make obscurity more But then, may we whisper it 216 word,.. the At a time when the question of the registra obscure with their references to some unknown Director of the Observatory, like the Harbour

limelight, as the result of certain recent civit in the dark as to the nature of those hallowed raca known as Cadets, and theres actions in Japan, and the evident desire of the the subject, and portions of the judgment by entirely in official recommendations or necessities which fore- Turning to another subject, the Gov Chinese merchants in Shanghai to adopt a reUllmann both an original hearing and on the Chief Justice in. the case of Leuba 6. have involved the changes in the Estimates eroment have made provision to the extent of galar system whereby the respective “Chop1" either at the instance of the local Secretariat or $10,000 for a floating fire engine, and not be of recognised firms may be tabulated and pro-appeal. Mr. Wilkinson's work is of undoubted the Colonial Office at home. In many cases the fore it was seeded. A floating, fire engine is tected, the appearance of a inndbook on theciated by the members of his own profession, value and importance, and will be most appre- alterations are undoubtedly the result of official ond those absolute necessities for a port of or departmental minutes which have had an im.

the size of Hangkong that cannol be shelved / subject of trade-marką generally as affected by who are continually being involved in the portant beating on the Estimates, and it should and we have time and again urged that the Gov. most appropriate. The author of this exceed embodiment of legal tortuosity. The con- he possible for the Government in future to provide a breeds of these minutes or despatches attending to ibo equipment of the harbouringly useful volume on a most intricato and, clusions arrived at by the author are supported' were the Bitis of the ordinary, matter-of-fact. for the guidance of those who are not its a fire-fighting machines,· Following the flan- |-question,--is Mr. Cr of lawyers, W for the benefit of the student as well as the through the Council at breakneck speed are

from a mercantile point of view, absorbing and buttressed by standard cases of the most re

Wilkinson, the chief

cent date, and a list of the citations is furnished partner in the well-known

inson and Grist, in this Colony, and the title active praci.cloner. As may be gathered. from which he has given to his production rupe: "A history of and treatise on the law of long treatise" is written in a style which may be our remarks and quotations the "history and kong relating to trade-mark. The opening understood by the average laynias, but we chapters deal with the history of legislation for fancy, that even after the average layman has

ornment shoulil, recognise the importance of

fow holocaust.in. October Inst

position to obtain the, information necessary

year and for a complete "understanding of the items the recommendations of the Marine Court concerned without undue trouble. Leaving of Inquiry which we condemned to that point, we come to the question of the and which we are glad to see were never sessed taxes of the Colony, a subject with adopted by the Government-we Temarked which we deali, some two months ago when that the acquisition of an additionn reviewing the assessor's tepon for 1907-8. From fire-dosi was one of those essentials, for the

the

law of longkong can only be regarded as

meshes and intricacies of a law which is the

the Hongkong Legislative Coung/ are expect ed to pass the second reading of no less than five important Bills at the meeting which will take place to-morrow afternoon. And should Council may possibly res the five Bills through precedent be followed to its biller end, the Committee and passed into law; subject to the recommendation of His Excellency the Gover nor. Such celerity, would be amazing even innocuous and purely technical typo, But among the measurea

it is proposed to rush

the various executive departments; the Bill to of close on five million dollars for the use of the Appropriation Bill, which provides a sum

prevent the publication of seditious matter in the Colony; and the Bill under which it is

pro-

that report und, from, the Estimates before us safety of the shipping, that could no longer be the protection of the special mark or device digested all the hard facts submitted by Mir.posed to limit the imposition of public ex- we are forced to the conclusion that the raleable | deferred. Had it not been that the fire on the Which a manufacinier may have adopted for Wilkinson on the subject, he will still had pospre'in the stacks. Any singla one of those

10 bis advantage and profit to consult his legal adviser when he has occasion to register his work, which runs into 122 pages, is published trade-mark. It need only be, added that the by Kelly and Wales, Limited.

A SOCIAL EVENT IN HONGKONG.

(1st October.)

day for Hongkong when we are compelled by try, we submitted that the resources of the property in the mark. The Merchandize season. Prigals mingled and Bob-nobbed the official members who had to maintals the

vatue of the Colony has reached its limit: It is not to be expected that the enty of Victoria will slow any marked signs of expansion in the near future, and if the revenue of the Catony is to increase under this head we shall have to place our trust in the growth of Kowloon and the villages on the mainla d. Fortunately, we have every reason to believe that our hopes for the prosperity of what we are at present pleased to

term Hongkong's roburbs are well founded, and that the Colony is leaning un no broken reed when it anticipates a rise in into its own. the assessment returns when Kowloon comes With regard to the opium monopoly, which, naturally comes under the head of licences, that is a subject which has been frequently and exhaustively alluded to in these columns... At any moment the sum of nearly one and a half million dollars may be wiped off the Colony's revenu and it will be a bad the imperial Government-acting at the behest of a band of irresponsible fanatics whose main delight is to see their fellow-countrymen reduced to the verge of beggary-in forego's legitimate and perfectly proper source of income. A small item connected with the returns from licences is of the utmost signi- ficance. Itcomes under the head of "prospecting licences in the New Territories," and the sum which the Government expect to derive from those licencen next year is $6, 02, as compared with: Son this year. It is not the paltry in- Crease by $5,000 to which we attach importance as any material enhancement of the Colony's revenue, but it is the potentialties attaching the purchase of such licences which must strike the reader as worthy of quiet consideration, The cause of the serious depreciation in the of the Fost Office to the extent of over -earnings

$100,000, was fully explained by the Governor and nothing further need he said on the subject. Apart froin these main items the others show no marked advancement or diminution in com. parison with the approved Estimates for the current year. Coming to the Estimates of ex

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neither edifying nor satisfactory. From the The Ordinance comcognised in England. I gentler sex.on the Island; ¦et on attribute the

the benefit of those customers" who" would ankow only burst out after the vessal' had purchase his goods in preference to those of

Bilis would, we fancy, provide ample food fo beet moored to her wharf it is horrible to think his rivals in trade. Although England has

thought and reflection, and prompt, innumer of what would have taken place. As it was the been described as a nation of shopkeepers

sideration of the average man. Explanations able questions, were it submitted to the con fire was only extinguished by the mid of liritish and might, therefore, be expected to keep bluejackels, and the assistance of a private asap eye on all that, concerned the

would be demanded with respect to a hundred company awning some steam water boats. It well-bei g of trade generally, it does not

and one entries in the Estimates for 1908, to was also possible for the land fire engines 10 appear that any particular legislation was pass.

Reiner with the reasons for their Inclusion, direct their hoses on the fire simply through ed for the protection of traders so far as the

when the finances of the Colony are at a low the accident of the vessel's position. Balares free sojoyment of their property in trade.

ebb and seem likely to fall tower still There on board ship do not commonly occur while marks was concerned, or the right of others to she is at her wharf, and without a fire-fest in infringe those marks until 1862. It is true

was, indeed, a time when the representatives of In the days, which are not so far gone the people challenged every other vote in order the harbour the Hakan disaster would have that long prior to that date any person who had as to be utterly forgotten by an older genera that the Government might be compelled to hean infinitely wees, catanious than it was had it occurred before the vessel renched her tinguish his goods from those of other manufac kong consisted of a handful of merchants and meaning and intention of the mysterious items invented a particular design or mark to diation, when the European population of Hong, give a clear and definite exposition of the anchorage. When we decried the agitation turers had the right at common law to restrain their assistants, with a sprinklings of military which annually appear on almost every page. which was engineered last year by those who others from imitating his mark, but, as Mr. beroes who leavened the business life of the of the Estimates. We allude, of demanded a treble exchange compensation in Wilkinson states, the remedy of a plaintiff to community, the chief end of man, if the

course, among others to the redoubtable champion of the tax- the interests of the higher-paid Government prevent an infringement was based upon a Colony's annals are to be trusted, was to payers, although elected by the Chamber of servante in Hongkong, that is to say, for the question of frand, and not upon any right of quality himself for the social pleasures of the benefit of those bailing from a gold-using cous.

Commerce, Mr. T. II, Whitehead. No doubt, houses arose of their own Mr. Whitehead's tactics irritated and annoyed. Colony.could not bear this extra strain which offence to fraudulently imitate a trade-mark, with their juniors and the fetich of caste was importance and dignity of the departments they

Marki Act of 1862, which made it a criminat accord; the the taxpayers would be called upon to meet, and and gave a statutory tight faction for damages unknown. Now and again there we argued that the public works of the Colony where such right already existed at common event, in the history of the budding Colony, question that they received the sympathy of was an represented, and there is not the slightest would suffer in order to provide for this extra lax, was extended to Hongkong and became the arrival of a new Governor, who had to be their sycophantic admirers in having to sub- expenditure, for the administration of the law under the title of "The Merchandize taken in hand by the leaders of the day and nit to the trivialities of a parcel of insignificant Government of Hongkong. That our pre Marks Ordinance, 1861" As that early period initiated into his duties with all solemnity obstructionists; but whether trivial or pot the diction did not fill far short of the mark is in the history of the Colony, the principal to be followed by a round of revelry-the winst questions bad to be answered, and answered in clear from the programme of public works business houres were in the hands of British of a Royal Prince, when trade was at a stand a manner that satisfied the alert and keen; arranged for 1908. For the current year pro vision to the extent of $452,500 was made for merchants who in many if not in most, still for a week at a tine, the quartering of a witted champions of the ratepayers' interests. Cases had beir officer in London and did new battalion, whose officers had to be feted It must not be forgotten that these unofficial the construction of the new Law Courts, but wet confine their trade to the recently ac and feasted till the novelty of their coming members were constantly hammering at the for next year less than a quarter of that sum quired Colony of Han kong. Consequently had partially worn off, and, above all, the Government for specific statements and so is placed at the disposal of the Public Works

whatever trade-marks they had adopted Races The uropeans in Hongkong seem to effectual were their methods that the Govern- Department. Again, the provision for the had usually been in use in England and were to have fang themselves heart and soulment officials were brought to that stage where new Post Office, a building which should be completed with the almost despatch if the registered under the English Act. And the into the business of pleasure, and, if we are to. they offered explanations of their awe accord, propricters of trade marks affixed to goods believe, all we read, there being no coteries Nowadays, the elected members of Council are postal affairs of the Colony are to be pro-

placed on this market were for the most part or cliques, a line of demarcation between noteren vouchsafed the smallest grain of under- perly conducted, is reduced from $115,000 to

resident in Europe. The result was that the those who lived on the Hill ́and thore standing; they receive the copy of a Bill which 140,000. Here are two public buildings, the obtaining of proof of their right in the exclusive whose residence was above the city go

is introduced without a single superfluous necessity for which is recognised by all who

ns of their marks involved an enormous waste downs, there чего no heartburnings or word, they murmur" aye" with the docility of are not blind, deaf, and dumb, starved and of time and money. Accordingly, in 1873, an claims for precedence. It would be ungener a flock of lambs, and the next thing they know practically ignored because other matters of Ordinance was passed to provide easy means ous to hint that this halcyon state of affairs is that the Bill, any Bill, has passed into law. less importance are brought nearer the eye of of proof of the common law rights of proprie. was in any way due to the paucity of the As to the purpose of the Bill, or whether it bes the Government. Such a state of affairs is lors of trade-marks.

any purpose at all, they may be totally in the no on the changed condition of things to-day to the dark. That is not to say that bacauen there is

a spate of alleged oratory by those who-have- for remark, but none so glaring as the dispar kerbing of streets as against the $183,900rived from it seem to have been practically the worries of competition which was unknown the gift of the gab, the affairs of the Colony will ities which are shown in the provision made for granted for the current year, we got a very wil. Up to this time, that is 1873, the proprie in the past, the uncertainties of markets, and be better managed, or the Colony's interests the various depart ents. It has been frequent fair indication of the extent to which the tors of trade-marks in England were even worse the recognition of the star realities of life. more satisfactorily safeguarded. The reverse ly stated, as it is generally admitted, that the Public Works Department will be in a position off than those in Hongkong, for not only had There was no toiling and moiling al musty usqally proves to be the case, for the simple shipping trade is the lifeblood of the Colony. Coo- to deal with road communications during the they no rights as proprietors of trade-marks, tomes--except on mail day, which seems to reason that long-winded dissertations are sel sequently, it might have been supposed that the ensuing year. The drainage of the Colony, but there was actually no provision for the re: have come once in a blue moon; there was no dom to the point and almost invariably prove holder of the substantive position of Harbour which is of permanent importance so far as the gistration of trademarks, and it was not until slaving over accounts under the glare.bfelectric weariness to the flesh, But a series of Judi- masterin the leading tonnage port in the Empire health of the taxpayers is concerned. is also 1875 that the Registration Act was passed. lights; and apparently. hunting and chasing clous questions-and the cross-examiner would HOAGRONG'S FINANCES.

would be remunerated on a scale befitting the likely to suffer by comparison with previous What happened after this, so the direct result after elusive cents which refused to be caught find himself in clover with the Estimates for his Importance and dignity of his high office, and years. The allowance for the reconstraction of of the passing of the Act in question, is descri. so that the books might be balanced. And yet brief-should elicit statements regarding the in proportion to the onerous duties which have gullies and the raining of nullahs is reduced by bed by Mr. Wilkinson at some length, but we those pioneers amassed comfortable com policy of the Government, at (a8th September.)

time when the to be carried out under his supervision. Not $135,1 0,80 that it would appear, once a scheme need not enter into all the dificulties and anoma peteacles, retired in favour of their assistants, foancial clouds are threatening to dissolve, Now that the draft Estimates of the revenue only has the Harbour-master, with his staff of has lost its novelty and we refer to the scheme liesthat cropped up when manufacturers fancied did their duty by their fellow men as somnolent that might prove invaluable to the mercantile and expenditure of the Colony for next year assistants, to control and regulate the affairs of for the extinction of malaria-the Government that they would obtain some very material members of Parliament-only awakening with and shipping interests of the Colony. It seems have been before the members of the Legisla-the part, but he has to deal with a unique has no further use for it. If credence be given, advantage by registering their marks. In a jump when somebody said "China," to absurd to fancy, for a moment, that, the Go tive Council for the better part of a fortnight, condition of things in attending to the require- | however, to the reports we have received re-

some cases three persons were found using the fiercely interrogate hapless Ministers on the verament seriously believe the Estimates, or and those of the general public who take an ments of a floating population whose great him garding the prevalence of malaria in the set- seme trade mark and under the 1835 Act their subject of "stinkpots and Pekoe and passed rather the Appropriation Bill-and four other intelligent interest in the administration of the in many instances appears to be the thwarting lying dial-icts of Hongkong and in such locali tight to do so was admited; but if more than away in the odour of sanctity. The whole measures can be adequately discussed at a Colony's affairs have had an opportunity of of those who seek to make them amenable to ties as Morrison Hill Gap Road there is ample three persons registered the identical or nearly community enjoyed life to the full, and if single sitting of the Council. We will not sug- considering the calamps of items which make the Colony's regulations, and whose colorsal or room for improvement in the matter of training identical mark then it was held that the mark the unexpected happened it only afforded gest that the idea is preposterous, because that up the Estimates, we do not consider it in assumed ignorance is, siot to be measured in nullahs in order that an unhealthy residential in question was public property and could not another opportunity for the genius of the might be construed into a reflection on those opportune to refer as briefly as possible to

words. At no other

port in the world is the quarter may be rendered habitable. Miscelil be registered. Even when amending Ordis- revels to celebrate the occasion. But al.

who have been specially appointed to protect some of the more outstanding features of the Barbour-master required to maintain such an aneous drainage works are cut down by $93 500, ances were passed with the view of bringing though we are told about these fight times, the pockets of the community generally, but Colony's financial prospécis as revealed in the equable temperament or display such a the figures being. for 1907 $138,500 and for the law of Hongkong into harmony with that we seldom, or never hear of the chaplain we may say that Singapore, Ceylon and all the Eximates: When the Appropriation Bill

tility of talent and rernuice was ve

A3 at 1908 $15,000. That much-needed shelter for of England the difficulties of the proprietor or being called upon to officiate at the most Crown Colonies in the West Indies have yer a Introduced at the last meeting of the Legislative Hongkong, yet he is regarded by the Govern- Blake Pies has a paltry St0,000 allocated to it, investors of trade-marks are not decreased, joyous event of all-the celebration of holy learn how the Estimates of, the forthcoming Council, His Excellency the Governor delivered meat as ons of the least valuable of our and who knows that even that sum will be spent what was intended to be an explanatory slate public's servants, Instead of receiving a towards the necessary adornment of the prin Mr. Wilkinson, who remarks: "The judgment very properly termed it. The fashionable pounded, discaused and finally adopted within wedding had not yet arrived" in Hongkong, the space of balf-an-hour. Singapore devotes Government to reduce the Estimates for office, as compared with the salaries paid to miscellaneous works which may mean any dinance the Governor cannol, by: granting Klasself admitted he could scarcely be expected / tying of red: lape and the signing of their and not a word of explanation offered: That-registered owner of a trade-mark, and cannot, a duty of chaperons than that of hunting the i ment's proposals, but in order that all questions. Tarious departments, but as His Excellency other officials whose principal duties are the thing has been reduced from $113,000 10 $35,000 registration, confer any exclusive rights on a the ladies in the Colony were already matrons the Budget. Ceylon produces all its talents,

of high degres and better fitted to undertake not with the object of defeating the Govern to have acquired any very profound know. august namei, he is fobbed off with 6789 which harbour of refuge for the thousands of small therefore, by cancellation of that registration theshon space of his residence here. the limit of gos is reached. But let us not the post is given an initial $25,000. It is true of the Governor as to the rights of rival the noble army of Benedicts preferred to have out. While, it is not so very long ago that the ledge of the affairs of the Colony during will rise by triennial increments of 60 unit craft which carry on the floating business af take-away any such rights, ned the decision slipper. And those whe contemplated joining of domestic policy may be thoroughly threshed His Excellency's

and bis assurance Taylor has his perquisites like everybody else; asked to vote a supplementary sum when that against the decision of the Court, but, ne Hanover Square, or in the midst of their own Tentatives made matters so uncomfortably that, the Colony would suffer no material he receives fees for acting as a suliral assessor amount is exhausted, but surely that conficis vertheless, no power to that effect having "people, so that Hoagkang brides were warm for a masterial and autocratic Goramor loss by adopting the retragrade policy of starv. in Admiralty cases, and if he is lucky he may with His Excellency's own views as to the me been given by the Ordinance, the Court generally experienced mistres es before they who was disisciiued to accept local views as to ing works of public utility need not, therefore, make as much as $too in the short space of thad that should be adopted in framing the cannot direct a rectification of the register appeared at Government House, Now the advisability or otherwise of retaining cer- be taken ton seriously. Hefore dealing with one year. It is beside the point to say that Halimates. Ho maintained that no amount A chapter is devoted to the character of the days, the girdle of Pack has been 10 tein items on the Estimates, that he was only the Budget we would desire in record a word any expert witness may claim about the same larger than what was intended should be spent marks that are capable of being registered and tightened that Hongkong is scarcely more too glad to seek a less combative sphere for of commendation for the adminbis form in amount for one day's evidence. To put it in in a single year ought to be placed on the it is decidedly interesting to read what may or than a summer days trip from London. And to the exercise of his undoubted abilities. But it. hich the Estimates are presented to the Ca-another way. The head of the narbour Dep: Tstimates. Surely, the converse. holds good. may not be accepted as a trademark. For that fact the residents of Hongkong may we all done in order that the interests of the laay this year. Unlike previous Budgets, the ment controlling over thiny million tons of Why put down a sum which is considerably, if example, "a device which is nothing more than attribute their unwanted good fortune in residents, the people of the soil, should be coa clerical presentation of the Colony's Beaucial shipping gets isoa month, a trifle more-San not ridiculously, below the argue that the pictorial presentation of the goods to which having the opportunity of taking part is served and we would with all humility sarees

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The case of Leaba . Ullmann is quoted by matrimony, as our predecessors stiltedly and year's expenditure are to be explained, ex-

ems to the reasons which had fed the salary in proportion to the importance of his | cipal landing stage of Hongkong? An item of l'amounts to this:—That under the existing Or• \ for the very good reason that the majority of several prolonged sittings to the discussion of

He works in parinic references to pub. be unfair to the Government. Captain Basil the Governor han said that the Council may be Feliliasis to a trade-mark, is of, no avail the ceremony performed at St. George's, people of Jamaica through their Council repre