1907-12-27 — Page 9

The Hongkong Telegraph.

NEW SERIES No. 5652 *

CONTENTB.

Births, Marriages and Deaths. Leading Article

Chiness for the Philippines.

Where Does Britain Stand?:

Extradition Casco,

Xmas Day, de

European Axialle Coaling Fa

Under Matrimonial Colours.

Keetings &

Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce.) Sanitary Board

Kulangan (Amoy) Municipal Council

Legal Intelligence:-

An Old Smuggler.

Police:

Robber on the Canton Delta.

Highway, Robbery,

More Counterfeit Coins,

Miscellaneous Artioler and Reporta:

Tragedy at Kowloop.

A Wuchow Fracas,

Is there a Santa Claus ?

West River Patrol.

Sad Accident on H.M.5, 'King Alfred. The Lilliputians:

Gaol Staff"

Fatality.

Drowning Smoker." "The Seamless Robe." Hongkong Jockey Club.. Manila Carnival, Fotballmpetition,

Christmas Holidays. Notorious Robber Killed.

The Mercantile Marine.

Our Christmas Dinner.

The Chineas Kitchener,"

Christmas at the Seamen's Mintoo.

The Police Dance.

The Subscription Griffins.

Foochow Races.

Miteni Bussan Coal Contracts.

China's Industrial Needs.

Typhoon Warnings.

Canton Day by Day.

Wel-ħal-wel

Fires at Shanghai.

Shanghai Colton Mills Co.

Russa in the Far East,

The Ewo Cotton Spinning and Weaving Co.

Ltd.

The Japanese Budget. The Worcester Sauce Trade-mark Fraud, The Heavy Decline in the Silver Market Japanese Shipping.

The Fluctuation in Silver,

Whirlwind to Hyogo Prefecture.

Faneral of Mr. C. J. W. Ploundes.

Volcanic Eruption near Gifu,

Straits Stamps,

A Golden Dréars.

The Chinese Commercial Mission,

Commercial:—

Yarr Market.

Exchange.

Loom and General.

BIRTHS.

Os 18th November, at London, wife of Llent, Col. C. D. Bauce, Chief of Polics, Shanghai,

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A WUCHOW FRAÇAS.

BRITISH MEN-OF WARS APARTMEN ARRESTED,

BOUND WITH ROPE AND DETAINED IN "CHINESE YAMENĖS,

We' understand that H.M.'s torpedo. boat

There seems to be a disposition among a certain portion of the Press to belittle and pooh-pooh the questions affected by the West River patrol service as of merely ac- demic interest. For the moment the matter is not of so great or immediate difficulty as even to suggest the possibility of a cul-de-sac being entered, but there encompasiet it on all sides the danger that the best meant efforts of a friendly Power to save China's reputation as a political machine may be misconstrued and thereby lead to a rupture So far as we can gather from the trend of the Home papers, Great Britain has not the remotest intention to performs the disagrecable duties of winter watchman longer than she can help. And we may take it for a moral certainty that if the Imperial Chinese Go vernment demand the restoration of their sovereign rights over the internal river ways of the iwo Kwang Provinces the light of later events, cost a man's | hundred miles off Penang; and the fourth be a. Yankee notion, and a capital notion too receiving them, and the compradors alleging

advocates the crossing of Filipino with other effect either one way or the other: Day voluntarily dung side the extensive trade of that no paper would publish they are tired of aces to Invigorate the Filipino blood, and after day our representative who is deputed coal-bunkering over some petty matter of sending letters in impossible French to half- cement, she would never regain her educated: Bretons who return the compli he maintains that the best cross is the Chi-to chronicle the doings of the Judges at the din nese because the Chinese mestizos have Supreme Court returns with the answer that prescat position. As a matter of fact, how ment by deluging the Post Office with letters made the best Filipinos in politica well there are no cases, or none of any Interest Port Said manages to retain her character in alleged English, in the hope that the And that would appear to be the condition for swift bunkering, seeing that no facilities errors, if perceived, will be corrected. As as in industry and commerce.

of things prevailing for weeks at a time, the appear to be offered by the port authorities for Mr. Joseph Chamberlaid used to say in his WHERE DOES BRITAIN STANDIgloomy Courts being left to the shadows and the speedy loading or unloading of steamers, palmy days Nous avons changé tout cela. mysteries of dead and gone litigants whose lo not easily ascertainable. The contract. Nowadays, it le patriotiam and imperialism fatal fascination of the red riband has led to or do not seem to consider it possible to that hold the floor we Anglo-Saxons are their utter abandonment. That aside, amalgamate and by waiving part of their the finest pebbles on the beach, and thereo. 36 arrived at Wuchow on the xgth insmat there seems to us to be a class of cases ago profit accumulate sufficient to justify are some of us who utterly fail to understand and made a stay of four days at that port leaving on the airü idem for Samshul for which, if it was ever decided to lighten the Jucorporation of dock trust, which what necessity there ever was for creation of pedo boat 4.35 was dus there on the 24th the labour of the Courts generally, should would be intended primarily for the accom the miserable alicu, who cannot speak the and H.3.8. Aroorhon will probably follow/kar come under a special branch of the criminal modation of vessels in want of coal. It is language of heaven-e diluted Scotch with in a day or two. KEZ D code, and be dealt with separately and ometime now since we heard tell of that flavour of American bitters. But the foreigner An authentic report has reached us that a apart from any reference to the merely vul-wonderful Franco-Pays-Bas project to having been permitted to land on the earth disturbance,trivial in itself, but likely to provoks a lot of comment 'from the Chinese, took place gar misdemeanour of streat-saatching. Altablish a series of coaling stations which it behoves the English-speaking community most every other day our news columns are would enable vessels inimical to Great Britain to stand together shoulder to shoulder and on Friday eventos It is is well to give the bedecked with the reports of extradition to a charge, their deplated bunkers without blade to blade, so that Buress wish that particulars of the case as the Chicae have absolutely distorted the facts. On the oth cases "proceeding," and some weeks later elging upon the assistance or condescensionman to man the warld ower shall brithers instant, few bluejacket and ham-commi we read under "Canton Day by Day" that of the United Kingdom. And it was no airy, be an a that may become an accomplish.sioned officers from the British torpedo boat the accused who were charged with being fantastical dream either, but a practicable ed fact. A true Anglo-Saxon could bardly No. 30 went askors and as usual met at Kes concerned in an armed robbery and had scheme which is in course of being carried be persuaded to call a dago his brither," Cheung's the local compradore Tain com been extradited to Canton from Hongkong, into effect. Under this non-red coating so that any danger from the entrance of pradore, in addition to keeping a silks has a bar" where be dispenser liquors noƐ 'always on prima facie evidence being produced, toute scheme, vessel would coal at any of interlopers would be averted. The latest of of the most reputed brands

all the folly cam have been beheaded on the execution de Southern ports of France at Marseilles: these friends and friendships" schemes is that wend their way thither. On the eventor ground, in presence of a large concourse of for example. The next stoppage, for coal just our old "friend" the matrimonist agency in question, the men from the torpedo beat people. Extradition cases are notably diffi- would be made at Jiboutil on the African under new colours. And although it pur were having a dinner at Kee Cheung's when cult, for there is the ever-present danger coast, near the island of Adeny the third ports to bail from London we shall be much dispute arose over the payment for sothe st. that an innocent gesture may, in the would be at Sabang, in Pulo Ways, some few surprised if on investigation it is not found to freshment, the bluejackets Insisting that they bad paid cash for the, goods supplied, befor British mosquito flotilla would be off life in the end. Here in Hongkong would be somewhere along the southern for it costs no money to start, the members',

thint the account had not been seitled. A few and doing bright and early. It is merely there must necessarily always be a floating, coast of Indo-China. The name of the contributions keep it going, and the self a matter of convenience that the British which is to say transient, population of place has been given on several occasions, appointed officials are sublimely free from any fleet is to be seen on the Canton delta 10,000 to 20,000 per day, and many of these, although, for the moment, it escapes the responsibility whatsoever. From some at all, a sort of forcible rider to unless faces and physiognomies count for memory, and the last report on the subject leaflets which have come to us by the gross, motion already adopted that the piracies nothing, are so closely allied to the bestial was that a French marquis who had qualified as if we were likely to become hawkers of such and waterway, robberies along the riverine that it is difficult to say where the difference as a civil engineer, along with a number of literature, it would appear that you may be districts were a disgrace to civilisation and lies. These extradition courts would have other interested in this Pickwickian game come a member of the Correspondence Club a standing reproach to the Chinese Govern- to be presided over by men who were some of international pinpricks, were busily en or the English-Speakers' Link. The differ ment. We have spoken of China's sovereign thing more than mere machines and some gaged in laying their plaus for the cace is considerable. If you wish to play rights, but it must be kept well in mind thing less than indulgent parents. If thers erection of great Far Eastern coal fast and loose with the member, then you that we do not hold for a second that are to be any changes in the administration ing depôt. That the scheme cannot join the Club, preserve your anonymity, and these have been in any respect. Infring of justice in Hongkong during the ensuing be described as being entirely in nubibus pay xos: 56. a year subscription. But if you ed. As we have read from day to day, the year, then the question of changing the re-may be inferred from the fact that two years have no objection to disclosing your nime

others present had managed is escape and get people have been holding mass meetings up gister of cases coming under the Extradition ago there were many sailors who predicted and mank, togelber with the address of your aboard their ship where the affair vess report- and down the coast, protesting against the Act and giving it a position all its own should that the Russian feet would use these side castle and town residence, then you will be ed. A party of local civilisus, beating of the Action of the British in taking over the con- certainly appeal to those whose work is con- depôts in preference to the recognised stages come a Link, at the moderate charge of arrow, proceeded to the scene of the disturbance of Port Said, Colombo, Singapore and Japan, 6d. per annum. In connection with the and found a huge crowd congregated. The trol of the police patrol system of the rivers nected with the Supreme Court, Now, mass meetings are all very well in their

If Port Said throws away its title to Club, the members always preserving their crowd was most docile and made no attempts way; mase meetings which afford five or six.

being an important coaling station there anonymity, give in most cases a brief des; to interfere with the foreigners, who entered is the distinct, possibility that the cription of themselves, and they are a lovely been effected. The party of civilians who had the compradore's alpro to see what damage hid hours squabbling are in their own fashion development of the safety-valve principle,

To-morrow brings with It Christmas Daydreams of our allen competitors may lot. The ladies are ticketted #Ba34" of

arrived on the scene, about half an hour after and should certainly be supported by the active propagandist, who does not desire that the proletariat should inquire too closely into in amazement at the little that has been point why not eliminste all danger from tlemen are known as the "A's". We have of damages, Notwithstanding which the com his ongoings. But how comes it about that done to add distinction to the fastly-fading at one of the busiest seasons of the year. the year notwithstanding the flutteringe of dove Chinese merchants and shopkeepers find cots and beatings of the wind that have been time to linger over the fragrant tea cuptor to hope that the world has grown a recorded. At Christmastide it is usual to and sip nectar' and resolution at the same little beiter than it was, that people have thick with black dust. Everybody on board with it may be stated that they are all that an investigation" would be held into the breath? Since the formation of the Can- ton-Hankow Railway Company the principal become more humanised, and that the ap. business of Canton has been the holding of proach of the millenium may almost be But it is really, a waste of time mass meetings, which have proved as futile divined.

XMAS DAY:

causeless restraints of trade by doing away with coolic labour? The scene at Port said when a liner is coaling savours of the with oil lumes and the atmosphere in nethermost pit of the Infemo; the air reeks

hinted our suspicion that this "friends and friendships" movement is a matrimonial scheme in disguise. Let us look at the statements, which the candid...” B1⁄2”. write around their personalities. To begin

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hot words were exchanged, from what could be gathered, and it appeared the compradores gently pushed out of the room. Meanwhile crowd had gathered in the street and the native police were sent for and, without proceeding to investigate, rushed into the "bar" and attempted to summarily arrest all the men of were mad. This the bluejackets naturally resented, and a scuffle ensued. A further reinforcement of police arrived and by shear weight of number everpowered two of the British seamen and, after.binding their hands and feet with rope, in the City, instead of the Police pontoon. The had them conveyed to the Magistrate's yamen

sign

pradora claimed that 540 of goods" had been destroyed, but he could show nothing in proof

of his statement,” The incident was reported to the Brilish Contul, who communicated with the City Magistrate asking for the release of the two sailors from the yames and stalling In the depths of misery and der-slim and active; all of medium height, all matter. The two saliors were not released

yet all this could be remedied interested in country life, all fond of music, until the following morning and bad

how authorities to require that nature, pictures, reading--(does that include night in the city yamen in great discomfort. of local agitators making use of this coal contractors abould Install auto the household bills 7)-sketching, all on the The matter is now being investigated. Some otticoating machines, which would add verge of the thirties, and all highly respect incident costis up hostile rooting painst the coolics to a proper realisation of their posi- since their parents shuffled off this mortal this fracas to their own advantage by exaggerat coil. Who could resist this lady's appealing the facts, and this demeanour onlara sop- "Yorkshire woman; refined; broad-minded'; pressed by the officials may lead to further. UNDER MATRIMONIAL COLOURS. homely, happy, and hopeful disposition developments. Shore leave has been temporarily sympathetic; love for children, home and stopped by the Commanders of the gunboats

until the matter is definitely settled. While the majority of people are quite country life; considered to be frank, uncon-

As remarked at the outset the incident in

and Mrs. G.-L. SEITZ, 800, Clayton Leonard. | creature with a twist in his mathematical borne in mind when the festivities of the to break with undesirable;, acquaintances 'Would be very glad to hear from or to make reached its present crisis but for the unwarrante On December 20, 1907, at Shanghai, to Mr. other day. Then, again, some misguided past customers, are factors which have to be content to make their own friendships and ventional, and original. No near relatives: itself le trivial; and the affair would not have

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On December 15, 1997, at Shanghai, born to Ray, and Mrs. E. Pilley of Ruchow, a sOD, JOHN ALLEN.

On December 16, 1907, at Shanghal, the wife

DI PERCY A. MACLEAN, of 2 sod,

On December 19, 1957, at Shanghai, the

Wife of WAKEFORD COX, of a sob...

daughter of John F. Caie, Glasgow

WILLIAM DAINTY,of Colombo, son of William

On December 20, 1937, at Shanghai, HENRY

only daughter of the late William Fowler, of

your,

DEATHS.

CHARLES FREDERICK, Mouls, second soo

of Bishop Mouls, in his 49th year.

On Decembar 19, at Shanghai, CAPITULINA

Maria Lopes, in her 65th year,

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The Hongkong Celegrap

So far tion.`--

in their results as in their perfervid resoluto pursue that topic, for the world is probably tions. Granting, then, for the sake of as-not much worse to-day than it was in the gument, that the British flag as the official pro- Never Never times when "Caine came to the facilities of the port and lead the Fable, mest of them having been orphans | British gunboat man, and are making use of Lector of the police in South China has, shall grief over the question of unlimited speed we say, no focus stundi, what benefit would over the new automobile track, the Chinese merchants confer on themselves were they to boycott British goods, entering Canton Yet that suggestion was seriously made and seconded at a mass meeting the

The fact is, the whole subject is bound up in

as Hongkong is concerned the fact that money in tight, and that merchants are displaying less and less inclination to extend their credit dealing or accommodate

number of residents whose beau-deal of a

EUROPEAN ASIATIC COALING "FACILITIES,

when circumstances seem to warrant such

draughts of ozone. And so the great-hearted ones, cursed with abness, or hampered by an unfortunate tongue and a vile puise-proud manner, walk along in the shadows, eating their hearts out in valu regrets. Many astute adventurers long since realised the PCR sibilities of such a condition of things, and the matrimonial agency was the direct outcome of the idea to make the human

Would welcome correspondence from any body who would wake me laugh, but not from any religious or teetotal personages, Am sympathetic, and intensely lonely mentally would know how to value genuine friend." Surely that describes the lady for whom half the bachelors in Hongkong

one, and there ispano

time for that had

particulars as an offset: 10.10 in abort

are informed, by a few agitators at Wuchow. statements that are being freely, circulated,

plications, CCNAME who are seeking to create international com

CONSUL-GENERAL IN CONFERENCE WITH

COMMANDER-IN-CHIEREN,

Our Canton correspondent, informs us that are all Solons with the features of Apollo. flying visit to Hongkong the other day returning

...

NOTORIOUS ROBBER KILLED.

the acquaintance of any A's or Be who able interference of the native police and their MARRIAGES. LINDSAY, 300 of the Rev. Was Gangbeil do away with foreign interport steamers by paid on a sterling basis will be chuckling, there appears to be an enormous would appclate a genuine faithful friend," attempt to summarily arrest all the Britainda beat

On December 16, 1907, at Shanghai, GAVIN apparatus, proposed that the Chinese should season are being considered.. Many who are

number of staid, gloomy, morose Englishmen Who could disregard that ? Then there men present. Oralgie, Kilmarnock, to ELSIE FORBES, third replacing the present fleet with one floated over their good fortune in-getting-for-some and women who find it impossible to gratify is this wail from Devonshire: Widow The compradore's claim, so it is mated,

with Chinese money and operated by occult reason which they do not stop to Chinese labour. We do not stay to consider consider-something for nothing when their real affection for humanity. Gifted with 36; brown hair and eyes; medium is us the relative importance such a scheme it comes to opening the annual bazaar, gregaricus nature, they are yet compelled height; loves animals, cycling, boating, question that he attempted to squeese

to stand aside while the flighty little miss theatres, literature (Carlyle, Omar Khayyam, bie quests by wanting them to pay Dainty, of Westgate, Essex, to DAISY KATE, might possess with regard to the future of As usual the public offices bile best stand the harum-scarum youth, without brains, Victor Hugo, and #of, Corell and Boothby); been paid for. It is it great ply that this second daughter of the late Robert Law, the riverine traffic, bergues that is beside while the other places of public resort will Shanghai.

On December 21, 1957, at Shanghai, Ax-

the point. All we would observe is that it be wide open to all and sundry, who have depth, or chamcter are welcomed as frean travel and adventures_unconventional; incident occurred,huly in Justice 10 the DREAS HANSEN ERIKSE la EDITH MARY,

shareholders of the Uhinese steamboat com- while one section of the community will be Shanghai. No cards.

pany to learn one fine morning that their regretting the fabulous days of their youth first class fleet of native vestels had been when snow and mistletoe were the chief On November 2, 1907, at Lowell, Mass,, pillaged and looted from Wuchow to Can- delights of Christmas-aplike the present U.8.A., 18 her: 85th year, Mmm Sarai H. ton, and that the Chinesa Government pro- dead, dull, dog days of blighting fag as DANFORTH, the beloved mother of A. W. fessed itself unable to offer the slightest as recorded by worthy old Reuter-there will Danforth, of Shanghai.

On December 16, 1907, at Shanghai, sistance in tracing the marauders, while as also be a very considerable and growing WILLIAM HOPPLEY of Manchester, in his and for compensation the idea was preposterous Christmas holiday will be made up of yacht parishs" pay for a chance of doubtinere on the prowl. As for the gentlemen, they the British Consul General at Canton paid

On December 18, 1907, at Shangbai, the question whether honest, legitimate'tradeing tours and summer sunshine. At, all bliss, But the matrimonial agency got into | One writes from China to say that he isto Canton the same evening. While in Hong shall be exposed any longer to the periodi events, Christmas comes as a welcome bad odour, somehow or others 37; M. D.; very sympathetic refined kong, Consul General Matisfield called on th cal exactions of bordes of unmitigated and break, and if it has arrived at express speed discovered that the rich heiress, the languish capable of an honourable and sincere friend-Commander-in-Chief on board the flagship and DA SILVA LOPES, the beloved wile of Tobias audacious river-rats which abound in the this year then that is due to ourselves. Thereing school girl with 10,000 a year in her ship"! Let us wish him good luck, Aa presumably held a conference with Sir Arthur own right when she reached the age of 18, Irishman thinks it is not good for man Moore. What the subject of the conference Canton delta. Great Britain which has a pre will be no issue of the Hongkong Telegraph ponderating share in the steamship as well as to-morrow, the next number being that this lonesome widow who wanted a gentle to be alone and wishes some fair B war, it was, of course, impossible to learn, but man and a husband to look after her huge to convince him of the fact. The list that it might have had some connection with in the river trade has declared at long length published on Boxing Day.

estates, the domesticated creature who want is endless, but these extracts will show the Wachow affray is a theory that is faintly

guessed at a decided answer in the negative and to

ed sympathy, the sporting lady who wanted a how far the scheme is removed from the Great Britain belongs the credit of illustrat

male afinity to accompany her on a big game ordinary matrimonial agency. But, as it is Ing to the Chipess the invariable result of

hunt while she paid all expenses, all these all done in the name of Empire and procrastinations, evasions, and appeals.

types were embodied in the young and fraternity and as there is a possibility that dashing, sedate and respectable, accomplish EXTRADITION.CASES.

ed and domesticated female who acted the game may interest the players there is

(24th December.).

as a sort of sister to the proprietor of the just the chance that it may succeed, although matrimonial agency. All the proprietor had would not advise our readers to become Few laymen will have the temerity to dis-

to do was to introduce the parties, charge praptured with the prospects outlined.

Capton, 20th December, puta the repeated assertions of the judges the coolles of that Egyptian port. As the stranger whatever sum he seemed able to of the Supreme Court that their Lordships to the character of the situation, the afford, and confidently leave the result to

Anatoricus burglar, Wen- Mun-yang are, like plain, ordinary humdrum lndividuals causa which led to the withdrawal of the stern commonsense of his lady assistant..

|name, has been the terror of all towns and (arst December.)

overworked.. Everybody is content to be labour and the demands of the strikers; And so the matrimonial agency; that is to

villages along the East River. A reward of In spite of the fact that many of his lieve that be is pulsating at an energy deve we are, perforce, utterly in the dark, ale say the bourgeois wedded while you wait

$1,000 was offered by the military authoritien and the gentry political friends have advised him to with loped after the pattern of the machines though it must be confessed that many affair, died a natural death. The aristocratic

marauder, being assisted by a large gang, f draw his proposed Bill for the admission of whose delayed advent was the subject of one merchants in Hongkong would prefer to go-between is still making livelihood

queatly made his escape to Hongkong, or from Chinese into the Philippines as agricultural of Sam Wolfer's laments. From the factory know something of the ins and outs of the out of the Introduction bueinetas," After all,

Macao with perfect case. His movements were labourers, it is stated in the Cablenous hand, whose work begins when many people position rather than to total up the dissipa however, the lonely spinster and the man wito yesterday..!

so changing and elusive, that the reward, hun American that Paterno insists on defending" are just making up their minds to retire fortions of the Continental Almanach de Gotha. hoped to make a fortune by marrying

- been lasted for years without any, effects - On bis project. He explains that he believes the sight, to the latest candidate for honours While we may decline to assume the mantle money felt that the disappearance of AF about six o'clock last Friday evening the fire the 13th inst; Weirsun Lau Chad-chies, it to be a very beneficial measure for the in the hopper succles" all are obssessed of the quidaune in this connection there are the matrimonial agent was not altogether tell at the Central and Nos Police Stations magistrate, received information that people at large. He realizes that it is an with the idea that they are a living personi- certain features about a strike or labour die an unmixed blessing; and after a time clanged out. Inquiries elicited the informs to arrive at Shek-long from Hongkong, that unpopular Bill with the working classes and fication of the verb to hustle," and as no ription at Port Sald which are of interest we had reading clubs, circular cor- tion that the outbreak was at a6, Graham Street very day. Accordingly the 6th battalion under

city expects to be made the target for the fire of good object is likely to be derived from any alike to Europe and Asia and are possibly respondence lettem, and what not, formed (third-foot) The che arrived on the seast 10 Farsund and capture the burglar by, follow- brigade tursed" out Mr. Lauwas ordered to proceed thliber but before these labourers and their alone, Faterno attempt to bring them true enlightenment of more importance to the countrica East all over the country. The late Sir Isaac the are had been subdued. A careless malding him up to his fair. He was seized wherea point out that, in Malally the bed for then we may leave them to them

corrent, This alleged, I blamed for the are, desperate strogels, having been inotally labourers is not realized as the city, becomes selves. But when the judges of the

consumed about 330 worth property by several shots from the braves rendezvous for large number of people highest Court in the Colony join in the

before it was eventually extinguished. On ber anddled a few hours afterwards. His corpsowas from the neighbouring provinces, but in general cry it is highly essential that their

way to the kitchen, it appears, holding a fight subiequently examined by the weyman, The ed candle in one hand, the foll up against a rejoicings of the inhabitants of. Sbek-loong on Mindanao, Mindoro, Paragua, and even in protest should be seriously considered and

bed and set the curtain ablaze. This woot up that day after secalving the news of his death the northern part of Luzon there are vast given that importance which it warrants. Is

ismlante and spread to a parition, the bed were so great that many people offered prayers i sections of the country walling entivation the calendar of the Supreme Court wollen

taking fire lateris. The lomates of the house to the gods: H. R. Viceroy, Chang received and settlement. He believes that the even to unusual propotilons, or are the petty,

ou no time in tackling the biasa and suppress report from Mr. Lan yesterday, requesting, an and a half millions of people in' the Philip Summary Jurisdiction cases growing in

fag it before the Bremen arrived. The build order for the despatch of the, Corpis, and

od distributioff of the cash reward”: pines are insuficient for the country and I number There is no evidence to that need not be asserted that Fort Said People are tired of writing letters and odanys. lng was not insure

MAIL SUPPLEMENT, ISSUED GRÁTIS TO SUBSCRIBERS.

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1907.

CHINESE FOR IRE, RHILIPPINES.

(26th December.)

• In concise language Reuter has mado the Far East acquainted with the fact that there is a strike-proceeding-at-Port Said among the fellateen who act as

and West of Sues than to the land of the Pitman recognised the edge of photography Pharaobs. In the first place, Port Said is for spreading a knowledge of phonography the connecting link between the old and the among the people, and, like the shrewd man new in the world's history; it is one of he was, these clubs and societies were the principal coaling stations in the world, caught under his wing and he obtained an where at all hours of the day and night the endless chain of advertisements of the most leviathans of the Indian Ocean may be practical and valuable character, without con absorbing Immense quantities of nutri- spending astiver. Now, it would appear these ment for the next stage of the journey. It old-fashioned schemes have had thele day,

TYPHOON WARNING.

The telegrams quoted below have been re ceired by the American Consulate General from the Manila Observatory --

December 20, 1907, at 5 pm Typhoon seems to have been filling up since

ERRORISM AT SHEK LOONG, ENDED.

[From

a Correspondent]