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A Trip in a Junk

HOW TO SPEND ECONOMICAL WERK-ENDS:

ace of a crowd, mostly strangers, there is an other way of obtaining the necessary orɔna

which will carty him through another week's

toll refreshed and re-invigorated.

* It does not, I admit, sound well to say lofuly that you have been out yachting in a junk, but that is mere prejudice. a junk, ond of the Hakka variaty for preference, is just as go-d as a real yacht any day, of the week, and at for supreme comfort is is ten times better than a lausch For one thing there'” lo

will return, much more so than if you travel always the blessed uncertainty when you by the orthodox one-design arrangement.

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ACCIDENT AT SHANGHAI.

THREE CHINESE KILLED.

[From Oyr Own Correspondent].

Shanghai, 14th July, 9.55 p.m.

Last evening one of the French tramours knocked down, and killed three Chinese.

To-day the scene of the accident was througed with a crowd num- bering 2,000..

| Router's. ||

The Naval Manœuvres.

LONDON, Fath July, In connection with the British Naval man-

œuvres, a flotills of nineteen torpedo boat

suddenly steamed up the Thames and an chored at various points, eight of them at London Bridge, where the unprecedented sight attracted huge crowds.

It is stated that the principal objective of¦

the manoeuvres is the capture of the Thames.

ments should take over the funds sterling contributions of officers on sterling officer in the Royal Navy could not be

od to the fund in dollars at Ignored either by the Government of Hong and guarantee the pensioni in return salaries are credited

or the 4 per cent. contributions, the current rate of the dollar at the time. kong or the Admiralty at Whiteball. It for the

The proposal that the Government should when the contribution is paid, it follows that was tantamount to saying that vessels enter ing the port by way of the Lycemun take over the fund was first placed before the value to the fund of the future contribu-

Among the most delightful ways of passing A. S. WATSON & CO., Pas, after sundown, were in Immediate the Hongkong Government by the Secretary tons of existing members on sterling laries

peril, because there was no distinguishing ofStatein July, 1902, and in February, 1993, can only be estimated with accuracy if the week-end in Hongkong is to goʻyachting, LIMITED.

landmark to guide them on the way to their Sr Matthew Nathan, whole stating that the the future values of the dollar for (say) says a correspondent. But despite the dictum. anchorage Apparently the Govemment rexecutive Council and the directors of the the next thirty-five years are known," That of the Colon al Secretary, yachting, on teal of was the fast straw. To that despatch Yachts that is to say, is raiber po expensive hobby for the average young man in the city, argument submitted, and 'the question of that course. The reasons advanced by Lord no reply was made, as far as the public docu- | 8, as a rule ho compromises by ingratiating cognised at once the importance of the fund unanimously agreed to the adoption o erecting a lighthouse on the Kowloon coast Blgin for the absorption of the fund were menu reveal, but we may argue that the ex- himself into the goodwill of some friend who so that the clear chaupel might be properly that the Government would bind itself to change question is so frivolous that it can be has control of his firm's launch. Or, If that defined was referred to the Secretary of State Pay pensions according to pension tables disposed of without much argument. If, asfalls, be can assemble a number of cronies for the Colodies. I doubt the Naval au- which would give to the pensioners au assur.be Secretary of State urges, the fund is rais together and hire a launch. But for the mau thorities here also made representations to the ed income at a higher rate of interest thao ed in the major part by contributions of moderate means who does out want to be Admiralty as to the necessity for improving they themselves were presumably capable of from officers drawing sterling salaries and earning. The only advantage which Lord the computation of future pensions may the guiding lights for vessels approaching by Elgin assumed the Government would have to be made on fluctuating cur- way of the Eastern entrance. At all events, we understand that, with the approval of the derive was that it would be relieved from rency basis, there is nothing more simple Secretary of State, the Hongkong Govern the necessity (inherent in the old system of than to embody at autending clause ment propose to submit for the considers these funda) of contributing 6 per cent, com in the Crainance by which local officers tion of the Legislative Council the sugges pound Interest on surpluses, should such can be made to contribute to the fund tion that a lighthouse be erected at Black-exist which had the effect of continuously in the currency of the Colony and head's Point without delay, It is stated that increasing the surpluses and of throwing on would receive the pensions to like cur prior to submitting the matter to the Secret, the Government a larger burden than was rency. The risk involved in any fluctuation ary of State the Governinent here obtained reasonable or necessary." But then his in the gold value of the dollar would then the opinion of several Trinity House experis, Lordship proceeded to argue that the "experi- be accepted by the contributor himself ence of other colonics has shown that where When paying his 4 per cent, monthly con-

Thera in abundance of room to stretch your whose views were in favour of the course mentioned... There is not the slightest doubt distinct funds with separate accounts exist it tribution from his salary in silver he expects legs and swap lies, and for the benefit of that all mariners will welcome the erection is difficult to satisfy the members, who when to receive in the same currency in which he thate who have not yet tried the junk idea, of an additional landmark which will render the assets of the fund, have reached a con- had regularly paid his quota to entitle his 1 may be permitted to give some details the entrance to the port as little hazardous siderable figure are apt to think that the widow and family to the pension which gathered as a trip which a quartsite of Hoog

and Sunday last, **;** as possible. The scheme; we are told, pensions can be considerably increased or the his thrift purchased during his periodong adleged workers, enjoyed on Baturday provides for an occulting light which will be contributions reduced." It will be seen that of service. In the same way that the Gov of cost does not enter into the question at in his mind as to the legal aspect of the of the dollar to members of the Government the moment, but many will be inclined to Government proposal when he made this service there can certainly be no difficulty in ask whether Blackhead's Point, or, as we very significant statement: "Whether the adjusting the prospective payments by take it, Flagstaff Hill is the most suitable members of the fund have any legal claim a similar method of equalisation. The only site for the crection of a lighthouse of the under the original ordinance to participato advantage which the becretary of State's size and capacity requisite to meet all rein the whole or indeed in any part of such scheme possesses for contributors that which three gallons, makes a solution of the strengquirements? Already great part of the surplus may be a matter of argument." This does not exist under the present scheme cranium and have ample accommodation fude bill has been shorn away to the ex-proposal, as we have said, was opposed by and that is, in the case of the very exception

al case of numbers of officers who may tent of 45 degrees in order to make the majority of the contributors, who con-

for a new thoroughfare, while a sidered the scheme on the suggestion of Sir happen to be widowers with daughters of nu massive retaining wall had to be built Matthew Nathan, and in-transmitting the exempt age, that is to say who have attained in order to guard against the outward pres- Colony's representations against the transfer the age of at years, or who may have farsa sure of the rock. At one meeting of the of the fund Mr. May, who was then Offried before they attained that age. By the Legislative Council, it may be remembered, cer Administering the Government, wrote: Secretary of State's proposal such a contri-is Mr. Pollock inquired who was to defray the "I understand that the majority of the butor would be entitled to a pension, where- cost of that retaining wall, and the Govern directors and contributors, are considering as under the existing law be would come in A. S. WATSON & CO., men's answer was that it would come out of a scheme of compulsory insurance whics

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the ordinary Public Works expenditure. Al ready Fingstaff Hill is a signalling station, where the typhoon signals are exhibited and it seem to the ordinary layman that there was but little rooin left for a lighthouse, leaving aside altogether the question whe ther it would be desirable that the light should be at such a height. But, of course, these are questions for experts although experts are not always infallible. The fact remains that the Government, with the con- The Editor will not undantake in he responsible for sent of the Secretary of State, and after consultation with Trinity House representa Liver, are now to make extra provision for the benefit of navigators whose lives are quite full enough of périls as it is, without their being enhanced by confusing and bewilder

Hongkong.

All risk of infection can be avoided, by visible Trom Lyecraun Pass. The question the Secretary of State himself had a doubt ernment conceded to equalise the vagaries stood that the Hakka junk 'is not one of these dinavian waters, unexpectedly appeared on

washing the floors, etc, or sprinkling where -the Beas are likely to be with a dilure solution of WATSON'S HYGIENOLS A ten spoonful to a pint of water, or a teacupful to

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-HONGKONG DISPENSARY. Hongkong, 27th May, 1908

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. A FRENCH Consulate has been opened in Mokden.

To begin with it should be clearly under" boats which speed the week in carting fah or similar commodities round the harbour and hastily cleaning up for an excursion party, Ap: patently these junks-which are only, rather

erect without any danger of injuring your exaggerated sampans, in which you can stand

dorin medium-sized individuals who do not

His Majesty the Kaiser, cruising in Scan- Tuesday aboard the Imperial yacht tokensol for in the Albeck Bight, where Admiral Beresford's feet lay at anchor.

His Majesty passed up and down the Bri

tish lines, the ships of which manned yards

and saluted.

Persia.

Later

The Kalier standing on the bridge of his demand the spice of three fat men each-these yacht subsequently departed as mysteriously jacks are engaged in the higher or non-smelly as he arrived. class of trade, and so far ni i̟ have experienced there is bever the suspicion of foul odours The deck is covered with de ut, them. corative matting, and all the tripper has to do to bring his own cushions and grub along A Saturday to Sunday evening trip allows a

with him,

fair

here is Junk Bay with is numerous "inleta

area of Hongkong's waters to be covered.

or Castle Peak Bay which abounds in ideal pots where swimming or fishing parties may enjoy themselves to their heatts content. Or you may decide to round the island, dropping soack—which is generally a pretty subulential into some sequestered nook for the noonday

affair

Reuter's Teheran correspondent wires that the Persian Foreign Minister has formally expressed, to the British representative, the Shah's regrets at the placing of the British

Legation under military surveillance.

Moedonia,

The Porte bat ordered the mobilization of twenty-eight battalions of Redifs, in Asin Minor in view of the military dirtifaction in Macedonia, and has simultaneously sent a

urgent representations at Athens, Belgrado, note to the Powers requesting them to make

and Sofia, with a view to stopping “armed bands from entering Turkey.

Indo-China...

Inspector Dubany of the Annamite Militia has been killed in an engagemant with pirates in the province of Bac Ninh.

would remove the unpopularity of the precases, however, which do not affect the genasd sandy coves at no distance from Victoria; seat fund, for the reason that each conteral body of contributors, and we take it that butor would know that he, his heirs or with these few exceptions favour will be assigns would eventually get some benefit in found with the proposal which the Downing return for his contributions; while all or very Streets officials make for the transference of nearly all the directors and contributors feel the fund. Speaking for the majority, and it is for the majority for whom, we take it, our that the Hongkong fund has had such a

As for the commissariat department, that specially favourable start and is accumulating redoubtable unofficial members will make 20 rapidly that they may confidently look firm stand, the transfer cannot be justified should be left in the hands of an old hand," forward to the possibility of an increase in in reason or in equity by the arguments that otherwise there is the likelihood that chow will give way when your caravan." is twenty miles pensions even on the Ceylon rates if the fund have been advanced in support of it.

from Hongkong and becalmed at that, Po is kept separate and fresh valuations are

one who has aux Been there can describe the made from time to time." The committee

ravenous appetite, which can be developed of the Civil Servants who sat to consider the

when the grim tale is told that the locker is emply. Crusoe had a chance of stocking his proposal were unanimously opposed to the scheme, and one striking, point which the VG BAKHNETIEFF, the c.iring Russian larder, but the men on ajank have none; they signatories to that report made was in citing Missister to Japan, lefs Tokio on 11th inst. It can only wait and look daggers at one another.

to some European country.

overstocks the pantry and he-is worse still, be Government to guarantee that "all contri

'cause nothing is mose mingrable that having butions' shall during the continuance of the

À ̧RICKEHA ̧ coolie, who was charged by to carry back, nearly as much as you felt tową fund bear interest at the rate of 6 per cent. Inspector Langley of the water police, for | with.

THE Ministry of Posts and Communications per annum."

From this it is apparent that refusing to accept hine, when direngaged, was One thing about a jook is that the master hauproposed to the Throne that the foreigners in the advantage which the Secretary of State fined $to in the Police Court, this morning, will never take you too far away from home the employ of the Shanghai-Nanking Hailway Within the past week the Government held would be derived by the Government TELEGRAMS from airen report general dut, and beauty. He is far too for that. I should be decorated in recognition of their have taken active steps to ascertain the through the transfer of the fund would have ness throu hout He is thinking of himself; all the time, services, as the construction of the live bas The Hongkang Gelegraph views of the individual contributors to the been illegal as the law then stood, and as it easy of business nou bol Manchuris and if you arrange to be back at a certain hour been completed. An imperial Rescript his

SUBSCRIPTION BATES (IN AIVANOR), DAILY--$30 per annum. WEEKLY-18 per annum. “

The rates per quarter ́anel je moment, proportional. The daily basis delivered free when the addra is

An Annamite professor Interpreter has been arrested at Sept Pagodas for inciting to re- volt, and the assassination of Europeans.

A report le current in Paris that the des

Indo-China will be hastened forward.

apibilo mesanget. On coplex sent by post uning changes in the harbour approaches to the statutory obligations on the part of the is reported that he is designated as Ambassador | Then there is the self-constituted caterer who patch of ordinary, relief for the garrisons in

additional $1.50 per quarter be charged for postage. 'be'postage on the weekly line to any part of the

world la 30 cents per quarter.

Stogle Coples Daily, can conta Weekly, twenty.

THE WIDOWS AND ORPHANS FUND..

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depend upon it that wlad or so wind you will be stepping ashore at Pottinger Pier a good two hours before the time-limit has been reach ed. If you leave on a Saturday afternoon, as we did, and decide on Castle Peak Bay as the destination. you will be astonished to find that it takes exactly fourteen hours to get there, THE Chinese Engineering & Mining Co., Ld., All night long we ran before a brisk breeze announces that the total output of the Com-whiting the time away intime-bocoured fashion pany's three mines fer the week ending June detalla of which may be left to your imagine 27 amounted to 21,799 63 tons and the sales tion-and when we woke up at dawn we were still making tracks for Cisle Peak Bay, After. during the same period to 9,895,6; tong, A Toxio despatch of toth inst says:-The Japanese residents at Seoul will give a banquet on Sunday in honour of the Resident-General,

now stands, in other words that the fund would altogether, or gre reconstructing their business. have been illegally acquired by the dowe are requeried to state that the Volunteer vernment at the expense of the contributor, promenade concert advertised for Saturday, The contention on the part of the Secretary the 18th fast, has been postponed to Saturday, of State that there might be the fear of the the ist August, owing to the death of Lieut. expenditure exceeding the income derivable Blood, by the fund is absolutely disposed of by the committee when they stated: "The civil service, on the other hand, anticipate that the capital of the fund will increase so large- ly as to make it possible at some future date to revise and to increase the rates of pen- sion; and they are prepared to undertake for themselves the risk that the Government

been issued ordering that the "proposal be adopted. KO SANG, a cook, residing in a matched at Yau-ma-t, was fined Sto in the Palica Court, this morning, for conveying a bitat of gon- powder through the streets of Mongkok yester day, without beving the basket labelled 'in' English and Chloese characters " Dangerous.” The fine was, paid. An order was also made forfelting the gunpowder. Inspector McHardy prosecuted,

Widows' and Orphans' Pension Fund in connection with the proposal by the Secre Hongkong, TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1908.

tary of State to transfer that fand, to the PROPOSED LIGHTHOUSE AT general revenue of the Colony. We under stand that copies of the despatcher which BLACKHEAD'S POINT.

were recently laid before the Legislative One of the coincident features of the Council have been circulated amongst the growth of Kowloon as a commercial centre entire body of contributors, with the request and the consequent erection of great busi- that each individual member should give ness houses along the waterfrout is the an expression of assent to or dissent from extraordinary change which has taken place the proposal of the Secretary of State. When in the appearance of the peninsula after the replies have been received from the nightfall. It is not so very long ago since contributors it is proposed that the directors Kowloon was an inky speck on the harbour, of the fund shall hold a meeting to consider the dark patches being merely rendered the general concensus pf views submitted by now proposes to undertake, namely, that the Prince Ito, who leaves Chemulpo an Tuesday found ouratives back in the vicinity of His understood to have been concluded" before

those who are more immediately concerned expenditure may eventually exceed the in-op board a man-of-wax to come to Tokio,

with the disposition of the fund. We take

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all, what does it matter when you get there? OWING to the fact that the recent lose, Time was meant for slaves. But the curious reported to bave been arranged between the Hongkong and Shanghai Balking Corporation," part was that with no breeze to speak of we Ministry of Posts and Communications and the

kong in a matter of four hours. It was amus- ing in this connection to discover that the only Imperial sanction had been given, an Imporial

Council to the effect that from henceforth watch in the company had unaccountably Rescript has been issued through the Grand spurted an hour aboad between the time wa left Hongkong and the time of our fetur. Ministries or provincial government”

What is one man's meat is another man's allowed to conclude foreign loans unless the poison, they say, so how we spent the day is of suction of the Throne has been obtained. Do consequence. You can climb the hills and CHAN TAK, a coolie, unemployed, with no be stiff for a week, or swim for hours and have fixed place of abode, was charged in the Polica which is going to keep you lively and remipit. Ha Tang's unoccupied houses at 47, Des Vænt face and body the colour of brick-dost Court, this morning, with entering one of Mr. cent for another ten days. It's all in the day's Road Castral, yesterday, and stealing fourteen meat, and is included in the fun of the outing from the windows and door. Hit -about the only thing that costs nothing, were sean by Tse Shing, the

The only way of reaching shore from a junk

more impalpable by the few lights which flickered at vague distances outlining the

come." A subsequent memorandum drawn shore. But within recent years the fast it that the object of the Government' up by the directors of the fund makes the growing importance of Kowloon and its is to be prepared for any action, which case even stronger against the Government. future potentialities have been marked by the unofficial members of Council may and in favour of the retention of the fund on in présent basis." After incontestably the extension of illuminating power to deem it necessary to take in order to such an extent that at the present time it give effect to the wishes of the major disposing of the Government's argument on is practically impossible for navigators, other ity of the contributors. The proposal the question of the 6 per cent, compound than those who are in almost daily touch of the Secretary of State is both arbitrary interest, the directors urged that after having with the port, to determine exactly which is and inequitable. There is nothing in the made inquiries they had good authority for Kowloon and whichis Hongkong when enter list of the despatches, which seals the doom stating "that the fund could be lent out on havlag obtained a free passage from Shanghai, for and somehow or other, adds to the opio panes of glass, which be carefully remos

mortgage at the present time at as much as 8 per cent. to 9 per cent. and that this form

A Tokio despatch, of 7th inst,, to the N. C. D. News says-A messenger from the Emperor of Japan is dea to arrive in Seoul 10-night is order to consult with the Resident-General. Prince Ite, on the subject of the Ministerial crisis in Japan. THE two japanese stowaways who were handed over to the police on Sunday, charged with stowing away on board the steamer wank Lef were each molcled in the sum of $15 in the Police Court, to-day. In default the term of imprisonment was six wesks,

passed.

ing the harbour by way of Lyeemun Pam of the Widows and Orphans' Fund as a So confusing is the multitude of lights on distinct entity, of its own, to justify the action cach side of the harbour that already two which the Colonial Office seeks to impose of investment would offer the very bestA TELEGRAM from Hankow stalès that the is by means of a plank the breadth of a dollar seized the defendant as he wa mercantile marine vessels have come to grief upon the real proprietors of the fund, which security to the contributors." They there Rouhu Lake is riding considerably, and that on the Hunghom.rocks, one of His Majesty's from its initiation in 1891 to the present fore suggested that "as a means of relieving over 2,000 tents and sheds belonging to beggars

· strips' went ashore, and many other craft have time has been in a perfectly solvent and itself of the burden of paying 6 per cent, on who had been living along the bank of the Lake been in danger of disaster. Fourteen months sound financial condition. We may go back surplures that the Government might itselfin have been swept away by the floods. H. E ago, when H.M.S. Flora went on one of the into a little part history in reciting the fact vest or appoint trustees to invest the montes Ches Koei-leng, Viceroy at Wuchang, has rockas on the Kowloon side of the harbour, that in Ceylon, Mauritius, the Straits Settle belonging to the fund in approved local secer drawn thine thousand tins of cash (about $3,000) the captain is reported to have alleged ments, the Federated Malay States, Hong ties. In face of these arguments Lord Elgin from the Provincial Treasury for the relief of the sufferers from these inundations. WANA the reason for the mishap, which kong, Jamaica, Trinidad and British Guiana had no further grounds on which to argue that encom fortunitely proved of a trifling character, all permanent officers were required to the fund should be transferred. He simply THE Imperial Commissioners la charge of the that tie vista of Hongkong harbour had contribute 4 per cent, of their salaries to the suggested that as the fund is a dollar fund, prohibition of opium-smoking among official boon cutirely transformed as the result of fund. The Government made in effect the accounts are kept in dollars, and the classes in Peking and iba provinces have found the brillant lights, appearing on the Kow large contribution to the fund by agreeing to balance of the fund at any time is represent out that there are no less than twenty-seven Metropolitan officials using opium rub ram lous promontory, sothat it was impossible for pay interest at the rate of 6 per cent, oned by a debt due by Government of so many it is stated that if when the limit of thiss bim or his officers, even when all precautions the monica belonging to Hie fand which dollar. In the case of a considerable (and months from May 1, 1958) granted by the were adopted, to determine with exacillude were deposited with it. But the policy of increasin

brose has expired, these cials are found

able to break. her they wore sproaching the wrinland the Government underwent

they

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d. Euch a statement coming fron, when it was suggested by successive Bocze ptible. fulcs of Siate that the colonial govern

building with bir loot. A in subsidiary coinage. If you are an ex-trapeze aristor wire-rope walker, all's well, but if you're entered, and a sentence of six not, be sure the humour is "on you." in you ga into the water and everybody with you, and in the company, who disdains the water cora, tain and officers of the Bazilian cruiser la port should there be some poor placky wight BK courtesy of Sir Frederick Lugard, the cap. and attempts to go ashore in his Sunday best, were granted permission to visit the Obsarra so much the better the joke. I know because tory at Kowloon to-day. My

For personally conducted the As to the cost it is a mere trifle. For a days trip the charge for the funk should not the Observatory To exceed $9 or Sto st the outside. The cost of the Pereira sad his fag-lieter concomitant, 10 the pleasure of the partywand with Rear Admiral Stol victuals and the ice-the ice is a very necessary by Consol Leiria with the shail we say, serated waters, rests with the Bengaloo Fer appetites of the excursiónisia. Ten to qua pach of the party would spend twice as much if he on board the remained in Hongkong over the week-and and The invited guest then what about the black and tao, that dies reputable appearance that modey, canoot, buy 1