Intinations,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 1908.
te!was but six years ago that a complete historical and descriptive Erospect of the magnificent work performed by the Sister of Charity in the Colony appeared in the columus of the Teleg apk which lends itself peculiarly to reproduction to part on this most memorable
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as different in aspect, in its management, in the status and condition of the inmates, and in the curriculum, if so it may be termed, from the generally accepted notion of convent life as it is possible to imagine, and although this is the plain unvarnished truth, yet many falte im pressions have been formed of the Asilo de la Sainte Enfance simply because, so Ittle is known about it-few indeed are those among us who tosies that in this place we have an example of what Buckminster styles the high ast kind of charity, namely, charity toward the uncharitable. Nor is it to be supposed that the general public realize that the patient, pre- severing Sisters of the French Convent by their unostentatious methods of carrying on a great work are themselves to blame, if blame there be, for any lack of interest in the institution that may be noticeable. "Charity vaudieth not; is not puffed up," and these Sisters carry ob their meritorious and arduous work in al most complate silence. 1s it to be wondered at that they do not, issue annual reports and WHISKY forward them, with a covering note asking for a kindly natice, to the Editors of local journals? Not after one has been kindly shown over the establishment and is thereby enabled to grasp the far-reaching effect, the magnitude and the tendency to expanting of the task to checifully
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undertaken. It is meritorious labour of the most admirable naturë, and "trus merit is like a river; the deeper it is the less noise it makes." Silently, devotedly, persistsatly, from one year's end to the other, these Sisters, labour' on, rescuing hundreds of lufsals from death by disease, starvation, and maltreatment; bursing,
d elevation of the ignorant.mamen In meet- China I may be that it is, as it were, only drop in the ocean. Yet the seed has been and is still being scattered, and it is bound to bring forth fruit to due season.
*“A being breathing thoughtful breath, ~A traveller betwixt life and death;
The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill: A perfect wamso, nobly planned, To warm, to comfort; and command And yet a spirit still, and bright-m With something of an angel's light."
2. Wordsworth's "True Woman" From Sister Louise the following information was obtained:-In 1845 Monsignor Forcade arrived in Hooghoog from France on his way to Japan: He remained here two years and then went home. He brought out four Sisters in 1848 and his own sister was the first Lady Superior of the little foundling-house then opered. In 1860 ons of the Sisters, from Saigon, who had large private means, bought property, the site on which stands the left or eastern wing, and in 1880, after some godowns were nearly burnt to the ground, she bought up present fice premises and in the site, built the 1884. they were formally opened. Since then
The Men-kester Guardian remarks: No sane man kas over claimed that we need the 4,000,000- warriors whom conscription would call together just for sall protection Nor, for that matter, will any cane man say that a navy like that of Great Britain, which is constantly having it effectiveness increased, is created just for self protection.
HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY,
VHED
HALF-YEARLY" MEETING,
"The ordinary "half-yearly meeting, of share- holders in the Hongkong: Hotel Co., Ld, was held at the Company's Hotel, at noon to-day, for the purpose of receiving a statement-of-aci- counts' of the Company to the goth June, 1908, Counsel on behalf of Harry K. Thaw on Sib with the report of the directors, and to discess August filed a pelition in bankruptcy Petiany matter that may be competently brought. tioner declares that all be baş lett is £2,500, before the meating. Dr. J. W. Noble (chbir- wherea's "there", are claims by lawyers and mag of directors), presided, and there were alicuints against him amounting to L90,000 present Mestre, W. Hulton: Palta (director), S. most of which he describes "as unjum AA. Setb, Elle Kadoorie, D, E. Haskell, E. S. receiver has been appointed. Seen at Pough Kaduorie, E. J. Chapman, 1. Arooid, W, E keepsie Gaol, They said that the proceedings Clarke, M. S. Northcote, and C. Mooney (e- were a business secessity to protect his just cretary). creditari. The defence bad already cost
40,000.
THE Japanese porcelain industry has suffered severely since the depression set in, exposts to America and to China falling off greatly, although prices have been reduced to tempt trade. Many factories have"sbut down, and others which continue in operation are scarcely making expenses. The trade in fine porce lain is peculiarly susceptible to changes from prosperity to dull times. Fine china is a lox- uty promptly dispensed with whep adversity makes his appearance, but it is in great demand when times are good. ".
The Secretary read the notice convening the mesting.
Telegrams.
" HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
SERVICE.
ARMY REORGANIZATION.
#TWO BATTALIONS FOR
KWANGTUNG,
[By courtesy of the "Sheung Fo.")
Peking, 11th Septembur. The Ministry of War directs that two battalions of infantry be raised in Kwangtung Province within a period of three years (in connection with the scheme for the reorganisa- tion of the Army]
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The Chairman said:- Gentlemen,-I will, with your permission, follow the usual custom and take the sport and statement of accoun's as read. The statement which has been in
Viceroy Chang Jen-chun, of the your hands for some days calls for no special comment excepting perhaps the slight ionova. tion of placing in a conspicuous place thereas a Liangkwang, lias replied that, ow statement of the working capital of the coming to an insufficiency of funds in pany. "The figures have been culled from those which appear under the beading of the Provincial treasury, it is im- brities, it the balance sheet now before you practicable to recruit the soldiers It is upon the sum of $1,930929: that the dividend has been earned and not, as many required for two battalions within nacessary extensións and siterations have teen
suppose, on the capital of $630,000 contri- that time. made, and if they had the means those Sisters
buted by the shareholders.. } is only would extend the premises considerably with
view to meeting the over-increasing require- WHILE standing on a bed in the verandah of book-keeping made easy for those who will
Queen's West, yesterday, four-year not the trouble to look meats of their merciful mission. Funds, bow-ild av Rolanded a fellay a foury to the figures, placed before them, and ever, seem to come in very slowly forthis good a distance of nearly thiny feet. The child requires no further explanation. During the work and it is necessary to obtain from the was left by its mother in the verandah while period poder review the business of the com. parent organization in Paris, known as Osavers she went to attend to her bousehold duties.pany has, in common with business generally in de la Sainte Enfance, do annual grant of 23,0 In her absence the child climbed up the bed, the Colony, been very dull, and our revenue and in looking over slipped and fell. The on less than for the corresponding period of last france. Of late the Chinese-who have every fortunate child when picked up was found to year. That your profit is greater is due entire- reason to liberally "support this institution—be suffering from's broken right tog and in-ly to economies effected and not to any increase have come forward with annual subscriptions collected by Sister Macarie, who has been out here 35 years. The Reverend Mother Félicie has been in charge for 16guars. Sister Louise, bet chiefolde, has been' in the establishment upwards
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juries about the head. The police had it to: mored to bospitel, where it now lies in serious condition..
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Two men were killed almost ist pily yester
in the receipts. Since last we met plans have been pr. pared and contracts signed for the removal of that portion the Hotel-known as the Old Fuilding and the erection on the site mads available of a new, modern up-to-date hotel
This framework we beje to have erected and
His Excellency urges that an extension of time be granted...
▲ NAVAL BOARD:
FORMATION · DEFERRED.
{By courtesy of the "Sheung to."]
Poking, 11th September. H.E. Tich Liang, president of the Ministry of War, has decided await the complete formation of
to
clothing, educating and civilising the discarded of 17 years. The order to which these Sisters day by the collapse of part of the scaffolding building, the framework of which will be of steel thirty-six battalions of infuntry for
which encircled the new lw court building. belong is known as Les Sœurs de Saint Paui The scaffolding, it would appear, was erected de Chartres. Chartres, near Paris, is the head for the purpose of raising huge blocks of quarters and it may interest the charitably dis- granite. It was while boisting operations were in progress that, the collapse took place, the posed to know that they cas help the good scaffolding being asable to stand the weight work by sending presents of mopey, clothing, Two coolies who were standing immediataly below were struck by the falling poles. The etc., etc, lo. the beadquarters at Charité or to the Convent situated on Praya East, Hong-police were notified, but before ambulances could arrive both men 'expired. Their remains kong.
were sent to the mortuary for burial.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
offspring of the poorest of the poor; sametimes protecting persecuted slave-girls from the violence and brutality of their cruel owners; oft'time's taking under their cate the children of Europeans who have either fallen far from grace, or who have been left orphans-house- less, penniless, hopeless. It is owing to the unostentatiousness of the methods adopted, and consequent, lack of information about the place, that a brief description ol'a vitit of in- spection will probably be interesting and even instructive. We have all heard of 'Doctor Barando's Homes in London and the splendid wark, he does amongst the waifs and strays of London Town, The rescue work by the French Convent is as meritorious as it is successful" and creditable, and the conversion THE Ministry of the Interior in a recent report of these wails into useful seamstresses, good made to the Throne states that there are at conks and skiiful washerwomen'is command present two hunderd boys, and girls' schools of able in the extreme. The devotion of the the lower grade in the city of Peking, contain-
An inquiry was, held at the Magistracy, this forenoon, touching the death of the coolie who set his death by falling into the No. 1 dočk at Kowloon. Evidencs was beard, and the in quiry was adjourned.
WATSON & CO., Sisters to their work and the success they haveing a total of 16,182 boys and 771 girls;
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atiaided file the visitor with admiration for the
noble little band of "workers who with so little IT is reported in Nanning that a wealthy Kwangsi gentleman, named Chay, has offered accomplish so much. Each of them makes it the Governor about 300,000 taels per year for her life's work rightly believing that when the the monopoly of the Kwangi opium trade call" comes and she passes away, from this Chau to be responsible for the "farming" out world of woes her end must be the greatest of the drug in the same way as the Hongkong Teward of-all-Peace, Perfect-Peacer-When "farmer" regulates his trade An infant is admitted it is brought up in
TIENTSIN-PUKOU RAILWAY.
in position by the azib uf May next and the en- all the Provinces within the Empire tire building completed as per contract filleen. months later. That part of our propeny keown before taking steps to create a Board as the Enst Wing, a portion of the verandah of whose special duty it will be to which collapsed in the sutumn of 19-7, and from which the entire front portion wil be conduct affairs in connection with removed, is now being thoroughly renovated the proposed reorganised Navy. and repaired and should soon be in first class order and ready for use in our business,, Toi carry out all this work wa must have money Some years ago we issued $5to,oco. of Mort gags Debenture. Boads. These will be re-called ACCORDING to a Tokio message to the Asahi, and bonds of similar nature given in exchange. it has been decided that the grand naval re: The new issue however, will be for $750,000 view, which is to conclude the autum instead of $5 o,coo; with the exception of this couvres, shall be held off Kobe. This decision, it is said, will not be changed unless there should be an epidèmic at the port: I will be recalled, says the Kobe Beraid, that a great Daval review was held there by His Majesty the Emperor on Good Friday, 1903, an even! to which the hills behind the town bear per- madent witness, the huge anchor there cat in the tarf to commemorate the review baving been sicce planted with small pines, which serve to define the. outlines of the anchor' most clearly...
SUPERINTENDENT DENOUNCED.
[By courtesy of the "Sheung "Po."]
Peking, 11th September. H.E. Lui Hoy Wan; superinten dent of the Tientsin-Pukou Railway, has been denounced by à certain Consor, for having indiscriminately
employed foreign engineers in the construction of the railroad."
change all the terms and conditions will be identical. The new issue will be made on the 31st of December next. The exchange will be effected through the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. A new issue of share capital will also be made, and to this you will be asked to subscribe ister on
cuss and decide the terms of the issue at which ben a special meeting will be called to din time full particulars of this increase will be laid before you for your consideration.and approval. We have purposely postponed the calling up of the fresh capital so that it may be unproduct
In a memorial the Censor urged ive for the shortest possible period of time, Jost when it will begie to contribute as a divi that an investigation be instituted dend earning power it is impossible for me to: say. I can only give you the dates specified by a special commissioner deputed in the contracts and those of you who are familiar with building operations in Hongkong to that end, know, and belier than I can tell you, how.mig.. leading it is to insert a date clause in a H.E. La Hoy Was, Director General of the building contract specifying when the work Tientsin-Fukou Railway, arrived inifionisin shall be completed and also as a rule what from Peking on 2nd last, to confer » Viceroy farce it is to itsert a penalty clause of so many Yang. He will leave Tientsin for ipan with dolara a day payable for non-perform sece of in the next few days to inspect the its selected. will for the construction of the iron byRige over the of ground for sailroad terminal facilities concite a case in pniat; we are, as you doubtless Yellow River. For the purpose of saving time
know, about to alter the main entrance. On freight and other expenses, HZ. Lui intends. Pedder Street The contract time to the com
to purchase all the materials required for the w pletion of this work was seven weeks from the signing of the contract la July last; three construction of this and other bridges on the weeks were allowed the contractor to prepare northern section of the Railway is China and all his materials and a further period of has deputed several 'enginyers, to visit than four weeks-seven is all-to place them Peiyang Iron Works, the Te Chou Auronal and
A REPORT prepared by Gulanet W. Heuer, U.S.A, and Luther Wagoner, engineers en gaged in planning harbour improvements for greater San Francisco, will recommend the expenditure of $43,384,195 on this work. The engineers also will recommend the issuance of seventy-five-year bonds. The principal feature of the report is the recommendation that Yerbs Buena Island be purchased from the Govern ment and graded to an even level of ten feet
the terms of the contract," "To illustrate the
be Roman Catholic faith, the Sisters all THE Russian Minister of Comunications has All cominasications Intended for publication being of that persuasion. In the case of young sent a Commission to examine the navigable "The JONGKONG TELKORAPI should be women or girls entrusted to the care of the channel of the western river Dupa towards addromed us The Kditor, 1, Ice Hoan Hand, and Kev. Molher there is no compulsins. They can / Dunaburg and Riga, and to work at a plan | above high' water. This would give 600 acres fatility of inserting dates in 'contracts
for connecting the Duaa and the Dnieper as the first step in the constraction of the propos- ed ship canal between the Baltic and the Black Sea..
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the 12th of September, is the date" arrange
promises made only to be broken. The
whether the materials can be manufactured by them.
RIOT IN ANHUI
POLICE STATION BEMOLISHED,
[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po"]
- An-king, 11th September. There has been a conflict between see?
either adopt Roman Catholicism or leave
necting with-the-Alameda- shore by a steel religion severely alone. They attend, with the
bridge, bringing the terminals within a mile other children, the morning and evening ser
and a half of the city.........‚· vice in the neat little chapel inside the grounds,
which there are seats for over 400, and if AT St. Andrew's Church, Kowlood, tomorrow,
OWING to lack of funds to construct the various they wish to be instructed the Sisters are, of Holy Communion will be administered at 8 a.m. railways under proposal and to carry out the course, willing to give them the why and Morning Prayer Sermon at T a.m., attended necessary reforms, the Peking Government ingin position and complete the job, To-day the dock-yards at Tabe‚ih^ord>3-10 find:“opt... whetelor for everything that attracts their at
tends to conclude a number of loans with the ed for, the completion of this work at tention. If after they have grasped the main
waliby Chinese merchants in the South Pacific cepting of course the filing, which has fstands. It is stated that the lendors shall be not, yet arrived from England. Had we met "As you entered the building to-day you should truths of the Faith' they wish to adopt it in
treated exactly in the same manner as the yesterday instead of to-day I would have said: British and Chinese Corporation and other have been able to pass judgment on what bat entirely they are baptised. Some of the chil-
syndicates that have ient money to the Chinese been done; you of course observed nothing. If dren have grown-up strong in the Faith, bave
Government. It is further stated that the latter any thing, has been dose at all it is certainly donned the veil, and are now ministering to
bas declared that if any one can persuade the do! visible. To-day this does not apply, as sceffolding is now belog erected. And yet the shely less fortunate countrywomen in Hong. THE Trade Marks Regulations have been Chinese merchants in those islands to lend contract time expires so-day! When it will kong and other parts of the Far East. Many thoroughly revised and drawn up more in money to it, ha will be highly rewarded. It be completed we don't know. The East girls in their teens have lived months in the accordance with the requirements of the sub-is reported that Prince Tai-Cbd may poz- Wing will also be finished far behind place and have been returned at their own wish ject, and they will shortly be decided upon by sibly be sent down Somb to contract the loans the contract time. When it will be cora
the Ministry of Agriculture, Works and Com- required.
pleted we don't know. It would appear that soldiers and the police in time clauses in these contr cis ar pie crust capital of Anhui Province. her their parents, guardians, or owners
merce. It is reported that the Ministers of the without having adopted any religion. It is various Powers in Peking have quite concor- A DISPATCH from-the Capital states that a full penalty clanse seems also to be inserted with.
In the rioting which ensued, erroneous to suppose the main object, of the Fed in these regulations and have requested the meeting of members of the Waiwupu was held' no idea of its ever being enforced though the
clause reads time in the essence of this crn the soldiers demolished the police establishment is to make " good Catholica" of Chinese Government to put them into force in that Ministry on the 1st instant, to consider
trac: 1" A hollow mockery. In view of this the claims of the French Government with reexample you will observe the difficulty one station, alt the inmates. That is not so. The Sistor without delay,
ference to the alleged killing of certain French lahours under in endeavouring to fix a time for HONGKONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1908. life work is the salvation of the helpless and
officers and soldiers by Yunnan troops during the completion of any work in hand. Were the ́needy, and by education and carefuliestruction AT the audience granted by H.M: the King of the scent insurrection in that province. It time clauses insisted upon and the penalties Basile de la sTE. ENFANCE. in the codes of morality in so improve their Siam to the officers who brought the torpedo will be remembered that a body of armed Chi-enforced, a-different state of affairs would exist have closed up their shops. che
and the result: would be more satisfactory to minds and purify their hearts that they gladly flotilla to Bangkok, His Majesty was pleased nose came into conflict at that time with some those who are compelled to build. And I During this year the two of the most deserv- do whatever their hands find to do with all to confer the following decorations Order of Axnamite soldiers on the frontier, resulting in would certainly advise no cve to build in this the White Elephant, Fourth Class, Captain the death of some of the latter. The Tongkiu Colony unless compelled Gentlemen, I shall log of public institutions in Hongkong devoted their might, and shudder at the thought of the Koda: Fifth Class, Lieut. Tona, Lieut. Yana Govetzmene declares that the armed Chinese be pleased to sasarany questions before pro wholly to the cause of charity and maintained infamy and shame that might have been their kaka, Lient. Mayima, Lieut. Sayiyama, sub in question were Govstament troops who posing the uption of the report and accounts.
There being no questions, solely for the benefit of the poor, autcast lot. Thus the young women take a pleastice:in. Lieut Suzuki, sub-Lient."Osakl, sub-Lieut had entered French territory in their hunt The Chairman proposed that the report" and foundlings celebrate jabiless. In the case of their work, for they know that they are helping Kotisime, and sob Lieut. Akasa. Order of after revolutionists (anti-monarchiste) This accounts as presented be adopted, "the Italian Convent it was hot a few months ago themselves to become useful members of society the Crown of Slam, Fourth, Class, Doctor is denied by the Chinese authorities who
that that institution celebrated: in, Hong. and also contributing to the support and elevation kong the first centenary" "of its founding of hundreds of their lossfortunate sisters. When
His Majesty the King has not been advised to by T The Canossian Sisters of Charity. To fairly educated and thoroughly trained to be exerciss hit power of disallowance with respect
have not yet withdrawn ther day the French Convent in Wanchai come useful wives, husbands are found for them to the following Ordinances: An Ordinance
The Waiwapu has made, rep commemmorate the sixtieth anniversary of in Hongkong, and they are then taken out of for the transfer of the properties of the Man the shrival of the little band of four French the convent, married, and settle down in their Mo Temple to the Tong Wa Hospital; and as
sentations to M. Babet, Sisters of Charity in the Colony whose new, bomb among their own kith and kis. The Ordinance to authorize the appropriation of
The Chairman Gentleman, that concludes Minister, (with a tife-long work of devotion and self-sacrifice Infidence and example of such women, among Ppplementary sum of one hundred and sixty, the object, of closing the incident, but so far, the business of the meeliog, Dividend war-
six thousand seven hundred and thirty-five, wo beat, without much success, opinions being | rants will be ready on Monday, on application the French war their loss civilised and uneducated country-dollars, seal eighty-five cents, in detray the atongly divided amongst the Ministers in to the secretary dottringon BiThe meeting then ended,
from those waters. an indolikin mark in the history of Hongkong women cannot fail to make for the improves charges of the year 1907.
ans destined within the past sixty years to leave
Chimada,
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claim that there were no Government troops anywhere near the spot of the alleged fighting, and that, therefore, the outrage must have been committed by anil-monarchists, so as to get the Yangan authorities into trouble with the French Government. This matter has been brought before the Ministers of the Wal wupu who have had several discassions with
Mamaweah eng
All the trades poople in the city
FRENCH GUNBOATS, PAS AAN IN KIAOCHOW BAY.
[By courtesy of the "Sheung Poisy
Peking, 11th September
·
· Mr. Clarke iscanded. The motion was carried unanimously.
The French gunboats which Co the motion of Mr. Ellis Kadoorie, stored Kinochow Bay some time ago,såka coaded by Mr. Chapman, Dr. J. W. Noble was re-elected to the Directorate, co
Mr. Seth proposed and Mr. Haskell second. ed that Messrs. H. U. Jefries and A. R. Lowe be re-elected anditors
Carried unanimously, and day
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