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Intimation,

Powell's

ALEXANDRA

BUILDINGS.

TRAVELLING

REQUISITES.

TRUNKS.

Solid English

Leather, From $42 Each.

Best Willesden

Canvas,

From $25 Each.

Black Waterproof Leather

Bound, From $23 Each

Saratogas, From $18 Each.

LADIES' HAT BOXES

(To hold Six Hats)

Black, Brown, and

Willesden, From $15 Each.

Kit Bags,

Gladstones,

Umbrella Cases, Holdalls, Rugs, Rug Straps, Luggage Tags,

&o., &c., &o.

POWELL'S

ALEXANDRA

BUILDINGS,

bint pen and

28, Queen's Road.

Hongkong, soth February, 1909.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 24 1900.

Auctions,

PUBLIC AUCTION.

* instructions from

HaЯRY HUMPHREYS, Esq., to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION;

TO-MORROW.

the 15th February, 1999, at 11 AM within his residence, "Abertholwyn," Peak Road, SUNDRY VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,

Comprising:- ht

THE POLITICAL ASPECT UN

LA CHINA, MAD

INTERVIEW WITH DR. ARTHUR SMITH

upin the throne. An English family might

arouse dissatisfaction in Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, while a Scottish clan on the throne might not be tolerated by the oiber kingdoms The Chicae Empire was composed of sighted of the. Union. Such was the casp in China, provinces, each having certain characteristics of its own. The people of Canton were totally different from the patives of Central Chins, and

Intimations.

HONGKONG HORTICULTURAL

SOCIETY.

FLOWER SHOW.

M

IN THE BOTANIC GARDENS."

FRIDAY, 26th February

Consignees,

AMERICAN AND ORIENTAL LINE

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

Open... to 6 P.M,, admission 51. Mrs.

May has: kindly consented to distri-all bute the Prizes at 5 PM,

SATURDAY, 27th February:

S.S. "NORMAN · PRINCE,” FROM NEW YORK,

"ONSIGNEES of Cargo by the above

Goods are being landed at their risk into Damed vessel. are hereby informed, that the hazardous and/or extra bazardous Godowas of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Open 10.30 A.M. to 3 P.M admission 50 cts. Godowa Co., Limited, Kowloon, whence de

P.M. to 6 P.M.

livery may be obtained. Children Half-price, " Tan will be obtainable on the grounds, By kind permission of Major Evans

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play on both days from a 3ǝ to 6 P.M., Hongkong, 19th February, 1909.-

20 cts.

and

Cig

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All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will ba examined on the 24th February, at 2.30 P.; No Claims will be admitted after the Goods: ing undelivered after the 24th February, will be subject to rent,

THE Undersigned have been favoured with Among the passengers who let or for Yokohama by the PM. steamer Kobe last Saturday were Dr. and Mrs. Arthur "Smith. Dr. Smith, who has spent thirty-seven years of bis life in China as a missionary, has a wide knowledge of the country and its people, and regarded the a foreigners. Suppose the Man his books especially his "Chinese Character-chus were overthrown, and the Chinese, trium- inics" and, .' Village Life in China," have had phani, from which province would the new a large circulation:

dyanity be chosen? Not one of the provinces Interviewed by a Japan Chronicle represen- would submit to being torded over by another SILK COVERED DRAWING RODM and tative, Dr. Smhh kindly consented to give his and the Marchus removed the different pro- COSY CORNER by Maple, CHIPPEN-views on the present political situation in China.vinces would be quarrelling among themselves DALE CHAIRS, MOROCCO-COVERED 18 bis apiniɔo the dismissal ̈pi Yuan Shih-kai DRAWING ROOM SUITE, a Large Assort-

as to which abould be the dominant power in ment of CANTON CARVED BLACKWOOD

was undoubtedly as outcome of personal dis-

the land, WARE, CARVED CHERRYWOOD DESK Agreements between him and the Regept,

Asked as to Chino-Japanose relations, Dr. and OVERMANTEL' with BEVELLED. Prince Chuo, the latter being backed up by Smith said that while Chinese were not parti- Officers the Hand of the 13th' Rajpuis whave left the' Godowns, and all Goods remaini GLASS, BRONZE FIGURES. with ELEC. n number of Manchu officials antagon. cularly well disposed towards Japan, there TRIC LIGHTS combined, EXTENSION istic to Yuan's policy. For instance, Yuan could not be said to exist a strongly rooted DINING TABLE TEAKWOOD SIDE- Shih-kai had worked hard to break down feeling of hostility. Japan was indebted to China BOARD with BEVELLED GLASS by Hall & Holz, JAPANESE GOLD LACQUERED. the bavier separating the Manchus and Chin-fries for the great inventions and sciences.Yong wok, musical-and-well-educed, 28th-February, of They will not be recognised.

for ber literature and aris, and to other CABINETS, Double and Single BRASS cat, and in this endeavour was supported by China-on-the other hand, up fill a low years seeks position 8 Lady's Companion or Gover LADY (English) at present in BEDSTEADS with WIRE and HAIR MAT the Empress-Howager. Unfortunately, the TRESSES, TEAKWOOD WARDROBES with BEVELLED GLASS, DRESSING

result of his broad-minded policy was rather to was not indebted to any other country ness in good Family. Please communicate, TABLE, CHEST OF DRAWERS and MAR- accentuate than to allay the jealousy between for her civilisation. Owing to Japan having giving full particulats to-- BLE TOP WASHSTANDS all 1, C. & Co.'s the two races, which had for long remained borrowed so many asts, including writing,

No. 111, make, GLASS CROCKERY and EP. dormant, and the Manchu officials were able to fram the Chinese, she could get ag ioside

Cjo Hongkong Telegraph. WAREERSIAN and TURKISH CAR- take advantage of Yuan's popularity to bring of the country, so to speak. Thou- PETS (New) and RUGS, WATER CO about his downfall. The removal of this

Hongkong, 22nd February, 10cg. LOURS, many fine STEEL ENGRAVINGS

sands of Japanese were at present in China,

NOTICE (Artists' proofs) and very fine OIL PAINT Ministes, said Dr. Smith, was a very bid sign and as they could read the Chinese script they INGS by Heywood Hardy SYDNEY COOP. Indeed, and was evidence that the old evils con very well and realised the position It ER, PHIL MORRIS, and well-known AR- Chinese government were far from being TISTS, MARBLE CLOCK by Maple and eliminated. Under the Empress-Dowager Yalan CDs in Chion were handicapped. The Japan

was in this respect that'Europeans and Ameri.. had been almost absolute, and governed "eff his exe, on the other hand, had so mutilated, and

willing, that Chiness merchiots in Japan did not get on to well as Japanese merchants in China la oiher words, Japan knew the heat of Chios better that China knew the

others;

great

Ons IRON SAFE by Chubbt One BOU: own bat," so to say. Yet within a few weeks Altered, and added, to the Chinese form pl DOIR GRAND PIANO by Collard & Collard (almost Dew)..

On View from Tuesday, the 23rd instant. Catalogues will be issued. TERMS—As usual.

HUGHES & HOUGH,.

Auctioneer. Hongkong, 24th February, 1909. (189

PUBLIC AUCTION.

HE Undersigned have received instructions Tom de Captain Superintendent of Police, to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

on

FRIDAY,

the 6th February, 1959, at it A.M., at Water Police Station, Tsim Sha Tsui,

of her death the Grand Council issued this decies compelling him to resign, without even so much as a ward of praise for his great services to the State. Yoap Shin kaj was not perhaps so well known abroad as Li Hung-art of Japan. chank, but he was much, the better man, and was thoroughly trusted by the foreignors in Chins..

Dr. Smith was asked whether he thought China was likely to recover her ailonomy in the bear future, as japin did'in 1837. Here plied that he it ought the day when extra-terris

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MR. MODY would feel obliged if the would reture it to him at his office No, §, Queen's Road Central.

Gentleman to whom het banded his WALKING STICK on the Race Courte

Hongkong, 23rd February, 190og.

PLAGUE.

(200

THE public are hereby informed that RAT POISON, RAT TRAPS, and BIRD LIME can be obtained free of charge from any of the Offices of the Sanitary Department. The co-operation of householders in the destruction of rats is earnestly requested.

By Order,

SANITARY DEPARTMENT, Hongkong, 22nd February, tong

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THE IMPERIAL COLONIAL CLUB,

THE above. Club is formed chiefly for COLONIAL and OVER-SEAS MEM. BERS; it is situated at No. 84, Piccadilly (the centre of Clubland), opposite the Green Park, Diving, Billiard Room, Smoking Lounge, The Club has a Bridge Section, Reception, Reading Room and Library.

Asked his opinion concerning ile rumour of the illness of the young Emperor, Dr. Smithtoriality would be abolished was still a long was very pessimistic. The news went that the way off. Japan moves quickly but China slowly. young ruler was suffering from confluent smalt. Japan is small, compact, and homogeneous, px. In Chian sm l-pox was not regarded as

while China is large, scaitered, and hetero- a particularly dangerous disea.e, and the pep-

gentops The people of the coast had different, p'e looked upon it much in the same way as

desires mod asp rations from the people of the Europeans looked upon teething or mamps or

iver tewas, and there in their turn dif measles. But if he should succumb the con.

fered from the people of the interior. It Bequences might be serious. The young Empe- might take decades, even centuries, before all ror was placed upon the throne through the will those people could aspire to one common goal. of the late Empress Dowager. Were be to die, would be a pardonable exaggeration to say it was impossible to tell what might happen, that Chica was Europe in miniature, and that The difficulty was that the Emperor was a

the provinces in the one were independent A Number of OLD BOATS. young child, and if he died it would be necer. nations in the other. The institutions of one ⚫ity find another baby ruler of the same province differed from the institutions of another generation. According to Chinese ideas, the almost as much as the form of the English Emperor is supposed to be of a

Parliament differed from that of the Russian younger genciation thao_his_pezdecessor, in order that uns It might two centuries before the Chription, Five Guincas The may warship at the tomb of his father os

nese obtained full political rights. The Erg adopted parent. This rule was followed for lish took a thousand years to construct their centuries without exception until the accession Parliament; it was not to be expected that the of the last Emperor, who was, a first cousin of Chinese could become a constitutional people

hap purring the educated Chinese on to

A Quantity of OLD WOOD,...

TERMS:-AB usual.

AND

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Government Auctioneers. Hongkong, 23rd February, 100...

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE

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“HE Undersigned have received instructionsbis predecessor. Naturally the Court official, the forenoon. Extraterritoriality was' per

from W. E. CLARKE, Esq.,

to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,

FRIDAY,

the 26th February, 1933, at P.M., within his residence, "Abelgerdie," The Peak, SUNDRY VALUABLE ROUSEHOLD FURNITURE,

Comprising:

SILK TAPESTRY.COVERED "DRAW. ING ROOM SUITE, an Assortment of CAR VED 'CANTON BLACKWOOD WARE,

EXTENSION DINING TABLE, DINNER WAGGONS, TEAKWOOD SIURBOARD with BEVELLED GLASS, Single IRON BEDSTEADS and HAIR MATTRESSES,

wers wholly opposed to the innovation at the

Ladies are eligible as Members, Entrance Fee, Five Guineat, Annual Sab.

Further particulare from.

All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the

No Fire Insurance has been affected.

ARNHOLD KARBERG & Co11

Agents. Hongkong, 18th February, 2009,

"MOGULE LINE OF STEAMERS. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

STEAMSHIP MONTROSE” FROM GLASGOW, LIVERPOOL AND

STRAITS.

"ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown, Company, at Kowloon, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods ing undelivered after the 16th instant will be Have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaja subject to rent.

sented to the Undersigned on or before the All Claims against the Steamer must be pre- 19th March, or they will not be recognized

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 36th inviant, at 3 PM, No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

- DODWELL & CO., LIMITED,

Agents. Hongkong, 19th February, roog.

"SHIRE" LINE OF STEAMERS, LIMITED.

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figo:

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. FROM, ANTWERP, Middlesbrough, -LONDON,"COLOMBO AND"

THE ORGANISING SECRETARY,T

84, Piccadilly, W. London, 19th August, 1908,

· SINGAPORE.'.

HE Steamship.

"FLINTSHIRE,"

1769. Captain G. C. Cundy, R.N.R., baving arrived from the above ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their goods are being

time, and it was only through the strong deter emulate the Japanese in regaining national BLACKHEAD & Co., landed at their risk into the Godowas o

mination of the Empress-Dowager that the ruler to die this ancient rule of the succession plan was successful. Were the present young would again have to be infringed, and the troubles arising over the difficulty might be mady. But there was absolutely no way of forettiling the future course of events in'. China..

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Prince Chun, the Prince Regent, was the only one of the present Manchu generation in the Court who had been abroad. He went to Berlin a few years ago to apologise for the THARWOOD WARDROBES and DRESS assassination of the Geiman, Minister in Peking

ING TABLES with BEVELLED GLASS, MARBLE-TUP WASHSTANDS, CAR. PETS, RUGS, GLASS, CROCKERY and E.P. WARE PICTURES, COOKING STOVE and UTENSILS, &c., &c. {

ALSO

Ode IRON SAFE by Milners, One SEMI- GRAND PIANO by Haake and One TEN- NIS NET and POLES, &c., &c.

On View on Thursday, the 15th instant. Catalogues will be issued. TERMS:-As usual,

BUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hongkong, 19th February, 1909. * (193

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during the Boxer rising. Prince Chun was an able may and most competent to fill the im. portant position of Regent. He was not re- sponsible for the difficulties of the Court at the present time. These were mainly to be atiri buted to squabbles between his cousins and the other Manches of the Court. The majority of the high ellicials and Ministers were men of no proper training in the arts of government, whereas Prince Chud was a stalasman of the

new.school.

autonomy, but progress must necessarily be Blow."

China gradually, but the Government went the Western education was being introduced into

wrong way about it. Colleges were founded before primary schools,, for the latter have not yet been set up. Yuan Shib-kai, had rendered invaluable service in the cause of education, and yet the Government had got rid of the man they most needed this im portant juncture. The Chinese Press would no doubt do a good deal towards popular educa-' tion. Although the Press was theoretically

free, there were nevertheless a great many checks on the unrestricted expression, of opinion.

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Travelling, was quite free in China, and travellers could go from one part of the Empire to another without being regarded with the suspicions that foreigners in the interior seemed To evoke in Japan. Recently, however, the Chinese Government had been more sparing in it better, no doubt, to preserve these rights for granting mining rights to foreigners, deeming Chitese in the future, and thus conserve the national wealth.

A mdical sociological and political change

Asked whether he thought there was any likelihood of a reyolution should the gresent Emperor die, Dr. Smith said it was difficult to say, but the odds seemed to be against &was coming over China, and it would be totally widespread cuftxeak. The question was a

impossible to check the revolution in progress.") dificult are to answer, it was like foretelling Globe-trotters who had been in the country & the time and place of the next great earth-

lew weeks endeavoured to enlighten the world' quske... There was a so-called "Keform Parry on China's future, but foreigners who bad lived but this was not a party in the recognised there a lifetime were unable to say positively 'constitutional acuse of the term.

No leader what form the change would take. existed whom all the revolutionaries would Trust and obey. The Chinese reformers were split up into factions without any general organisation or cohesion Ope pally was led by Sun Yat-sen and another by the exiled Kang Yuwel. These parties were like so many rat holes undermining the government.

Peking, in the opinion of Dr, Smith, is the most important diplomatic centre in the world. it is the stage on which a great political drama is being enacted. Practically every country in Europe, together with the United States and Japan, bas some interest in the well-being of Chine, and therefore it is essential that the of far-seeing and capable men. Since the foreign diplomatic cops should be composed Boxer rising the aim of the Powers had not

If the Manchus were overthrown the people would not be very much better off. This state. ment did not imply that the Manchus were able FOM and after at January, 1909. the ruler. On the contrary, they bad shown, them been to portion China cat among themselves, Belves to be somewhat incapable. The Man- as was formerly the case, but to render every chus were to China what the Turks were to

aid and encouragement to the Government, It Fureps. They were strange fowl roosting in a

was a healthy sign, sald Dr. Smith, to see that the Powers were working together to bring. strange nest. Like the Turks, the Manchus about the regeneration of the great Chinese contributed nothing to the civilisation of the country they had conquered, and China, like

Empire

degeneration since the advent of the news Byzantium, had undergone a steady process of

month..

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comers. The characteristics of the Maochus addiensis accessible to messenger. Peak themselves had changed, and from a warlike subscribers can have their copies delivered. race they had become a parasitical caste. Only their residences without any extra charge, about 3 per cent, of the troops were Macchus, On copies sent by post an additional $1.80 per quarter, is charged for postage.

and the whole Manchu population was only The postage on the weekly issue to any part about ten million to about thirty-five times as

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many Chinese. Were the Cblacie to rise up Single Copies Daily, 100 cents. Weekly dificulty. The Manchus, however, had been they could exterminate the Manchus with little twenty-five conts (for c

rcash only).

on the throne for so long, that the Chinese had come to look upon them as an indispensable part of the State, lo away, the, Manchu dynasty was in the same position as the German House of Hanover in Great Britain. Were the House of "Hanover dispossessed the question would arise as to which family should be placed

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THE MANAGER, Hoogkong Telegraph Co. Id Hanzhong, sand December 1908,

AN APPEAL.

THE SUPERIORESS of the ITALIAN CONVENT, OAINE ROAD, begs most respectfully to APPEAL to the Residents of patronage and suppqit, and desires to state Hongkong and the Coast Ports, for their kind

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Gentlemen's Shiris made to order, and Cons

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The Superiorest will also be most grateful for asy PAPER, or old ENVELOPES to be made Into Books for the Children of the Poor School, who s tunght by the Bistors,

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

THE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s Steamer

"DELTA,"

FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND

STRAITS,'

are being landed and placed of their risk in the vessel are hereby informed that their Goods Consignées. of Cargo by the above-named

Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godowp Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark, and delivery can be obtained as sOOD 21 the Goods are landed.

This vessel brings on Cargo

From London, &c., ex S.S. Maldaula.. From Calcutta, ex S.S. Ceylon, From Persian Gulf, er B.LS,N, and B. &

P.S..N. Co.'s Steamers.

Optional Goods will be landed here unless Instructions are given to the contrary before 6 hours...

4

Goods not cleared by the 24th Instant at

will be subject to rent.

any case whatever.

No Kire Insurance will be affected by me ip

Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown. Company, Limited, Kowloon, and stored at Consignee's risk and expense.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on FRIDAY, záik instant, at 3 P.M. * All Chains must be presented within Afteen days of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognized.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods bave left the Godowas, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 26th instant will bas subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

.*Agents, Hongkong, 20th February, 1909.

"BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS.

B

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

197

S.S." BENVENUE," FROM MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.

ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby

Cinformed that all Goods are being landed

at their risk into the batardons and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hoogkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godowa Co, Ltd, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained. `

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaja ing undelivered after the 27th inst." will be- subject to rent,

All Claims against the Steamer must be pre sented to the Undersigned on or before the 6th prox, or they will not be recognized.

All brokes, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 27th inst,' at IX A.M.

No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Agents.. Hongkong, and February, 199

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"BARBER" LINE OF STEAMERS.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. STEAMSHIP "DACRE CASTLE," - FROM NEW YORK AND STRAITS, C. that all Goods are being landed at their

CONSIGNEES of Cargo are herebyinformed i risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, at Kowloon, whence and/or from the Wharves delivery may be obtained.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the rat March will be sub-

Damaged Packages must be left in theject le rent, d Godown for examination by the ConsignEO's. appointed it be present and the Company's representative af at

All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamers arrival bere after which date they cannot be recognised. We

Ne Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns,

EA HEWETTOR

Rek. Superintendent,

All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the and March, or they will not be

recognized.

All broken, chafed, and damaged goods are to be left in the godowns, where they will ba examined on the 1st March, at 3 PM G

No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by ESSENDODWELL & CO. LIMITED.