1909-06-11 — Page 9

The

NEW SERIES No. 7000

CONTENTS.

Births, Marriages and Deaths.

Leading Articles:-

Macao Opium Farm, Preparing for War,

The Opium Question Again. The Government Gazstia, Sanitary Questions. Kowloon-Canton Railway,

Advice on Wearing Apparel.

Telegrams:

Plague of Locusts.

Governor of Kiangsu, - •

Constitutional Government, Taxas on Vehicles. ||

Financial Superintendents.. Railways in Anbul,

Macan Boundary Question. Ex-Viceroy Shum,

Canion-Hankow Railway, China's Thanks.

Russia and China.

China and France

The Tungkuanshan Concession. Tang Shao-yi

Earthquake in Tsingtau,

Alleged Manslaughter.

West River Floods,

A Comprehensive Scheme..

China's Currency. Hankow-Chengta Railway. Viceroy Sik Liang. The hensi Railway. Governor of Kiangsu, Yunnan Viceroyalty. The Shangbai Tuotai, Shanghai-Ningpo Railway. Luk Ching-lum.

Naval Reorganisation. House-18x.

Duty on Tea.

Shipping Laws.

"The Kiukiang Case.

Manchuria.

Railway Shareholders. Naturalized Chinese Subject. Drought in the North. Students for America. Guard ng State Se 12ts. Mining Concessions.

Meetings.

Legislative Council.

Lape, Crawford & Co., Ltd.

The Nippon Yusen Kaisha.

The Japan Sugar Refining Company, Kulangsu (Amoy) Municipal Council." Legal Intelligenom t

Divorce Damages,

Reclarado

Tragedy at Sea..

More Publicity Needed,

Dispute between Traders.

Failure of a Cinnamon Dealer.

A Contractor's Difficulties.

Improperly Kept Books.

Mary Claimants.

Chinese Actor Sued.

Police:-

Hongkong Telegraph.

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MACAO OPIUM ÞARM.

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(5th June.) Like Singapore, the short experimental period which the Government of Macao has just had experience of in conducting its own Opium Farm since the rescission last month of the monopoly granted to the Chinese farmers, does out appear to have en couraged the Government of the Por tuguese colony into a further continuance of the sale of prepared opium on its

own

account. In the Macao Boietin Official of the zand ultimo, a notification appears over the signature of the Colonial Treasurer in which it is announced that the exclusive privilege of preparing and selling prepared opium in Macao will be put up to verbal tender at the Treasury on the aznd July proximo at two o'clock in the afternoon. The notification contains seven clauses and has appended to it the terms and conditions of the Farm embodied in a series of twenty-nine

sections. Both the notification and the Farm's stipulations will bear consideration. In the first place, it should be pointed out that the offic al notice provides for the letting of the exclusive privilege in Macao, Taipa and Coloane for a period of five years to the bidder of the highest annual rental during the, period referred to." The first of the conditions conflicts with. the proviso quoted above and reads. The period. of the concession will be one of four years to commence from the date

cause.

all these things one might be inclined to flint-hearted, callousnadomamental ministers lowing on that came a discussion on the last though it may not have convinced him that fancy that Great Britain intended to fly at and so-called highly bedizened peers remain resolution "that all employers of inbour at there was not a flaw somewhere. The Germany's throat to-morrow' or vice versa. indifferent and still recommend that the war, the Conference hereby pledge themselves to real truth is that not one in a thousand The contagion has spread to Australia and if ever oneshould take place, should continue, do everything in their power to discourage of the residents of the Colony eyer BOCH New Zealand which have offered to present More money is spent for the equipment of the the use of opium, amongst their employees." this precious publication which Is up- Dreadnoughts to the Navy or their military and haval defences, and more human To that an amendment was proposed and posed to be edited by the Colonial equivalent, while even Stogapore has come lives (not their precious lives though!) sacri. carried for the substitution of "will en Secretary himself. Those who doub to the conclusion that it might be advisable ficed for the sake of the country. And during | deavour" for "hereby pledge." A practical scribe to it turn the pages with rathne', to have a local flotilla stationed there-to the whole time of the war stage they remain towkay said it was all very well for shop- more listlessness than is seen in the juplor

flone and incidentally to scare the Dutch in There is something to be said in support of to join in such a contract, but the case was, day's work. All that the Gazette is good for the Netherlands Indies. In the official the idea that the "bedizened peers" should otherwise with miners, for if they were to nowadays is as a handy reference work of publication of the Navy League we read that be sent to the frost in time of war and given adopt the suggestion, they would not be official appolotments and a medium for the cach state of the Empire should remember over to "bullets bayonets and swords" to able to secure an adequate labour force. notification of laud sales. And this is the sheet that there are problems of sea-power directly say nothing of "vultures, crows and ravens." This might almost be cited as the case of which has been acclaimed as the principal affecting its own safety. "Each one of them But we begin to feel out of our depth, men "obressed by financial considerations." publication in the Colony. If the Chief Jus is not only liable to be the primary objective Why is this Chinaman so wrathful over a❘ How would it do for a firm of any import tice is right it is, simply a dumping ground of a liostile Power, but each one of them question which really does not concern him ance to demand that the members of its for waste products to which any Junior might provide the cause of quarrel which to any great extent? Why so indignant, compradore department should refrain from officer may freely contribute his quota. - For: would involve the Empire in war. It is, in- passiopato and incful? He is not likely to the smoking of opium under penalty of dis the Chief Justice said: “The Gaseife wan deed, the fact that some design against one be called upon to shoulder a rifle in defence minal?. But, of course, those who advocate generally in charge of the Assistant Colonial of the self-governing states of the Empire or of Great Britain. Indeed we are rather in these drastic measures are seldom personally Secretary or sometimes of a chief clerk and some infringement of its local interests clined to doubt whether the correspondent interested in such a question. It does not it simply made anything which a junior B more likely to be the cause of quar. is a Chinaman at all, but some rabid is affect them one way or the other whether officer chose to put into the notice prima rel involving the Mother Country in sivuary instead. It is just as bad to ridicule the adoption of such a regulation proved facie evidence." "Not only that but it was hostilities to-day than is any Europeau the idea of war as it is to persistently foster fatal or otherwise. Our contemporary pro-actually averred by the Chief Justics that the quarrel of hers likely to involve the Empire the notion until it becomes a fixed impres. ceeds to note that the fifth resolution was to Gareffe was liable to make mistakes. That The rise of Germany, the United States, and sion. The writer goes on to say: With thank the Government for what they had is a monstrous indictment, for it assumes Japan into the position of first-class naval regard to my abhonebee of the descriptions done, and this called forth much discussion, that the officials of the Colonial Secretary's Powers has profoundly modified the situation, of the war between Great Britain and Ger- all of which it is not necessary to follow. Department are by no means infallible, and Canada, Australasin, and South Africa many, I must refer to the instance in which The resolution was carried by 18 votes to which, as everybody knows, is a preposterous would do well to take note of the fact. We an advertiser's acroplane of English make 15, but the minority expressed themselves suggestion. We can only console the recognise with affectionate gratitude the was made the subject of a groundless fear in rather equivocal terms, which may be due aggrieved officials by remarking that it is on readiness of the daughter States to rise in of an attack by Germany. It is plain that to the difficulties of translation. Some of record that oven Homer nodded, or as we defence of the old grey Mother. If the time the English public have been affrighted by the arguments were: Government had in should say, erred on occasion, so that if of trial come, we would hot too closely in the editors, and now Germany ridicules creased the duty on opium but in so doing the Departmental staff of the C. S. O. do Britain for her over-sensitiveness. It is a had ruined smokers,, traders and workmen fall into unconscious blunder now and then quire whose is the quarrel. Bat, at the same

shame that the, fears experienced, if fears smokers no longer able to get the drug bo- they may rest content that they are in time, it is but right that it should be re Cognised by these in turn that it may become they can be called, by the editors of the came thieves; what Government should good company. In the instance to which needful for the Mother to uphold their various papers should be extended by their do was to increase the duty gradually at the Chief Justice referred it was admitted In all their local provision for de- | garrulous pens in mawkish twaddles to the present it all came from the towkay's that the mistake was unintentional "becausO fence, therefore, they should have regard for English public, thus aggravating the sus pockets; if Government raised the duty again it was diametrically opposed to the facts the efficiency of the whole. Now there is picion against Germany. The public, in the coolies would press the towkays for more so that the blame of having sullled the something very patriotic in the idea of get-fact, would not have known anything but for money; raising the price had driven people pages of the official document must be cast ting, the colonies to contribute towards the reading these articles." If a Chinaman from the frying pan into, the fire, the upon the official office-boy, who is, we pre- upkeep of the Navy and inducing school wrote those last two sentences we congratumorphia habit. We do not quote these point sume, entitled to be considered voe of the children to hand over their pennies for the late him on the range of his vocabulary, as against the speaker, but they should be junior officers referred to by his Lordship." same laudable object. But we in Hangkang seems to us that he would do away with made a note of, for no doubt the friend of The question as to the reliability of the -and-Singaporo-are already saddled with a newspapers altogether if he had his way, Ching will ignore them, as it did the fact Gazeffe and character of its official standing heavy incubus in the shape of a military And now for his perdration: "The craving that the value of the remedy Combretum arose over a case in which the Governor of contribution which runs away with a fifth of for war may be excited through reading the was entirely negatived by experience. Final Hongkong was the nominal plaintiff. It was our annual revenue, so that if we fail to exaggerated opinions of those dangerously we have a two-column description of a sought to get the Gaselle accepted at evidence, to our duty in one way we live up to neaple who, though veiling themselves under scheme for a Chinese Government monopoly but the Chief Justice would have none of it. the mark in another. As a matter of fact the name of peace-loving men, are in reality in opium, printed in the China Critic, and "The Evidence Ordinance of the Colony con all this talk about Dreadnoughts is getting serpents of the most venomous type, and are propounded by Viceroy Tuan Fang. The tained a curious provision which he could rather wearisome. By all means waken consciously and purposely drawing the two chief argument is that control of the sup- | not pass over without criticising most advéne the country to a realisation of the fact powerful nations towards a crisis, the result ply must be co-ordinate with control ly. By section 16 (3) of Ordinance a of that the best way to preserve peace is lu be of which may be a catastrophe and a down of the consumer. A system of licenses 1889 it was provides that in civil proceed- prepared for war, but if the Navy is in such fall to either one of them. So all English to be inaugurated, so that consumers may ings "all proclamations, etc., and other a deplorable state as some of our mentors men take warning, and be not proud and j-be- identified and registered. Here is official communications, of the Government would have us believe what have the Lards desirous to show your strength, nor haughty, a significant paragraphThere is in appearing in the Government Warette may be of the Admiralty been doing? Sir John and contemptuous to your rivals, nor servile operation at present, in every province proved by the production of such Gazette Fisher is generally admitted to be a tower of and ctluging to your superiors, nor brutal of China, a system of registration under the and shall be prima facis proof of any fact of a strength; Sir Percy Smith has been inventing and tyrannical to your inferiors, for pride control of provincial and subsidiary Anti-public nature which they were intended to new gun appliances once more; Lord Char- goeth before a fall and a tremendous fall opium Bureaus, but no intelligent person notify. The provision ought to be at oncETS. les Beresford is prepared to give his, country too. Again we say if a Chinaman wrote will for a moment contend that these regis- pealed. It was impossible inthis way to inake that he may be congratulated on the force ters include more than a small percentage of any document which was ofa publicatureand the benefit of his advice at any tinie and ou the least provocation, and Colonel Cody is of his diction. We are not by any means the names that should be enrolled." The which was put into the Gazatlesprima jadie still pottering away his British aeroplane supporters of "yellow" press methods, but China Crific remarks that the consumption evidence of the truth of the contents; that The writers whose business it is to invent there is a middle course and, after all, of opium to-day is probably as great as it was, shift the burden of proof on to the scates are proving in their own satisfaction Englishmen are not solely to blame for was when the edict was published, and in other side, compelling him to prove the day after day that the United Kingdom is in this war fever. There are others equally addition there are hundreds of remedies, the untruth." And so the evidence of the aparious condition and we are told that responsible. In a short reply to this effusion basis of which is opium." The restriction of Gasette was rejected and its status impugned, it is the urgent interest of the Teuton another correspondent signing himself "A poppy cultivation for a time, and the closing That is a fine state of affairs, and newspaper. rental were based. on the closure of the

Powers that be to inculcate in all closses in British bulldog" has a few truths to submit of the opium deas, have not resulted in any men the world over will sympathise with the markets in Australia and principally in San Francisco--the only two places where Germany the opinion that "Bugland is pre. when he says: "It is only fools that take reduction in consumption in the districts Editor of the Qurette in his unfortunate po to prepared opiura has hitherto been ex-pared to relinquish her naval predominance; notice of a lot of wild and ridiculous cor- under the control of the officials. Here sition, while the contributors will doubtless otherwise the persuasive arguments of Herr respondence in papers and magazines. It is again the sole point we wish to make is that henceforth find their historic effusions sub- porica from Macao-it is difficult recon. cile the provision in the draft contract for "ydow and his tax-imposing myrmidons the governments of nations who make war.it is no use China asking for the cessation jected to the vigorous and violent exercise

of the importation of foreign' oplum till of the blue pencil. exportation of prepared opium out of Macao would be futile: The German lax-payer or peace, not a few raoters. Besides, Mt. with the intention of the Portuguese Govern would certainly not disgorge at his present Editor, these articles do a great deal of good she herself has proved that she can control ment. Having disposed of the apparent dis- tate if he were not convinced that a golden in a way. They make the nation more the growth and consumption of native opium. crepancies in the document under notice, we opportunity is at hand. The world domi cautious and ready. The people feel their As in the case of our Chinese anti-opium will proceed to cite the more salient features nion implied by sea supremacy is unrolled responsibility and are more willing to come friends, the reformer must come with clean of the contract. The first of these is the before his eager gaze; he knows full well to their country's aid. It makes them look hands. It is absurd to ask the British Go- deposit of a sum of $10,000 by intending that 'German commercial prosperity will be to their guns. A Chinaman's view of bravery vernment to take steps to lessen the con- tenderers as a bona fides of their offer, which in the future, as it undoubtedly has been in and honour must be very dormant. The sumption of. opium, and at the same time the past, measured by German strength at way he writes of the Victoris Cross" stamps complain that raising the price hampers the deposit.money will, as usual, be refunded to unsuccessful bidders and confiscated in the nea. The throne, the aristocracy, and the him at once as ignorant of its origin and towkay in getting labour, and taxes his case of the bidder who is awarded the con-military element may dream of national glo- purpose. Murders, brutal murders, etc. pocket. With these schuments most fair tract refusing to sign the same. The Com- but the level beaded Curman bourgeois This crass which adorns the breast of a men minded people will agree, but the difficulty is more concerned with the tangible and stamps him as one of the bravest men of the is to get the rampant reformer to understand mittee of Adjudication reserve to them- selpes the right of giving preference under monetary results. Now we learn from the English Army and a man to be proud of the moderate standpoint. equal circumstances to the holders of the correspondence columns of the Straits Times The cross is awarded for some exceptional that the Chinese in that Colony are taking brave deed, for saving the life of a comrade previous rescinded contract, as well as of

an interest in this question and some against awful odds, for risking his own life, not granting the monopoly in the event of the price tendered not being considered

of them are describing the writers of scare not for 'murder."" From all this it will be suitable. As to the question of the mainteo-articles as faustic or rascally correspond-seen that the questions of Dreadnoughts and ance of divans for smoking opium, we find the following provision made in one of the last clauses of the proposed agreement which reads. The establishment of houses for the smoking of opium in Macao, Taipa and Colo: ane without the licence of the concessionaire is prohibited under penally of confiscation

of the definite_contract." This is not peronly conflicting point in the import ant document appearing in the official publication. Condition 4 stipulates that the present-Farm for boiling opium and selling prepared opium is restricted to the city of and to the villages of Taipa and Coloanc, Subsequent conditions 18, 19 and 20 have reference to the exportation of prepared opium: (1) To non-Chinese porto'; (2) to Chinese parts; (3) to exportation generally. It would appear from these later provisions that while the Farm is specifically limited in its operations to the Colony of Macao and its dependencies, the conditions for tender provide also for exportation. Clearly an ambiguity exists which should be removed before the date when the tenders become. du. Having regard to the fact that the late Opium Farmers' allegations for their inability to pay the full amount of the two months

Macao from the Porta do Cerco to Barra

Drowned in the Harbour.

Parted Friends.

Alleged Conspiracy.

A Born Scoundrel.

Tricks that Fail.

Miscellaneous Artiole and Reports:-

Kowloon-Canton Railway. Hongkong University Scheme." Outrage at Shun Tak.

Macao Harbour Worki

The Scoping Railway.

West River Flood+;

Chambers of Commerce,

Fatal Accident at the Railway. Supreme Court in 1908,

U.S. Monetary Commission.

Fire doar Shau-ki-wan.

Gentleman's House Burgled. French Customs. Teriff."

The "Ow!" Grill-Rooms,"

Ferns and Pot Plants.

China's Finances,

Death of Dr. Wm. Huster. Kowloon Point,

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Exhumalou of Dead Bodier, Tramcar Fatality.

Manufacture of Matches.

The English in China. Масво

Hongkong Gymkhana Club. Nanning in 1908.

Government Note Issue.: "Hercules in Collision. India Labour.. Application for Exhumation. Marine Court.. Jayen Fluid,

Lawn Bowls.

Volunteer Corps Orders.

Water Return.

The Silent Gan,

Money Market.

Canton Day by Day,

The Macao Boundary, Serious Fire in Shangbai. Drowning Fatality at Hapkow. A Nagaraki Tragedy. Disastrous Fire in Yokosuke. famițance Business in Japan! Count Okuma and Mr. Chirol. Kobe from Within.

Female Education in Japan, Collision in Yokohama Harbour. Fire at Mitsu Bishi Engine Works.

Curious Capture by a Fisherman. Tug for Manila,

ents." Under the heading of "Anglo-Ger- man War of 1910-A Chinese View," a cor respondent says that when he sees such articles in the newspapers concerning the expected and "dreaded" war between Great Britain and Germany, it is with feelings of deep disgust that I throw them aside,

of the opium and implements for smoking after reading only the main topics of the day found therein and of a fine of $100; half of or the current serials and articles, and I am the value of the implements and the opium for having the heart to print such unsavoury almost inclined to be angry with their editors. confiscated will be paid into the Treasury and the other half to the Farmer." To con- tommy-rot. I am quite certain that should trol the price of opium sold in retail, a these exciters of a rascally hand of corres-

war with Germany are of prime interest to people in Singapore and to a section of the Chinese population in that Settlement Nobody will object to healtly criticism, but we should like to have a glimpse of that Chinaman who predicts war in 1910.

He opium questioN AGAIN

(9th June.)

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"THE GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.*

(foth June)

It is fostructive and amusing to learn on

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---SANITARY. QUESTIONS,

In connection with the purchase of 2,500 gallons of leyes' Fluid for the use of the Sanitary Department, it seems to us that there in a mystery which still remains to be fathom ed. The matter arose over certain questions put by Mr. Shelton Hooper at the last meeting of the Sanitary Board. In answer to these. -ike—deodorisas—to the quantity_stated—waa- questions it was admitted that last year bought through the Crown Agents at A cost of something like sixpence per gallon in excess of the price for which it could have been obtained locally, thereby involving an extra expenditure of about £66, We weed not recall the fact that these are the days of retrenchment and rigid economy, and it is therefore all the mare perplexing that the the authority of the Chief Justice, that the services of the Crown Agents should have been greatly over-rated Government Gazette, which invoked when for 10 years the Government has in official circles is regarded as a sort of followed the excellent course of dealing direct second edition of the Gospel, is really no-one question was designed to discover in with the local representatives of the Joyen firms. thing better than a common print. For what respect the jepes Fluid indented by long it has been the custom of the ordinary the Government through the Crown Agents outsider to accept the fact that because a differed from that obtained locally and the an- statement appeared in the Garcfle it was swerwas that: "The Jeres fluid intended from therefore surrounded with a halo of sanctity acid co-efficiency of over sa for bacilus pestis, | the Crown Agents had a guaranteed carbolic and all orthodox believers would have shud- That obtained locally was Let no guaranteed In dealing with the opium question it is dered in dismay had any iconoclast of lesser and bacteriological tests showed that it had not unusual for those who do not see eye to rank than the Chief Justice made bold to not such high carbolic acid co-efficiant,

tremists and moral delinquents. Indeed it official privilege. As a matter of fact the Crowo Agents in London could obtain a 10 a reasonable one according to circum. their articles in almost every instance seem

has been asserted that they are inclined to the Government itself is the first to blame fluid with a co-efficiency of over 20 for baclius stances and the condition, of the market to imply, war will sooner or later take place, indulge in strong language when they inveigh for having reduced public respect for the pestis, surely the local agents were in an equal: for the drug in Macao. This same clause and that the result may prove disastrous to against the movement, while the anti- official organ, because in their determinationly favourable position to meet the wants of the provides also against the vexing and the English." Not very complimentary to opiumists treat the matter with saintly for that expenses must be reduced it was depressed in the Colony, although we trust that oppressing of consumers in any form the English but then allowance must be bearance, Judging from the Friend of clared that certain items of information which depression is rapidly passing away, it is surely To those who contemplate ten for the writer's indignation and "disgust." China, which is the organ of the Society for had formerly found a place within the covers the day of the Government to assist as far as dering for the Opium Farm in Macao or who The correspondent proceeds to declare that: the Suppression of the Opium Trade, the of this notable publication should no longer possible the trade of the Colony and retain are interested in the question either from a

The Englishman is rataer: jealous of the gift of emphatic utteranes does not be appear. Once the Government began to as much money as possible in the Colony. moral or an economic point of view, the re- German, and so is the German of the Eng long solely to the opposition, for in dealing trim and whittle the contents of the Gazette. No doubt the agents would have had to lishman, and the slightest, provocation, if with the report delivered by the Straits confidence in what remained was cer- they received from the Government to Londos remit the greater part of the purchase price these editors ?) will bring the two nations to ng melancholy instance of the way in eroment can eliminate here and improve left over for Investment in local business and a terrible conflict. The soldier is merely which men [the commissioners obsessed by there in an attempt to attune the voice for the use of those employed by the firm in satellite revolving about the central sun~ fenncial considerations can bind them of the oracle, without raising' grave nur question, even if it were only the coolies en- his commanders, who in their turn are only elves to the moral aspects of a grave social picions, as to the authenticity of the organ.ged in cement was offered are thing is On June 2, 1009, at Shangbal, J. CHARLES

automatons in the service of the minister." question." It is sufficient, says the Singa. Yet that is what was done in the beginning that no statement was offered as to the season LAMPREY, lain The Royal Dublin Fusiliers,

No doubt he is right in what he says, and pors Fres Press in an editorial, to give this of the present Bnancial year, so that the favour of the notoriously expansive Crown why, the local agency should be ignored in -- and late Captain Malay-States Guides, oldest

we are content to leave it at that. But now side by side with a quotation which must be Gastle has now become an emasculated Agents. For so yesus. Mr. Hooper sald, it had son of the late Surgoon-General, J. Lamprey, Army Medical Staff, to FLORENCE DAY

let us come to the really rhetorical part of familiar to the clerics who mostly form the specimen of the printer's art. We can well been the castor of the Department to obtain HARRIE, youngest daughter of the late Captain As readers must have noticed it is practic- the letter:-"'Alas | what a pity it is to see Society? The charity that thinketh no remember many occasions on which the locally the disinfectants required and he added: A. D. Harris, of Shangbai,

ally impossible at the present moment to armies of innocent men opposed to each all trusts in God and trusts in man. Next Colonial Secretary has triumphantly replied "I think it must be patent to any ons that to HARRIS-DEANS-On fik June, at St. John's open a home journal without finding some

other in deadly combat to see their bodies is the point raised by Bishop Oldham in the to questions regarding the notification of suddenly throw them over-leaving on their Cathedral, by the Rev. F. T. Jobaston, PRANK thing in it about the Dreadnought question, disâgured by bullets, bayonets, and swords! Kuala Lumpur Conference, that, the man public matters by stating with an air of hands a large stock of a disinfectant, hich for

Harris, of second son of the act Areacon, danger possibly a hint or two that Sir John Fisher to see their corpses mangled by vultures, engaged in a moral reform must come late foality that potice had appeared in the to be of suficient germicidal efficiency to most of the late John Deans of Riccarton, Now is about to resign, and perhaps à flamboyant crows and ravensi Ohl it is indeed horror with clean hands in all moral matters. Governm si Gazette.. Buch an answer effect the requirements in this Colony it not a morni spooch by Lord Charles Bereford To read. Ineffable to see these things, and yet those with which everyone will agree. But fol troly squelched the timid questioner al business transection, I may say that it the99 FACEN

Contraband on Manila Steamer, 1,

Sir Robert Hart.

Opium and its Critics.

Breeding Pestis.

Commercial..

Weekly Share List.

Yarn Market.

Exchange.

Local and Genaral.

BIRTHS.

l'clausă-is included which restricts the price / pondents be clamorous for the war, as indeedye with the anti-brigade to be dubbed ex-lay violent hands on this charter of But that, in really no answer at all, because if

whatever.

Government. At a time when trade" la de-

· Di Ipas 2, 1909, at 8hanghai, the wife of Rulations formulated by the Macan Govern- well delivered, (and who does it well if not Commission it speaks of the report as affords tain to be shaken. Not even the Gor- but there'would certainly have been'something'

J. B. TAYLOR, of a son.

On June 6, 1909, at Shanghai, to the wife of J. E. ÎNCHI, &,200,0

MARRIAGES,

ment are worthy of perusal and close study, They can be seen in their original form in the Portuguese language with an accompany ing Chinese translation at the Portuguese Consulate in Hongkong.

PREPARING FOR WAR.

(8th June.)

20 years, the medical authorities had deemed