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Birth and Death. Leading Articles:-

Hongkong University Scheme. Cultivate Oriental Trade. Sanitary Jospectors in Manila. Horseplay and Bathing Parties. A-Villified-Government; Teaching of Hygiene. Telegrams:-

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reinstated here and upon arrival in Manila too often prevails. The Shanghai Mercury able of dredging joo tons per hour has been masters are at their wits ends. The greatest (with his family) he was forced to take the is extremely outspoken on this subject. The sent out to replace the old pontoon grab of all curses is ignorance and ignorance of position of sanitary inspector at a salary of non-swimmer, it days, is absolutely helpless dredgers which, besides being worn out, the laws of health is responsible for the wreck $60 per month because he was not prepared unless he can "bottom": the poor per were not equal to keeping the harbour pro of thousands of young lives. I have beed for any other class of work. I also learned former is little less so, while both are en- perly dredged. All the machinery and plant told that such teaching makes boys' morbid, that he was the second Americau employed tirely at the mercy of one who, possessed for the harbour extension works have been That is rubbish. Knowledge should not be at the present time at the above named sal- of complete mastery of every branch of sent out, the preliminary work has been picked up from the gutter, yet most parents ary, while several temporary men, who were patation, is inclined to make the most of done, a number of blocks have been made, seem perfectly content to allow their employed just after the last cholera epidemic his advantage. He who does so to the and block making and setting should be in children thus to acquire it. Shame on Rro receiving $75 per month, which salary detriment of his fellow swimmers is, of full swing after the Monsoon, which we are them for so flagrant a neglect of a plain course, a cad of the most contemptible kind. advised has already set in. When the ex-duty! Young people go wrong mainly count of their not having had an ex- For his horseplay the ideal reply is a horse tension works have been finished, we shall frour ignorance; for heaven's sake, lat amination in the meantime." We should whip, but in these days of law and order such have 300 feet more quay with a depth at low them have a chance of keeping straight. like to know how that Americao and his a resort to first principles would hardly do, water of 30 feet protected by 500 additional Health lectures given in the right way, family manage to get along on 160, since the bully, if too severely treated, would feet of breakwater, Provision having been and with understanding, could he cou...” even if it be gold, a month. It is safe cali in the aid of authority, and his well-do- made for more harbour accommodation with ducive of nothing but good; and after con- to say they could scarcely manage it served whipping would meet with the disap❘ improved facilities for dealing with increased siderable experience of giving them at my in Hobgkong, unless the mistress of the proval of the beach. There is nothing left, traffic, our attention is now called to our old school, Cranleigh, I can say that the house had the gift of making ten cash go as therefore, but the action of committees, and supply of rolling stock. All our locomotives subject has aroused a deep interest there, farap a dollar, or, in other words, of emulat- this thould be prompt and very decisive. have been in use for twenty years and up. and I have never had more attentive ing the supreme money-saving charac- Horseplay is a disease which spreads wards, and the M. and S.M.R. have pointed audiences. Has not the time come te (7th August:)

teristics of the average Chinese amah.. For rapidly unless checked at the outset. out that some new ones and also additional demand that the teaching of hygisue should The Chinese are not the only people, who casce could be cited in Hongkong, where a From that extract it may be gathered that coaching nad goods stock are absolutely be compulsory, and take premier place on appreciate the non sectarian character of the Chinese wife has maintained her European there has been some unpleasantness at one necessary. The requirements are being care the school curriculum ?” Jongkong University scheme as opposed to lord and master in comparative luxury on or other of the Shanghai baths, but the re- fully examined, and we hope with the assist- that projected by the Rev. Lord William $20 a month while he was looking for em- marks of our contemporary are entirely to ance of the M. and S.M.R. shortly to for Single Copies, Dally, en cents. Weekly, twenty. Cecil with its distinctly proselytizing end in ployaient. But it is not to be expected that the point and well worth attention. As to mulate a scheme which will meet with the

five cents (for cash only).

View. A recent number of the Japan an American better-half could achieve such the punishment which should be meted out approval of the Portuguese Government. Chronicle notes that, according to a Shang results, although no one knows what can to offenders against the first principles of fair. The improvements that have been, or are hai dispatch to the Asahi, the Waiwupu has be doue at a pinch until one tries. The play and gentlemanly conduct, the Mercury being, made, are all at the expense of the contributed 10,000 taels to the fund for the writer proceeds: Several native inspectors holds that while the committees are in dine Portuguese Govemment, for, as I told you Hongkong University. Remarking on the were also employed after the cholera epi- cases out of ten composed of pure-aportsmen last year, the cost is being met by foregoing news item, our Kobe contempor.demic at a salary of P40 per month which there is one weak spot in their constitution net revenue which that Government has

HONGKONG UNIVERSITY. ary pertinently observes:-"This will, Do

was promptly reduced to P3n upon the ar- which is usually to be found in their failure sanctioned our retaining until the

PEKING'S COMMENDATION, doubt, settle the question as to whether rival of the Director from the US. and yet to enforce rules with sufficient strictness.timated total cost has been received." religious teaching is to be given at the insti- the police, firemen, etc. enter the service at An offender against either the written or the This might lead to the hope that those

[By courtesy of the “Sheung Po3] tution. The Rev. Lord William Gascoyne a salary of Pgo and receive an increase each unwritten rules of true sport should be warn anticipating great things from the scheme Cocil-in-his-recent-tour of the East-was--year until the fourth-year.These-are-not-ed once--very-plainly, and unmistakeably-of-public-works-recently-spoken of for

Poking, 6th August. anxious that it should be made a centre of extraordinarily munificent salaries as Ameri-that done, any repetition of his offence Macao may yet live to see their hopes realiz»,

The scheme for the establishment Christian propaganda, but the impropriety of can salaries go; indeed, it is a waste of should be punished once for all by the exed. Continuing his address to the railway this course must be evident now that the breath to describe them as salaries at all,pulsion which would be meted out to a leper. Company's shareholders, the Chairman of the Hongkong University com- Chinese Government has contributed. We for they are nothing more than wages. But despite the trenchant criticism of our added: "We have every reason to be mends itself to the Grand Council, have no doubt this university will have a except that they are paid monthly, a contemporary with regard to horseplay in the gratified, and I am sure you will agree with the Ministers having expressed the great influence on China when it gets to fact which distinguishes the recipients from water it is recognised that there are minor me that our thanks are due to the work, for promising young Chinese will then day labourers. Another point in this letter forms of skylarking which conduce to the Portuguese Government for the prompt hope that it might be completed as be able to get a university education.on to which we might call attention is the pleasure of swimming, particularly where the and favourable consideration they have early as possible. Western lines almost at their doors instead system of filling up appointments that have swimmers are equally expert. That being given to what we considered were The Grand Council has telegraphi of being compelled to proceed to Europe or become vacant. The writer says: "Anso it is submitted that in such cases all the our requirements, and theirs, and for the ed to H.E. Yuan Shu-fun, the new America,"

other malter which seems unfair is the fact committee need take note of is that the financial arrangements to which the Govern that the few positions which become, vacant sportiveness of a section does not interfere ments have given their consent. Our thanks Viceroy of Canton, to assist the so- in the main office of the Board of Health with the enjoyment of the rest. "That being, are also due to our colleagues, General Sir J.complishment of the scheme. and would constitute a promotion for sani-assured, the more tricks and antics indulged Machadoandthe Viscount d'Olivges, through In the opinion of Mr. J. D. Lowan, the tary inspectors are filled with meu fresh from in the better, since they all lead to enjoy whose hands all the correspondence with newly elected president of the Seattle Cham the States and men outside of the bureau ment, the be-all and end all of a swimming Government has passed, and to whose tact ber of Commerce, the most important work who have no experience in spritary work and bath in these dogdays. But really, every and careful advocacy a favourable decision which that body can undertake during the if called upon in an emergency would be thing depends on the gentlemanly instinct must in a great measure be due." We may coming year is in the direction of cultivating worthless outside of their offices.". That is of each individual swimmer. That being add from our own knowledge that on the close relations between the United States a grievance all over the Far Eat and will sufficiently developed the rest follows of Commission at which General Machado apd Japan lle is right in this, and, might continue to be an until the end of the chapter. itself. What committees should do is then sat as the Portuguese representative be have added that an equally important work No matter how great an idiot he may be ruthlessly_to_weed_out_those who are not was ably assisted by Capt, Norton as secre- will be the cultivation of better commercial | the covenanted man is always regarded possessed of this most desirable trait," tary, the same gentleman who performs It may be, hoped that those who indulge in the accretacial duties in connection with bathing expeditions in Hoogkong will follow the Macao the advice seut from the North so that the now sitting. The weighty commendations enjoyment of none of the members of a of General Sir Henry Green, endorsed by party may be curtailed by the foolishness of gentlemen of the keen business acumen and those who fail to recognise the distinction perception like his body of shareholders between fun and horseplay,

point to the certainty that similar care and factfulness will be brought to bear in the deliberations over the contentious question of the boundaries of the neighbouring Por- tuguese colony which it may be hoped will' lead to a solution of the differences compa- tible with the ancient friendship subsisting between Chips and Portugá! and the dignity.

Hongkong University.

Canton-Hankow.Railway.

Ex-Viceroy Chow-fu.

Viceroy Tuan Fang.

Maçao and China.

Antung-Mukden Railway.

Alleged Reformeri.

"Nanking Viceroyalty.

Macao's Delimitation."

Tuan Fang and Tjeh Liang....

Northern Railwayi.

Chihli Viceroyally. Students and Politics. Tientsin-Pukou Railway Than Fang.

Naval Reorganisation. Tibet.

Fress Laws. Ho-how.

Waiwupu..

China's Sorrow. Naval Bases.

-Mostings

Legislative Council.

«CULTIVATE ORIENTAL TRADK.

Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat relations with China, a country which pro-as ten times better than the employee locally

Company, Limited,

Yokohama Engineering and Iron Work...

'Legal Intelligence

The Ice Case.

His Namesake.

No Judgment.

Police:

Attempted Suicide.

Pill Trade-mark Prosecution, Two Men Stabbed.

Exciseman Hurt. Accused of Theft. Sharks' Fins.

Correspondence:—;

The Fatihan Affair.

Miscellaneous Articles and Reports:-

The New York Murder.

Liquor Licences.

Hoi Ming Beached.

Corrency Quation.

Chief Officer Suspended. Falthan Incident.

Macao's D'elimitation.. Death of Mr. Erich Georg. Hongkong University, Scheme A Trial Trip.

Water Poloist's Adventure....

Steam Whistle Nuisance.

Chinese Minister to Belgium.

The Navy.

Chiosre Emigration.

Fire in Bonham Strand,

engaged. There is no rhyme or reason for that assumption, but there it is and with some people it is held as a sort of gospel. Commenting editorially on this correspond. ent's statements the Cablenews remarks that after reading the facts therein set forth we are more than ever convinced that the Gov. ernment is not doing as well as it might for the men who are its strong arms when the community is threatened by disease and its

A VILLIFIED GOVERNMENT,

(10th August.)

So often has the Portuguese Government

mixes to advance as rapidly in the future as Japan has in the past. In an article dealing with the foregoing the Seattle Font saya "As Mr. Lowman points out, the Japanese are friendly to the United States and they want to buy in the United States, but the manufacturers and business men of this country are not cultivating the trade, Herein lies Seattle's opportunity, if the business man of this city desire to take full full advantage of it. As a fact, the mapuable scouts constantly on the lookout for the facturers of the United States, with a few beginnings of an epidemic. No one knows come under the limelight of scathing and notable exceptions, have done little better than those at the head of affairs hav-public criticism, more especially in all to cultivate direct trade with Orientaling to do with the public health that sapitary countries. Our export trade to the Orient, inspectors should be experienced to be of save what originates on this coast, is not public service. What few complaints there handled by Americans. The Chinese have been in the past against the agents of and Japanese come to this country to the bureau have been lodged against men who buy our goods; our manufacturers do not have had to be put on to meet some unusual sead their agents there to sell them, The emergency that arose suddenly, allowing no great cotton goods export trade to China ime-to-secure reliable men. In view of the and China is the best customer that our fact it would seem that the aim of the bureau, cotton manufacturers have outside of the would be to retain its old and tried men, borders of the United States-is an illustra This cannot be done, of course, without tion. A Chinese importer at Shanghai or holding out proper inducements. 560 and Hongkong places his orders for goods with $75 for Americans and P30 and P40 for a broker in New York, who makes the best Filipinos are hardly inducements that would terms he can with some cotton manufac-keep capable men in any service. for very turers and ships the goods to the order lang, especially if they have no hope of more in sight. There are some very expen sive men on the Government payroll, con- tinues our contemporary, who are not so vitally important to the well-being of the people of the islands as are the sanitary inspectors. We could meation some of these by name, but most comparisons are invidious and it is sufficient to say that an important and worthy service deserves an adequate reward. Comment is needless, but is it not astonishing how similar are the conditions prevailing in different placca in the Far East?

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corpora- any reason does not seem in a satisfactory

tion.

Arbitrations and Surveys.

Divorce Damages.

Disobeying Harbour Regulation,

Chinese Bank Notes.

of his client. If the American market for

condition for the buyer, the order is placed in Germany or Great Britain. No American manufacturer, apparently, deals direct with the Chinese importer and thus had a grasp on the trade. If American manufacturers will not develop an 'export trade to China direct; Hongkong Watci Polo Shield Competition. is it not possible to establish exporting houses Interport Swimming,

in Seattle and build up a trade here, through agencies in the Orient, carefully studying the market and the means of getting a command ing position in it?"

Hongkong and Whampog-Dock Co., Ltd. An Averted Collision..

China's Evolution,

Former Hongkong Resident.

China's Schools.

Great Britain and Portugal.

Fire at Canton.

Chluase Students.

Register of Shipbuilding,

Canion Day by Day. Viceroy Chang Jen-chun.

A Shinghal Tragedy.

Antang-Mukden Railway. Sbangbal Trads. Thanghai Senation. Wireless in Shanghai.

Captain Dongberty's Fonera),

Dr. Paulus Memorial Hospital. Technical College in China.

The Shanghai Taotai,

The Osaka Disaster,"

Nagoya Kencho Stormed.

Terrible Corean Superstition. Anglo-Japanese Iron Foundry.. Petroleum War in Japan.

Value of Kerosina in Hot Weather. Opium Smuggling.

More Opium Smuggling,

S. 8: Taming.

Interpost Cricket.

Raub.

Straite Secret Society,

Rubber and Tin Companies.

Agriculture in the F.-M. 9. Jobora Pirates.

Borneo Jungle Tragedy.

YAT Piratua Ta

Coolls Outrages.

↑ Commernisă ion bat

Yarn Market

The Rabber Market.

Freight Market, ye

#Exchange,

Weekly Share Report..

SANITARY inspecioRS IN

HORSEPLAY AND BATHING PARTIES,

of both paticna.

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Delimitation

Commission

CANTON-HANKOW

RAILWAY.

A KWANGTUNG MEMORIAL.

- {By courtity of the... ** Shaung Po”]

Peking, 6th August, The officials and gentry of Human and Kwangtung have petitioned the Ministry of Posts and Communica tions to memorialize the Throne to the effect that they will not recognise any loan contracted for the Canton. Hankow Railway,

EX-VICEROY CHOW-IU.

PROPOSED APPOINTMENT,

[By courtesy of the Sheung Po"],

Peking, 6th August.. H.E. Chow-fu, ex-Viceroy of the Two Kwang, may probably receive an appointment on the Naval Board, VICEROY TUAN FÁNG. CONFERENCE-WITH-FOREIGN- MINISTERS.

[By courtery of the "Sheung Po‚"]

Peking, 6th August, HE. Tuan Fing the new Vice- roy of Chihli, has postponed his departure from Peking to Tientsin until, to-day......

The postponement has been due to His Excellency's discussion of im- portant matters with the Foreign. Ministers in Peking.

MACAO AND CHINA,

AN IMPROBABLE REPORT.

[By courtesy of the Sheung Por】

that concern its undertakings in the na ture of reproductive public works, that it is almost refreshing to come across any com.

TEACHING OF HYGIENE, mendation of a much villified administra-

(14th August.) tion. That meed of praise reaches us in a re- Within recent times the compulsory teach cent number of the Railway Times, of Loning. of hygiene in all the public schools don, a leading magazine in the metropolis de has been vigorously advocated and even in voted to railway affaire. Thereforence therein the Colonies the teaching of that subject-ba- appearing is particularly opportune as it pays been taken up in no perfunctory manner, tribute, on the principle of palmam qui while in Hongkong special prizes have been meruit feral to a distinguished visitor who is offered to stimulate the young children ja sojourning in Hongkong as the Special Com acquiring an elementary knowledge of the missioner of the Government of Lisbon va best means to be adopted in order to aaimportant diplomatic mission. We allude secure healthful surroundings and so avoid to His Excellency General Sir Joachim Ma- the propagation of preventible diseases, chado, CM, the Macao Delimitation In a recent communication to the Pall Mall Commissioner. General Machado has been Gareth, we find it asserted that the ignor known to the British Government and the ance of the real meaning of health (which, nation as one of the most advanced advocates of course, embraces health of body, mind, of railway undertakingaia Portuguese Africa, and spirit) is simply appalling, There is the development of which territory he has no organized system of teaching it in our been very largely instrumental in bringing schools; and where it is taught, the teachers about, conjointly with British capitalists, as the themselves 100 often are ignorant, and are joint owners of the projects he had carried out by no means the embodiment of the health io Africa. Similarly as the representative they are supposed to be teaching, How, Viceroy Tuan Fang will take over of his Government in the negotiations and then, can they possibly carry conviction to the scale of office on Monday, the subsequent construction of the West of India the young mind. It is very little use trying 9th inst. Portuguese Guaranteed Railway, General to teach middleaged people hygiene; they Machado bad rendered such signal service-have not got into fixed habits, and resent to his country as to now receive the well it, especially if it interferes in any way deserved reiterated recognition of those with their palates, pleasures; or comforts. whose good-fortune, commercially speaking. The only hope is to catch the young. Our it has been to invest in the Anglo-Portuguese much-vaunted public school system-though ----. At the present time, when-bathing-parties coterprise. These observations.bring us to belauded-to-the-okies-will-not really bear- are the popular form of spending the cloring the reference to the Portuguese Government investigation. The successes, of course, we

Poking, 8th August.. hours before sunset, a question which has in India in connection with the Guaranteed always hear of, but who hears of the tenfold

The Portuguese Minister in Pe. been raised by a Northern contemporary in Railway Company of which Major-General number of failures? We are told of the distinctly apropos. As everyone knows there Sir Henry Green, K.C.8.1., C., is the healthy life that is led, but who says one king, at an interview with the Mi- is a tendency on the part of first-class swim chairman of directors. Speaking at the word about those practices that are the nisters of the Waiwupu, put forward to be in an infinitely better position than mers to indulge in rough humour at the ex last annual meeting of shareholders in refer curse of our public and other schools, the claim that, in future, all Chinese their confrères in the American dependency.pense of those who can barely keep afloat,

ence to the important Portuguese port of which, if persisted in, lead Inevitably to residing in Macao will be considered. There is this to be said about it, that we do far less offer any resistance to the human. Mormogaun, which bids fair to become a ultimate ruin? On this there is a terrible as Portuguese subjects and, accord. not know whether the entire sanitary staff in porpoises. Not that there is any harm thriving centre of activity on the N.W. coast conspiracy of silence. Yet the proper Manila is composed of men of American meant by this species of horseplay but it can of India, now that the hinterland has been teaching of bygiene would deal with ingly, become amenable to Partn birth-that is to say, officers who are neither easily be understood that the result might end sufficiently developed by reason of the exist all this as fit should be dealt with. To guese law, and over whom Chinese Filipinos nor Chinese, but true-born sons of in a lamentable accident which all parties ence of the railway, Sir Henry Green said: take the case of the Army and Navy, officials can exercise no control. "god's country," a term which we notice has would deplore, The inexpert swimmer "With reference to the extension of the Mr. J. W. Williams, the writer in question of The Waiwupn has telegraphed iately been appropriated by Australis, but rendered nervous or furious by the ignorant harbour and the provision of further facili the communication to our London contem- we will take it that the staff is similarly and senseless action of his natatorial superiors lles for dealing with traffic, which I told youporary, says: "The men in these services to H.E. Kao Erh Ch'ien, the Spe arranged to that in Hongkong, Nor is likely to lose his head entirely and come last year had been sanctioned by the Portu are supposed to be thoroughly and most cial Delimitation Commissioner, to are we exactly certain what the dollar sign to grief. And it is curious that in few or no guese Government, the latest reports show healthily trained yet the fact remains that, strongly oppose the claim, signifies in Manila, whether gold or silver, other sports is this practice of baiting the that very satisfactory progress is being made in spite of gymnasia, sports, etc., consump but we will presume it to be the former, beginner so freely indulged in. It seems to with the different works. Two new crossing tion is.rife in both. Why is this? Simply The correspondent who signs himself "Square be taken for granted that the individual who stations have been opened on the Ghats, because the men have never been properly Deal" had apparently written on a pre can do no more than paddle inshore is lehus coabling more trains to be passed over taught the laws of health, which, consequent vious occasion Advocating an increase in gitimate sport for the misguided humorist this difficult section: A supplementary ly, are viplated continually. Were there salary for the sanitary inspectors of whose mental capacity has in many cases water supply bas been laid on to the quay laws. understood, and obeyed, consumption the city of Maalls, and in furtherance run into his biceps. In any other game the which, with the former supply, the joint re would disappear entirely. There is, then, an of his proposal had made further investiga learner usually receives all the consideration presentative consider will meet all present imperailvenecessity for the compulsory teach dons which surprised him. "I learned," he that la due to those who, to paraphrase the and immediate future requirements. Sixing of hygiene in all schools ji and that would writes, "that an old employee of the Board words of a distinguished politician in an lighters and some facilities for dealing with include knowledge that would help to guard. of Health, who had served several years, on other connection, are children in mich-eir loading and discharge have been in- the young against those special evils to which the boards of hesita la the U, S. suked to be matten. In swimming the opposite ides (stalled. A fri-clam suction dredger Sips they call a pray and to combat which

MANILA

(9th August.) We hear a good deal one way or another of the woes of sanitary inspectors in Hong kong, but from the testimony of a comes pondent to the Manila Cablenews the sanitary officers in this Colony would appear

ANTUNG-MUKDEN RAILWAY

'A CHINESE PROTEST.

By couriery of the “Sheung Pol

Paking, 8th