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Telegrams.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH".

SERVICE,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY NOVEMBER 6 1909

NOTRS BY TOR WAY.

A CURIOUS ANOMALY.

It is said that man reap what they saw, but' the other day this dicium was turned topsy. turvy, as it were, by a remarkable coincidence,

THE MANCHURIAN AGREE nous less astonishing because Government

MENT.

WAIWUPU'S DIFFICULTIES.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Pt."].

Peking, 5th November.

CANTON DAT BY DAY,

ADMIRAL LAMBTON AT THE SOUTH- ERN CAPITAL'

[From Our Own Correspondent],

Canton, 5th November,

KWANGTUNG'S'ARMY. DO

bad a band in it. A cand crapped up before the Majsterial kan where it was discovered - Vice-Admiral Sir Hedworth Lambton arrived that a certain ryot sowed a field with paddy here last evening and paid as official visit to and the explanation forthcoming was that. E. Viceroy Yaan Sho Hun this morning. both the firmers had paid rent for some time for the same pieca of ground, and, of course, the Government gladly accepted the drable contribution. The Maginizate way e dla i upon Great Britain and America refuse to decide to which party the ground really be to recoguise Article IV of the re-longed but not having the wisdom of Sela- mon, he did not attempt a solution, the difficulty baing sanderad still more diffiente

The Commander-in-Chief of the Land Forces in the Kwangiang Province, who arrived here from Welchow a week ago, will leave Canton for Weichow on the 7th.ios.

CANTON PROVINCIAL AEBÉMBLY. The work on the spacious building outside

ABRIPT FOR THREE DAYS.

ON, MOTOR-LAUNCH AT MERCY OF, BEAU Þriflög in a gasoline ianich from Monday

evening until Thursday evening part of the

t me being bliwa out towards the Chine Ses so far that only the tops of the Zambales moda- tains worn visible, was the experience of Heary | Becker of Manila in making a trip from this port to Dagupan in the gasoline Janach La Union this week, riports the Manila Zimes of 30th uk,

To-day's Advertisements. CHURCH MISSIONARY

.SOCIETY.

BAXTER SCHOOLS. H.E. The GOVERNOR has kindly con. sented to OPEN the ANNUAL SALE or WORK, in aid of the above, at the CITY HALL on WEDNESDAY, November 10th, at 3 P..

Hongkong, 6th November, 1909.

Mr. Backer left Manila on Monday for Dagu- pan, and expected to mike-Dagupan in 30 hours. His angine broke down and it was im possible to make itran any longer. In this dilam A

ma with but few provisions and little water the manch began to drift towards the opeu 362.

Tuesday evening the cutter Scout passed by,

cently concluded Manchurian conven- tion and in consequence 'repeated by the absence of a survey of the piece of the East Gate for the offices of the newly-form. and Mr. Hacker made every effort to attract the

land in the Government plan. 1 fancy one would be tempted to ask why the Magistrate did not cut the Gording knot by adopting the samo method as that of Solomon of old in the case of the two women claiming them

discussions are held with the Wai- wupu almost daily, concerning it.

The Foreign Ministry find it diffi- cult to reach a solution of the pro-. But it would be too presumptuous for blem."

VLADIVOSTOK.

IMPOSITION OF POLL TAX.

POLL TAX [By courtesy of the Sheung Po"]

child-offering an equal portion to nach clalm-

the lay ridd to step where angels fear to tread, THE C. &. IN A NEW RULE.

ed Provincial Autembly his Dow bean

completed. The Assembly, which bad its attention of those ga board, even setting fire to

ice temporarily in the old governor's yames building, will remove to the new building to morrow. H. E. Viceroy Yoau Shu Heon will

perform the opening ceremony to-morrow

·G`MBLING IN KWANGTUNG.

FOR SALE.

MERICAN BILLIARD TABLE"

(Nearly Now) Balls, Cuer, Rest, all completa.

Apply to-

GEO. MCBAIN,

No. 32, New Praya. Hoogkong, 6th: November, 1000.

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a bucket of gasoline, but the vessel. passed by sed lalt him alone to drift to sea and starvation, the East, for persons going out to make a career All day Wednesday he drifted, first toward in the East, is beyond dispute. The study of land. Finally he arranged some cloth into a mittee, cannot be confined merely to the gram- the sea and then back with the tide toward | Eastern languages, in the opinion of the Com.

aizali salt mad with this and an on-shore breezemar and the dictionary. It must include, as H.E. Viceroy Yuan has submitted a memo-managed to work in close enough to the land in the bast Continental schools, the study of rial to the Imperial Government urging it to

so that he was sighted and picked up by one of Oriental customs and traditions and of the con.. The other day wa had the pleasure of seeing suppress the practice of all descriptions of the Yangco boats and towed into Subic, onditions of life in Eastern countries, with which

the Englishman, must become familiar ¡f bo in {/ Commodore Lyon parched on the back of a gambling in the province of Kwangiuog. The Thursday afternoon.

-not only to understand the spoken words, but circus pony but last Saturday nur genial Co-memorial states that if sufficient funds can be looil Secretary went ono bsiter and acted as raised to make good the loss to the revenue,

to preserve the respect of those amongst whom his lot is to be cast.. an auctionear, and, what is more, west about the gambling vice will be entirely suppressed.” the work as if born to the job. The way be used his persuasive powera was most ra. He did not use the broad trib de-markable.

brogue, but the plain unadulterated English in which he expilisted upon the "masits" of the Articles would have made, the mail confirmed mier delve deep into hit pockets. And the The Waiwupu has telegraphed to result of the sale at the M.QL. bazsar can be the Chinese Minister at St. Peters-spell in one word-success.

Peking, 5th November. The Russian Government has cided to levy a poll-tax on Chinese merchants in Vladivostok.

burg to lodge a vigorous protest against it.

TYPHOON WARNINGS.

The following (elegrams were feceived trem the Manila Observatory at the American Con. aulite General:-

FI

Novembar 5th, 8 p.m. November çib, 6 pm. Cycloos or typhaan E. bi Visayas, moving WNW.

Cyclops or typhson “, of Guam, firection unknown.

November 6th, 13.20 p.m. November 6th; fram. Cyclone of typhoon over the Eastern Visayas, moving W. or

W.N.W.

14 MISTAKES OF LIFE,

JUDA'S WITTY SUMMARY OF COMMON FAULTS.

Judge Rentoul, inau amusing speech to members of the Bartholomew Club at Ander tor's Hotel last month, give the following list of the *14 mistakes of life"-remarking that be bad.committed every one of them again and again t

To attempt to set up our own standard of right and wrong, and expct.everybody

„ta conform to it,

To try to meature the enjoyment of others

by our own.

To expect uniformily of opinion in this world. To look for judgment and experience in

...yourh.

OVERHEARD ON THE PEAK TRAM.

1.

First passenget "Sap, Bid, while we're about it, did you hear that yarn about Hoog. kon, belog quaḥle to born 7"

Second passenger--" Nu, what's it?” First ditto-"I struck it at a minstral show out in Connectical. You res, all the countries of the world ware buried into Hades by way of experiment, and, of course, they were all barnt to cinders in a jiffy. But when it came to Hongkong-

NANNING I 1908.

A YEAR'S REVIEW OF TRADE,

Mt. T. D. Moorhead, acting Commisstuder, of Customs, reviews the rate of Nacoing dur. ing the past year as follows:

The political condition of the district during the year was particularly quiet. Two things The following conversation is said to have principally contributed to this result; a boon- taken place on the Park tram last week beteous harvest of nice-of primary importance to tween two Yeaker traveliers but the reader the well-being of the locality—and the presence should take it with some reserve :—

of the Governor, who spent here a good deal of the year and breathed into the officials a spirit <f wa'chfulness and activity. In a word, it is a long time since local condutons were so friend ly to trade. Lat allowance be made for the fact that the returns of the previous year cover. ed a pariod of aine months valy, and it will yet be abundantly plain that the clear forecast in the report for 1987 has been amply verified. The net value of the trade was Hk, Tia. 3.399,000, or more than double the previous Second ditto (impatically) What happened year's figure. The value of the net total foreign imports amounted to Hk.Tls, 1,711,000, agaiou! Hk. Tis. 739,000; dative poduce, to . Tl. 157,000, against Atk. Tis. 81,000; and exports, to rik. Tīs. 1,320,000, against rik. Tls, 723,000 These are the act results of the first 'complete year of trade, and they are satisfactory results, Wbile farther, though more gradual, expansion may be looked for, yet, unleas improvemebis can be effected in the wachow-Nanning water way and a railway be laid to the west coast, the inherent capabilities of this mart cannot be

T effectively evoked,

to Hongkong?*

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First ditto - Nothing. It was too green to burs."

THE COMING BALL

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Tavitations are oui lor the coming event of the season-the St. Andrew's Ball-and the fortunate guests of the sons of Scotia who have mde Hongkong their homs are alreïdy await- ing with keen, anticipatory delight the joyous festival, when the memory of Scotland's patron saint will be perpetuated in the same right royal style as of yarn. "The twillow-tail, mouldy with disuso, is being fi bed out from wardrobes by all and sundry and provided the Colony is 201 hurled into immediate bankruptcy by an order from the Secretary of State calling upon the local authorities to stop the dunk tr fic (Scotchmen, please note) the City Hall on November 30th should be fall of those who love to trip the light fantastic too.

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The Inspector General, in response to His Excellency the Governor's ardent desire to im- prove navigation and foster trade, detached, early in November, the Deputy Coast Inspector with a maff of foreign surveying asitants to make an examination of critical places. A flying survey was in the first instance made of che river, and, lacer, attention was focussed on A STARTLING BIRTH-RATE.

the most principal obstructions, more particu. One day in the present year of grace, Manila's Larly on, two formidable rápido, the "Ta-t'an Ta endeavour to mould all dispositions alike. population was increased by the entry of 111 and the Fan-tan, of both of which a thorough Not to yield in unimportant trifes.

children into the world. What hat Hoog- examination has now been made and the ne- kong to any to that? Of course, no one cessary elementary data obtained for form can for one moment dispute Manila's fecundi-lating proposals. Any scheme of amelioration but what would local Benedicis do if the would likely be concerned primarily with the same thing were to happen in Hongkong ? Ta-t'an, and the task of tackling a rapid of such magokude most entail-large expenditure and would probably, have to be approached slowly and gradually. In any case, for a long time to come expansion of trade through trans pon developmense will take place on the lines marked out by the enterprise of Mesus. Banker & Co., who have demonstrated pretty conclo- sively that the suitable type of wassel for the carrying trade is after the patters of their pioneer motor boat. This firm in the course

To look for perfection in our own actions, To worry ourselves and others about what

cannot be remedied.

Not to alleviste.if we can all that needs

alleviation.

Not to make allowances for the weaknesses:

- of others.

To consider anything impossible that we

Cronot ourselves prstorm. To believe only what our fioile minds can

grasp,

To, live as if the moment, the time, the day were so important that it would live for

WANTED ACCOMMODATION,

At the annual meeting of Justices of the Peace held at the Magistracy on Friday, the accommodation provided for those present was conspicuous by its absence. One of the. gan tlemen was heard to make the dismal remark: I have to go into the dock!" Others squeezed themselves into all sorts of queer positions and tried to look happy. It has beos suggested that as many Justices should attend these licensing meetings as possible happen if the entire body of Justices were to Jädge,Reptoul illustrated his argoments by a troop into the mioisture Court-room one of these fine days. I dare not suggest an answer. THE SIMPLE LIVE.

ever,

mac.

zumber of anécdares:

· ORIENTAL SCHOOL WANTED,

TRAINING OF MEN FOR EASTERN WORK.

- “lu affords unpleasantly striking evidence of national inefficiency until now in a field of edu- cation in which this country might have been expected long since to have taken the lead, writes the Times, In (reviewing the.importact Report of the Treasury Committee on the Or- gabination of Oriental Studies, Jost published. calls its article "A Chapter of National In eficiency."

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Nothing is more illuminating on this aspect of the question than Professor Amoid's very able memorandum included in the appendices to the report. The schéma sketched out by the Committee comtemplates a school, with a name and a home of its own, to be. baik up by the nucleus already existing at University and King's Colleger, and to be incorporated in the University of London, which shall sorve the needs of candidates for Goverment services in No other country has had, or bas, relations of the East, of military and naval officers prepať-. such vital importance with the East, in pointing for interpretarships, and of commercial, of magniteda or of intimacy, of variety, or of medical, and missionary students who intend duration, as Great Britain. For the last two to seek in the East a field for their respectiva centuries the bistory of the British Empire has activities, as well as of natives of Hastern conn. been closely bound up with the East, and to- tries and Englishmen who desire to purce day three out of every four subjects of King Oriental scholarship. Edward are natives of the East. Many of the most brilliant achievements of car armies and naties have been accomplished in the East, and the East has been the scone of many of cor most conspicuous administrative successes.

OUR EASTERN MARKETS.

Amongst our upper and middle classes there are few familias that have not furnished some names honourably, connected with service in the East, and the employment of our working classes dependt in no smill measure upon the retention of the markets which our commerce and our industries have oponed, up all over the Bast.

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The Hoard of Trade tables appended to abis report show the import and export trade of the United Kingdom to exceed 102,000,000 per andum with the countries speaking the Oriental languages under consideration of 1ba Committee, which, it may be noted, in- clude those of Africa as, wall as of Asia. ` Bat2 such rables only convey a very inadequate idea of the commercial importance of those regions, for they do noi include nither our own

Entimations.

We have received a new

shipment

choice

of extra

ENGLISH BACON

75 cents per lb.

THE

DAIRY FARM Co.,

LIMITED

Hongkong, 19th October, 1909.

ASAHI BEER SAPPORO BEER

TO BE OBTAINED

FROM ALL WINE DEALERS,

NOTICE.

CO., LIMITED.

1708

̧WANTED, £*3,725 a year. *This may seem at first sight rather an ambie tions -combination, but the proposals of the Committee for giving effect to its scheme are. CHINESE ENGINEERING AND MINING by no means excessive. The estimated annual cost of the school is only £12,715, to which the Treasury in requested to contribute both an initial grapt and and an, annual grant. This A and Six PANCE per Share, free of tax, FINAL DIVIDEND of One SHILLING

country might surely afford even a larger som has been declared by the Directors of the for the creation of an Oriental School worthy above Company, making a total of 15%- for the of the Metropolis of the British Empire, with your ending a8th February, 1959. its great mesh of relations with the Near East, the Middle East, and the Far East, and with Africa. If the Jabours of the Committee result in laying the foundations of such a school, its members will have assuredly deserved well of the country.

FRES

COUPON, No. 13 in payable on sud Novem. bar, at the Chartered Bank of Indip, Australia and China, and the Rumo-Chineto 'Bank at Tisatsin and Shanghai,

J. S. DOBIE

Agent. Hongkong, 19th October, 1909. 1747

FETE

IN AID OF THE FUNDS OF THE SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL

Under the Distinguished Patronage of

H.E. the Governor, Sir FREDERICK LUGARD, KOM.G, 0.8, D.5.0.

To be held in the

direct trade with the East, or the very large trade carried on with the East by other portions of the British Empiro, nor do they take into account the wall and complex economic in terests built up by the British communities in the East, both within our own possessions and Da foreign soil. The maintenance of our posi- lion in the East, political, commercial and industrial, must largely depend upon our know edge of the customs and the feelings, the thoughts and the wants of all the various alies races with whom we are brought into sach manifold contact, and to such knowledge which is entitled to a Souvenir on its presentation at the Souvenir Pavillon on the evening of,

ibing is more essential than a thorough acquaintance with thelf linguages, V

Vet in this country of all others scarcely any attempt has base made to encourage the study of Oriocial languages, or even to make provi sign for their suitable teaching. Other nations that have not a tiths of our interests in the East, or have only quite recently entered upon of August placed on the Wachow-Nanning run the field of Eastaro enterprise, bave at once

cance.

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7th

COMPOUND OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL,

TO-MORROW,

716 NOVEMBER, 19»g, from 9 r.M: 16 15.30 PM. Admission Ticket.....................!

the Fete only,

The public is respectfully invited to inspect the various stalls from a to 7 Pl; on the instant.

Tea and Cakes will be served during the afternoon.

will

By kind permission of the Commanding Officer and Officers of the 13th Rajpats, the band play from 9 to 11.30 P.M.

the

Tickets can be obtained from to-day at Mesars, Graça & Co., 37, Das Vœux Road, and at Roman Catholic Cathedral Componad to-morrow, the 7th November, from 9AM to 7 P.M.

(754

Hongkong, 6th November, 1909.

To estimate people by some outside quality

when it is that within which makes the but it would be interesting to know what would an additional boat of live type to the original, applied themselves to the educational task with j and at the gate on the night of the Fote.

but of increased horse power and carrying an energy and efficiency of which we bare c pacity. Both vessels have been plying te scarcely yet hagun avan to realise the sig„ifie golarly and, having proved unequal to coping with the cargo.which their satisfactory service has rendered available, are to be telaforced by is following suit and is about to place on the run a similar class of vessel,

STILL MORE SERIOUS,

A clergyman once said to a prospective bride, !*21 is a very serious thing to get mar- ried"; and the girl sephed, "Yet, but it's more serious not to get married"".

*1 would sooner vote for the devil than give you my volc," said an elecior to a candidate "Well, if your candidate doesuk come to the pola, will you vote for me?" was the reply.

"A number of men were staying late at their club when a waiter announced that a lady was

Inquiring for ber basband who had promised to be home estly, and all the men rose and said, "Will you excuse me for a minute, Mr.

Cbxicano?""

A lady was puzzled over the word "ditto" in an account, and the husband went to the shop for an explanation." "It means that I'm a fool and you're ditto "lẹ said to bis’wila on bin

zeturo,

APHORISMS.

Among the aphorisms employed by the judge were:

The beauty of this world of ours is made op by the wast of uniformity,

Stabboroners over file tridea biccks' the business of life, though' it does more for the lawyer than all the other phaser of human life. We have to bellav: a great deal in this world that we don't understand,

A Society lady ont in Frisco has lately evinced an abnormal crazı for athletics, Every morning, as regularas clockwork, abe has been covering a distance of from four to five miles from her home at a brisk pace out of sheer joy of living. She has startled Society by bar prow cas, who are said to have turned green with envy. What's the world coming to?`-

+-A-RIDGIN–POPMENT

The other day, I fished øst from among a

scrap-heap of old papers the following effusion, mouldy with the dust of ages. It is from the Ballimora Sun and will, I think, bear reproduc.

tion. It is as follows:-

Alles same you my face once walley,

Wid welly tong pigtail down him back. Salloran he come ashore, makay planty fighter,

Pully welly mucky hard makes face black, Long time plenty work sampan coolle

Yangtan river, way down Shangbal, By iathos lot piégia, 100 muches foola*,

Allee name pletty lady no liks Col, Lady cooky welly good, she likey chowchow,

Shells way up topalde hous

Cooky little pussy cat and litla bow-WO

Welly good pot-stow, boily wiɛ de mouse, ́Alice nams pork pig; my likes chow-chow,

Too muchee lag, no maches small, *Topside dark sky down cause Chong Now, Humankay stoly pig and chow-chow all. Englisy Consuł wally much he talkon,

Paties up him spocenial, máken fook aaa; Chop-chop polloman welly machee waļkog

Chooy Now Funnes do catches £0.

CASUAL CRITIC,

a third craft under construcilon. Another firm

A DAMNING SENTENCE,

France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Austria- Hungary and Holland possess schools of living Oriental languages supported by Government funda. Berling has its Seminary for Oriental Greater cheapness and rapidity of transportlagguages at the Royal University, 'with, a staff "of forty-two teachers and a budget of close upon are obviously the most patent factors in pro 10,000 per annum; Faris has its Ecole des moting exchange, and a point or two only need

Languages Oriental Vivantes, with twenty-six be noted here in illustration of the oblique teacher and a budget of 67,000 per annum. -and-wholesome-influence of these craft beyond"

the sphere of their immediate concerns. They there, is an Oriental Institute at Naples upon have rendered it very difficult for anyone 10 ch which the Italian Government spend nearly tablish locally a temporary monopoly to certain £4,000; and at St. Petersburg there is, besides classes of goods. Again, they have been in the University Faculty of Oriental languages, strumental in eff:cting a marked reduction in with a budget of £4,800, an educational sec the rate of interest. Several years ago the in- tion of Oriental languages attached to the terest charged on I aos amounted to 8 per cent. Ministry of Foreign Affairs which costs the per ballmouth, or 192 par cont, a year. In Government another £1,000 per annum. 1907 the rate was officially forbidden to exceed 'To England such small poms au some of the 3 per cent, per half-month. During the year public departments assign to the encourage- ment of the study of Eastern languages ander review-the average rate was 1 per cent. per ball-mouth. This change, though in part amongst their own breach of the service ate due to the liberal accommodation granted by mostly spent to 'very little purpose, and the the official bank in the course of the year to quits inadequate facilities which exist for specially approved applicants for loans, was the general public are afforded either by the compelled by the experience that when local Universities or by private initiative, Well may the Treasury Committee' sum up its conclu- banka were excessivo in their demands mer- chants telegraphed to Washow and procured lens in the following damning sentence: Ás the necessary fonds in three to four days by England is the canotry which above all others one of the motor-boats. Odo singular fact of as important relations with the East, the fact cardinal significance to she auscent trade should, that no Oriental school exists in in its capitul

is not creditable to the uniton. be mentioned. ·

M. EKENBURG, « noted Swedish scientist Lving in London, was charged at Bow Street, on the

The likin yoke on the mack of Nünning in intró REMEDY THE DEFECT, f

The recommendations of the Committee are 19h ult, and remanded on a charge, of al-

all conscience an easy onaj as regards, foreiga tempted murder of a merchant named Ham THE question of appointing an officer to inquire imports, they are allowed not merely to enter bised upon a general consensus of opiates mar at Stockholm Hammar received by posito prices in india is now engaging the atten- the city but to circulate throughout the pra amongst the many experienced wiindsess whom a bomb which exploded, blowing off his thumb tion of the Government who are in communica facture, without having to submit to the pay, they examined-representativa man of business and forefinger. Suspicion fell on the prisoner tion with the Secretary of State on the subject meet of a alegin cash, whether in suspect of as "well as officials and Orientalists—that the who became demented and was removed to and a decisión in the matter is likely to be an-, likia or of transit does, or of say other form of need of preliminary trainlog, not only in the ske mytem when he was arreited.

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