1910-05-07 — Page 9

The Hongkong Telegraph.

NEWSERIES No. 8186,

CONTENTS..

Births, Marriages and Deaths. Lending Articles:-

"Dum Spiro Spero,"

The Opposition.

The Old Game."

Spy-Nervouse. Awakening.

The Sport of the Daring.

E Pur Si Muove."

A Japanera Puritan.

The Observatory..

Vivegar and Honey.

Telegram:--

Shanghai Races.

Meetings:-

Lane Crawford nud Co., Ltd.

The Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd. Legislative Council.

Legal Intelligango

A Fit-Twig Dispute,

Bill of Exchange Dishonoured.

Police:

The Espionage Case,

"Application for Extradition.

Alleged False Imprisonment.

Correspondence:

Meddlesome Schoolbays,

A Public Nuisance,

Miscellaneous Articles and Report:-

Sir Hormusjce Mody.

The Governor's Departure,

The La e Mr. A. W. Brébner.

kong

Clothing in Hongkong.

Notes by the Way.

Canton Day By Day.

The Changal Rio's.

A Charior patty Dispute.

Shanghai Volunteer.

Bank Manager Banquetted,

Benevolence,

Royal Square.

Collision in the Harbour.

Rear Admiral Croix de Castles. Hongkong Association Football League, Kowloon Cricket Club..

Wants Goverment School

Kowloon Property Sale.

Raub Gold Mines.

Hongkong Cricket Club. Royal Hongkong Yacht Club. Boy Eaten by Will Dogs.

Opium Production.

Loss of the 6.1. Kirkfield.. S.5. Suerie's Rough Passage. Boy Scout for Hongkong. Shanghai Bates,

Hongkong Buil Lighter. Hongkong's Rival. Caplolo.F. W. Lyons. to Shangbai.

Rubber Meetings,

Cricket League Table.

The Butler Wiight Case.

Manila Catile Trade:

Death of an old Resident.

Far Eastern Affairi.

Gale at Wuchow.

5.5. Nippon Mars in a Gálo. Extraordinary Disease in Csaka Fu. The China Association.

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gentleman having merely reported what his People ought not to shout' God save the eyes had seen has excited from the Peking King said a French Countess, who in Daily News-which really ought to know spite of her noblesse favoured the Revolution better-the sneering assertion that writers in and cherished radical ideas. The mob, Hongkong and elsewhere in South China however, outside her carriage which had got have been hired to hoodwink the world, so jammed in a crush, not hearing the opening crazy are British opium traders over au at. words of her sentence and only catching the tempt to protect their evil trade. Abuse is not final Vive le roi expressed their disap-argument it may embitter antagonists and proval of that sentiment and nf the radical anuse disinterested onlookers, but serves no

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and examine secret plans and fortifications, a mixed audience here in Hong. carefully guarded preparations for surprising kong at a dinner, and has reached" a an enemy and the like, is only reasonable, far wider audience by its publication. This and with tact and discretion no harm need be done to the cause of peace or the interest of a nation in war, by cordial good feeling and reciprocity between its officers and those of other civilized peoples. But occasionally racial jealousy or mistrust or individual greed at ambition, may lead even accredited official agents into employment of base tools, aud underground burrowing into other peo-

allured and thoughtful gentleman very rightly and properly affirms the truth that East and West may meet in true harmony and unison, and we may assure him that he does not appeal in vain to the British "to never fail to seize an opportunity to break down free and friendly intercourse between the the barriers retarding the advancement of “ peoples of all races, creeds and colours living under the aegis of the flag that stands government the world over." The speaker quotes, but not fully, the words of Mr. Kip- ling's "ballad of Bast and West," Mr Yuk sham is right in deprecating the thought that "never the twain shall meet." But we ven ture to quote onward

et Flat there is neither East nor Wast Border nor breed nor birth,." When strong men stand lace to ince,

contained the ever-illustrious name of the that we regret that the same breath which Ancient Sage, Confucius, should have classed the Tai Ping Wang with him and with

shall feel a life better, and presently per haps be quite comforted and finding many mercies after all to be very thankful for may end by being as optimistic and sanguine at but lately we were cast down and lugubrious. The period of "Sturm und Drang" in our finances and the commercial depression from which we have been suffering is, we hope, chinnging into a time of renewed activity and prosperity. If, however, any of us still feels very down in the blues, let him take our prescription, first trying a dose of retrospec. tion. It was affirmed in 1844, reaffirmed Cou toes by taking her out of tier carriage purpose except perhaps to indicate an at-ple's secrets. The still mysterious Dreyfus with many strong expressions in 1845, and ad spanking her very lamentably. There titude of mind from the abservation of which case, not to mention other sad intrigues, shouted with what Artemus Ward might wear nor wanting any of the more frivolous may be inferred certain circumstances, as the prove that in some men who are either more have called vurry, cuss words" in 1847| minded among the nobles who on hearing | degree of sincerity of the reviler or the value or far less than patriots, the thirst for use for peace, justice, arder, freedom, and good that Hongkong was utterly worthless to Eng of the incident smiled wickedly at the mis-of other arguments unattered and abandoned information is so burning that they will land in every point of view. It was rehe hap to one who had always been in by one who after all has little save abuse to stoop to the lowest depths to obtain it mently asserted and officially reported to opposition-always "agin the Government rely on. However sincere or insincere in war, when the laws which usually the Colonial Office that there was not one

We are lost in astonishment sometimes at China" (what is "China" in this connec regulate human life aro silent, the fate of advantage, political, commercial, financial the spectacle of sheer cantankerous opposition the officials?) may be in the anti-optum the convicted spy is relentless and swift or religious, either then prescat or prospection for opposition's sake without apparent rusade, one other thing her Provincial Even in times when the laws of peace ruled tive, derivable to England from the existing sense or reason. Frequently such opposition Governments are not. They are not honest or seemed to rule all else, the captured spy establishment at Hongkong. It was urged springe from mere imitativeness, as, for in- to keeping Treaty faith. They are not has before now discovered that no earthly Sampanman Stabbed by European Seaman sighted officials that any outlay on Hong brained philanthropistsactuated by a genuine under all sorts of pretexts to establish of the grave, or, more dreadful still, of the by some pessimistic merchants and short-stance, when a few soft hearted and soft straight. Again and again have they tried law stood between him and the vengeance kong was worse than folly, that to persist in if on this occasion mistaken sentiment were

new taxes and monopolies "under", var- the course entered on by the Government followed by a crowd of silly" atop the war"ious pretences and various aimes, but ceaselessly clanking chap, the semi-darkness

tomb of the living, the perpetual prison, the Though thay come from the ends of the Earth" must eventually end in national loss and shouters during the South African conflict. however cunningly, disguised the breach of the convict's mine........Sinister rumours of Mr. Yuk-stian's mind when he further Perhaps this idea was at the back general disappointment. The friend of China And very often, as we have said, there are of Treaty has been detected and denounced, have always been current about Kussian cited the words of that well-known "strong in an editorial dated 26th July, 1845, writes: people found, who take the opposite view only to be again attempted a few months activity in obtaining secret information by man" Mr. Bourne, Judge of H B. M. Sup. "We hesitate not to assert, that with the from that held by the majority out of what later. There must be Consulates in which any means,and, on the other hand, in punish-reme Court: "The best nope of the Chinese exception of two or three houses who have must really be hopeless contradictoriness, or the "Prepared opium licenco" besides ing with extreme severity like attempts by would seem to be a strong man." He pro- a large coasting trade (this refers to the cusseduess." They almost always aver that being a nuisance to harassed officials has be others to discover that which the Northern ceeded to show how hopeless a blunder any The Incorporated, Law Society of Hong opium trade) nearly every merchant in the they have good grounds for their attitude, or come a hardy sobuni among the archives. Bear keeps concealed in his most private insurrection against the culing dycasty must

place would cheerfully dispose of his proper pose, but when urged to express them they it cannot be more than a few months ago ty at cost price, and abandon this island." either rave incohereally in abuse of the that it was stopped in Canton for the Germany, Austria and Italy, cach knowing noble epithet "strong" would ruin himself caves. Great armed Powers like France and prove, and how no leader worthy of the About the same time an official gentleman accumulated sum of human reason and experi- severalth" time by the British Consul- well that its own Intelligence Department is and the cause of his countrymen by running of rank wrote: "No merchant whom I have ence, or pour out the most ridiculous, and Gooeral, and we are now. to have the whole not incapable of utilizing basely obtained his neck and theirs into such a noose. We wet or heard of has the slightest hope of sometimes regrettable nonsense. This non-retched business all over again. They, the information, while disavowing the procurer aro,in agreement with him; we are sure that maintaining this as a place of commerce; the scose coares to be merely contemptible, and officials responsible, believe that with deter of it, are liable to acute attacks of nervous game is now to lay out nothing, and lose as becomes a cause of concern when it is plau, mination and perseverance they can get the dread of spies in their midst. A harmless a homicidal maniac could be imagined than no more horrid crime outside the dreams of little as possible of what they have expended. sible, appealsto human passion or interest, and Letter of the British sooner or later, and amateur photographer with a mania for armed enterprise on the past of aby section The military reduction, and the constant when, on being thought out, it is discovered to generally rather sonder than later. Their making picture postcards on an Italian frontier or group of Chinese reformers, however dis departures, will complete the downfall of be mischievous. Every department of intellig latest impudent and bare-faced attempt to has been known to find himself in serious interested, able or resalute. Quite apart Hongkong The London 7imes in July 1846 cat activity, divine and human, has been or evade their Treaty obligations and deride danger of rigorous and long continued in- said: "The prospects of Hongkong as a cons is being zuacked, and will continue to be to our just rights has been made with a cus- carceration, and only escaped on strong European intervention, such & movement from the almost inevitable necessity of mercial colony are not good; account for it as the end of time, we fear, or at any rate until ning to which we are well accustomed, and proof being afforded of the simplicity of his would be fraught with disaster to the causZO we will, disguise as we may, the truth is be the reign of pure season shall have driven. yet with an open, naked cynicism very hard mind and the innocence of his mauia. Not of Chinese independence, coming more plain and undeniable every day: folly froin this world of men. A philosopher to endure patiently. The Head Bureau for long ago even sober-aided old England got Mr. Yuk-Shan sees this truth and asserts it, It, is becausa it might perhaps be well dispensed with for might at length cease to feel surprised at the Suppression of Opium in the whole quite school-girlish and "jumpy" for a time any value it is of now to our commerce...hearing the purest of faiths and the most Province of Kwang-tung have issued a about German waiters in London, who had ...there are no Chinese merchants or even canobling of the springs of human action notification to all dealers in raw opium, done their military service, German bicyclists shopkeepers with any pretence to property; exposed to vilification and derision, but yet especially to one named Kwong Wing and picnickers in Essex, and a possibly ima there is neither an import or export trade of be unable to conceal his amazement at an any, kind........ severni houses have attack on the object and purposes and ulti-they intend to levy a tax on prepared shores by night, using a scarchlight. The that even the best of foreiga educated yllen and another named Ki Oo-tai that ginary air-ships alleged to have visited our hundreds of very able statemen," Alast becu antenanted for months past, and the mate uses of the Hongkong University. We pium by issuing licences and permits, and recent success of the Japanese while driving Chinese of our time should make these value of all property is daily on the decrease cannot help exclaiming "Why, what in the that, after inquiry, they find that since the the Russians back in their advance on Far slips. Hung, the "Heavenly King" as ho ......liongkong cannot be expected world can the most inveterate growser' give enforcement of the purchase of unprepared Eastern Asix in organizing perfect means cailed himself failed sadly in rigour of under any circumstances to possess an

us here?" Be it noted, moreover, that the opium under the permit system during the of obtaining and concealing information, character, be had the fanaticism, but not the extensive trade, or to afford any considerable said growser is or was a pro-Boer; a Home- 10th month of last year Kwang Wing-yuen while exciting deserved wonder and praise greater qualities, of a religious chief. In- revcade towards the payment of its expenses." Ruter, an anti vaccinationisi, a vegetarian, has been doing most of the business in Messrs. Jardine Matheson & Co., Messre,aad very probably a Christian scientist in foreign raw opium among the dealers, while ness very similar to that which we have false Mahdi or Khalifah and at his causo at the time, has also provoked an uncari stead of being a Mahommed he was a mere Dent Co., and other British merchants disguise as well. He will begin by declaim Op-tai (and we must note this well) has referred to as occasionally breaking out in perished. Bothusiastic, reformers must not having-residences in Hongkong expressed ing against the utter uselessness of the Uni-ten the lead in selling native raw opium. Europe. A short while ago two Japanese imagine that the will to regenerate a decay. themselves as pessimistically in a memorial versity, and the needlessness of its expense. The Bureau knowing the above mentioned alleged spies were caught in Corregidor forts ing world, even if exerted to the point of to Lord Stanley, the Secretary of State for He will proceed, when you have shown his two to be wealthy and honest merchants have near Manila. The Americans and Australians fanaticism, and a fierce armed revolt against the Colonies. Sir John Davis, the Gover his error in this, to declare that no Chinese, considered them fit to be specially selected will hardly allow a man who has black hair nor combated the views taken by these firms, or hardly any, will ever avail themselves of for the duty of collecting the new tax. All

a Government, however unworthy of the and in the face of great misunderstanding the advantages of the University. When dealers in raw opium are warned quietly to to a battery. Now here at Lyemun a entitle a man to be called a strong leaders

to go as near as "telephoto lens distance"

name, are alone in themselves sufficient to and severe criticise he succeeded in at you have again routed him he will shift his wait for the issue of a notification appoint-stranger has been caught sketching views or to merit the praise either of his contem least impressing on the Ilomp Government ground, unmask new batteries and begin aing a date to collect the taxes in question. which include, fortifications. that he had not over-rated the importance new battle. We claim that the University Another notification by this enterprising dressed in a monk's garb resembling a late Hung Sen-tsuen of Hwahlen in Kwang. He was poraries or of posterity, We fear that the and future greatness of Hongkong, however will have an extraordinary, influence over Bureau has appointed the date, the 9th Chinese get-up, but when arrested on tung Province has no other claim to be he may have failed in assisting towards that the rising generation of teachers of Chica, ipstant, and grealness in some ways The merchants and and that the effect of the tremendous im that having telegraphed to the Ministry those specially concerned in guarding whom China thinks with gratitude, or with uoblushingly announces ground forbidden to all persons except classed with those great men of the past of officials inimical to Sir John's views ridiculed pulse forward which it will give is certain to Finance on the matter they have received his view that Hongkong would one day be be so great that we dare only affirm, without a reply sanctioning a trial being made with be a Japanese. For unlawfully sketching looks forward with calm, peaceful and His Majesty's batteries, he was found to that strong man of the future to whom abe the Carthage of the Far East, and further venturing to calculate, the extent of its vast. the scheme." They instruct all the raw forts or defences at Lyemun he was con- enlightened confidence, declared before the Parliamentary Com-0488. We also claim that this impules is oplum dealers to examine the permits' and demned to undergo a mitice appointed to inquire into British wholly for good. We are warnestly cou-levy a tax on each licence according to the weeks hard labour. If he were a mere commercial relations with China that Hoogvinced that improved civilization in China, weight of the opium bought. Stress is laid stray artist, as he alleged, making sketches kong could never be a Colony by reason of with increased regard to sanitary laws, in on obedience, while one is curiously re ita limited size, rocky, barren structure, increased material wealth and prosperity, with minded of some of the conventional pretences this sentence will deter him in future of unpicturesque hillsides for exhibition, capability of producing any of the necessaries the concomitast inevitable increase in al of the Chinese, theatre, or the transparent from allowing his hobby to of life for tre consumption of even one day truism and humanitarianism, can only be good pretences of the nursery, by the astute him to include British batteries in his and neighbours on a new success in a field induce We can congratulate our French friends and because under no conceivable cirdum- | for all the world. At this the opposition remark: It should be understood that the drawings. If the latter, be the premediat. We have been taught by our own kin how stances could it afford any, considerable gaashes iis teeth, waves its fists and calls for new taxation affects smokers only and co-ed work of a serious spy, it does not

which Englishmen once thought their own. revenue towards the payment of its own reinforcements. "Why," it howls, "do you templater no injury to those trading in raw

They maintained, in hat con want to give increased health, which opium." Dealers in raw opium are harshly subject they were made for the Japanese We have learnt modesty too, and do not follow that because the culprit is a Japanese to "buck up" and have taken defeat and tradiction of their Governor, that Hongkong means life, and increased prosperity, threatened against evading the monopoly, Government. The fellow's paymaster may

instruction from Colònials and Americans. was useless as a commercial emporium on which means power, to tens of millions of the confiscation of a dealer's licence and the have been anybody, or as yet, while awaiting grudge to plucky little Belgium her well- account of its disadvantageous, geographical Chinese? Armed with the knowledge you closing up of his shop being included in a position, the greater facilities for trade are giving them they will devour Europe penalty which it is declared will not be lent his arrest shows that our gunners do not that in all kinds of sport, even in motoring. the highest bidder, nobody. In any case earned victory in rowing Still, we thought offered by other ports, the distance from any altogether. If your alleged altruism and ent. A touch of Gilbertian farco lo added by sleep at their posts, and that we need be Eyes in Arctic exploration, which is perhaps we were as yet without rivals on the whole. and piratical character of the neighbouring of any Asiatic, especially the Chinese, and querable modesty and retiring disposition and efficiency of the wardens of our de- "sport" on the grandest scale hitherta

under no apprehension, as to the vigilance inhabitants, and the total absence of an if these poble sentiments restrain him from of Ki On-tai, who, we noted, had taken the fences, import or export trade of any kind. It was annihilating us by brute force and cold lead in selling native raw opium, and had

known to man, our Sir Ernest Shackleton even affirmed that the island was unsuited blooded butchery, there remains the awful been originally entrusted with the work in

may well grip hands with the gallant and for a fortress and was not required as economic strife in which we more luxuipus company with that great insporter of

indefatigable Peary, or the only just less military or naval station, that it commanded peoples of the West must inevitably fall un-foreign raw opium, Kwang Wing-yuen., Ki

fortunate but equally splendid Duke" "of the nothing, not even the entrance to the Canton der the Irresistible pressure of countless bit. On tai has personally represented his own

AbruzziBut now we have to give the river; that it protected nothing not even the lions whose wants are reduced to a minimum unsuitability and unworthiness for a respon

palm of victory in the nowest, youngest and commerce of Canton. Hongkong was accused and whose standard of comfort is calculatedibility which he feels to be too great and im-

most wonderful of all aporta to a Frenchman. of being politically injurious to our Empire on that minimum With their immense fortant for him, and being unwilling to take

We who have before now deprecated the Paulhan went over to England last month, After some marvellous flights in France M. by the contempt and hatred which we had resources, agricultural and mineral, and to arduous a task on himself, has begged to

use of this word when speaking of the great and achieved the winning of the great prize excited by establishing ourselves fiere, and their cheap labour we shall have to reduce be relieved of 11. The gentle Bureau repeat Empire whose interests so vitally affect those, of £10,000 offered by the Daily Mail to the by the constant espionage kept on our pro- our standard downward to the level of theirs, tedly urged, and advised and encouraged not only of Hongkong, but of many other first man who flew from London to Man ceedings. It was denied that the Colony until our beasted superiority become a de- the timid Ki On-tai, the leading importer of lands beyond the sea, now find ourselves chester, a distance of one hundred and was in any way effective for disseminating rision and our civilization, a shame-laden the native raw drug, but he was firm in moved not perhaps by the spirit of prophecy, eighty-seven miles. A condition was that 1338 ideas of civilization and education. The memory of a fading past". We are tired of persisting in his refusal, so the Board notifies but by the force of visible facts to recognize the aeroplane might only alight twice on the Hospital, Shanghai, Cecilo Bernardo Pereira healthy state of the island, and the very mer-go cheerfully on with our duty to our neigh who does most of the business in foreignant the decades of disappointment and fal scem that he was forced to do so by dark On Thursday April 17, 1910, at the Goontal} most, and worst, was made of the then un- this sad individual and of his like, and shall that an he has withdrawo, Kwang Wing-yuen unfulfilled promises of the past and present, alighted once, at Lichfeld, and it would that the giant is really moving. Not the way. M. Paulhan appears to have only chants and others who ought to have been bours, knowing full well that we have no raw opium shall take the sole responsibility applying their energies to finding remedies more to fear from Asiatic competition than for this important business. It is hard to lure so weigh on our minds as to blind them ness, as it was after 8 p.m. 3hs remain- for the evil were eagerly and busily engaged from competition amongst ourselves. Natural comment on the sony impudence of these to many really hopeful signs. We refraining sixty miles would take him less in spreading far and wide the notion that laws and natural forces have all worked to notifications. A smile at the ingenuous purposely from prophecy; we dare not even than two hours. He started very early Hongkong was a death-trap, and that in gether to produce what we call our civiliza sanction of the new tax by the Finance attempt fully to explain the phenomena DOT such a deadly and debilitating climate "2

in the morning, reminding us of M, tion. We not only admit, we even assert its Ministry as a trial of the project" becomes a apparent. We note them, tentatively suggest Blériot's early start from mao was but half a man." We should like imperfection, But our own strenuous efforts, frown when we recall its repeated trials and their possible meaning, and await develop on his successful fight across the Chappel near Calais all pessimists to consider that picture of not to be stayed by the gloomy opposition, repeated condemnation."

mente. One of the most gratifying corrobora- to Dover, M. Paulhan arrived at Manches sixty odd years ago and contrast it with our of the timid, the selfish, or the merely

tions of the opinions we haveformed after long ter at 5.30 am. This achievement at once really beautiful and prosperous Colony of idiotic, combining with the over advancing

experience and study is the now undisputed gives him a place for ever on the roll of to day. After that who need despair?" Not forces within and without us, will, we are

fact that the influence of Hongkong has names of great pioneers. With the brothers perhaps even Kwang-chow-waa or Wei-hai- confident, result jo a truer and more

been mighty in educating our neighbours of Wright and Blériot the name Paulbau will wei, and certainly not Klaochau. For when universal' civilization, where Chinese and

The intelligence departments of the War. the maloland. Our Chinçac fellow-residents probably never be forgotten, any more than we think of a Hongkong with only sixteen Caucasian, Last and West, and every race offices and Admiralties of every nation are have in large numbers acquired a sound that of James Watt or Stephenson, or Ro British firms and no conceivable hope of men shall bear due part in the great work naturally constantly watching their naigh knowledge of our history and institutions, bert Fultos. We are especially glad that a When we are feeling down hearted and affording any coneldérable revenue towards

bours and endeavouring to discover their and have become so accustomed to our ways Frenchman has performed this great-fest, discouraged, and are thoroughly pessimistic, paying its own expenses; when we compare

Recrets. The agents of these departments, of thought that they have more or less because the French have exerted themselves! It is a good and wine thing to pull oneself the faver-racked, poverty-stricken, despair-

when described as military or naval attachés adapted them, and perhaps in some cases extraordinarily in the study, construction together, assure oneself that there must be ing rock of Sir John Davis' time with the

at Embassies or Legations are treated with assimilated them. That they are doing this and management of airships heavier than the mercies somewhere to be thankful for, and proud fortress and healthy, wealthy, public-.

courtesy by the Governments to which they without losing their own sounds a paradox, air, and more than one martyr of French then resolutely begin to search for them. spirited and, thanks to Sir Frederick Lugard, North i kina Daily News remarked that be the manoeuvres of their forces in time of to the European a man of paradox? There tion, Honour is due to these gallant French- When the Yunnanfa correspondent of the are accredited, are permitted to accompany but what Chinese mind itself doce not seem blood has given his life in the cause of avia Even if the most consoling of those mercies Bolvent community of to day, cannot we be saw oplum growing freely at Hweilichow his peace and share au spectators their interests are now in the world, numbers, Increasing men, and their success is as well deserved al only proves to be the reflection that after all ought not wo sarlously and with good heart utterance was at least as entitled to courtesy and their hasarda in time of war. That these numbers, of men like Mr. Lo Yuk-aban, it is welcomed and applauded by every thinge might be much, very much worse, we i to be, most thankful for our mercies ?.- and credence as that of any other traveller privileges do not include liberty to (aspect she has made a remarkable sp999h 19 and courage loring Edelion

Toyo Kisen Kaisha,

Kaug-yn-wei..

Rival Pacific Liners, The Price di Opium, United Singapore Rubber Company.. Typhoon Warning. Rubber Finance. -S.S. Aki Maru Afire:

Hongkong Observatory, Kaula Selangor Rubber,

Elphinstone ea, Heawood. Freeholds in Java, 5.8. Kwelyang, German Mal on Fire.. Voited Lankats Luotations.

Water Return,

Education in Hangkong..

Golden Hops Estate,

Execution at Toogkab, Dommercial:-

Weekly Share Report. Yarn Market." Freight Market

Bullion.

.Exchange.

Local and General.

BIRTH.

expenses,

At Bhanghal, to Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Wolfe, populous or productive territory, the poverty humanitarianism be indeed a characteristic the gentle regrets of the Bureau at the uacoa-

a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

On Saturday, April 23, 1910, at Shanghai, Leslie James Blackburn, of Walsell, England, 10 Jessie Beatrice, daughter of William Good, fallow, of Shanghai.

On Saturday, April 23, at Shanghai, James Heory Witchell, son of Job Witchell, of Hong kong to Mabel May, daughter of William Goodfellow, of Shanghai.

On April 26, 1910, at Shanghai, Herry Tus doll Hancock, eldest son of the late Henry Hancock, of Portsmouth, to front, eldest daughter of John Vipont and Radcliffe of Ipswich.

DEATHS.

On the 4th instant, at his resilence, Conduit Road, Thomas 1. ROSE, aged 59 years.

Callaço agud 37 years.

The Hongkong Gelegraph

MÄIL SUPPLEMENT, ISSUED GRATIA TO SUBSCRIBERS.

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1910..

"DUM SHIRO SPERO".

(30th April.).

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of peace.

THE OLD GAME. (3rd May.)

SPY-NERVOUSNESS,

sentence of six

AWAKENING.

"(4th May.)

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THE SPONT OF THR DARING,