1910-07-30 — Page 1

The Hongkong Telegraph.

NEW SERIES No. 8270

CONTENTS.

Births and Deatlin.

Leading Artioles

Insubordination.

Hongkong Critics,

The Schools of Hongkang.

Comforts of the Garriïdo.

Old Piracies in Hongkong Waters,

The Future of the New Territory,

Mootings-

A Question of Rehearing,

Aneta Winery.

Millinery Matters in the Summary Conit,

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day European life in Hongkong. Lycemoon perly come under the heading of this articia. and Stonecutters' have their own installa. These decidedly show, however, that piracy tions. In due time, no doubt, every other such as must affect shipping that frequents out-station will share with Victoria and Wel-Hongkong Harbour still exists in a highly linglos Barracks in the benefits of an elec dangerous form in Kwangtung and calls for strong, measures of suppression on the part of the Chinese authorities.

OLD MIRACIES IN HONGKONG

WATERS...

the British officials, both civil and military, If there is any particular direction in which pper class consists, forsooth, of 11 boys, refused to believe that their troops and native our American visitors do appear to evince most of thein the sons of Government ser employes could ever be unfaithful and commendation it is for the many fine build-ants, backward and do not seem to have "true to their sak." Now, when ceftalnings that face the waterfront but as one been well grounded," Then, what on earth babblers from Beugal have co-operated with visitor remarked a little while ago to the are these boys dolog in an upper class" if a prating little Englander with Scotch writer, you will find next door to your finest they have not yet mastered the rudiments ?trical supply. same who was not ashamed to show gratifi. | building heaps of miserable shacks with And then we are told that "this class pro- cation at, having garlands of flowers hung soapsuds and dirty water flowing in torrents mises to be of much value to the Colony." round his neck by failed B A.'s" of Hindu from their upper floors right down into the The Director of Education must have omitted colleges, when persons who could not pass street. Then again, said this critic, you an examination in any Indian language have a miserable old building for a "Town The lode-China Steam Navigation Co., Ld. whatever, dare to pose as champions of the House," fronted by a fountain which does native races, we marvel to see the once dig uat play and couchant pranite lions which Legal Intelligence :—

nified and martial compatriots of Ranjit act as lounging places for the riff-raff | Singh degrading themselves to the level of the coolie community. Well one must ad- such incongruous associates. That a'ciklimit that all these criticisms do not make should exhibit some of the faults as well as very pleasant hearing to anyone who counts most of the virtues of a soldier is but na, himself a resident of the Colony and tries to tural. A word of reproof from his super, take a pride in the place. But unfortunately, ior officer has usually been sufficient to they are far too true; and it is the continual: to recall a brave and so'dierly man to his resident in Hongkong who forgets these or beller sense. It seems a pity that such a things which visitors complain against or fine class of men should degenerate. Of only sees. then with unseeing eyes. It is all hateful odours none, it is said, is more certainly foolish to take umbrage at such nauscous than that of 'rotten lilies. That criticismis. It is the stranger always who sees mes who once held duly and honour dearer the faults. As familiarity is said to breed than life itself, should meanly combine the contempt for a person it can equally well duly of a police constable with the greed he remarked that long acquaintance with of a mancy-lender is of the most saddening any grievance such as those complained of signs of these worsening times. That a leads to indifference and undisturbable Sikh should be guilty of insolence and in equanimity. Such criticisms are made in subordination is enough to make the spirits of no- mischievous spirit and should have the

A Gurnisher Q testion:

Bankruptcy Court..

A Question of Instalments,

A Guestion of Accounts.

Correspondence:~-~

A Severe Critic.

· Miscellaneous Articles and Reports :---

Colowan Affir

Kowloon Canton Railway.

Canton Day by Day...

Reviews.

Typhoon Warding.

Canton Opium Tox.

Hobbies in Hengkong.

Hongkong Dock Charges.

Notes by the Way.

very necessary "not" when he wrote that sentence. How it is going to be of much value to the Colony must pass the comprest tension of any reader who has just been in formed by the Director of Education himself that the class is "backward and does not seem to have been well grounded." The two statements are lucompatible with logic and common-sense. Then to make matters worse confounded the Director of Education tells us this:—The attendance has fallen off very considerably, The headmistress is transferred elsewhere early in the year; but still the cost per unit reaches the alto gether preposterous figure of $120 per unit ($134 in 1907 and $166 in 1908). The num bers are not likely to increase materiaily in the near future. They were 27 for the year as against 41 for 1909." *Preposterous1" We thank you, sir, for teaching us that word. It expresses to a nicety our own views upon the subject. It is indeed preposterous that in this little school whose pupils are getting in the near future, education should cost $zzo per unit. And if this figure goes on rising the same ratio as it has done during the past two years, whilst the number of pupils decreases, we shall see the average cost per pupil standing at between $400 to $500 in 1910. Truly, this is a matter calling for urgent attention. Moreover, when the undergraduates of the future Hongkong University are expected to pay no more than $300 per annum each, we fail to see how s purely elementary school can justify its exist. ence when each unit costs the taxpayers

(28th July.)

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THE FUTURE ON THE NBW-TERRITORY,

(a9th July.).

The Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steam Allard, Gardiner, Nicholson, Hudson, Law effect of urging us on to the bigger efforts less io numbers and are not likely to increase this prosaic nineteenth century. Apart progress made in all directions'wyst soem.

Chios Coating Types.

The Hongkew würder.

boat Company, Limited,

Rubber Shares as Investment.

Typhoon Shelters.

Survey of the Colony.

Canton Salt Monopoly.

Kowloon Cricket Club.

Aquatic Fets.

The Colonial Office and Opium. Rubber.

Stranding of the au alin.

Shanghai Drowning Fatality.

Chines Fishermen.

Sing-pore's Rival

Water Polo Shield Match,

Farewell Dinner to n Taikon Employze.

The Opium Qarrel in Canton,

Reab Gold Mine.

Toe angie Estate.

Meij Fire Insurance Co.

The Macan Piraten

A New Line-Throwing Gun.

Fight at a Meeting of Chinese Students.

„Opium Smuggling

Victoria R-creating Club,

Vainable Garzo Selzid.

Kng of he South cas."-

The Opium, Trade:

Government House.

Hand in the Botanical Gardena TROLIO.."

Chinese Conlie Labour

Trangue atend

Mengoll Rated

Teik ku Seito Kaisha. Arrest of an Army Cap'sin., Soangai Rampsh ̊Co, New Seamen's Institute. Rescon at 01, Meao in itery. Local and General. Commercial:-

Weekly Share Report.

Freight Market

Yarn Market.

Rubber State Market. Bullins.. Exchange.

rence and of many other leaders of Sikhe, come back from the abodes of the dead and wither with some morę terrible rebuke than a magistrate may by a sentence of a few days' imprisonment inflict, these unworthy' sons of valiant siren who were true to their nik.

HONGKONG CRITICS,

(asth July.)

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In view of the great prominence which has been given of late to the utterances of ex-President Roosevelt, in regard to British administration in the various countries visit

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towards improvement.

THE SCHOOLS ÔF HONGKONG.

(26th July.)

$220 a year. This state of affairs is a crying himself admits that a certain state of things

scandal, When the Director of Education

tions, by the climination of useless and exor. ernment to remove the anomalous condi- bitadtly expensive schools to relieve the bur. dep on the ratepayers. COMPOKIS OF THE CANRISON,

(zh July.)

Colowan naturally makes one's mind bark It is well imaginable that the future his The terrible affair that has just occurred. back to the many piratical horrors that hold torian of the Colony of Hongkong will find place to the history of Hongkong. So far it accessary to devote a great deal of atten- the Colowan affair is concerned, people ton to the wonderful development that has have believed that at the prescat day such a its acquisition by the British. It is only in Europe, and even in Hongkong, would not taken place in the New Territory since nest of pirates as that which did exist at some ten years ago that the New Territory Colowan could still have been allowed to became part of the Colony, but during that remalo as a menace to peace and good order abort period the changes which hare, comé su to plunder and ravish with impunity over the face of this country can be describ horde of marauders to make their strong course, it is an axiom of British Colonial their unoffending neighbours. Were such a ed as nothing short of phenomenal. ⠀ Of hold in some fastness of the almost inacces. administration that no land is worthy of sible country one would not be inclined so annexation which is not worthy of develop this scourge flourishing almost at the very the case of our New Territory we see this much to wonderment; but here we have ment and improvement; and certainly in

door of Portuguese Macao and within a few principle singularly exemplified. To anyone of the facts that have come to light as it was first annexed and who has not been hours' sail of British Hongkong. Some who travelled over the New Territory when result of this affair appear to belong rather given opportunity to avere its length and to the realms of Stevensonian fiction than to breadth again-until the present time, the from Colowan, however, caves of piracy on astounding. And the striking feature of this on the West River are still of not infrequent tion ofthe Railway, most of the work involved the upper reaches of the Canton River and development is that, with the one graat excep

occurrence; and it would be well if the in opening up the Territory has been accom On more than one previous occasion we

Chinese Government once and for all made plished quietly and unostentatiously, almost have had reason to refer to some of the

clean sweep of these piratical pests from unbeknown of the public and indubitably the great southern waterway. As regards unappreciated by them to that extent which amazing anomalies that permeate the duca

Hongkong, her history contains a long from its importance one would have been led tion i lepartment of Hongkong; but many of

list of piracies committed within her to expect. In the fint place, district stationn those prevailing anomalous conditions appear

own territorial waters, When the island had to be built, but as that is the Initial -- to show few indications of a tendency to

WRE first ceded to Great Britain. the stage in the settlement of any new wards diminution, Rather, indeed, the reverse would seem to be the case, judging

tinger, tried to induce the Chinese authori- to be constructed and waterways spanned sea all around was infeated by pirates, country little credit can, be claimed on that 1843 the thea Governor, Sir II. Pot- score. ́ 11 followed, also, that now roads hæð: from the most recent report by the Director, of Education submitted at the last meeting

ties to co-operate with him in suppressing by bridges. In this connection, the Govern ed by him in the course of his trans contin- of the Legistative Council. The solid un ental tour, it is rather interesting for us inderlying fact appears to be that the Govers preposterous, it is high time for the Gov. piracy in local waters, but we read that his ment are deserving of every praise, for the Hongkong sometimes to hear the criticismament are doing everything in their power to

Chinese side. Trading and fishing boats enormous. Sound roads now run where be efforts were neutralised by corruption on the amount of work accomplished has been of our American visitors from Manila and cripple the Grant schools with a view to

had to pay regular blackmail to these des-fore were bridle-paths; and fair bridges span elsewhere, levelled against the life and go benefit the Government schools, even to the ernmental conditions of Hongkong.

peradoes. About 1849 the British Govern- the water-courses that hitherto bid to be Per-extent perhaps of eliminating the former class

ment appeared to awake to the necessity of crossed by stepping stones or rotten timber, haps more than any other class of mericans, of educational institution altogether. Yet,

taking stronger measures for dealing with The advent of the Railway scheme, too, gava the Manilaites are prone to outspoken cri- taken roughly, the cost per pupil for educa

the evil, and warships were despatched to a decided impetus to all this work of general ticism and comment upon affairs in neigh-tion in Government schools is as near as

Hongkong to extirpate the pirates, Theac development. But over and above all these, buring settlements. In Hongkong we have possible three times as much as the cost of In a great Garrison outpost of Empire warships destroyed some 80 piratical armed one very important' accomplishment of the the Manila man always with us. He comes education in Grant schools. Last year, the like Hongkong, it is only natural that the and heavily manned junke-iome of the ea- Government--no less important because it and goes almost without ceasing, bent upon average cost per pupil in Government Civilian community should take a deep ja-gagements taking place in Mirs Bay and it not superficially apparent has been the business, or up-a pleasure, and apparently schools was $35 15; in Grant schools it terest in all that pertains to the comforts of Aberdeen Bay. Still piracy flourished. As settlement upon a sound basis of the ad- he considers it a duty to air his views upon was only $13 07 per pupil. That is to our Garrisos; all the more so as many many as 70 cases were reported during the ministrative machinery. When the New anything that takes up his attention, in the say, in the Grant schools they can and do Service men do not regard Hongkong as an year 1853, the most shocking case being the Territory was taken over the British met city or in the Colony generally. No one teach three pupils for the same amount of ideai station to which to be drafted for a murder of the captain, officers and passen with nothing but distrust and hostility on except perhaps a highly prejudiced official money as the Government schools require spell of years. Especially this is true con gen of the ss. Artatoon. Aptar, by the every side. Their efforts towards rectifica- personage can take offence at the openness for the education of one. If it could be ceraing the women and children of the Chinese crew, on the 5th of August. The tion of existing land tenure abuses were with which our neighbours make their re: alleged for a moment that this more costly Garrison, for they have every reason to dread periodical onslaughts made by British mea. regarded as "Vexatious. Their endeavours marks, commendatory or otherwise. The education was of a superior character, one the heats and ills of a Hongkong summer. of-war on the pirates swarming in the neigh- to secure the co-operation-of-the-headmen American, as a rule, is accustomed to might perhaps find some justification for the Whee, therefore, one learns of any new move-bourhood of Hongkong still appeared to in the villages were looked upon with plain speaking in his own country and, in uno threefold greater expenditure; but on the ment being taken by the Military or Admiralty make little impression. A whole pirate suspicion. When arbitrary action wax respecter of persons. The ordinary citizen showing of the report of the Director of authorities to improve the living conditions fleet was captured at Liatin in 1857. necessary, it met with direct opposition. looks upon it as an inherent right-to-go-to Education himself such is very far-from-be. of the Garrison; one can have nothing After that, piracies decréated in frequency, Happily, all that is now changed, due in White House when he pleases and interviewing the case. Speaking of British schools but commendation to bestow. It is pretty but in the same year the schooner & con was great measure to the conciliatory methods the President if he so desires. And in very and referring to the Kowloon Girls' School, generally known that one of the most serious attacked by pirates who murdered the cap and patient consideration exercised by the few instances, indeed, does the President of the Director of Education has this to say causes for grumbling amongst all ranks hastain and two of the crew. In the following British officials in dealing with the many the American Republic care to offend this This school continues to fill a useful been that the lighting of the big central bar year the Hongkong passage boat Wing-un delicate and intricate matters requiring to democratic right of citizenship which every purpose. The number in average attend. racks is both antiquated and inefficient. For was captured by a piratical junk and in 1859 be dealt with when kay country passes un one of his people claims. It is just in this ance is 53. The cost per unit has fallen to some time, we believe, it had been in the thes.s. Comfa was plundered by these des der a new administration. The new land very direction that one gets the first Ameri-3115 from $143 last year." Well, it would be mind of itis Excellency the General Officer peradoes. In 1861 the brig North Star was laws are recognised as equitable, the since can criticism of conditions existing in our very necessary indeed that the Kowloon Girls' Commanding the Garrison to rectify as far attacked four miles off Hongkong and the rity of the Government is no longer doubt own Colony, To take a notable instance of School should serve a "useful purpose" in as possible this unsatisfactory state of affairs captain, some of the officers and crew and ed, the villages have to a great extent a sys this, the writer had the pleasure, the other order to justily a cost per pupil of $115, as by making a clean sweep of the old system of a passenger were murdered. Some months tem of independent local control, and day of meeting a prominent man from compared with an average cost of Sr3 in oil lighting in the City barracks and installing later the Dutch schooner Henriette Louisa security to life and property has replaced Manila, wo had a gond many pungent re- the Grant schools. And then, no doubt, electric light. But economical considera was plundered just outside Lyemoon, the robbery and blackmail. Eren had the Rail- Hongkong life. marks to make upon the official side of just to show the "useful purpose" of this tions eventually prevailed and the scheme for skipper and some of the crew being wound-way never come to hasten matters, the pro- "Why," he said, "it is as scholastic institution, the Director of Edu- taking a supply from the mains of the local ed. Three weeks afterwards the British gress made would still have been remark. difficult to approach any of your high offi- cation-goes un-to-remark:-Experience Electric Company was set on one side as brig mogene was plundered and burned, able. The adrent of the Railway, it may cials here as it is for a camel to go through has shown the limitations which are set to impracticable from the financial point of view. Next the British schooner Eagle was plun. well be supposed, will do more than all the eye of a needle. In New York if I the usefulness of Kowloon School. It pro The War Office authorities, spparently, con- dered near Green Island by pirates (under else in helping to develop the New Teizi. wanted to see the President on a matter of vides schooling, in a healthy and bright sidered the local rates too high to justify the leadership of an Englishman!), and the tory still further. Already the cheap build. business I would simply have to go right in atmosphere for a number of children, but departure from the ancient oil system, in captain and some of the crew were murdering sites obtainable in the near neighbour and would be sure of receiving every atted-the very short sverige of attendance of the despite of ita disadvantages-its inefficiency od. Soon afterwards the se.from Prince hood of Kowloon have led to the rise of tion and kindness no far as I deserved it" pupils makes it impossible to follow out any all the year round, its attendant discomforts while on her way to Macao was attacked by many industries hitherto unknown in Hong And so he went on His argument was that comprehensive school course. Half the in the hot months, and the enhanced charges pirates disguised as passengers and twoofthe kong and one only requires to pay a visit to British officials especially in Hongkong do not girls in the top class are foreigners." So for insurance of buildings that it involves as crew were murdered; but on this occasion the Samabuipo district and note the rapidity. show that readiness to enter into the stranger's that here we have the spectacle of a school compared with the most modern illuminant. the pirales were overpowered, after a pro- with which new buildings are proceeding as officials should do. As for the British it is impossible to follow out any compre Engineers took in hand the task of finding and European passengers were all wounded. lying before the New Territory, Not so Consular service in the various places in hensive school cours, owing to the short some way out of the difficulty, and he pro- At this time, it appears, these piratical many years ago, it was a common thing to China to which his business projects has average attendance of the pupils. What pounded a scheme for having an ladependent hordes of Chinese were being assisted by hear said, that Hongkong had nothing but carried him, he had found them not so bad else do the functions of a school consist in plant installed at Wellington Barracks, lawless Englishmen and Americans. In her shipping and her harbour to depend ou the whole, but he had never yet found a but in the following out of a comprehensive to serve Victoria Barracks and all the out- 1863 the barque Bertha was unsuccessfully upon. That day has passed away`lorovor i Britisher who if he had some trouble to over-school course? If a school fails to do side stations and forts that do not already attacked near Stonecutters. Six months and if the industries of the Colony go on come would not rather approach the Ameri-this; it fails to justify its existence. It is enjoy the benefits of an electrical supply. later some of the crew of the Danish brig increasing and multiplying in the same can Consul in preference to his own. The not fulfilling the work for which it was This scheme, we believe, was to have made

Chice were murdered and the Spanish brig ratio as they have done within the underlying principle apparently was that the established and it should be shut up, A subject of pride to every Englishman British Consular body should sout their own Kowloon Giris' School has long had the at a fractional rate of that charged locally Lantao. For some years later piracy con when Hoogkong will count upon those same The the provision of electric power possible Nuevo Lepanto was captured by pirates near past few years, the time is not far distant used to be, the gratifying loyalty of the nationals and do as little as possible for any name of being a useless institution, and now by the public companies and was so plan-tinged to be an cife as ever owing to lack off local industries as one of the most valuable "fighting races" of India. The soldierly one else. Well, if all that this visitor said we have this admitted by no less an authorised that the initial cost would have been co-operation on the part of the Chinese: assets in her tadal life. There is in the obedience and reliability of the Sikhs has were correct we must be in a very bad wayty than the Director of Education himself, wiped off in fifteen years. The advantages Ono terrible case is recorded as having ac New Territory a vast area of cheap land entitled them to the liking and respect of indeed. But at the same time there are The huge average cost per pupil in itself of such a scheme, both from a depart-curred in 1865 just outside Lyamoon, a the sahibs who are indifferent to the colour many British residents of the Colony who shows that the school is something very mental and from an economical point of whole juok's crew being murdered by Government likely to be slow to afford ovary available for almost any purpose, nor is the of a man's skin as long as he can prove that have heard pretty much the same opinion much in the nature of a white elephant. Bunview, do, not require to be dilated upon. the crews of two piratical craft. With facility possible, in order to accelerate the his "liver is not white" The unrest in regarding the remarkable and irritating there are even worse admissions made than This scheme also, we believe, received the the advent of the Macdonnell administra development of the country and attract India, and the spasmodic attempts to imitate inaccessibility with which our Colonial this in the Director's report for 1909. Speak approbation of the local Military authorities; tlon, however, cases of piracy, which had capital to the Colony, Hitherto, those who the revolutionists of Russia in committing officialdom hedges itself around. Anothering of the Victoria Boys School, he says: but, when sent home for approval to the War been hitherto of weekly occurrence became have acquired land for industrial purposes useless murders of useful men, have his frequent complaint amongst our American "On resuming charge of the department in Uffice, that body again ruleditout of court for less frequent. In the year ending October, in the New Territory have been practicali therto caused the rulers of the Empire visitors is the lack of control in our street April, I found this school in an unsatisfac alleged reasons of economy. It is difficult 1867, not a single piratical attack only compelled to keep close to the sea for less noxiety than they might, because of the traffic. It is impossible, of course, in a city tory condition. The headmaster went on to understand such arguments against the European vessel was reported, whilst the the sake of easy transport, In the case of uiter confidence felt in the loyalty and like Hongkong to carry on the street traffic leave shortly after, and the elder boys were adoption of a scheme which on the face of few attacks made upon hinese junks were minor industries at least, the advent of the honour of certain peoples and certain castes. in the same orderly way that obtains in a taught for the rest of the year partly by Mr. It was both economical and beneficial. Be trivial. From 1870 onwards the piratical Kowloon Canton Railway should change The Sikhs, whether of the Khalsa or up-

modern American or English town; but James of Kowloon School and partly by Mr. sides dolog away with the old unhealthy oll gangs appear to have given Hongkong waters all this. Just as in European and other holders of Islam, have always been trusted the fact remains, nevertheless, that our Curwed of Yaumati, There was an im-lamp, with its discomforts, it would have by the British.

Their honour was orice street traffic is very badly regulated. pravement by the end of the year. The up-been the means of doing away also with the action to less dangerous zones. Thereafter, townships springing up along the railway a wide berth and removed their spheres of countries, wa teo new industries und bew untarnished. But during the last two or Coolles carrying bundles. arc three years, a spirit of insolent disobedience mitted

per per school consists at present of 11 boys, no less unhealthy puckah with its secretions | piratical depredations may be said to becoms routes, so here we may well expect that with impunity to crowd the most of whom are the sons of Government ser- of dust and germs. However that may be, sporadic to the near neighbourhood of the something of the same sort consonant of has shown itselfamong the very men who were footpath. Market-men can trot along the vants. Theyare backward and do notseem to the War Office again refused to sanction the Colony, although, unfortunately, piracy course with the nature of the route traversed once though, fit to be classed as at least the street with hideous uncovered loads of raw have been wall grounded; but they are mak scheme, and it had to be dropped in conse- continued to be a standing danger to ship-will come to pass in future geam.,. The equals of any police force in the world. In flesh and animal entrails, Hand-carts often ing progress. Most of them are now being quence. Now, however, we are glad to learn ping coming to and going from the port, possibilities of the New Territory an a health Shanghai the irregular conduct, verging upon obstruct the traffic is the principal streets prepared for the Oxford Local Preliminary, that an arrangement has been made for the When one comes down to more recent times, resort have been dwelt upon on previous open rebellion, of the Sikh Palice, threaten and roads, and visitors who go out with the This class promises to be of much value to supply of electric current to the Victoria, there is to record the accurrence in 1890 of occasion in, these columns. Whether or be i ed, not long ago, to destroy the usefulness intention of enjoying a stroll among the the Colony," Well, such admissions are most and Wellington Barracks from the Admiralty the terrible Namon piracy, when Captain mastorium should ever crown the heights of of a force on the faithfulness and reliability shops in Queen's Road find themselves many remarkable confessions of scholastic and mains, at a cost which even the Home Gov- Pocock and another European were murder Taimoshen, it is quite within the bounda of which the most experienced Anglo-Indiaid times jostled into the gutterway. There is educational impotence; but, as we know, ernment cannot cavil at; so that the units of ed and the ship looted not far from Hong. reasonableness to foretell that many countr Police and Military officers were, until quitero doubt that many of thes-criticisms are open confession is good for the soul, and no the Garrison quartered, in those two impor-kong. But that case as well as the many residences will spring up along the recently, prepared to pledge their own hon true; to any one coming from well-ordered doubt the Director of Education finds a tant town stations will no longer be deprived others that have since occurred on the route, which traversos in grest part aur Just before the tragedy of the great Manila these things are such as.must pro certain amount of relief-now-that-be-lise of that which has almost come to-be con Canton River and its tabutaries, notably | try that for beanly, and vari Mattor landler moby luderd almost all, yoke resentment or at least hostile remark, made this piala statement of fact. The adored not a luxury but a necessity of grorys the more recent foram care, da zat pro- Jonven little to be der

BIRTHS.

On July 19, 1910, at Shanghai, to Mr. and

Mr. G. G. S. Forsyth, a ann.

On rist instant, at Watston Ochiltree, the wife of Captain J. R. Milligan, of a daughter,

both well,

DEATHS,

On July 12, 1910, acciden'ntly drowned a Shanghai, Joho Foreph Hourih o, Engineers Department, I. M. Customs, aged 3 years.

On Jute 24, 19, at Shanghai, the beloved wife of James Clark, 1. M, Customs, B, ed forty-"

__SAVON_YORTS.___

On July 23, i, at Hongkong, Leila Augusto, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ki-chper, aged two years."

On July 8, 1910, at Hankow, Woody, th dearly beloved daughter of "Mi' and Mrs. W. White-Thachar, age elevan manche,

The Hongkong Delegraph they serving a "useful yet in & well-known officer of the Royal tracted in captain, officers to spring up to vast

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