1910-09-24 — Page 1

The Hongkong Telegraph

NEW SERIES No. 88:20

CONTENTS.

Births, Marriages and Doathi.

Loading Articles—

Our New Territory and the Railway,

The Christmas Term.

Corfamace Shipping S

Jerry Building in Hongkong.

A Barbarous îractice,

Tempèricce.by Ukase..

Milk in the Tropics. ~A #Pelus Demonta

The American Squadron,

HE. Tang Shao-Yi,

That Eternal Rubber,

Mootings

The Yokohama Specia Bank.

The Chios Light and Power Co, Ltd

Legal Intelligence —

„Theft of a Deposit Receipt,

Alleged Willal Marder.

Alleged Gruesome Mader.

Frisonai's Allcod Missomer.

Sigo Interest,

Claim by a Money-Lender

Foltos:-

Attempted Burglary ic Pitk Road The Grant Cate,

"Correspondence:—

Hongkong Houses

Miscellaneous Artioles and Reporte :-

Hongkong Gymkhama Club.

Kowloon-Cantos Railway,

Dasth of Q M. 5. Tómklo.

Notes by the Way,

The Douglas Steamship Co., Ltd..

Lessons in Swimming.

China and Opium.

Big Building ollapte.

The Habits of Seamen.

Kulangit (♬ may) Municipal Council, faterport Cricket.

The Mortiron Street Collapse.

Beckey."

Motos for Leave to Appeal.

Joivola Street Fatal Collapse. -

US. Fleet in Horgkong.

V.S 8. Harren.

MAIL

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MAIL SUPPLEMENT, ISSUED ORÁTIS TO SUBSCRIBERS.

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 74, 1910,

OUR NEW TERRITORY AND THE RAILWAY:

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pos mission trade in to impose messa prec

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曾四十月尢其溶香

attended, unhappily, by a lamentable death || Coat,

^lo^ibe | roll,1,As-fat back, as: 1902, the Director difficulty and sore for the of Public Works, in mbmitting rates Sir James report to the Government,

manual to get

That unpac

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soul are then in full swing, especially those and others, In which he can indulga in his own way and test his own time untrammelled by sides, a cap, | Legi talo, ele very pleasure that cricket can give he has already tasted in the summer Me jong speech urged that the Bill unsatisfactory feature of term: the holidays afford the sweetest and was to tas law of Britain and opbeen the large number of collapses of build Home, for which keenest of all jops-liberty, Many of us can,

Judgment of the Royal Coming", which had occurred, many of the to undertake the no doubt, remember those delightful holl-

Tas Conference had benefited buildings involved being now or nearly so, would have been o days, those perfect holidays during which Singapore and had never attempted. In suveral cases, those collapses were attend upon the Reak we Brst learned to be, er to think ourselves,

inequitable rates. The proposeded with considerable loss of lift that heavy expense, amphibious,What a time that was The

be an intolerable and un period the new Public Health Aid Build tunato-rentleman. long wanderings by the shingle covered

faterference with the trade of inge Ordiorace was under consideration by aster. His fow (17th September.)

beach, or over the sands at low tide to the the por. The actual trade arising from Sing the Council, so with a view of preventing a Home, extent o Too much importance can scarcely be seaweed slippery rocks—our escapades with apore was comparatively insignificant and recurrence of these dinters in futuro pu- that kind of lack attached to the great part which our New other people's boats...the lonely rambles the transhipment tande was such that linder merous provisions supposed to be effective | nise au / Territory ir destined to play in the future of up country faces sweet with haneysuckle, the abnormal tystem of Government in were brorted in the Bill, inter alia, the new bagpound. Hongkong's history. On every side of that or a later on mysteriously tinted with terference it would find outlets; elsewhere, prprisions were to provide for a substantial | described as fruitful land, evidences are abundantly ap the threat of autumn these are only some namely in the heighbouring Dutch ports increase in the thickness of walls and the sidenes to men parent that it is going to be the great feeder of those unforgettable pleasures which most It was car to drive away trade and extremely building of certain portione in cement more taken to prison of the Colony, not only providing an outlet of us remember were bitterly cut short by the difficult to ret it back. Earl Crewe gave a tar, the latention of the gods in narupported by re for the Island's congested population, but al3th or some other date in the first half of sympathetic reply and promised to communi- external walls of considerable length, the pro- v so making a home for new industries en St pember. In the temperate climate of cate with the Goramor of the Stralia Hir bibition of persons practising as architects | short, by couraged to come to our shores by cheap | Kurope a boy returns to his work after his Excellency the Governor replied to this to unless authorised by the Governor in Coun. (oreign to the caro land and cheap methods of haulage. Of summer holiday invigorated and refreshed. the effect that "in a telegram received from cil,to do so, and the imposition of incrassed | ing a lawyer, "and course the main factor in this movement is He has had just the amount of play necessary. Lord Crowe bis Lordship stated that in reply responsibilities upon, architects. But have managed to the starting of the Kowloon to Canton Rail to prevent him from becoming a " dull boy to the deputation be pointed out that it all there provisions been faithfully cinted plaintiff, or the way which is expected to be to full work and 1 his teachers are at all, judicious and would be a serious matter for him to inter," out in the letter and in the spirit ? If so, the nearly distra ing order by next July. It in rather unworthy of confidence they will not delay in fore directly with a proposed law which was how it "it that at the present moment the to continus. fortunate that the new railway has ca pointing out to him the very grave import supported by the majority of the Council and Colony is limenting we; the most awesome sparks, feeling) couraged certain speculators to rush in ance of using bis quickened faculties of body was endorsed by the Governor') but that the collapses that hard ever occurred in the sort of thing to land buying on the line of route and mind, under their expert guidance, to the matter had not reached that stage yet. He Colony's history, - this forenoon we saw the Hongkong... He Were these of a substantial class, it advantage of his intellect and character. Not advised the deputation to endeavour, if dreadful spectacle of the dead body of the capacity for, torture would be forgiveable, but they are not, the least of the many difficulties attending they dislike this proposed law, to avoid the one of the victima in the Morrison Street çedure contained, it would It is quite on the cards that a good deal of the education of the young in hot climates, necessity for it by remedying what was con disaster being extricated from that horrible to hear that, being, greatly land in the neighbourhood has already been especially boys, is that the summer holiday sidered locally a teal grievance. From ruin with his skuli umashed fint."" And (law arrival, he tried to put it in, acquired by people who do not intend to cannot be a period of physical enjoyment as inter messages we learn that Sir James poor fellow was only one of many. There shaps. With deep respect fro make use of it towards the development of it is in more favoured latitudes. School | Mackay said his had no personal foterest in are silll other bodies under the wreck. The express our appreciation, of His the Territory except to hold it up until such closes when the hottest weather begins sim: | the homeward trade from Singapore. After whole surrounding atmosphere reeks with activity in this matter,, and, we trust time as its enhanced value will repay them ply because neither teachers nor pupils are referring to the marvellous strides made stench enough to breed a pestilence. Every shall not be misunderstood

■ thousand fold for ta eir original petty purit for anything. The exigencies of modern in the prosperity of the Straits. Feltle one engaged in the work of clearing away declate our régrot that he is vorble, chase price. The Government have had life sterbly demand that as soon as the coolments, attributable to freedom of trade, the debris is working as hard as possible but more. It is for the legislature to take experience before of this tendency to beggar er weather sets in our boys must retura to be said, now that trade was booming, and it will be days yet before a clearance can be - heart the weighty and indigonat the Colony for the sake of private gain; for their books. It seems very hard to them exports and imports were advancing by leaps effected. In the meantime, at any ralato which this barbarous practico" has it is notoriour that when, or before Kowloon that just as the weather is beginning to be and bounds, a Bill was being introduced which the unpractised eye, there seems imminent condemned by the Chief Justice of this Peninsula was added to the Colony's terri-tolerable and "a follow can get about and completely upset the Free Trade principles danger of other collapses cosulog, för Calony. We cannot but regret the spirit in tories, speculative buying of land on the do something," they should find themselves which formed the sheet-anchor of the the neighbouring houses which confront which some frivolous minds regard the suffer, foreshores was rampant, with the result that hampered aid confined by the discipline supremacy of the Britials Trade. On the the gap appear to be as liable to ings and dangers to which their ne many minor but thriving industries were of school, and that the body after the other hand, the opponeals of the mesturs sudden collipse as the others must have are subjected. We quote from forced to remove to regions beyond. It latitude and pervelessness of summer, argue that it will interfere with the been, judging from the rickety walls, the ship's speech ("A stranger pasul is true that the Government have a power should, just an it is beginning, to be well-being and prosperity of the Colony rotten: bricks nad mud-mortar which their the Colony, making ★ temporary's of resumption over all Crown fands but revivified by the life-giving breezes of The Bill provides for the penalising of for fall has left to the gree of suy who care to tween two steamer, was DOT they have not exercised this right in many autumn, be forced to give way to the foexoreign as well as British shipowners, and if look. It is true that one of the houses ad- to spend some of it in cases in which it was their obvious' duly able dictates of the developing mind. Every pas ed into law, might land Britala into seri-joining the fallen tenements bad already been have bla, journey postponed to do so in defence of citizenship schoolmaster knows the importance of ous international complications in the van condemned by the Public Works Departe temporary, sojourn unduly privileges, although, perhaps, the contention making a good beginning of the school and valuable trade carried on by Brush ships went, but it seems strange that the same (Laughter) - We wonder strongly weighed with them that in govern year. He alone knows how difficult this a between purely foreign ports. British precautions had not been taken in the case His Lordship's words do not see mental resumption cases the arbitrators He has insensibly, invisibly as it were, to ships,' said Mr. · ·Darblshire at the Council of the contiguous houses for, theyppear to contain any comic idea, wh verdict nearly always goes in favour of the inspire his pupils, not only to call forth from meeting, aratbus peculiarly open inreprisals, be all of the same class of building in that the contrary, they exprem private owner. It would appear, though, their own. better matures their finest latent and their worldwide ramifications might prove immediate neighbourhood. And just about | which a stranger and sojourner mi that our authorities are going to make a de moral qualities but also to endow them with uncommonly awkward if Britain, through one hundred yards away in Jervois Street, being so imprudent, as to risk his person and termined stand against Improper granting of new ideas of strength, diligence and ambi- one of la Urown Colonies, were lo set an we bare the spectacle of another uncleared | his liberty to the doubtful law of Honakong land leases on the new railway route. A few tion. The step ahead into fields of study as example by grandmotherlañelation of collapic in which seven mes lost their by venturing to land here while Yokohama Spicie Bank and Chinese Busi-days ago, a party including His Excellency yet uuentered may be made a path of a kind contemplated, a perspective of liven. The official inquiry into the cause soKIO, MI

Sir Henty May, Mr. Chatham, Mr. Murray chedness and gloomy misery to a boy under Singapore wat docemurily a restricted poe" of their deatha, is now proceeding. Such Those who Ftewart, and Mr. Clementi, made a thorough. a stupid unimaginative pedant. By a sym- Their vision was confined to their owo nar- sights as these, cannot, but::make: one tour of the New. Territory apparently with a pathetic teacher it may be made a journey row surroundings. One did not blime them feel that rome strong, measures are decen view towards arriving at some definite plan of exploration so interesting that even a boy if they failed to realles that a measure passsary to bring our bullding laws up to of action to prevent a recurrence of this evil. hitherto backward, may be lured to undertake ed by a Crown Colony might be far-reach

such a sta dard" an to make those fearful, The result of their visit no doubt will be it. In the higher grade schools of Hongkong, ing and affect the trade of the Empire, as a recurrent disasters impossible. Property formally conveyed to the Legislative Coun Queen's College, the Diocesan School, and whole. The measure was not winted, and owner,are to be beard even at our public cil by Hit Excellency in due time. It is St. Joseph's College, the competition in the enacted in the Straits would eventually boards bemorning, the restricted building Interesting, at any rate, to know that the upper forms is apparently very keen. It is la lell agalost British shipping the world over. regulations under which they labour, Rather members of the party were extremely satis this Christmas term that the report will come The shipping interest represented by the than that such calamities as those recounted fied with the progress made in road-making from England of the success or failure of delegates owned no less than 5.308,926 should recur, the laws might well be zer. all over the Territory, which roadways are the Hongkong candidates in the Oxford lo. tons, whereof 1,713,446,tons 'was. British:tricted twofold. ---**** all constructed so as to debouche from cal examinations. There can be no doubt They were merely the managers of these Bri neighbouring villages and towns upon the that an ardent desire for distinction, in the tish ships, the trustees of thousands of share different railway stations. We hear also. University local examinations is responsible holders throughout the country to whom th that there is in contemplation the laying for the excellent results of the work done in vessels belonged, Mr. Darbishire's remarks dona of a system of light railways which will several of the Hongkong schools. Busters about the far-reaching effects that the legisla act as feedem to the main lioc and provide and boys not only vie with each other in real tion of a Crowo Colony may, have upon cisy means of communication throughout but work together in straining every nerve to other pants of the Empire are amply borne to Canton and the Hunkow Railway. This do credit to their class, their school, and the out by the loulance of the Sunday Labour scheme, however, has not yet been made Colony of Hongkong. We have no mexe Ordinance, which emanated from Hongkong public, although there is little doubt that it of reference to hand, but was if not St. and bai benefitted seafarers the Empireover, will come to pass in the flux of time. In Joseph's Colloge which sent up last year 38 Whatever effect the new anti-Conference the meanwhile, the stations on the British candidates for the Oxford locals and obtain- Bill is going to have, whether for good or lil, we suppose that there is nothing for it but rascation of the line-will-be-Telmihatsu (theed 38 successes?

Kowloon termiqus) and· Vaumati, on this

10 adopt Mr. Asquith's historie advice to side of the tunnel; then Sheung wo tse (op

the Commons: "Wait and see."!:

In the Wild West,

The Wreck of HM 9. Dedford.

Karb Gold Minor Co..

Ton Tired to Work.

What is Mized Cargo,

Lanech at Kowloon.

Bedford Relist Fund.

Rear Admiral Habbird.

A Witness' Absence.

Shanghai's Returning.*rosporily.

Acroit Sibe is for Lin. ×

Brewin's Widawa' and Orphans' Fund,

Rule of the Road,

Mountain Lodge.

The Lamma Island Tragedy...

Hongkong Cricket League,

Euf Aquatic Sports,

St. Joseph's College.

Hankow Trade Report,

Toyo Kisen Kaisha

Rescas at Sea,

Foreign Travellers in Japan: V.R.O.quatic Sports. Cricket Cub Concert.

New Street Fodex. Hongkong Football League, The Boeing Bout,

Paco di Gama Docked,

subsidid Shipping.

Chloess Monetary Reform. Orientals in Russian Territory, Mitul-Bassau Kabha,

Mr. P. Schwerin in Kabe.

Suicide in Japan,

Bitish Steamship's Trying Fxptricace. Japan's First Airship,

Local and: General.

· Commercial tem t

Weekly Share Report.

Rubber Share Ma ket. Yara Market.

Freight Market. Bullion, Exchange.

BIRTH

On September 10, 190, at Shangkat August and Apple Chap lain adaughter,

On Feptember 17, 1 to, to Mr. and Mrs. F. Arondis, I. P.,O., à sɔa..

** | porite Shatin), Talpo, Talwoshi, Fanling and

Lo Fu Farry. Just beyond the last-mention

On July 11, 19:0, at # Fat-fo, Shenal, to: Dr. and Mrs, Charter, of the English Baptisted station we come to Chinese territory, and Mission- daughter. (Dorothy Eileen).

MARRIAGES,

On August 16, 1910, at Dusselder on Rhine, Germany, Carl Otto Frericks of Hankow to Elstre1b Wel or.

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CONFERENCE SHIPPING,

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JERKY-BUILDING IN HONGKONG,

A BANBAROUS PRACTICE.

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TEMPERANCE: BY UKASE.

at must surely, able, person ho establishments for the mentally who giggles, all day, kt everything! Or, mone still—bey ble those unhappy spiriti s who were believed by the ancients; to be doomed to an immortality of hatred for Humanity sỞ intense that amid the torments of their bali, It was only the contemplation of the calamb Lies and suffetinge of mankind that could excite their mocking laughter... Moreover, in written that that the laughter of fool, is like the crackling of thorns under a pol The Chief Justice, Sir Francis Piggot, is Sir Francis Piggott's enlightened and civilias so distinguished, so an individual and oci ed interpretation of the law should excite cupics so lofty a station, that any public the gratitude and approbation of every law, comment on the matter or the form of his | abiding and rational citizen. Judicial decisions should be conceived in the spirit and expressed in the phraseology which all responsible civilized; and, cultured men consider appropriate then referring to those

W (arst=September) tak lave high placed dignitaries in whom. in verted What is the realdatention of the Govern- the majesty of the British Law. Noutterance ment with regard to the granting of licences of oure could possibly add 19 or detract from to sell wines and spirits ** to be consumer the gravity of a pronouncement made by the on the premises in this Colony ? Is the Full Court of this or of any other Colony, primary object aimed at no more than the From the latest Singapore papers to hand, we note that the Freight and Steamship Bill

But it may be our duty, we feel to be the plain target of abolition or prohibition of all, duty of the Press, to give the widest publicity consumption of alcohol in public, or is it the over the boundary the first station will be was taken in Committed at the last meeting

to certain judicial decitions which affect the reduction and diminution of the revanue Samchun, On the British section of the of the Straits Legislative Council In that

(10th September.)

most precious of man's rights, his liberty, and, derived from the scheme of taxation devised. Kowloon-Canton Railway the cost of run-

stage it still remains, but there seems to be Time and again we have written on the however humbly, to explain their purport and by Sir Frederick Lugard P ing is estimated for next year at 5183.000, no doubt that it will pass-through its final ever present subject of jerry building in prepagate their teaching. His Lordship the should not have contristed thes On September 9, 1910, the marriage of Miss of which 561,000 is in accordance with the stages by means of official force majeure. Hongkong, which has gained and notoriety Chief Justice has with cutting scorn stigma- litter might be viewed as i Betty Abrams and Mr Ham hon Buller was ususi railway practice to the first year of This mearure has many peculiar features by reason of the great loss of life occasioned tised a form of torturs sanctioned by the former. OF solemniz id at the residence of the brida's sister, open line. Interest on advances for con- and his led to much acrimonious discussion, in the Chy through the collapse of faultlly almost mediteral laws which are in thir Col. committed Mit George Colliswood, Tientsin, Chinstruction amount to $410,000. Another debate and newspaper corespondence, with constructed buildloge. For the last ten or ony, in the words of Sir Francis, a relic of esetois

new sum of $65,371 under railway charges is apparently, very little effective result so far as twelve years there have been continuous the dim ages of jurisprudence. This prac bas On September 17, 1910, at Fab Francisco, Kalbaleno Johnstone, the beloved wife of E. half-year's payment of 1 per cent, to the its opponents in the shipping interests have recurrences of those collapses, that cap tice brielly amounts, to this: A creditor the Sinking Fund in respect of the loan raised been able to protest against it. For ur in point only in one direction, Telther resident here may have his debtor tested too for advance to the Viceroy of Wuchsog and Hongkong the lesson it conveys is peculiarly inefficiency or incompetec perhaps and put into prison before any case has been for the railway purposes generally. Assignificant because of the fact that there is underruanping so far an the Building beard in Cotit, and kept there un'eri be pul

no saying at what moment some such mea.Authority'e Deparmenti pis concerned." up security sufficient to answer the judgm sure will not be promulgated by our own Following upon the terrible Cochrane Street that might be given against him when Government who have already fastinted costa pre many Chers occurred in various case should have been lied in the future. Customs Service in the Port and might parts of Chinatown; so much so, that the An actual lostance occurred some YORTH ARO. be tempted for revenue purposes to harness Public Works Department underwent a A gentleman residing, la Cosit Port was obst the shipping trade in the next place. We pray thorough altem tire process in its lower suddenly forced by argent affairs and-his- do not aver, of course, that such a pro- gracet of officials and a new Fublic Health, wife's state of hexlib, to take short leayo and glishn ject is at pretent in contemplation; put the and Buildings Ordinance was formulated for proceed to Europa Immediately. He bid 1 object-lesson of Singapore and Pening gives presentation to the Legislative Council with few ace,unts with Hongkong tradesmen, and one cruse to ponder over future potentialities flew to a consolidation of the hei ne, wrote to those of the laiter whom he could in the direction," As time progressck the | our mist of small Bills that went, to make not pay at once la fu}l that on his retora fo shipping interests of this Port grow more up 100% lies, on the Anbject, and to a few months he would satisfy them. No. and more complicated to the pulside under, ensure m up

thet standing, for new steamship connectionsind viously existed.1 Of sailings are continually springing up, acces was compelled to do sitating amended agreements between ship popular outcry was no ping companies who do not desire to traspaer Mlowing such a stato on each other's routes, unduly and yel are, that it was ventil, desirous of securing a fair-share of the paper: the tradel. Hence the existence of the Conournals as gwel Térence. Certainly, it has been. ided:by fair fame encl

shipper), and by many has. Jerel with the United rightly bapak best

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Anden DP

On Sept: mber 16th, 1910, CARLOS EUGENIO TERCIO DA SILVA ate of Post Office, aged 37 years, Shanghai papais please copy. Lowe mentioned some Uime ago, the open

"On September 16,4910-at-Shanghai, Emma Eizabeth, the beloved wife of A. G. Merrilees, og of the line will not be later than the 1st 17M Custome, aged so res

Cetober next. In reply to this Board of On Septembar 14-1010 at Shanghal, Dorothy. Fonts and Communications H.B. Yuan Shu aged one year ned, seven months, beloved hauep, the Viceroy of the Liang Kwang, he daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 1. Q. Maedonasitusi: stated that the delay in the construction of the Chinese section of the Canton-Kowloon VE NOTICE (yagad Raliway has been caused by the objections Alle communications intended) for « pabilosilon la offered by the people to the project some “TM HONGKONG TELEGRAPH bould be time ago, Now the work has made much and lemm3 in The Milites, X, Zap House Bowl, and progress. If there is no emergency in the should be sonompanied by the Writer's Hams and future the whole section will be completed

according to the terms of the agreement. Ordinary badness commsiliëstionesbonii bi addressed

THE CHRISTMAS TERM:

not endariants to be responsible Eca

'now to return, any Contribution. TION RATES (IN_ATVANCH)

(19th September.) All the schools have now reassembled after the long vacation. Some of them be gan the form as long as a fortnight ago, and, the last of all, we think, did so on the 13th ould res com to be a sort of fashion governing the date

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