1910-11-11 — Page 10

The Hongkong, Gelegraph.

NEW SERIES No. 8975

CONTENTS;

Leading Articles:

The Chinese Head-Dress, Can Plague Preventers. New and Old Pa Baments. Dar Civil Service, The Revolutipo. * "One Law, for ale Rich" &c. The Catton Opium Trade.

Pokfulam Catchment Ares,

The House of Savoy. Britiship Seamanship.

Telegram

Sevious Disturbance in Shanghai. Mooting *--

Sanitary Board Meeting.

Legal Intelligence :-

Action for Return of Jawallery, Claim Against Electric Company. Property Partition Casa.→ ·

Big Contracting Dipate.

A Dressmaker's Bil,-

An Important Appeal Case.

Polton- ̈

Alleged Theft of Dlimpeds.

Gambling Raids.

Disturbance on Board the 1s. Bræonshire,

Thy Rule of the Road.

A Careless Coxswain.

The Gage Strast Can

CorrespondencT:

"Imperial Merchant - eirice Guild.

Theavy Leaga. Miscellaneous Articles and Reports:

Canton Oplam Trade.

Notes by the Wày.

Harbour Collision,

Life in Japan To-day..

Hongkong Sporting Actual." News from the North. Oplum in China. Hongkong Cricket Club. Big Robbery at West Point.

Varmaton's Circus. ·

Wireless" on the Pacific. Oplum on the Hill-Sids. Sport,

Boxing

Improved Lighting at Quarry Bay.', Fire at ShaukiwLD,

Water Return.

The Chiasts Coalie,

Britain's Nevy..

Volunteer Camp.

#638."

** The Awakening Emu.”

Machine.'!

Society of St. Vincent de Paul.

St. Andrew's Ball

Baliness Morality in Japan.

Railway Developmest in Southam China Pastrni Life in China. ·

The Care of Public Fondé.

Morphin Problem in China.

The Foreign Trade of Chlon, "

晚十初月十年二統言

head and long plaited queue of the Chinese are eminently in keeping with their dignified dress and Bowing costume. The growth of hair upon the brow will greatly change the aspect of every one of our friends. The worst drawback of this change will be that some people, coding that the Western style of wearing the hair appears strange with Chloese dress, may be tempted to adopt foreigo com tume. This tendency will, we think, ba counteracted by the sound practical sense of the Chinese. For not only is the Chi nese costume dignified and artistic, but it is eminently suited to the climate for which it is designed. It is far less expensive for the poorer classes than REuropean dress, and is in every way more suitable and convenient. The richer Chinese, appear to great advant age in their Blowing robes of silk and waist coats of satin. On economic grounds alone the Chinese will not adopt European cos tume, and the great silk and piece goods trades will assist conservation in this matter. The cutung of the queue is advocated by many Chinese.not only on patriotic, but on hygienic grounds, and there can be no doubt that they are to be highly congratulated on having effected a great hyglenio improve ment as well as attained a national ideal in abolishing. the cumbersome Manchu token of a bygone day.

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an entire absence of rats--and of plague The result of such inquiries can only lead to one conclusion, which is that the rat is vory active plague-bearer; and it serves to prova effectively that in Hongkong the keep ng of cats cannot be too assiduously cultivated, ch

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Robert's advico may fail in producing Im mediately profitable results to China. We know very well that the mandarinate is not yet sufficiently purged of its corruption to succeed in dolog, healthy work. But we are not blind, or inclined to permit the ublic to be bliad to what will prove, wa ly declare it, to be the gravest

dent-

olga Office. How permitted by the Peking is incompr be tolerated by

most

is a matter for upiyonal furp Street looks calmly on broken and agreements defle joking matter, the joke would be la the fact taken that in all his unconstitutional dolor he put

full

be

amiantions tall the plums, nor are there very many of these so far as the Crown Colonies are concerned. Apart from India British possessions such as Hongkong do not present many attractions to the que cornful entrants for Civil Service honours, In numerous cases, students who have come out low on the examination: lista" find that they may have to wait for indefinits periods portentous step which China has before getting na opening worth accepting, | since the Boxer "war. and as a consequence they abandon the idea Treasury, Chins will per of entering the Service at all and adopt some after acting on Bic Robert Hart's other profession. Thereby many a good advice, mapy strange and interesting things man is lost to the Service. Of course one will be done by a people strange to those cannot squeeze tea mea in where there are strangers who, in many cases live among only nine vacancies any more than one can them for thirty years without learning a word square the circle, and where there are so of their language, and interesting to those who many aspirants for ao fow available posts it Lave taken the troub'e to know them litile stands to reason that only the highest abill more intimately. But, as Sir Walter Hillier in fics will serve to carry the day. The weak recent speech has hinted, perhaps the it goes to the wall. But there in such a West will be not altogether pleased at log adaptable as a graded scheme which many of the results of China's awakening, of, would permit examinces with the lowest as we prefer to call it, revolution. Of these number of marks the option of taking up results and their causes we shall speak again, for the time being at least some of the We now merely call our reader's attention to minor positions to which their "passes the fact that financial reform has begun in have entitled them. That, however, is a China, and that it is based on the advice of purely academic question affecting our own one who was true to his salt-Sir Robert Civil Service only indirectly. The fact re- Hart.

ONE LAW FOR THE RICH, &

NEW AND OLD PARLIAMENIS, What a theme for au essayist, or a subject for the melancholy ruminations of a pessimis tic philosopher, is that recurring decimal, to wit, the regeneration of a people or of a race by means of "democratic institution. We who are practical and very every-day lo our on the whole optimistic philosophy, we who wish to be at peace with all ordered and civilized mankind, dare not aspire to the dignity of the stately essay, or to the learned and thoughtful, but useless reflections of the philosopher. We can only consider fact as they are, in the days we live in, as the direct results and products of facts as they were in days goan by but living yet in power for good or evil. When we are confronted with such a vigorous and insistent expression of the will of great numbers of human beings as the demand by Chinese for a Parliament of Chinese, not only to discuss, but to rule, the affairs of a race which at mo derate, computation comprises a popula: CATS AS PLAGUE PREVENTERS, | tion of four hundred million sovis, we are forced to appeal to past his tory, and recent experience to enlighten (7th November) In Hongkong we have been fortunate in us and our friends. The idea of a Delibera- seeing within the past two or three years antive Assembly is not new to China in one almost total eradication of plague, that ter sense. In another scuse, that in which it is rible scourge which formerly used to sweep used by Buropeans, and by Chinese who over the Colony every year. Still we are not have been educated in foreign countries, it yet entirely out of the wood, as recurrent seems a crazy and impossible innovation. sporadic cares indicate, and we cannot afford The Chinese have, and have always bad, to suffer the suppressive and preventive mea. their local councils and local cabals. No sure now in operation to be relaxed in case mandarinate has ever been able to resist there should be a fresh outbreak of this dis- the action, when deliberate and concerted, of the great mercantile and industrial guilds, Now the new cry is raized that the huberto quietist forces must become militant, that that part of China, or section of the Chinese, race, or phase of the Chinese character, (for names matter nothing) which once was latent should now appear in arms, active and aggressive, and that from the plebs, the people of the soil, the tollers of the long unending streets, the burdened coolies under load, the anxious calculating shop-keepers, are to come the salvation of one fifth of the human race. Does the experience, of recent democracy give us any hope that this desirable consummation of time's riddles is about to take place? The newest express sion of the demos in Portugal would be comic opera if it were not, tragedy, for lo naked daylight the, Provisional Government in Lisbon bas declared the dictatorisp of downtil their term of service has expired, stultifying itself. The reason for the en-it right to issue this notification hereby al

case.

in that in Hongkong so in all Crown Colonies, Civil Servants for the first three or four years after joining are not so well re-

If there was not much, business of public munerated as a foreman cogincar or ship- wright in hay dockyard in the Far East and importance before the meeting of the Sani- certainly not able to foot the bills that atary Board yesterday afternoon, there was at Júnior shipping clerk in a good firm is able to do. And yet it is from amongst the best intellects in the old country that the Govern ment insists upon drawing its Civil Service. Any young cadet sent abroad to the East or the Far East is bound to find himself sadly handicapped lo i social life which differs to much from everything that he can possibly have known at home; and, unless he has ample private means of his own, one of the most serious of these handicaps will be found to be that be fluds other men of his own age, outside the 'Service, better paid and able to live under far more satisfactory conditions. So far, we have dealt only with the senior ranks of the Service. When we come to glance at the conditions under which our subordinate Civil Servants work, we may preface our remarks by saying that Hong. kong possesses in them a highly estimable body of men, working with a will for the good of the Colony and yet serving many yeats before they can claim retirement and pension. In the caso of the higher ranks of our public servants, special ability may,

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forward the plea that his object is entirely t eradicate the opium babit in the Province His Excellency is astule enough this avowal of righteburues WILL of the sympathies of the Exet of fanatics, who would encourage ly to drive a coach and four Anglo Chinese Treaty org penned so long as their rest is supplied with fresh fire. Thoss on the spot, how how much this specious dec and none know better than the British mer chantr of Hongkong and Shanghai, wind after being called upon to face à situation already bristling with difficulties now find themselver beset with almost overwhelming embarrass- ments. The first restrictive, step hich Yuan took was the establishment of what called the Principal Investigating and. ing Station in connection with the maxation of prepared oplum. Of that body. Chong in Resident-General." The formation of this additional barrier against prepared "oplum which had already paid duty was in direct contravention of the Chefoo Convention. east one application that involved a ques. Yet in despite of representations by the tion clearly affecting the public weal as well. British Foreign Office, it has been allowed as the relationship which exist as between not only to continue in oxistence but to ex- our autocratie Executive Council and that act illegal taxation upon quantities of Im ineffectual body. That the Sanitary Board ported drug that had already been fully is ineffectual is not its fault per se. It is part accredited. And now, to crown all, Chong, of the Government policy to keep it so: to the Resident-General of this benevolent use the Board merely kind of adelsory body has taken it upon himself to issue a standing committee, with no executive proclamation which can only mean the fur- powers, doing all the hard work and an often ther embarrassment of British merchants. ... One of the methods adopted by the

as not having its well-considered recommen fer ado, he says "I find that, during the Sanitary Board, it may be remembered, was

datione nullified by a five-minute consulta-process of opium suppression, it is impossible the employment of a large number of rat

tion in the inner Council The case in to put no restriction on the export of raw catchers, who visited houses la all parts

point was an application from the Jockey opium. I have inquired into the export on Kaw opium from Canton to Kiangs and, tak- of the city and set traps for the capture of the

Club, for permition to instal two water- rodents. No doubt this procedure was fairly

closets in a new building which is to be fog the export yearly, found it amounting to effective, to judge from the periodical reports

erected at the Racecourse for use only dur- 300 odd chests, I now propose to bate-of Begarding the number of rats kiljed. But was

ing Race Meetings by members of the Club. last year's report an annual reduction of 30%. The" Beam" Automatic Postage Stamping also open to abuse, as was shown when the

It is hardly possible to conceive that on the The number of cheats allowed to be trans discovery was made that a regular imports

face of it any reasonable being could flad ported to Klangal id the 3rd your of the tion of rats from Canton had been instituted,

objection to the granting of such an applica-roigu of Hean Tung, will be: 220 All of these, of course, being eagerly bought up by

tion. Yet there are two highly important them are to be supplied with passer here be the rat-catchers at prices which enabled them

considerations underlying this matter: first fore transportation, Hereafter, this amount to procure a substantial profit when they

of all, that if was proposed to take the neces- will be the basis for the gradual decrease took them to the Sanitary, Board to be tai.

sary water supply from the mains; secondly, every year. The export can only be decreas lied. This practice had been going on for

and often does, lead to a welcome change of that in some quarters it was thought the ed, and cannot be over its limit, la view some time before it was found out. It is

scene and activities. But not so in the sub-granting of this application could not of restriction. Besides begging the Anti- interesting to note that Lieutenant-Colonel

ordinate rauks, With them it is once io procure the esaanilal approval of the Exo Opium Bureau to keep a record and instruct Andrew Buchanan, I.M.S., M.D. MA has

Hongkong, always la Hongkong; that is tocutive Council without the latter body the farmer, Mr Lenug accordingly, 1 think been writing on the subject of rat pre vention, and propounds the theory that members and the abolition of Parliamentary it must be admitted that the Government termalament of this lattal Onniona Kanga na onlus dolem, un l the employment of rats and poison should control. There is to be "for some months has done much of late years to improve their that on two recent occasions the Board's ro- If they get raw optain for trail oor be superseded by the keeping of cats

no Parliament in Portugal. This is tyranny, working conditions, and we are glad to hear commendation in similar cases had been their province, they must, before the limits as rat preventers. It is a somewhat com bara and unashamed. All revolutions ex that there le at present under way scheme rejected by the Executive Council in terms up, report to me the number of chests, and mon belief that the Chinese are not fond of hibit almost similar phenomena, and the which is calculated to benefit them still which may very well be described as a snub. apply for passes before their goods can be cats, but this belief appears to us to be crron,

most instructive lessons are to be derived more, For many years it has been a cause The Colonial Secretary in announcing their transported. This will facilitate my optify. cous, for there are very few Chinese houses from the observation of newly established of complaint that when going home on rejection told the members "The prin- ing the sub-investigation and detecting in which one does not find one or more cats, popular, assemblies. In Bulgaria in 1879 leave they were forced to pay their own ciple adopted in these matters by the Gover stations along the places where the In fact, one only requires to live near the the Assembly of notables" at Tirnavo con- passage. True, a kind of compensation nor-in-Council is the same-ss that formerly drug is to be passed through for exam centre of the town and to lie awake of nights sisted of the gentry" of the land. They was made by reason of the fact that when at followed by the Sanitary Board, viz., that ination and discharge, no as to avoid listening to the felines to believe that there were no more educated in political science home they were allowed full pay during water-closets should only be permitted in detention and smuggling. A philosopher ATO at many cats in Hongkong as than the gentry of China who are to be the first three months. In some insizace: large blocks of offices, hotels or other build has said that speech was given to us to con- there are inhabitants. But it is to be sup called upon to be electors before long. this constituted a real compensation. In inge where a comiderable number of Euro-ceal our thoughts. By the same token writ. posed that in this Colony one has to be They began by the most joyously vigorous the case, my, of a bachelor on a good salary, pean employes congregate." Mr. Shelton Ing must have been given to Chiners officials prepared to put up with this nuisance if it measures. All alleus or foreigners were it can easily be understood that he would Hooper contended that the Jockey Club for the concealment of their intentions. On is going to prevent a greater evil, for it is 10 be expelind at once, the land was to be prefer to be thus paid when on leave rather bulldinge did not come within any of these the face of it, this proclamation does not ap: now an accepted fact amongst medical men nationalized and divided equally piecemeal; than to have his passage provided and be categories and he foretold that if the Board pear to amount. to much, yet it is bound that there is no more active disseminator of nobody was to wear clothes any richer in on half-pay at home all the time. But on recommended the Executive Council to seriously to affect both Hongkong and Shang the plague germ than the rat, which is texture or more elegant in cut than any one the other hand, this method was found to grant this privilege they would just be laying hal. For it is well known that all raw opium, In fact the Grand Sobmoye pre very hardly upon the lower paid man themselves open to another doub. If the, for Klangt goes via Canton to Shanghai, "pusty's mortal foe." Colonel Buchanan else wore. does not go so far as to say that cats should made asses of themselves. In Roumain in the junior ranks, especially if he had a Executive Council approved of the request thence to the districts in the Northern Pro Every wife and family, for in his case the extra one it would amount to inconsistent policy on vinces. The source of supply, whether darwo be Imported Into any plague-infected they voted all that and more.

from Canton or Shanghai is in both thatadoes- country, but he suggests the keeping of cats Roman Catholic had to pay atax for the up and a half month's pay at home was not at their part. The President, Mr. Wolfe, soms n general, and if the custom of drowning keep of the Greek Church, so had every Pro- all commensurate with the cost of his fami- what ingeniously argued that the phrase Hongkong. It is therefore apparent that most of the kittens that are born were dis- testant, and while every Mahommedan hade passage. As regards the Police Depart in the Colonial, Secretary's letter, other this Colony will suffer most of all by the re continued this Colony would soon have to pay double, every few had to pay four ment, all leave passages are allowed but the buildings, where a considerable number of duced importations into Kiangai. Weare glad. enough cafs in its midst to destroy effectually tinics, in 1881, Prince Alexander bad to officer on leave only gets ball-pay during European etaployes congregate," might well to learn that the Hongkong merchants have all the rats in it. At present the activity declare the Grand Sobranye" dissolved, the whole of his stay at home. This be made to cover a Race Meeting, for, he taken combined action towards resisting this of the cat is sometimes defeated in several and ruled despotically for several years. The system appears to have worked satisfactorily declared amidst laughter, a member of the further grom breach ofthe Opium Conventions ways, for example where the cover for rais people didn't object, and the proof of the hitherto and wo understand that the Govern Club war an employe when engaged in between Great Britain and Chinit and we is good, where the rodents come from other ruin of democratic rule in that country may meat intends to put the Civil Service on the racing as well at when engaged in trust that the representations which they have houses where no cats are kept, or where be found in the term "Kazioni" ** applied me footing, thus fetching all Colonial De his office. In the matter of the water sup jointly forwarded to H.E. Sir Fredrick La there is no access to the rooms where rals to the Radicals there. It means, in polite partments lato line in this respect. Probably ply being obtained from the public mains gard will lead to ruch measures balng taken are likely to be found. The Chinese cat is English, treasury-secker." How greatly we will hear something definite on the subject Mr. Shelton Hooper took up an attitude of by the Home Government as will affecti undoubtedly a good ratter, but the Indian the Radical Constitution of 1888 helped at the next meeting of the Legislative Council. opposition on much stronger grounds, for, put a stop to this repeated and

saidhe, such permission would form a interference with Brush merchi cat, again, has bad its hua'ing capacity Servia may be seen by the civilized and

dangerous precedent and was entirely against the part of the Canton Viceroy somewhat disparaged. In view of the latter Christian conduct of the Servian army and

the public Interests. As be remarked, pro-M statement, it is rather curious to note the re- Parliament towards their King, another

bably every member of the Board as well ga sult of an experiment made by Colonel Alexander, and Quecu Praga, whose but- Buchanan, Eight cats and seventeen rais chered and mutilated bodies, hurled out were let loose in a roons with glass doors, so of a window of their own palace, were buried

they should subserve the public weal to the "We never know the want the Executive Council was a member of the FOXPULUM CATCHI Jockey Club, but that was no reason why that the result could be watched. In a few in a burry, very fadecently, New Parlia minutes all the rain were killed, one small ments are dangerous. Our Chinese friends

Club's advantage. However, the matter well runs dry and to tu cat cading up with four dead rats in its must exercise severe watchfulness, not only

was ultimately set at rest by the Director of Jupiter Pluvius 1 ahowering mouth, another with three, and another with over their officials, but over their deputies

could be got without encroaching on the tal public do not concern them Public Works stating that the flushing water agending blessings down upon two. The cats were ordinary village cats | Quis custodiet ipsos custodes! and had not been specially selected. It in

pubite mains; and on the distinct under about the water supply quite likely that the Chinese cat could do

standing that an independent water supply be got it was agreed to grant the Jockey Club's application.

Football...

Korea.

Roller Skating.

A Promissory Note Cass.

An Appail

The Interport Shoot.

Echo,of the Pak ng Gambling Raid

Railways to Kwaogel.

Chiness Coal,

Rica in the Phi ippines.

New Chinese Mials or to England,

Notice to Mariners..

China's Parliament.

The Chinese Loans.

Chinese Jurists in Leader.

Chicose Railways,

Spor ing Fixturèn, <*

The Oil War.

The International Wald Compartition

Shanghai,

The Ktogcho Algus Railway at Shan bal

The Kingchow-Aigua Railway Agreement. Chloera Fendo in San Fran inco.

tival of H.E. Yu Yak Lin.

The Panama Canal.

The Soloman Fudd,

Chinese Finance.

The Expansion of Japan. The Value of 'arles, Local and General, Commercial:-

Weekly Share Report. Rubber Share Ma’kat. Yarn Market.

Bullion. Exchange.

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HONGKONG, Friday, NovemBER 11, 1910,

IPE CHINESE HEAD-DRESS.

(5th November:).

The part played by the Chinese in the changes which are being made in laws and customs throughout the Empire is well, exemplified in the abolition of the Manchu coiffure called the queue. The steady pres:

t sure whereby Chinese lofluence has eliminat--

OUR CIVIL SERVICE,

(8th November.)

16% REVOLUTION,

(9th October.) MUUNG

Robert Hart, recommended to the Chinese When that most successful of men, Sir Government a system of taxsilon whereby the Impel revenue might be repleted and the National forces of defence so strengthen ed as to become capable of offence, the calm and silent contempt accorded his advice was, regarded by this world as his first signal failure. Only he, the most secret of men, can or coul relate the long tale of his un-

disclosed defeata For he has had all bis It is almost needless to reiterate the re- | life to fight uphill. His great memorandum

We were enabled yesterday to publish some exclusive information about the latets developments in the Canton oplum tado and we regret to say that the present posle tion is anything but reassuring to our Hang kong merchants. In all conscience, things" were bad enough in Tun Hongkong Telegraph gave of Viceroy.

ed one by one the marki which distinguished quits as well if put to the same test. The the Tartare" from, the sons of Han, and has late Trofessor. Koch, the eminent bacterio!] gradually liberated the latter from all signs | logist, recommended the employment of cats of thralldom to the former, here breaks down for preventing plague, and in accordance mark that in our British Colonial Cirli Beron nauce was the result of more year' THE CANION OPIUM TRADE the last visible token of conquest and finally with his suggestion the use of the cat is vice we have a body of men who take second study and experience than comprise the proclaims Chinese emancipation. This is now being advocated by Professor Kitasato scepi to no similar governmental department whole lifetime of some of his critics, and of (10th November.) the view held of the latest Imperial Com in: Japan. There is no doubt that the in any country in the world. For integrity some of those who advised that Power which mands on the subject of cutting the queue use of traps and poisons, must prove and energy, combined with courtesy and tact, in China is called The Throne'" to ignore by millions of educated Chinese. By laborious, costly, and at the same time the Colonial Civil Servant is in general unit. We published yesterday a translation of a educated we imply not were knowledge or a comparatively inefficient, whereas the surpassed. Speaking only of the higher Chinesa tolegram which deserves glance of smattering of some Western language, but keeping of the cat represents the employ Civil Servant, he is required, before he at- the ordinary newspaper reader It Rabounces Chinese learning as well, especially in his ment of Naturo's own remedy. Koca extains a position even on the lowest runs of an item of news more important, more in. tory. Those who are acquainted with perimented with the Egyptian ichtenmon the ladder, to pass through an expensive and teresting, more pregnant,with meaning than the history of their own country are the Indian mongoose and the English fer prolonged educative course with a niff exa" anything that has happened since the Rusia opebly exultant at the change, which ret; but he found the cat more useful for rat", miastion to be encountered at ila close; and Japanese war, The Board of Finance has they regard as a triumph for their race destroying purposes in all cases then any even then he can never cquot apoly accept

sympathise with them of these, Kitasato had a census of cats ance in the Civil Service, no matter how which maken "for taken in various patta of Japan and found | llant a career he may have bad at hinesa is to be re- that the proportion of cats to bouses varied college, Or it may be that

#lock occur to ¡from four in Tokyo 10:49 in the Yamanishi self away down (be use ping, altern, district, where cath are specialty employ petitors, far below of co which, fed for the protzeiloo of the silk Industry, lo eminent abilities.

reds of Toky after4,500,000 rais liad been der- smile Fortung ForTo the tron The rodents are still numerous, perse

Now

and

at last decided to adopt Sir Robert Han's tempt

ggestions and his proposed land tax is to bo merchan levied throughout the Empire. In China the (land and land can vich the

I only when the Colony water famine that there

heard about the shortcomings ties in providing suficient. modation to lide over drought. But, although terelling in plenty, that we should be blind future. And in this ng pay, alarm posal to close (Tytan

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