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The Hongkong Telegraph.

NEW SERIES No. 8410

CONTENTS.

Births, Marriagos and Deathe, Leading Articles

Leduti at War in Asia. -" Dil-Diivan Fishing Bolts

Fire Blade 1-qps est in Hongkorg. The flier Bit,

The Aberdeen Street Collepio,

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The Hongkong Telegraph

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HONGKONG, "ATUADAY, DECEMBER 17, 1910. INDUSTRIAL WAR IN ASIAN

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ances. "Casting aside his former sense of FIRE-BRIGADE BQU¡FUBNT IN self-complacency, he is studying the sciences and arts that have given the West its materiai prosperity. He is puiding the result of bis investigations into practical use, as a rulo," recasting the Occidental methods and tools to sult his peculiar needs and in some in stances improving upon them." And the only conclusion to which we can arrive after cogitating on the subject to, that in the course of a few more generalious the aid of (10th December,)

the European will no longer be required by Whilst writers in l'uropean and America the Oriental peoples. From us they have Gewspapers continus to hammer away in learned all that there it to learn in order to cessantly upon the time worn theme of Asiah bring themselves into line with our labori. backwardness in general, and Chinese stag pusly wrought-out schemes of social and in Bong ong and S. China Sea Fisheries nation in particular, with reference to their dustrial reforms; and once they have assim

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participation in the scheme of world adlated all these teachings they will batten vancement, the foreign dweller in the East Correspondonos!:

The Caseral Election.

Fortinestions..

Theobice of Fab'ic Opinión,

1ɔcks aid Bɔres.

The Dipotal's Refu.e

Mooting-

Oh-Man-on-Deck! Laid Blog of Slam

The Royal Oatal In ti,u o. Legal Intelligence:-

Ujáji for Mails Supplied, Claim on a Pomiranty Note 4 A Compatic's Guaranide,

THE Cinical fessions.

A smrt Debt Care,

A Judicial Exp'analion.

Police:

A lucket and his.Ring. Satis Charge Arnidit Contractor. Afined Robbery,in Hongkong! Allied A temp el Franci i Allages Murder at Kowloon City. The Conspiracy Case.

Hiteellaneous Artioles and Baporte -

Notes by the Way,

Goverment House.

Onaten Day by 1.ay.

Naws hom the North.

The Italian cruiis Calibris,

Harbour of Refuge

Stem-Launch Owr of Charged. The Solomon Fund.

The New Japan:so Torf The Conftrance that Failed. New Chinoid Railway Loan. Receiving Order Granted. Rubber for Fider

St. Andrew's Church,

Subscription Griffis,

The Aberdeen Collapse.

Admiral Deway da the Panama Canal, Marine Court.

A Shipping Mbap

Administration of justice in Shangbri. King Leopo'di Estate.

pa, the US, and the Pacifië.

The Rabber Amble.

Macaos Newing.

Bjad Sceald Theatre.

Fire at Blackhead's Point,

Tuck Wrecked.

Kulabgoo (Ay) Municipal Council. Concert at the Beame Insti uto:

That Sibam Road Roller 1

A Misting Bed tend.

Wheat God login Manchuria.

Raub Gold Mina

The Japan British Exbibition.

Qapital Pdalshmest in Germany."

Op om Taládiddles.

Fire at Gribd Calton Hotel; Oxford-Cambritse U versity Scheme. Coiners the United Lates

Bi Baboon at Large is Care Retd. Hamburg-Amerika Liels.

Big Garifan Lion to Invade the Pacifc, Peking Editori Writes.

pium Suppression.

Chine's Pullical System.

A Vútcabo lö Euphics..

The Home Fleet.

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Constancio was a firebrand, and that his there was any systematic Inspection of paper was a most pernicious influence old property, said they were Inspecting amongst men as easily inflamed as our Por all the time; inspections were being mada (13h Decober.)

tuguese friends. When he and his party had continually, he added, and not only la the When we read in Home papers about the the upper hand in Macao, and had succeed-case of houses the condition of which had great advancement being made in fire ed in exciting the sailors and soldiers to been reported to them as being dangerous. brigade equipment in the cities and towns of commit actions whose pitiful results are only Had it been borne out that the latter was.. Creat Britain, we cannot but feel that Hong. beginning to be felt, one brutal deed was the basis upon which inspection of buildings. kong is lagging very far behind in this mat. done, among others, which has now brought by the Department's officers was carried out, ter. So far as the personnel of our Fire about poetic retribution. The Editor of there would indeed have been justification.. Brigada is concerned, no city in all the Perdade managed to obtain the sup for alarm amongst Chinese householders in the British possessions can lay claimpression of the Fida Nova, edited or owned the older portions of the city, and we are glad to a better, if numercial strength be left out by Dr. Luiz Nolasco, President of the that the assurance has now been department of account. But as for the land equipment Senate. We have had occasion to say hard ally given that such inspection does not the fire engines, manuals, and other ap things of the President, and to disagree in only follow upon a report from the tenant or pliances housed in Queen's Road Central strong terms with views expressed in his from other quarters concerning the question- and at the out-stations-it it woefully inade paper. But that his newspaper should be able state of certain dwellings. It used to quate and out-of-date. The only satisfactory suppressed by a gang of mutineers simply be averred, to, not so very many years ago,

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THE ABERDEEN.SIRBET COLLAPSE.

THE GENERAL ELECTION,

(15th December.)

So far as the elections at Home have gone,

does not escape from having it borne in upon them until such time arrives as be feature in the whole system lies in the new because he published in his news columns that when an Inspector in the Depatiment. upon him that the new life that is presently hoves them to take another leaf out of the Harbour fire float, which has proved itself | a report of, the action of certain residents forwarded to headquarters a report deflate

to-be-la every way most excellently suited of Macao and Hongkong in petitioning that any house was in a jeopardous con surging through Asia is shaking-itself free

olther for fighting fires that occur among the ing the Provisional Government of dillon, his communication had to pass. from the grip of that heavy hand of Lethargy

shipping or for pamping up water from the Portugal to allow the charitable Religious through so many bands, that sometimes it which has stayed the progress of Oriental pro

Harbour when outbreaks of fire take place Orders to remain in Macao, that the Kida was months. before practical effect was given (13th December.) ples unti they have been overtaken and left

It is a far cry from Hongkong to Great in proximity to the Fraya. But the needs of Nova should be shut up at the bidding of a to it; but that sort of thing, we are happy to behind by the younger nations of the West. We do not require to go. far from our Yarmouth, yet the two ports have one strong Hongkong and of Kowloon demand more rival paper, was an outrage on liberty, asay, is a thing of the past, and at the present find evidences of this boud of, common sympathy, so far as their than this. Neither the Ibland nor the crime against free speech, a tyrannical and time there is no Government Department in new activity. In Hongkong these are industries are concerned, in that both the Peninsula is adequately equipped. As we despotic attack on the Press. Now the per- which the reports of subsidiary officers are to be met on every hand. The number Norfolk seaport and our own Colony depend have urged on previous occasions in petrator of this deed is himself suffering acted upon with more promptitude than in of new industries which the Chinese have to a great extent for their prosperity, for these columns, it is high time that the Gov- from the punishment of abolition. His the Public Works Office. One fathet im taken up in this Colony alone within recent their very existence indeed, upon their fisherment set about the introduction of motor paper was peremptorily shut up by the order portent point brought out in evidence was In this connection it is interest fire engines of the latest pattern from Eng. of the Government. We British manage that except in the case of bulging of years is snizing. Co the other side of the ing flects. Harbour we have seco a new town spring ing to read that at Great Yarmouth, at the land. We notice that recently the Metro these things better. We do not close up olber visible signs of defective con- up, simmering with industrial activity, and very climax of the fishing season, there was politan Fire Brigade of London have dis naughty newspapers. We only lock up wick struction, the real state of a built wall cannot gradually extending is boundaries across opened an exhibition which promises the carded horse hanlage altogether, even to the ed editors. And even then we do so with be accurately ascertained unless it be broken what was formerly waste. loud in the Taikok disappearance of the old style of fishing extent of their reserve stud of two hundred due regard to order and justice. The man Ihlo. But surely the Building Authority is and Mongkok districts. With these object boat. The exhibition is being held with a trained horses. To such a state of perfection must be given fair trial. If he publishes invested, with plenary powers to resort to lessons threst upon our purview, we in view of demonstrating the applicability of as the motor engine been brought nowadays seditious matter against the King's peace such measures when satisfied that there is Hongkong at any rate cannot fail to to im-oil-englac propulsion to fishing vessels which that it is considered to be perfectly safe to die and the security of his subjects, the editor good reason for doubting the stability of any have hitherto been dependent upon sail alone. pense with those sagacious equines which at will be very properly sent to prison by a very building, the sudden collapse of which may pressed with the very real nature of this new industrial movement on the part of the Chi-

To the Yarmouth flct, already, some score one time were the pride of London and the proper jury, and a very proper and perhaps causs the loss of human life. In the case nego and of their determination to fight the of boats-especially the Scotch "drifters" admiration of all who saw them at work. pompous judge. But, his paper may con of the houses which collapsed in Aberdeen manufacturers of Europe and of the United have been fitted with auxiliary engines driven Yet in Hongkong, we still see in vogue and tinue in existence, and may even continue Street, there are no recorda in existence to States with the very weapons (in the way of by paraffin or crude oil. It is possible to fix included amongst the serviceable equipment to publish articles that are very early as bad show who were the building contractors; and modern machinery and appliances) which these engines to any fair sized vessel and from year to year, some fire extinguishing as those which forced the Law to lock him as Mr. H. L. Dennys said in his concluding the Western nations have taught them how achieve results that will compare favourably appilauces that might suffice for a country up. For we mis, called Anglo-Saxons are address to the jury on behalf of the Crow to use, will all the advantages of cheap land with steam. Amongst the pioneers in the village at Home but are very much cut are not a bit afraid of free speech. It does there was not obtainable any evidence in- and labour for the erection of works as well adoption of oil-driven fishing boats are, of place in a City like Victoris, with its us no harm to have liberty. We would rather volving criminal liability on anybody; though ai a plentiful supply of raw material. Just curicusly enough, the Japanese, who at this quarter of a million of population, its hear of the man being shot than bis paper if they had before them the man who built how Asia is preparing to drive Western self same exbibition are showing models densely-built areas, and its thousands of suppressed. That is the difference between the house it might be a different matter. Ona traders from its markels is forcibly set out by of the types adopted in the fishing ramshackle tenements that blaze up like ut and our friends who are sporting a new question that cannot but obtrude itself upon a writer in the Indian ever. "In one fleets of Japan. The idea of introducing tidder once the flames get hold. And the red and green flag Can it be possible we the mindofanyone who has followed the course respect," he says, "the Orient is really motors into the Chinese trawlers of Hoog. need for extension and improvement does caly whisper it that the real reason for this of this loquiry throughout is this: Ate there the P. W. D. In our view, the reply must. menacing the West, and so earnest and kong and adjacent ports is by no means new. not apply to the City alone. Eastwards and is that we are fit for liberty, and they are sufficient Building Inspectors on the staff of be in the negative. Otherwise, how is it open-minded is Asia that no pretence or One valiant attempt was made by a local Westwards, overflow suburbs are springing up

that we have all these building collapses to apology whatever is made about it, nor is gentleman some year ago, but the venture with mushroom-like rapidity. Kennedytowa

our discredit? We can take it for granted any effort put forth to hide it from the Ce did not meet with the theasure of success it is stretching out its arms Pokfulam way, In

that the Inspection of new buildings is being cidental. The Rastemer has thrown down merited; and the father of the project has the Taikoo and Shaukiwan districts there is the industrial gaundet, and from now on

done with thoroughness. But the work of in now left the Colony, though he still remains now a population of over ten thousand, and

(14th December.} Asia is destined to witness a progressively in the East in a new sphere of labours. Pro building is steadily progressing. Yet in none

Yesterday afternoon the Coroner's Court spection of old buildings (which is no less im intense trade warfare, the Occidental seram bably some Northern port will reap the bene of those places are the Fire Brigade appliances bling to retain his hold on the markets of fit of his enthusiastic belief in the practic-being renewed or enhanced in such degree completed their inquity regarding the build-portant) apparently requires the employment the East and the Oriental endeavouring to ability and profitableness of adapting some will enable them to meet the greater re-ing collapse in Aberdeen Street. The jury of still more Inspectors if these calamitous beat him in a battle in which heretofore he form of artificial propulsion to the Colony's quirements of those expanding districts, found that the six Chinese who were killed collapses are to be prevented. It would be has been an easy victor." It is an indisput: fishing fleets. In the meantime, however, Kowloon, too, is badly equipped. In Yau- thereby had met their death through acci- better, surely, for the Government to expend abic fact, borne out by the shipping and trade there are not a-waning in our midst many mali district, a new township has sprung up dental causes. There was apparently nothing the public funds in ensuring the safety of returns, that European and American ex- citizens, both European and Chinese, whosed recent years. Works and factories of all more to be added. However, the evidence life and property rather than to fritter It porters are finding the Eastern muket harder vast possibilities to the bringing of the Colony's kinds. have come into existence, and long that has been adduced in the course of this away in such useless works as the propping- rows of shops and lofty dwelling tenements official investigation into the circumstances up of that hoary old obstruction and eyesore, to hold from year to year, for the simple fishing system into line with the modern

now stand where before was only swampy attending the catastrophe conveys one more the Clock Tower. reason that the Oriental nations have come methods that have proved so successful in to see the advantage of supplying their own other parts of the world's seas. China has foreshore. Yet for the whole of the Penin awful proof of the laxity which in years long needs so far as manufactured gonds are con been ever slow to follow Western precept sula the only effective fire fighting weapon in past must have perraded the entire adminis cerned. Most notable of all in this respect or example in any given direction. She has the solitary steamer stationed at Yaumati-tration of the Building Laws in Hongkong. is the recent development of new industries been more prone to copy her own immediate and that one of the old ones transferred from If this Aberdeen Street collapse were an in Japan. Japanese shipping, now that the neighbours in the Orient. who have shown headquarters on this side of the Harbour, isolated case, there would not be much in it war is over, is taking up its place amongst iliemseves to be more progressive than her. True, there are always the two are floats to to cause any serious public alarm; but, unfor the factors which count in the estimation of self and to copy thom in somewhat gingerly be depended upon in the case of a con. tunately, we are all aware that it is only one and considering the small number of scatathat far removed from amongst very many similar disasters which have yet to be polled, there does not remain Home firms with ships lying-idle in the fashion, too. But now that Japan has lent coun grailon not too Mersey, the Clyde, or the Thamer. And tenance to this innovation in her ancient fish. the water front; but as the available have occurred with a recent times. Indeed, so much room for doubt that the position of in the master of naval construction, the ing industry, there is every reason to believe sits on the Harbour edge are gradually ap great has been the number of fatal building parties in the new Parliament will be practi Japanese nation are conserving their own that China will follow suit and that before propriated, the tendency of our peninsular collapses in this Colony within the past few cally unchanged. In this far away outpost of warship-building to themselves and ate long. So far as the fishing grounds of Hoog township is to extend inland to regions years--independent altogether of the ray- the Empire we, naturally, do not take much putting into practice the lessons which they kong, the surrounding islands and the Kow. scarcely within reach of floats pumping from ages of typhoons-that Hongkong has carn. heed of Home politics. We are outwith the Anther Mamma Ve șel for Cunard Lice have been taught by Western science and ex loon Peninsula are concerned, those are the Harbour. True, in Kowloon we have ed a most unenviable notoriety in this atmosphere of party rancour and vilapera- Beals of Malapan Prosperity.

perience. India, too, is making haste to follow admirably suited, we are told, for the opera now a system of fire hydrants laid down with respect, and has undergone the disgrace of tion and we are very happy in that position. the lead of Japan in this matter. Everywhere tion of steam trawlets as large eve as those pressure somewhat simollar to that which having the finger of reproach painted to. It was stated by a promident public man in llindustan, mills and factories are being employed in the North Sea. In the prolific cau be obtained in Victoria. But were two wards her as the worst built city in British once in Hongkong that all. Britons abroad erected, whose products are to supply the feeding banks of Mirs Bay, for instance, serious outbreaks of fire to occur simultane over seas' possessions. That Hongkong is were neither Liberals nor Conservatives, but Far Eastern as well as Indian trade. Most there is at times such an abundance of fish ously in the streets only accessible to the deserving of this description, cannot be said were Progressive Imperialists in the true of these plants are financed by natives, and that the Chinese junk trawlers are unable to land engines and such a thing is quite to be very far from the truth. As regards sense of the ward. In our opinion, that Indians manage and are employed in them. cope will the catch. It is perhaps too much within the region of probability the Fire the Aberdeen Street collapse, the facts con- teras and pithy expression strikes the As the awakening of China is proceeding, to expect to see within our time a fleet of Brigade resources might be unequal to the nected with it are now too well known to sail on the head exactly. Residence to eliminate encrusted parochial views. the industrial life in the Dragon I'mpire is trawlers steaming drough Lycemoon Pass occasion. In the same way, were the Central need repetition. It is enough to say that abroad broadens ope's mind and tenda receiving a new impetus. Smoke cuiling for the fishing grounds after the manner engines suddenly called to combat a big fire on 28th November last, the party wall be- from the tall, gaunt chimneys in the larger familiar to Hull or Aberdeen City but it is in Shaukiwan, seven miles away, the middle tween houses Nos. 15 and 17. collapsed, In that sepse, we should have comparatively Celestial cities, forcefully reminds one that quite on the cards, we believe, that artificial portion of the city would be left practically causing first one tenement and then the Litle interest in the Home electione. But other to come crashing down, killing six per- still we are all citizens and workers of a great the day of mulive power has dawned evenly propeiled boats something alter the style unprotected for the time being, and it is a in slow-moving China, and that the country that has found favour in Japan will be at peculiar thing that it is just at such junctures sons and injuring many others. The expert Empire, and it behoves us to consider well is preparing to take its place alongside the work before many months are over on our that the services of the Brigade are required witnesses who were examined before the the influences that control the findings of in some other place. The journey of coolie Coroner were unanimous in expressing the our Central Government. In a purely selfish other Asiatic nations in the fight, for trade local fishing grounds.

hauled engines and other apparatus to a opinion that the buildings involved were sense, it cannot be said that Hongkong has supremacy. he trend of feeling inall Oriental Since the foregoing lines were written, we countries is to patronise and thereby develop have had the pleasure of perusing the speech, remolo district like Shaukiwan is necessarily constructively bad. Mr. Howard, an Ins-benefited under the Liberal régims. Indeed, home industries. This sentiment is so acuje made at the meeting at noon to day of the slow, and the return journey is, if anything, pector of Buildings of twenty five years the Colony has sustained two sharp blown at that even at this early stage there is con- recently formed Hongkong and South China slower. It would be platitude to insist that experience, when asked to what he would the hands of Sir Henry Campbell-Banner- siderable feeling in Icdia against Japan, since Steam Fisheries Company, Limited, by the the first consideration in brigade work is for aflribute the collapse, 'replied that he would man's and Mr. H. Asquithe administration the Indian is anxious to do all in his power Chairman, Mr. J. 3. Plummer. This Com the firemen to be on the spot at the earliest blame it on the builder of the house." in relation to the coolle traffic to South. to keep his own market and the markets in pany, it appears, has already one steam traz possible moment. Every one knows that The party wall was one of the worst walls be Africa and the curtailment of the oplum other Oriental lands in his own hands, and ler on the stocks at Middlesborough and five minutes gained in getting to the had ever seen in Hongkong. The mortar trade and closure of divans. Yet in these not permit them to be mouopolised by should have had delivery by the end of this seat of the fire may mean the saving was absolutely perished, and even had it matters, Hongkong has undubitably been Japan. Similarly, there is to-day consider month but for the delay caused by the ship of human life as well as thousands of dollars' been good mottar it could not have held the but a pawn in the international game directed On December 9, iço, at No. 10, Aviadeable rivalry between India and Japan over yard strikes in England. Mr. Plummer men- worth of property. Every district in the wall together, for the bricks were bad. The from Downing Street and as loyal citizens we Road, Shangbai, the wife of Villeim Meyer the China trade to wrest it from the hands toned that the steam trawling industry in Colony should be equipped sufficiently well constructional work also was bad, the inside must conform to orders, however much the to fight its own Gres; and to this end the of the wall being filled with broken bricks. same may affect the Colonial exchequer, of a daughter.

of the Occidentals, and this spirit of com Japan is succeeding almost beyond compre petition daily is increasing in its intensity.hension, and whereas it is only two and a sooner that Hongkong follows the lead of The cause of the collapse was the bad in the meantime, the failure of the Confer On the other hand, Citiua itself is desirous half years since the first steam trawler started Singapore," Colombo and other Crown quality of the material used in the wall, badence and the, certain return of a non-Con- of exploiting its own markets instead of operating out of Nagasaki, there are now no Colonies in the adoption of motor fire construction and the insertion of joists into servative majority in the House of Commons "It was a criminal bit of can only mean one of two things either the On Saturday, December 3, 190, at Tricity being exploited by the subjects of the less than seventeen building and seven of engines, the better it will be for the the wall.

It was a compromise or else the original Veto pro Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Dean, Rev A. J. Mikado, or by the Indians." White Europe eight actually at work. The Company's pro Colony. Narrowness of streets and steep work," concluded Mr. Howard. That sums Conservative leaders will have to consent to Walker, M.a., Fank Fairley, E., & at.. and America are ahead of China in the sperity, of course, will depend largely upon Dess of ascents afford no excuse. Motor up the situation in a nutshell. MECH. E, second son of F. B. Fier, Eig, of industrial race, inasmuch as they have the goodwill of the Chinese, but it was engines can go where any hand-drawn engine little woodet, therefore, that the Foreman posals will be carried out in their amplitude Ridholme, Folkestone, to Louisa M. Mas made science the handmaid of industry, pointed out by the Chairman that they can go and they can be got nowadays of such of the jury should be constrained to ask on with the assistance of the Irish-cum-Labour- prast daughter of the fate Frederic M, Mus the cheapness of labour, in the Orient had the best assurances that they would high horse power as will enable them to what principle the inspection of buildings cum-Socialistic sections of the House, Mr. was made by the Public Works Department Balfour and his coadjutore are an politicans pratt, Esq. of Seaforth H 1, Iverpool.

remains a factor to be reckoned with. Fur.find a ready market for their fish and climb to the Feak if necessary.

The Coroner explained that there was no too wary to force the latter course to an issue, On December 7, 19 o, at H, B. M. Consulate thermore, home industries, protected by also enjoy the support of the Fish

general responsibility for those old houses and compromise will in all probability bo Central, Sharghal, before Sir Pelham Warren, high tariffs and subsidised by Government Guilds. So that to all appearances, thi

the responsibility did not begin until either eagerly welcomed by theia in despite of the KC, and altermaid's et 81, Joba's, Jes fi ld, by the Rey, E. L. Hawks fott, D.D, assisted both of which policies are coming loto Steam Fisheries Company are to begin

Time is the will of God, and that which the attention of the Department was called fruitless Conference; for they must now sCO by the Ray, A., Wal er, M., Arthur Hide, of prominence in Asia-can well afford to operations under exceptionally auspicious Shanghai, to Edith Mary, second daughter el compete with European and American im cordlions. It is admitted that there will is ground in it is not always ground slowly, to any defects or the officers discovered such that the country is not behind them in the was po general examination of buildings to when they forced upon the Liberal Gover the Lite j', G. Jarsen end Mrs J.nsen, of ports. The latter, also, labour under the be. Initial difficullies to overcome as is the But slowly or quickly it is always exceed delecis themselves. Up till that point there sense that they confidently anticipated Shaoghal.

additional d'sadvantage of greater freightage case with all phecer concerns. But with ing smal!". Rarely, however, have we seen and insurance, as well as other vicarious through railway communication to Canton the fate of the wicked more swiftly overtake | sacertain whether they were dangerous or ment another general election in less than charges, than those required by the Asiaties established, and the general advance of the his, than we now observe in the case of ous not. This somewhat disquieting statement a twelvemonth's time from the last appeal to who are seeking to control the local markets. Chinese people towards Western ideas, there Constancio da Silva of the Perdade, a Macao from the Bench as, to the responsibility for the country. At this juncture, it is faterest- It has to be added, too, that in competition it, as the Chairon said, no need to picture newspaper, And it is oar untiappy duty to old houses was, however, discounted in a ing to recall just what the Veto policy con

"That it is expedient that the House of with Occidental commercialists, the Crient the possibilities of the future, when he hoped protest against the policy which basinflicted certain degree at a later stage in the examina-sisted of. The main points are: his woke to a dynamic realisation of the they might have a fleet of ten or twenty punishment doubtless well deserved; but tion by Mr. Perkins, Executive Engiucer to futility of piulag unimproved machinery and trawlers working out of this Port. We wish mistaken in its manner of application, the Public Works Department, who in reply Lords be disabled by law from rejecting or There in no denying the fact that this to the Foreman's question as to whether amcoding a Money Bill, and that any such Methods against modern modes and appll the new enterpilie avery success,

A Quick Passage.

Party Valat Teking.

Journalism in Chica.

Disturbiste on Beard her, ky sang. Italina Convent.

The Art of Aviatios.

The Milk of the Coconut

Chlod's Army.

Spotting

Excess of Pasicogers.

Che19

Mors Province Fair,

V bat America bas Accomp í hd at Panama. Mord Spheres of It flieace in China.

-Mitte Bhi Dockyard.

Another Opium Seizer.

School Fees in Dispute,

Sampo Voman Robbed."

Suez Cnal Rates,

Local and General. Commercial:-

Weekly Share Report Yara Market.

Rubber Sbare Circular. Tr sch Micas.

*BIRTHS.

On December 5, 1910, at #2, Siccawei Road, Shangbai, the wife of G, D, Coutta-cf a 100%

Da December 5, 1910, at Ne, 4. Chusan Road, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. H. . Kimp tos, & daughter!

On December 9, 190, he Shanghai, the wile of Algernon Fraqcia Evans of a son,

MARRIAGES,

DEATHS

On December 8, 190, a 14 A For Ex: chida Road Extension, Sbangeni, Eliz.berb, the beloved wis of G'F. Fonlaw, aged 26 Os December 7, 199, at Preston Cost, Bookbum. Surrey, Margaret Jace Gilmour, Widaw of iku leo Land Gilmour, of Shanghai,

ON A THE BIZER, BIT.

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