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(16th Maveli.). During the interview which granted the "Telegraph," Mr. Van den Born, who will fly Shatinon Saturday, spokostrongly

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

FRIDAY

HONGKONG DAY BY DAY.

kow for Nanking on the 7th

The US.S. Villalobos loft Han-

foundation stone of the Hongkong A year ago Thursday the University was laid.

MARCH .17%

Miss Eva Gauthior, the talonted Canadian contralto, will give a concert hore shortly:

to arrivo at Ilankow on the 5th The U.S.S. Sumar was expected inst. to relieve the Villalobos.

Bubonic plague has broken out

disease and three have died..

Spokane, Washington. Sixteen persons have been attacked by the

Baron, Munum, the German Ambassador, wasexpected to leave Tokyo for home on the 11th inst. His successor, Count Rox, will arrive at the capital on April 1st.

On the 3rd there were throc gunboats in Hankow, namely, the Kinaha, the Cadmus and the Nightingale The Clio left for down river on the 3rd,

has boon visiting Bangkok and The German gunboat, Tigor,

left there on the 3rd inst.

hero by tho Dolhi. Thoy left Mr. and Mrs. J. Swire are duo

London on February 24th.

The O. S. K. str. Tacoma Maru, which has Intely returned to Nugisaki from Manila, via Hong- kong, reports that Japanese emi- grants are now welcomed in the Philippines, and that the steamer will in the future take some fifty emigrants to Manila ovory voyage.

of Watson's rated water factory, Mr. N. K. Davidson, manager

East, returned to the colony and an old resident in the Farn Tuesday after undergoing an operation at home." ·

bo hold at King's Park Rango. A Volunteers rifle mocting will

Mr. J. O. Power, acting chief on Easter Monday, April 17th, the Bandmann Opera Company, proceeded on

accountant of the Chinose section, Mr. J. Young, advance agent of Canton-Kowloon railway, is arrived to-day on the P. and Otho Anhui to Nanking to take up Thursday by the position of chief accountant 5.8. Davanha."

on the Tientsin-Pakow Railway southern section). He has been in Canton for two years.

Sir Thos. Hutchinson, tho re-.

vonture have left. Vigo for The craisors Dian and Bona Gibraltar, escorting submarines bound for China.

granted to Captain W. Loring Leave of absence has been R.G.A., Capt. G. B. MacKenzi, RG.A., Capt. F. A Twiss, I.G.A. Mr. H; Montaguio Bell has relia- quished the oditorship of the which he has hold for nearly five

Daily News,'

A ligor cub, about the size of

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There are 270,076 Japanose

Tho Kolo AD.C. las boon

Pantomine Rohearsal." playing "A Clorical Error"" and

A confirmation servico will bo hold at St. Paul's College Chapel at 6.30 p.m. on Thursday.

The "Manchester Guardian" quotes the Acting Governor's raport on the industrios of Hong- kong.

in Manila on March 10th, and 270 housos were burned down 3,000 people were this rondored homoloss.

His Excellency Chu Cho Wing, Ex Provincial Troasttror of Kwong Si, has just arrived at

The gambling which Canton from Hongkong. His reported to be carried on sys- Excellency had been telegraphed tomatically at Samchun has been for by the Viceroy, and left

officially suppressor. Imperial Gorman Mail, Shanghai for Hongkong by, the

Tho donl between A. S. Watson and company and the purebasors of their ostablishment in Manila

the affairs of the Sink-In-was concluded on the 6th. The consequences arising out

Ltd., appeared to be oven more drapobra Rubber Concession,

in connection with the Hongkong The Blakto Shield Competition

King's Purk on Saturday, but was Volunteer Corps was firoil for at not completed owing to the in- clement weather.

Mr. C. M. Collorman, the direc- far-reaching than was at first tor of the Bureau of Posts, has meit with reference to the subject the 1912/Manila Carnival. imagined. The latest develops been elected Director General of is the issue of a writ of summons Marshall for alleged slander.

The funeral of the Into Mr. by Dr. Nijhuis against, Dr. R. J.Herbert W. Keurs, acting mana- gor of the International Banking has appointed Captain Frederick Sunday morning at

His Excellency the Governor Corporation at Canton, took place. William Lyons provisionally, and Valley.

Happy

subject to His Majesty's pleasure, At tho annualineeting of Messrs.o be an Official Momber of the the Chairman proposed that a from the 9th instant, during thie Fraser and Neave, Ltd., Singapore, Legislative Council with offcct dividend of 15 per cent. and absence on loave of the Honour bonus of 5 per cent, or together ablo Mr. Francis Josophi Badeloy dividend paid in Novoniher last has appointed Captain Froderick receipts of more than P28,000 the the Coy. (inking with the interimn 20 per cent. on the old capital of or until further notice.

30 por cont.) be paid, absorbing William Lyone to act as Captain Manila Carnival of 3011 has.

With paid admissions aggro. His Excellency the Governor gating about 160,000 and not

$15,000,

The s.s. Conch (Captain Scott),

Superintendent of Polico, Super-exceeded all Carnivals of pepepd- went into Kowloon Dock Wodne inlondont of Fire Brigado and ing years as a financial succoss. bored that somedays ago ako struck to net na Deputy Superintendent has been very satisfactory for the day for repairs. It will be remem-Philip Peveril John Wodehouse results of the past year's working. Superintendent of Prison, and It is roportod in Paris that tho. something in the fairway bohini of Police and of Fire Brigado, Banque de Indo-Chine. The that it must have been a capsized Honourable Mr. Francis Joseph far interfered with its operations. Stonecutters, and it is believed during the absence on leave of the plague in the Far East lus not so at a naturalist's shop a short disjunk, loaded with stono. Sous Badeloy or until further notice, tance beyond the Central Market, damage was sustained, as the Des Voeux Road.

Changel is fast, becoming a

Over filly Volunteers (paraded vessel was leaking. been made by a destroyer with

lande full. A now Customs Union Church, where the service at headquarters Sanday morn- Experimental apċed trials. havo`

port of sonia consequence, thoing for. church parade. They building contractors having their marched off at 10 a.mio-tho-- oil fiel. The same results were

House has been built; as his also obtained at a cost of $1200 as

a large red brick dwelling house were attained with coal costing

for the Standard Oil Co., and now

was conducted by the Rev. C, H. £140 (?).

Hickling.. goilowns for Mossre. Butterfield ceipt of a telegram from the Con

The Russian Consul is in re-

under construction which, when "Bit of old China near Hong

and Swire, The Band is also sul General in Kharbin, which finished, will cofer a stretch of the Chinese Eastern and on tho says: "Europians travelling on threo mites, while the railway has made such progress that locome-not subject to any quarantine.".

Tran-Siberian Railwaysaro, as yok, tivos uro running at the back of the city. Another improvement, which must be a great boon to the sited on the island."Central- port, is a largo recreation ground China Post.".

The trade is there, the commercial plaguos of the Middle Ages wo orally results in restraining the of smuggling, whoa the original field is open, and the set-back would now be paying ten individual from freely following bill was up for discussion, which ill-considered speculation shillinge agrumb for bread, every impules: no single man wo vonturo to think that there caused should not paralyso us. --that is, provided wo could can be a law unto himself; and is no smuggling worthy of find spico in which to bake while it is human to chafe undor consideration. We do think, REVERSING THE MIRROR.of those figures we must re-ask without heat or hasto the which the Ordinance has been in it. Looked upon in the light restraint, it is commonsense to however, that the first year during gard plague as tho kind but why and the wherefore. Taxa-force is no criterion, not a fair (15th March.) The somewhat startling nows us for our own goud, and ceront it civilisation would be Iations as to what the rovenuo

severe school-master who panistis tion is novor popular; but withong on which to base our calcuat has reached Hongkong of the tainly it is difficult to realise how impossiblo. On the other hand, will be in the future. Much of establishment at l'aris by man will deal with the onormous freedom of spoochi, criticism, and the liquor consumed during this Chinese of a factory, equipped problem of increasing and over judgment ensures that such taxes poriod was lidor which paid no with Chinese made machinery, whelming population which con as the stato muy impose are quite tax, having on in the Colony manned by Chinese and dealing fronts han if sono such visitation able. The community of Hong- bofore the bil was introduced, or with Chinese products, The was not poradically possiblo, kong ni haking to-day: Is the imported to evade the tax before factory produces semi-artificial The growth of medical science is new liquor tax oquitable? With the bill became law. food something like the nutritive so great that we may look forward out wishing to juggle with words, pills of the Into Professor Berthe- to the banishment of all sickness, we say it is not equitable, but it lot, and is catablished on a very but if our birthrale koops up, this is justified. The tax has been im- firm financial basis, no loss a sun will literally "improve" us off the posed in a somewhat sonsational than 180,000 having been sith-fnep of the earth, dinco the earth's manner. It has come as a ́sur- scribed by the promoters. The capacity for supporting life isprise, and like most surprises, principal spirit in the concern is limited. Wo are not Malthusians, except those of a pleasant nature, young Chinese named La Yubut that economist seems to have it is apt to engender irritation, Ying, who is an export chemist, fores sen the day when than will The Government is accused of engineer and scientific farmor, be packeil as close us sardines and engineering something in the and a former student of the to have preached his gospel ac nature of a "eup do theatre," but Pasteur Institute Twonty-four cordingly. It is paradofical, but it we earnestly deprecate any insty Chinese workmen were sent from would appear to be a fact that judgment on this point. From Tientsin to Paris, and the number longevity and practical immunity canses, to which we will refer of alimentary substances which from sickness wond in time mako later, this Colony, bearing as it they are extracting is said to be life impossible,

does vital individual and Imperial astoniding, They include milk, choose, calfono, oil, jellies, flour, COMMERCIAL AVIATION. funds. It is the duty of the interests, finds itself sliprt. of broad, biscuits, cakes, sancos and'a

Government to provide these and tiring Chief Justice of Coglon, variety of vegetables, all of an ex- ceedingly nutritive and pleasant

the daty of the citizen to assist and Lady Hutchinson arrived in nature. This is showing the

in the provision. The Govern-Penang on the 9th. hement and the eitizon can only world the revere of the mirror

falfil their duty, the que by and carrying the commercial war

imposing taxation, the other by into the camp of the West with

paying the lovy. The resultant vongoco! Wo have become so the subject of the sonsationalis sufforing is neither greater nor accustomed to thinking of China which has crept into aviation. He less than that onlured by the as a country with Hula initiative referred to the "spiral dip, who pays cash for what he and loss organising abilities that rolved to give oxtra dolight to wishes to purchase. it is with almost a shock that we the patrons of the airmen, declar-tax, in the first place, will add a The new read of sucha concern as that nowing that it was responsible for restriction to individual life; and, flourishing at Los Valles, and its several of the fatal accidents is the second place, will provide success should certainly have the which unfortunately havo orcurr-fütels for the amolioration of that effect of turning our thoughts of, and he deprecated the carrying life. It is not equitable, for the soriously to what must now be outof those daring feats, for which causes which have led to its in-years; recognised as the imminent en-tho koroplano is not suitable. It position were not unavoidable, but trance of the Chinese inte all com-ars a commerial asset that it is necessary. It will increase a full-grown eat, is now on sale mercial competition. Wo ntist Mr. Van den Bornan I an increas-the price of liquor, but it will not ro-focus our mental vision in theing anmber of avits regard to work hardship upon the rested light of this foodfactory, for it aeroplane. As the vehicle of a interest of the liquor trade: that is a symbol of the great change "spiral dip" it is of little value to powerful body may be trusted to which is taking place at our mankind, but according to Mr. Van look after itself. The individual

leve been successful in securing The Standard Oil Company doors. Perhaps the most striking den Born, as a perfect, light-will pay, but, since we have not

land on the British Concession, feature in connection with the goods carrier and for passanger yet reached that height of human

Kinkiang, and thoro intend to factory that machinery of trallie it would be a boon and a development whore the individual

ercet residences for the staff, go Ching manufacture and inven- blessing. Seiongo has higher is so commuunistically perfect that tion is employed, for it is mission than simply to provide he does not nesl government, it

downs, offices, etc. The plot is generally recognised that it is

itself to the erection of imposing excellently, situated, and lends machinery that China most urgently noods. she is capablo of inventing and turning out that

Not guilty of receiving bribes, 1ocesary for such work as is

British section of the Kowlom- but guilty of receiving presents of being done at Les Valles, wo my

Canton Railway. be sure that she will not long he

money and articles of value, in Mr. H. Logan, formerly in the violation of article 380 of the

The annual report of the.Con- dependent on the importer. We

employ of the Kowloon-Canton penal code, is the sentence of

enl Committee of the Hongkong must all welcome this indication of Chinese ability, commordial predict that next year will not see law, and the vote on the Colonintioned at Taipo, retuned to Hong police graft cases. in Manila, in

for the year ouding 31st Decem so strong a measure into Railway as district engineer stat Judge A.-S. Crossfield in the

General Chamber of Commerce, acumen and initiative, but, at the new aerial" thrillers," but rathera Secretary's motion shows that the kong to-day. He will join the which eight men of the polico de

ber, 1910, for prosentation to the same time we must not lose sight remarkable progress along the same opinion is held in prominent firm of Messrs. Palmer and Turner.partment and, secret service

lines of commercial usefulness, circles of the community. For

It seems at the arrangements on the 20th, lins been published. mobors at the annual meeting There is Masson, the French nur part, since we need money in II.M.S. Astros and "Thistle and

A golf competition between bureau were charged with necept for this year's Gordon-Bennet aviator, for instance, who is Hongkong and since that money Woodlark, played at Shangli, Memorial and Alliliated Hospitals International Bar to hold the Singapore on Saturday, whon het

ing bribos.

raco are not going so amicably demonico a sixaights engagement in

The Bandmann Opern Co.com The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice they should. Tho decision of the giving exhibitions with his eait only be obtained from the re-resulted in

the following donations to the less than three miles, with a total in the Train, The Chocolato win for the latter acroplane as

begs to acknowledge with thanks race over a closed circuit of notThe Balkan Princess, The Girl following pieces will be presented: funds of hospitals:-Butterfield distance of ninety-four milos, is Soldier, The Quaker Girl, Our and Swire, $100; Jardine Mathes not being very favourably received Miss Chibbs, and The Dollar The plague which recently

son and Co., $100; E. D. Sassoon hore. ravaged North China was regard

The persistent driving Princess.. and Co., $100; D. Sassoon and Co., round and round a short circuit is eul, we are safe in saying, by one

Arahold Karborg and Co., $50;popular, and, when there are n $100; Reiss and Co., $100; not only monitoneus but also un- and all as a terrible visitation. It

Carlowitz and Co., $50.

Ricarte has. again, from his is rather startling to read of it

rotrout in Hongkong, called on the being hailed as the friend of man.

very large number of competitors, Filipinos, to age and, under his A Harbin meabago This has been done by a writor in nows of theworld dropped from the postponement this loss would spend some months in the old Asabi" dated the 6th instant of all the precautions taken.

By two occasions, and decided to..

to the somewhat dangerous, too, in spite leadership, oust the Antericans from the islands, says tho "Manila a contemporary. After expressing clouds at our vory doors; coming hayo been sustained, as the the opinion, which he facts prove first glimmer of the Evening think that the Government has

Times." It is comforting, in tho with the morning brooze or the provious liquor bill proved, and we'

says-Chinese troopsļuve driven

Queen's Road, opposite the correct, that medical science woult

The tour of the Orient planned ing at a sawmill conducted by hand the Chartered Bank, has.

away the Chinese labourers work- Hongkong and Shanghai Bank midst of our tremor, to remember the old Spanish proverb-dol knock it out in thesecond round," Star. Here romance and seionco done all in its power to make the by the Chicago association of Russian named Shovelienko, in been divided for a considerable dicho al hecho lay gran trecho." the writer goes on to point out blond, if, indead, they are now low absolutely equitable by commerce on which about 200 the vicinity of a station on the distance by a bamboo erection, that such a result, fortunately, evor livorced. This exhibition giving an opportunity for the prominent business, men in the Chinese Eastern Railway, and

H. Marriott, who promoted the would not have been attained in of Masson's is the first direct putting forward of amoridments. vicinity of Chicago were to make destroyed a branch line of the the roadway. Tillto-day the objecting, wishes to convey his thanks for so placed as to block one half of boxing contestson Saturday even the days of old. For instance, one attempt Lo show what the The critics of the meastire do not a tour of the far east, has been railway. Serious diplomatic ne single plague wiped out between oroane can do to assist every declare it unecessary, and it is abandoned according to a cable gotiations are expected to follow.

was obscure. Workmen are now the patronage given him by the a third and a halfof the popula-day life; but its possibilities in therefore a wrong judgment which gram received by the merchants

busily engaged digging, up, the tubli, on this, his first venture tion of Europo-and it was only this direction are boundless, and declares its hasty completion un

Wo are courteously informed street and gutter, preparatory to

as a promoter of a tournament. one plague among many, though we think those aviators who have justified, since, as is only natural,

that for the further extension and laying down. "tar mincadam le regrets that the decisions of it was one of the worst. Those ronounced sensationalism for the overy effort, would have beenmade Manila, on March 14th, published School, Mr. Ho Kom Tong has kind- broken stone. This mixture has all, and states that in the near The "Cablenews American, improvement of the Ellis Kadoorie a mixture of asphalt, tar and the referee were not acceptable to great extinguishments of the more sober, but more humano by tlioso concerned to avoid the full no editorial, but in the centre of ly subscribed $10,000, Mr. Chan proved durable as well as dust future he will arrange another human race have their uses, as we exhibitions of commercial utility pressure of its impositions were must admit after studying the are doing a better work than the time given them to do so. We space, are the words:The com Yan Po

a huge blank, double column Kai Ming $5,000, Mr. Loung less, and easily kept clean, and series of contests, following facts. Last contury the non who risk life and limb to may safely leave to the honour-monts written for this departmont Lin Yung $5,000, Mr. Fung pecially at this portion of a busy Excellency the Govornor mct in $5,000, Mr. Lau will be much appreciated es- Wednesday evening at 5.15, His peopleof England discovered how pander to the love of "thrills" able members of the Council who last night were too warm for the Yau Sam $5,000 and the Hon, thoroughfare. to fight spidemica with a certain of a modern crowd.

opposed the new tax the task of linotypes and a breakdown re Secretary $10,000. There is

the Council Chamber the Senate amount of success, and in that

Miss Marie Coxon, the future of the scothing off its rough edges, if sulted, hence this blank."

Hongkong still a balance of $10,000 requir- Viscountess Cholson, is a daugh of. Modicine, together with the College century the population of Eng-

such there be, but, in the in land and Wales increased from

The death is reported at Haned, which the Committed have tor of Mr. George Coxon, of Craig members of the sub-committee of something like, 8,000,000 to

wrests of unirritated discussion, kow of Mr. E. Rocketrol. The undertaken to raise among their leith, Cheltonlin. Among hor the University. The meeting was 32,000,000.

which is so helpful to good deceased, who was universally Chinese friends.. In other words dur-

administration, we would impress popular, cane to Hankow some

sunts are Lady Buchanan-Jardine arranged by Ilis Excellency to ing a single contury the country raised four times as many people

apon them, as well as upon the twenty years ago in the employ vinces of the Mekong valloy con- Charles Elliot, of Penshaw, who which the Senale, and His Excel- The development of the pro and Lady Elliot, widow of Sir discuss and settle the points on The Colony of Hongkong is community in general that, since of Messrs. Carlowitz & Co., but a tinues to be discussed in the Press died a short time ago. Lady loney and the sub-committee (and that despite heavy emigra- face to face today with the most the tax is necessary, the Govern- few years later launched out on of French Indo-China. On the Elliot and her sisters are daugh held diverso viows. It was decm- tion) as in any century of which serious difficulty that can confrontments coup d'etat was made business in his own account in subject of the railway, the con- we have records. If sanitation any state; public body or indivisolely to retain for it its full the firm of Kolkmeijer and sonsue of opinion seems gradually Piorey, of Marchwiel Hall, Den- bodies should meet and dis- tors of the late Mr. Benjamin od advisable Umt, these two and medical science had been as dual, unmoly, the lack of monoy. value and is worthy of admira-Rockstrok porfeel in the reign of Edward It is the duty of every member of tom

coming to be that Frauce should bighshire, and Macomer, Sardinia, cuss, in a spirit of the Confessor, what the popula- the community to do what he can. An honourable-member stated ing gambling warrant last territory and lot Sinam-do the same ing ton of Earl Cadogan, who they were not at one, hofore the While the Police were oxceut- make her own railways in her own Lord Chelsen is the eldest surviv- promise, all points on which tion was supposed to be only to remove this obstacle from the that "ho could not bring himself night at 11 p.m., in No. 8 Posses hors. In any extension of her recently married, as his second University Bill should come up 2,000,000, and if the birth-rate path of our progress. Apart from to believe that there is any ethorsion Street, a man tried to escape railway system to the East, says wife, Countess Adele Palagi. At for consideration at to-day's meet- had been at the same level as the observance of good behaviour, excuse for the enormous difference by means of jumping into the the "Bangkok Times," Siam is of one time Lord Choleca was a ing of the Legislative Council, now, England would now have the individual can only assist between the estimated and the back yard. The unfortunate course strictly bound by the pro- Lieutenant in the 1st Life Guards The Senate met His Excellency 512,000,000 inhabitants, which the Government by the pay actual amount than that there victim lauded on his head, and visions of the Trenty with France, and later was Captain in the 3rd and the sub-commitice, in re- would have been awild absurdity. mont without domur of the must be wholesale smuggling. fractured his skull. He was and will arrange with the Govern Battalion Suffolk Regimont. In anonse to a letter directed to the It would nean more than taxes imposed for the general flow it is carried on, he does not immediately removed to the (tement of tht country with rogard 1895 he became A.D.C. to the Sonto which in mind that His'. 8,000,000 people to the square won, oven though the oros know, and does not attempt to ex-vernment Civil Hospital in an mile, or 10,000 to the acre Had trict his personal liberty, The plain. After all that was said unconscious condition, and a few required, so far as they are not served in the South African War in question address the Scuate to the personnel and the capital Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He Excellency would at the meeting if not boon for the various economic freedom of a state gon with reference to the impossibility' hours later he expired,

exclusively Siamoso,

f with the Mounted Infantry. (on the questions al instte.

of the fact that it is a leason to us

of the necessity, as we have said, of realjusting our views with regard to progress in our groat neighbour."

PLAGUE AS A FRIEND.

thrilling sportlas and sensa- cannot be regarded as either un-kong" is the title of an illustrat tional effevis, pandering guly, to fair or unjust that he should payed article in the "Cablenews-buildings. depraved tastes. The autocracy for the control which ensures the American," dealing with the of commerce, the power of utility, general good. applies to it as it doos to nearly everything in this utilitarian ecodings at the Council meeting; To refer directly to the pro- world. To prove the aeroplano it is said that the Government ofpractical utility is what the new were wholly injustified in rusl school of aviators desire. Thoying"

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a distributor of sidents of Hongkong, we con- by seven to one and a quartor newspapers over a widely scatter-gratulate the Government heartily The Astron won only a foursome, od district, and also carries upon so completing the now law (Pafford and Baker), being beaten lotters and light-paresis in the flat it should lose one of its in every one of the singlés..

area. Ho has proved very fofeo. At this juncture successful in this, and

Mr. W. T. Edward overseer of rapidity with which the delivery nature in such manner that the English mail, after a trip a. restriction of this the P.WD., returned yesterday by is made is highly satisfactory, it would lose by delay half home. Some time ago he had the There is quite as much "thrill its value would be the essence misfortune to fracture his log on. as is needed in this getting the of bad

THE COLONY'S DIFFICULTIES.

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