LOG BOOK.
The appropriation of $3,000 000 for the start of the fortifica. tions of the l'aumum Canal passed the House of Representatives after a sharp asul interesting de bate. This is regarded as a great triumph for President Taft's ad &ministration.–
THE HONGKONG
SAIL TONNAGÉ IN DE-
MAND
TELEGRAPH
SATURDAY
A philanthropist is a man who is good after ho gets it; not while he is golling it—"Pick," Now York.
Operatie tenors are pootie and romantic objects in theory. In pratico they are apt to materialise as portly gentlemen of earthy character and lamentably proente habits-Daily Chronicle
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The model husband is not yet oxtinct. Thore to still many wives who believe in him, but, alas! his peculiarities are in montable. To begin with ho invariably belongs to the other wonin→ Bloks of To-glay,"
The fact that a-young lady who recently received a number of blows on the skull from violont burglar is said to owo her life to the possession of ti fine howl of Intir will, it is thought, load do many ladies sleeping with their
hair on.-"'unch."
Tio, cum for ifto Bill was pat
ILLEGAL DEOK CARGO, -vory effentirely by. Mr. Charles Before the Liverpool stipondi- Booth, Jin, the other day. Heary magistrate, Maurico Hanson, Messrs. Armstrong, Whitworth
pointed out in the wording of muster of the Norwegian staam- & Co., Walker, havo sretroil or rehunt Supping Act is ship Spien, lying in the Queen's dors to build two fairly large had to justify the Bird of Trade Dock, was charged with having steamers for injansso-owners.
in holding that the shipowner on Jun. 1) carried on board, in cannot grant an allotment to an uncovered space, olivo woo for a larger sum than half is as deck cargo, continis to section He also drew attention to the furt 10 of the Moreliant Shipping Act that a clauso in this Act of 16 1900. Defendant pleaded guilty, roudorsitillagal to pay alloquents and said he did not know he was at shorter intervala mu no doing anything unlawful. Mr. month. Mr. Both argues that Pesten, for the Board of Tracie, this is mistaken pulty in said the wood amounts in volven tho wives-and-children wright to about tons, her size of seamen in unnecessary infer of the stuellest, pivo doing over ALLAN LINE WAGES.
ing. It loves it to the seaman ruble fest, and the largest 24 This Allan Ling directors have to draw an pomocéssarily large cobie fest, so that if the pieces announced their intention of rain, balance at the end of the voyage, I had broken adrift they might havo ing the pay of their deck officers and invited to dissipation (bul [caused considerable trouble, A all round. In future this chief thriftlessness on that decount. If fino of £7-40%. with £2 10s, costs, olliders of the turbine bouts will thôre were any-pirticular reason was imposed.. "receive £18 a month, instead of "for sint duing the presont limi £15 as horetofore; flat second tations, the Bill might perhaps Collicer will gel 212, instead of ́demand careful scrutiny. But CM 108; and the extra second seeh røgson is not obvious, Be officer £11, instead of 10-10%, siles, the measure is permissive, ghis ruling for outwitri coul The cynpiratively high froi while the third and fourth officers The shipowner may grant allot- respectively will get andet notes for largest from, the port of Cardiff hasing Society Ildly ulvanced the
tonge for most destinations
A spankenstal Brixton Debut- £8105, in lieu of E8 1, and shiver porios, or he may not served to turn charteris attentheory that the groat constructive We daresay there are diption to sail tonnage, and during steamers of the line the rites will owners who will say that the the past work or so quito a ubte now be he follows chief atheers, whole thing is very trumpery, worthy demand has sprung up 2015 instead of eldi secool and hardlyworth bothering stiut for sailing ressols says The officers, 104, instead of But we have toit the word of Shipping Cazetio", of Mareli 3. 210 10.; third officers, es 10s, Booth that there are Liverpool Whilst the latter are, of course, instead of t8; and fourth officers, Shipowners who, in the men's in comparatively difficult to obtain £7 10s., insterul of £7.
A pre treats, grand allotments for larger the rates demanded, nevertheless, portionate increase has liten mundo sus than half-pay, and pay them ir the salaries of the commanders.' rekly or fortnightly. At pre-are appreciably lower than those now citront for steam tonnages, sant they do this at their own The in piries at present on the WHITE SEA FISHERIES. risk.. Why stuld there be any market, include orders for many The Rassim reply to the British risk? Why should shipowns of the long distance trades, es protest on the subject of the not ho allowed to what they cially the Far East month While Son Fisheries Bill, while shiink right in this motter, with- three-mile limit, is uiterstou to being told that they are acting ill-ionou, for which ports 98: was, vessels recently fixed were for 'contain certain points on which, egally? As Mr. Booth so forepaid, as compared with the ene further negotiation is invitel. ible says, the majority of ship,rent rate of 78. 9d. for steamers,
owners can hardly be expected whilst a sailing ship has a to carry out this roform while the boon chartered for Montevideo Rå law stands as it is."Shipping 15s, or 3. bolow the rates, con- (Gazetto.”
manded by steamers.
£7 104. In the caso of the “olhor.
power shown in Alt. Thomas, Hardy's novels was due to his early training as an architect! This loves us a tinte uncertain as novelist's skill at finding good to whether a certain other popular situations is due to early training ay a registry-office keeper.
Black and White,
TRAGEDY.
She'll be married to-night! And
I'll be there to são The fan; and tho tears, and
the joys *
APRIL
LADIES" COLUMN,
1911
Most summer dresses will there was no one to Involong coats to match or and we were obliged what will probably happon is to their fate. On the this: women, who cannot afford had turned just as
have every dress complete in Both of the men at thi itself, will arrange thoir whole beon washed overbod wardrobe in uno schemo of colour,nover seen again, whit and they will have one Liberty tain, who had been the coat and one chiffon cont, both of man on the poop, hand which will go with no inntfor what solf by springing into t dress they may bo wearing. The rigging. From thoro ho shape of these long costs hus the sea sweep over changed very little from last your, and lie asserts most solom exopt that most of the new ones at one moment the vo show the sleeves lot in at the buried full twenty foot be shoulders, rather than having surface of the son thom cht-without-sean-theyupporod to hit that she need to be. Thioro is no doubt but novor come up agains that they are extremely becoining, sho did is wond and there is one model which haswator had poured in th
little rucho round the edge and saloon and foropoak,
ruched draped capo round the fortunately the hold wont shoulders, which is altogether de wero unshipped or she could lightful. For the economical have come to the surface woman, whether by choice or from Every hatin the clocks had s the force of circumstance, washed clean away or smash should advise quite the plainest its bod, and oven had won model possible, and have the able to work thgalip inanat
“voile de sole" in blue or black. no bot to lower in search of material good. A wearable black to save those who had been Libogly with a dull face and a od overboard, wo would have or brown, in whatever is the thom. Just what happened dominant shathe in her summer cause her to broach to at such dresseg, will carry her nably unfortunate moment will, novom through the most trying season if known as the two man who w they are well eat and of guid responsible for it had been wash texture." Pall Mall Qazoite." overboard, but tho skipper thin they must have misundersto some gesture of his and pat t helin-down just as the heavie so was rolling up. Luckily the whool was uninjured and the ship had come up into the wind ami was lying comfortably hovel boon washed out of the bolt ropos to the reafed foresnil having
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TRIMMINGS... Buttons are still being used ht quantities, but aithor they are very small and placed very closely together, so na to look more like-u bit of button passementerie, or they are large and of rate into rial, suoli as cornolin, jado, lupis lazuli, real old paste, bronze, or silver. In fact, it is better to have no buttons at all unless one can havo-thiom very good or unless one is satisfied to have them simply covered by the stuff of the gown. By thin way, though blue dress trimmed with buttons of cherry-coloured foulard spotted white looks very woll indeed, and a striped black and white dress trimmed with plain black Liborty-covered buttons looks woll also. Another simple dross af Boor's was in black Liberty, with the favourito deep yoko of duil blus Liberty trimmed with tiny black satin buttons in long
Anothor trimming which is my lines which ran down the sleeves, and the effect was very good. ing a hugo success for eveningaud restaurant drones is the the die mond bending which outlines the plain cressway lilius su pitch in fashion, edges elbow-alouros, waist to fall eventually in two and trickles found a slender scintillating rivers of light down the skirt at the side. Gold and silver lace have almost disuppor ng drassos, or orionally, to od except to form capes on oven-
drape ona shoulder whilst the other is voiled with soft thread
The worst five minutes I ever lace or chillou. Striped ribbon remember occurred to me about fashion for "ingerie" and foulardiste of the full riggod ship
condition we Ind hot so much dressus, and their smartness is Ainsdale coming round the form id contend with. There were only. undeniable; lat; predominant in before-heavy gile and high, women, the captain and mysolf. place which may be applied, or following son. We had beenrant to turn to and we four had to used, as u veiling, be veiled, or boning before it all night and as the could for the infared; though work tho ship and do what wo turned into a bolero or a Wottonwhit was gradually increasing aftor that luge wave not another tram, or even into a butterfly bowlis old mu dovided, at about ten Bush, starting from the middle of 'clock in the morning, to try and sea broke on board the ship. It tho back.
hoave her to. We shortened sail seemed as if all the waves for down to the three lower topsails trated into ono immouse moun- sovoral milos had been concor- and roofed foresail and at four tain of wator that in the space boils all hands were called out to of two minutes wrought as much braco up. Two hands were sont havoc as if ammo had explod- to the wheel to get the helmed on the deck of the old Ains Toriels chez Redfern, with skirts
down quickly when a smooth
dale."The Leading Light so discreetly full, conter so clowly in and the rest of the hands were cut, and with trimmings so saber lationed at the leo for braco and yet so rich, that I cannot but rently ti brace up, while the mate Ulink
Fund-Intood-at-tho-weather-benCES: a great, many women
i fauciork I noticed her coming up will allow their own; natural |
into the wind before any word had good taste und sound common be given by the captain, for the 80180 Lo interveni botarven thin, ercontrie noroin- one sees
MY MOST EXCITING EXPERIENCE.
ON SEA
asserting a right to extend the gut having to take the clung off Ainorica. A couple of sailing she'd be hurt, to be sure, were sushes will probably come into nine yours ago when I was second by the sen, so ib;our - disablod
THE PACIFICA A
SHIPPINÅ VE CRONSTADT-
CURRENT WIT OF THE
WORLD.
Nature is made woman-more garrulus dan nian, and man ongonragos.her in remaining, so.
The placing of four larger liners -of the C.P.R, in the Trans-Pacific trade, two next spring and two the spring following is not the only dovelopment anticipated in
Mr. Hans Smith, writing from the Pacific trade. The big Lueoric: Cringbault, says his is informed and Orterie will augment the from reliable quarters that during Weir Line this your. The Nippon the coming navigation the help of Yuson Kaishu hassis liners unter the-authorities-with-reggard-to- construction, the first of which is improvement in the discharging expectail to reach Victoria noxt and loading of steamres in apring, and the Pacific Mail has Croust it may be rockoned pun, amonneed for its San Francisco, and the owners may expect the norvice the proposed construction sumo quick despatch which was of two liners of 40,000 tons dis given at Cronstadt Some Fearsome at 22, 24 104, or £5?" placement with accommodation" ago. for 500 salom pissongers-vessels of the type of the George Wish- inglon in the. Atlantic to be roady in three fears.
HUDSON BAY ROUTE.
De Wilfred T. Girenfell, in.) the case of a paper on Libra- slon," read before the Royal Gro graphical Soviciy, said the important question as to whether ;
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Now York American."
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*Which hit shall have
"Child, wo really" must "go" slowly."
"Oh, all right, then--I'll tako, the ono ni 21 104,!"? -
Meggendorfer Blattar."
English audiences, according
HAS NO ADMIRAL, San Francisco, March, 15- The second division of the Pacific" available for the wheat transport action, It is lucky they do not the Judson Bay routo would la to Mrs, Kendal, always" want. flect will be without an Admiral of North-West Graula depended always want neting, for, they in command until the end tests largely on the lateness with which soldom get it," Pall Mall being unde by pho cruisers West navigation could be carried on. Gazette." -Virginia and Maryland are com- Their öxperiences seemed to show ploted, some weeks from now that freqistently it would be inrerasionally we meet a young The twe officers mentioned as possible to get inur ut till late in man who is willing to go through being in ling for appointment to "Julg, but that enough floe ice anything for a girl ho loves the coniund of the second dixis cumulated to prevent a properly including her fortine San sion are Rear-Admiral W. H. 1. quippod vessel of large size Francisco Chronicle. Sutherland, now on shore duty, from getting through the struits and Rear Admiral W. C. Cowles, till the end of October. He was at present commandant at Hong lulu,
The craisers West Virginia and Maryland, which returned Weluosday orening for the
Te
We had a mind to sing of spring
Whon from tho kitchon.cand
this ery:
"The water pipes are frozon!"
"Allentown Democrat,"
alent for sha...
Was tay playmnto when I was
a boy. My playmato! Ali, yts; and the
chum of my youthi,. And my idol, as yours took
"their lights The one girl of all that I caro
** for; in truth— And sho's going to be married
to-night! Does she dream” how it's liarting
my heart to bo liore? Can Sho guess all the anguish
I'll feel?
र
Slio may look in my eyes-will
she know, will who caro For the pain that my face may
Will she note if Liuddor in sul-
den afright
At the solomu words sealing
my doom?
Will she pity mo? Ah, who can
toll? For, night
She'll be married. And, I am
the groom!
"Boston Traveller,"·
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LIBERTY COATS AND SKIRTS.
Those will be worn again, but morn in colour thun in black, for have seen some mest attractive
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PUNCH'S" LATEST.
AN ENGLISHMAN'S HOME.
[The women of Switzerland are grant any more-hall-holidays potitioning the Government not ano, when their husbands come homo-early, they do not know what to do with thom- solves and aro a nuisance in tho
I would fly to Little Girlie and When they closed the offico early, honouring the King or Queen,
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sea appoured to be running out most places, and theso her i heard a shout from the more on the weather quartor. fortable and becoming suits; and in the and they will decide for corp and thinking, that must be fort and god taste. ting was in the order to braco up, wo started to slack away to windward. By bronze green with gold silk then the sea was nearly when braidered collar, and culls, and a the theatre.
1 can nover take my wife toth of the same round the kean running to a height that is only use sear before might be improper be with highs of striped blurns off the pins, a huge roller Pisces I haven' of the skirt, another was in a just as wo started to take the seon in the vicinity of the Horn, and anything-go to a second and lite, and cuffs to match; time is suro to,bo!"
"Simpliceissimus," Munich.
and both had short, slightly full skirts. OUR DIARY. Saturday, 1st April. Oxford and Cambridge Concert, City Hall,
Monday, Ard "April. Hongkong Chamber of Con
Dinner,
roaring down upon us we lay helpless broadside on to it. I know it is no use my attempt-
Quite a novelty was a striped black and white dress with a coating to atate the height of the sea, tuie of black suedo trimmed with for your readers would not Dinner.lug-black buttons. The line of
halioré mo.. Inly know that this dress was very good, and the when I wound my arms round spodo coat, cut away in front, was the spindle of the winch which subtle in tone and vory pliable to
was near by and looked up at the figure. **:
the son as it rolled down on us, it appeared like koking up the side of a hill. In another moinent it, was upon us and was no noise and no roar of avorything grew dark. There broken water on the decks, for the tremendous wave swept cloan over us and wo were as complete. ly buried as though we were laid
--- Kowloon "Bowling Club Mool-
ing.
Extraordinary Meeting, 11.30am
A. S. Watson & Co.,, Fad.,
Tuesday, 4th April. Hongkong Fire Instiranco Ltd, Extraordinary Meeting,
Orina Recital... Bello View Hotel Skating
Noun.
of opinion that seldom oven in More Mexican rellsapparently November would hindrance from any killed and captured by the that ease be insuperable. As Government's telegraph service for winter harbours, any outside than by its military servico.merco harbour as far north as Hamilton Now York World," lower civist where they engaged Inlet would be available for sait| . in coal tests, will be in the ablo bouts almost up to Clirist- bour for about a week. It is amas, unless in very exceptional in verses 'bout a dozen, derstood that they will then
years. Thé Harmsworth" paper proceed to the Sound.
From the tests made thus far Bay, on the coast of Now- mills, whose port was Greer of the Eastern and Pacific Coast Joundland, hadi eval, the former, it is said, has ed two steamers with 5,000 now septic- ...been found to be most suitable.
for steaming, although the pro- of making regular voyages to and kas, vapacity, with the intention duct of the northern mines is from England all winter long cheaper than that which comes in this with are (and no doubt from the Atlantic range.
with some delay) ho hnd every faith they would succeed. If so, "SEAMEN'S, ALLOTMENTS. Í
a tünel uiter the Straits of A Bill of a very few words deals Belle Isle, to carry a railway ing with the question of seamen's (direct to that" port, wonki bo of allotments has been introduced immense valție în Canada, and into the House of Commons by would link all the possessions of Mr. Holi. It provides that by. British North America with new agreement with the mistor, an aid firmer bands. allotment note may be grantedl
ult
nival,
Wednesday, 5th April. Licensing Board Meeting, 2.15,
night in a pokor game losing his A man who can stay, up money can go to sleep in the first paragraph of a lecture on how to
vo his country." Judgo;". Now | pan, York.
What above all else we want in this island of intellectual dis- honesty is someone who will tell us the truth and chance it," H: C. Wells is pre-eminently that man."Tho.Now Age,"
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for ́s greator sum than one-half LEYLAND LINE RUMOURS. of the wages, and may provide With reference to the fumuonr People who read the nows for paymmit at a period earlier than the Preference shares of the papers are already begiming to than one al frean the date Løyland Lincare. Being largely, "skip" details about the L'orona- of the agreement,und at-intervals, parcharod by, Sir John Ellerina tion, and thoro can be little doubt more frequent than one mouth, with a view to a deal, it is worth that those amongst us who con Wo do not know what clasice the while relling that the anle of leave London Behind us for a Bill has of gettingon to tliautatute this Morgan Combina by Sir John time will be wise to do so, lost book, but those who have the Ellman of some 1,000,000). we dig of Coronationitis-The welfare of the seam at heart worth of shares (Ordinary it is | Looking Glass."
Flairsday, Gli April. Toorangi Rubber Company Moeting, 4.30 p.nL..........
Friday, 7th April Bandmann Opora Co, opens. Saturday, 8011 April, V.R.O. Athletic Sports. Kowloon C.C. Dinnor.
THE IDEAL AFTERNOON
GOWN,
charming for an afternoon dress I can think of nothing moro than a niode! I saw at Boor's the other day. The underdress wat in beige Liberty, tight-fitting to the figure and narrow in the skirt,
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my cot at Goldor's Green; Swiftly? Lightning wasn't in
it! Nowly wedded, would I miss
'en the fraction of a minute of my sweet domestic bliss? Gully Girlie used to great ine,
with a hammer in her hand, Edwin, dear,. the pictures beat
pe! On the stops I cannot stand.
Twice the naughty hammer light- ed on your Girlio's little thumb;
Edwin, I am so excited that my
ownest own has come."
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Then we sought our occupations.
On a chair my Girilo sat. And lirooted operations-kopt me doing this and that;
And
A.I
she passed severest strictures on my hand and on my eye
I
hung askew the picturos, as
made the plaster fly.
When the feast of good St. Michael warned that summer joys must conso, "
would bid me clean her cycle, coating it with wintry groase;" And I toiled for hours together, viselining spokos and rims, With a rag and chamois leather,
till-l ached in all my limbs. When thore came upon the tapis
first a loss and Then a lad, Girlie used to make them happy. at the thought of ten wilh Dad;
and it was voiled with a full over at the bottom of the son. dress of navy bluo "voile de soie," It seemed like an hour to me Car-which was embroidered round before the last of the wave had the foot with lovely rich tones of gone over us and it was jupos Porsian-red silks; the corsago was sible to tell if the ship was still ombruidered in the same silks in alioat or under the surfines of the the form of a bolero slmped like dica. When it did eloar away and buttorily wings, and in colours as we were ablo to look-round -n beautiful to middle of the luck sight met or oyes that I shall showed a dull gold laetle, and naver forget. Fourteen men hadShe the "guimpe," with no collar, was; been at thin ico fore brace a mo- of plain blue chiffon, the sleeves ment before and now only eight being of the same material remained and thoy.yero scattered and reaching soft and plain-to about the deck groaning and the ollow. Many of the after-cursing, while the other six had noon drosses slowed the full ben-swept clean overboard. Of qvordress from the high waist those left on the decks hardly one To, mad the effect is most graceful was uninjured, one man living over the very elinging under-sustained a compound. fracture dress. It is of the greatest of both legs, hid another had importance that this underdress boti kuces dislocated, whila And he I was fingered jammily by ahould be very clinging and with others had a broken arm or log-adhesive little cubs... out any fulness in the skirt, because otherwise the entire dress would look lieavy and thosil houette would lose its fineness. It is quite easy to work out lovely schiomos of colour in simple gowns of this kind and at really very small expense. Inugino what could be dono with peacock blues, roso-potal pinks,golden brownis, or even in diferont slides of white and grepin.
Saturday, 15th April.. Gymkhana Mosting. A.A.A. Cross Country Run/
Monday, 17th April. Lusitano Recreation Club Sports, at Happy Yalloy, 1 pm. will wish its promoters nil fuccos. boljoved) in the Leyland Line was
Tuesday, 18th April. It points to a reform which may end of the earliest of the bigship
Criminal Sessions. have considorable advantages to ping deals associated with his Beomen and their families, parti amo. It would indeed be rather
Wednesday, 26th April. cularly where the men are in regn extraordinary to find a shipowner
Union Insurance Company lar employment. It is a reform, who had sold his interest-in-n -H-you-have-n: conforsion-to-Mooting, Noon- too, which nood not necessarily steamship line at a good profit make, sell it to a magazine,! China Traders Company Moet prejudice the shipowner. ́miot trying to buy back again,
“Atobisan Globe”
log, 12.30 p.mas
Mean streets iko'.mann'mon, "Citizen.”
**
Girlie used to leave her family for an evening at her clubs. When they close tho. office oarly, honouring the, King or Queen,
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and sundry, bruinos about the body. The mate, who had not been as fortunato as myself-in finding something to cling to, had bean furled sing the deck until ho had come irr contact with tho gypsy of the main pump which bad broken his log and two ribs In tlie circumstances, it was ullor ly impossible to rendor any aid to the six unfortunato men who had Do I prosecuta my slumbers in my hoen carried over the side, for office chair instead
Do I fly to Little Chilio, and my
cot at Colder's Groen,jandr when in their enger numbers. my follow-clarks have
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