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provides that whore proceedings are taken in any Court, for the recovery of money lent, or for the enforcement of an agreement in rospect to money-leut, and it is proved that the amounts charged A. §. WATSON & for expenses, etc., or interest, are

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excessive, the court may relieve the debtor of any sum in excess of that adjudged to be reasonable, and further if any sum has already boon paid in excons, it shall be refunded to the debtor.

There are other provisions in clause 1 that are worthy of com- mont, but that along is the finest

piece of social reform that the Govorumont could introduce..

Looked at from all points it is on admirable measure. It secures to the borrower, with good orodit, the loan of money at reasonable in- torost, it raises a barrior againet

those whose security is of such a risky nuture as to call for licavy WHISKYury, and protects the money

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londer himself from that be-| setting fault of overweighing his debtor with a huge burden of interest. Such a measure is one of all round protection, and though the saving of the money londor from himself is no concern of ours, we cannot but feel grati- fiod with a proposal which in- stitutes a double check on those whose business is full of tempta- tion to emulate Shylock.,

Admirable as this provision may be, we must confess to greater pleasure in the clause

which renders registration ab

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY MAY 12 1911

Trudy Lugard is "At Home" to-day.

Ono case of plague (fatal) was reported yesterday.

The Indramayo took on board 8,000 tons of sugar at Iloilo,

Mr. W. D. Barnos, loaves Mar- The how Colonial Secretary, acilles to-day for Hongkong.

Rod. Stanton, who put up a very good fight with Bill Lewis at the City Hall, Hongkong, moots heavier man to-morrow in Manila.

The Festival of Empire opens

The French Mail of the 11th. April was delivered in London on May 11.

On Tuesday next the Queen Victoria Memorial will be unvoll. ed in London,

The members of the White Rose of Yorkshire Lodge of pionie and moonlight trip to P.O.G.T, havo; arranged for a

morrow.

A farmer of the village of Fun Shan reports to the police that at 9 a.m. on the 11th inst., three a armed men entered his father's

house and look $13.

to-day in London. An army of 0,000 workmen have been om- ployed on the grounds for some time past.

Mr. Lovolt M. Wood left Hong-

keng to-day on the Tenyo Marn Hongkong in October, and then for Japan. He hopes to return to proceeds to the Philippines.

Mr. Myron H. Chandler, of the Bureau of Health, Philippines, who has been horo conducting investigations as to the manner in returned to-day by the Kumano which ford is made in Hongkong, Maru to. Manila.

The Christian Union meeting, on Monday, the 15th inst., will bo conducted by Pastor Muller. He will give an account of his work in connection with the will be hall at St. Stephen's Foundling House. The mooting" College at 5.30 p.m.

solutely obligatory. The amount

J. Freeman, president of the of the registration fee is $10 Glen-Ary Coal Co., of Indiana, and tho monog

arrived in Manila ca thosteamship lender

Loongsang from Hongkong. Mr. registered for three years, rone-Freeman is one of the big con able on application, for the megnates of Indiana and is mak privilege of carrying on one of the ing a tour around the world.. most lucrative of business, a feo equivalent to $3.30 por annum A. S. WATSON & is to be paid, it cannot be

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The object of this paper ta to publiah correct information, to serve the truth and print the nowe without fear or

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To-morrow night and during the coming week there will be mammoth programme presented at the Bijon Theatre. The Flower Street Pierrots, staged by Mr. R. Stephenson and assisted by Miss Grace Wilson, Miss May Maxwell, Miss Gracy Vyvesne and Mr. Charles MacKaye, will appear.

That all vessels arriving in Manila from Hongkong will have to anchor in the harbour instead of coming direct to the piers is the possibility raised by the presence of plague liore.

A telegram has been received

from the Japanese Wireless Telo graph Station in Formose, by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., stating that tho fog in the Formosa Channel, and mail steamer Delta is delayed by that she is not expected to arrive in Hongkong until Saturday morning.

Captain Outerbridge, of the steamer Tean, which arrived in Manila on the 5th from Hongkong, gave somo very interesting facts about the plague in Hongkong. De says that the plague is confin- od entirely to one strook, and that the authorities have it well in anxiety among European ro- hand. It is not causing any sidents, but every precaution is being taken to prevent its spread to other ports.

FIGHTING THE OPIUM

FIEND.

Writing in "Everybody's Magazine," under the leading of "China's Grapple with the Opium Evil" Mr. Edward Alsworth Ross, has many interesting things to say;

minimum aro. Five years ago,

expected to tench nothing but the self long ago. If it were in the olassio loarning Newspapors nature of opium-smoking, to con- did not oiroulato. Private assoaia-fine its ravages to fools and weak- tions even innocent societies for lings; if out of each generation moral purposes, woro, under the it killed off the two or three per ban of government. Above all, cont. of least foresight or feeb women, the natural foss of des leat solf-control, it might bo tructive vice, were dumb. One looked upon as the winnower of of the greatest forces behind the obaff; and society might safely temperance movement in the West concede a man the right to go to has been the influence of women, the devil in his own way and at

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were using seventy times as much rallying, organizing, and agitat his own pace. But the vice was

Four years ago the Chinese opium as they wore using in 1800. ing in defence of the home. In not so discriminating. Like ar Annually, twenty-two thousand China not tons of the drug were absorbed, thousand can road. most of it converted into thick have no part in discussion, from woak tissue, to sound, till the woman in a gangrene it ato deeper and deeper Women into the social body, spreading smoke and inhaled by a legion of no place in public life, and honco very future of the Chinese raco smokers ostimated to number at no monne of voicing the woo that was at stoko. least twenty-five millions. In the comes to them from the prevalenco Now, liquor is to us what opittm plentiful and choop that a shock What finally moved the Im-public opinion and laws had been Poppy provinces opium was 80 of the opium habit.

is to the yellow man. If our ing proportion of the adult popula-perial Government, at a great so long inert with respect to tion became addicted to the habit. sacrifice of public rovenuo, to alcohol as China hus been with In Szechuan, in the cities half of ontor on its gigantic straggle was respect to opium, wo might havo the men and a fifth of the womon not so much pity for the wreck suffered quits as severoly as hvo camo to smoke opium; in the coun- and misery caused by the seduc- the Chinese. The lesson from try the proportions were fifteen tive unrcotio, as a realizing sense the Oriont is that whion sooloty: per cent, and five per cont., ro- of the weakness of the Chineso realizes a destructive private men out of four wore said to be Western Powers. The reign of question to consider isnot whetlier spectively. In Kansul three nation in the presence of the habit is eating into its vitale, the smokors. In western Shensi wo apathy and selfishness among the to attack that habit, but how. came upon districts where wo Chinese, their lack of public spirit the women above forty smoked. moments were inviting treatment were assured that nino tenths of and offective cooperationat critical Iu Yunnan the principal inquiry ever more aggressive and ruth- in matrimonial negotiations was loss. It became clear oven to "How many opium-pipos in the the haughty and hidebound Man- An express train of the Peking family? "this boing, a certain chu that unless the people speedi- Hankow railway was derailed test of its financial standing. ly renounced the vico that was un-some distance from Ching Ting Whole populations and given dermining their virility, and re- at 11 o'clock a.m. on the 28th themselves up to the seductive covered their normal resisting ultimo. To express train left pipe and were sinking into a power, there was no hope for China Hankow with a full complement state of indescribable lethargy, among the nations. misery, and degradation.

of passengers, and maintained a The famous Anti-Opium Edict good spood all the way. Nothing The pipo has a peculiar sodue-issued by the Empress Dowager, happened until some distanco tion for the Chinese because their September 20, 1900, which com- from Ching Ting when indulge in none of slant innocent consumption of opium should Two old sleepers on the line lives are so bare of interest. They manded that the growth, sale, and first class carriage was derailed. Association of men and women

conso in the Empire within ton gave way, and this was the causo which contributes such a chain roars, was the opening gun in of the nooidant. The country is to the life of the West, Tho

what is undoubtedly the most ex-flat. The engine went on for Chinese take to their twin vices tensive warfare on a vicious private about 300 or 400 yds. before the A wireless message was received from the P and O. steamer as a relief froin the dreary flatness fict has raged over a territory as The passengers on board the train habit that the world has over driver discovered that the car opium-smoking and gambling- Delta" to-day to the effect that that results from enating aside

known. The colossal moral con-ringos-nd-been loft bohind. the vessel was fog-bound and most of the things which make life vast as the United States. Hand- veru panic-stricken, and the could not arrive till to-morrow. interesting, in the mad endeavour reds of thousands of officials, guard at once telegraphed to A Mr. Henry Dallas and his to maintain the largest possible gentry, students, merchants, and Ching Ting for assistanco.

Follies" had booked their pas sago to Hongkong on board this number of luman beings on the it. Blood has been shed and pro-line was damaged, and they den-koppers have been drawn into Unfortunately the telegraphio steamer, the vessel's late arrival the Philippino Opium Commission perty has been destroyed on a had no alternative but to sead will prevent them from appearing observed in its report: doubted that the bill is undoubt

at the Theatre Royal to-night.

great seale. The stake is the lives the engine on to Ching Ting odly a good one and that it will

The usuagement his asked us to poorly provided with food as the say nothing of the oncoming gen- minister and his suite, together have a boneficial offect on lonn

notify the public that any seats indigent Chinese, or so destitute the assured indspondonce of the Board of Foreign Affairs to A certain foreign. "What people on earth are so ofsome millions of opium users, to for help. which might have been booked for of amusement as all Chinese, both the Yellow Itaco and its eventual welcome him, wero on board. The orations: The guerdon of victory with the deputies despatched by, transactions, and be a protection

to-night's advertised performance rich and poor? There are no participation on equal terms with minister was slighted injured on to the borrower against the de- mands of the nsurer. That alone

aro therefore cancelled, and outdoor games in China, or, in the White Race in the control of the hand. justifios its introduction, and wo

holders of, tickets can have their doubt not that the judges in the quitoes waged so successfully in the video to nonpay and dreariness seem to prevail the poppy are full of the Ara-were many European ladies. An

That the crusade against mos-money refunded to them on returned, any games except in a gam- the destinies of the planet,

bling senso. Absolute dullness

Thirty seven passengers were courts will be able to settle money which bogan its work under the

Manila by the mosquito brigade positively appear to-morrow night.olsewhere.

The ins and outs of the fight on wounded and among them As these two demons lending actions with more satis-direction of Dr. Charles S. Banks,

drive the Chinese to opium. Asbian Nights" flavour. When tlio American tourist was also injured. faction to themselves than line government entomologist, may hitherto been the case.

an individual may by habitual magistrate proclains the Anti-The tourists on board the disabled. oxtond to every province in tho

toil and attention to business be-Opium Edict and announces that train at once took some snap shots Philippines, is the possibility:

coms incapable of amusemout, so cultivators in a body call upon hunters took pieces of the broken he intonda to see it obeyed, the of the accident, and tho curio raised by the dotermination of the

a race of almost incredible anti- directors of the summer normal

quity, which has foiled for millon-him, grovol on their faces, remind alcopers away with them as a school now in session to distributo

him that he is the "father and souvenirs of the accident, niums, may likewise reach a point mother" of them all, and beseech Mossre, Polishwalla and Kotwall in its development where the state that since their last report faculty of being amused may have him to save them from ruin by on the 31st ult. by the a.s. Assayo atrophiod and disappeared, so letting then grow their poppy a sudden revolutionary rising in that all that remains of that de just this season. Of course there Canton and several other southern sire is to spend leisure in placi- ground for the official who is open month, the warrant officors pro- Two naval "commissions from? is a fat bribe lurking in the back-the ranks" were gazetted last A Manila contemporary has districts had hampered the trade, dity. taken an alarmist view of the which land further depressed the so much to this as opium. In to that sort of persuasion; and moted being Chief-Gunners G

And nothing contributes Telegraph The final of the lawn tennis plague which is running riot yarn market in the first part of Formosa the merry Japanese boys former at heart or else afraid of Mascall and G. B. Frew, misfors

tournament of the longkong in Hongkong and claiming scores the interval. Cricket Club was to be brought of victims in the capital of Japan."

aro teaching the placid Chinese of to-day. The honvy downpour When it is pointed out that since ed soon, by the stringent measures vaulting, etc., with the view the wholly obdurato. The salary and resource during the severa The trouble having been quell-Inds to play tennis, football, pole, losing his place, he is not Service Crosa for his gallantry merofficer gained the Conspicuous of rain mado this impossible. the first day of January there have taken by the Chiness Governmont, Japanese teachiora say-of impro he has somehow to squeeze 1000, He led the boarding party

of the mandarin is nominal, and not been 30 cases, perhaps the the business soon resumed aving them physically and also of

fighting at the Taku Fortsin June, The Budget will probably bo paper in question will not use norinal tone. introduced in the House of Com-lungange based probably upon

developing in them a love of living income out of his district. |mons on Monday.

The present low rates tempted sports which will prevent then the farmers resort to ruso. They troyers which were firing upon in cutting out the Chinese des But if importunity avails not, uureliable information. In ac a few spoculative buyers to appear from wishing to spend their loi- There will be a sale of Crown laws, everything possible is being a moderately good business and the poor, who have no food, or so main road--behind walls or trees The rising genaration of naval cordance with English sanitary in the market, which resulted in sure indoors smoking opium. And in out-of-the-way places off the Loong, renamed the "Taku is raiso tho poppy in small patches our men, one of which, the Hai, of the Home government, a bill, lau at the Public Works Depart-done to obliterate the disease. called "The Moneylondor's Ordin-monton Monday, at 3 pan.

about 2,000 balos were put little that any drug which re-or up a little side valley or they officers will long remember in the Navy at the present time. ance 1911,"lus been introduced

through at a further decline of moves-first-the pange of hunger, ont off the loaves and flowers so Lintonant Mascall, who was for couraging to induce other large appetite, seems a boon to them. $1 to $2: There is nothing en- and later the healthy cravings of tlie much on the same lines

crop can not be recognized at a distance. They rely on steer- the Home Act of 1900, the or-

quiet. Judging from the present and well-being that often accom of the "runners" sent out from the dinance will bo welcomed horo

On the watch of money condition of the market it is not panies the smoking of opini, magistrate's headquarters to look At the magistracy t-day into the hands of the ncsters of

a ou account of the relief to buChinoso, who had returned from the thireo card trick. The botting expected that a further declino and it is not difficult to see why for infractions of the Edict. I granted to the debtor who has banishment, was istened to laws of the Colony are strict, but will set in and the market closes the indigent Chinoco use it. Wo by stress of circumstances boen wolve monilis' hard labour. there seems to be a laxity in quiet but steady,-

administer morphine to roliere nevertheless, the mandarin beare' forced to borrow money at usurious

carrying those laws into effect.

pain. The life of the indigent comes in his big greou sedan his gallantry in the attack on

poppy-growing and One seldom sees a policeman in

Chinese coolio is pain caused by chair, borne on the shoulders of interest. In the present state of

this road, and in their absence it

privation. The opium sot is an four hearers, with a force of mon business morality the money

is no wonder that such scones

object of pity rather than of con- to pull up the outlawed plants, were witnessed. Such gambling Mr. Elborough's Terin v. Mr. II.

In the interport practice mateli, tempt." loving crowds, Hays our reader,

One may wonder why the can- may be met by the men of several

the tactics enddenly clatige. Ho Expedition. Hancock's on Saturday at 2 cer was allowed to ent so deeply confederated villagested with are quite common in the city.

"Blazon it to the sky, A Chinese mandarin, staying

p.m., the following have been into the social body. To be sure, sickles, pitchforks, and billhooks,

writes a Manilon homeward bound on. be ablo to demand, and secure, at the Stig Hotel, engaged a

selected to play for Mr. Hancock'e the hands of the Government and intent on mischief. At Wu- the Chiyo Maru, says the Manila more than a fair interest on money.

The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice team-H. Hancock, R. Hancock, were tied by the treaty privileges kung last spring the mou put to rickshaw to take him to a tailor's Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals C. T. Hoso, T. E. Poarce, II. R. of the trade in foreign opium. fight the entellites of the magie the mud for three hours in good Times," that the Chiyo stuck in lent, has been a crying shame, the shop ho left behind a purse the following donations to the Mane, Lt. N. J. Williams, A.8.C., tolerate the ravages of opium? the officia! himself. He took

near the clock tower. Entering, boga to acknowledge with thanks Makin, F. J. de Rome, M. M. Still, whunt Western society would trate and even laid rude lands on Manila's hated rival? Nobody. which the government has dono containing the aunt of 84.50. He funds of the hospitals: Hedley Corpl Tavernor, Capt. Clapham, Even if the Government could do refuge in a temple and let it be somed to pay any particular At old Hongkong How's that for well to try and remedy. has reported his loss to the G. White, Esq., 10; R, A. Gub-R, A., Lt. Col: Hamilton, K.O.Y, nothing, other agencies would known that the farmers might tontion to it; said that it was not

We note with satisfaction tho police,

bay, Esq., $10; Messrs Garner, LI proposed menure and its pre-In Canton, on the night of the user, Eberius and Co., 85; Aed to play for Mr. Elborough's the chair, the press, and the ten-with opium smashes the comfort-

Quelch and Co., 10; Messrs. The following have been select-pulpit, the platform, the school,

have sprung into netivity. The grow poppy, for all he cared! visions are as much a protec- 8th, the electricity all over the Arculli, Esq., $25; Fairall & team:A. CE Elborough, B. perance societies and movements able doctrine that organized

at all unusual. Now if it had The experience of the Chinese been poor old Manila." tion to this Lorrower no the city failed. The soldiers imagin Co., $25; Messrs. Lowe, Bing-P. Thursfield, B.-E. Or Bird, C. would have set bounds to the can society need not concern itself a high tide in Sulle lender. Strangely enough, and ed another rising was about to ham & Matthews, $25; B. Layton, A. Cooke, I.N., Rev. SW. Payne, car. But Chinese society lacks with bad private labits: The pizzling the

A "find" of comps, laid It may have a poculiar signifi- tak, place, and 1,000 were dis Esq., 810, W.L. Pattenden, Esq. Lt. R... Bagnall, R., Capt. most of these organs of self-hand of government was withheld button was

the second clause in The cause of the sudden darkness & Co., 810; Mosere, Bans & Reif, sey, KOYLL L. D. R. F. Chias there is no places for any salutary principles

hed to protect the Viceroy 810; Messrs. Caldbeck, McGregor G. E. Garnett, A., Corpl Demp protection. In the religions of for a long time in Chida, and if the bill goes straight to the quea was quickly discovered, and order 85 and W. Drew Braidwood; Thorpe, K.OYLI L. Wiltshire, preaching or church discipline, limitation lurked intlog

of excesiva interest. It as quickly restored.

Eag. 85

RADE. Donnelly,

Until recently the schools were ride it ought to have declared it

favour.

Cable Address: Telegraph

Hongkong,

Telephone: No. 1. A. B.C., 6th edition Western Unio ·.·

THE

Honghong Telegraph

·Hosaxong, Froway, May 32, 1911.

TRUE SOCIAL REFORM.

Turdily following the eximple

HONGKONG DAY BY DAY.

The annual meeting of the Gun Club, Hongkong, will be held to-morrow.

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among the teachers copies of the mosquito circular prepared by Dr. Banks

COMMERCIAL.

HONGKONG YARN MARKET.

unless tho oficials in G

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LOG BOOK.

some years, the gunnery instruc- tor at Osborns. Lieutenant Frew

to the Logislativo Council. Vory brought in from Manila 1,000 tons was surprised to seo a crowd of buyers, who still remain very Add to this the feeling of peaceing off or by bribing slut the eyes began his career during the days).

The Rubi, arrived at Hongkong, late yesterday afternoon, a rendor Walking down Das Vœux Road

sugar and 750 bales of hemp,

as

of

The hearing of the trial of Mrs. Proudlook, on a chargo of mur. dering Mr. Stewart, at, Kuala lender cannot be blamed for trying conle with on Monday.

Lumpur, will probably ba to make as much for himself no

he possibly can, but that he should'

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of the Haytian Rovolumon, bespo present at the bombardment of Jackmel. He was recommended as "apocially distinguished" for

Arabi Pasha's entrenched position his work with the Gordon Relief ot Kaflir-Dalmar, and again for