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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1846, 1911.

AN ABORTIVE ATTEMPT.

DAY BY DAY.

An idler, is a watch that wants both hands, as useless if it go us, when it stands,

One case of plague wasrorted MR. STEWART'S SPEECH.tive service, in addition to the the greater the Colony's trou during the 24 hours ending noon

now mixation. It has upjon blos the more profit: you anako";" On the Colonial Estimates.

Joally mak-. to-day

od at a most inopportune time from it, and, you are The object of my amendment in the financial position of the ing profit on matters in which wire, announcing, the oaths to draw attention to the in- Colony. Those who take an in-you ought to treat it with every of. Dr. Moreland was received inadequate compensation accorded terest in Chinese ruilisays know, consideration. You are making the Colony this morning. Noe Colony of Hongkong on that in order to secure that the us profit out of their misfortunez, urther particulars have as yelphi Rovenie

account of the suppression of the terminus of what will be the The Colony at present is at a greatest trunk line in all China, crisis of -its development. It re- An Awkward Predicament,

been receivoll •

I do hot propeso to go into tho the line botworn Hongkong, and quires consideration, or you many A blid Chinese, living t

merits or otherwise of the opiam Poking, should be in British invo it on your lids as a por- Bridges-St., reports that his clothing bus been stolen by his Mr. Paul Hodgson, accompanied mostion, I only desirs to call the hands, the colony pledged its inanent invalid.

I would plond for more con- by Mrs. Hodgson, arrived to-tnyttention of the House to hard-credit for £1,000,000 to buy foki.

Burglars.

by the Japaness nail steamer ships inflicted owing to decisions out the Belgians and provide sideration for Hongkong in regard. that torminus. The colony has to the opium question, because I On the night of the 13th instant Kamo Maru Mr. Hodgson Jns of this House.

Rovenue from opium is been created its own railway as far as am quite sure this House is uble smo no broke into No. 7 Con-bren at home on holiday, during naight Itond Contral and stoto which time ko has been married. a source of income ever since the the Britishi burder, but owing to a willing to pay something Guarding Official Secrets place was taken, mud is just as the want of through traffic at wards any moral experiments ft. clock, binoculars, and clothing to the value of $50.

Lord Halding has introduced a propor a source of income as present has to fuce a large deficit my chose to iertako

should like to say a word bill in the House of Lords, drink, in fact, both drink and frovenue. Further, it is a most

mother point-tho up-. Body Found. Tho badly of a Chinoso inalomending the flicit Secrets Act, opium uro things calling for inopportune moment for the n aged about 25, was found in Cross which makes for drastic treatinent Lovernment control, and if a good colony, because its prosperity is pointment of Major Chancel- Street, and conveyed to the of those who make sketches, of stiff tax is laid on them the distinctly on the downgradowing or to the post of Governor value to the enemy, of British consumption tends to diminish, to the prohibitive tariffs, which of Mauritius. I approach this in fortifications. Details may be wish to point out, that, in the the French, American and Japan- a spirit of enquiry. I have no found on page threo.

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Garrison Orders. Lieut. A. G. Paris, R.G.A., was placed under canvas at Mount! Davis from 20th July, 1911, to 12th August, 1011, inchisi while in charge of Armament Party

Station lofe has been granted in Capt. A.1. Barrett, 126th Baluchistan Infantry, from 17th to 26th August, 1911, Capt. F. 1. 1). Jarid, 128th Baluchistan lafantry, from 17th to 26th August, 11.-

1911.

Mess Meeting The usual monthly mess meet- ing will be held in the Garrison Sergeants Mess at 7 p.in. to- morrow. Loth inst. All members not on duty to attend.

Command RATA.

A Committee Meeting will be hobin Wednesday, 16th instant,

Tar 11.30 am.. Chaplain's Roam, Sandal Paint. Business:" Ac- efits of Command Concert, etc.!!! A Wireless Message.

Is it a Coincidence?.

'Stupid and Idiotic.

position we are now considering, est Governments have lately put orsonal feeling in the matter at this House makes the faws and on their trade with Hongkong, all. I have not the slightest the Colony, pays the bill. amIn fact, so much does it suffer doubt that the furtunate officers Doaling with The question sure the lunge does not wish to from the shipping subsidies, and who has been pitchforked into the lociprocity in the America as itself open to the charge of the navigation laws, of soup of Governorship is a very ablo man, Sonnte, Sonator Root stigmatised interfering injuriously, with an its neighbours, that it is a sad but at the same time I know a the attitude of the States govornarepresented place.

fact that shipping company, great many most deserving Colori Finent to the former overtures of

The Revenue from opium a few which from its inception was a hial-officials, and I know. exactly the Canadian gormont, is

stupid and idiotic." That and mounted to 2,000,000 British enterpriso has recently how they feel in a mattor of this

or £200,000,, now it is about had to transfer is stonmirs to sort, other murke may be found 1,900,000 or £100,000 and as American flag. It is a fair thing It must bo remembered that. in a repoft in pagi threo;

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'Land O'Cakes."

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It seems to mo that a position of

the opium trade is doomwil, it will to compare thin attitude which the owing to the consolidation of Government Wins the Day shortly amount to nothing at all. Foreign Ollica adopts in ita trent South Africa four Governorships · The Full Court delivered its If you take a period of tentyment of China with the attitu le have been lost to the Colonial decision at the Supreme Courts, wil Terken the Itevenue which the Colonial Office adopts sorico, and now to this is added this afternoon in the caso.in which as amounting in $1,000,000 or in respect of Hongkong. The fifth post. Those who know The following extract is taken Moses, I. Price and Company 100,000, you produce a cupital Foreign Office is most considerate anything about Mauritius must the London Gazette," sail the Attorney-General for the value of £2,000,000. And this to the Chinese in every possible know that the post of Governor. taetful financial sated 14th July, 1911: Regular sum of $1,600 old fer the lous inits that it has we way. Whereas witqn the Chinese is one which requires very great Fortes, Infantry-The King's Liquors Ordinance. Judgment esponbility in regard to the come under the British flag and experience and Own (Yurkahive light Infantry), was gered for the defendant ppression of this great Revenue, reside in our colony their alingmont. The Captain Stuart C. Taylor retires with gosts,The text of the full You offered £9,000 in 1910, time enjoyments are interfered position is bad and the place is on retired pay. Dated 15th July, judgment will appear in our next £12,000 in 1815, ded £12,000 in with, and we make them pay for full of racial trouble.

1912. Therefore you are giving our mural experiments. them a total sum of £33,000 for On the 99th May, the Secretary that sort requires a man with a Lawn Bowls

the loss of a Revenue which has for the Colonies gave some details cortain amount el Parliamentary Mr. L.E. Brott, the skip of the bron in existente for 7 years and as to the military contributione experience, just the sort of experi English team, has presenter to which has oscillated between of the Grown Colonies, and Lence that a Colonial Secretary do- members of the team representing 100,000 and £200,000 From the should like to know upon what quires in his connection with the Scotland, winners of the coinpeqethod of taxation levied on the principle these contributions are legislativecouncilof his particular titions held recently, with a dain- Colony the grant you nominally arranged. Coylon with a re-Colony, and Colonini Secretarios pays are naturally accustomed to deal by silver spoon with a specially give is nullified by the way you venue of £2,500,000, designed thistle surrounded by collect your military contribution. £101,000 or about one taventy with men of all races and all awrenth, emblematic of the You charge for military contribu fifth of its incone; Hongkong beliefs. You have men in the. a revenue of £11,000 Colonial service who have entered tion 20 per cent. of the gross be with venue of the Colony. It is quito pay £120,000, odd, or one by competitive examination, men right and propor that people who fifth of its income. Ceylon is who have come out on top, and The Yokohama Ollice of the It is with deep regret that we joy our protection should pay prosperous; whereas at this mohave chosen Colonial appoint- Canadian Pacific Railway Com-tavo, to anounce the leath of nothing, but you take 20 per ment the trade of Hongkong is mente. To all those men it must cont. of the credit site of the Go- being strangled by the hostile be a very grert disappointment pany are in receipt of a wireless Chang Shi Kai, J. P., the compra- message from the MS. Em-dore of the Osaka Yusen Kaisha.sernient account without look-tariffs of its neighbours, and to think that their services do not

ing at the debit side.

although the garrison of long-qualify then for positions of this press of India, sent at midnight The lovensed gentlem was a in Sunday, 13th August, when the member of the District Watch |

There is one item I happened kong is bigger than that of Coyfon vessel was 750 miles distant from Committee for twenty years. is a Book which I think must Hongkong is a fondez-vous for view, if you wanted a military to come across in the Goverment it must be remembered, that Then from the military point of Japan, advising all well and that holth was failing at the beginning convince any man that a change troops and shipa which Government as you did in 1886, The outrage in Camton again falls attention to the bail state of the Commander expects us reach of the year and he was obliged to is callgil for in the present system. there for Imperial and not for why did you not appoint, the allairs in that city, where the undercurrent of unrest scoms to be Yokohama. on the morning of return to his native country of that of the Post Ofico, for local purposes. Yet it is the General? Having appointed a perpotually in motion, but now and then increasing in force, sub- Wednesday, the 16th instant. "Aoy', where he died some days which the Colony received 400,000 only place on the China- coast fanior officer you are putting siding when the damage is done. Thore is no doubt whatever that some form of outbreak was contemplate for Sunday fast. That The proprietor of the French

dollars, but you will find that the which pays a farthing fowards the general in a somewhat in- vidious position where he has day was the 19th day of the sisth moon, before which date the Store in Queen's Road, reports, to Preserve Us from Stepmothers. Colony has to expend 160,000 to Imperial defouco..

I should like next to draw at-to-salute a man vory much. compatriots had been warned to flee the City. Now this points to the police that one of his boys has Mabel Harriet Thompson of tun the Post Office, therefore only one thing, and that is that the dastardly attempt on the life of gone on holiday He now finds Deptford has earned hana unenvi- there is a loss of 60,000 dollars, tention to the moral side of this junior to himself! It must be Admiral Li was not the work of an isolated person, but the dood of that $2,000 worth of goods is able notoriety by the statements am BUTO the House will complex opium question. Whon borne in mind that if this at war, and someone who had an organisation of some sort at his back. The also missing.

adduced in the hearing of a recognise that it is most unfair you stop the trado with India yqu country were warning to tho compatriots could only be translated by those

Army News.

chairge of cruelty to her stepson- and businesslike to charge will not entirely stop the consump-two steamers loaded with cement actually in the know, for the characters used in the hand bill dis- Second Lieutenants C. K. But-reported on page three. Among 50,000 dollars or £8,000 on a Lion of opium. By violent poli- were droppol in the Suez Cenal the face of it, conveyed the information that goal wine Light Infantry, have been posted cut the child's hand purposely great loss already: trilinted, were such as a wine merchant would use and in fact on ler and J, Pepys, King's Own other things she is alleged to have department which is worked at a tical action you cannot change position of Mauritius would be human nature, and at this mo-one all important as a strategical I am glad to see the Under-mout substitutes was to be purchased for twenty cash per eatty, that is what the to the 1st Battalion, Hongkong, with a knife and then to have

are taking point. In peace the appointment characters meant and only those in the know would have appreciated They have been attached to the rubbed pepper in. She is Secretary for War present, for the place of opium. Drink is of a junior military officer is a the underlying warning. It is in onceivable that a single-handled 2nd Battalion for the past right doing three months in the know that he has taken an being indulged in more ad and you will inflict a slight spon ussassin would have taken the trouble, to warn all and sundby of ap-antis.

the consumption of morphia and pronching trouble unless some very strong, common tie, bound.them

Ilo closed the opium divans. things of that sort is on the in- the commanding officer if the New. together and we have no hesitation in saying that this was not a case.

admit that they were somewhat reaso; cocaine for the first time iovernor is sent there for wor of isolated assassination but an attempt by the instrument of an or-reports to the police that last

On page three, will be found unsightly places, but at any rate appeared on the list of imports like purposes. It is a double- ganisation to wreck vengrance on the servant for the wrongs that lay night as her craft was lying of report of one of the most peculiar they were under the lose super-for last year, and when unofficial at the four of the government. Apparently the anarchist." does not farding's Pointa squall, capsized as that has ever come before vision of the police. When the members of the Hongkong Legis realise the futility of his methods. He cannot drogin for one instant her craft. Her son aged 7 and divorce court. The husband, right on. gentleman leukodlative Council asked the oven that because he kills one servant, that another will not be found to daughter aged 5 were drowned. wl is claiming relief in the up the divans, lo no doubt felt ment to assist in stopping these American courts, asserts that he that he had done a good stroke ovil things at the souree, they were take his place. Had Admiral Li died, another would have taken usThe bodies have not been has been-treated inérely as a of business, but it did not stop met with a refusal, The alswer and the Navy none? place, and the "anarchist" cuuso would have got "no forrarder." Rather

The officers of the Navy are the-raverse, for Chinese are reasonable boings, and must deprecate

biological factor in his family, opium smoking. He took up the mudoumounted to this: "If we do Combining Businesses violence as much as the European, more especially when the very futil-

and that directly the child was position rathor of the sanitary not do the trade some one else second to none in this country ity of that violence, brings it down to the level of a display of childish Yesterday, afternoon, a born he was told by his mother engineer who proceeded to close will." I think it is a great pity Our whole existence depends upon them. Here you have appointed: impotency actuated by envy, hatred, maligo and all uncharitableness, was fined $1,000, by Mr. Wood, in-law that his presence was no up old cesspools. before making we should protect the manufac The effect on Canton is probably the roverae to what was expected Ln St. The house in question is

for running a lottery at Kwong longer desired.

new drains, What happened ture of these evil drugs. They gentleman with the equivalent- by the reactionarios. If they hoped to plunge the city into turmoil,

was, that the deleterious matter are mostly made in Edinburgh, ak of a naval lieutenant of if they expected that murder and pillugo would immediately follow, licenced postal house." The alter-

"The new and spacious quarters which used to be collected in and shipped from London, yer eight gears' standing. What would they made a huge mistake. Latest telegrams say the city is quiet; native sentence is three months!

of the U. S. Consulate General at the places lonkell over the town this Governmentwill not take any hid if you su ldenly appointed the people have hind enough of desperadoes and their malefactions and hard labour. , instead of wishing to fight the respectable people are displaying a

Thirsty England.

13, 14 and 15 Whangpoo Rond, and contaminated the whole steps to exercise supervision at naval lieutenant of eight years tigidity that more than anything else shows their aversion to those England during the past month were thrown open to public busi locality The opium smokera the source. If there were voters in standing to be Lieutenant-Gover aftempts, solos attempts to wreck the present governmental system, sufferod from a drought which ass, Shanghai, last Tuesday. The provided themselves with clubs, the Colonly to be conciliated, and nor of an Indian province ? The We are are not concerned only with Canton the question of Can- lasted some considerable time. Stars and Stripes, which can now or they debauched themselves at soats in this House to bondinn Civil Service would make tonese in Hongkong also deserves consideration. With the influx of re- Fruit crops are practically spoiled be seen from the Buud; washoisted home. At any rate the police who won, there would be much better its résentiment so-felt that I do fugoes matters assume a serious aspect. These people are those who and. a. failure seems inevitable from the 101 foot flagstaff, facing were very much overworked treatment acpordet to it than af not think you could hold to it, have profited by the published warning. Wo cannot say they are On July 20th it rained for live the river at 8 am. The land already, find to devote them the present moment. The highest fail this House would be so rovolutionists, but in what direction are their sympathies placod? minutes. It was only a drizzle, office will be removed to the new selves to the suppression of ideal of Colonial administration aggered it would certainly ask We would, most certainly like to know, for we have shrewd yet according to a description on quarters in a few days. The U. Sillicit opium smoking, and the should be to impart in the breasts questions alyut the matter). The suspicions on the matter. For instanco, are the authori-page three it was looked upon as Court for China was also opened criminal population of which of these at a distance, the feeling thing that has happened in this there are many, became very that their interests are'ns equally particular Colonial appointment ties aware that yesterday in Konnedy Town a thousand per- the promise of the break up of the for business at the new promises netive; and: assaults on the per-safeguarded as though they were is analogous to that. I should Bond gathered to hear speeches from the opponents drought. The rainfall way img New Official Appointments son, and burglaries increased to close by, and I would suggest like to appeal to the Colonial of China's governmental policy for nationalizing railways? Are measurable.

Mr. Kemp, who has been ap-most surprising and deplorable that the Farquest of the un-Oflice, I know the Right Hon. they aware that one sponker wrote a letter in his own-birigd to impress

official members of the Council Bouttomin has only been there a pointed Crown Solicitor on re-extent, the spectators with the earnestness of his support of the opposition? Captain O. F. Corbett, M.V.O;cently qualifying as on English There is a lifference between of Hongkong should be grant short time, he is tremendous- They ought to bo, for it is surely significant that so large a body could has been appointed to the come harristar, arrived in the Colony Hongkong and India in thismattered and the Government should occupioil with the great ques gather and hear expressions of opposition to the schemes of a friendly and of the cruiser Flora on re- to-day by the Kan Mara, ac-of-upium. India has been compou-accept an annual contribution of tions which have beon befo: & him. government, and to witness impressive scenes of writing in blood. commissioning for further Norvice companied by Mr. Kemp. Mr. Hated by the enormousaccossion in a million dollars. The prosont ut lion gentlemen have spont Now, this meeting could not have been held in China and we see no with the China Squadron. Captain. H. A. Niebot, who will be the new the price of the raw article. form of contribution has this very their lives in the junior ranks of a reason whatever why the "rag-tag and bobtail" of the Empire's Corbell, who succoeds Captain logistrar of the Supreme Court, Hongkong does not deal in the wrong rfect. If there is an out- Fervice, it broms only fair that refugees should look on Hongkong a place whore they can promul- John Nicolas, has spent in the has also readifethe Colony. It article at all. It merely exeraises burat of pingao and extra olingas they should get some of the gate their schemes of opposition. We may keep open livuse for fleet over thirty yours, and attain is rumoured, offiorly as well as a benevolent supervision over are incurred; if there is a typhoon higher pst as they got on in political refugeon but surely while in our coasts they should be kept of his present rank four years ago, privately, that Mr. P. Medgson, the consumption of the noxious and the Colony has to put its hand life. It is only by giving them from using the right of asylum as a protection against the paine and He commanded the cruiser, Blake of Messrs. Ewens and Haraton, drug. The gislation of this in its pocket for repairs, the pre- some encouragement of that sort penaltics which would ensue if they were guilty of the same bohayi-after his promotion to Captain's will be appointed Assistant House has forced upon Hong- sont system of military contribu- his you chit hope for an efficient our in their own country

Crown Solicitor

kong the creation of a proven, tion luns this very evil effect, that

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