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NOTES AND COMMENTS.

A habit among publicists that isnot necessarily to be condemned, but that should be romarked and remembered, is that of forcingTM a a comparison between things that are not properly comparable. A cneo iu point is supplied by Mr. F. B. L. Bowley in the serios of admirable letters on Child Life

DAY BY DAY.

Whate or the pussion, know ledge, fame, or poll Not one will change his neigh

bour with himself."'

GODOWN THEFTS.

Goods Smartly Traced

"

MUSICIANS SAILORS.

We regret to report that Mr. E. Cornewall Lewis, noting Post. minster General, was Buddonly

A Midnight Scuffle. taken seriously ill on Wednesday, and had to be removed in all. Yesterday at 7: a.m. a report ambulance to the Government was undo to L. S. Wills by the

Thero was a sequel at the Police Civil Hospital. Enquiries tothy Kowloon Godown Company, to Court to-day, of the onse which elicit the fact that Mr. Towle is the effect that while they wore was heard on Wednesday in which doing well.

attending to sume cargo from the a Japanese musician named German mail in the Godowns a Mateun was charged with be- Today's Great Thought :—The

offered in the mosques invoking contemporary. These lottors do

the nid of the Prophet. The Two carpenters were under credit not only to Mr. Bowley'n

result-or want. of itahould suspicion and L. 8. Wills arrested day he appeared in the role of accomplisbod use of the pan (if criticism from a so to speak. Wood today on a charge of who propose to scrap the Navy on away in some machineryfussault, and for wilfully,

A man appeared before Mr. Jinterest the Penco Party at Home one of thein and he pointed out complainant, be having sum

some of the stolon property hid-moued a stoker on II.M: S. Rosario, light-weight authority be per- having in his possession forty and when an enonty's fleet arrivos. mitted) but also to his native tins containing 180 laels of to drop on their knoes on the san

The prisoner mude n statement altruism. With his faots and arguments it is not our intention opium. Ho was fined. $600, or|-hore and ask them plonso to go concerned and he was arrested-ns ] nt least at this stage, to deal, but in default three months hard away because war is wicked..

in Hongkong contributed to a $40 is ropartod from 7.Stanley Sultan line ordered prayors to be quantity of Lamma Braid was having in a disorderly manner on

The theft.of a cont valued ai.

St. Quarry Bay.

labour.

n reference to a comparison which he instituted may be purmissible. Mr. Bowley quotos the percontage

A serios of excellent photo of annual income paid by Great graphs illustrative of the uponing Britain for educational purposes of the Chinese section of the ant then cites our poor little per Kowloon-Canton Railway has centage.

He asks rositionts to been published by A. Fong of "look on this picturo nud on that" Queen's Road Central, and expects us, we presume, to be overcome witlrshame and covered with contrition. Is the parallol

We have received from Mee

fair? Surely Mr. Bowley's con- Choung, Ice House Lanes some tentions would be strongthened extremely good photographs were ho to cite figures from the the landing of Rear-Admiral Mur- Straits Settlements, or Mauritius, dock aut also a series depicting or any of the West Ludini islands, the scenes at the opening of the

Kowloon-Canton Railway where the conditions admit of some sort of a parallel with those

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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, OCTOBEN.60), 1911.

CHURCHILLIAN froth.

frankly admit that we have not found time to look up this data cursolvos, and it may possibly be that Mr. Bowley may be able to produce figures from the quartors that wo indicate that will buttross his case. If that can be done our

it morite. In the meantime wo

To-day being tho 15th day of the 8th Moun, or the moon festival, the Canton Customs Com- missioner has issued a notice in- forming the foreign and Chinose merchants that the Customs will be closed,

"What

Evidence Extraordin ́ry... "Dofondant told me that he and his brother had killel two people at Wanchai and had got off and told me if he could get off for killing people, he was 101 afraid to be atted for money

•

Biolon from a broken caso.

October 3, and discharged. To

alleging that a ecolio was also damnging a trumpet,

well.

Defendant plonded not guilty. Complatoont told Mr, J. R. From enquiries that ho mande, Woud that he was employed with the ofliver was able to trace a the Japanese troupe who had ap

untity of the stolen goods to a pened early in the week at the shop at 28 Reclamation, Yamati, the muster of which was arrested City Hall. After the performanco on a charge of receiving the the night of the 2nd he left to aid on aged Chiness at the Sum-goods woll knowing them to have go home about midnight. He

been stolen.:

noticed that there was a disturb nary Court this morning.

This morning all the three pri- once but he wont on his way Captain E. A Twiss, M.V.O.soners appeared before Mr. J. R. called a rickshaw. As hig

Wood. The carpenter was sen-getting into the vehole toned to three months han defendant came inshing up bont and four hours' stocks whilo to other two were discharged. seized him, pushed him to the ground and struck him several times in the face with his ist. In the scullo complainant's trumpet was badly damaged.

Garrison Orders.

R.C.A., resume the duties of 1.G. and R.F., South China, from the 2nd inst., inclusive.

Leave of absence, on private fairs, to the neighbouring coun tries, has been granted to Captain C.R.S. Bromley, R.0.4., from 17th October to 2nd November, 1911; inclusive.

British Steamer Ashore.

ARTISTIC AND INGE

NIOUS."

the

Mr. Wood:-Was the disturb ance between Japanese and sail- firs?--You,

Other Japanese?--Yes, of the same troup,

The British steamer Strathyro At the Surinary Court this from Now York, bound up the morning, a Chinog womun sue Yangtse river to Hunkcow, went a man for $160, said to be due for

And did you'assist them?No. ashoro off Bate Point, 46 miles tongy lent. As a result of the below Chinklang, on Wolnesdayeing of the action, the whole Three other Japaneso bare out temerity in raising the point.will, The silk for New York, shipped morning, says the "China Press" work of the Court was practically complainant's statement.

Defendant in reply to dr. Woul no doubt, receive the punishment by the Blue Funnel steamer Sept. 30, Whether the stos-dislocated, as the figures on the extend our felicitations to Mr. Bellerophon, was delivered at er has sustained any daninge line promissory note were scen to have stated that he and some cultors as yet not been ascertained. The boon palpably altered and onch came ushore' at 6 p.. and for destination on 5th inst., twenty- Bowley for raising-a question of public importance that merits in-nine days in transit. from long-gents, Messrs. Dodwell and Co., party alleged that the other was about an hour previous to the dis kong and nineteen days fromation that the vessel was ashore and the services of the Court Traveller's Hotel, They were, modiately upon receipt of infor responsible for the alterations, turbanco they had been at the partial and sympathetic con- Yokohama. sideration.

translator lind to be requisitioned however, quito sober at the time. gavo instructions that a. tug

hould to sont to render assistance, to pronounco his opinion on the They were present at the disturb. The death of Dr. Joseph Bell,

is your husband's and the tug Samson, bolonging to document. The defendant's story ance. There were four or five the famous Edinburgh surgeon, business? asked the Acting the Shanghai Tug and Lighter Co., was that only $18 was due and Japanese concerned. rocalls the fact that hoit was who Chief Justice of a Chinese plain was despatched. The Strathyre the figures were altered to read. At this stage the case was ad- unconsciously "eroated Shor-

tiff at the Saminary Court this arrived off Woosing from New 108. The plaintiff and hor hus- journed defendant intiming that lock Holmes Yours before, the

grudge he had several witnesses to cʻill, morning in & promissory note York on the 26th inst., and is re-band, ho alleged, had a Famous detective' of fiction ap- poured upon the scene Professor case. "I do not know. I am a ported to have u cargo of oil con-against him on account of a

QUESTION OF EJECT Bell was, almost daily, giving his woman and-do-not-understandsigned to the Standard-Oil-Com--$1,000 fine which had been the husband students lessons in the art of those things, came the reply. puny. The ves el did not discharge posed

MENT: deduction. This patient had been Kidnapping a Lighthouse Keeper.ny of its cargo hore and only wait for smuggling opium. Defend in China for some time nud was About ten nightsago, six aimed at Woosung to take on bunkerant further asserted that the

Lo Show proceeded against the un ongineer; this other was a pirates paista surprise visit to the river. It is not thought that the vasby the woman causing an adopts Yeo ifing firm in the Summary.

coal to continue the voyage up the parties "flew the white pigeon" mason who came from such and fighthouse on the bank of the such a village; then followed the Tau-sui river of Tungkoon dis setisiaany immediate danger, bu augliter to be sold through the Court this morning for ejectment, Mr. Fo appeared for plaintiff grounds for his assortions, and his trict, and took away. the light owing to the river gradually fall. Po Laung Kak and taking it back students sat amazed at his mar- houso keeper; evidently with the ing it is considered necessary to gain by saying that the girl had and Mr. Krader Harris for de- vollous powers of observation, object of extorting ransom. have her hauled off without delay been kidnapped. The pair wind- fondants,

toavoid discharging the cargo into led people right and left. At the The case was fixed for Wodies- He was vory modost about his torpedo boat cruising on Chat lighters. There was a report late conclusion of a lengthy hearing, day morning at 10 aan. talentand always pooh-poohed the Sha Kew, not far from the scene, last evening that the steanter had his Lordship entered judgment order was made for mutual dis- idou that he was actually the on learning of the outrage, made original of Sherlock Holmes. Ilis for the scone, but arrived after manged to get clear with the $18 and granted a stay for rovery. comments on the patients were the pirates

assistance of one of the regular one week, in order to enable the had gone.

river steamers, but this could not defendant to consider the ques always kindly, too, though he

tion of bringing in a cross-action ba verified..

for $22. In delivering judg ment, his Lordship remarked that there was an artistic and ingenious tololi" about the winle

men

Unclaimed Telegrams.

SS1lse Founders.

CRICKET.

HONGKONG FOOTBALL LEAGUE FIXTURES,

following

PROGRESS OF KONG- MOON.

Hopeful Report

An

The Customs Commissioner at.

A telegram yesterday stated that Mr. Winston Churchill, speak-could strike a shrewd blow when ing at Dundeo, described the aspect of affairs in Europe us more hic plensed. We remember List of Unclaimed Telegramė harsh and terrible than it has been for years. The present anxious heuring a minor tell how, in the lying in The Eastern Extension and oritical time, he said, would have boon even more anxious and body of students, he became so Company's Office at Hongkong

presence of the great man and a Australusia and China Telegraph

In the match between Kowloon critical if the British Navy had not been strong enough to secure excited that he forgot to remove Bischoff, Astor House, Pforzheim; and the Rt.G.A. at King's Park affair. Ho rojected the story of

to-morrow Kowloon will be repre- the hitsband and wife and said THE TELEGRAPH COLzzaro DENT] the undoubted command of the seas. This does not carry us very his hat; "This, gentlemen," Chuenhangchm, 54 les Yeux sented by J. P. Robinson, A. O the claim was a false one. He

Canton, Out, D.. St., Cobu; Failong, Aponrado; far; it does not take us, in fact, an inch beyond the point which said Dr. Boll, is a uriner foss exalted persona reached many weeks ago, though it is, about, as

the-most independent of working Fillis, care Hongkong Hotel, Brawn, Sutton, A. F. R. Raven, did not think that costs should

He would keep on his hat Rangoon; Hanion-Mrs. N. 1. Thursfield, F. J. de Rome, W. be allowed in the case on the Kongmoon has reported to tho much as can be expected from a member of the Liberal Cabinet in front of King The hat caro American Embassy, Cedar- Waterhouse, E. W. Eames, G. H. ground, but he would give the Canton Viceroy, that the pro- when he refers to the Navy. To say that. we have command of the came off at once. By a happy lako; Inada, Tsuraya Hotel, May, WI-Weiser, and J-II-matter his consideration. Mrspects of trade-in-that-port-are

Mond (Capt.)

Wilson, of Messra. Hasting improving daily, and that arrivals seas is not sufficient. If Mr. Churchill had gone further and stated, accidon't one of Dr. Bell's students Taipeh; Konwy 8 Augusta,

Hastings, ppeared for the and clearances of mercantile on behalf of the Government, in deliberate and unmistakable terms, came Sherlock Holmes joursafter. Bangkok; Lamhengkee, lioilo; was Arthur Conan Doyle: So San Francisco Kwonghonghani,

plaintiff.

bouts are also on the increase: On TAFT AND SOLOMON.

the river there are gun boals the determination of the Clovernment, at all costs und hazards, to

- Lau Hi Thok, Cruiser Hoi Yung, Oarmorning contemporary, the Mamoi; Pierce, Miss Mildred, of anecdotes at his command and

President Taft has a rich fun

lying at anchot to give protection.. maintain and increase Britain's sea supremacy, his words, would

However, both the merelinnts and "South China Morning Post, Manila Siokokoo, Singapore; have carried some weight.

the commanders. of gunboats has a timely leading articlo to- Stockwoll, Sydney Takfoong, is apt in applying them in his

have been put to great incon Iu yostorday's issue a sorrespondent rofors to the iny on the rights of the Press. Semarang, Taminon, Consulat everyday conversation. The other fact that the German Dreadnought cruiser Moltke has Yesterday, we reported that the Allemand, Drongon; Thyeyick, day Secretary Hillos directed his

venience Pross had bron oxoluded during laud, Drogon; Thyevick, attention to a lotter that had boon for the living are the fixtures go to the telegraphing to attained a record speed of 29.1-2 knots. Can we trust a

received at the White House from | Football League:-

at Kongmoon to despatch tele the hearing of a case at the Ma- and Yaenchong, Manila. Liberal Government, bent on constitution-wrecking, giatricy by Mr. Wood. We aro

an Oh'o a Imi er of the President. Nov. 4, Hongkong FC. v. R.E. Krams of an important Latuo. The Ohioan was stirred up over on tho former's passing a Home Rule Bill for which it has neither asked nor informed by our ropresentative

The Comm'ssor suggests the ground; received a mandate, on foreing an ill-digested Insurance Bill upon who was present that no order The foundering of the 8. the attacks that have been mide K.0.Y.L... v. Nuval Yard F.O establishment of another, tele the country, on violating all political deconey to secure ita nofuri- was made publicly from the bench se poar Breaker Point is re- on the President by the Republi-on the Military ground. Nov, graphic bureau in the vicinity in that the Press aliould withdraw, ported. It would appear that can insurgents and ended with the 11, N.Y.F.C. v. II.K.F.C., Naval oriler to facilitate matters. The ous purposes-ban wo trust that Government to produce, or oven but tinut the intimation wasgiven the Ilse was on her way from declaration that, in his opinion, ground; E. v. It.A. Military Commissioner nuds that the Sun to attempt to produce, two cruisers which shall attain a speed of be European officer that Karatsu and WIX carrying Mr. Taft was the greatest ruler ground: Nov. 18, R.A. Ning Railway is being construct over 20.1-2 knots? Only thus can Britain's supremacy bo main such was the Magistrate's wish: cargo consigned to Mears. Show-since the days of Solomon. NYFO KO's ground; e os far as the band where Tho tained, and we on the outposts of Empire, who seem at times to We quite agree with the "Sonthan Tomes and Company. On The President turno: to Hillen K.O.Y.L.I. v. R.E. military construction of warehouses and see more of the game than those at home, perhaps because we are China Morning Post" that as the morning of the 2nd instant, with a smile and said

ground. Nov. 25, N.Y.F.C. godowns will soon be commenced. "Hilles, did you ever hear the t E. Naval ground; RA. All these facilities will tend to further removed from the immediate, tumult and turmoil and matter of courtesy the Magistrate when about 3.1-2 miles north of

Jevelop the fraile of the port. might other have fully trusted to Breaker Point, which is roughly story of the man who was under K.O.Y.L.L. military ground, turbulence of home politics, have little faith in the prosent Goy the discretion of the Press, or have forty milos South of Swatow, the the impression he was an orator Des. 2, U.K.E.C. v. R.A, Hong-

On receipt of this commagin ernment's capacity to s60 years ahead, to meet the needs of a intimated that he thought if steamer struck a rock and went ani who couldn't understand why long's ground, It. E. V.K.O.Y.LT. tion, H. E. the Viceroy of once in tremendous European conflict, to face the fact bravely that the lossirable that certain evidence down, her masts only boing visible his friends didn't congratulate military ground. Deo. 9, NYIstructed the Director in charge of only insurance for Britain isa navy much stronger than the two-Power should be published. The Press above water. Captain Reimer, him after a particularly laboured K.O.Y.L.I. naval grand, R.A the Telegraphic Barosunt Canton standard. It is not sufficient merely to have a navy that can and in Hongkong may be trusted to his wife and several members of effort? He waited as long as he It., militaty ground. Dec. 16 to telegraph to the Ministry of shall prove victorious, for victory might, and almost certainly would, koop prurient matter from its the crow boarded the ship's boute could stand it, and then asked II.K.F.C. v. N...C. Hongkong Commisiontious asking for, the leave it crippled for years if the margin of superiority won not pro-readers without being railed off and were taken to the lighthouse, one of them how he liked his ground; KO.YLLY

Restablishment of Loegraphiq nounced. Britain must emerge from war still strong, still holding from the source of supply. There where every hospitality was shown speech.

military ground; Dao. 28 bureau near the Custoins at Koug the balance of power. Is she likely to do so-if the present Govern- are two ways of doing a thing, them. Unfortunately, one Euro-Best that Jen been delivered N.Y.FOL.A. val groun 1; moon. The request war complied ment remains long in power? Mr. Churchill himself indirectly pro- the right way and the wrong, and pean and a number of Chinese are since the days of Edmund Burke,' | FL.E. 1.K.EC nilitary with by the Mukkury, on the vides an answer. He desires to see the Moroccan question settled on were we called upon to say which reported missing. A largo-sized enid this friend.

gril;, Dec. 30, H.K.F.U branoli to ozrij It'ó lurcan is to be terms which shall enable Trance and Germany to live together on Mr. Wood adopted in this caso launch has been despatched to the **Yes, replied the prator, after KO.Y.L.I. Ingkong a grom under the control of the present terms of mutual respect," It is a tremendously pretty dream, but Mr. we would answer: that which scene from Swatow for the purpo ea fow momente of adrious thought, R.E. v, N.Y.1.0. military ground telegraphic bureau at Longmoon. Churchill and his colleagues decline to recognise the fact that, bo would involve the use of what of conveying to Swati those who but why lug in Burke ?

January 6, I.A. v. H.K.F.C. Engineers and fitters have already tween nations such as France and Germany, the best possible respect Churchill (not Winston but were saved. The Ilso is a steamer Why lug in Solomon? added military ground; Jarry 19, boon dispatalied from Isrespect for the strength of each other's army and navy. We can hope Charles) called "apt alliteration's of 929 tons not register, belonging the President, chuckling and tura- Civilians v. Military, Hongkong Kongmoon to pushi for, nothing from a Government which wilfully shuts its oyes to artful aid" if Mrs Wood's name to Mesare, Jebson and Company, ing once more to the papers on ground; January 20, K.01 L fact at once so elementary and so profound,

were mentioned,

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