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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY OCTOBER 12-1911

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DAY BY DAY,

The world will be redeemed whon it is redeemed-by work.

HMS. Fibra Tras For Sourabaya."

TROUBLED CHINA.

'Mutterings of Storm

HONGKONG CORINTHIAN NOTES AND COMMENTS.

YACHT CLUB.

Annual Meeting.

toso who have the health com

The notice issued by the Sani Leave of absence, on privato

tary department in regard to the prevalence of typhoid should at affairs, to the neighbouring coun tries, lins boon granted to Lieut.

In view of the telegrams wo

tract attention Hongkong used BG. Bagual, R.G.A., from October, 17 to November 2,1011, priblish to-day in reference to the

The annual meeting of the to be described as a hot-bed or inclusivo

outbreak of revolt at Wuchang the Corinthian Yacht Club was held disease. That reproach, thanka At Kowloon Tong yesterday The Transport Somall

totendy and unspectacular, but following, from the "Hankow the Club-Honee last evening. four men were, arrested by the The Garrison, Orders issued Daily News" of October 2, is of Dr. F. Clarke, Commodore of the invaluable, labour on the part of forest guards for cutting grass. 10-day contain the following:- The people of the village seeing The HT. "Somali" is expect-particular intorestConsider Club, took the chair, and there was what had happened, all turned od to arrive at Hongkong on the able excitement prevailed at lan- a large attendance, of members. ditions of the Colony under their out and rescued the captivos. 15th instant at about 5 pm. kow and Wuching on Saturday Those presont include Mr. Alex clings, has passed from us, but The guards then went to Yaumati The vessel will be moored at No. and yesterday over the discovery B. Siorrio, Hon. Secretary, Mr. 1. there in still every need for care. and having secured the assistanco 1 Buoy and the disembarkation tint a mutinous ples was sloot at Phillips, Han. Treasurer,n

Much of the sickness in the Far of the police returned and arrested will be carried out a8 800n_88

East is undoubtedly due to the the mon a second time. To-day possible after arrival. The the latter cit News of the

carelessness of the sufferers them- tliey were reminded at the 10.0., A.8.0. will arrango

for suspetto rebellion was first members of the Committee. Magistrooy,

launches as required. The in-loarned of through a missionary The Secretary read the notice selves. Fornal caro in regard valids from Singapore, will, on source and this was confirmed by convening the mooting. The to eatables and drinkables would A pleasant little story is told of landing, be convoyod direct the Chinese authorities themselves minutes of the last meeting wore probably prevent a very large

to Bowen Road Hospital,

percentage of the sickness that Dr. Boyd Carpenter in the days The embarkation of entitled and who announced that they were rand and confirmed. To him one ono day a young to Tonsin will take place nition reigned, throughout certain adoption of the report and warning issued by the Sanitary before, he was Bishop of Ripon. indulgence passengers proceeding aware that considerable disaffuc- The Commodore moved the occurs and on this account the man and maiden, very bashful

A.S.C. Pier at a time which will units of the army at Wughangecount, and, in doing so, said: authorities should be attentive and on a very obvious orrand, be notified Inter The O.C.,

Are you Mr. Carpenter?"

and

gan the swain timidly.YA.SC. will arrage for routine However, declared the officials, the The annual report and statement studied.

launches to call. at the situation was fully appreciated by of acounts have been in your

was the reassuring reply, Car-H. T. "Somali" during the them and precautions had been hands for the past ton days and. Sometimes it is said that 10 penter-and joiner,”

time she remains at Hongkong: Eiken to prevent any outbreak you will have learned from these opportunity is offered at Home

The Hazel Dollar

which the mutinous troops, as that the Olub is in an excellent for a man to rise from the ranks, The steamer Hazel Dollar, which

now low. autonable such a claim is

Silk

The silk ox O.S.K.8. Souttle

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Maru which left Hongkong on recently stranded near Muroran sisted by the numerous revolut financial position. Our Now York on the 9th inst. cargo of lumber from Puget Sound ti precipitate. This declaration

A silk train of tho well known and was temporarily repaired at of the officials was fully borne toffetings of various storms, orating the mon now living wha though we have boon fortunate have attained distinction without Chicago, Milwaukea, & Puget Hakodalo, arrived at Shanghai on

wealth. One of our telograms to- Sound Railway which left Tacoma Oot. 6 from Hankow, and was to fout by the fact that nothing un-in oseaping any real typhoon the ventitious side of birth or You day records the, death of Mr. The rates per quarter and per mensom, proportional. Subscriptions with silk cargo arrived per be docked for repaire, before re- toward occurred during the past during the past year.

will remember that last year we fenry Broadhurst This gentle- for any period less than one month will be charged as for 0.8.K.S. Panama Maru on Sept. suning her voyage across the two days, and extra policing of Wigbang and tho changing of 20, reached Now York at 5 am. full month.

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mately 5 hours better than any morrow before the City Hall, and galos of that city show that were made. Besides the display situation. Notwithstanding this on and the fire font will also be the foreign Consular Body con- silored it their duty, and very

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The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1911.

THE MERITS Of spoon-feedING.

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ed by the different lines up to the

Interport Shooting.

mod. At the conclusion of the performance medals will be pro- names have been announced as sented to the police officers whose being entitled to them. --

Marine Court.

The plight of a friend in Hong koug who onclosed a latter in the wrong envelope recently and is now awaiting a blistering reply from one correspondent reminds us that Lord Curzon, grhon A young man at college, once soning!

| M.P. in 1880 and in 1886. was of chartered accountants, Messrs. proutice to a blucksmith and later

as a result of their most thorough Under-Secretary of State in the overhaul and of, the very clear Home Department. His career statement which was submitted to was perhaps more solidly useful form-than brillant, but it excellent treasurer, Mr. Phillips, certainly helps to dispose of the Park flange are not yet completo,

the safety of the foreigners and has been able to present to you statement that the pour man has As the alterations to the King's

wisely too, to take precautions for you by thom a year ago, our most he did much service in social ro

and the Interport match must be

with this and in view telegraphed this year a similar lucid exposition no chance of mounting the lungs fired not later than November 15, arrangements have been made This morning at the Marine for more gun-boats of their various of our financial position, which of the ladder of success. for practices during, this week Court six junk masters wore nationalities to proceed to Han-has been duly auditel and found end at the Tai-hang-Range as charged with making fast to the kow, at the same time ordering correct by two members of our follows:-Saturday, commencing air. Ashi. Muru while she was the commanders of the local Chub. You will see that our at 2.30 p.m. Sunday, commencing under weigh in the Harbour on volunteer units to be prepared for liabilities in respect of deben- at 10.0 a.m. Four targols of the Oct. 6. Intest Bisley dimensions will bo Defendants ploaded not guilty, eventualities, which, however, we tires and outstanding accounts amount 1944,758, while our available. Competitors must pro-butevidence wasgiven by Revenue are glad to say, have not up t vide their own ammunition. Officer Mackenzie to the effect the time of going to pross arisen assets, after, deducting tou for his had handwriting stand limy The easiest way to the range is that he saw no loss thun 13 junks A letter received from a cories erat, for depreciation onour bald. in good stead, Writing two letters, by the path over the nullah in go alongside this vessel, and the

lust ings, furnitura, boats and other one to a relative, the other to a rear of the Cotton Mills at Clause-mster afterwards told him that poudont at Wuching Inte way Bay.

he had to let go his anchor before evening states that nothing out of

wrong envelopes. It clinnead that profits on the bar account have in the second letter he had made Links with the Past

he intended to owing to the the common had occurred but the gear, amount to $0.082. The chum, fio enclose them in the action of the junk mastore. precautions taken, visible in the amounted to $2,647 our entrance so uncomplimentary reference In the fascinating study of The excuse given by the de- extra policing, etc., wore caus feos show that 48 new members to his relative, and on diseover links with the past, the case off Lori Rosebery, like Bucky Sharp, "never boros one" when lo Captain Francis Maude, . N. dets to go alongside as soon as foulants was that they had or

ing comment.

|j sined during the year and our sub-ing the mistake he had made rises to speak; he has always something to say and he says it outer-should be cited. Captain Maudo,

possible.

The plot sooms not to huyo been acriptions show that we liavo nearly he awaited developments with anxiety: There presently cums a tainingly and gracefully. Yet we are somewhat "puzzled as to his who died in 1880, was able to

The magistrate characterised connected directly with the pre- 200 effective members-that i lettur from the uncle, I have meaning when, in a speech delivered recently on the occasion of the say that his grand-father was nine this form of offence as a danger sont disturbances in Szechuan but to say exclusive of those who tried hard to dether your quincentenary of St. Andrews University, he remarked that Scot-yours old when Charlos the Se and a menace to shipping, and

cond died. There can be few more said. he thought he had made it to have been fostered by Canton are absent, from the Colony, epistle," it ran, but rwriting `land was in danger of becoming a spoon-fed nation and that "it remarkable "links" than this clear that this sort of thing would revolutionaries.

You will, havo seen that we have is so atrocious theI can'tzueke. head or tail of it. However, I was not by such moans or in this way that the Scottish nation was Sir Robert Maudo was born in have to stop.

rocantly constructed a now sen guess the drift of it to he that braced and built up." We confess to entertaining a much smaller 1876, nine years before Charles

Each man was fined $20. It may be of interest to recall wall to protect our property on you need some money, you rogue, His son, the

A boatman and two boatwomen degree of fear as to the dangers of spoon-feeding than does Lord the. Second died. Rosebery. Surely in himself is the best of all arguments in fa-first. Lord Hawarden, was born in were charged with being in theo reddors' recollection that Wu-its eastern boundary, and we so I enclose. u alioque,

1727, and Captain Francis Maude,

Causeway Bay refuge without chang lies opposite to Hankow have also erected a new steel and

Atelegram in fo-day's issue. Four of a little curly spoon-feeding. To repeat an argument used his youngest son, was born in having the permission of the The three towns, Hankow, Ha timber pier, but by arrange shows that Mr. Jalin Rodingwi bofore now in this connection, a day-old chicken can "feud for it 1798 Thus the enormous period Harbour Master. The defendant yng and Wuchong are all closement those items are to be met by means business Campaign of self," as they say in Scotland. Taken away from its mother of two hundred and ten years were dismissed with a caution.

together; the first two adjoin, and our revenue for the coming year. elumny" is one of the polite Rice in Japan-

Wachang is immediately opposite The slips have worked well and phrases he employs when speaking the chances are against its starving if it is given a free passed between the birth of Captain Muude's grandfather.and run where there is food to be scraped up. It is able to his own death.

Public opinion in Japan.being on the South bank of the Yangtze vo been a great convenioner of better-men than himself. But, apparently in favour of total

then, he was sparking at While pick up living, so to speak, almost from the moment of

America and Manchuria.

abolition or a reduction of the They are distant about 600 miles to membors. I am glad to say chapel, and the demagogues who hatching. A baby left to itself would atarve. Not until it

from Shanghai.

that the subscription to the Club, now rule us always do clings a A rumour is current, says the duty on rice it is believed that a is aged nearly two and a half can it food itself (much less cleanly"Kabe Herald," that America is Bill to this offcct will be intro- Thiore were riots at Hinkow which s'ill stands at $10 per on convenient atmosphere-Lime thaan does the chicken) even wherò food. is supplied to it, and not unabout to loase a largo section induced to the Diet next session. early this year and the volunteors num, for which sum I think you til some eighteen or twenty years have elapsed from the day of its Manchuria for the development of The "Jiji" remarks that the were called out. Thore was some must confess that your Committee birth does it earn the food itoats. Yet the hen is rather badly beaten American interests in China, and duty on rice was increased by the

that a secret, ngrement has al-Constitutionalists as part of their little fighting and two or three has rendere l 'you full return, in the long run, Man, in plain words, is spoon.fed from the moment ready been entered into between programme during the 26th ses Chinese were killed. Flankow Before asking you to adopt the of birth until he isable to go out into the world-equipped, in greater the two countries. It is hardly sion of the Diet (1909-10-for the hus de immense strides of late accounts I shail be pleased to or less degree, for the battle of life, and to say a word against it, so necessary to say that the rumour purpose of checking the decline years and some think that it will answer any questions that any is denied at the Foreign Depart in the price of the cereal and of always it is not overdone, is to confess oneself blind to the every-act. The protest lodged by protecting the interests of the sirenten Shanghai's supremacy member may wish to put.

Japan and Russia. in connection farmers thereby. This year's abs the commercial emporium of

No questions being asked, What, of course, Lord Rosobery fears is that, with University with the Four-Powers loan has normal ilvance in the price of rice North China. Certainly, as the students assisted from funds, with the passing of the old Spartan not been settled yet, so it is im- has roused much general condem terminus of the railway from the resolution was seconded by days when the" lad o' pairts" came forth from his native village to possible for America to enter into nation, the rise being attributed Pekingitisef growing importance. Mr. J. Reidio and was unanimous some special secret agreement. It to the increased duty. The out- St. Andrews or Edinburgh equipped only with brains and a bag of is true that America has long going Cabinet retinced the duty

Wichang is the capital of the ly carried. oatmeal, there is a danger of general weaknem setting in. But been taking a keen interest in by means of an Imperial Ordin-province of Hupeh. surely the whole point is that there were many brainy youths the development of agricultural ance with a view to checking the in the old days whose parents could not afford even the sack of oat undertakings in Manchurin, but advance in price, but the course meal and that to such as there to-day the avenues to learning are attempting to lease a large area without effect. It has been fully

that is very different to America taken by the Government was The following telegram was thrown open. How can that tend to weaken the national character? of ground in North Manchuria, demonstrated that the price of received by the American Con- If we had one of these old oatmeal-fed scholars and they are still In June last, an American com rice cannot be regulated by suinte from the Manila Observa- numerously present In Scotland aaying the things Lord Rosebery pany interested in agricultural means of Customs duty tory at 11.30 a.m., today Store, Assistant Secretary, Mr. the Britisir people would kiok says, we might believe in the dangers of spoon-feeding. But they and industrial tooleand machinery and moreover that its high Cyclone or Typhoon E. of the say quite the opposite; they know that the more easily accessible negotiated with the Chinese Co-price is of benefit only to Ladrons or Mariana Islands mov.

vernment through the American a few landowner without doing ing W.NW. are made the resources of knowledge the better it will be for Scol-Consal in Tientsin for the sale of any good to the tenant-farmers, land. The astonishing thing is that Lord Rosebery (and he is not its merchandise, but the negotia who form so large a majority of alons of his class) should be blind to the fact, patent to others, that tions terminated without bring the farming class. The opinion Twelve monthis hard labour, he is what he is largely because he had thrown open to him a Publio ing any satisfactory resultTho is gaining ground among the Con- four hours stocks, and twenty- School education, a University education, all the manifold resources present rumpur may have originat stitutionalists that a reduction or four strikes, was the punishment of civilisation which make for wide knowledge and high culture. Called in thisway. At any rate, no trust the total abolition of the duty is meted out to a man at the Magte- it spoon-fooding, if you care; the term matters little; but these aids worthy ground for this rumour in advisable. The "Jiji" believes traoy this morning for snatching to high development have made Lord Rosebery and the other mem-connection with a secret agree thats Bill for this purpuse will be on earring from a Chinese woman bera of his olas what they are the man on whom we rely in moment between America and China passed by the Diet in the coming in Des Youx Road. The earring

Loun be found

day facts of life.

Typhoon. Warning.

Virtue' Rewarded.

house or Whitechapel--when they propose to let loose the fall

torrent of their most choice, abuar. Somehow, - howeyer, Mr.

Redmond always avoids one plain question-flow is Ireland, under Home Rale, gong lo psy, her way? Britain at present ineola an increasing Irish deficit, which amounts 16 21,250,000 a year. She also pays Ireland's share of the National Debt and of the dost of the Army and Navy. If Mr. Redmond would come along and fell us how Ireland di miopt The election of oflice-bearers Home Rule without facing a for the ensuing rear resulted as heavy deficit every year he would follows:-Commodore, Dr. Fran-earn the gratitude of many in- quiring people. An annual grant ois Clark: Vice-Commodore, Mr. of several millions from the Bri- G. G. Wood; Treuior, Mr. Ittish Exchequer would do the trick, Phillips; 8 orelary, Mr. Alex P. of course, but we rather fancy that against that English and Soota J.Spittles: Oficial Measurer, Mr. people have quite enough to doja Bell: Deputy Mossurera, Mesare paying their own way taxation Leak and Rosem"n| Coinmitten, is quite heavy enough, as it in. Messra, Raidio, Gibson, Irving, Besides, Mr. Redmond could never Molvo, Milroy and Craik sutely soil life fingers by ac

cepting a grant from a Unionist Government from wie nistors, Until e olears this hurdle Ho Auga t 31, 1911, there hopelessly impossible and i

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