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The English mail of July was delivered in London August 6.
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Austrian Consul Robbed.. The Austrian Consul hasreport- od to the Police that someono on-
tored his room through the win dow and bas taken away goods to the value of $46.
Alleged Theft of Pigeons. A man has been extradited to
Macao in connection with a charge of stealing, 1,050 pigeons valued $175. The pigeons belonged to a Hongkong dealer.
Arrivals.
Nine men of the 25th Punjabis, arrived from India per P. &. O. "Arcadia on the 1st instant, and are taken on the strength of the Command accordingly.
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Body in the Harbour,
A dead body has been found the Harbour.
Col. Wolfson in Hongkong. Col. J. Wolfson of Manila is staying at the Hongkong Hotel,
Unlicensed Hawker."
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For hawking without a licence, a fine of $2 was imposed on Chinese, at the Police Court, to-day.
Mails Arrived
The following mails arrived to day-a.s. Princess Alice from Shanghai and Japan; s.s. Kloist from Europe and Singapore.
Dr. Moore Returns. Dr. W. B. A. Moore, assistunt superintendent of the Government Civil Hospital, returned to the Colony to-day by the s.8. Kloist.
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KOWLOON CRICKET CLUB
NOTES AND
COMMENTS.
The Teunis At Home."
the Kowloon
Ball of $1,000 Fixed..
Seleeping Police At the Police Court this morn-
In view of the frequency of On Saturday next the ing, before Mr. E. A. Irving, a Chinese was charged with fran- Cricket Club will be at home to burglaries, both in Hongkong dulently converting to his own friends on the occasion of the und Kowloon, of late, wo might uso, 30.25 $20.78, and $40.91 tennis match between the Cham-be permitted once again to ask, in May, July and October, last pions (Kowloon C. C.) and the Rest Whore are the Police?" To an- year, the property of Kwong On of Longue. At the conclusion of swer our own query, they are, or theo match the shield and modals some of thom have been, asleep, Wing
Mr. Crews appeared for the will be presented by Mrs. Forsyth. We rofor more particularly to the The match will be between Indian and Chinese sections, who prosecution and Mr. Lewis for the
teams of three pairs a side, and would appear to be fond of in- defence,
Kowloon will play the same men dulging a little habit of toking. as on Saturday last, namoly forty winks, or more, while ou duty. It may be a pretty and re- Muakenzie, Green,
Abrahami, Clarke, Thompson and Wood, poseful sight to seo our supposed guardians of the peace wooing the Goddess of Sleep in the open air, but we good hardly point out that this is not quite what they are paid to do. Of course, the bur glare don't mind, but the public, verul who pay-police and other ratos, i do.
Mr. Lewis asked for a romund and applied for bail,
Mr. Irving:-Do you object, Mr. Crowe?
CANTON NEWS.
Note Redemption.
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Mr. Crowe-No, your worship, though the combination will in but I ask for the sum to be$1,000, all probability be rather different. Mr. Lewis-Lask your worship The tonu for The Rest has not yet
been finally selected. Mr. Frank Groves Returns. By the Princess Alice, Mr. to fix bail at $250. In this case that the man has been employed Frank Groves, Engineer-in-Chief it is a most extraordinary thing of the Chinese, section of the Canton-Kowloon Railway, return by the firm for ten years, and those ed to-day after Home leave. He bringing the charge against him in acquired the business only two made the journey back A cook who said he was employ-Siberia, and will at once resuine moutlis ago. The alloged ember- (The
zlement took place more than a od by Mr. Brawn, of Queon's Col- his duties at Canton.
Mr. Crewe My client did not logo, was sont to gaol for six weeks, Kailan Mining Administration year ago.
The Kailan Mining Administra- | discover these fraude. by Mr. E. A. Irving, at the Police MARRIAGE.
Mr. Lowis:He did not go Thumb-Bonatd.-AC1un Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Sing.Court, this morning, for stealing tion (Chinoso Engineering and pare, ou Jely 24, by the Rev. Father Burghofer. Aloysius Soundaram, Thama watch valued $15, the proporty Mining Co., Ltd. in liquidation) into (he business until two months basany, of the Strait, Timgs Offier, ka Rist Agnes, daughter of Mr. and Mr. of a Chinoso. G. Borgund.
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Library Visitors. The following is the return of V-On fuly 91 at the Mansion, River Valoy Roul, Bingapore August-visitors to the City Hall library and museum for the wock ending the August, 4.-
Library. Museum.
170 Nou-Chinose... 429 Chinese... 201 3,304
Total......... 630 3,534 Kowloon Railway Station.
Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong, Telephone: No. I A.B.C., 5th edition. Western Union
The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1912.
WORDS AND REALITIÈS,
In proparation for the erection of the now terminal railway sta-
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Thefts from the Cathedral
Some miscreant last month
broko open three of the alme boxes!
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has declared a dividend of 7.1-2
ago.
"Telegraph" Correspondent.)
Canton, August 0.
Three Instances.
Information has reached us of
three instances of this kind of recent occurrence. A European Sinco the 1st inst., the oflice of gentleman on going home one the Official Specio Department has night at about 11.300 olook found been crowded daily with people a stalwart Indian constablo lying desirous of having noten re-across the stops leading his resid deemed. Each person has been enco at Kowloon, wrapped up in pc., free of income tax, equiva- Mr. Irving I will remand the allowed to cash notes not exhis blanket and dead to the world. lent to 1s. fid. per share, on a0.
ever, many crafty persons got all took the man's number and then report to the Police their notes redoomed by calling macie # count of the period ended 27 case until the 13th; bail $1,000. cending $10 in amount. How. The gentleman struck a match;
HIS EXCELLENCY. June, 1012. The dividend will be
several times with the limited, Station. When he came back payable on and after the 12th
amount, while othora, who are with a European Officer the dusky August, 1912.
Yesterday is Excellency the feeble and weak, get stronger one was still in Dreamland. An- What Should the Charge Be?-Governor made an inspection of
mon to cash the notes for them other-Kowloon caso_wis_one_in_ At the Police Court, this morn land at Shataukok in connection on payment of a small foo. The which an Indian was found asleep ing, a man was charged with with the construction of a light officials have thus been obliged to in a gateway along the son-front. stouling a img of rice. He was railway there. Ho was
accom-impress a colour mark on the The other instance was in long- observed by a constable in Con-
discovered by a resident stretched naught Road Central, and, when panied by Lady May and party. hands of those who come for the kong, a Chinese constable being questioned about the rice, did and as the trip was made in the redemption of the notes.
Government yacht Stanley, occa- Mr. Chow, the Director of the out in a quiet corner at about 7 not, give a satisfactory accountsion was taken to cruiso about Department, has now issued o'clock in the morning. In view mud ho was arrested. ·
Mirs Bay and environs,
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Mr. Irving:-Tlut. bag has a
Inspector Sullivan :-Yes, but
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Tresspassers, Run Down By. Express Trains,
DETECTIVE'S FIND.
tion at Kowloon, the site is being cleared. All the godowns on the
a proclamation informing the of cases such as these, is it any land recently acquired by the
public that beginning from wonder that burglars have a Government are being disman-chop on.
to-day, the redemption of the happy time?
is limitod to tled with the exception of a portion
$1.Chinese Boy Scouts. Not Quite What He Expected. notes
Only the other day wo had a of one, which will be retained for I cannot prove ownership.
He says in the proclamation that as a station ponding "the Mr. Irving It seems to me building of the new station. the course for, the prosecution is At the Polico Court, to-day during the last few days, traffic good word to say, in this column, to make the phbargo unlawful Sgt. Wills told Mr. E. A. Irving has been entirely suspended by of the Boy Scouts movement, and The Cathedral Choir. "If anyone sull well considor. the errors and obscurity, tim
The ranks of the Cathedral possession. I will remand the that whilst searching the quarters the throng of people waiting two are interested in a paragraph mistakes and confusion, that are spread in the world by an ill use
of a boy in connection with the cash their notes, while the mer-rolating to the Chinese Boy Scouts of words, he will find sono risen to doubt whether languago, as it Choir have been somewhat defense.
Durbar House wel robbery at chants and the tradesmen sufferin Now York. It will come as a has been employed, has contributed more to the improvement or pleted of late owing to sickness
Japan Gazette" of July | Kowloon, he found in a boy's box losses. Commencing from to-day surprise to most people to learn hindrance of knowledge among minkini." The foregoing quotation and absence of some of the mem- The"
redeemei must go to the "Water all, and we should suppose that from Locke forms the text for the most important section of Lord bers on holiday, says "Church 20 remarks:-"The P.M. alsainer pupors concerning an unlawful those who wish to have their notes that such an organisation exista at "Gardon and apply for this is the only body of Chinese. Morley's powerful speech at Manchester, some weeks since; and Notes." The full services have, Mancliuria, which arrived at the society.
The man was chargeil with the Molon it he adds, "Dismal as this thought must be, how especially however, been well rendered, but Nagahama Quarantine Station
wo should like to see the vacunt from Hongkong, via porta, ut offence and sentenced to three bamboo badges before their notes Scouts in the world: The main thing is, however, that these Obi- porturbing to people with such questions before them as we are
A Deportation"Error. nose boys in Now York appone to called upon to face to-day." Ours has been said to be essentially places filled. There are vacancies 11.30 a.m. to-day, has since been months' imprisonment with hard can be redeemed.
The Commissioner of Police have learned what scout law moans an age of the printed rather than the uttered word: of the book and for three sopranos, one contralto, subjected to disinfection. It labour.
MARINE COURT. las issued a proclamation that be-the law which bids a scout help the newspaper, far more than of the pulpit or the rostrum; yet-ous tenor and two basses, also appears that a Filipino passenger who landed at Hongkong from
has received instructions from where he ean. They liavo sent to man being a creature of easily quickened, and more easily swayed, for two boys.
Thanks for Gifts.
the steamer, was found, on the
Two Chinese boatmen were the Governor-General to the effect tho Famine Relief Commitles at sympathies the spoken word must always strike with inore weight
Rev. G. A Bunbury, principal 24th instant, to be suffering from and more cleavage-force than that which is written. To this no one is more alive thon the political agitator who mounts the platform of the C. M. S. Training College, plague. The vessel is expected charge at the Marino Court, this that Chan Han-ping, formerly Shanghai the sum of Tla. 180 in with the gospel of discontent and sadition for a text, and the Canton, writing to acknowledge to be released at about noon to morning, hoforo Commnador C. editor of the "Progressivo News," aid of the famino, sufferers, This seventy-two dollars from the Peak morrow. In that case ale will be Beckwith, RN, with mooring Rangoon, a revolutionary paper is a significant sign of tho assimila mutable many" for an audience.
Sunday School and twenty-two able to love here for San Fran. their craft within 100 yards of low against tho late Manchu Govorn; tion of Western ideas by the East Happity for the Empire, this particular, stamp of windbag dollars fifty-seven cents from S. cisco on Sunday afternoon as water mark in a prohibited placement, was deported through the and, interesting in itself, is chiefly and during prohibitod hours. roprosentation of the then Chinese arrosting because it is part of the
movement towards the opt (whereof we may regard Mr. Kier Hardie as a reasonably good ex-Paul's College Sunday School scheduled."
Both men pleaded guilty and were Consul of the old Government at great ample) has no great skill in word-juggling, and whenever he is says, "Please convey to the child- misapprehended it is usually his own or his hearers' stupidity that ren of the Peak Church and St. KILLED ON THE RAIL- each fined $7 or, in default, im-Rangoon. Some time ago, he adoption the adaptation rather
petitioned to. the Canton Gover- of western culture by the Chinose. prisonment for 14 days. is to blame. It is when the speaker, by virtue of (a) an abnormal Paul's College Sunday School my
nor-General naking the latter to Making Children Smutters cunning or of (b) a well-trained and cloverly applied dialectical warm thanks for their gifts to
BIG MORPHINE CAPTURE. telegraph to the Ministry of Is the present-day education of faculty, is able to do more or less what ho will with the truth, that our Boya' School. "
A man named Fung Yun-sai Foreign Affairs to open negotin- children faddy? The question is he is dangerous, to the commanity and the individual aliko. Truth
ivas charged at the Police Court tions with the British Minister prompted by a statement, inade "twisted by knives to niske a trap for fools" is at any time capable of more harm than the blackest lio-a statement to which probably
At different times yesterday to-day; before Mr. E. A. Irving, at Peking in order to get the con- by the Bishop of Salford, that many of those would now give ungrudging assant who in the past in the Cathedral. It would scou two Chinese, trespassing on the with being in unlawful possession sent of the Rangoon Government we have been living educational- have been beguiled by the blandishments of (let us say) Mr. Lloyd that he was disturbed at his work on the railway between Slatin of soven pounds of morphine, and to the cancellation of the order. ly under a regime of faddism, and
However, the papers in Canton the consequences have beon Chesh George and Mr. Claude Lowther.
as in two cases he left some and Taipo were killed by trains. also with dealing in the same.
Mr. B. Johnson who appeared made a mistake in nataing the ruin of the superstructure of But while thus allowing to the power of the spoken word its money in the box. A man was The first one was knucked down'
Rangoon Government in the one of those sweeping generalition i due weight, we have to keep strongly in mind the fact that it is arrested on suspicion but nothing by the outward afternoon express on behalf of the defendant asked Hongkong Government for the elementary education". This is
The Commissioner of which contain a deal of truth, and, ng "the written letter" which ondures; ay, and more; which forms was proved against him. As the and the other by the inward for a remand.
Rovonus Officer Wilden asked matter.
Police, under instructions from the because they are smellowed whole that very" public opinion" that, as Lord Morley so clearly indicatos, boxes are constantly oponed and evening express. is itself a somewhat variable quantity, owing to the equivocalness emptied they do not afford promon had apparently boon lying for heavy bail.
The romand was granted, bail Governor-General, now requires and unthinkingly by many people, the papers to rectify the mistake do nearly as much harm as good. or the inadequacy of our mother-tongue and our own faulty grasp mising ground for the operations across the rails, probably asleep,
in their issues,
It may be that children, insig of it. In dwelling with such stress upon the all too common of thieves says "Church Notes." and he was practically cut in being fined at $1,000.
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Confucianism,
Bacon's phrase, are more or less divorcement of word from moaning, of letter from spirit, the A Promising Programme.
Amongst those booked to api- Despite the obvious dangers of DEATH OF A NOTED
·Chancellor of the Manchester University has at his back a chain of
JOURNALIST,
The Self Government Socioty smatterers, that they leave school. pear in the Palace Theatro, Mt.such a proceeding, Chinese cou-
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has established two halls for the unable to think correctly or to supporters-Plato, St. Paul, St. Augustine, the Angolie Doctor,' Bacon, Locko, Stuart Mill, John Henry Newman and a hundred Austin, on Saturday next are the tinuously trespass on the per
Mr. Alfred Kinugar, the well-giving of lectures on Confucian use their trains rightly. Anyon others who, being dead, yet speak, and each of whom stands out Brothers Muck in a song and manent way, and the risk they in the world's life-story as valuing plain meaning and square dance composed by a well known run is made all the greater by the known war correspondent and doctrines. One is situate at the employer of labour at flome who common sense high above mere erudition. Of these, Mill himself al gentleman. This has been fact that the line is a single one Parliamentary lobbyist, has not Confucius temple, Lo Pik Kow, has had occasion to advertise forurol was not more wide-awake to the fallacy that lios in ill-chosen or specially orchestrated by Band- and hence trains may approach long enjoyed his life of retirement outside the wostern gate of Canton, youth can prove, by producing), l. over-strained parallels and analogies than Lord Morley shows him- master Moss for the occasion. trespassers from either direotión. from the stress of journalistic and the other is in Te-ma-fong. the letters of application, hintong self to be when (to quote but odd instances) he argues that "Another item, which is likely to This trespassing nuisanco is giv-work. He died at Plymouth on At the first hall, simple loctures present-day education does not un "bo groatly appreciated, is, "Aing the railway people constant June 21, at the age of 71. Mr. on the adoption of Confucian turn out young people educated his
first plausible parallel makes the politician feel sure of his ground,'
Kinnaar, who orossed doctrines will be given from 7.30 ea. we could wish. But, admit the Atlantic in or-more forcibly—that "ludicrous misapplications from Greece and few moments with Mr. B. M. trouble.
the Great p.m. to 10 p.m., with an interval ting all that, the superstructure Rome inspired some of the worst observations of the Fronch revolu-Crosse and the Chief Composers."
Eastern, was a great traveller. of half an hour, every evening of elementary education is not At the ruined." There were småtterers tion." Nor does he forget to remind his auditors that, even as we must Miss Speedy is announced to do: Shanghai American School.
The plans for the opening of He had visited North and South excepting Sundays, ever distinguish sharply between truth and shum, so must we allow her world-renowned “high dive| no compromise between ideal and fact. "Generous nspiration, ex-act," and this alone should pack the Shanghai American School on America, Canada, India, the second hall day lectures will be in Bacon's day as there are to-day, d
September 17th are being pushed West Indies, Chins, Japan and given every week-day from 10 to but the general standard of edu alted enthusiasm," he says, "is made to do duty for reasoned scru- the houso.
He was at Coo2, with half of an hour's interval, cation was never so high as it is forward and the prospects are the Crimes. tiny:" in other words, the best of us is liable to be carried beyond
Leave of absence on the recom- quite promising. A number have masaje, and during the last South All well-behaved persons will be to-day. It is not so high as it might be, and aliould he, but that a steady view of truth by our very impatience to seek or to express
is quite another thing froin the highest good; by-in homely phraso-the wish boing father to mendation of a Medical Board to already registered, two housca on African war was present at the admitted.
"ruin." the neighbouring countries, in North Szechuan Rodd, Nos. 171 battles of Belmont, Graspan in the thought,
River, granted to Captain C.R.8. Brom- and 172a, are being fitted up for Modder
flying column' to A boy was knocked down by a But while we follow Lord Morley's Buntentions, illustrations loy, R. G. A., August 8 to Novem- the atcom moitation of the pupils, Methuen's And train of reasoning with unfeigned admiration, and while we ber 7, inclusive.
and some of the faculty have Kimberley. Besides the Jamaica tramour yesterday afternoon in may not protond to dong that, at least in its higher and nobler ne- Leave of absence on privato already been chosen. The man- rebellion and the Civil War, Morrison Hill Rond and so severe- ceptation, "democracy
moens government working affairs, to the neighbouring coun-agement hope to publish a full he saw the overthrow of the ly injured that he died during through public opinion," we would warn our readers (we could tries, is granted to the undermen-list of names in a short while. It Prempeh despotism. He was the night. almost do so in lis Lordship's own words) that the very tormtioned officers for the periods, is hoped, says the "Shanghai special contributor to many Times" that all those who intend journals, lobbyist for the Central "public opinion" is capable of as many misconstructions as (e.g) stated:--- the word democracy" itenlf. Every thoughtful and conscientious Láout. D. Pudsey, R.G.A. from to send their children to this News, and Parliamentary sketch man wants demouracy in so far as it may be the expression of the Angust. 14 to October 25, doctrines contained in the Sermon on the Mount; but we are not clusive prepared to believe that the depiceracy conceived of by present day Lieut. A.W.8. Gibson,
public opinion has yet come near to fulfilling that lofty ideal from August 18 to October Until then 1
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PLAGUE RETURNS.
The plague returns, for the week ende August 8, show that Commander Houston, Visits
the outbreak is nearly over, Hongkong,
There were only 15 cases8 in Among the visitors to Hong the bity and 7, in other disiriots kong Are Liout. Commander and lã deaths Y with Mrs. Houston, is staying at the beginning of January is 1832 Houston of the U.B.A, Navy, who The total number of cases, siur
and the number of deathan (1471005 the Hongkong Hotel
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