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HONGKONG, THURJDÀY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1912,
JI
ON THE READING OF FICTION.
DAY BY DAY.
Something for more radical U.S. than almsgiving le required if . poverty, want, and sickness are to bo appreciably lessened.
Load of Sandal Wood.
$225 were paid at the Police Balo, to-day, for a load of sandal wood.
Dumped.
The body of a female child has boon found on the steps of the Italian Convont, Wanchai,
Mr. Bruce in Hongkong.
Mr. B. D. Bruce of the Maritime Customs, Swatow, is staying at the Hongkong Hotel.
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Pasir Panjang. Murder Chan Kam, who was arrested in Hongkong for murder has been commitlod for trial at the Singa- pore Police Court.
Malls Arrived.
MONEY IS SCARCE.
Capital is Stow in Coming
to Philippines.
Mr. F. P. Williamson, of the
AMENDED STATEMENT.
Theft from Passenger on the Kwong Sal
SERIOUS CHARGES.
Alleged: Procuration
Young Giron
NOTES AND
COMMENTS,
A Political Spilt. «
The familiarity, whioli bieads
A man was charged before Mr.
Two mon and three women Port Banga Lumber Company of E. A. Irving, at the Police Court, were brought before Mr. C. D. contempt las led, in the case of Manila said to-day in a personal this morning, with stealing fifteen Melbourne at the Police Court, the Liberal and Labour allies, to this morning, charged with (in what is obviously a bitter quarrol. interview with a representative of pieces of clothing from
passenger on the a.s. Kwong Sai, the case of the men) harbouring That this is so, is patent from the the "Telegraph that:
"United States capital is slow and with returning from banish-and) in respect of the women) fact that the Liborala havo desi- pose of prostitution, agus on Mr. Keir Hardie's seat The police stated that there even. There are two scale at was no evidence to offer to the Merthyr Tydvil, the Labourites Bench at the moment and asked | for a remand to be granted. at prosent holding ono and tho
in forthcoming for any work that ment, tends to devolops the Philippines I suppose that the rosson is that our people at home do not realize the possibilities.
Possibilities there are, and many of them, and a great many things that could be invested in, with surety of large returns***** are allowed to slide.
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Defendant pleaded not guilty, Inspector Fenton-Ho plead- od guilty to the second charge in the charge room, your Worship.
The Laterprotor-lo says no, your Worship.
procuring ton girls for the pur
"The p
Mr. Davidson, of Messrs. Has Liberals the other. Unionism has. tings and Hastings, defended. never been very flourishing in The case was remanded, bail this constituency, though at the boing allowed in the sum of last General Election the Union $500 in the case of the men and $1,500 the women.
ist nominee increased his poll by Mr. Davidson said the second some 2,000 votes, but even then man was the runner of the board-ho was 6,000 behind his ne
nearest ing house, of which, according to
foot right to amend any statement Mr. Irving-You have a per- you have made in the charge For instance my own busi- room; at the same time if you is not being pload not guilty to the charge of n888,-lumbar, pushed because of the lack of returning from banishment, I am unable to hear the case myself, U.S. Capitul. While there are
mills scattered and I must commit you to the many small
Criminal Sessions,
his instructions, the first defen-pponent. It would certainly, be throughout the different islands, there is not one that would, cut
The complaiasat on the first dant was the manager. If any interesting to watch happenings Pacifio cuant's mill output in charge said he was shoemaker, charge wore proved, his guilt in the ovont of the Liberals car- yaar.
living in Canton. He was about to as lose. He was asking his rying out their threat of running Bea & friend in Queen's Road Worship to allow him to make two candidates. It is to be noted, I've read a lot, and been told West, Hongkong. Last night he the remarks, in order that a too, that the Labour party is to lot about the troubles that we are was on board the steamer Kwong smaller bail may be fixed. supposed to have with our work- Sai from Canton to Hongkong.
retaliate by trying its luok at men, but we have found no diffi- He was sitting on the bitches of to make the bill so that the man member was returned unopposed Mr. Malbourne I only want Sowerby, where the Liberal culty in handling them,-after," the hold. He went away for a will appear. You might arrange last time and had a two thousand
Mr. Williamson emphasized the moment leaving a bundle behind with the offices. after, we have learned their him near a lady. When he return-
odd majority in the previous Mr. Davidson:-I don't know action. This being a manu- customs and habits.
el he found his bandle missing. whether it is very matorial but Ifacturing contro, there is the Another trade, that has great He went up to the Indian nighitam instructed that the mun is an possibilities, is that of cocoa nuts. watchman to make enquiries. He opium smoker. public dout know a thing about his bundle. He saw the watch-anything now but I will bear in The public-I mean our American iscovered the defendant with Mr. Melbourne-I cannot do is, and Mindanao offers all kinds an find the bundle in defend-mind what you say. The bail is ofindacements. There is nothing ant's arms as he was lying dowe. the usual amount fixed in these
Dofondant said he did not take
The following maile arrived to-dayas. Kutsang from Cala cutta and Singapore; se. Linan from Shanghai, with the Siborian. Mail.
In a Typhoon. The 8.8. Tung Shing reports "Strong N. N. C. wind from Yungtow to Foochow; anchored for forty hours during a typhoon,"
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The Prinz Ludwig, The N. D. L. 6.8. Prinz Ludwig will probably dook to-night at that she oncountered a typhoon about ten o'clock. It is supposed on the way from Shanghai, but details are known at present
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Firs in Cowshed.
A fire is reported to have broken out in a cowshed at Shung Shui, and in consequence three cows valued $70, were burned to death. The fire is supposed to have been caused through some live ashos which were deposited in the corner
of the cowshed, blowing on to some driod grasE,
World Walker Leaves.
done because of lack of U. S.
to be at all interested,
сабза,
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possibility of a split vote in the event of three onddidates, but profit by this. However, the die neither Labour nor Liberal would seems cost, and the next General Election should furnish a plethora of triangular contests.
An Interesting Blography,
Thors is always a special in. terest attaching to the biography This morning at the Marine Court before Commander O. W of a person who is still living, and Beckwith, R.N, Young Cho-ng, a
when a man like Mri Lloyd bontwoman, was charged with un-is doubly great. During the past George is the subject, that interest lawfully failing to licenco hor
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TO. Lastly charged Clinn You, She was fined $5. licensed steersman, with failing to exhibit the regulation lights while under way in Victoria Har- bour on Sept. 18.
Capital! I have lived on the the bundle. The Indian asked him Island for 13 years and Iam there-if it was his bundle and he replied foro able to speak from experiencs.no. The Indian then arrested BOAT PEOPLE CHARGED.
"Neither English nor German him. There was a row and a man money hesitates when a sound throw the bundle beside him. business proposition is offered,
The watchman said about mid- but American cash does not seem night he was on the upper deck of the second class. The com- "There are now two English- plainant came and told him that mon on Mindanao looking up his bundle of clothing was stolen. boat. cocoa nut and rabber plantations. He took a lamp and went "for- -J.-K. Mikuloc, the world walker They reprosent English-moneyrard"; there he found the defon loaves Hongkong to-morrow by A Scotch Company has just takeudant lying amongst some baskets. the German mail for Singapore.up an immense tract of land in Ha asked the defendant why he He has been unable to arrange the Cattbito distrios, and have loolures in Hongkong and is planted thousands of rubber and was hiding himself, and if the basket was his. He said "Yes." consequently leaving for the cocosnat treos.
Mr. Irving:What is the Chi- southern port, to walk through "A German Company is plant case for "why are you liiding the Malay Peninsula, through ing rubber troes on a large scale, Burmah to Cloutta and then across the Straits from Zamboanga.
yourself?"
Witness after. some delay, said across to Bombay. Hia original A Swiss Company is doing the he could did not speak Chinese. itonerary included a walk from same thing twenty miles up the Mr. Irving-Thon why did Canton to Caloutta through Yun-coast fromZamboanga,and they are nan, but he has acted on advice, raising, as a catel-crop between you say you asked him that? that the country is too unsettled, the trees,-100 bushels of findian when he arrested the man he Witness, continuing, said that and has therefore Chosen the corn to the acre (This seems oried to be let go.
Rather heavy yield-Ed.)
Defendant said he did not steal "It soome a pity that foreign the bundle and he had nothing money should have all the incre- further to say. ment of American soil,"
Mr. Irving:Tell the defon- When asked as to his views of dant I find him guilty on the first polities in the Phillipines and in charge but will reserve sentence. China, Mr. Williamson said:
until I have heard the ovidence on the second charge.
other route.
VOLUNTEER ORDERS.
The following corps "orders have been issued by Major D. Macdonald:-
There is so much politics down our way that wo havent time to worry about Chinese affairs.
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We are so afraid that there is a
licence his boat. He was fined $2.
forty years, no politican-gavS only D'Iaraoli, Gladstone and ised by one section of the British, Chamberlain has been so idol- and so cordially detested by another. (In Mr. Lloyd George's case there is probably a third Evidence showed that the craft party, who neither love nor hate, was sailing in the Southern Fair with the fear, born of a sense of but rather fear his perhaps way laden with sand, and showing distrust,) But whether partisans no lights.
Defendant, who was said he whole cannot fail to admire the or opponents, Britishers, as a had both lights showing, was Chancellor as being a man ho fined $10.
has arrived" as the French Yee with unlawfully failing to upward battle, nover looking The same officer charged Fungay. He has fought a stoady,
back and never allowing his spirit to bo dashed by temporary do feat or drawback; and, from being nothing, he has risen to be. CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
practically the ruler of England.
Pour Robbers Sentenced. Essentially the Politician......
The private life and the hither- The caso was concluded luteolo-known milestones in the The case was then remanded yesterday afternoon at the career of such a man, with which Crimiasi Sessions, in which fie the biography now appearing. men stood charged with being must necessarily deal, will doubt concerned in a robbery by two or lose engross readers of all shades of more. There were other charges political faith. A peculiarity that At the Police Court, this morn-against three of the prisoners of always strikes us, in connection with Mr. Lloyd George, is that le The fourth prisoner, the boy, is the only great Minister of mo receiving as well, was found not guilty and dis-forn timea who has been politi- charged. No. 1, 2 and 3 were cian, and politician only. found guilty, and wore ordered Beaconsfield, Gladstone and Mr. to do six years' hard labour and Balfour wore, at heart, as much receive eighteen strokes of the literary mon és Parliamentarians;' "cat;", whilst No. 5, being con-in the case of the two latter, vioted of receiving, was sent to probably more); Palmerston and gaol for five years herd labour. Salisbury were great social forces his crime being described as be--to use the term in its narrower ing "nearly as bad as the others."
until the 26th.
SIMILAR RINGS.
The librarian of one of London's public libraries has made the sistement that because there is a decrease in the issue of books from public librarios, people are growing more serious. But this does not follow at all. There never was a time when so much fiction was published and bought and read; only, it appears in the form of cheap reprints which are rapidly read. People no longer purchase the expensive novels, and only a few of them, comparatively speaking. Artillery Battery-Parade at Head Quarters at 5.30 p.m. go to the librarios for them. Yet fiction is read; good fiction, bad Monday, 23rd, Squad Coy. Drill; chance of a Phillipino Home Pale fiction, more fiction than ever was road before, and, if the reading of Tuesday, 2411 Specialists; Wed- that we dont know what to do!" fiction may be regarded as a proof of want of seriousness, the public nosday, 25th, Standing Gun Drill; Continuing, Mr. Williamson ing, a Chinese was charged before is less serious than ever it was. But may fiction нo be regarded? Friday, 27th, Somaphore Abbre- said
"There is'nt a lumber mill in Mr. O. D. Melbourne, with viationa. Lecturo on Tuesday, Is there not, after all, a word to be said in its favour--a rather Ammunition; Friday, Gunnery. all the Islands that does not need attempting to pawn a silver ring money: if we must have foreign mounted in gold and obtaining strong word ut that? Wo submit that there is.
Engineer Company-Monday spital, wo mast, and that is all $15 by false pretences, at Wan- It is idlo to ory down fiction roading generally as a waste of 23rd, Squad & Coy, Drill; Tues- that there is to it. Hongkong? chai. Another Chinese was also time. That depends entirely upon the kind of fiction that is road day, 24th, instruction in Field Oh I like it alright,---Insleod I can charged in connection with the Telephone; Wednesday, 25th, and upon the amount of time that is spent upon it. In any well- Technical drill at West Fort: say that I like it better than any
Mr. Shenton, of Messrs. Dancan, eity that I have seen in the Orion. ordered scheme of reading fiction must take a place. But the man Kowloon; Friday, 27th, Somap-tal East, and I have found. Looker and Deacon, prosecuted, or woman who has oulture enough and taste enough properly to hore Signalling.
through yours of experience, that and Mr. Lewis, of Messrs. Johnson, Machine Gun Company: arrange a schome of reading will see that fiction does not occupy tòn
the Chinese Merchant is the best Stokes and Master, defended.
sonse oven Mr. Chamberlain groat a place; will make certain, too, that the fiction read is sans Tuesday, 24th, M. G. Drill and the driver of a hard bargain, and handed over to the police the Mr. Shenton said that when Monday, 23rd, Squad&Coy. Drill; to do business with. He may be
has liad other intorests besides and healthy. Between the novels of Scott, charged with his magni Instruction in Range Finding, haggle you down to the last coat, first defendant said he got the
those of government." But what ever may be said of the failings ficent genius and strong sunity, and the unhealthy, introspective, Wednesday, 26th, Machine Gun but once the deal is on, his word ring from the second defendant. COMMODORE RYRES IN
and the merits of the present often neurotic, fiction foisted upon the reading public to-day, is a Drill & Mechanism; Friday, 27th, is as "good as gold.".
He gave two different names
Chaucellor of the Exchequer, it wide gulf fixed. He does not ask you to considor a sexual problem. Tuesday and Friday, Mechanism Philippines on the 21st.
Somaphoro Signalling. Lecture on Mr. Willianison returns to the and addresses at first. When the second defendant was found and)
must, before all things, be con There is, in his fiction, the tang of the pino of his native land- & Jams.
searched he had in his possession Commodore Eyres, soon upon ceded that he is a man of politics strong and health-giving. And Scott is only one of many masters Joined:-The following mom- THE "PEAK BURGLAR.”aring exactly similar to the one his arrival at Vancouver, says solely and single-mindedly.
bers having joined the Corpa are
in question and which the first the "World," stated that the allotted Corps Nos. and posted as Sald to Have Confessed to all defendant had attempted to situation in China did not look The Cricket Final. follows:-1338 Pto. B. Kennedy, Burglaries But One. pawn. $20 were also found promising, and trouble was ex- The real strength of England 1844 Pte. C. Hodgson, 1349 Pie.
apon him wrapped in news pected in the Celestial Empire, at cricket is shown by the result We have been informed that paper, and it would be proved The republican officials, he said, of the match between Yorkshire,
who have stood the test of time and whom no cultured man hus left unroad. So the ronding of fiction cannot always be set down as a sign
of mental weakness and a harmful waste of time.
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affair.
VANCOUVER,
Even cheap ropriata may be useful, for there are many paper W. R. B.. Thursfeld, 1360 Pte. covered editions of the masters. Of late years hundreds of thousands J. G. G. Ferguson to Scouts Co.; the Poak burglar, as he is that the second defendant lad do not seem to have a good grasp the champion county, and the of people have read Boot and Thackeray and Dickons and George 1339 Pto. 8. H. West, 1340 Pie called, since he was captured in pawned a ring similar to that on of things, and the general im Rest of England. The result was Eliot to whom these authors were formerly but names. And, even J.D: Watt, 1841 Pto. F. II, Bmith, the house of Mr. E.A.M. Williams, the 29th August, The same day pression is that more trouble almost similar to that of the cor where people read trashy novelettes, may not a word be said in their 1342 Pte. W. P. Hedley, Centre has confessed that he is the man as this man pawned the ring he threatens. There was considera- responding match laat lavour? Is it not a good sign that they do actually read some thing? Section M. G. Co., 1343 Gr. B. A. responsible for all the burglaries had also pawned a pair of bangles ble trouble in southern China Yorkshire, this year, like War-
Stanford, 1347 Gr. F. G. White; that have taken place recently on for $20, and his Worship would when the commodore left, and wickshire, last season, May not that be the firat groping towards butter things? Yet, again, Howt. Bection, 1945 Pte. J. Mor the Peak, with the exception of be told that the twenty dollars large naval expeditions had been beaten by over an innings. There what if it is not? What if the tawdry sentiment, the tinsel, and the ris, 1348 Pto. W. A. J. Cooper, the ons at the residence of Mr. wore the same as those handed to sent to Canton to protect foreign may be circumstances
him an hour and a half previously property.The World" con- ouse the heaviness cheap trimmings of rubbiaby fiction are tremendously real to many Left Section M. G. Co., 1348 Ho Tung. poor omatures living lonely and dreary lives of constant drudgery? Sapper T. F. O'Sullivan, Engi. It is also stated that he claims that day. There was one charge unues: "Commodore Eyres wasnt Nothing is more to have worked single-handed, against the first defendant and Hongkong when the attempt was the Rest batted The reading of such fotion lifts them from their sordid surroundings, neer, Company.
made to assassinato the new go- Yorksh lifts then entranced to the blue of a heaven higher than they could Bleugned: Pie W, Water-stated where all the goods ware Mr. Lewis-Not guilty to all vernor, Sir Henry May, took place. But, oven
though it cannot be definitely three against the second, house, Scouts Co., is permitted th otherwise reach, gives them to dream pretty dreams for a space. We resigul with effect from 10th There is a rumour that he has The second defendant was the was part per
He does not think the attempt the ohns obarges. disposed of.
an organized plo admit that 100 much fiction-reading is like unto too much instant. champagne-drinking. But we are not with those who ory it down as
admitted that the articles he was only man who appeared. He was but the set of an individual,
had a very BRITOW BAGS Parados The parades order: successful in taking from the found guilty and fined $25. The wholly bad. To read even a traky novel is better than to read ed for Friday, 20th instant are houses during his nocturnal, iait
Brat defendant estreated his baiti
fred by nothing at all.
cancalled
ere pawned or sold in Can of $100,
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