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THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1913.

THE FINEST LONDON GIN

DISTILLED BY

Sir Robert Burnett & Co.

OLD

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DRY GIN.

A Paying Patriotiem.

It is quite obvious from recent advices" that the situation in Canton is not altogether easy and

DAY BY DAY.

OVER-CROWDING IN

" CHINESE HOUSES,

"Jatice is the virtue of the

The Malls.

et mposed, and if we are to uler, ffarti in and fidelity of the believe all that the local Chinese subjecte."-Schillor." presa says, the new Governor will have to face some difficult

the English Mail of May 24-Deli- problems, especially of financial order, in the days vered in London on June 24 ahrad. Considerable opposition, it Siberian Mail-Arrived per se,

Chenon this after anon. would appear, has been manifes

if the facts are sa s'ated by Dr.

with one of our representatives

!

Kores this morning.

f

Who is responsible ?

[SOLL ARTICLE],

:

In the poor

districts of some of DANGEROUS BUILDINGS. the large towns at Home, the local

authrity obliges landlords to

fix a tablet outside the houses Tenants turned cut of two more

Tulpluguhaa; Houses,. [owned by them; stating how

many persone may lawfully live

there. If the number is ex Yesterday, wo aro inform vf, the The Telegraph" of June 17 cosded, oven by one, the land-inhabitants of Nos. 44 and 48 made the statement that, in the lord is prosecuted for over-Sai Street-two houses in the two house in Station Street which crowding. Admittedly, where immediate neighbourhood of those collapsed on the previous Bator-sub-leasing otsing to the ex- which collapsed at Taipingatan day, no less than a hundred and tent that it does in Hongkong, on June 14-found that the build. ed against the step takon by the German Mail.Arrived per 8.8 sixty-five persons were living it is less easy to fix on the culpritings were unsafe and likely to UTEN • advanced by Chinese abroad, but American Mail-Arrived por 8.5. every stronger or comparative matter for t} › Uovernment to see and Detective Bergt. Murphy was late Governor to repay the loans P.E. Friedrich this morning the result of source, being that at short notice: but that is a fall. They gave notice to the police it should at least know who sent to make enquiries. He found new comer was going about ask-to Sun Yat-sen in his interview American Mail.-Deapatched per ing: "Bat does the Law allow the man is to whom the collector analmost perpendicularsplit in the yesterday, the whole thing 8.8. Panama Maru at 2 pm. this? Is there no Sanitary Au pays over the rents. It should partition wall, and at once decided ba no more trouble for the that the situation was probably to-day.

thority here?" seems quite without justificat-

Certainly there is a Sanitary Sanitary Board to find out one of extreme danger.

least. reasonable Withoutallowing the occupante ion. So far as repayment of Siberian Mail-Closes por us.

PE Friedrich at 9 am to Authority here, and it may be within the loans are concerned, Dr.

said with equal certainty that the limits-how many people live in to stay to remove their property, San says the Hongkong mer- chants who made advances to the Canadian and Siberian Maile.Ordinances of the Colony have house than it is for it to dis be ordered them all out of the

the Public Works Department. Canton Government get no less Due per s.s. Empress of Ja.long ago provided. against fuch over the number of rat holes building and communicated with horrors as the crowding together

The P. W.D. officials, we qp.. less than 50 per cent on their

of this number of persons ander It has been commonly said meney. If this ro, it takes mach

Land Slips.

confirmed Sergeant of the gloss off their "patriotism," The police report that several two roofs. Here is the rule: that, not long before the disaster, derstand, on inspecting the pre-

When there are no cubicles in the occupants of the two houses misen, which was so loudly trumpeted land slips have taken place on abroad at the time the Colony the Peak Road. wae bing canvassed for "patrio tie contributions."

UNEQUALLED IN QUALITY.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

be sa follows:-

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

A Tramcar Incident.

morrow.

pan to-morrow.

Mr. Gande Arrives.

is

Mr J. W. Gande, of Messra Gande, Price and Company, staying at the Hongkong Hotel. Back from Leave.

there.

at

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a room, the space required for were warned to stop up some Murphy's fears, declaring the each person is regulated as fol. rat holes Might one ask, then, buildings unsafe, Shoring up is lowe He must have at least bow the Sanitary Department is now in progress but until it is thirty square feet of floor space could know of the existence of complete the tenants will not be and three hundred and thirty these, and yet remain ignorant of allowed inside to remove their We have, before now, comment

cubic feet of air space. But when the over-crowding? To stop each furniture.

Police Report. ed on the shockingly bad manners

a room contains one or more out holes, to pull down ceilings, and

The police report. that the of some of Hongkong's young Mr. Roy Smith, advance agenticles, each person occupying the to alsy and examine all available roan. To be fair to the majority of the Bandmann Opera Company room muat have at least rate, may be very praiseworthy shroff at 44 Sai Street inform- The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will of them, they are quite as well is due in Hongkong on July 3. fifty

square feet of floor precautions against plague; but ed them yesterday that there was behaved as the young men of any He comes from London where he space and five hundred and fifty when human beings are herded a crack in the party wall between British city. But here and there has been on leave.

uubio feet of air spach.”--

together, with but 28 square feet Nos. 44 and 48 The P. W.D. a one is by way of being an edu-

of flor-spare to each, as in this authorities attended and sloted ested hooligan a cad for whom A man was fired $10 or in

Some Figures

ose, those precautions seem "P. there is little hope of redemp default ons month, by Mr Eazy

The above is perfectly clear, rather like beginning at the tion. Only the other night land at the Police Court this and having regard to the fact that wrong end..

this morning, for keeping a basement the perple in the houses havO type of young man on a car bound at West Point for gambling. A become, through centuries of uso for the oircus. When the coa number of men found gambling on the part of their ancestors, ductor came round they tackled there were fined $2 each or ia inured to short commons an.con- him as to whether the car went default seven days.

carps fresh air, the amount of Buried with Military Honours in to the circus, and on being in- | **

Vancouver.. space allowed is not angenerous. But, how do the figures compare with the dimensions of the rooms,

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"HONGKONⱭ telegraph.'

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1913.

THE ANTI-CONFUCIAN SPIRIT.

Chinese since some time before the Revolution.

We

reveral Saw.

of

Gamblers.

Boatman Fined.

formed that it did, they used some The morning at the Marine painfully free language on the Court, before Commander Bail ground that this should have Taylor RN, Lance-Sergeant T. been indicated on the car.

As Glendinning charged Kong Sui,

on the car mattered nothing to

bopa that, if their eyes, and the eyes of others like unto them, light on this protest, they will take a thought on the matter and try to grasp the fact that other men's wives and sisters should have as much consideration shown for them as they would ask Sarawak and Opium

for their own.

many.

&

The Clock Tower.

+

Legislative Council.

The Power of the Law.

Fi

DEATH OF MR. J.W. GIDLEY.

the premises. The occupants.

had been previously removed until the shoring had been completed. The houses are close by those which collapsed recently.

NEARLY AN ACCIDENT.

Tampering with the Points out the Peak Rallway.

the matter..

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o'olook

Regret will be felt, especially

The police report that Mr and the number of persons occupy amongst the sporting section of ing them, in the houses under the Colony, at the news that the Brera, Traffic Manager of the A fact, its destination, was a boatman, with unlawfully mak consideration? From messure death took place recently at Var: Peak Tramway, has reported to Quarry Point, so that there ing faat his craft to the s.s. Sui meteobisine from Government couver of Mr. Hubert J.W.Gidley. then that, during the temporary absence of the pigualman, some protest W&B groundless. Fung while under way in the har-eources it is found that the front-As many of our readers know, was made simply in order that bour. Defendant was fined $5. age of each of the two houses was Mr. Gidley was formerly a mem- one interfered with the points on they might have an opportunity.

bat 16 feet. No. 9 was 42 ber of the Sanitary Department the tram line, causing an up'oar of bullying the condnotor.

The demolition of the Clock fest from back to front and 42 in Hongkong which he left some to take the wrong line as it was That

there

ascending about nine were ladies

Tower progresses slowly though feet high, while No. 7 was 55 feet six years ago. steadily, and very soon our through and 44 feet high, and The late Mr. Gidley, who was yesterday morning. The con- the set in question, but W8 old friend will have each house contained three floors; only thirty-six years of age, was doctor's prompt action in apply- disappeared. It is strange that the rest is a mere matter of simple a first class Sauitary Inspectoring the brake and stopping the nine-tenths of us still; from force arithmetic. According to the here, was a keen and well-known car averted what must have been of non-watch-carrying habit, east regulations, 165 people in room's sportsman, and left behind him a nasty accident," je fais modi pr glance aloft in passing what where there are on bicles (as there many friends who will hear of "The police are inquiring into We hear that the Commissioner of Education for the Kwang-

was once accepted as the regula were in this case) should have his early death with deep regret. 8,250 square feet of flor His mother and his two sisters- space; yet the foregoing figares Mrs. Jacobs and Mrs. RichardsTM BANDMANN OPERA tung Province has issued a circular outlining the conditions under

or of local time.

COMPANY. A meeting of the Legislative show that these anfestanstes had are still resident in the Colony. which schools will be registered under the Bureau of Education. In

Connoil is called for to-morrow. little more than half that amount; After leaving Hongkong Mr.

The Bandmann Opera Com order to comply with the rules, eight conditions must be falilled.

The High Commissioner of the The orders for the day comprise the average spice per floor of No. Gidley took up the post of secret: Boven of these appear to have been drawn up from existing Western. codes, but the eighth calls for some special mention, for it says: Strai's Settlements bas beat the first reading of a Bill entitled 7 being 880 square feet, that ary of the civic health department pany are due to arrive in Hong- defended by Mr. Harconrt an Ordinance to amend the Official of No. 9, 672 feet, and the total in Vancouver. Death ensued re- kong by the Devanha on Friday "As it is against the School Law, no school may give instruction in

limit Signatures Fees Ordinance, 1888 for the two houses (three floors to gently upon only three days ill-week, and are to open at the Botion in ever his

The third reading of the supple- each) amounting to 4,658 square ness. Deceased, who was a volna.Teatre Royal the same evening. the ing the Confucian classica." Such a regulation is interesting inasmuch

of opium export

Bill feet. Official figures further show teer, we buried with full military. The company comes with a fine as it seems to express something of the spirit of anti-Confucianism into Sarawak;. Mr Harcourt mentary Appropriation that has been spreading very steadily among most of the westernised explaining that this was done $30,609.57) to defray the charges that each Hoor averaged five fami- honours. The remains were borns list of musical comedies for in order to prevent the smuggl of the year 1812 will be taken lies, and that the lowest number to their last resting-place by presentation, including such old his comrades-in-arms of the Sixth and tried favourites an: Autumn ing of the commodity into and Council will take the com- of individuals inhabiting one floor

Regiment of which he had been Manoeuvres which was such a Brunei. Those who know the pomitted stages of foreign coins and was twenty-two.

**a huge success on the last visit & member. That this readiness to abolish what for so many centuries bassition of these territories will foreign notes prohibition bills.

The Vancouver World," in "The Count of Luxembourg furnished China with her literature, her philosophy and ber divinity, agree that Sir Arthur Young had

No one wishes to saddle the its account of the funeral, Bays: Gipsy Love," and the "Geisha." alternative. Brunei is is regrettable, there can be no doubt in the minds of people who no

The season is one of ten nights, MALINI ARRIVES. Government with more than its All the military units in Van trouble to give the matter a second thought. From figures recently sandwiched between Sarawak and

due share of responsibility, and conver were represented, and, and every play seeme sure to published, it is painfully evident that, so far, Christianity in China British North Borreo and, though

hundreds of wiles Malini, the wonder-worker, has no one imagines that the Police with the military band and many prove a winner. The revival of the "Geisha should be a notable is almost as far off as ever from gaining any real grip of the people away from Singapore, comes arrived in the Colony. Malini ia or the Sacitary Board dan mount personal friends formed a proces- as a whole. Half a million Protestants and a million or so Catholics under the Straits Government, without question, the world's most guard nightly over every tenealon several blocks long. At the event. The scenery, we learn, has isat the very outside-all that Christianity has to show for its while Borneo is the property of a popular magician. The list of menthouse in the Colony to cemetery a squad of A Company, come straight from Japan... This labours in China, and of that number an uncomfortably large per- Chartered Company and Sarawak personages both in Furope and prevent the entrance of more than Sixth Regiment, performed the last fact should add gots little, of a private individual America, before whom Malini has lawful number of persons, last offices by firing a volley over piquanoy to the production. centage are-as honest missionaries ruefully admit-rice Christ- that of iano." Other Ohinese, who have not continued to cling to the faith of Brunei's length of coastline is appeared in private entertain-Equally, however, if the Sanitary the grave, the "Last Post" being Altogether the company seems

ander a hundred. miles, ments, reads like a social register. Board can influence the Governor Bounded by the company's trump assured of a successful season. their fathers, have simply abandoned religion entirely. Five minutes' and the population is atout No entertainer, outside of possibly in-Council to pass such an Ord-eter."

inance as that above alluded to, The same paper, speaking of TOO MANY DUTIES, talk with one of these last will lay bars the fact that the nearest ten thousand. Thus it is a few grand cpers stars, can it is a fair assumption that it has the oortage, states that the firing which young China apparently intende going towards accepting difficult to understand why bosst of such a record as the power to carry it cut in at party, with arms reversed, march- Obristianity is to speak of it with the same patronising indulgence the Rajs of Sarawak has Malini's. He appeared at a that one would expect from clever youthe at home who are beginning not been asked to administer command performance before the least the majority of cases. The ed first. Next came the muffled to feel their feet a little. But time is going to show young China Brunei and so save countless risks late King Edward in London, and Chinese of the class living at drums and the trumpeters, with that it is not an easy matter to eliminate religion from a country's of minor aquabbles.

since that time Malini has been a Taipingahan have proved, often the hearse draped in grey The This morning in the Summary affairs. If the Chinese, of their free will, choose to abandon their Trial Marriages,

favourite entertainer to the Lon-enough, that they are still unable chief mourners and close relatives Court, before Mr. Justice Kemp, own religion and become Christians, we as members of a Christian A judge of the New York don smart set, Accompanied by to take proper care of them of the deceased were followed by R. J. Ondish, sued M. S. Maza- country are bound to welcome the change; but, If not, most of us Supreme Court maid, the other his wifeand child and his business selves where rational obedience the military contingent the band ralli to recover the sum of $460 would assuredly prefer to see them retain their Confucian doctrines, day, that the present law in manager, Malini arrived here on to the main principles of hygiene playing the Dead March in "Saul for services rendered by the plain- since it is generally accepted belief among Englishmen that the New York State permits a girl the Persia from Manila. He is is concerned. Then, until they It also remarks that the general tiff to the defendant from July absence of religion must bring disaster to a nation.

who marries under the age of making a leisurely tour of the have learned to protect themselves impressiveness of the occasion 1912 until the end of March 1913. And ffit be cruel to rob the adult of his faith, is is a thousand times eighteen, with the consent of her world. Since leaving San Franciso, and the commanity from needless was added to by the fact that a Mr, B, C. Faithfull appeared more cruel to rob the child of it. The Kwangtung school regulations parents, and leaves her husband Malini has appeared before the exposure to disease, ie it not the squad of police stationed along for the plaintiff, and Mr. WB, forbid the Confucian classics, even though, as an optional subject, before she attains that age, to late Queen of the Hawaiian Government's duty to exeroise a the route, to keep clear the line Hind of Mesars. Bration and Hett pupils may take up the English Bible! There seems but very little obtain a decree a annulment;" Islands, the Peers Club at Tokyo, kind of parental authority over of march, came to the salute as for the defendant

Mr. Faithfull said to that to recommend this idea, for the value of the Bible, even in an English adding that the law thus provid- and private clubs in many of the them not merely in words, the deceased was carried past,

the plaintiff was engaged by the school, is surely literary rather than doctrinal; for what nine-tenthsed for "trial marriages". Then big cities of Japan and at Manila. theories and by-laws, but in

Robe of Gold for King of Greece defendant to manage the coffee of us knew about religion, between babyhood and well-nigh early all we can say is that the sooner This is his first trip to the Orient

Immediate Responsibility. News has reached Athens that bar at Lyemun Barracks at a manhood, we learned by word of mouth rather than from bible- that State alters its law, the bot and following visits to the princi

One does not wish to tough the monke of Mount Athos are salary of $20 per month, but this.. reading. If Chinese boys are simply going to have a religions ter it will be for the morality pal China cities he will, sail for text-book placed in their hands because of its educative and refining of the country. Amerion's best Australia

questions which are like considering the question of send duties became so varied and influence, surely their own classics are better for that purpose men are well persuaded that she Malini differs greatly from the ly to arise at the forthcoming to Athens the Imparial robe multifarious that be told the. than ours. The tone of thought of the Old Testament (and, to some has already played with mar-average magician. He refuses ing inquest, but it is at least and crown which bolonged to the defendant that if he wanted him extent, of the new) may be Eastern, but it is an Easternism that no riage" long enough, and have to appear in theatres and much permissible to remark that there Byzantine Emperors John Tai- to slaythe would have to pay him more appeals naturally to the Mongol mind than the lays of shown themselves in agreement Shakespeare or the philosophy of Kant would. The cobbler had far with the British idea that to tam-prefers small private enterisin-seems to have been some diffiquity miskis and Nikephors Phocas, to 840 per month. The defendent out who was immedi be used at the coronation of King said he would see that the plain- ments where all can keep a close in finding better stick to his last. If the Chinese imbibe and act up to all that per with a country's marriage watch on his tricks. Malini does ately responsible for, allowing so Constantine. These historical tiff was satisfied and from that is good in Confusins, they will not go far, wrong morally. Mean- laws is to imperil her greatness. not carry an ounce of apparatus, large a number of people to life relics are kept at the great mons- time on he seemed to have while we should like to know at whose dictation the Commissioner Trial marriage" is but a high-performing all his marvellous in the two hauses. Seeing that stery of Lavra. The robe is made squeezed as much work anthe of Education has banned the time-honoured classics. Hse he been Rounding term for legalised de- tricks with articles borrowed the floor area was 14,656 square of beaten gold, and listening too much to would-be godless young China, or have the batchery, and we can only hope from his audience. It is to be feet, the highest number of ten. The crown is entermining agents of the Bible Society been influencing him? In that the State of New York will, hoped that a public mange ants that, according to law, should cio10 stone.. eller someone would have been better advised to let well include this frightful abuse in the will be given before He leave Have Gooupled the premises was probably Feorme

list of evils which is is minded to Hongkong next week. /

#93, which is a long way from 105. Gresce,

suppress

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actual practice?...

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Bar Manager who says His Duties were Varied)

could out of the plaintiff, lderly man, without ving,sby increase as bad been