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so long endured. This is a nation-| al shame when we think of the well-paid well-found and pro- gressive German consular service of the past. Especial thought| should. I think, be given to this matter by the British Dominions overseas. Their interests arr nominally and actually protected by the Consul General and his is a thankless task with numerous and persistent trade departmental enquiries for statisties, etc., entail. ing endless work unremunerated even as far as the stationery.

I found the British community in Canton much more cheerful and apparently keener than the people jin Hongkong, Canton folk are quite alive to the future possibili ty of direct shipment. Hong- kong's future, I think. lies in the | prospect of the completion of the great inland railways, which would thus bring the trade from the interior direct to the great

port.

There is a gap of some- thing like two hundred and seventy miles still to be covered in the long-projected Hank w-Canton railway, Hongkong ม future data, will need a bigger) terminal and, more extensive g d was at Kowloon, but jealousy; of the Cantonese Government and the idea of making Whampoa a deep water port holds up thri Cobslous prospects of development.

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And how long would he and so link up one railway station left the utter in the hands of bisa lash I wonder, unless he tones with the other. Canton is un- Wombip. down his overweening sense of daubtedly under the induence of The prisoner was found guilty us [self-importance, Would he clear-ja modernising" movement; Van- the first charge and eatenced to By state his position with regard to couver's Canadian "Cascade" Ball four months' hard later. The !the unsettled and murmuring in evidence and popular with even other two charges were dismissed.

workers of Chim, now sɔ, sorely the Chinese gentry! Junseled by S cialist and Bolshe iwist agents all over the country?

Home to Hongkong.

CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

Attempting to Bribe Revenue Officer.

A Chinese, residing on the ground door of No. 10 Caroline Road, was charged under an Geliasne 1588)

in 1999, with offering a bribe to public wervent.

The Attorney General 'Hod. Mr. J. H. Kemp prosecuted.

The evidence for the proventios

The next morning, at 6 a.m., the : was openly doubted in Canton, little Belle of the Delta weighs an I found, whether Sun would last her and slowly wends hir way two months in the Peking Presn the Fear! River. We were dential chain. The Northern mill soon passing Whampos, occupied tarists w:.vid

undoubtedy belt the British in 1847, and Hai- against him before long, even ping, where the British fought the they subscribed him their support Chinese war janks, so table to far the outset.

slip up a creek and throw" across A Wonderful View,

the stream a barrier of rocks and Although it rained heavily all tres trunks to prevent the chase of that n.xt day we landed and had a the foreign devil. We passed run round. I went to the Hotel through the Brek Islands, Asia after having had in with guarding the Buca Tigris forts. -Mr. Reid of Jardine's, and fund passed H.M.S. Tarantula bound] Was to the effect that on the 29th

It a fine modern building ran by back to Canton, and so on down August Revenue Officer Ward,!

San Departmental to Hongkong where the little boat these revenue officer visited the Mark mai u Senre Co. From the top Hoor of in which I had spent one of the round her et No.

almost interesting cruises of my life Road, where they found the de- I Caruline wonderful view Canton is to be bad. The immens was due to go into duck.

Confucius said (Analects book the bed smoking opium Pipes, fendant so three wither men ca spread of the City, teeming with! People, was little short of awe-in-XVII, ch. VI:-

To be able to practise five on the bed and in the kitchen there lamps, a try and opium were also piring. I did not take much thought to realise

"things what ani

everywhere under "heaven

was discovered some non-Govers- immense future for trade there

Constitutes was here. Canton is the real busi-

"virtu:: Gravity, magnanimity, were making a search of the mom ment epic. The revenue officers "sincerity ness centre of South China. Hong-l

Barnestness and when the prisoner got up. opened keng dhes not produce much of its

Chinese, the

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a box and handed to Betebue

lown at present-it is the gateway and again "it is virtuous manners atcer Ward two 35 notes and

the transhipping port. Small Chwhich constitute the excellence of nese industries will probably be a neighbourhood Analects book

started in the New Territories of the British Colony so soth as cheap! coal can be produced from the coal and iron deposits of the South.) (but the great output of industrial) effort will always be from Canton. I's streets and shops are full of trade workers and business men, presenting a vast field fur

the for.ign business man,

I was struck, too, by the con-

trast between Shameen, with its

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THE QUALITY OF MERCY.

Government Pities Old Servant.

Uwing to his being an old man

in silver coins ansion: In- Spector $50, gom cha, masked."' The prisoner was arrested and taken to the police stating.

The priser alleged that the officers, failing to fad angthing; legal at the house took the money and opium and accused him 5, attempting to bribe them.

The jury found the prisoner quilty. The Judge in passlar sentence. said the prisoner had made hi he expressed his sorrow for offering position worse by telling lies. Had

leniently with him and would

fine houses, big offices and neatly cided to appen! for clemency in

of 75 years, the Guernment de the bribe he would have dealt kept lawns and the old, ramshackle the case of an ex-Post rice em- Chinese esty, the product of | stagnant elvilisation. And I felly. T. W.

alloper who pleaded unity before probably have been arlined cat to have sent him to gao! but to, have imposed arise. I'risoner

Ainsworth Et th

to musing on how long British in-Magistracy gesterday to having in would be seateared to six months" Ruence and guidance will continue his posstasión a fal Government imprisonment without hard laiur. to dominate. The prominence of

containing numerals and

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Japanese flags displayed by Jap groups imm 1 to 31, with the The Sod would be returned to him, anexe Banks and offices, all in intention, so it was alleged by the at the expiration of the text.

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Magistrate but who, although bound

to me when I saw many evidences of Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg for tiver, failed to appear Festerday. of German commercial activities prsecution, were droppe 1. in the old city, itself. German, When the cuee banks and offices were next to hearing sestdrday Mr. R.B.A. I

came up for A WORD TO WOMEN, Chinese shops displaying German Webster stated that it was the

Every woman's health is largely goods a well

British and wish of the Post-master-General dependent upon the condition of American, and there were Chinese and the Attorney-General that the her blood. How many women notices calling the public's notice cash be aut sent on to the Supremeback, and constant feeling of suffer from headache, pain in the to the difference in prices, The Court. Prisoner but pleaded guilty! Germans are not on Shameen yet, to the charge of possession, and in of breath, and nervousness? If weakness, palpitation, shortness but mayhap they are nearer to view of the fact that he was an business through not being allow-old man with a large family the you have any of these symptoms, ed there. A little food for thought Government did not wish to see the do not despair of getting better, here, I remarked to myself. heavy penalty inflicted which might but begin now, to day, to build up Especially when hearing of abe imposed by a higher court. The your blood with Dr. Williams reelebrated German physician be- prisoner, he added, was addicted to pink pills. The new rich blood ing established in Cantor itself, to opium and was zo under the made by these pills quickly re- whom even engkong residents doctor's care. He asked the Worstores health, and there is a new go for diagnosis and advice. ship to impose as light a sentence in life. Read the article,

I had an interesting chat to the as possible.

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