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SIR ROBERT HO TUNG MORE HOPEFUL.
AMERICAN BUSINESS MEN
AT LUNCHEON.
Capt. Robert Dollar, the vetaran "Fam more hopeful and more head of the Dollar Line optimistic than when I left Hong-of steamers, *WS the guest kong, sald Sir Robert Ho Tong of the American business this morning to a Telegraph intercommunity at luncheon in the viewer who asked for news as to Hongkong Hotel to-day, a very how the negotiations for a round-large gathering being present, table peace conference of Chiness including several prominent leaders was progressing.
members of the British mercantile "Ofcourse it is a gigantic thing, community.
"
and will take time. Sir Robert The American Consul General, added “and there may be more Mr. W. H. Gale, presided, and in
and
proper
would
BOL
B
An opportunity
H
B
H B
fanged as shown in the drawing. When the farmer died, he left equal shares in the farm to his Each was to have a four sons. house and a barn, and each was!
receive
2 piece of
for those who prefer.
HONEYSUCKLE
BUTTER.
(made at the Farm
land exactly the same site and Standing orders now being booked.
fighting in the country before introducing Capt. Dollar to the A square-shaped farm contain- realisation of the plan". The gathering referred to his greated four houses and four barns, ar Chibli party, he said, appeared work in building up a fine fleet of to think the time for a peace trading and passenger steamers. conference Was
quite Capt. Dollar then addressed the ripe,
be willing gathering, expressing his surprise to attend when they thought and pleasure at seeing such a the
time had
come large number present to wel round. Before his departure, come him. Talking of the however, Sir Robert left the prosperity of the commerce matter in very capable hands in of the Pacific, he said they Shanghai, where a preparatory must look backwards for the office is to be opened with the contrasts. Seventy years ago following officiating : ---
Commodore Perry opened up As vice-presidents, Mr. Szetwo ports in Japan, the Liang-chai, managing director of the Shun Puy the leading) vernacular paper in China, and Mr. David Tue, national general secretary of the Y.M.CA.
Committee - Messrs. Fong Chiu-pak (acting chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce), Shen Chuk-shu (president of the Chinose Bankers Association), Chin Yuan- shing (president of the Native Bankers* Association), Wong Yin-Pui and Shen Shun-shing| (president and vice-president, respectively, of the Educational Society of Kiangsu Province), P. W. Kuo (president of the National South East University Nanking), Chiu How Shang (president of the Chi Nan College. Shanghai and Yanking), Sung Han-chang (chairman of the
Capt. Robert Dollar.
first
shape as the others. How was the farm divided into the four Parts: all the same in size and shape, and with a house and barn
on each?
(In the drawing, the letter H stands for a house; B for a barn.)
Yesterday's answer:
START
Starting with the letter F in the uppermos: pentagon, follow around the large pentagon, and pick out letters in the following order: F (in the top pentagon), I, V, E., T, I, M. Ê, S, F, I, Ÿ‚ E
Chinese Chamber of Commerce time that that country had 1, S, T, W, E, N. T, Y. "F, I, V, E, at Shanghai, who was absent from commerce with the West. Sixty-which spell the sentence: "Five the meeting at which be was six years ago the Pacific Mail times five is twenty-five-a sen- elected, owing to indisposition, started its first shipping service tence which contains five words but has been appointed subject to out of San Francisco to the and twenty-five letters!.. bis confirmation), and Lo King-Orient; and 35 years ago the first kee (compradore of Messrs.Holy-Canadian Pacific steamer left for oat, Massey & Co). These men the East will act during Sir Robert's absence in England as a Heng- kong representative at the British Empire Exhibition.
THE LITERARY BENT,
A Sign of Insanity?
In 40 years, said Capt. Dollar, the Pacific Coast commerce had! increased 636 per cent. Some 40 years ago, the population of "GO BACK AT ONCE”
Seattle was only 3,500. Great strides had certainly been made. Comments by the judge and Asked for's resume of his work
Referring to China trade, the witnesses on the connection be since leaving,Hongkong, Sir Robert recalled that he left here speaker quoted figures of ship tween literature and imbecility tunnage entered and cleared at were the feature of the resumed on September 6th. and reached Hongkong and Shanghai, and said hearing of what has come to be Shanghai on the Sth. There he Hongkong had now been supersed-known as the "copy-book will immediately set about sounding edin the position which it formerly case
in the English Probate local opinion. Everyone said he held by Shanghai. He would say Court. was trying to accomplish an im to Hongkong.Get a move on!".
Mrs. B. Wheat, who was possible task, and he bad better Capt. Dollar also mentioned the nurse in the house of testator. return to Hongkong at once! He growth of the Panama Canal Louis Dietzinger Hobbach, at had the good fortune to meet
traffic, and then turning again to Harrogate, gave evidence on be- Mr. Chang Chien. The cotton Chiza he said the surface half of the plaintiff. Mr. J. W. magnate (whose son is head of of the
country had not Renner, a Harrogate solicitor, Jet been scratched. Think who seeks to establish a will now in England). At first Mr.of the vast, possibilities ahead, made on April 9. Chang Chien said Sir Robert's when the country was opened up: The defendant, Frank Hobbach. efforts would not be of any use, think of the huge deposits of the dead man's nephew, alleges but after & conference lasting iron and ecal waiting to be de- that his uncle was not of sound au hour and В half he
veloped; think of the fact that the mind and incapable of making a
the Chinese Industrial Mission
became an ally, and arranged & Yangtse Valley alone had one-will.
H
meeting between Sir Robert and eighth of the humun family! He Mrs. Wheat. in cross-examina- the leading Chinese in Shanghai. felt sure that eventnally some- tion. said that Hobbach was This was at a big dinner giver thing would come about, to lift mentally sound, & Conservative the next day. Here Sir Robert China out of her present trauble. in politics, and admired the suf-
Ho Tung spoke for over an hour, and as a result a subsequent
Capt. Dollar, in the course of fragettes and was glad when few additional remarks, women got the vote. He laughed meeting on the subject of the advocated an English-speaking at the Yorkshire dialect, and union, which, he pointed out, when she last saw him he said:
round-table conference was held
merce.
in the Chinese Chamber of Com-would be a great factor in world have now, I see now, and
hear nowt." (Laughter.) In conclusion, be expressed his READ SCOTT AND THACKERAY.
The leading vernacular pa-
comity.
pers were immediately favour optimism in the future prosperity Dr. E. A. S. Shaw, of North able to the visitor from Hong-of this region, and added that he Kensington, said that Hobbach kong, recognising that bis hoped to see these good times dur-read all Scott and all Thackeray. ing the twenty years or so left Witness did not know till lately
motive wes disinterested, but
there were some native papers to him (Applause), that suggested be was
Capt. Dollar was accompanied emissary of the British Govern-by his son, Mr. J. Harold Dollar.
ment
.
The Tuchun of. Nanking.
that in September 1907 two doctors certified him insane.' He dis- agreed with their certificate.
Dr. R. D. Hotchkis, superinten- dent of an asylum at Paisley,said
Chi Heieb-Yuen, was at first TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY. that in September 1907 he examin
before him.
ed Hobbach, and found that hel was of unsound mind and in- capable of managing his own affairs.
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suspicious, but eventually. through influential sources, he invited Sir Robert to see him,
Mme. Curie, who has been received him very courteously, given a pension by the French and suggested he should see Wal Government, has in her time
Ip cross-examination, Poi-fu. Sir Robert of course was found it hard to make both ends hoping to see Wu, and eventually meet. Professor Curie's income Hotchkis expressed the opinion was invited to put his plans when they married was only 6,000 that the testator might be able to francs a year, and his wife was read and discuss technical books Besides these men, other pro- still following her university and yet be unable to manage his minent persons interested in the course. They lived in a flat of own affairs. He was not an idiot, scheme are Shiao Yao-nan of three rooms, all- the household but a congenital imbecile.
Mr. Justice Hill: Here you Wachang, Hupah, who is a sup-work being done by Mme. Curie,
have a man who read only the porter; and Sun Yat-sen and 8 they could not afford a Chang Tso-lin as is known, have servant. Still, they were in- best novels, took an interest in written expressing their approval tensely happy. "We lived a sport and politice, and in wild of the idea.
most united life," Mme. Curie flowers and music. Do you find them all combined in an imbecile? relates," finding a common inter-
Mr. Hurst, K.C: I should think est in all things theoreticalIt is a question of degree. He research, experiments in the might have a slight interest in an encyclopaedia dull reading.
His Lordship: Not at all. On laboratory, course of study, and them. Such a man might be con-
The only a desert island, with the Oxford Signora Eleonora Duse, who examinations. During the eleven genitally imbecile. was born in Venice 62 years ago years our marriage lasted we man I ever heard of who read the Dictionary, you could not be and whose fame travelled round were hardly ever apart. My Encyclopaedia Britannica from better provided with good reading. the world from Vienna thirty husband had such a passion for beginning to end was found insane (Laughter.) years ago, was, to give farewell work that if we took a holiday he in an asylum. (Laughter.) Dr. Lionel Calthrop, of Harro- performances there in January was sure to say, distressfully, at DICTIONARY BEST "BELLER." gate, said he once saw Hobbach Un ratiring from the stage she the end of a few days, I cannot It is any sign of insanity in behaving oddly. He was not will establish a dramatic school belp feeling that for quite a long Scotland to read the whole of taking his place in the queue at a in Rome, acting there a time now we have been doing Scott's works? (Laughter.) Oh concert room, but was endeavour teacher.
SIGNORA DUSE TO RETIRE.
absolutely nothing.”
no,
ing to get in before other people. (Laughter,
His Lordship: That looks like an excessive desire to manage his own affairs. (Laughter.).
After other evidence the c&EE was adjourned sine die.
-NEW HONGKONG UNDERGRAD.
Mr. Lim Chuan Hoe, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Lim Tay Hin, leaves by the P. and O, mail Kashgar on Monday, 24th Decem ber for Hongkong to study at the Hongkong University, report Straits papers.
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