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views taken are very diverse. The Neueste | to you as representing this community a resolu- 1 Governor), Mr. Fung Wa Chủsh, Nachrichten of Berlin, for instance, thinks tion expressing our respectful sympathy with leading Chiness. that Lord SELBORNE's statement confirms His Majesty the King and His Imperial the fact that Great Britain is no longer able Majesty the Germ Emperor on the death of to meet all the demands which hidden Princess Royal of England. When in the Dowager Empress Frederick of Germany, contingencies make upon her navy. The those sad days in January the son and grand. Paris Temps, on the other hand, sees son met at Osborne to mingle their tears over in the agitation the hand of the Jingo, the deathbed of our great Queen, we did not and says:
"The truth is the people are expect that within eight months the two august trying by every kind of means, legiti- monarchs would once more find themselves in "mate or illegitimate, to start one of those volved in a common sorrow at the death of a be- waves of public opinion which force the loved mother and sister—a bereavement that has hands of the Government and Parliament. millions of German and British hearts with a placed two nations in mourning and has touched | In short the idea is to obtain a new and common sentiment of sympathy. England has gigantic scheme of naval construction at not forgotten the infinite charm of the Princess a time when a great war is absorbing and Royal with her far-reaching sympathies, and exhausting the resources of the taxpayers." history will do justice to the great abilities and It is not unnatural that the foreign Press admirable qualities of the Dowager Empress has found it hard to make out the exact Frederick and to the gentle fortitude with atate of affairs, when they have to gather afflictions and sufferings from which no which Her Majesty bore in her later years their facts from utterly conflicting state- human being, however exalted, is exempt. ments, and when the home Press is much To us the melancholy duty presents itself divided over the question. The Times, it of tendering to His Majesty the King may be remarked, lectures the Navy League and His Imperial Majesty the German with some severity and says that the ore Emperor our respectful condolences, and I beg condition to the validity of Lord SELBORNE'S propose for your acceptance the following defence is that the Admiralty is doing its resolution:-"That the members of the Legis duty and is fully alive to its vast and lative Council of Hongkong desire humbly to onerous responsibilities. If that condition His Imperial Majesty the German Emperor express to His Majesty the King and is satisfied, and if the country is convinced the that it is satisfied, the situation in the the intelligence of the death of the Dowager sorrow with which they have received Mediterranean disappears from public view. Empress Frederick of Germany, Princess Royal It is not, the Times continues, at the bid- of England, and their deep sympathy with ding of a few " sea-gallopers," as Lord their Majesties in their bereavement. SPENCER called them, that the country will disestablish the Admiralty and install the Navy League in its place. The Navy League, however, has grown used to receiv- ing as well as delivering lectures, and it is better than even unfounded agitations should occasionally be started than that the public should be allowed to become utterly apathe tic. At the same time, the Navy League would strengthen its position vastly were it more careful to avoid the reproach of occasional hysteria. In its indictment of the state of the Mediterranean squadron it drew attention to some genuine defects, The general overstatement of the case only tended to obscure these points.
HONGKONG LÉGISLATIVE
COUNCIL.
RESOLUTION OF CONDOLENCE FOR THE
LATE EMPRESS.
Of
aid-Gentleman, I have inked you to mɔet ing Addressing the meeting, His ExOKELENCY
invitation from the Secretary of State in the here to-day in consequence of the receipt of în shape of a despatch-published in the Press and which no doubt you have all read-inviting the outlying portions of the Empire to contribute towards a monument to be erected in London to our late well-beloved Sovereign, Queen Victoria. I will call your attention to the last paragraph of the despatch, in which Mr. Chamberlain forget that many Colonies will desire to have saya :-";
"In making this request, I do not their local memorial, but I am led to believe that they will also wish to be distinctly and separately represented in the commemorative monument which is intended to perpètuate în the heart of the Empire the glories of Her late Majesty's reign, and the loving esteem in which Now, in pursuaube of that invitation, I have she was held throughout Her dominiona.” asked you to meet me here to-day for the pur- pose of initiating a movement in Hongkong in the shape of a contribution to this great central monument to our great dead. This invitation comes fitly when the first great burst of sorrow over the loss of our dear Queen has passed away, and men Begin to think calmly and dis- passionately how best to commemorate the we have all been born and under whose wise memory of the great Queen under whose reign
empire, until her flags font over every quarter rule we have seen England spread her wings of of the globe, and her dominion embraces one quarter of the human race, who enjoy to a priceless blessings of individual liberty. greater extent than any other people the all the products of that wonderful century, in every branch of human knowledge increase with which we have seen arts, sciencé, commerde, and extraordinary rapidity, the most beautiful has been the advent of a great monarch who at the same time has been a great and good woman— monarch who has been acknowledge as a pattern for all time as a wise ruler of a free people a woman whose blameless character pattern to be followed by every good woman will be cited through future ages as who wishes to fulfil her womanly duties faithfully in every sphere of life. the moment when, as a young and trembling From girl, she turned from the kneeling nobles who announced her accession, and sought in instant prayer for strength to bear faithfully the burden of her stupendous responsibilities, until at length, fuil of years and the honours of a world- wide admiration and reverence, she mák to her peaceful reet, Queen Victoria never wavered in her devotion to her public duty and in hər watchful care over the welfare of her people. When, in the early part of the last century, every throne in Europe rocked with the upheaval of the times, the waves of rebellion broke harmlessly against the throne of Quean Victoria, enshrined 84 it was in the hearts of her people; and the force light that beats upon every throne in her case only served to show more clearly those exquisite beauties of truth and purity and justice and goodness. HONGKONG'S CONTRIBUTION.
Great queens there have been Semiramis, His Excellency the Governor presided on the Cleopatra, Isabella, Catherine 14th inst. at a public meeting held at noon in adjectives can readily be applied, but down to whom the Council Chamber to consider the steps to be the ages, when the personal love of those taken towards contributing to a memorial in who lived in her generation is removed and London to the memory of the late Queen the historian of the future examines, the Victoria. The attendance included His facts of the present with calm and critical Honour A. G. Wise (Acting Chief Justice). impartiality, the name of Victoria the Great Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart, C. M. G. (Col-will be accepted as the embodiment of all that onial Secretary), Hon. W. Chatham (Acting | was most noble among the noble, of all that was Director of Public Works), Hon. F. H. May, most worthy of admiration, of loyalty, of re- C. M. G. (Captain Superintendent of Police), verence, of love, among the mightiest monarchs Commodore Powell, Sir T. Jackson, Hon. T. H. of all time. (Applause.) To suck a monarch Whitehead, Hon. J. Tharbara, Hon. J. J. Bell- |it_in_right_that such a monument should be Irving, Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, the Bishop of Victoria, raised in the heart of the Empire as will vie Dr. Atkinson (Principal Civil Medical Officer), with any other monument erected to the Mr. J. W. Norton Kyshe (Registrar, Supreme greatest of the world's rulers, and it is right Court), Mr. R. K. Leigh, Mr. A. H. Hennie, that every portion of this vast Empire shou'd Mr. A. J. Raymond, Mr. H. A. Ritchie, Mr. contribute towards ita erection. In this com- C. Palmer, Mr. R. Shewan, Mr. H. E. Tomkins, mon contribution I have no doubt whatever | Mr. H. P. Tooker, Mr. F. von der Pfordten, that the community of Hongkong will bia
Mr. Moorhead (Commissioner of Customs, fitting part. "Never as Hongkong Kowloon), Mr. T. Cooker (Deputy Commissioner pealed to in vain in the cause of charity of Customs, Kowloom), Mr. H. N. Mody. Mr. this
are asked to D. H. Mori, Mr. W. Poste, Mr. R. C. Wilcox, great and beautiful charboter, of the Rev. F. T. Johnson, Mr. E. P. Skertehly, Mr. Queen whose name has to uĩ béen à hơi R. F. Johnston (Private Secretary to H.E. the word, and under whose will and part
The Hon. C. P. Chater mid- Your Excel lency, I beg to second the resolution, and in wishes of the community in general, including doing so I am convinced that I represent the the Chinese. The loss sustained by His Majesty the King is a severe one, and that by the Emperor William still more so. The King has lost a dear sister, and the Emperor his beloved mother. The death of the Empress Frederick has been felt deeply in both Great England she made herself very popular, and in Britain and Germany. As Princess Royal of the Fatherland she very soon earned the esteem and affection of the people. In this colony, sir, we have a large German community, and we unite with them in condoling with the Sovereigns of the two countries in their great loss. This is the second time within the present year that the two nations have been drawn together by a calamity. Let us hope that the feeling of sympathy and friendship will go on, deepening and broadening, not by losses of this kind, but by a growing mutual regard, the result of better acquaintance. With these remarks, sir, I beg to second the
resolution.
A special meeting of the Legislative Council was held in the Council Chamber at Tuesday afternoon the 18th inst., to pass a resolution | the Council adjourned sine die. of condolence on the death of B.I.M. Empress Frederick, Princess Royal, there being pre- sent:
The resolution was accepted unanimously, and
His EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOë (Sir HENRY BLAKE, G.C.M.G.).
Hon. Col. L. F. Brown, R.E. (Commanding the Troops).
Hon. J. H. STEwart LockharT, C.M.G. (Colonial Secretary).
Hon. H.E. POLLOCK, K.C. (Acting Attorney General).
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Ron. Commander R. M. RUMSET, R.N. (Harbour Master).
Hon. C. Mol. MESSER (Acting Colonial Treasurer).
Hon. W. CHATHAM (Acting Director of Public Works).
MAY, C.M.G. (Captain
Hon. F* H. Superintendent of Police).
Hon. C. P. GĦATER, C.M.G. Hón, T. H. WHITEHEAD. Hon. J. THURBURN.
Hon. J. J. BELL-IRVING. Hon. Dr. Ho Kar.
Hon. WEIA TUK.
Mr. B. F. JOHNSTON (Acting Clerk of Coạn- cils).
The minutes of the previous meeting of the Connell having been read and approved,
HIS EXCELLENcr mid--Honourable mem. bers of the Legislative Council of Hougkong, I have summoned you to-day that I may propoes
MEMORIAL TO THE LATE
QUEEN VICTORIA,
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