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half of the applicant He believed, he said. that the house had been conducted in every way as it ought to band the premises were most suitable for a publican's licence. It would be an advantage to the Colony to have such a licence there; it would relieve the conges- tion in Queen's Road. where these houses - were tambling on the top of one another.
Mr. HALLIFAX said the police had strong ob- jections to granting publican's licence for these premises. The locality was not one in which such a licence was needed, in the second place there had been already one conviction agaiust this licences during the las year for breach of his adjunct licence, and there were also various auspicious facts that had come to the ears of the police about the manner in which the house was conducted that led them to object strongly to the granting of this application.
Mr. HOOPER enquired what the licencee's offence was?
Mr. HALLIFAX replied that he had used his adjunct licence to cover what was practically a publican's licence. Liquor was sold under the same conditions as it would be under a rubli- can's licence.
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Mr. GEIST remarked that it was a question whether the liquor was supplied as an adjunct to the meal or the meal as an adjunct to the liquor.
Mr. HALLIFAX- It was found against him. The CHAIRMAN said there was no doubt they must accept the decision of the Magistrate.
The application was unanimecs y refused. The Justices then considered applicant's request for a renewal of his adjunct licence. which was granted by a majority, and a strong caution was given to the licencee to see that no further breach of his licence occurred, in which case the Justices would take a severe view of the application next year.
ETUSI D.
An application was made by Ng Kwok for zu adjunct licence for 2, Hulkeley Street, Hunghom There was a police objection, and Mr. Grist o behalf of the applicant withdrew the application.
NEW TERRITORY NOTES.
SAN ON, 12th November. CHAN YONG KIT.
He was
The reported dismissal of the San On M gis. trate, Chan Leong Kit, is untrue. ordered to Canton, from whence he returned to San On with a parit of "braves" numbering about 200. He has now gone up country to assist in putting down robber bands, which at present infest the borders of San On and Kwai
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THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
class tide waiter. Mr. F. Moore has been transferred from Shataukok to one of the Customs launches, vice Mr. Whitmore to Shataukok. Mr. J. B. Möller, has been transferred to Namoa,
PORT ARTHUR.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
Port Arthur, 31st October. BIBERIAN BUTTER.
[November 21, 1908.
selves by looking at the game of cricket played by the Shanghai exponents of this game with Hongkong players come here expressly for this match. The strangest part of the whole pro. ceedings was that most of the people present of the 3on-Euglish part of the commuuity had not got any idea at all of how the game was played, and did not even care to look at it. They simply celebrated the occasion in order to please the English. Now I do not object to the English having their relaxation in this way, but
it
may be asked why, because the English com- muuity takes it into its head to go to see a cricket match, all business must be stop. ped? In this connection I may say that according to the Custom House reports, only 0.6 of the trade bolongs to the English, the rest of the hanghai trade being in the hands of Russians and of merchants belonging to other ontious. As to the number of banks, there are only two English banks here, while on the other hand there are Belgian, Dutch. German, Russo-Chinese, French, and Japanese banks, all of which, with the exception of the Russo-Chinese, employ only men belonging to their own nutiona- lity. if We do not count the Portu- guess from Macao who, as a general rule. occupy all the inferior offio-s in the local banks. The Portugues do not, however, take any absorbing interest in the game of cricket; hence my amazement that all the non-English establishments I have just mentioned close their doors in honour of such an event.
The Chin se Eastern ailway Company is in some respects like the elephant that can pick up a pia or knock down a tree with its trunk, or like one of those steam-hammers that can crack | a but without injuring the kernel or squash bars of iron as if they were inade of putty. In other words, while looking after a railway which may be justly termed, I think, gigantic, it goes in for such apparently small lites of business as the sale of butter. Whether this is quite fair to the private merchant or not I do not stop to enquire, but it could not fail to gladden the soul of M. de Witte if that politically moribund sla esman were now in power, for its tendency is to give that justly famous produce of Siberis, butter, a good fillip, and the system cannot fail, if extended to place many lines of business in the hands of the powerful Railway Company which may almost be said to represent the Government. According to its advertisement, the Commercial Agency of the Chinese Eastern Railway Company will bring lutter in special waggons from Siberia and "The English, seeing that all endeavour to send it to the houses of purchasers in Dalny imitate them, become day after day more and and Port Arthur-all for a ridiculously low more insupportable in their dealings with other prices Good fresh butter now costs une roubleuations. The strangest part of this strange a funt (one English ib. 1.11 funta), and the state of things is that while one finds every- Railway Company proposes to sell is fresh butter where batred of the English social yake, or at 16 roubles a pont, ie, at kopecks. Decidedly rather, I should say, the Anglo-Jewish yoke, most of the people here will hail this inrosation there are to be found foreigners who obligingly (for though it is the wholesale price, it will of chime in with the English instead of making a course mean a fall in the present retail price) determined effort to shake off that yoke." with joy, for most of them are Russias who have lived in Siberia, and who cannot live in comfort without plenty of bu ter, and I suppose they would all like to see their own country's trade extended. There is no reason. in leed, why Russian butter should not make its way to Japan and Shanghai and further.
THE TIMBER COMPANY,
The Yalu Timber Company has now had notices printed in Chinese and Russian annouue- iug that it has obtained from the Corean Govern- mout the privilege of cutting timber along the Yala and its tributaries, and that anyone not author sed by the company who cuts timber in these places, will be prosecuted and have his
now prepared to sell its timber to the public at Dalny, Port Arthur, Yingkow, and in all other places where it has agencies I suppose Japanese
iu. Meanwhile, the control of the San On district has been vested in a certain Ma Tak San- Chan Loong Kit on performing his mission is expected to return and take up his old appoint-timber confiscated. The Timber Company is ment.
AGRICULTURE.
The rice-crop is three-quarters out. A high wind has been prevalent the last few days, and has damaged the uncat portions, shaking the ripe ears, and leaving in some places entirely bare straw. Sweet potatoes are being largely planted and a little Harley sown in places. The H. K. and N. T. Cultivation Co. at Santin are making a promising show with the new vege table crop.
Vegetables and f.uits are wouderfully cheap in Shumchun. No green vegetables sell above 1 cent per catty. Pumeloes may be bad for 5 cents, and the best oranges at 1 cent each.
This year, no cattle or pig disease has been reported on either side of the frontier line.
In many of the villages, especially in the N. T., old houses are being repaired, and also new ones built. This gives one the ides that the people have at last realised their past cen- taries of ineptitude, and intend to take some interest in their personal surroundings in future.
SPORT.
and American timber merchants will suffer to some extent in consequence.
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A QUESTION OF CRICKET. Writing under date 14th (27th) October, the Shanghai correspondent of the Novi Krai at acks his countrymen and the non-British residents of the settlement in general for hum ouring the English so much by a simulated enthusiasm of cricket. Here is what he says:— "At the beginning of this year, I iuformed you that with the departure of the foreign troops from hanghai, the no-English part of the community lost much of the sense of support they derived from the presence of these troops, a preseuce which encouraged them to live in their own way and relieved them from the necessity of a slavish submission to the fads of the English society in which their lot was cast. The non-English portion of our society tended more to unite, inasmuch as it is more numerous than the English portion; but this union,an uuin exhibiting what I may call a manifestation ot the national life of each group that composed | it, was hardly born when it began to disappear, and this notwithstanding the fact that none of its compouent parts are very sympathetic to-
Foxes and civet cats are numerous ; the former are generally very mangy. small musk deer are seen occasionally. Quail abound, as also do partridges, in certain dry, scrubby places. The big shell back" pigeon has not been inwards the English, evidence much of late. There are the usual rumours about tigers around, and sometimes a pig disappears, although in these instances the tiger is sometimes two-footed!
CUSTOMS SERVICE
That popular officer, Mr. W. M Whaite, Shataukok, has recently been promoted to first-
SERVILE IMITATION,
"To what an extent we all servilely imitate the English may easily be seen from the follow- ing facts. Yesterday afternoon and all day to-day, all the banks and offices were shut just because the English people of Shanghai took it into their heads at that time to amuse them-
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THE ENGLISH YOKE.
A CRICKET CLUB IN PORT ARTHUR. Now, I do not think that this represents the sentiments of the average foreignor (meaning by that, non-Britisher) or even of the average Russian in Shanghai. It certainly does not represent the views of the Russians with whom I am brought in contact here I find that these Russians desire nothing so much as a rapprochement, social and otherwise, between the two great white races that, between them. practically rule Asia. I also find that there is a cricket club here to which some Russians belong. At the same time it must be confessed that the Russian gen'leman whose letter I have just translated is right in insisting on the fact that a slavish pretence of liking games that you do not like in order to please people of another nationality is strongly to be reprehended; and I think we would be the last people in the world ourselves to welcome foreign spectators who are attracted to our cricket matches by these motives. But if there is no servility in the intention, but only that amiable desire to please which makes the gentleman, no matter of what nationality he may be, often hide his real feelings and pretend to interest where no interest exists. I think that foreigners are only performing an act of courtesy when they attend cricket matches in which they
take no
interest in the play and do not understand it. It think that the foreign banks in Shanghai werd animated by these feelings on the occasion ia question, aud Dol by a servile desire to propitiate John Bull; and I think that the English community would be glad, from similar motives, to oblige the Russian or any other community. Of course there is the broad question of whether we are not paying too much attention to cricket. Some of our most earnest and well-intentioned critic at home are quite as fierce in their denuo ation of the flannel'd fools at the wicket" as the Shanghai correspondent of the Port Arthur paper cou'd desire. There is also the question of whether the banks do not give themselves toυ many holidays as it is; and I may here remark that the bank in Port Arthur seems to have a fair number of holida as it is, and if it also began to close on the occasion of cricket matches it would only be open on rare occasions. These, however, are questions apart.
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