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Dr. Antonio B. Zanetti has assumed charge of Cuban interests in Hongkong. The Con- sulado de la Republica de Cuba' at at No. 3, Lower Castle Road, and the office hours are from ten to noon and two to four. Dr. Zanetti as our best wishes.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
The Korea Daily News says that with regard to the execution of three Koreans by Japanese soldiers on the previous day it learns on good authority that it took five shots to kill one of them, and that another did not succumbuntil he had been struck seven times. In the name of humanity The Hongkong Cricket League held their first our Seoul contemporary sincerely hopes that on meeting of the season on the 8th inst., there the next occasion the Japanese will fire their being present: Messrs. A. O. Brawn (Craigen-prisoners from the mouth of a cannon. gower), P. W. Goldring (H.K.C.C.), J. Parkes (Kowloon C.C.), L. E. Brett (Civil Service C.C.), Sergeant Skinner (A.O.C.), Corporal Meggs (83rd Co., R.G.A), Lieut. Dobbyn (H.K. and S.B.R.G.A.), Sergeant-Major Wilson (R.A.M.C.), B. K. Mehta (Parsee C.C.), Sapper Mann (R.E.). Inspector Langley (Police R. C.), and A. E. Asger. Hon. Secretary. A discussion was raised as to the advisability of admitting two teams from one Club into the League. The Chairman.was not in favour of allowing two teams from the Hongkong Club to enter the competition, and the majority of those pre- sent were of the same opinion, consequently it was finally decided not to accept the second Hongkong Club team. · An additional rule providing that no club could compete in the League Competition unless it had a ground was passed.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Foochow Echo of the the 4th instant reports the arrival of a lot of eleven griffins, one dead. With regard to the other ten. the general feeling seems to be one of satisfaction. The United States cruiser Ballimore is stay- ing at Gibraltar. She will proceed to Genoa to be docked preparatory to sailing for China and Japan.
The Russian Government recently issued a new regulation ordering that at the expiration of three years only Russian subjects will be allowed to fly the Russian flag on ships. It is stated that at the present time a large number of vessels sailing under the Russian flag really belong to other nations.
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Mr. Geoffrey Herbert Wright, solicitor. has been admitted to practise in the Supreme Court at Shanghai.
The Chinese Debating Society at Kuli Lumpur has the following attractive topic down for October 29th:-" That in the opinion of this House, the Straits Settlements offer better opportunities for the making of Million. sires than the Federated Malay States."
The Sinwenpan publishes the following tele- The Government, says the Penang Gazette. gram from Kueilin, provincial capital of has decided upon a complete re-organisation of | Kuangsi :-The high authorities here have the Postal and Telegraph servioss of Siam, received a telegram to the effect that the district | The entire administration of both services is t city of Loch'enghsien, belonging to the pre- be placed under control of the Bangkok fecture of Liuchou, Kuangsi province, was department, which will be held responsible for attacked and captured by an insurgent army on, their efficient working throughout the whole the 24th of September. [Loch'enghsien is about.["country. sixty-three miles to the north-west of the city of Liuchon, which is only fifty miles from Kneilin.]
Mr. A. G. Hills, who has been' for over four years the popular and energetic Secretary of the Singapore Club. left that post on the 1st The Peking Times learns that Tieh Liang instant to join the firm of Messrs. Powell & Co. Mr. Hills is succeeded in the Secretaryship by has stopped the smokeless powder factory in
Mr. A. M. Gibson, who, was, says the Straits | Shanghai and half the men have been reduced to
half pay just to retain them for future employ. Times, a most popular member of the planting ment. No more new materials will be purchas-communities in Sumatra and Borneo. ed for ammunition and all old stocks used np. but the Tls. 800,000 recently withdrawn by Tieh Liang from the Kiangnang Arsenal will be invested in imported ammunition, ready made. This is quicker than manufacturing it in Shanghai. The italics used by our contempo- rary look somewhat alarming.
The Times of September 9th has a four- column telegram from its correspondent with the Japanese left army describing the battle of Liaoyan r. It contains over five thousand- words and must have cost over £500 for its transmission from Tientsin, besides the cost from Liaoyang to that place.
Mr. Fritz Sommer, a member of the British Municipal Council at Tientsin, and a popular sportsman, was married on September 28th at the German Consulate. The China Review, which reports the event, and remarks we do not aim at publishing a Tientsin hong list, it will suffice t say that all Tientsin was there," omits to mention the bride's name.
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A northern contemporary hears that the Mess of the 110th have made room for the four Russian officers at Hongkong, who have made themselves exceedingly popular, and are described as being the best of good fellows. One of the 110th, Captain Sexton, has lately passed in the Russian language, and the opportunity offered for further instruction has been eagerly taken a vantage of.
Five foreign engineers (of the Peking Syndi- cate?) at Changtehfa in Honan have been in trouble with the natives following from verbal quarrels and two of them (says a native piper) have been killed and three wounded, one very severely. The chief engineer has wired to the British Consulate in Shanghai about the matter, and Mr., amieson with his interpreter has left for the scene to investigate the matter and to negotiate with the local officials.
Referring to our Game Preservation Ordinance and the recent Amendment Bill, the Shanghai Mercury says:-Some such regulation is very sorely needed in Shanghai, where young game can be had in any quantity in the public markets A resident writes that during the close season. he has been buying pheasants since the middle of September from the Hongkew market, and from all appearances these birds must have been trapped. What a grand prospect for sportsmen during the incoming season, especially when all the country around Shanghai seems to have been completely shot over for the last few years. Thus the Times of Ceylon:-Straits papers to hand call attention to the fact that Sir Frank Swettenham has retired on the largest pension ever earned by an officer of the Straits Settlements. The paragraph is as follows:-- Sir Frank Swettenham, after 33 years' service. draws as pension $10.500 per annum, said to be
The Indo-China mails at Marsei les recently the highest given to any civil servant of the
state that the authorities of Indo-China are Colony since the Crown took it in 1867.“ This is certainly a good pension, but since the making systematic surveys in search of the It is added that good exchange value of the dollar has fallen so much mineral yielding radium.
Meanwhile, it is not so good as it looks. No civil servant hopes are entertained of success.
The the search has yielded good results in other in Ceylon draws so high a pension. highest pension now being paid to a retired directions. At Yen-Bay there have been dis- Ceylon civilian is drawn by Sir Fredk. Sann-covered valuable coal beds, for which measures ders and amounts to R 3,333.33. But this is are to be undertaken for working at an early not quite equal to $10,500, and Sir Fred. put in | date.
Discussion is at present being carried on by years of service, compared with the 133 of Sir Frank Swottenham.
our local Chinese contemporaries regard- The Chinese here desire In the brief account of the late Mr. Lafcadioing queue-cutting.
to know whether, if they out their queues, they Hearn which is given in the Japan Gazette on
If must wear European dress. People say: announcing bis death, it is stated that when he was at Matsue in Izumo "he embraced Shin-
we cut our quenes and wear Chinese clothes it toism, the locality being the seat of the famous will look bad, whereas if we adopt the European Izumo Shinto temple." This is quite erroneous. style of dress it will be very expensive. Besides, The curious observances of the Shinto doctrine what are we to do with our old valuable silk attracted the mystic side of Mr. Hearn's garments? If the Emperor, however, outs his temperament; he devoted much attention to the queue we shall be pleased to follow suit. We subject, and had interviews with some of the believe that the adoption of Western methods most important priests of the cult, it being would be a great improvement on the present probably only his lack of knowledge of Japanese fashion. We think there is benefit to be gained This item was telegraphed from Kuala Lum-literature and philology which prevented him by cutting our quenes." pur in Selangor to the Penang Gazette: Chief Interpreter Lim Teow Chang's son has cut off
There his queue.
a possibility of others following his example immediately. Queue cutting is assuming a revival here.
A marriage has been arranged, and will take place in October, in Moscow, between Mr. W. H. Murray-Campbell, of the Russo-Chinese Bank, Kirin. Manchuria, and Nadyajda (Hope), eldest daughter of the late Mr. Boodilin, of Tientsin, China, and Mrs. Boodilin, of Moscow. and niece of the late Mr. A. D. Startseff, of Tientsin.
M. Paul Brunat, to the great regret of his colleagues and the electors generally of the French Concession at Shanghai, has resigned the chairmanship of the French Municipal Council. He is succeeded in that onerous position by M. Henriot, Manager of the Banque de l'Indo-Chine at Shanghai.
It is a remarkable fact, said the Shanghai Mercury on October 6th, that this morning there was not one of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's fleet of steamers in port. It is believed that this is the first time in twenty years that the harbour has been without a single steamer of this company being in port
The China Review is informed that Mr. Ross, a son of the well-known missionary at Mouk- den, Rev. Dr. Ross, has been appointed an overseer to accompany the Coolie Emigration steamer, the Cranley, leaving for Durban. Up to the present those responsible for such appoint- ments have proved most fortunate in their choice of men; as the highest reports have come back from South Africa as to the ability, care and thoroughness with which every one of them has executed his duties. As a further proof of this all the gentlemen so appointed have received permanent engagements as mine compound managers, at the various mines of Johannesburg and the surrounding districts, at £50 a month and free quarters.
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from publishing a work devoted to this interest- ing autochthonous creed. But as to his being a believer in Shintoism in the ordinary sense attaching to the term believer, that is a mistake Buddhism attracted him as much as Shintoism. but, notwithstanding the strain of mysticism in his character, he was an Agnostic and a disciple of Herbert Spencer, to whom, if we are not mis- taken, he dedicated one of his early books. Mr. Hearn had a remarkably retentive memory, and in a few minutes would put his finger on any passage in Herbert Spencer's voluminous works that seemed to bear upon his subject. It was, he used to say, the inside view of Catholicism | which he bad as pupil of a Jesuit college that! first showed him the hollowness of the orthodox teaching. Though an Agnostic, the legends both of Shintoism and Buddhism had great attraction for him, and they have provided him with not a little material for idealistic studies. -- Kobe Chronicle.
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W regret, says the Nagasaki Press, to announce the death of an old resident of Nagasaki, Mr. Leo Lassner, who passed away on the 4th instant at 1.30 p.m. Mr. Lessner was 88 years of age and had been a resident of Nagasaki for 20 years. The immediate canse of death, which took place after four days' illness, was heart trouble. He leaves one son, Mr. 8. D. Lessner, and a daughter, who is the wife of Mr. Lyons, of Kobe. Mrs. Lyons, who was a passenger on the Doric from Hongkong, where she had been to attend a wedding, was bound for Kobe, but in consequence of the condition of her father, decided to remain here. Mr. 8. D. Lessner had never been separated from his father, with the exception of the six months' absence from Nagasaki during his recent tour around the world. The deceased was honorary member of the Nagasaki Jewish Benevolent As- sociation and Gabay of the Synagogue of Beth Israel.
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