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THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
Now we are back again to the evidence. I will recognise the necessity for an early We have mentioned how Dr. DOBERCK, public statement on a matter of so much anxious to emphasise his contention that 'importanee to the shipping community. there was no delay, denied that the fear of causing unnecessary alarm had any in- fluence that morning, and how later, when one of the enquirers suggested that he might have hoisted the warning at 7.44 a.m., be was gad to make use of Sir HENRY
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(April 1, 1907. │outery, and much ink-spilling, against plural The letters on both sides exhibit voting what might be expectel. Th protestants prate of liberty and the rights of man—the usual vehement polemics; and the machiave- liana argue that property and other re-ted interests at stake hare rights, and that (Daily Press, 27th March.)
nobody has so far suffered by the existing Here again much may properly Columns up a columus of words, words, 'system. BERKELEY'S explanation of the deliberation. I words, practically monopolising the Shang. be said for and against both sides, and with
that the annual
CONSCIOUSNOKS that either way has its We need not dwell on such curious points hai papers, remind us in bis evidence as his reply to the question Parliament has just beer held. This year, drawlack«, the formula natur dly suggests
itself, "When in doubt, be Conservative.' whether a night watch were kept. He said 'so far as outsiders are concerned, there was "yes," and then contradicted his own no really burning question, though the It is not dented, even by those most afraid affirmative by saying they go away before usual bent was manifested by many of those of the possiblities of plural voting, that successive conncils hav... wervel the com. eleven p.in, and return after seven a.m. jia the thick of things. They take the life That could be inadvertence, or even a mis- political with the grand seriousnex of the munity faithfully and well.” The Shanghai
northern
like Radical, therefore, instead of hurrying report. So might be the apparent slip on
port. perhaps beans,
The to hunt the Holy Grail, which he will never page 49, when "the first barometr cal in. Christmas, it comes but once a year. dication of a storm approaching
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6nd under any administrative system, might 8.27 a.m.," yet "at 8 a.m. the warning was manifestation of a desire to have a weekly do worse than copy his Chinese neighbour's issued." The warning, it may be replied, Christmas in plain talk, to have newspaper' policy, and bear with existing conditions was issued on the strength of externalį reporters admitted to the weekly meetings. until they become genuinely unbearable. signs, and not on the barometer; but it is There was another resolution of promiseuce, 'and this stage is certar dy remote from Sometimes a selfish property. difficult to understand this question and ; but there is little need for us to touch upon Shanghai,
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The increase | Lawlessnescat Shaugh u, owner makes a better administrator than a you been watching the it. barometer would you have seen reason for the murder of a policeman, the vacunov for demagogue with ideale,
Palie, hoisting the signal earlier than you did? the Captain-Superintendency of No." It looks as if the barometer had not and the cue given by an impulsive junior LAFCADIO HEARN'S PASSING,
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y Press, 28th March.) have given indication before 8.21 a.m. ¡ interest in a proposal that a committee not
The epithet rare, that is the mark of the These, however, are details quite capable of “ of councillors should be asked to consider explanation, we have 110 doubt.
It is not and writer, a soriling to a member of a French The and report on poles matters.
«ems to work on the assump - remarks we are most struck by are thuse can hardly be expo ted to be a burning school which
Nor can
tion that it matter‹ less what you may thầu made by Messrs. DOBERCK and Fiag when- ¦ quest on outside the settlement
༄་་ it. A good deal of bighly ever they had to refer to the experts of the proposal to have Comucil Meetings how yoll Manila and Shanghai. They accompanied | regularly reporte 1, but as this give rise to appreciated poetry might have to be thrown severe overboard, were there not *mething true their positive denials of jealousy and lack most of the verbiage and to some
The value of the of cordiality by comments which ni gf
comments on plural voting, we may devote in that assumption. men will consider to savour of some
| * passing attention to it. Our correspon. writinge of Larcadio Hearn has lately such animus. The C. minittee must dent telegraplied us the result, winch was bem the «ibje * of more discussion than Hare noticed it, but their report ignores that reporters be not admitted. The yea', and we find a writer in the Japas that point, on which Capt. ODTEKBRIDGE arguments on both sides were more fervid (henced, by no means incapable of appre-
poke and we dwelt. Why they should | than convincing, more el❤quent thau logical, cist on, commenting as follows : have asked questions about it, and yet not It was, in fact, one of thos issues that do forced to the conclusion, both from his have said what they thought of the answers,
boke and his letters, that HEARN much materially, and is a mystery too deep for us. From the fir` and against which much can truth neither a good interpreter of events ia
OEL both sides. When
progresa, nir a safe guide in matters of fact. beginning we attached more importance to fuily he urged this point than to the blame or exoneration | reparters are admitted, Councillors are He was a literary artist,—a stylist with an ear for cadence in words and beauty ja of the officials. The typhoon was over; tempted and frequently incline to talk
result that į phrase. But his interpretation of Japan the harm done; we desired not to blame or to the gallery," with the punish anybody. Hearing, however, that the real work has to be done in
wn: purely subjective from first to last. there was such friction, and recognising its mittee, and the opa meting degenerates He was a invatic" rather than a philosopher, and thought one who dreamed dreams, objectionableness and danger for the future. into an exhibition of oratory. This, by the we ventured to hope that this event wou'd way, sometimes finds illustration at Shang- them real, — not a judicious critic or a - call attention to the desirability of putting hai's annual Parliament, which at times has ' judicial investigator into matters of fact
Half frish, half Greek, this Celtic spirit an end to it. The casual references in the been known to share the characteristi ́s of a expert testimony to “loose remarks," to the Y.M.C.A. debate and a session of the famous ; was further complicated by early acquaint with humin injustice, and twisted unwisdom of placing confidence "in remarks Clover Cluh, with flowing phrases and per- issued by Siccawei," and so on—the tone of sonal chaff. On the other hand, the exclu- by precocious familiarity with emotional Always a scribbler, he those answers generally convince us that son of the Press undoubtedly encourages the, religion in Wales. what Capt. OUTERBRIDGE heard everybody weaknesses and even ev ls of bureaucracy; had opportunities for acquiring mental saying was correct, even if there were no and it is pleasant to note that Shangoai has breadth before settling down in Japan, but other evidence available to show that the an honourable history in this connection. he seems to have gone through his many might. denials were disingenuous. The continued The Shanghai ratepayer, whose Ci y Fathers buffeting< existence of that ill-feeling, of that in- have been hitherto allowed to work private- expand ng only to congenial appeartcos- dependence and disinclination to co-operately, doing good by stealth, as it were, has ↑ He does not seem to have ever learned to seriously laugh, and a cut finger was a tragedy, not wholeheartedly with all its neighbours, does : nothing with which he
In view of the cosmopoli. la cry over, but to write about. J. M. not promise well for the future of their proach them Hongkong Observatory, We believe, and tan and polyglot character of Shanghai's Barrie might have modelled his “Sen- it seems our duty to waru the Government ! population, we are inclined (against our timental Tomni?" on certain aspects of and people if it is so, that it even threatens natural sympathies; to think that the dec-. HEARS's genius. H+ m at certainly was a genius, and amply shares the right of danger. When Capt. OUTERBRIDGE was ; sion to continue on the old lines was a wise told that Mr. DOBERCK had said his rela- one. The administration's the thing, and no genius to defy conventional consistency,
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pints of İW 114 W tions with Manila were cordial, that witness administration is ever perfet.
and elaborating thei replied "I am very glad to bear it." private councils cach hive their drawbacks, day, The shipping community in general wil and Shanghai, in letting well alone, may pletely ignoring their prede ‘e sors.
WHA 40 spothesist the system of his re-ec -o that sentiment, but as the contrary have e-caped greater imperfections than impression was definitely created, a few her admuistration has hitherto knowa, philosophy was the naystem of dream. reading land; and
after awake WO rears ago now, by official reports published in Majorities are not always wise; they
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we awake from pleasant dreams, Manila, the endorsement of Dr. DOBERCK's, too easily created and swaṛed. There wa testimony by the Director of the Manila at this annual Paršiam ut a inajority of regretting the cessation of the thrill and
persona in
that they were at once true and favour of the feeling Observatory feems necessary to completely 'thirty-nine
Heary was a very conscious satisfy the public mind in this important resolution to admit the Press, but on a call unbelievable. regard. We shall therefore await with for a poll. plural votes and proxies swamped, craftsm in, but his works do not betray that. eager interest the comments of the Manila the resolution altogether, and it was lost by | We learn that he was a conscious artist Director on the subject, feeling sure that he' 101 votes. This incident has evoked a great from his friends, and have just come across
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