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The Arsenal outside the eastoin. Iar- rior of Kirin and the forts at Lienima which wore occupied by Rassian troops during the Russo-Japanese War, have been returned to Chin.
The Viceroy of the Minchu Provinces has submitted a memorial to this Throng stating the advisability of transfering thỏ control of the Foochow Naval Argensi to Mr. Hu Kuo-lien, and it is bepod that a high official will be sent as superintendent
A proposal is on foot for the creation of a Special Finance Committee the busi- news of which will be to draw up a Budget for China. Grand Counellors Na Tung and La Choon-ling are spoken of na prob- ablo Prasidoot and Vice-President respec- tively
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SATURDAY, APRIL 18 1907,
HONGKONG'S NEW GOVERNOR.
Coming in June.
The Hon. Mr F. H. May, Colonial Secretary, kindly furnishes us with the following cablegram received by His Excellency Sir Matthew Nathan from the Secretary of State for the Colonies:
"Referring to your telegram Lugard will-start probably first week in June. Emet date later."
TO SIR MATTHEW NATH1N.
The Citizens' Address,
The following is a copy of the address which is to bo prosunted to Sir Malthom Nathan by the community on the day of is departure. It has not yet been decided how the address will be mounted, but it will be in book forms, and will contain the signatures of all who care to place their Games upon it. As announced in yester- day's issue the address on he seạn and signed at several places. The terms are ne follows:-
BY TELEGRAPH.
SHANGHAI TRAMS.
The Question Bettled.
(From Our Correspondent:)
SHANGHAI, April 13. The tramway question has bee settled.
It has been decided to allow lines to be constructed outside the Settlement..
The British Consul-General has berne instructed toassist the antive authorities to come to a peaceful settlement with the Municipality
RICE THIEVES.
A Robbery Defeated.
(From Our Correspondent.)
SHANGHAL, April' 13. ·
TO HIS EXCELLENCY, SIR. MATTHEW A mob of one thousand Chinese, led NATHAN, K.C.M.G., GOYENSOR by the motorinus ruffian Tan, attempted AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE to steal rice that was intended for the COLONY OF HONGKONG AND
*tarving people of Churchow, DEPENDENCIES AND THE New TERRITORIES THEREOF AND VICK ADMIRAL OF THE SAME,
YOUR EXCELLENCY,
It is with sincere regret that we come hero to-day on behalf of the Community of Hongkong to present you with a farewell
up the new appointment to which you have
been called.
The mob were eventually dispersed by's force from the gunboate.
PEKING-HANKOW LINE.
(From Our Correspondant.)
Over twenty members of the Peking Syndicate have asked the Govorior of Shanai for passports with which they SATURDA April 27-
Noen-Meeting of China-Borneo Co., Province, but the Govenor fearing that
tend to make a tour throughout Shanskaudress ere you leave: the Colony to take British Syndicate Interested, Lal, at Co.'s Dices, 12.30p.m. Mosting of Canton Insurance people may suspect them if they travel in Office, Id., at Mears Jardine, Mathe-aucha targo uniber wired to the Wai- son & Co.'s Office..
wupu roquesting that the matter should be It seems only the other day that you 12.45
p.m.-Meetlag of Hongkong Fire discussed with the British Minister, and came amongst us, and we have not yet Insurance Co., Ld. at Messrs Jardine, the members requested to travol separate-forgotten the speech you made on taking Matheson & Co.'s Office,
ly.
the Oath of Allegiance. We have re- membores the aspirations and the hopes you then expressed and have marked with appreciation throughout your tenure of offies your steady progress towards their
The Chinn Mail.
HONGKONG, BAEVIDŁY, APRIL 13, 1907.
LORD CROMER.
Tan resignation of Lord Cromer, while not altogether unexpected, brought the
The Zigzags.
The Zigzags are giving a good enter tainment at the Theatre Royal. The programme is being repeated to-night.
May Boad."
A new road from Magazine Gap Road to the Peak Road near Queen's Gardens has been named May Road. It is not yet open to traffic...
Instead of Coment
It is reported in Japan that Eason bai (volcanic ashee) can be employed as a sub stitute for builders cement. Large quan
achievements.
PENING, April 13. Arrangements have been concluded witha Brithisli Syndicate here for a loan to redeem the Peking-Hankow railway
The Syndicate promises never to interfere with the managemant of the Line, but simply to supply engineers Paramount amongst these stands out the and railway material. Kowloon Railway which is to connect us, with Canton and the Railway system of
MGILRATH.
Chins. Through your energy and peres- THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MR verance it assumed definite beginning and shape and we trust the time for its comple- tion is not far off
The sanitation of Hongkong, always a momuitous queation, has at all times received Your Excellency's earnest con
$1000) Koward Offered.
Hongkong sulo ing for traces of his be
Mr M. Mellrath, who is at present in
ther, Mr Eugi Melrath who disappeared
British Government face to face with a tities have been found in the district of sideration and the report of the Commission from Hongkong on Nov. 15, 1906, his
delicate problem. For a quarter of a century Lord Cromer has been, literally, the power behind the Khedive's throne, As we stated a fen-days ago the task has been anything but a grateful one and it has been remoured inors than once that Lord Cromer had expressed
Yobiko, near Karatau, says the Nagasaki appointed by you to enquire into tho Press and a brisk demand for it has been working of the Public Health and Building returned from Canton after a fruitioss Ordinances has but recently been placed, Sourch and now offers 81000 for any in created by the great increase. In the price in your hands. We avait with great formation that will lead to the discovery of of comcat. Hitherto the business has
the missing man.
interest ita publication.
bèen conclucted on a very small scale but s With conspicuous ability and unsparing company will shortly be formed with a energy you have devoted yourself to the capital of one million yen to develop the many other important problems and duties industry. Dr. Hiraga, of Osaka, recently which necessarily arise for the consition to inspected the district and he reports that and performance of the Governor of this the prospects of the company are distinctly | Colony-
desire to be reloved of his office.good. Although Sir Edward Grey heartily supported him when the trouble over the Temple Robbing.
The following deplorable incident, any Denshawai executions pécurred it can {
the China Crític, occurred recently in one hardly be that the British Agent in of the most important temples at Peking Egypt has lately felt such entire confi. A party of three foreignas wore approached dence that the Government would a lama priest in a sanctuary and told that one of them must have stolen a small
At Canton Mr M. Melirath and a Hongkong detective rande most exhaustive inquiries and were unable to obtain the slightest clue to support the theory that the missing manever went there.
It is hoped now that the larger reward information, and every possible step is be may induce someone in Hongkong ta give
with the fact that a roward is being offered. ing taken to make the Chinese acquainted
The extension of the reservoir system; the progress of the public buildings under erection; the haprovements in the system of storm signalling; the control of the Colony's finances and expenditure and the steps taken by you to provide additional CANTON-BANKOW RAILWAY, shelter for the bosting population all show evidence of your careful and attentive rato.
Rolling Stock from Japan. Stimulated by,
by you the Volunteer more ment received a new
impetus resulting in
(From a Correspondent.).
the existence to-day of a far greater number of civilians well nocustomed to the use of
than ever before,"
CANTON, April 12," The rolling stook for the Canton Hankow
steadily uphold him na he did when thehely bronze idol from the temple. One of the schools, too, you have constantly railway apparently is to be purchased from
slo our
Excellency's desire to assist the
Unionists were in power. It is no the foreigners exclaimed with much indig
principles of sceret that the British Prime Minister nation that he would complain to the Wat inculcated those scientific and many members of the Cabinet die. Wypu about the impudent accusativu, and education on which all true systeme of the factories of Japan, Correspondence
be bus already been carried on through the ? training must necessarily be Fouthfal stated that the Inna might search all three based. approve of our potion, apropos Egypt. foroighors if he had any suspicion against We would refer to further evidence of men of the Chinese Consul in Japan. The carringe referred to are freight wag Lord Cromer has the reputation of being them. After this the visitors intended to avancement of the industrial works of the go. It wat first decided to order fifty- a zealous and masterful man and it may go away, but, with extended arms, the priest Onlony as shown by the inauguration of four of these. The total price of the fifty- blocked the way on the narrow staircase the Arts and Crafts Exhibition, an Exhibi- fout was quried at $216,700. This price easily be imagined, although he declares and declared that all the doors had hear on, which we trust will become an arintal was at first deemed excesuire, as it did not
event. that each has not been the case, that be closed and nobody should leave the temple We wish you had been permitted to re include either the axles or wheels necessary. guide sad encour. After seine correspondence and delay, the would not tolerate the pressure which until the idol was found. The one foreigner, main longer with us to
who was so loud in his protestations, again which have developed er progressed under tend to onerage the Chinese to talk age towards completion the many interests price has been increased, which will not
the Government may have been forced, invited the priest to search them, which your coloners of purpose, your price as they like so well to do,
through the insistence of some of its was done, with the result that the idol was Your
partiality, your strength and ability, your The Consel has therefore written urging radical supporters, to bring to bear upon found in the breast pocket of the same unflagging industry, and the dignita with the Railway Directors not to delay further, bim. This of cours is merely supposi. foreigner who showed so much indignation. which you have maintained your office, but to decide at onco what is intended We doubt whether the gentleman aforesaid have commanded both our admiration and
samimon and to be done. They sent to have decided tion. It may be that Lord Cromeria
aateord has lodged any complaint with the Waiwu These qualities, combined with your un that they will give the work to Japanese health bas really given wuy-he is not pu; but are informed that the above failing cold higgyegard for Your Er they will for the present ordor a few less. and unbounded hospitality, builders, but as the price has increased all sectioita
of the Community
have created
Things appear to bọ, changing. Once
& young man and the climate of Egypt mentioned curio thief is not the first one cellency, hudbe, now that you are go these things are ordered for the East from
of his kind a robbing the tongles.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
to which
unt you are s It only remains in
a sense of the ants of the the West. Eren Japan itself was compelled
~ Colony, to fad you farewell and to wish to place her orders with builders from
you every success in the new career now,
Europe and America Now, however, shp
Dr. F. W. Clark has boon appointed opening out before you all knowing that is able to supply Chais with the rolling
is not particularly salubrious. In any event the position of British Agent in Egypt has been readered vacant. Tho A reliable and efficacious.
task of finding a suitable man for the remedy. Gives instant re-post has been none too easy. Possibly absence of Mr A. Gibson.
Colonial Veterinary Surgeon during the
lief.
Lord Curzon may have been given the refusal of the Agonoy. His recent ex- perience in Indio has however, probably satisfied him for the time being with pro-conzolships or their equivalent, and the easier and more attractive prospecta which Home politics open to him may
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The granting of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' decoration to Major. A. Chapinan, V.D., is gazetted...
The Colonial Auxiliary Forces long survico medal hae heon granted to Bom hadier A., F. Rogers, Volunteer Corps.
Mr E. D. U Wolfe has been appointed Second Magistrate vice Mr C. D. Melbourne,
who goes to the Supreme Court as Deputy Registrar and appraiser.
in whatever part of the Empire you may be called upon to serve, ita intersata and stook, and no doubt, though tho Japanese traditions, in your handa, will always be ; will not be able to tulid as well as European securely guarded and maintained,
builders, they will be able to supply Chine
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PEKING SYNDICATE.
PEKING, April 6.
Tis morenent against the enterprises
Home gratefully acknowledgo the of the Peking syndicate in the Province The Committee of the Sailors and Bold-
following subscriptions in aid of renovating of Shansi a assuming a rather violent the interior of the Home. Four or five character. It is reported from Tayuanfa
andred dollars will be needed.
P. Wilder Esq. U. S. Consul
General
R. Shewan Eey General Broadwood, C.B. Fina L. ILE. Hosking, Esq. See Woo and Co
that largo parts of the population are of the opinion that the Catholic Christians are 75.00 taking the part of the syndicate and are Throats are being made 25.00 supporting them
to 20.00 that if the Missions do not take 10.00 provent this, il Cattolic Churches in Shansi 10.000 destroyed. Encounters between Christians and others are already taking place.continiously. The Governor of
The appolutmont of Brigadier General havo decided him not to again take up Sir Frederick John Dealry Lugan, the burden. The appointment of Sir KOMG., 6.B., D.8.1), ae. Govarrior.
of Hongkong is garstted." Eldon Gorst, who has had wide exper- lence in Egypt, will-ga far to quell the fears of those who would foresed very real danger if a weak man were to succeed |A. S. WATSON & 00, Lord Cromer, The Egyptian malcon-
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THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
ALEXANDRA
BUILDINGS. Hongkong, Spril 18 1907
INDAUTIOUS FRUIT EATING. DOWEL complaint is always more or less prevalajbdüting the fruit rowon and