July 10, 1895.]
FOOCHOW.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
people. The Chinese submitted patiently to the verdict given by the magistrate at the inquest on the murder just referred to. What English| man or American would have done so?
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29th June, Official notice has been issued from the Custom House that the Min river is re-opened to naviga- On Saturday the neighbours called early to tion, and that the shipment and discharge of ask me to come down to the house where the cargo at Pagoda Anchorage was resumed on the body lay, as the mandarin was coming to hold an 24th inst. The first steamer to anchor at the inquest. According to promise I went and Pagoda Anchorage on the re-opening day was found the magistrate Wang seated under a pavi- the "Glen" Line steamer Glenfarg
lion that bad been erected by the guilty parties, The réfugees brought over from Formosai.e., the men on whose property the murdered included many women and childred, and we hear mзa was found. that they were at once taken care of by the men,
A great crowd of people, women, and children, were assembled mandarins at the Pagoda. Those of them who around the place and the lao yeh was about to had homes were despatched to them, but there open the case. "Call Yü." he said. Yü was were some without friend to claim assistance produced and the usdal questions of occupation, from, amongst them several widows, and these age, etc., were put aud answered, Now what are being sold at 8,000 cash apiece, the child or do you know about this murder P" said the children in cases when there were any being Magistrate, who was acting as coroner, jury and thrown in Bayers, we understand, are not judge. Yü informed him that he know nothing allowed to pick and choose-at least not as far except that the an was found there. as good looks or age is concerued-for which rea- | don't you know ? "exclaimed Socrates.
Why As Yu son when a buyer makes his appearance the fac s could not very well auswer this question and as of all the wom ›n are covered up while the selec-
there was a pause, your correspondent being tion is taking place.
somewhat friendly to Yü spoke and requested the privilege of giving a little evidence. The request was granted and the evidende was pro duced. The dead man while alive had been at tended to by foreigners. As one of the neigh bons it was difficult for us to know how the murder was committed, and how could we be coguisant of the circumstances of the victim ? Many beggars were coming and going and we could not go out every day and count them and
The authorities appear to have been very systematic and prompt in arranging that none of the refugees from Formosa belonging to other provinces should remain here as loafers. Most of them have realy been sent off either by land or sea to their respective countries, and if we are rightly informed there are now only about 500 southerners at the Paroda await ing the opportunity of being shipped ff. and about 200 Ningpo and Houan men lodged in the Joss house, next to Mesars. M. W. Greig & Co.'s hong, all under proper contiol, also merely detained through the present absence of means of transport.
The int-roalary moon, occurring as it does this year as a second 5th moon, gives us a second edition of the Dragon festival. We are, of course, all of us pleased that the festivals of the country in which we reside should be observed in the orthodox mannner and that the people should enjoy themselves in their own way, but these Dragon-boat regattas and the everlasting tom tom!-Oh, heavens! May it be many many years before we have a double 5th moon agaiu.
-Echo.
CHINKIANG.
24th June.
There is no sign of an uprising among the people of this region. For a w ek we have had beavy rains, and the country people are busy setting ont their rice. About 15 inches of water bas fallen since the rain began
find out their circumstances.
The mandarin remarked that this did not fall within the compass of foreign intervention and proceeded with the case, the result of which was the apprehension of the Yü people and their in prisonment. my neighbour is out of the yamen. I found out I he master is not yet settled, but that he had paid the bill for the pavilion, the mandarin procession a frowsy but expensive affir-and the demands of the yamêu wolves What money the magistrate Wang will receive I do not know. We would like to see this same official try a case in some Arizona, U.S.A., town, and witness the consequent rail-riding.-N. C. Daily News.
MISCELLANEOUS.
At the end of a column of sarcasm about the artistic demerits of the British dollar the Straits Maritime Journal remarks:-"Truly we are long suffering. We ask for a dollar and they give us a badly executed Sunday school medal.
In Her Britannic Majesty's Court for Japan on the 17th ult. Judge Mowat disposed of the case of Beale v. Beale, which was a snit by the wife, a Japanese, for judicial separation. It was a question of cruelty or no cruelty, he said, that he was called upon to decide; and he re viewed briefly the leading decisions as to what constituted cruelty in the view of the law. He then announced that he had no hesitation in saying that the petitioner had not made out what she alleged. The three chief incidents did not support the construction put upon them the wife was not under apprehension of danger and the petition must be dismissed.
The statistics of the Lappa Plague Hospital, Macao. are as foll w÷-
A dreadful murder was committed some time ago near my house. The victim was a vonng Shantung man and no clue to the murderer has been discovered. The pernicions law that the man at whose d or or on whose pro- perty the corpse is found is respousible for the orime until the murderer is fonad produced its ghastly results in this case. For three days this wretched creature lay in the open field naked, the hot blazing sun on one day and a pouring rain on another putrefying his wounds, and pro- ducing untold agony. When my colleague and myself found him he was still alive; his head, on which the woun:ls had been made, was covered with thousands of the horrible pro lucts of swarms of flies. His eyes were gone-eaten away: In.bis agony, too, he had beaten hard (June 28th the ground for several vards and his mouth was filed with mud. We washed his wounds an carried him to a place of shelter, but he died that night. Had any Chinese done this he would be responsible for the murder. wonder the thiness heart seems hardened to suffering. To show that it is not really so, I would mention that when my friend and myself promised to be responsible for carrying the man, the neighbours helped us with the greatest cheerfulness and alacrity. While I write this there is another man lying dead in the city gate. He will probably remain there for days poisoning the atmosphere. The neigh bonrs are afraid to move him for fear of the officials.
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Ting's remains to Wahu for carriage overland to the late Admiral's home at Hofei. Aubai, the Kangchi returned to Shanghai and immediately went to the Kiangnan Arsenal naval yard for respairs, She has now been thoroughly refitted and re-armed with better guns t an her previons mnzzle-loaders and came out of dock last week. She started for her old place in the North on the 29th June and with the old wooden sloop Chinghai will be the only representative for some time to come of the Peiyaug fleet.-N. C. Daily News.
The fact that it is well known to the Chinese news-reading public that it was really some for- eigners of Tamani who informed the Japanese of the defenceless condition of Taipehfu and it was they who led the way for the Japanese to that city long before the military prudence of the latter would allow them to do so, hus, the N.C. Daily News says, caused all sorts of reports to be manufactured, accusing foreigners in South Formosa of sending information in the same way to the Japanese, urging them to come, and attack Anping. Takao, etc., at once. One native paper bas even gone the length of giving publicity to a plainly false report giving details of a supposed interview between some foreigners and Lin Yang-fu, the old Black Flag General, in which the former were said to have exhausted all the arts of rhetoric trying to persuade General Lin to surrender South Formosa to Japan and become one of the most trusted of Japan's Generals." The foreign rs were even said to lave offered an immense sum of money on behalf of the Japanese to tempt Lin Yang- fa to give up his command and to cross over to the mainland.
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In the Declaration of Friendship announced between Japan and Siam on September 25th, 1887, it is stipulated that in the meantime, and in the interval required for the ratification of the Convention, the subjects of the one power may enjoy in the territories of the other, and vice versa, all the privileges and rights granted to the most favoured nations. This, says the Siam Free Press, may or not mean that the Japanese domiciled in Siam are to enjoy exterritorial rights, inso- much as the rights reciprocally acknowledged by the contracting parties have not so far been taken advantage of either by Siam or Japan. And it has been held by several eminent jurists that no power is entitled to claim exterritorial rights unless it has provided the necessary machinery to supersede territorial jurisdiction. For the last year or so, influenced probably by the Sino-Japanese war, the Japanese in diam have not thought it well to call the attention of their government to their position in Siam. Now, however, that peace has been concluded the Japanese residents in Siam are moving in the matter, and are urging their government to secure a definition of their rights in this country. And with this end in view they have petitioned the Japanese Foreign Office, praying that pending the appointment of a Consul to the Court of Siam, the representative of some friendly Power should be requested to afford them protection. We understand that the choice of the Japanese has fallen upon the Consul- General for the Netherlands, and that Chevalier Keun de Hoogerwoerd may be ordered by bis government, to take over the guardianship of Japanese interests in Siam natil such time as a regular Consul is appointed by the Japanese Foreign Office.
COMMERCIAL.
TEA.
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO GREAT BRITAIN.
Canton and Macao.. Foochow Shanghai and Hankow
1895-96
Ibs.
1894-95
lbs.
.1,970,181
1,829,604
5,849,350
5,047,596
.8,229,359
8,804,032
16,048,890
15,181,282
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO UNITED STATES AND CANADA.
Total It will be remembered that the Foochow built wooden ram Kangchi after being stripped of her armament was presented to the Chinese by the Japanese victors at Weibaiwel for the special purpose of crying the remains of the In these days when nearly every one kicks or late Admiral Ting and his two commodores wants to kick poor China. and when so tunch is Liu Pu-ch'an and Yang Yang-lia to Ch-foo! said against the people, it is well to refl-at calmly Last March the Kangchi brought five coffins on the situation. The hinese are a law-abiding down to Shanghai belon ing to admiral Ting Foochow race and eas ly governed If they possessed the his two commodores and the commandants of Shanghai Frath in all its departments, they would be as the Weihaiwei mainland frts and the forts on good and intelligent as the best of European | Liukung island. After carrying Admiral
Amoy
1895-96. lbs. .2,113,164 412,210
...................................3 131,020°
5,655,394
1894-75
lbs. 1.176,988
1018, 68
3,675.917
57,5,1623