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- CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT
haft 200 foot eeper | not amount of ground to work be taken out when TO-
have to wear their health Outing
irregular nature of this
to open ont levels at all be able to prospect the doing so.
days were lost, during, the cleaning up and effecting to the battery. On Monday 8 general clean up took place for
mber and October, 2,353 crushed for a yield of ozs. 1,913.11.0 gold. Crushing was resumed the and has continned steadily since. owing is the proportion of ore hed from the ifferent mines Bukit Koma Western Frode Raub Hole
1,6541 tons.
the unhealthy climate of immor. It will be | Onecofas Boldiers, at once,
interesting see how Senhor Celestino. will manage without our help. He will have to find money by some means. Perhaps his cousin the Bishop will be able to advise him. The Bishop is devoted heart and soul to Timor, so much so that he has expressed a wish to die in that island.
On Wednesday the Chinaman Ho Ling-vong was brought up for trial, but happily was pronounced not guilty. The case against this man was commenced more than two years ago, the charges against him being that he had written anonymous letters threatening the ex- editors of the Echo Macaense and caused placards to be posted in the streets inciting the Chinese to kill Mr. Jozé da Silva, advocate, and to set fire to his house. The placards in ques- tion stated that the cause of so many Chinese dying of bubonic plague was due to Mr. Silva having joined with the French priests in poison This is a much better yield than we have had ing the wells. At the trial there was no evidence for some time, and is caused principally by the to connect Ho Ling-vong with the writing or richer grade of ore being raised from the stopes posting of these abominable placards or with in the Raub Hole and an all-round improve-the writing of the anonymous letters, and I am ment of the levels in Bukit Koman.
328.
*371
2,353
WM. BIBBY, Mining Manager.
THE TSUNG-LI YAMEN ON FOOTBINDING.
Mr. Denby the United States Minister, has received the following despatch, marked "in- formal," from the Tsung-li Yamen :-
Peking, 30th October, 1896. Your Excellency,-On the 26th instant we had the honour to receive Your Excellency's note stating that you had received from the Tien Tsu Hui and International Women's Union through the President and Secretary thereof a memo- rial relating to "Foot Binding" which had been prepared by those distinguished societies. Your Excellency further stated that you were requested to transmit this memorial to the Yamen and to ask that it reaches the exalted personages
to whom it is addressed, to wit: their Majesties the Empress Dowager and the Emperor of China and in accordance with the request made you transmitted & box containing the memorial and begged that it be presented
their Majesties.
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In reply, we beg to state that the memorial of the said societies evidences the fact that the object in view is to do good. But the usages and customs prevailing in China are different from those of Western countries. The binding of feet is a practice that has been in vogue for a very long time. Those who oppose the binding their children's feet are not compelled to do so, while on the other hand those who wish to carry out the practice cannot be prevented Custom has made the practice: from doing 80. Those in high authority cannot but allow the people to do as they are inclined in the matter of binding the feet of their children; they can- not be restrained by law,
We have therefore the honour to inform Excellency that we find it difficult to out the request made and present the memorial to their Majesties the Empress
ger and Emperor, We will keep the memorial in the archives of the Yamên, and beg Your Excellency will communicate the
the information of the two-societies. Cards of Ministers with compliments.
above
MACAO
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT]
20th November.
glad that he has been proved not guilty. Dur- ing the plague here this Chinaman rendered great assistance to the Government in the measures taken to combat the epidemic. Through his influence a large mat-shed was erected on the Lappa side as a Chinese hospital and he formed a committee for the cleansing of the worst Chinese quarters. At the trial on Wednesday Advocate A. J Basto appeared for Ho Ling-vong and the Attorney-General for the ex-editors of the Echo Macaense and Mr. Silva,
The prospects in connection with the election of the Leal Senado are not encouraging. Two of the present members do not seek re-election. A list has been circulated putting forward as candidates the names of the remaining members at present serving with the addition of two others to supply the places of the two retiring. It is said that this list is recommended by some of the principal authorities and that the voters are pledging themselves to support it. One of the new candidates. is the uneducated person to whom I referred in a previous letter, and against whom I have nothing whatever to say except that his educational deficiencies and his position ought to be held to dis- qualify him for holding any such office as that of a member of the Leal Senado He can only speak pidgin Portuguese and can barely write his own name. He is in the employ of the Opium Farmer and to search Chinese passengers to sée bas that they do not smuggle opium into this place. He is therefore entirely dependent on his Chinese employers, and it is for the public to say if he is a proper man to elect to the Leal Senado. It is reported that H.E. the Governor is urging every one to vote for him, but this is hard to believe, because Senhor Horta e Costa is possessed of good sense.
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CANTON NOTES.
{FROM THE "CHUNG NGOI SAN PO.” Owing to the heavy rain, the West River is nearly overflowing its banks. Its tributaries in Namhoi, Suntak, and Samsui districts are exceptionally high.
The local Magistrates have reported to the Viceroy and the Governor that the new crops have proved favourable. Their Excellencies have memorialised the Throne stating the case. Admiral Ho Chang-ching arrived at Canton by the gunboat Kwang-thang on the 16th in- stant. Immediately after his arrival, His Excel lency went to pay his respects to all the local officials. He will go back to his native country, Henngshan, in a day or two, and return to Can ton to take over the seal on the 26th inst.
O Seculo, the Lisbon paper, states that on the 8th October, it was decided by the home Government that Timor should be separated from Macao and be an independent colony.
sent no official confirmation of Three prisoners made their escape on the 14th received, but when the announce-inst from the prison in Jar yun Street, inside nally made it will be hailed with the city, but they were all recaptured by the faction. The Macao Treasury policemen. The said prison is only used to con the place about $15,000 a fine prisoners who have committed small crimes.
f the monthly steamer
On the 11th inst, a director of the Po- directed some soldiers to go to a brothel m here to Timor and vice the second place the demands lau to take a girl out who is the wife
mandarin who had been kidnapped. oney to meet the chronic de- get will cease.
Keepers o the brothel, who thou Tim
men only came to steal
Also Government servan
Macso will
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wounded. The dire caso to the Magistrate in person to examine the
chair coolie and the wounds Four of the brothels were sealed keepers of the other brothels are cal deliver up the man who fired the fat under threat of heavy punishment
shot
The Viceroy and the Governor are using their utmost efforts to stop all sorts of gambling They are now trying to find out and San-sz who accepted blackmail gamblers who were under their pr It is said that a good number have been lost sight of in last few months. They are said to Hongkong and to be hiding themselves in the sly brathels, because the Chinese hold the opinion that female lepers can get rid of their disease by immoral means.
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FORMOSA.
[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.
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Taifenfu, 7th November Lieut.-General Baron Nogi, the new Gov- ernor-General of Formosa, arrived yesterday. afternoon. This officer comes with the arоwed intention of remaining permanently in the island, and was about to set the good example of establishing his home by bringing his eighty year old mother and his wife to Taipehfu, but hearing of the plague he very wisely delayed and his family returned to Tokyo after having completed that portion of the journey as far as Nagasaki. It is this that Formosa needs, more families and less adventurers.
HONGKONG,
Major Carrington has held his first parade of Volunteers since his appointment as Command- ant and took occasion to make an interesting speech to the Corps. Fra Diavolo," the Rifle Brigade burlesque, was produced for the last time on Saturday evening after a highly succesful run, and on Monday the Brigade left this station for Singapore. Nothing else of special interest has occurred in the colony during
the week.
The Causeway Bay murderer will be executed in Victoria Gaol on the 30th inst.
There were 2,696 visitors to the City Hall Museum last week, of whom 206 were Europeans. A fine of $200 was imposed by the Magistrate on Saturday on a marine store dealer who failed to properly keep his books.
It is notified that Her Majesty has approved of the Ordinance to consolidate the law relating to the registration of births and deaths and the Supplementary Appropriation Ordinance, 1895.
A lad was charged at the Police Court on the 18th November with snatching an earring from a woman. The prisoner said he came from Taikoktsui and did not know the law The Magistrate ordered him to have a lesson in the shape of two months' imprisonment, six strokes with the rattan on admission and nine strokes a few days before his release.
The following are the crews picked for the Chairman's Challenge Cup to be competed for at the annual regatta. Kornblume-F_-Lam- mert (captain), G. Mollison, A. E Alves M Fredricks, P. Hyndman (cox.). Leek—R. Lammert (captain), A. A. Alves, S. Robinson E. Bischoff, FH. Kow (cox.). Rose G== Hayward (captain), G. H. Pötte, H. W Ken- nett, E, August, F. White (cox.). Thistle W. Armstrong (captain), T. Brown, G. C Fullerton, L. A. Rose, C. T. Kew (cox.). Sham rock T. Meek (captain), W. A. Stopani, C. G Klinck, T. Consunji, R. Henderson orews picked for the Germang
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