for
March 17, 1897.1 T
for the first class went at 11.15 and cond class at 11.2
vo and Erica were a little late at the but after a few tacks got into the front ank.. Chanticleer got off with the gun and worked out a long lead, being some 300 shead off the Mica Works, but in the last for Channel Rocks the wind got lighter, and the light weather cracks quickly overhauled her at the Rocks, which were rounded first by Phoebe about 30 seconds in front of Erica, with Chanticleer about the same time in front of Meteor. The two leading boats had a very close race all through. At Kowloon Rook Erica had pulled up to within two boats lengths of Phoebe, and got on level terms at Hunghom Point. At the dinghy off the pier Erica was inside boat and had the right of way, getting with a lead of about a length, and from here she kept the lead all through the next round, and although Phoebe was never far behind and "did her level best," she had to be content with second place. Meteor started the second round with nearly a minute to the bad from Chanticleer, but got a north-east puff which put her into third place. The times at the dinghy first time round were :—
round
·
Erics...
8.
FIRST CLASS.
H.
M.
... 12
42
35
Phoebe
12
42
42
Chanticleer
12
48
20
Meteor
12
49 11
Maid Marian
12
52
9
Princess
12 54
47
Active
12
55
Sybil ...
12
56
SECOND CLASS.
H.
M.
8.
17
3
10
5
Payne... Ladybird Dart...
222
1
** NO
The Sybil here gave up and went to her mooring. The Active was also going very badly and might just as well have done so, as she was fast being overtaken by the Payne. In the beat up Maid Marian passed Chanticleer, but could not get any nearer to Meteor, and in the second class Dart pulled up on Ladybird, catching her at the Channel Rocks, where there was a misunderstanding as to the rule of the road, and in the run down Dart went ahead, getting to the line some 31 seconds in front of Ladybird, but not soon enough to save her time. The line was crossed as follows at the finish :-
Erica Phoebe
Meteor Maid Marian
Chanticleer
Princess
4.
+
FIRST CLASE.
2 10 58: 10 marks 2 12 16
2 21 42
1
·
2 24 53
2 25 47
2 31 19
Active
2 45 14
SECOND CLASS.
-Payne
2 36 3
Dart
Ladybird
2 45 24 2 45 55
19
10 marks
1. " 4
The marks made by the boats are now :-
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT
AMERICA AND SLAMI
THE CHINESE FOR OOLO
ABBITRATION ACCEPTED. H.R.H. Prince Devawongse, H.S.M. Foreign. Minister, and Mr. John Barrett, U.S. Minister, make public the following statement
The Siamese Government, through H.R.H. Prince Devawongge, Foreign Minister, and the United States Government, through Mr. John Barrett, Minister to Siam, have agreed:
First, to submit the entire Cheek case to arbitration, the arbitrator to decide all disputed questions of law or fact, and have power to make an award, if any, against either the Siamese Government or the Cheek Estate according to his conclusión. The arbitrator is to be some Euro- pean official of high standing now stationed in a neighboring foreign colony or Asiatic city, and he shall sit in Siam at the earliest date agreeable to him, which may be in November or December, or as the season suits.
$
Second, to appoint a Mixed Board of Arbitra- tors who shall fully investigate the alleged assault on the U.S. Vice Consul-General, Mr. E. V. Kellett, at Chengmai, in November, 1896, and arbitrate all questions of law, fact, and reparation. By "Mixed Board" it is meant that the same shall consist of respectively an American official or citizen and a Siamese official or subject. The tribunal shall first take what evidence there may be in Bangkok and then proceed to Chengmai to complete its labours. In the event this Mixed Board or Tribunal cannot reach a final agreement, an Umpire, to be selected by the two Govern
shall be appointed who ments, shall be neither an American mor Siamese.
The Mixed Tribunal, which will first sit in Bangkok and then proceed to Chengmai to con- tinue its investigations, will probably consist of the United States Minister, inasmuch as there is no other United States official here who could act, and Mr. P. Orts, an official of the Siamese Government. The Umpire, if these are unable to agree in their conclusions, will be some dis- tinguished official of a neighbouring foreign colony, to whom the evidence taken and briefs of the members of the tribunal shall be sub- mitted. This investigation will take place as soon as river and season conditions are favour able to proceeding to Chengmai.
Bangkok, 1st March, 1897.
CHINA'S ANNUAL REVENUE.
The following figures in round numbers comprise the gross revenue of China for the year 1896, or, more strictly speaking, for the 22nd year of the reign of Kuang Hsü (14th February, 1896, to 1st February, 1897, inclu- sive), as presented in the annual report of the Board of Revenue to his Majesty the Emperor towards the close of the last Chinese year. The totals are given under various heads of revenue, and these annual reports are now regu- larly required by the Board of Revenue, in accordance with the scheme of reform and * retrenchment inaugurated not long ago by
H.I.M. the Empress-Dowager :-
*
Tls. 15,500,000
201
STOMS RE
CEMBER, 1896.
The following are the quarter of 1896, compared, at the different Trealy in 1895 :—— ---
Port
Newchwang Tientsin Chefoo
Chungking Ichang......
Shasi....... Hankow
Kinkiang
and duties
the
Total Collection, Oct. Col
to Dec 1898
Hk. Tls.
168,083.7.8.2
331,206.1.5.5
280,705.9.4.8
100,193.0.1.2 108,076.8.8.9
122,135.4.9.9
157,122.3.9.0
130,005.6.4.4
230,026.2.7.9.
1,7760.4.8.5
876,696.9.2.8
204,999.4.0.4
213,5
147.8
Wahu ............ 138,819.5.3.0
557.72.9
Chinkiang... 222,628.7.78841,162 Shanghai............... 2,130,534.2.9.8 1,612,655 Soochow .........
Hangchow Wenchow
322,035.7.
5,472.18.9 894,192.6.0.1. 199,694.1.7.7.
348.4.3.3
Ningpo. 358,554.7.3.5
4,060.2.1.0
6,271.3.0.9
Foochow.......... 408,379.6.7.4
Amoy Swatow
254,724.0.3.0
287,810.2.7.7
301 138.26.6
Canton.......
427,213.5.7.9
Kiungchow.....
30,755 7.0.0
48,754.5:1.5
Pakhoi
462,084 6.9.5 17,450.9.9.0 $37,999.3.9.5
Total Hk. Tls... 5,758,447.0.8.2 5,212,340.1.0.7 Same quarter 1895 5,212,840.1.0.7****
and
THE MEINGOON PRINCE. The Avenir du Tonkin states that the Meingoon Prince, who recently escaped from Saigon with the object of reaching Burme and brought to Hanoi, where he arrived on the raising a revolt, has been arrested at Laichan 3rd March. He is accompanied by two princes of his family and a suite of a dozen attendante.
A KOBE PAPER ON THE HONG
try.
Wise and
KONG SANITARY BOARD. The Kobe Herald says:-The recent action of the Hongkong Sanitary Board in declaring Kobe and Hyogo infected with small-pox would be ludicrous did it not mean serious loss. For the meeting at which this precious resolution, was reached took place on the 11th ult, almost three months since the existence of small-por- in endemic form was notified in our editorial columns, and about nine months since the disease broke out in this part of the con Assuming that the action just taken by the Hongkong Sanitary Board was necessary, it will thus be seen that taken this wide awake body the best part of a year to take cognizance of what is transpiring in a port but four days' steaming distance away. If the Sanitary Board's latest stop is justified under the circumstances the members thereof deserve a sharp rap over the knuckles for not opening their eyes to the situati long time ago; if it is not justified, they made themselves the laughing-stock East and have afforded such an exhibition timidity and alarm as is fortunately rare speak of the Board as a whole, but at the same time it is only fair to say that not all the me allowed themselves to be carried away by thei grandmotherly instinots.The Colonial. Su geon, for instance, took a sober common view of the position, remind
bera
FIRST CLASS.
SECOND CLASS.
Erica...
49
Ste
...
Maid Marian
45
Ladybird...
50 30*
Total revenue derived from the Imperial Maritime Customs
Total revenue derived from the
Phoebe
Dart...
29* land and grain taxes...
10,800,000
Sybil...
22
Раупе
18
6
Seabreeze-
4
Total revenue derived from the Salt Gabelle
12,200,000
Total revenue derived from ordi- nary taxes on home produce
Total revenue derived from likin Total revenue derived from li- cences on tea, pawnshops, and salt monopolists
2,600,000 13,400,000
ense
nes
8,500,000
that small-pox is in ́evidence East," and that there was no earthly for a soul in Hongkong to suffer disease so long as vaccine could
the
15,300,000
:
on
Meteor
Chanticleer
4 Eileen *Subject to a protest.
The Championship and second prize now lie between Erica and Maid Marian, and the She wins the first prize in the second class.:
We hear that the recorded rainfall at one station in Pahang, during December, reached the enormous figure of 86 inches, of which 26 inches fell in one day; that is over five times the rainfall that fell in Singapore on the wet- test day of the recent wet weather. No wonder that the rivers rose 40 feet and that the lovel country was flooded for many miles inland: no wonder that people took to the trees, and im
Total revenue derived from duty on miscellaneous articles of con- sumption and use
Tls. 73,300,000 Deduct cost of transport, leakage,. and waste
440
more easily frightened ŷmen apparently thought otherwise an discussion, succeeded in
tion declaring Kobe and 550,000 | Ships arriving in the colony
will therefore be subj -examination. — <This,
Total gross revenue as reported
Tls.......... 72,750,000
provised shelters when their kampongs were-NO: Daily News. under, perhaps. twenty feet of water. The destruction of the orops must mean hard times
presently for the country, people, we fear, and ¦ It is notified in the Gazette that H.E. the res there is every prospect of considerable amount Governor has been pleased to accept the r of local distress in Pahang - Singapore Freesignation of Captain C. Murray Adamson from
the Hongkong Volunteer Corps des
ery serious, altho tions delays, but
has
d by the
its inhabi We know for