June 30, 1902,
Boilers
Lambert has been appointed Surveyor
The appointment of Mr. C. MoI Messer as Acting Registrar-General is notified in the Gazette
Subadar Ikbal Singh, HK.S.B.R.A.,_ has been re-appointed Honorary A.D.C. to H.E. the Officer Administering the Colony.
The special Cor nation services in the Union Church on the 22nd inst, were well attended, and at both the National Anthent was sung.
On the arrival of the Chinano Maru in the harbour on the 20th inst., the police went aboard and took over from the custody of the master fourteen Japanese girl stowaways. They are to be sent back by the Japanese Consul.
Mesara Butterfield & Swire informed us on the 1st inst. that they had just received a tele- gram to the effect that the undamag d cargo per djdz will be transhipped to the Pingsuey, which is expected to arrive at this port on the 22nd pròx.
The concert given in the Peak Hotel on the 20th inst. Ly the French Comic Opera Co. was moderately successful. Mlle. Lescaut and M. C. Dason were the only two who sang, the others of the company being indisposed. About fifty people were mesent.
The German gunboat Luchs left for Canton
on the 24th inst.
The Japanese crniser Chihaya arrived on the 23rd inst. from Amoy.
The transport Nurani, bringing the 10 h Jats to Shanghai to relieve the 30th Baluchis, arrived there on the 20th iust. The relieving regiment landed at once and marched to Jess field, where they will be quartered. The 30th Baluchis left by the Nurani on the 22nd inst. and reached Hongkong on the 27th inst.
MISCELLANEOUS.
F. 8. Mayer has been sentenced by the Saibansho to one year and six Yokohams months' major confiuem int for forgery
The new German military barracks at Kanmi, Shantung, are now finished, and the troops moved into their new quarters on the 30th ult.
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A would-be golfer recently sent an order to his bookseller for all the works on the Royal and Ancient game which he could find. In the course of a few days the consignment arrived, and among them was one called "Stockton on Tees. It reminds one of the story of the sporting journalist. In a parcel of books sent him for review he discovered one on
Marco Polo.",
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The Macao Steamboat Company have peti- tioned the Macao Government to dredge the harbour and the approach thereto, and as a result the 1 cal aut orities of the Portuguese Colony have set aside a small sum for the purpose. Everyone who has been to Macao will agree that the dredging of the river a d harbour is a necessity, for a steamer going there has practically to plough a channel through the mud.........
The Siam Observer of the 10th inst. says:- We deeply regret to hear that Mr. Tower's illness is somewhat serious and that it is feared it may prove to be typhoid All sections of the community in Bangkok will join in the hope that His Excellency may make a speady recovery. Mr. Tower, we believe, has ex- perienced but indifferent health since coming ato Bangkok, and he will probably need holiday after this unfortunate illness.
At a meeting at Tokyo on the 10th inst. of the Tɔko Kiokai (Oriential Association), Count Okuma, ex-Premier, remarked that the outward enthusiasm of the nation over the Anglo- Japanese Alliance seemed to bave waned, but it still remained true that the value of the Alliance would be appreciated in the future. The Alliance looked to the future more than to the present. He referred to the conflict between the civilisation of Axia and that of Europe, in which connection he said it was a fortunate thing that the Japanese had succeeded in har monising them. He considered that Japan * should render assistance to less fortunate countries which were threatened with rain through this inevitable conflict between the old and new influences. If they did so the Japanese themselves would benefit as well as the Chinese and Coreans.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
We learn that the French flagship D'Entrecasteauz arrived and anchored off Macao on the 25th inst. and two small gun-vessels (probably the Argus and Vigilante) on the same day anchored in the inner harbour.
Capt. de Richelieu sent in his resigna tion from the Siamese Navy a fortnight ago, and will leave in September. It is stated that later he was offered the post of Harbour Master at Bangkok, but declined. He has had a long period of service in the Siamese Navy.
A Paris telegram to the Echo; de Chine says:-" M. Donmergne, in receiving the personnel of the Ministry of the Colonies, declared that the colonial domain of France was actually sufficiently extended. It was a question of organising it administratively and economically and to occupy themselves with its defence." We wonder what sort of statement M, Doumer would have made, had he as some supposed been appointed Colonial Minister,
A rumour has be en current in Peking and Tientsin official circles that far re ching changes are impending in the higher administration of the Two Kwang and Chihli Provinces. It was said that Yuan Shikai is too zealous in his reform programme for the Palace clique and that, he will immediately be sent to the South; while Wang Wen-shao will resume his former position as Viceroy of the metropolitan Pro- vince, as his age and disposition render him far more amenable to Palace i fluence How- ever, the P. & T. Times has received a contradic- tion of the story.
According to the deaki, the Japanese emigrating to China and remarkably increased of late. The number of Japanese landing at Fusan by back steamer is over three times that of last year. During April the Japanese population at Chemulpo increased by about 139, and that at Seoul by about 300. Every steamer going to China carries Japanese passenger of all classes to its fullest capacity.
Further details of the loss of the Teutonia off Cape Rachado are contained in the Pindng Gazette, which states that just after collision with the binese junk, the most seriously damaged of the two boats appeared to be the junk, and Capt. Neilsen ordered the boats out to save the occupants of the junk, which was split right in two pieces, and sank immediately. Te Teutonian's injury consisted in a big gap in the fore part, but the extent to which the water was rising was not apparently discovered, in the excitement of the moment and the endeavours to save those in the junk, until she suddenly gave signs of foundering" which occurred in something like ten minutes,
the Japanese Minister to Cores, deploring the According to a Tokyo de-patch, Mr. Hayashi fact that the Corean policy of the Japanese that the policy should be defined and fixed, and Government is constantly changing, suggests
that the friendly relations between Cores and Japan should be promoted as much as possible, Nothing should be left undone to maintain peace in Corea, and Mr. Hayashi recommends the Nearly half the railway works in Formosa following measures with that object, which are between Keelung and 'akao have now beens/id to have the approval of the British Minister finished. Traffic has been opened as far north at Seoul:-1. That the Corean Government as Kagi on the southern line, and through should have the counsel of the Japanese and business is now carried on between K elung British Governments, which cordially and truly and Shinobiku on the northern lines. There desire the maintenance of the independence of remains the more difficult half of the work to Corea, and that they should decide all important accomplish-the difficulty lying chiefly in the questions concerning the hom and foreign number of bridges and tunnels to be constructed affairs of Cores, aròiding all complications. In the course of this year the Formosan Rail-
?..That when the Corean Government deems it way will extend to 73 miles 66 chains for the northern line, and 67 mil-s 13 chains for the floated in Great Britain, Japan, or the United necessary to raise a foreign loan, it should be southern line, making a total of 147 miles 79 States chains. The 1902 appropriation for the work is two and half million yen, to which is to be added 50,0 0, yen the sum carried forward from last year's appropriation.
Under the heading "Prince Yukanthor," L'Opinion of Saigon has the following:- We e are informed. and we give the news with all reserve, that Prince Yukanthor, who ou his return from France stopped at Singapore, where he lived in private-pperly enough on a subsidy from the Court of Cambodia. has left the English town to return to Bangplasoi in Siam. Bangplasoi is situated between Chant- abun and Pakpam, and is in the very gentre therefore of the country where all the trouble has occurred which is really upse ting Siam, Prince Ynkanthor in view of his haired to France might well le one of the promoters of the movement. The Governmout should get information on this abject. As far as we are concerned, we only call attention to a which one of our correspondents assures us is correct.
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At Singapore in the 13th inst. David Solo- mon, a Jew, charged a Javanese servant with leaving his s rvice without giving due notice. In the course of the hearing the magistrate élicited that the boy was in receipt of a salary of $10 a month, but that $5 and $3 rere due to him. The Vice-Consul at Singa pore for the Netherlands gave a history of the boy case as he understood it. In the course. of this be remarked that it was not uncommon for people from Singapore to go to Jara, engage servants. bring them to Sngapore, and reduce them to something like slavery until the expenses incidental on the arrange: ment were worked off. The boy had been brought here by Solomon and for five months had rceived no pay. The boy's father had written to the Vice-Consul soliciting him to bare the lad sent back to his home. These were used to no purpose, and the consul advised the boy to give notice of leaving. The boy stated that he did so. Solomon denied it, and brought a caim of $30 against him. He also had the boy's passport. The conclusion of the cae was that Folomon should pay the boy $8 and restore his passport, while the claim of $30 should be taken to the Court of Requests.:
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advisers should be avoided as far as practicable, 3. That the engagement of foreign' and that the unity of the Imperial Court and Gove nment should be promoted. How Mr. Hayashi's views come to be published is not stated.
Mr. Nelson Annandale, who has been travel-
ling in various parts of the Malay Peninsula with the aid of the Royal Society of London and the University of Edinburgh in order to investigate the different races of men who in- habit these parts, writes to the Malay Mail with regard to the Patani affair, correcting the statements of the Singapore papers. He says that rumours of risings and massacres in Siamese Malaya had be a rife, the Siamese Vice-Minister of the Interior came down from Bangkok to settle affairs. The Malay Rajah of Patani was apparently reconciled to the Siam se authorities, and a exchange of court- esies took place. Just then, as soon as the mon- soon permitted. the voyage, the Vice-Minister returned, bringing documents with him in which certain concessions were made to the Rajah's view of his own position. The Rajah refused to sign them. fle was arrested and exiled, and according to Siamese accounts, he afterwards confessed that he had done wrong. No public disturbance whatsoever accompanied his removal. I have talked with several of his. well-wishers in Patani, and not one of them so much as hinted that there was any disposition on the part of the populace to take his part. Indeed many of the people appear to be ignor- ant, at any rate in the remoter parts of the state-if five or ten miles away can to called remote-and the majority utterly indifferent with regard to his removal.” In conclusion Mr. Annandale asks:- Who and what is the Patani Malay? I can but answer--he is s half....... bred Siamese with a strong strain of Semang blood in his veins. Quite a large proportion, prob.bly at least a third, of the peasants of the. Siamese Malay States are Siamese, and many of the rest, while calling themselves Malay, can speak no language bat Siamese. They do not ext pig and they practise circumcision. Raci ally they are as much Siamese as Malays; their prejudice was not against Siamese as such, but against corrupt minor officials who have now. been dismissed.”