January 25, 1904.]
PART 1.
CHINA OVERLAND TRÅDE REPORT. quietly boarded by a Piano............" Immitation à la Valso" (Weber).compelled the two men on board to keep quiet piratical crew, who Mesdames L. FLAYELLE and J. C. JOHNSTON,
while they set sail for the sea, and on reaching “Beloved, it is Morn." Kow-tuck, after landing the two junkmen,
they left and have not since been heard of.
Mr. J. C. JuHNSTON,
" The Hard Dell." Mr. E. BULBROOK, ................. Cornet à piston " Variations." Mr. F. R. S. DA CRUZ.
The Rose of Tralee." Mr. R. HENKEL,
Song...
Song...
Solo
Solo
A Display of Strength.
Song
Song
Piano
Song
Chorus
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Mr. G. E. BILL.
Mrs. J. C. JOHNSTON.
O Dry those Tears."
Werner's Parting."
Mr. F. H. BELL.
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Impromptu de Chopin." Madame L. FLATELLE.
"Selection from The Mikado."
Mr. l'HOMAS LoJazire.
"Plantation Songs." Mrs. JOHNSTON, Mesars. JOHNSTON, F. H. BILL, LOUREIRO, HENKEL, CRUZ, DRATSON, BULBROOK, and WILLIAMS.
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Song
Duo
Violin Soto...
Song
Piano
Song
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PART II.
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On the 8th lust, two numbered lighters left here for Yamiobow with cargo and a number of passengers. After a few hours' sailing, and in broad daylight, one of the lighters-No. 25- was attacked by a pirate junk, a sailor being shot. The pirates, while looting the valuables on board, saw the smoke of au approaching steamer (the gunboat Heinhung from Canton), which made them desist; by that time the crew's and passengers' luggage was removed. No cargó was taken away.
A short time ago, the guard-junk No. 3 Loungmoon; a battle ensued and continued met a fleet of pirates in the entrance of until the dark without either of the parti s giving in. Two killed and a few wounded were recorded on the guard-junk.
"The White Squall." CORRESPONDENCE
Mr. V. DRATSON
"Two Little Chicks." Mrs. and Mr. JOHNSTON.
"Selected."
"Love's Coronation,”
Ch. Lofebre.
Mr. N. A. S19 JEIBA.
Mr. J. C. JOHNBT.
"Ronance'
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The Old Briga le."
Madame FLAYELLA.
Mr. F. H. BELL. Musical Sketch.
Messrs. T. LOUREIRO and A. WILLIAMS. Chorus...
"Good Night." Mrs. JOHNSTON, Jessrs. JoLNSTON, F. H. BILL, LOUREIRO, HENKEL, CRUZ, Drayson, BULBROOK, and WILLIAMS.
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THE FISCAL QUESTIO N.
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PRESS,
Hongkong, 15th January, SIR-I am disappointed that a weightier lance than mine has not taken up the challenge thrown out by your correspondent "X" who writes so glibly of the benefits of Free Trade, In the absence of a better, I beg to come forward with au expression of views which are contrary to those which he has enounced and which, I am sure, will meet with as much if not more approbation in the minds of Colonial Britishers than anything that has been written by his Radical peu. It is said of the serpent that he fascinates the bird before she falls into his jaws.
In the same way "X" would fascinate us into laxity and collapse by the speciousness of his arguments, the false lustre of his illustrations. What on earth have figures got to do with us who are in actual contact with hard facts, fruths the most convincing, asseverations that require no more confirmation than our daily life brings us face to face with. The believers in Cobden and his school of the ranks of those who believe in Fiscal Reform years ago are to be found equally as much in in those that advocate Free Trade. But it remains to the men who move with the times
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Pakhoi, 11th January. FOOTBALL-"RINALDO V, PAKHOI Availing himself of the presence of H.B.M S. Rinaldo in this port, Dr. Pops, R.N., as Hon. Secretary of the Rinaldo's Football Club, arranged a football match-the first of the kind in Pakhoi-between his team and a scratch team collected amongst the residents. The match came off on Saturday last, before a large attendance of spectators, on the piece of ground near the British Consulate. It resulted in an easy victory for the Rinaldo's team, who played a good game. Twice only the Rinaldo's goals was in danger. Hamington-kindly lent from the opposite side to complete the Pakhoi team- played well, but Pakhoi's efforts proved of little or no avail before the masterly play of the naval team. When time was called, the result was 6 to nil, This, I understand, was the 35th victory of the Rinaldo'a team during their commission in the China Station. The following were the teams :--
Rinaldo.-Fuller, goal; Burgen, Beaumont,
Reed, Wyatt, Reid, Jamieson, Jarvis, forwards. baoks: Foley, Galloway, Smail, half-backs; Pakhoi-Bell, (G.E.) goal; Jensen Grobmann, backs; Louriero, Hamington. Williams, half-backs; Bell (F.H.), Blanchett, Drayson, Durlach, Wicks, forwards.
Dr. Pope, R.N., acted as referee.
NAVAL.
PRELATICAL VISIT.
The Right Reverend Bishop Hoare, Bishop of Victoria, came on board the Rinaldo to visit this now important part of his diocese. During his stay here he inspected the different branches of the Church Missionary Society in the neighbourhood, including Limehow. He left again in the man-of-war for Hongkong on the 10th inst.
at once to admire the methods of the statesmen of half a century ago, to pouder on the new methods which our enlarged Empire demands the adoption of, and to deduce the causes of our receding pre-eminence.
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yet grown to full fruotification. The Britisher by night and outs off the heads of his grain not is left with the stubble wherewith to make his bed. In the wake of the Anglo-Saxon- pouser some all sorts and conditions of men. The Greek, useless in his own coun- try, plucks the ears of our harvests as he walks through our blood-bespilled fields. The Italian, the Belgian, the Jew, the German more thau all, walk on the easy path that Britain haa out out for her children; and now, forsooth, the American, with his lord-of-all-creation_raft, follows in the footsteps of his European fellow- interlopers and with them undersells the British labour other than which there should be nothing in a British colony.
Despite the vapid reasonings of “ X,” there is no doubt about the lucidity of the logo that roads on our own. Hongkong is a British port and says decisively foreign shipping_is making in- should be maintained as such. At Kiaocbau, at Kwangchauwan, at Dalny, at Manila, vast interests are being built up which are capable in the ultimate issue of disintegrating the trade of our island. If we stand idly by and see that come about we shall be as criminally negligent as any man who ever stood behind the moon- lighter and failed to deflect as he might have done the death-dealing shotgun of the veriest fanatic who ever lay behind an Irish hedge in wait for his landlord.. "X" says in effect that the in- crease of German shipping in our port is nothing said that "when things are going well with to be alarmed about. It was J. A. Froude who Englishmen they never look beyond the mo. ment." It is true!
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It is only when Englishmen shall have taken to heart the lesson which they so blindly ignore and which not a single colony of theirs does not iterate and reiterate through the whole course of its history-that the acquisition of new fields of colouisition must not mean that foreigners are to reap the benefits for which our country fought and shed its bloo; that the half-caste question is only to be solved by an adequate payment for Euglishmen's services in whatever spheres of com- merce or activity they may enter into; that the European foreigner and the American foreigner look upon our ea-y acceptance of their emigra tion into and competition in our own lands with contumely and contempt; that the people of the British Empire will arrive at a true sense of their own position as viewed in the eyes of the with a rock on which, otherwise, the Empire world and will save themselves from compact
will inevitably perish.
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X "quotes a lot of authorities on the Im. perial side of the Fiscal Question. I believe that there these When that Britain of ours went mad are prophets greater than
with the "Trade Wind of prosperity' To take our Colony as a ba-is of argument adoption of Free Trade there were those which spread over our islands after the presumes a weakness of premises that a perusal who refused to be carried along with the of "X" 's views solidifies. It is to take Hong-flood-tide. I cannot do better, kong
think, than to *as & basis on which to build a
of false issues as would smother the original superstructure of such an overwhelming fabric
base in ruins as great as those of Tyre or Sidon. What do we find in Hongkong? What but an inundation of foreign competition that approches every day nearer and more near a predominance, Hongkong is not different from our other colonies. It is a safeguard for commerce. It is
It commands
period, he says :— quote a passage from Froude's Life of Beacons field in conclusion. Speaking of the same
"Our countrymen of the last generation had by leaps and bonads, and the advance was to confidence in themselves. They were advancing continue for ever. Carlyle told them that their * unexampled prosperity was in itself no such beautiful thing, and was perhaps due to special Carlyle was laughed at as a pessimist. Yet as circumstances central.
which would not continue. time goes on a suspicion does begin to be felt that both he and Disraeli were not as wrong as was supposed. The anticipated fall in wheat, though long delayed, has come at last; at last the land is falling out of cultivation, and the rents go back once more, and the labourers have lost their extra shillings. The English farmer is swamped at last under the competition of the outer world, and the peasantry, who were the manhood of the country, are shrinking in numbers. The other nations, who were to have opened their ports after bur example, have preferred to keep them closed to protect their own manufactures and supply their own neces- sities. Chimneys still smoke and engines olank, and the volume of our foreign trade does not diminish, but if the volume is maintained the profits fall, and one articles must be produced cheaper if we are to hold our ground."Yours, eto.,
H.B.M.S. Rinaldo left for Hongkong, via respect of European and Asiatic alike. So do Hoihow, on the 10th inst.,
all our colonies and possessions. Then what do we find distinotive in Hongkong as apart from our other great places that fly the British Flag? Alas here, as elsewhere in the East at any rate, we find that after the expenditure of millions of British pounds and thousands of British lives, years upon years of devoted service on the part of our Civil Service and our commercial community, the alien, the foreigner, may step in with impunity and take up in the race a position with our selves which he is ever so much more capable of advantaging at the winning post, considering the fact that he enters fresh half-way round the course against our own entrants that have run the entire distance from the fall of the flag.
BRIGANDS AND PIRATES.
It is reported that the brigands near Yam. chow are as active as ever. The princi al marts are almost closed, as business is impossible travellers are afraid to attempt long journeys to bring their produce to the markets. A village called. Na-lai, was set ablaze by the freebooters, after plundering, last week.
On the night of the 6th instant a junk laden with bricks and tiles, while at auohor in the harbour, opposite the Custom House, was
Hongkong does not in any way differ from other British Possessions in the East. Here you find that while the Britisher is still tending the harvest which he should reap by reason of his country's prowess the alien enters his fields
CHAMBERLAINITE.
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