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whilst the others followed bebind carrying, crooks adorned with flowers and ribbons. The bride was given away by her brother, Mr. John Cruickshank, of Ceylon, and the Hon. W. J. Gresson was best man.
After the ceremony, as the wedding party were marching out of church, Mr. A. G. Ward, organist, struck up the Wedding March and the wedding bells pealed out. Messrs Jardine, Matheson and Company's shipping in the har- bour was all dress-d rainbow fashion for the occasion. The Sugar Works also had a lot of bunting flying.
The wedding breakfast was held at Mr Peters's, Sub-Manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.
By request of the family. we refrain from publishing the list of invitations accept ed, likewise the list of presents:
CANTON.
[FROM OUR Correspondent.
12th November.
HIS MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY.
The birthday of His most Faithful Majesty King Edward VII, was celebrated in Canton. The weather being pleasant, everything went off as agreeably as possible. Although there were not many illuminations or fireworks as in previous years, still the occasion was not less jolly and enthusiastic. In the forenoon there
was an official reception in the British Consulate- General. In the afternoon, at 3.30 p.m., there were sports on the tennis grounds, in which many ladies and children also took part. At the termination of the sports the Consul General and Mrs. Campbell proceeded to distribute the prizes. A Portuguese Band from Macao was present to enliven things with music. A number of Chinese officials of high class in their gorgeous robes were also present. After lunch, they were photographed in group. In the evening there was a tall in the Canton Club.
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THRILLING STORY OF ROBBERY WITH
VIOLENCE.
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In the district of Tin Pak at the prefecture of Kochow, lying in Lat. 21 degrees 48 min. and long. 110 degrees 26 min., there is a market town known as Sui Ting, in which there are about three thousand houses and shops, and a mandarin yamen, and not long ago Messrs Musso's Steam an Navigation Company had established agency there under the charge of its manager, Mr. Fillippe Hungery. In that market town of Sui Tung the natives are doing a pretty thriving business in rice, brown sugar, salt, pigs, and fowls, from which Canton, Kong Mun and other outlying districts obtain their supply, and three steamers. Po On, Wing Hang, and Lucia, are running weekly to take passengers and cargoes. On the morning
of November 2, at about 6 a.m., a band of over one thousand robbers, consisting of local banditti, Triad Society men. and disbanded soldiers, arrived with quick-firing rifles, revolvers, axes, and swords. They broke open the principal gate and entered. The brigand of about chief, a fat, villainous-looking man sixty, dressed in a gaudy mandarin robe with red button and feathers, was carried in an official chair by eight bearers. As they entered they went to the mandarin yamen, where was a To Sz, or captain in command of about twenty soldiers, and smashed the tables and chairs. The soldiers ran away. The robbers collected all the firearms that were there, and then marched to the agency of Messrs Masso and Company. They broke open the door and fired shots into the house, the mausger, Mr. Fillippe Hungery, being asleep upstairs. As soon as he was awakened by the shot he got up, and ran with his wife from roof to roof until they reached a lane and jumped down. They 100k shelter in a poor woman's matshed. Meantime the robb.rs breaking and plundering in this and other houses, and and clothing. carrying away. money sot dead, Seven or eight persons were and many wounded. The Captain was so terrified that he had to hide himself in a latrine to save his life. After they had finished their pillage and destruction they left like a swarm of bees. The robbers, wore light black silk dresses,
CHÎNA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
red waistcoats, and European straw hats. On the waistcoats were characters indicating that they were "braves" of the Tin Pak's magis- tracy. First they intended to attack the district of Tin Pak; but as they could not succeed they then went to Sin Tung. I am glad to learn that the case is now in the hands of the proper authority, who will, I have no an adequate doubt, do his utmost to exact indemnity.
A COMEDY.
At Yung Kee, in the district of Sun Tak. of silk filature there are a great number factories in which hundreds of females are employed to work at silk wearing. It is the for her ill- place where a girl is celebrated nature, spitefulness and other bad qualities; it is the place where a girl marries stays two days, and goes back to her mother on the third. and will never return to her husband's home
any
more; or if she returns at all she will
return at the age of about 30 or 40. One day, in the Chung Wai Hing silk filature factory;
In conse-
where there were about a hundred women and account of girls at work, one of them, on her clumsy manner of working, had incurred the rebuke of her employer. The latter ordered her to be turned out; she refused to go, and in the struggle her dress was torn. quence al the females in the factory got enraged, took her part and stopped work. Next day they went to the joss house to lodge a com. plaint charging her employer with indecency The president or chairman of the joss house Chan, well known for his He proceeded stupidity and self-conceitedness. to inquire into the case, and ordered the em- ployer to pay damage for the torn jacket; and to burn crackers from the factory to the girl's
was a certain
house. He refused, as he considered it infra dig. Then ensued a lot of parleying and vocal skirmishes without ceasing. While President Chan was trying to stop it, and ordering his servants to set the tables for dinner, the women and girls angratefully smashed all the plates and dishes and food, and went away.
LICENSING SESSIONS.
The Justices of the Peace assembled at the
Magistracy on 15th in t. to consider 19 applica. tions for publicans' licences, and s`x applications for adjunct licences. Mr. H. H. J. Gomperts presided, and the justices present were Captain Goddard, Rev. F. T. Johnson, and Messrs F. J. Badeley, R. C. Wilcox, D. ('lark, W. HI T. Davis, N. Mumford, A. Rumjahn, C. D. Melbourne and T. Arculli.
The following are the persons to
whom
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REGISTRATION OF CHINESE PARTNERSHIPS.
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Replying the letter on this subject, which we repub.is.d recently from the Straits Times, another Singapore correspondent says : "An Importer" does not appear to have quite grasped the object of the bill. Its pri- mary object is not to "ameliorate the financial conditions of the bazaar nor even to reduce the number of failures, though no doubt in time it would have the effect of doing both, but, in the case of failures, to protect the Public from bogus firms, "long firms," and firms, purporting to have well-known men of means in AB partnership, but who are discovered to be no opger partners when the pinch comes. Importer" will have no difficulty in supplying many examples of these from his own experience. I think that the fear entertained by "An Importer" that such an act would drive away capital is purely imaginary. Capital is not so easily scared off when there is a chance of profitable investment. It might have the effect of driving away a number of “chops" that at.
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present enjoy a parasitical existence without capital, but surely that would be no loss to tue community. Nor need the simple investor have any fear. He will still be able to deposit his money with any chop he favours, either at a fixed rate of interest or at a stated percent- age of profits, and his liability will be quite limited so long as he is not registered as an active partner in the business. It would be a loan pure and simple and the public would not be deceived.
What is the particular "difficulty" in the which "An Importer" makes so much of? Will it be any more difficult for the partners in
Way
an honest chop to fill up's form left at their Kedeh" for instince than it is for them to All up at present a Horse and Carriage tax schedule? This difficulty does not prevent our Towkays owning their carriages and pairs. Mr. Sanders suggests Registration should be in- troduced gradually. No doubt the Chinese will not like it at first. But are we not inolined to pamper the Chinaman a little too much ?. The Chinaman is no fool. He knows " on which side biz bread is battered." He naturally resents any interference with his present enormous privileges, but he has a big slice of
The fat things here and he will not be so easily frightened away.
THE CANTON MACAO RAILWAY.
SINO-PORTUGUESE COMMERCIAL TREATY. We are informed that the Portuguese Consul- General here, Senhor Conselheiro Romano
licences were granted. there being no police rec.ived a telegram on Saturday afternoon objections:—
Moritz Sternberg, for the International Hotel; Isydor Silberman, for the Globe.
Hotel; Isaac S. Greenstein, for the Central
Land We Hotel: Bernat Cohen, for the Life In Hotel; Anneta Papier, for the Colonial the Western
Hotel;arl Schluter.
for
Hotel; Esther Oliver, for the New Travellers' Hotel; Fred Haggard, for the Metropole Hotel; James W. Osborne, for the Kowloon Hotel; Luiz M, Lobo, for the Star Hotel; Arthur F. Davies, for the Hongkong Hotel; George Green, for the Criterion Hotel; W. Crater, for The Rose, Shamrock and Thistle Hotel; An- thony Milroy, for the Sailors' Home; A. B. Kharas, for Thomas' Hotel; Ismail P. Madar, for the New Victoria Hotel; Louis Comar, for the the Main Hotel; R. Mathaey, for
Richard F. Occidental Hotel, Kowloon; Daly, for the Owl and Oyster Grill Room; Jose F. Saavedra, for the Hotel America; Hans Weismann, for the Cafe Restaurant Weismann (Mr. D'Almada e Castro appeared for this applicant); Paul Wissing. for the German Tavern; and Frederick Bishop, for the Connaught House Hotel. With reference to the licences of the King Edward Hotel and
from the Portuguese Minister, Senhor Castello Branco. now in Shanghai, to the effect that the concession for the Canton-Macao Railway had
been granted by China: to the Portuguese
Government. The same telegram also conveyed the news that a commercial treaty between Portugal and China had been signed. This treaty, we understand, embodies also the delimi- tation of the frontier of Macao, the vexed ques- tion which has been engaging the attention of the Portuguese Government for a long time.
COMING EVENTS FORESHADOWED.
A Canton despatch states that the Wuchou (Kuangsi) authorities are in great-anxiety at present owing to the manifest discontent of some 18,000 troops quartered in Chingynen and Linchou prefectures, caused through the non- payment of their wages. It appears that owing * to the absence of funds with the provincial authorities at Kaeilin, the troops mentioned above have not been paid for the last twe months, that is to say, the Government ov them $16 each; nor has warm clothing boon distributed to them with the approach of the
On the 29th ultimo the discon-
the Peak Hotel, the applicants did not appear cold weather. were
owing to their absence from the colony. Their representatives were present, and informed the Court that, each of the applicants would return to Hongkong before the end of November. On arrival here, when they make application to the Court, the licences will be granted, but should either of them fail to appear, the said hotels will be unlicensed.
tent of the troops culminated to the point of open rebellion, which so scared the authorities of the cities in the vicinity of the encampments that they promised the soldiers to raise funds to pay them if the provincial authorities failed to do so by a certain date. When the day oume. with no money coming from Kueilin, trembling mandarins hastily scraped together