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The other officers now stationed here are! Lieut. Hibbert, Sub Lients Helmore, Ham. phreys and Graham, and Lieut. Quartermaster Bumper.
Altogether there are about 400 men, and some 16 families
FIRES AT HONGKONG.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
Preliminary :-
(D) Brandt, F. J. (D) Brandt, H. G. (D) Jer, T.
(D) Mackenzie, C. G. (D) Siemssen. F. F. (D) Thom. W.
(D) Chan Lam-fai (D) Drude, R.
(J) Vidal, F. A. (Q) Ho Shai-kit (Q) Mok Kai-fook (Q) Mooney, K. J.- (Q) I soi Wa-cheung
Over age 14.
(D) Pun Ping-leung (J) Brown, F. J.
(J) White, J. (Q) Cheung Wo-yau (Q) Deen Budder (Q) Wong Wai-shii
GIRLS. Senior :-
(T) Agoncillo, G. (A.A.) (T) Hoare, M. le M.
Preliminary:
(T) Hoare. A.
Over age 14.
(D) Diocesan: (J) St. Joseph's; (Q) Queen's, (T) Private Tuition.
Certificates may be expected in a fortnight.
A SENSATION ABOUT GUNCOTION. Fire broke out in a corlie contractors' mat- shed, at the back of Wellington Barracks on the evening of the 22nd ins ant This matshed was a large structure, measuring some ninety feet by fifty feet. The Royal Engineers, some soldiers from other regiments, and a number of bluejackets got to work on the flames. The sailors brought water to play on the fire by means of a manual pump connected with the harbour, while the soldiers connected up u hose with a hydrant. Other men beat the fimes with long scaffolding poles. Showers of sparks flew in all | THE CANTON-HANKOW RAILWAY directions, and there was a great glare. There was quite a sensation in the crowd on account of the proximity of a brick building said to contain
Two other mat gun-cotton. sheds were
soon ablaze, one of them being another shed for coolies and the third the office of Quarter Mister Sergeant Hunt, who is employed in connection with the wor s. Mr. Hunt rushed into the office and sized a drawer containing plans, but when he returned for another drawer it was too late, the whole place was in flames.
The flames were subdued
in about three quarters of an hour. Nothing could be done when the Fire Brigade arived, beyond watching the fire burn itself out. There
was n› serious occasion for the alarm felt on the score of a possible explosion. The storage place was on the other side of a wall, and gun cotton is in cases to begin with. It requires more than heat to explode it.
FOUR GODOWNS GUTTED. A fire occurred at No. 2 Godown. Chung Kan lane, on the afternoon of the 23rd instant, and although the fire brigade was quickly on the scule, very little was saved. The fire broke out among some rice husks, and some coolies in the godown were the first to. give the alarm. The flames spread quickly, and before the fire was got under, the goods in the three adjoining godowns were destroyed. The fire caught on to other houses in the lane and also extended to Des Voeux Road. Three of the godowns are owned by the Mun Fat Yuen firm, and one by the Fu Fun firm of Wing Lok Street. The damage is estimated at $300,000, and the goods and property are in sured to the extent of $75,000 with various Insurance Companies. It is reported that the
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Polie were greatly hampered in their work by European spectators, and that some discredit able scenes were witnessed.
OXFORD LOCAL EXAMINATIONS.
Seventeenth Year-July, 1904. Superintending Examiner. Rev. T. W. Pearce. Alphabetical Order for Schools and Names of Boys. HONOURS LIST.
BOYS.
Senior-Third Class.
(D) Law, E. (A.A.) (J) de Graça Ozorio,
J.M.R. (A.A.) Preliminary :-Third Class.
(D) Crolius, J.
E. Law distinguished in History. PASS LIST.
BOYS.
(D) U Wai-tak (A.A.) (J) Atienza, V. (1.A) (J) Ezra, N. J. (A.A.)
(J) Villaflor, A.
(D) Hagen. W. (D) Loft, T. (D) Ng Wai
Senior: -
(J) Ontanon, C. (A.A.) (Q) Bunje, C. (A.A.) (Q) Tse Yan-lung
(A.A.)
Over age 19.
(J) Xavier, J. F. Junior :-
(Q) Alonço, D A. (Q) Galluzzi, R. F. (Q) Galluzzi, U. C. (Q) Sargou, E. A. Over age 16.
(D) Fung Hing-yuk
(Q) Pang Kwok-sui
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CONCESSION.
The Native Not 's writer of the N.C. Daily New made the following observations on the cancellation of the American concession for this railway.
and...
Fortu-
[November 28, 1904.
CHINA AND PORTUGAL.
A banquet was given on November 11th by the Treaty Revision Commissioners, at the-
onselheiro Bureau in Shanghai, to H.E.
José d'Azevedo astello Branco, Envoy Ex- traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Portugal to China, to mark the conclusion of the important treaty which has just been signed between the two countries. Many Chinese magnates were present, besides Sir Rob rt Bredon, K.C.M.G., Mr. F. E. Taylor, Consul- General Oscar Potier, Senhor Pedro Nolasco da Silva, Commendador Pereira, Mr. Chagos, and others. The proceedings, says the N. C. Daily News, were of a most formal, but none. the less cordial character, and the menu was of a most recherché descrition. The banquet was served by the Hotel des Colonies Co., La.
The Native Notes" writer in the same journal says the Chino-Portuguese. Commercial Treaty consists of twenty Articles. The Treaty is to run for the period of ten years, but if either of the tigh contracting parties desire it, after giving a six months' notice in advance it may be P rmissible to change the agreement on Customs duties, or any other question which may after due trial give dissatisfaction to either party. If after the period of ten years no notice be given by either party to determine the Treaty it shall continue for another ten years.
As a result of the united and persistent stand made by the gentry and notables of Canton,
The same writer refera to the Canton- assisted by a large number of men hailing from other provinces, a good many Hunanese amongst Macao Railway in the following terms --In the them, against the action of the American syndi- autumn of 1902 in response to the repeated applica- cate, constructing the Canton-Hankow Railway, tions of Senhor Blanco, the Portuguese Minister in selling its right to a Belgian syndicate, to the Court at Peking, the Waiwupu gave a whose working in the interests of France and written consent to the latter gran ing permission Russia is an open secret to all Chinese, the hi-to Portuguese subjects, in conjunction with nese Government, has notified the United St tes Chinese, to construct a railway between the
onger. the
cities of Canton and Macao. After a delay of Government through H.E. Mr. U.S. Ministerat Peking, that the contract grant nearly two whole years during which period the ed to the American syndicate or company in ques- scheme was several times in great danger of tion is cancelled. Although the Waiwapu had being killed through the intrigues of certain known perfectly well the trend of affairs in the parties, we now understand that it has arrived South the Department, following the line of least at a point where it may be said to hare materialised and be within sight of inangura. resistance, pretended to be unaware that more Russian and French chains were being forged tion. In other words an agreement has been for the empire in its southern dominions, and signed between H.E. Sheng Kung-pso, re- ignored the protests made over and anon by some presenting the Chinese, and Senhor Blanco the more patriotic mandarin warning the Waiwupa Portuguese, Governments, the financial part of of the danger menacing the e untry.
the programme being in the hands of Messrs. nately there are still many patriots in this country Liu Tê-yuan and Botelho, as organising Direc
these combining started an agitation tors of the Chino-Lusitanian Syndicate which in Canton, on behalf of the people of Kwang- is to construct the proposed line. There are we believe thirty-one articles with a number tung, against the selling of the Railway to the agents of any other nation, Once the agitation of sub-clauses to the Agreement which, amon- st was started by the calling together of a meeting other things, provides that the line shall be in Canton of everyone who had the welfare of conjointly and equally controlled by Chinese their country at heart, enthusiasm caught on and Portuguese, while it shall also carry the like wildfire, more meetings were valled, and Imperial Government mail and the mail bags of then at a mass meeting a large and influential the hinese Imperial Post free of charge from. Macao to the Chinese frontier. The Agree- Committee was named with instructions to approach the Central Government on the ment also declares that no other railway shall subject and give the Waiwupu to under-be allowed to be constructed within ten English stand that here FUN
the necessary back ing the timid Ministers needed and that any divergence from the path which pointed to the true inter st of the Empire would be opposed by the inhabitants of Southern and Central China to the last gasp." Not contented with giving these hints to the Waiwupu, the Committee and their friends took the matter up to the Grand Council, and finally into the Palace, with the result that the object of the people of South China has been gained and the members of the American syndicats informed. | through their Minister in Peking, that t sir agreement re the anton-Hankow Railway has
now
**ceased and determined," and lapsed through default." Those who have the matter in hand intend that the line shall be constructed by Chinese alone, and many million taels have already been subscribed and paid into the banks by wealthy gentry and notables, not only of Kwangtung, but other provinces, to that end
Major-General F. Ventris, at pre-ent com- manding the Forces in North China, has been selected for the Colonelcy of the Essex Regi- ment, in which he spent the greater part of his regimental service. It is not yet thirty years since General Ventris received his first commis- sion in the Army, and during that period he has held several important Staff appointments, and took part in the Soudan Campaign of 1884-5, for which he was mentioned in "Despatches and promoted to the brevet rank of Lieut. Colonel.
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miles of each side of the route of the Canton- Macao Railway, and that any differences. of opinion between the Chinese and Portuguese concerned must be adjudicated upon by the Viceroy of the Two Kuang provinces and the Portuguese Consul-General stationed at Canton. Failing agreement betw en these two officials thoreanent resort can be made to the Waiwupu and the Portuguese Minister in Peking as a last Court of Appeal. With the exception of the principal officials connected with the Com- pany, who may be either Chinese or Portuguese the rest of the employees on the Railway whenever possible must be Chinese. The duration of the Company shall be fifty years, commencing from the first day of regular traflo on the line, after the expiration of which the concern is to be presented to the Chinese Go- vernment.
Chinese-
The new Treaty, revising the Portuguese treaty of 1887, recently signed, includes the following articles, which present new features.
Article 11.-Portugal accepts the increase in the import duties stipulated for in Article VI of the Peking protocol of 7th September 1901 from the date of the ratification of this Treaty. Portugal' will enjoy the privile es of the most favoured nation and in no case shall Portuguese subjects pay higher or lower duties than those paid by the subjects of any other foreign nation. Article XII of the Treaty of First. December 1887 is therefore rendered null and void,