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About 80 was the number who struck work at Shanghai ; and of course there has been nothing remarks, inter alia, that "very few indeed have serions here. The N.-C. Daily Neros, resorted to the extreme measure of trying to desert, but others have certainly hoped to secure dismissal from the force by indulging in peity breaches of discipline. When these manœuvres failed, they determined to make the question of contracts. A. foreigner, it is reported. was pay a stepping stone toward repudiation of their found who undertook to set forth their alleged grievances in writing and the document was forwarded to the Council. Of this, the most would only say in passing that it is regrettable unsavoury feature of the whole incident, we in view of the circumstances obtaining in the Settlement that there should be any foreigneria Shanghai so lacking in public spirit as virtually to aid and abet these policemen in a step that amounted to a breach of discipline. authorities have every interest in agreeing upon On the question of pay the Municipal
at present in the Force, but prove an inducement a just wage, which will not only satisfy the men to others to join: They certainly cannot adjust the payment of constables in such a way as to character in other parts of the world. The counteract all possible attractions of a temporary remuneration given to the Sikh Police includes judged from the fact that on an average ont free quarters, and its adequacy hitherto may be
by a year's salary. On the other hand it is man in the Forca to-day is found to here pu! just possible that the dearness of rice and the
Hoare made the costliest donation in sending to us his dearly loved younger son. I was detained in England for the first four or five years in which under the eye, and with the advice of our revered common friend, Bishop Russell, he laid the foundations of a college which has been so great and indispensable sa element in the Church Missionary work in these provinces. He had from time to time worthy and efficient fellow-labourers,-the delightful Christian musician Thomas Harvey, our Dean also, and in particular the present principal himself, the Rev. W. S. Moule. No one will bear more cordial testimony to the whole-hearted consecration of all his powers to the stored service than those colleagues who have survived him. What has resulted from those years of labour and prayer? There are the whole, seventeen Chinese clergymen in full orders recognizing me as Bishop. Of these twelve have parochial or quasi-parochial charge of pastoral districts, two or three limited to a single city or town most of them including wide regions, ten to twenty miles in diameter; one of them for instance, comprising twelve chapelries, at each of which the pastor administers the Sacraments. Nine of these twelve and threa others are either doing missionary duty in wide districts or assistant masters in the Callege, were pupils educated and trained by Bishop Hoare and his associates aud successor. pupils of an earlier day when the lack of au The rest were organized College made itself felt in the diffi culties missionaries found in securing leisure for their training. Two good men and true, both affectionate disciples of our friend and heartily trusted by him, were themselves out in the self-sacrificing service he had shown them an example of. One great field, containing now three Chinese pastors, working with as many English missionaries, that of Taicbou, was opened about the year 1887 by Mr. Hoare. But I must not attempt to give you a biography of my friend. For a few, perhaps, of my hearers, he will occur to their recollection of twenty- five or thirty years ago as not seldom a preacher in this churob, where he assisted during some months in supplying the vacancy left by Dean Butcher in 1880-1881. They will
remember him then and afterwards as an earnest Christian, every inch a man, ready to join in or to promote all manly exercises on land or water, a good cricketer, a good oar, and, sadden. ing, in view of his, recent fate, very foud of a boat, not excepting a Chinese junk. Bishop Hoare's play, they will bear witness, was not a substitute for work, but a stimulus and refreshment for work. And he eagerly encouraged the exercises he delighted in among his Chinese youths. He is gone in the vigour of a strong middle age, and has left Bore-stricken his devoted wife, sharer in all his plans and many of bis doings for his flocks; three daughters at their mother's side and able, God grant it, to be some solace to her in her bereavement; and two sons, one of them about to enter his father's beloved college of Trinity, Cambridge, and whose absence must be a cause of additional grief to their mother."
THE POLICE TROUBLE AT
SHANGHAI.
(Daily Press, October 6th.)
recognized increase in the cost of living in the Settlement has of late affected even the Sikhs.
It is a little singular that Hongkong police should be said to have ran away to Shghai, just when the Shanghai police are said to be also dissatisfied with their pay. However, the trouble at the northern port seems to have been confined to the Indians, who have been getting letters from America and even Russia in which it is stated that the Indians in these countries are gatting $60, 880 or $100 per month. There was plenty of gold; why didn't their friends come In Shanghai, as policemen, they got $16 to $22. Shanghai papers received last evening contain very little of importance that was not already mentioned in our long telegrams. As sta ed, the volunteers were called up as a pre- caution, and it was decided at once to disarm the Sikhs, and their carbines and other weapons were taken from the racks in their quarters and placed in the store. The men offered no resistance to these proceedings.
The men were also confined to barracks. Panams seems to be a great attraction to these men, as it was said to be recently at Hongkong,
FRACAS AT SHANGHAI,
OERMAN SAILORS KILL A RESTAURANT KEEPER AND WOUND OTHERS.
A Daily Pres telegram dated Shanghai,
October 14th, said:
On Saturday night five German sailors entered a Japanese restaurant in Fearon Road, and after partaking of refreshments, departed without paying.
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cotton flannel is seriously depressed just now. All the managers of storas and godowns of According to Osaka journals, the market of
production of the goods, except those now ou the wearers in Wakayama have agreed to stop
order, for the time being, to relieve the
market.
Depredations by Chinese pirates on the Hainan coasts are now reported. A junk load of pigs was reported recently as having been captured and another junk, having as part of its cargo twelve casks cement for an enterprising merchant in one of the coast markets, was also seized; it is said that when the pirates were told and that he would be seriously inconvenienced that the cement was for such and such a man by delay in receiving his cement, they graciously permitted four casks, to go on to their destina- tion. The capture of several pirates has sinde been effected.
Chung Ngoi Sun Po. The police authorities Canton, everything is in better order, says the Since the police force has been established in
have taken steps to cleanse the streets, and had all the rubbish accumulating at the ends of the that the authorities propose to engage people streets and roads cleared away. It is now said
bamboo brooms, baskets, etc., to teach the pri who are skilful in making mats, straw slippers,
their livelihood, thus preventing them from from prison, they will know some way to earn enors such arts, so that when they are released
being rogues and vagabonds.
Japan Sugar Refining Company of Usaka, just The twenty-first half yearly report of the
oat, shows that the gross profit of the Company for the last half year has amounted to Y2,820,149, while the working expenses have amounted 10 Y2,963,347, showing a loss of Y148,198, for which a surplus of Y12,662 has been paid, leaving a net loss of Y135,536. Against "this a sum of Y200,000 has been drawn from the special reserve. Of this sum, Y135,536 has been paid towards the loss, Y6,000 for a dividend at the rate of Y2 per share, carrying forward a surplus of Y4,463. The proposed incorporation of the three sugar refining companies the Tokyo, Osaka, and Dairi companies, has been agreed upon.
The proprietor followed them and demanded payment of the amount due. A quarrel followed, in which one of the sailors stabbed the restaur-
The Toyo Kisen Krisha has decided to ant keeper fatally. An assistant waiter was
issue debentures to the amount of Y13,900,000 also severely wounded, and the proprietor's wife in the course of the present year, the details of was injured.
The sailors have been arrested.
CUSTOMS QUESTION SETTLED.
INSPECTOR-GENERAL REASSURES STAFF.
the issue and the rate of interest being left to the judgment of the Board of Directors. The money so raised is to be used in part for the cost of air cargo-boats (the price of each being Y6,000,000) which are shortly to be constructed. For the balance a further issue of debentures will. be made at a convenient time. The profit of the company for the last half year amounted to
A Daily Press telegram dated Shanghai, Y70.165, to which was added a surplus of October 7th said:
It is understood that Sir Robert Hart has
issued a circular to the foreign members of the Customs staff that he is assured there will be no undue interference with foreign control.
SOUTH MANCHURIA DEVELOP. MENT CO.
KEAVY JAPANESE INTEREST: CHINESE HOLD ALOOF.
A Daily Press talegram dated October 6th said :-
Tokyo,
The public subscription of twenty millions invited by the South Manchuria Railway and commercial development company has been heavily oversubscribed.
There were no applications from Chinese.
The death occurred early on the morning of Sept. 22ad at his residence, No. 43, Bluff, Yokohama, of Mr. Ephraim Eagling, one of the oldest foreign residents of Yokohama. Mr Fagling, who was an Englishman by birth, says the Japan Herald, became a naturalised citizen of the United some years ago States, and was for a long time engaged as dispenser at the U.8. Naval Hospital. About the end of December, 1904, Mr. Eagling had a paralytic stroke, and since that time he has been an invalid and a great sufferer. Mr. Eagling, who married a Miss Abbey, leaves a widow and a grown-up son and daughter, to whom the sympathy of the community will be extended.
Y7,312 brought over from the preceding period, for the equalisation of dividend -making a tota, and a sum of Y130,000 drawn from the reservo of Y207,478. Of this sum Y195,000 has been set aside for a dividend at the rate of 12 per cent per annum, Y3,600 placed to the reserve and a surplus of Y6,878 carried forward.
Our Chinese neighbours are entitled, remarka the N.-C. Daily News, to all the satisfaction they can derive from the successful opening on September 30th of the first section of the railway between Poking and Kalgan, the im- portant gateway city, situated near the Great Wall and one of the chief market towns for the trade by caravan with Mongolia. Where there has been so much incompetence and corruption displayed in railway management, the carrying through of this scheme has been held up as the shining exception. The credit is due ́almost entirely to Taotai Jeme Tien-yon, the engineer- in-chief, whose thorough foreign training and natural obstacles. Unfortunately for Chins she possesses capabilities have overcome many
Jeme's capacity, and while appreciation of that at present hardly one other engineer of Taot si
his services for the Canton-Hankow railway, fact was shown by the recent attempt to secure
there has been too general a disposition to refuse to make use of foreign engineers, while others The more railways are built with foreign like Mr. Jeme are gaining their experience.
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engineers be trained up, capable, like the Japa- more speedily will Chinese nese have become, of carrying on the work ones it is well started.