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tons of cargo of which 4,493,715 tons were dis- charged at Hongkong. Similarly, the export trade of the Port WBA epresent ed by 22,142 vessels of 113,844 tons of cargo and shipping and 690,6-9 tons of Lunker coal. During the year 1906 15,519 vessels of European construction of 19.793,354 tons (net register reported having carried ¦ 9,759,648 tons of cargo. The total number of tons carried was therefore 49.31 per cent of the total net register tonnage, or 6140 per cent exclusive of river steamers. In the river trade the imports for the year totalled 284 890 1008. the exports 223,670 tons while the number of Fassengers carried
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| passenger and emigrant returns show that 3: 3,420 persons arrived at or departed from the Colony in British vessels, while the number travelling by foreign vessels was 216,444. The total Revenue collected by the Harbour Department during the year was $274,1418.78 as against $302,787.76 (including 82,220 collected under the Sugar Convention Ordinance) collect- ed in the previous year, showing a decrease of 828,778.98. For purposes of comparison, the amount I decrease, $-8 778.98, may properly b reduced by $12,219.58, being amount of storage fees paid in November 1905 by owners of war materials, which had been seized and ultimately restored by this Government, ab item of revenus not to be expected again, leaving a pel decrease of $16,559.40 10 be accounted for. The principal falling off in revenue comes under the heading: Junk Fees, $1,457; engagement and discharge of saman. $1,528: storage of gunpowder, yet another sum of $4,769; Sunday cargo-working permits, 812,007; and survey of steamships, $3,815. The principal increases are under light dues, $3,488; fishing stake and net licences, $1,115 and medical examination of emigrants, $3 582.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
shipping firms have been apprised of their abducted from ber home. She it was who vessels inward which hitherto was done by the ¡ betrayed him into the hands of the soldiers. He Eastern Extension Telegraph Co`s office. The had gone to the village of Do Shing, a little deplorable loss of life at d damage done, way below Wuchow, and had taken up his dos to the typhoon of the 18th September. | residence in certain house. His Delilah will be indelibly marked in the annals of the informed the
occupants who be was and Colony. 59 merchant reasels of European
they decided to make bim drank. In construction suffered in the waters of the thin tb-y moceeded and the commander Colony, 5 of 1,812 tons foundered. 22 of 22,478 of the Chinese river gunboat having been tons stranded. 5 of 1,343 tous br. ken against som
informed in the meantime be shortly wall. 13 of 21,420 tons badly damaged, and 14 arrived on the scene with his braven sad (took of 25,131 tens siightly damaged There were bim prisoner. Yasa was brought to Wuchow on in addition 16 lighters of European e nstruction Saturday March 30th and taken before Total sunk, and badly damaged, 24 İsunches sunk, 30 Wong His trial was short and bis fate was not damaged and approximately 1,796 native craft long in doubt wo days later he was decapitated anok and in the majority of cases totally lost. It can be safely said that all craft suffered in the harbour, more or less damaged during the blow. The loss of life. I regret to say, must have been excessively high, amounting to approximately 5,000 thèngh there positive records to show the actual number ibat perished It bebores m
10 add with dep regret, the demise of valued. | courteous and upright pablic Officer, Captaio L. A. W. Barnes-Lawrence, RN. Harbour Master, who fell a victim of daty through illness contracted at the time of the d `vastation alloded to above.
NOTORIOUS PIRATE EXECUTED.
REMARKABLE SCENES AT WECHOW.
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Graphic Description by an Eye-Witness,
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The notorious pirate Yuan, who has showa himself a veritable king of crime and for whose capture a reward of $4,000) was offered, has at length been captured and executed HA
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The scenes at his execution were rather remarkable and are worthy of mention. ATL day the city was agog with excitement and as there the usual uncertainty about the time Bred for the event a dense crowd waited on the Parade Ground. Shortly after three the mili. tary arrived and took up a position beneath the platform on which stood the parapheruslia appropriate to the occasion. The Total Wong and the Expectant. Trotsi came in oksire, then a baad of soldiers in European uniform led by
■ drummer who beat a sort of deadɩmarok, and foally, the berein carrying the dige in which the manseled prisoner crouched. Im- mediately it was set on the ground an official jumped on the top of it, and hang over it like a ont ready to
pance upon a mouse, He produced two knir 4, Slipping the sheaths into his girdle, he proceeded to sharpen them on the bars of the cage. Eampeas beholders thadder. man looked up with a sort of bat betrayed no visible emotion. Some cere. monial
proceeded with on the plat. form, such A production of the warrant and the sentence of death. The age n the 31st December, there were 291
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His claine were taken off and he was these, 138 were liceused for the conveyance of
dragged up to the platform. The significance passengers, &c., 138 were privately owned, 15
of the little that transpired then was not quite were the property of the Government and 5 the terror of the West River At the
apparent. However the opium which lay on the belonged to the Imperial Government in
head of a large organisation which had spies steps was not administered to him, as là some- charge of Military Authorities. Thirteen from Canton upwards, he rarely failed to carry times done in such circumstances, ¿Whether he master's certificates were suspended and out any plan he had arranged. Not only was r-fused it or was not offered it could not be 33-4 engagements and 164 dischriges of he successful in his exploits, but be was equally
ascertained. His bands were tied behind him masters and engineers were made from 1st
fortunate in evading his pursuers. Time after
and his jacket was pulled beneath his armpits, January to 31st December. Twelve steam
time, when escape seemed imposible, he gave leaving the apper part of the body exposed. launches were permitted to carry arms, &c. for
the military and the police the slip, and renewed Then he was hurried down the stars and made their rotection against pirates, of these 11 his depredations at same place where he was to knee). The executioner steppe forward were previously permitted aud one du ing this least xpected. To liken him to Robin Hood
with bis 180 handed sword. IL fabad year. 76,725 emigrants left Hongkong for or Rob Roy is perhaps too complimentary in the air and descended swiftly on the various places during the year, of these, 63230 He posessed the resource and fearlessness of bare Deck. A thrill of horrer paraad were carried by British ships and 12,895 by these men hut he bat no semblance of their brough some of the spectators Even the Foreign ships; 134,912 were reported as bating chivalry. Yoan was daring, but he was brutal : callous Chinese, who
were laughing and been brought to Hongkong from places to
he was horribly savage. He has been known to, chattering throughout the proceedings, hushed which they have emigrated, and of these, muider a man for a dollar, and when the twan'y for a moment. The arm that wielded the sword 105,750 were brought in British ships and
s'udents from Wuchow with their two teachers i WAL not strong anugh. The neck bad 25,586 by Foreign ships. During the who were no their way to study in Japs fell into been cut only a few inches deep, and the man year, 399 permit were isened, under the kis bands a few weeks ago be would not spare their had fallen forward, not quite dead, though provisions of the Ordinance. Of these.
126 lives though they ffered him all they possessed' dying. Another executioner rushed forward were not availed of owing tits wing found
and he killed them all in cold blood Women and pashed the first cut of the way. He unnecessary for the ship to work cargo on a d children were ruthlessly butchered by him, steadied bimself on his feet and with terrible Sunday and the fee paid for the permit was
and in some instances he tortored his victims' precision struck a fierce blow, and the head refunded in ench case, The months of Sep. before putting them to death. He plundered rolled on the ground. Bystanders were be- tember and October accounted for $2,427.50 ot, villages sod nisacred the helpless peamatry spattered with blood, but that seemed to troub's the decrease; in the former month after without
slightest compunction. На them little One ФАД jumped on the the typhoon of the 18th eptember, vessels | was absolutely merciless. Hundreds of people quivering body, and three soldiers Brel lato were allowed to work cargo on Sundays without have been slain by him. The Sa nam affair is
Then the principal executioner, drawing paying fees and in the latter mouth only one. attributed to him and his latest exploit was the
knife from his belt, planged it into the tenth of the prescribed fees were charged on msssacre of a village not far from Wachow
corpse. He hacked away the Brah and cut permits, the remainder of the decrease being Though not a man of great physique, be wa out the heart, which be carried in his head shown by the other montis of the year.
Devertheless fairly well set up vid in, with amp to the Tsotai. The head had also been The tation at the leland of Cheung Chần decided
And his genine, though placed on some sort of platter and faken to was opened in September, the one at Tai () in misdirectid must be admitted Originality, the platform where it was scrutinised by the the Island of Intan, in October of 1599, that distinguished most of his schemes wh on required oficiais. Doubtless it would be exposed later atai Po in Mirs Bay, on board the Police
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in some prominent place but what happened steam-launch, in January 1900 that in fep Bay occasion he got his emissaries on board a certain to the brart -whether it was offered s on board the Police stram lauce, in November gel by having them all dressed an women. Merifies or sales as some said,-did not trans- 1901, that at Sai Kung in Apul 1902, and that
pire at Long Ket, on board the Police steam-launch, in April 1905. The revenue collected by this Department from the New Terri ories during 1905, was $18,914.25 or $780 55 more than in 1905.
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What mest marks his personality is the fact, that Yuan was a member of a distinguisi ed family which occupies ligh place in the counsels of the Empire ive is said to bare been #D ‹ficer ja the Imperial troops! sent 10 quell the Kwangsi rebellion During the year under review, some import. bat desert d with
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and ant changes have taken place, notably :-the preyed on socis y. However, retribution has vacating of the old Harbour (ffice for the pre overtaken him at last, and singularly enough sent commodious new building, which has allevi. his fall was brought abou by a woman. As ated matters considerably for the better working already indicated, be spared neither sex nor age, of the Department. The telegraph servico and among his victims were his wife and ber from the outlying lighthouses, viz. : Gap Rock,' relatives Ha stole women and when be tired Waglan and Green Island, has been installed of them he either sold them or killed them. His and worked from this building. Additionally, last feminine companion was a girl whom he had
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Bat the men were not fuished with their sanguinary work. They out up the body, opening the stomach and the legs. "It ail seemed horribly callous and navaga. The crowd however seemed quite unmoved. They obattóred and laughed, and gathered round the mazgled corpes. After long stares at the sight, they still seemed loth to leave the ground but the little band of Europenos who had witnessed the spectacle burried away somewhat apost. Perhaps they realized ima than the natives the victim's gr at deserts. Still, so European would wish to witness such a s`ght a moond time. It was such a palpable insult in the living, this ruthless treatment of the dead.