January 20, 1908.]
It says much for this boat and motor that after such a trial it should have taken part in the C. Y. C. race yesterday afternoon, and finished first, from scratch," ju record tim.
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EVOLUTION OF HONGKONG.
[Written for the Hongkong Daily Press,]
(Continued from last week.)
XVI.
As for Cantou, while all this solemn farce was
·
being enacted with Lord Elgin as pantaloor, the Ailled commissioners, with Pih Kwei as figure-head continued nominally to rula the City; the real ruler was, however. Twang, a new appointee of the Emperor as Viceroy of the two Kwang, who held court at Fa'shan a few miles off; and was almost og'entation dy! raising a new force for the recapture of the City. The great object of apunanes there to! ese pairints was the presence of Sir Harry Parkes, and Hwarg had the temerity to offer 30,00 dollars for his head. When in the antumu Lord Elgin returned to Shanghai after this pleasure trip in Japan, he for the firs! I'me commenced to realise that he had been made 8 fool of.
Imperial Commissioners Lad not arrived, and had to be sent for: and when they did como he found that |
their real intention
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WAR to seek a way of escape from their erg gementa, When he gal down to Canton, be found his new treaty open's sneered af, nd the now Viceroy, preparing to renew the war. Elgin sought his old war of smoothing over affairs, and even went so far as to ufter some feeble threat; but to little offset till at last the trops were set in motion with a marked improvement in the friendliness of the relations. Still it was not till
Fery sharp i rebuke cime from Downing Street that th weak kued pleuipotentiary could be stand on his feet, and then only by file and starts. Am ngst other instances of his in pacity. for comprehending the position he had permitted
the Imperial Commissioners to
was
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The reopen
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
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and Free Trade under Any Conditions, should 'CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND have turned his back sadly on bis once
MORTGAGE COMPANY, LIMITED. enthusiastic friend and lieutenant.
But while Bowring against his own personal courletions found himself thus carried along by the sferam of bis new duties to the Empire, it was beyond the ability of a mere man to k-ep his aves as well fixed on the internal affairs of his little Colony. I was certainly little aided by his Second in Commsod, a min megt remembred for his failings, moral and in- tellectual. Hongkong becima almos! an equivalent in popular parlance for pande. monium; every man's hand was against his
neighbour; within disorder sat throned on bigh;
and piracy without, and crime within were rampant. When ford Elgin came to play the role of schoolmaster affairs were little, if a
all, battered; indred it seemed as if vet another element of discord was introduced; for he, for once impartial, was soon at f-ul with all parti at one and the same time.
Fut at last Elgin, the inept, 1-ft the scene to return home; his work but half done, and what was accomplis'ed bøteled by the unskilful hand, and self sufficiency of the man. In lis plac, appared his brother, the II i oraba Sir Frederick Bruce, wh› carrid for Maj-ty's Ratification of the Truly; and who had hen Minister Plenip fentiary fa pinted first the Emperor of Cuiny, to reside in Pokoza Sir Frederick Brue was apparently a bator man than his older brother; we saz aiparously, for an incurabila laziness, seemingly emgeni at
ou'wael prevent him ever showing by any action what was within; so flext to the | resort day is abilities remain a moe qus ion. this is anticipating.
The fat was in the fire. weat up to the Gulf of intention of proceeding to up his duties, but caire him i
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.
The new minister Pechili, with the
Peking to take found a) (17) 10 10 гр He attempted to enter the mouth of the Pilo, and dise wering the passage barrod tried, with the assistance of the gun hosts attached to the flauf, to
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The
Chinese commanders had had six moths un disturbed to make their preparations and trin their guns; and the nee ssary positions of 14- boats had been worked out, and the guns laid to
After a them.
useless bombardmet returned with all the advantage of position. and the sinking of govoral of the brug, the attiek had to be abind ned awaiting further reieforcaments. This of course implied anoth-r war; the third rendered noowetry by the sime blunder, of alwqs viddling un under persua sion a point one gained and orcupied by the harder logic of fact. The war way, as
wars g not a formidable one; but both French and English at last had seen that it must be decisive, so the foreas
A
The report for presentation to the share- holders .. the eleventh ordinary general meeting on January 29th reads :—
Annexed we have the pleasure to lay before shareholders a statement of accounts made up to 31st December 1907.
The gross earnings for the past year amount to $126,815,04 and after deducting all expenses, remuneration to General Managers, Consulting Committee's and Auditors' feer, there remains a balance of 888,593,29 which it is recommended be appropriated as follows vIZ :- To plan to Reserve Fand To pay a Dividend of 8 per cent ou
Ta geogro old shares locarry forward to the credit of next
year's account
85,000.00
80,00 1,00
3,593.29
Co suiting Committee. — In accordance with the Articles of Association, Messrs. J. S. Van Burin, & now 18ng Kee, Dr. J. W. Noble and H. P. White rotire, but offer themselves for rendnetin
tion of the reside; c- of the Minister at Peking. -aud had not only permitted the question to be reopened, but had actually agreed to move bis Goreruwent on the en1ject. With a fa uguns only to be paralled by Sir J. Davis's! postponement of the right of entry into Cu Tou, and with the result of this act of weakness apparent in his own presenc, he had sub-t'tuted: for the right of residence a homily. The result, which a wiser man could have foreseen without the necessity of putting it to the test of experiment, followed a few months later.
But what
Hongkong, whose story hitherto bas formed part of the history of Foreign intercourse with the Far East, doingh army and niry, were of a somewhat ex all this time? The story. though not very th French and English, Baron Gros and Id tensive scale. The sama plenip tentiaries, elevating, is to a certain ex'e it interesting
Elgin, appointed, in the latter case apparently Naturally the strauge combination of the offers to give him the opportunity of repairing his of Governor of the Colony of Hongkong, and!
The choice blunders of Minister Plenipotentiary to the Empire of
was probably not China, did not very well consort with either.
wise one, and he pairly recommitted himself; Even the Vicar of Bray who prided hims lf on i
but fortunately the Chiuse by their treachery his ability to reconcile the Divine Right of
momentarily stiffened the otherwise limp nego. Charles II with the Parliamentariansin of fiator. Even so at the last moment the uuskilful George I would have found himself io
workman failed in putting the flaishing plish veritable Pudding time had be to set both parts
to his edific». at once. Bonham ad got over the difficulty by dropping the Plenipo, and posing as the Governor; and certainly so far advanced the i decadent interests of the Colony, bat practically did nothing towards claring the important questions at issue with the Chinese Empire aud Bowring, more arulitious, if less practical, tried to hold the reins of both. Wh là, Lowever, the: Lumdrum work-a-day business of ruling crown colony offord but few prospec's fi greatness to his soring ambition, the lass of setting to rights the most ancient ex'sting empire in the world seemed to hold out vis ous of untoli glory. Curiously the result went. Mr. E. J. Chapman, who may be classed as counter to all his early aspirations; he the the best amateur photographer in Hongkong, philosophic ex-President of the Peace. Sority has recently made som vary successful ex was yet destined to engineer the entrauca un periments with colour photography, the Dew the most serious war in which Chica had evə r | development in photographic art. One of his been enta gled-one, too, as a result of whic she had had to r model, willingl. or uuwil lingly, the whole of her interual policy, political, financial, and social: it was no wonder that Cobden, the Apostle of Pesce at Any Price,
Government.
more
His succesor
The accouu's hava bwn andited by Mosas A OD, Gourdiu and W. H. Potts, who are concnsended for reelection.
SHEWAN TOMES & Co.,
Gener Managers.
Chusan, was again occupied, and the tree pa carried up comfortably to Talien Wan, after. -
!wards to become fam ms under very diffr
circumstances when it was occupied by Russia for a period. With this as a basis the forces were easily landed at the mouth of the Feit ang
!
Ho, after which with little less t either side
the formidable Taku Forts were taken, an the road opened to Peking. The goal was not to be reached without a tragedy that showed how barbarous ware the councils that still
swayed the Chinese mind.
· Tube CONCLUDen most weekly s
experiments was with a bowl of roses, and the mist delicata tints have been faithfully ro produced. Mr. Chapman's negatives have ben pronouncel to be eqia!, if not superior, to any seen in the exhibitious at home.
Menghong 18th January 1909,
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A SHIPPING WAR ENDED.
THE NY.K WITHDRAW FROM THE BANGKOK
RUN.
We are informed by Mesars, Butterfeld & Swire, Aziots for the Norddeutscher Lloyd Orient Liu, that an arrangement has been come to between the N.D.L. and the N.Y.K. whereby the latter withdraw entirely from the Bangkok run on terms satisfactory to both 1 parties,