INTIMATION.
tlust all are now keen on extending their borders.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8TH, 1901
The northern journal goes on to point out that it is not the immediate prespecte of trade which occasion this rust for land, so much as the resolution to secure coigns of
A. S. WATSON & CO., advantage which may lead to participation in
LIMITED.
ESTABLISHINDA.D. 1841.
trade benefite later on. From the point of view of higher politics, the multiplication of Concessions is rather to be viewed with equanimity. Kussian designs on Tientsin; and on Chibli generally are more likely to be checked by a strong combination of other Powers interested in the freedom of the port and province, and every Concession
Dr. Chester Rowell's
Minister to Japan,
The Crown Prinoma of Japan gave birth to a son on the 29th alt. Both the Princess and the infant Prince are doing well,
The Japanese Consul at Tientala, Mr. Nagasami Tet, has returned to Japan. He had a great send-off from Tientsin last month,
Boside the 19 plague cases last week, there
were reported 4 ones of smallpox (2 European). with two deaths, and one case of enterie for or (European).
A report forwarded to headquarters by the THE LEADING MANUFACTURERS imposes a responsibility on the Power taking
it up. This is certainly so, and we agree Japanese Consul at Cheloo, dated the 16th st with our contemporary that the more in-states that the harbour works in progress therojs
are proceeding rapidly, and will be Buished terests there are established in the metro.
within two years.
OP
ÆRATED WATERS politan Province, the greater will be the
IN THE FAR EAST.
THE MOST PERFECT SYSTEM OF
FILTRATION
It is reported that Prince, Ching and Li Hung-chang hava asked the British Minister to request the Rev. Timothy Richard of Sheng- hai to proceed to Shazisi and settle all the indemnity camos there.
GRAMS
"DAILY PRESS SERVICE
[FROM OUR COBBESPONDENTS.]
THE CRISIS IN CHINA.
LONDON, 7th May, 11.50 a.m.
RUSSIA AND MANCHURIA. Viscount Cranborne is the House of Commons informed Mr. Redmond that it was not understood that Russia had receded from her intention of evacuating Manchuria.
GENERAL NEWS.
LONDON, 6th May, 7.50 p.m.
ROYAL TOUR-ARRIVAL AT
MELBOURNE.
The Ophir has arrived at Melbourne, where an enthusiastic reception met the
EDUCATION AT QUEEN'S
The Report of Mi Master of Queen's C. +lamenti and appointed by the Gor 1900, an laid before the command of His Excellen recently printed in the provide bitter and painful increased roll, and a prop decreased teaching stampons
burden of the first of these
Governing Body has way nominal existence, it surely ough that the staff keeps pass, in polut strength, with the increased dema upon it. We have an illes, that scholars for which Queen's College was ally built and equipped was nearly two below the maximum daily attendance in April of last year. The structur been enlarged in any way. If the in Mr. A. J. Hay's Report be our must have been-vvańcrowded. / WE allowed, and who is responsible for it!
The Peking correspondeat of the N-C. Daily Royal visitors. There was a grand proced- Papii Tescher system originally introduced
News telegraphed on the 26th April:-The site by the Americans of their abarem in the Hankow-Coston Railway will probably result in grave political consequences.
check to the insidious pretension of Russia: It is possible to carry the claims on China for land too far, as has undoubtedly been doue in the case of the Legation, area, at Peking. The situation at Tientsin, how- ever, is different, for there is ample room at present to meet all the requirements of the Powers, and provided that one piece of ground is not sold twice over, as soquis to have been done in the matter of the land on which the disputed siding was being constructed, there seems little danger to be which is confirmed by repeated reports from anticipated from the expansion of the vari«nry Go! reprinted from the articles in orr ous foreign areas. The Chinese owners of the ground presumably get the price which they ask, and are content. The only risks are run by those who take up the Conces- are sions, for they have before them the task of
trying to make them pay.
of the Water is employed, guaranteeing
ABSOLUTE PURITY,
the highest expert authorities.
US
WATERS Manufactured by
acknowledged by the principal English
-makers-to-be equal to those of their own
production.
During the 24 hours ending at noon yes. terday 1 fresh plague cases were reported with 15 deatha (all Chinese).
On p. 5 to-day appears the first chapter of Mr. Ball Caine's short story Jan the Icelander, It will be published on Wednesdays and Satur MANUFACTURED UNDER EXPERT days and will be completed in six chapters,
ENGLISH SUPERVISION,
The Remount Depot is not to proceed to the North just at present, as had been arranged. The Bengal Lancers are leaving for India by the steamer Umta, which is expected hore very soon, and is to be fitted up locally as a transport, A second detachment of the 14th Sikhs, some 250 strong, was to leave Shanghai on Sunday last for the North in the hired transport A. S. WATSON & CO., Formosa; and six sections of the Vickers
Special Terms to large consumers.
LIMITED,
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
BIRTHS.
(35
At Shanghai, on the 27th April, 1901, the wife of W. BULLABP, of a som,
On the 29th April 1901, at Astor House, Ticatsin, the wife of U. Scurit, of a daughter,
At Shanghai, on the 30th April, 1901, the wife of E. M. CARION, of a daughter.
MARRIAGE.
On the 2nd May, 1901, at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. H. Hodges, M.A., FREDERICK LAHUE, to ANNIE WILLIAMS,
both of Liverpool.
DEATH.
On the 30th April, 1901, at Hamburg, Jonx SCHMIDT, of Shanghai, aged 38 years.."
The Daily Press.
INOKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VEUX ROAD Cl.
Maximus were to leave for the North on the 7th instant.
-
A special meeting of the Sanitary Board is summoned for p.m. to-day, for the purpose of considering a suggestion by His Excellency Governor to allow plague patients in Yaumati to be treated in their own homes, under proper supervision.
the
The N.-C. Daily Neus hoars from Take that the Russians wore sending the guns from the Pertang forts to Port Arthur, while the Ger ing about three tons each, obsolete as weapons mans were sending away 43 bronze guns, weigh but splendidly cast and magnificent specimens
of workmanship.
We read in the P. & T. Times of the 27th
ult:- Barnes of New York to-night eads the Taylor-Carrington present season, as they leave from Peking on Bunday to perform there during the Race Week. Those who have not
We have received from the Bhonghai mercury a pamphlet, entitled Shall the Mission
contemporary's columns by Mr. J. C. Gurritt, of the American Presbyterian Mission, Hang- obow
Mr. Alec Marsh's second concert at Shang- hai last Wednesday cooms to have been pre-
nonnoed success. ́. Mr. Marak sang "O Star of Eve." "Beauty's Eyes," "A Summer Night," "My Love is Come," "Life" (Blumenthal), and "To, Anthea." He was ably assisted by
local talent.
Mr. John Schmidt, whose death from typhus at Hamburg is recorded elsewhere, was the bead at Shanghai of the firm of H. M, Schultz and Company. Mr. Schmidt, whose loss is greatly regretted by his many friends, went home last year, and was about returning to Chine when the fatal attack took place,
Sir Robert Hart in a letter to M. Pichon, sent with a copy of the Fortnightly Review (containing Sir Robert's first article), says:
My English friends tell me that I have goas wrong as a prophet, and they express anxiety about my state of health. Have I lost heart ? This is the question they ask. Perhaps I have
gone too far in my statements as to what we shall see in the future; many things may and asbody would be happier than I to find the happen to bring about entirely different rosulis, fatura relations (of foreigners with China) at once friendly and profitable,”
A Japanese native paper publishes what pur ports to be parts of an interview with M. Pavloff some days ago at Moji. The Russian Minister is made to observer" My present visit to Japan is purely on private business and has no official significance whatever. I I have come to have the wound treated by Dr. had one of my fingers bitten by a mad dog and Kilazato. You, the Corean loan is an actual
fact, but it is utterly false that I exerted my self in the interest of France in bringing the Corn Court to terms. Why, I have been doing all I can to oppose the scheme, like the rest of my diplomatic colleagues at Seoul Don't you see? Small and impoverished though Corea is, what can she gain by borrowing s is earnest in her attempt to create and foster new enterprises, she will want a big loan: dve or six millions will be soon wasted in bribery I mean they will only go into the purses of the officials who are addicted to the habit of approp-
NDOK OFFICE: 131. FLEET STREET, E.C. already hooked seats at the. Tientsin Pre paltry sum of five or six millions --If Cores
HoxoKONG, 8th May, 1901
should do so at once, as there is likely to be a crush similar to that of the first night."
ion throughout the streets of the city.
· GERMAN MINISTERIAL CRISIS. Von Miquel has been elevated to the Upper House, and Hammerstein and Brefeld have been decorated. Rheinbaken has been appointed Minister of Finance, and General von Podbielski Minister of Agriculture.
HUGE FIRE IN AMERICA, By a fire at Jacksonville 16,000 people have been rendered homeless.
LONDON, 7th May, 11.50 a.m.
COAL TAX CARRIED.
The export tax on coal has been carried by a majority of 106.----
THE MARKETS.
English schools from the Netherlands, strongly discredited at home. How that it is so extensively adopted in Pupil Teachers in the strict senes College? Moreover, are these young ceiving instruction when not engaged in sch ing P. We ask this pertinent question becauDE
we searel, both Reports in vain for any reco of such tuition! Mr. A. J. May complaine he has had to make use of lads from the fre
ttended with
Compuanj
ED “SOBEAON"
the
OTBON LINE of aver
Shanos of
tow loading to the bombed
vità urosa tiden. practicable,
tandent of the
BARONET ADMITTED AN BAR- -RISTER IN HONGKONG.
At the Supreme
class as interim teachers? Why is he driven to such a discreditable make shift expedient The Report of Hasars. Clementi and Ross an the shocking condition of the first class is sufficiently convincing ordenon of the prac tilly worthless material that the Hend Master has been compelled to fall upon. It is a well-known fant that no. THE TROUBLES IN RUSSIA. College for the special training of teachers Great unrest prevail in Russia. It is this? Teachers do not spring up ready-made exists in the Colony. We ask again--Why is stated that there is a recrudescence of Nihi in Hongkong, Buy more than they do in Europe. linkle'activity to an alarming extent: Hun If the Government cannot afford to furnish dreds have been arrested in St. Petersburg Queen's College with a stall, recruited sulety from the British Isles, it ought to take care within the last few days.
that there is a supply of properly trained native teachers of England The only satis. Hi Honour Sir Jobat factory way of meeting the demand would be to | Fastige), providi have a Normal Bohool or Training College with moved that its attached Practising School Buch st in stitusim did eriat years ago, when the educa timmal machinery of the Colony was far less complicated than it now in; hut, for some occult reason or other, it was closed, and has never since been re-opened. The community is now Temple in or about the month of Novem abundantly rasping the benefit of this ill-con-bar, 1830, and that he was alled, to the degree esivad action. It is a generally recognised of the Outer Temple on 28th January, 1884. A rale, one too that was publicly enunciated quite certificate was also submitted showing that Bir recently by the Hon. F. H. May at one of the fillam was barósett of: Great Un Sanitary Board meetings, that an offcial report should be a bald enumeration of facts, 1 pinned by any except the most
relevant critical remarks. In other Dend heat should be a document worked up
The feature of the markets has been a sharp recovery in American Rails, with coorious speculative buying. |
SHANGHAI RACES SPRING MEETING.
SHANGHAI, 7th May..
SUBSCRIPTION PLATE (Walers), Mr. Twooves Silver Spur
Mr. Black's Advince & Mr. Vaney's Bas
Dead hent
CRITERION STAKES (China Ponies). Mr. Duplex's The Dealer Mr. John Peel's Set Mr. G. H. Potts's Desert King
Time 2.4 1/5.
GRIFFINS' Plate (China Ponies).
Ar. Toeg's Conon... Mr. Kabuck's Peronai ...
Mesars. Elphinstone and Macpherson's
++
Gary Bart bea na a barrister in
Mr. Fran William
that
member of the
morning. Ingion; G.M.G. (Chief:
wville Montgomery and enrolled
an ondayit from Bir
that he was admitted
grable Bociety of the
and
erly
int- ment of Attorney-General for ite Gold Coast. Colony
Captain Startin, HMS. Trethusa, produced an afidavit of identification of the applicant, whom he said he had known for twenty Years.
Mr. Franch latinsted to his Honear that the name of Sir William Naville. M Geary appeared in the Law List a the Inner Temple, and stated that there could be no doubt as to his identity and qualifies
- His Honour directed thaj Bir Villam approved, admitted, and enrolled practice
birrister in the colony. He had every plea- sure in
the order and should Sie
rds, it the homely plain-stitch of fact, embellished with the very minijum embroidery of decorative com- ment. Judged by this inte standard, we cannot but think that much of the matter embodied in the joint report of Messrs. Clementi and Rom 3 might have been legitimately suppressed, or at least omitted in print, but forwarded to the Acting Head Master for explanation. We note that Queen's College is divided into Upper, Lower and Preparatory Departments, it 3 would be interesting to learn what determines William decide to stay in Hongkong and prac
Black Pearl Time 131 15.
CATHAY COP (Chins Ponies). Mr. Robson's Loyalty
... Dead heat Mr. Tang's Bio Grande Mr. Ring's Amphion
Tito, 3.163/5,
4.
JOCKEY CUP (China Ponies), Mr. Everard's Hopeless ... Mr. Ganwal's Umpire ... Mr. Ruby's Brieftoss
Time, 2.42.
HANT LEGACY CUP (China Ponice), Mr. G. II. Potts's Moriturua
Messrs. Oswald & Hunter Royston ... Mr. Crawford's Esperance
Time, 57 2/6 KIANGBU PLATE (China Ponies)
The increased tension in the Far East, the Mr. Redost's Chessy esiness of Japon, and the aggressive attitude | Mr. Kunack's Ichimura (late Igel).
a scholar's promotion from one sestion to the tise amongst then, he (His Honour) wished him, one immediately shore. As far as we have 1been able to discover, promotion is largely
2 automat.c. Thus a sudden influx of boys the
3 would entail the forced mechanical promotion, irrespective of fitness, of a big number.
D
of students. This we hold
cious practice, and should not only be dis couraged, but absolutely forbidden. The
Sir Willism thanked His Honour for making
3 native youth looks upon the Requisition of | 180/
English from a strictly utilitarian polut of view. A knowledge, eren a smattering,
1 Geography, History, Euclid, Algebra and 2Theoretical Grammar will not help him in 3 ordinary office routine he regulates his conduct accordingly, and if tied, down by syllabus
of Russia alike serve, says the Naval and Mr. J. M. D's Touch-me-not Military Record, to direct attention to the Time, 3.49, strength of the Russian and French fest in [The above results are published with the time-table to such work, will do it in the most Chinese waters. They now master between kind permission of the Hongkong Jockey
Omb. them six battleships and as many armoured cruisers, whilst Great Britain's «quadron is represented by four battleshipa-or five, if the Centurion is still to be retained—and twe armoured cruisers. A prepondezanés of pro- teated cruisers may count for something, but it
is not easy to see how the battleships are to be in-
REUTER'S SERVICE
LONDON, 4th May."
SOUTH AFRICA.
on iable
perfunctory manner possible (you cannot zünk an unwilling horse drink, though you may lead it to the trough) with, naturally possible result inevitablo and disaster at examination time. It is this with ont the slightest shadow of a doubt, which the the real zoot-cause of the woeful and shameful, hus.
The Boers ander Commandant Delarey, to collapse of the entire Upper School, ander
The last performance bat one on the list A SHORT time ago our Tientsin correspondent of the Brough Comedy Company was given wrote to us concerning the zeal manifested last night in the staging of A Village Priest. for concession-hunting by the Powers at As though in parting testimony to the excollentriating public. moneya, and the outcome will be Tientsin. Aleading article in the last number entertainment afforded by the Company during only to cause in the Corean finances a confusion worse confounded-beyond that no beneficial to hand of the Peking and Tientsin Times its stay in the colony, the curtain rose before
result will follow." deals with the same subject, and some of perhaps one of the best houses of the entire 204800. Almost unnecessary to say, the whole the remarks there made are worth quotation, play was performed with that smoothness and Our contemporary, says "There has been attention to detail characteristic of the Broughs, "nothing in the recent commercial history and was received withovery mark of appreciation. "of the Port to justify the extraordinary and This evening, when the sesson will be brought roseate future now predicted for it, or to to a close, Niobe will be produced Judging "account for the eagerness of the six Great from the booking, the hons should be one of
Powers, Belgium and Japan to establish the best on record. themselves in self-governing Settlements
*He laime, we understand (says our "on the Pei Ho. It is true that there are Tientsia weekly contemporary) that the Com- some grounds for modest optimism in mission formed by the Ministers of Belgium, estimating the future of Tientsin; the Holland, Italy and Mr. Hoskhill (representing place is still the natural outlet for the the United States), which was nominated "trade of three whole provinces and of vast by the Ministers of England, Germany, and "territories belonging to two others; in its "hinterland there is a population of some-confidentially submitted to certain individuals thing between eighty and hundred and associations for criticism. Its terms have millions of people with whom foreign trade not been made public, so that reference to it in is in its merest infancy, and who are able those columns is inopportune. We know that "to produce many things which the West the much discussed claims for mental and moral and Japan need, as well as to consume strain are to be tabooed moless thing can be "some that they supply. On the other clearly shown to have limited wage-earning
hal, it is equally clear that Tientsin will ability. not much longer have a monopoly as the
A Tientsin native paper states that the pro. Northern emporium: as always an incial authorities in Kaifengfu are repairing other trude routes are multiplied, we may
the old palaces of the Sung dynasty, A.D. 960. "reasonably expect the rivalry of Tsintao 1126. A large quantity of Clina dinner ser. and Chingwantio to become more acute vices, etc, had also been provided by the officials
LONDON, 4th May. "aa they wax, our chief hope that Tientsin in anticipation of the near arrival of the Court, interests will not wane, lies in that increase which, according to the Universal Gazette, will
THE ROYAL VISIT TO AUSTRÁLIA. leave for Kaifeng, the provincial capital politics Ponce or war many oven bo decidad The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and of the volume of trade which is pretty of Honau within the next fortnight. This by the capacity of this country to strengthen York have arrived at Port Phillip. «certain, to follow better political and socia! is said to be due to an argent appeal of the its squadron in the China seas,
"I warn the slumbering, deluded. men who Affairs wear
are marching in the ranks of the enemy Duke "conditions. At the present moment,
Grand Secretury, Sun Chia-ni, on the ground a very ugly appearance, it must be confessed.
exclaimed the fervid orator, that there are we have eight nationalities almost tumbling that the famine-stricken province of Sheusi can Ne modern batleship will be ready to replace Russian official dospatches state that twenty sunken rocks ahead of them! If they will to Sin over each other in their anxiety to secure no longer bear the burden of feeding the army the Hood in the Mediterranean until next engagements lave recently been fought in pet their ears to the ground they will hone whose
Shan extensive Concessions, for be it known of Court followers in that province. The above July, and no more battleships can be spared to northern Manchuria The Reissians have lost the still small roine of the people
rising wrath will presently scorch them as thunt the infection is spread to the is alleged to be from a reliable source and fairly reinforce Admiral Beymour's squadron in a hundred in killed and wounded. A number with au atalanoite, and hurt them from their possessors of the older Settlements, and trustworthy.
Chins. Therefore, why not Japanese alliance? of Chinese gana and prisoners were captured seats of power (Loud cheers.)
occupied a strong position in the hills. General Babington is in close touch with the enemy, but be is insufficiently strong to uttack. Generals Lord Methasn and Rawlinson are converging on Hartebeestefontein, and a battle appears imminent.
GREAT CONFLAGRATION IN AMERICA,
one other grept Power, lae submitted its roport, creased at short notice without seriously weaken the number of four to five thousand, are concen- the searching testa set by Messrs. Clement also As far as we can gather, this report has beening our flost in the Mediterranean. The Japanese trating at Hartebeestefontein, and they have and Boss. The immediate revival of the com-
alliance, it is believed, could again be had for the asking: yet there are no iudications that we are prepared to throw in our lot with Japan, despite her strong navy and well. trained army. The united British and Japan
sets in the East would be superior to ay naval forces that could be assembled by France and Russia, and this must be very well known to Lord Salisbury, What are the dis Two miles of houses, including public advantages of an alliance with Japan, that we buildings, have bee burned at Jacksonville, should still besitate to avoit ourselves of the Florida, and over 10,000 persons rendered uavy that holds the balance power in the East Pompiess, The loss is estimated at thres To u plain man they are not obvious, whilst milllons sterling. the disadvantages of splendid isolation" arð exceedingly clear. Naval power has becoTAG au increasingly important factor in high
RUSSIAN OPERATIONS IN MANCHURIA.
and for the good wishes accompany-
Len shook hanus with Mr. Francis.
the falloring gartinlars am Narille Montgomery
the fifth, baronet, and was
petitive Government Scholarships, such after were in existence ten years ago, would unques for the Gold tionably do something to encourage more scouting counsel systematic work on the part of students, not merely at Queen's College, but at other scholas. be contented Darliam Bo establishments in the Colony. We would terest against tho.1 point out the parsimony in éducational thefeat matters, as has been proved time and again, is the one of the most fallacious of economical deo | fami trines. If the two Reports mentioned in our opening sentence - awaken, the. Government, eren at this late hour, to a fitting sense of its responsibility with respect to Queen's College, A they will not have been drawn up wholly in trave vain
the wor that Solid
Hongk
reside
and is
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of
of the
England to