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H.M.B. Albion was the only warship at Amoy on the Slat inst.
H.M.S. Argonaut in still in dock at Hunghom undergoing extensive overhauling.
The total subscribed to Lady Carson's Vic. toria Memorial Scholarship Fund in India now amounts to over five lakhs of rupees,
Last Saturday's Echo de Chine gives as latest news that M. Faure will not be called to succeed M. Doumer as Governor-General of French
Indo-China.
good boy, and worst of all he has not felt | Should the Capital be red, in spite of the impressed with awe of Her High Amiable- Dowager, at Peking, Kaifeng will none the Boss, of whose antecedents he probably less prove & sink of corruption that for knows too much to induce reverential years to come will seriously hamper the respect. But NALABHI made one great embarrassed tinitiges of the entire Empire. inistake, and like all other bangles it has Still the home coming of Prince Caps,
"It is again proposed to raise a Volunteer arisen as a bugbear in her path. With should that young man prove of sounderclist section in Singapore, consisting of ten perfectly needless insult to the present metal than his brother or cousins, may men, under a non-commissioned officer. Emperor, she had Pu Chus declared affect for good the present almost hopeless successor to her son T'UNG CHI, altogether situation. This is the most sanguine view ignoring in her temporary rago the actual to be taken of the reasons that have Emperor on the throne; now, however, that determined his sudden return. events have declared themselves against her hasty choice, she is thrown back on her wite, and finds the difficulties of the situa tion gathering round her thick and fast. The Fifth Prince. TUN SIN WANG, being in open rebellion, has effectually placed him. eligible branches are the families of the Sixth and Seventh Princes-Prince Koso and Prince Cuus respectively. Both of these the Dowager TaZE HI bas succeeded by her maladdress in alienating. On the decease of Tura Cm, the son of the first, the senior, was passed over, and the heir of the latter, who she hoped would prove COMPRISING SELECTIONS OF THE more subservient to her ends, was selected.
The Hon, Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Nottersole Hospitals begs to ackowledge His Honour Acting Chief Justice Wiss yes-with thanks the following donation to the funds
of the Hospitals:---Young Lan Ki, $20. tarday dismissed the motion by the Hon. H. E.
The Governor-General of Indo-China has Pollook, KC, Asting Attorney-General, for
H.M.8 Dido arrived yesterday morning from Yokohama.
Mr. A. G. Lyssakorsky, the men Secretary and Acting Consul at the Russiat. Legation, Biam, in place of Mr. A. Bebroff, is expooted shortly at Bangkok from Japan.
Hawaii has never done much in the way of statues, or permanent memorials of great men, the heroic figure of Kamchemola and the monument to Captain Cook (the latter built by the British) being the only ones we can rosall, saya a Honolulu paper. It is singular, considering the wealth of the Royalist alement here, that the modern Hawaiian kings, notably Kalakaus, were never represented by appro- priate public sculpture. It is now proposed to erect a 'statas to MoKinley, a task which, we hope, may reach fulfilment.
WEBEG TO NOTIFY THE ARRIVAT, self outside the succession, and the only the discharge of the writ by the Standard Oil | announced his intention of institating near
Company of New York against the owners of Hanoi, on the 1st January next, a native school published at Bangkok. Some points in thera
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Mr. Henri Gilbert, the French travoller who is at prosent in Hongkong on his way round the world on foot, Ands that he cannot, as he had originally intended, go scross country from Canton owing to the unsettled state of the dis- trict. He will go by steamer to Shanghai, and thence to Japan and Siberia,
of medicine, in connection with which will be a
native hospital.
In view of the appointment by the United States Government of special experts to conduct new Chinese tariff negotiations, the the American Association at Shanghai has ap- pointed a sub-committee consisting of Mosers. Ball, J. 8. Fearon, R. H. Hunt, Quackenbush, A Tientsin lottor reports the return of Nand Seamu, to collect statistics and other Tang, specint Ambassador to Japan. and staff information for the use of the commissioners. to Tongku in the China Merchants' steamer say on the 11th instant, and his landing the next day to take train from Tougka to Peking rid Tientsiu. It is further reported that Na Tang intends to hasten to Kaifeng to meet the Court on its arrival at that city from 11siau.
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The Japanese paper Asahi says that the Newton Viceroy of Szechuon had wired to the Fouce Coote Envoys that a British syndicate has com- Planquette moned work at a coal mine in the provinca iu
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Adamsce-operation with a Franch syndicate, and the natives are torribly agitated in consequence. As the situation is fast. bevoning grave, the Viceroy as applied for the assistanca of the Peace Envoys in keeping order. Prince Ching and. Li Hung-chang we considering what measures to take.
By kind permission of Lt. Col. Baillie and excite serious apprehension amongst the
Officers, the band of the and Bombay Infantry ether there is in the streession enough to various members of the Imperial Cłau. the ordinary course of events, had not the will play at the Hongkong Hote this evening
from 8 to 930 o'clock. Peagramme:--- IM-Dowager, then no longer legitimate Regent,
Mirth... interfered, the succession would have been Valss....... arranged for by the Emperor himself adopt. Selection...... "Rip Van Winkle
Barn Dance... "The Boston Belle' Son and heir to succeed to the Empire,Song...... "By the Fountainí" ing
"Cox and Box" and continue the Imperial sacrifices; and Selection
-God Save the King." according to almost universal custom, such PARISIAN adopter heir would have been a son of his The Universal Gazette is responsible for the pleased with brother, the Prime of CHUN. The Prince statement that the powers ar 1,50 has not yet been blessed with an heir, to the recent proofs of the sincere desire of the best of our belief, int as he is in good the Court to inaugurate reforms that they are beth, and has not been fervol like his much hulined to drop forever the further bruther into vicious habits, there is nonishment of officials for participation in the Boxer uprising, although the Treaty provides for parishment of others as occasion of dis- |covery of guilt arises
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To confess that we know absolutely nothing about what is going on in Poking at the present time may be imputed to us for righteousness.' It may, nevertheless, he
reason
for apprehension. The Prince him self can without such a breach of custoin as would practically amount to sacrilege succed, but the difficulty here is the deliberate act of the Dowager, in having thrown discredit on her own choice in the person of the Emperor. It is therefore not
L'Echo de Chine vigorously supports the pro- posal to found a French Association on the lines of the Chion Association, but it suggests that the Franch Minister at Peking shall be honor into aberance and all oficials jaay now breathery present, the French Consul-General at freely. The graciousness of the powers in this matter is due to a desire not to throw any obstacles in the path of reform. The state- ment it not contrue,"
at all improbable that a family council According to a telegram recsivel in Tokyo will force itself, even on the Dowager Tsau!from Mr. Takahiro, the Japanese Minister at Ht, as a necessity of the moment in order Washington, regarding the illness of Margais to extricate herself from the impasse into: Iw, the report is entirely anfonaded. The which she has. by her acts run herself; and origin of the report is as follows. A ramon with this too may be connected the seeming ing eirentated among financial circles in state of uncertainty as to the movements of America to the effect that Marquis Ito bad a commission from the Government to plass the Court. That the Emperor should be
on the market in America Government bonds desirous of returning to Peking there is
to the suonut of $15,000,00), many visitors little doubt, us it is in consonance with all crowded to his hotel with the view of making his previous artions, but that the Dowager, offers to vndertake the transaction. Marquis who has inflicted such wrongs on his house, Ito was so worried by these visitors that he and humiliate the Throne, not only in the last refused to see any more on the oxense eyes of foreigners but of its own subjects, of illness. It was in this way that the report should be desirous of avoiding a spot where arose.
On the 19th inst. at Shanghai the team stone is eloquent of failure, is no less in CORSOULDçe with all we know of her which is going to represent Shanghai hore #leuncter. The Dowager to whose mis- thuring the Cricket Wock played the next XVI directed send the present abasionent of her of Shanghai. The game was an uninteresting rountry is due is this year sixty-six. She has affair, the XVI going in first and making 76 proved herself physically a strong woman. only, while the Hongkong team wadə 50 for 3 and in the nature of events all probably wickets (H. J. McEwen 20, Capt. Rosu 10, tire for many years more. She is unfortu. W. II. Weippert 2, T. Wallace 14 not out, pately just at that eg wheu nibition, W. J. Turnbull I not out). Mann and Patter eneli took 5 wickets against the XVI, the formue
saysThe batting was not by any ans
Shenghini president, and the president of the French Municipal Council at the same port vice-president. It fortifies its suggestion by the mistaken statement that the British Consul- General presides at the general meetings of the China Association.
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THE CRISIS IN CHINA.
Shanghai, 24th October, 10.25 p.m.
PRO-HUSSIAN REACTIONARIES
BUSY.
Yung La bas sent a 'secret despatch tą Li Hong-chang, in which he states that the Now ricksha regulations have just been Empress Dowager strongly desires that China should fraternice with Russin, who ara worthy of notice. Every rieksha plying for hire must be registered. The registration promises to prevent foreign aggression and paper will be issued only if the vehicle is in
to protect her at Peking. good condition and clean, and otherwise suitable. The permit to ply for hire will be withdrawn YUNG LU V. THE LOYAL VICEROYS, at any time if the riksha is not kept in a proper
Li Hung-chang, the despatch continues, condition. The puller has to be suitably dressed and must have the number of hiericksha must promptly conclude the Manchurian en his dress. No ricksha may carry more than treaty, relying on Yung Lu's support two adults; no ricksha may carry anything that
is dirty or offensice: it is further prohibited to against the Southern Viceroys. carry a corpss or live pigs, sheep or goala.
The Washington Star says:-"The fact that our language is spreading over the world at an amazing rate emploises regret for its. Dumbertese defects and increases the desire for needed reforms. One of the worst defoots is that we have many words which, while differing in orthography and meaning, are alike in sound. For examples, rowel,' rada, roud"; "write,'. rite, right, wright.' Is it not surprising that foreigners sometimes acquire a pretty good knowledge of English?" The Star does not take into account the extra confusion which would be entailed for instance by spelling four different words "rita." This is the weakness of phonetic reformers.
A Washington despatch, dated September with, says-in reply to an enquiry from the Collector of Customs al San Francisco, Acting Secretary Spaulding has held that drawbacks cannot be allowed on goods shipped to the He invites the attention of the Collector to the department's decision of August Philippữu s
7th, 1907, whereia it is held that meryhandise cun not be exported to the island of Gram with
within the jurisdiction of the United States. onelt of drawback, inasmuch as that lelaad is He says for the ransers set forth therein no drawback can be allowed on shipments to the Philippines. In order to be entitled to draw- backs the shipments must be made to countries without the jurisdiction of the United States.
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THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.
LONDON, 24th October, 8 p.m.
LÖST BRITISH GUNS REGAINED.
General Campbell's column has recovered the three guns lost by Major Gough, near Slangapies.
[These guns were lost about the middle of September, south of Utrecht (8.E. Transvaal), the Bonra under Botha ontrapping thres companies of mounted infantry under Major Gough, killing two officers and fonrteru zuen wounding five officers and twenty-five men, aud capturing Bve officers, one hundred wal fifty mon, and the three gius. Major Gough him- self escaped.]
GENERAL NEWS.
LONDON, 24th October, 8 p.m.
MONEY MARKETS. Console stand at £92. 58. Weekly ad- mances on the loan market range betwe 1 and 2 per cent. Japanese New Loans are
Bank rate is unchanged.
Concerning Mr. Ponnoll, the eccentric Indian
The Commander of the Japanese torpedo. Civilian who was lately dismissed the sorvice by the Government, a Rangoon correspondent destroyer Murakumo, which was sent to the writes to a contemporary:-The Government scent of the Tsuruhiko Maru wreck, states that £76. 10 of India have, I seo, been reviewing Mr. the vessel is understood to have struck a rock Pennell's record in Burma. It makes poor and gone down almost immediately. reading. Mr. Pennell has his points, though searching at Ojims and Mejimo islands some traust hearimitted he did his best to hide railway simpers and wreckage wore discovered, them. When Deputy Commissioner of Maubin but nothing to establish the arset locality of (a deadly place in the Delta where the mos- the wreck. Only one of the crew was saved, and there is no hope of salvage oporations. quitoes stand almost pole-height; he did more than any other man has ever "done to clear the The steamer was insured for 144,000 yen the cost 130,000 yən, and it is understood that place of the corruption then and always rampant there. He ended his service here by 60,000 were expended upon repairs. It is thus putting to sea in his much with the treasury stimated that the owners will lose 50,000 yen. keys aboard, and his whereabouts was unknown The vessel was ruder contract with the for durs. He aged the Chief Commissioners
Formosan Government to reach Keelung on or considerably and was almost the death of the before the 10th inst, and this explains why she Loft Moji in spite of the storm warning inel Acconnful-General,
by the Japanese Central Meteorological Station
on the 5th.
vernment decides what shall be done with them. These Chinese came here in the Doric in charge of a returning American missionary. It is elained that they intend catering Cherlin College, to take a regular course in that insti tution. They are provided with passportswhich contain irregalarities that warranted the inmigration inspector in refusing to admit them. Too much care cannot be taken in the
REUTER'S SERVICE.
LONDON, 33rd October.
GENERAL BULLER'S DISGRACE. With the exception of the Daily News, all the newspapers consider the decision in regazi to General Bailer as navidable, there haing no alternative without ruining discipline in the Army. They express personal sympathy with, the General in his position, but deplore the juglorious close to an honourable career.
LONDON, 23rd October.
LORD SALISBURY'S RETURN. Lord Salisbury has returned home from the Continent
THE RE-OPENING OF PARLIAMENT. King Edward, will open Parliament in stata between the 23rd and 28th January next.
THE DEATH OF MR E. ROBINSON.
A disturbance between the Japanese and Enion fishermen occurred at Vancouver on the
The San Francisco Chronicle of the 27th ult. 24th it. It appears the Japanese obtained of the visit of the Dake of Cornwall and York. says:-The right of two alleged Chinese stud› permission to erect an arch in the city in honour accepted as a fact that Prince Cнux is on the absence of other passions, is apt to grip car il and the latter for 29 runs, while Stanion Threats to burn the arch and attempts to dis. onts to be admittedly the country has been troy it were made by Union fisherman, who challenged by the resident inspector of immigra... his way back from Eurojus without having tightest its victim, and having once taste took 4 for 21. The N-C. Daily News report fought against the Japanese working in the tion, and they are now dotulued until the Co- accomplished the programine of visits and power she has shown herself both to sight-seeing laid out for him. We are told relinquish it. The incliate result of all briliant. It is now too late in the season for salmon fisheries all through the annumer. The that his return at an earlier period than this is that the Empress has made up her match cricket to be taken seriously, and it is fealing of the working-men is said to be very originally intended has been brought about mind to stop at Kaifeng, a spot where we hoped that our Hongkong representatives will bitter, and when the Japanese started work o
the arch the other day, right in the contre of by special instructions from Peking; and as may very well leave her. If this were the zake the most of not practice,
the city, criticism of allowing such action was the enly apparently, new event in the situaonly result of the contest we might rest fairly
A Paking telegram, dated October 1fith, to the
vory pointed, and the police had to be called tion is the return of the Court, which at satisfied, but unfortunately the end is not Asahi says:-The gist of the new Russo-Chinese out to protect the Japanese. The Japunosa are last seons in a fair state of being accom-yut. The Imperial family has fallen to such treaty about Manchuria is reported to be that providing over $1,000 of their own fonds for plished, we are led to surmise that the low condition that there is net a single assin will control all work on railways and the building of the arch, and they claim the return of the young prince is in some man-individual of sufficiently stron, intellect tonizesin Mauckuria and drill the Chinesosoldiers right to build it by their own labour. How pervision of the credentials of so-called ner connected with the new arrangements assert himself, even in the Dowager's stationed in the district. Hussin will withdraw many racial morals would be drawn if such the privilege of admission under the provisiona
one half of the Russian troops in Manchuria events; mutetis mutandis, occurred in Japan, of the treaty and the exclusion law. This In the apreme Court yesterday morning likely to be made. If, however, we are humiliation, and it remains still doubtful
within two years of the date of the treaty, when justly comments the Kobe Chronicle.
privilege has bean grossly abused in the past. the Hon. H. E. Pollock, K.C., Acting Attorney- ignorant of what is anually going on, we whether the Emperor will dage to go on to
The N-C. Daily News of the 21st inst. Numberless so-called students have entered the General, before proceeding with the business may as well acknowledge that our ignorance Peking or be content to resuma insignite-order has been completely restored and the of the intrigues being carried on behindance in Tazz Hr's palace, as a well trained remainder of the troops will be withdrawn backs in the most intriguing of all countries sleeve dog. At last Kaifeng is but a poor within three years. The railway between Shan-saya-Nobody can accuse the F. & O, B.S. Coro. country who have not since bothered about of the Court, addressed His Holour A. G. showed her remarkable individuality again tions of learning. The line has been drawn Robinson as follows:-My Lord, before the and of all courts is still more profound. place for a capital. It has neither road nor haiwan and Inkuo will be restored on China mandel of being a commonplace vissol, and she acquiring an education in any of our metin Wise on the subject of the death of Mr. E. We cannot afford to reopen this or any other as the head of the local bar, to express our sense There are of course people who know the water communication, the plain in which it undertaking that no British troops shall b
Club from the Hongkow Wharf early on four articles in the treaty, which is remarkably innermost secrets of the Dowager Tear His situated, once fertile, has by centuries of transported by the railway. There are only when she came up to the boy opposite the tight on both elasson. It should not be relaxed. business of the day in proceeded with Fire, who can tell us who were tor father and misguvernment been reduced to little better for its simple appearance, but it is aid to be Saturday morning. With the Gutzlaff made loophole for the perpetration of mere frauds of of the deep loss we have sustained in the sudden fast to her steru and the Rocket ahead, she this order, If an inch is givon to the Chinese death of Mr. Edward Robinson. The decessed mother, and can answer for her sisters, and thun a desert: the trees that once preserved very cleverly drafted and to cover every mecos.
came along slowly but with becoming dignity they will take an ell. That is what we here gentleman practised for nearly fourteen years her cousins, and her aunts. Of course the surface have been extirpated, the Yellow sary point.
until she was passing the Postung Point. learned from past experience. We must profit as a barrister in this Colony, and during that officially-Her Majesty is the daughter of River is a continual sonrco of terror, and
The Kobe Chronicle commertson our statement Then she mado up her mind that she would by it, and give no chance for the offence to be period was distinguished for the grant care and
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students and merchants from China who seek
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HWEICHENG, sometime Tuotai at Wuhu, the winds of spring clothe the district, often that some sort of supervision should be placed come on the Shanghai side of the men-of-war. repeated. The only way to make exclusion painstaking, industry which he devoted to tho
but our earliest gossip about her was when for days and weeks, in impenetrable storms she ran about as a servant, buying petty of inst-the waste of the cultivable soil over the production of the locally made "safety" The Gutzlaff went full speed astern and the are made in Japan? We remember that when the endeavour to keep her straight, but they household necessaries in the streets of Were the Court of China different in its matches, and says:-"Can it be the matches Rocket tagged her head towards Pootang in Peking. Such of course is the way of all ways, its presence and the amount of aney some years ago the Editor of the Chronicle, in might as well have been a couple of sampons, Asiatic. kingdoms, and it does not do te diverted to the neighbourhood might be an article in the Nineteenth Century, referred and she made a direct line for the stern of the make too many enquiries as to the autece some little benefit to the inhabitants. The to the bad quality of the matches exported as Waterwitch. Two anchors were dropped, the dents of the fair ones whom the monarch Court of Ching is not, however, of that examples of theeril done to Japan's commercial tags worked their bardest to straighten her, delights to honour. It is easy to find a nature; wherever it fixes itself it eats like a reputation, the Daily Press thought the com- but instead of paying any attention to there she father in China, and JAPHET, bad he been canker into the soil; its residence at HSIAN plaint was oraggerated, though, as it happened, turned slowly round against the ebb tids with a denizen of the Empire, would have bid has proved the final ruin of that city, and it was based on a Japanese Consular report." the apparent intention of going into the P.&O. We may point out that the locally mado Co's Office. A signal was sent up for another little opportunity for adventure in the its stay in Kaifeng is not likely to prove matches are Hongkong products. We have tag, which came to the assistance of the Pocket, search. Any way there seems some ground more beneficial. Kuiteng's defence is it for the belief that Her High Amiableness utter poverty-it could not be poorer than heard several other complaints recently as to and at last the wilful old boat had hor suchors is certainly high time that the Government having had an hour's amusement with, as far as with the choice she made of young Pu Cars future of China. With Kaifong as capital supervised these in the same way as other dan could be heard, no evil consequences to any
body. no the Emperor. Py Cavi has not been a all the present abusos will be perpetuated genom gradu.
effective is to exclude.
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onses in which he was engaged. I think it would be difficult to find his equal in the con- scientious devotion which he bestowed upon a interests of his clients, and those who met him in Court found him at all times a most The C.P.R.steamer Expres of India arrived courtsons sud chivalrous opponent. Our deep at Kobo on the 23rd inst, at 1.30 pm, and left
The P.M, steamer Peru, with mails, &o, from In reply, His Lordship said Mr. Attorney, ngaiu at midnight, same day, for Nagasaki, sympathy is extended to his sorrowing widow
San Francisco to the 5th iust, eza Honolulu, and is due to arrive at Shanghai to-day, at 10 pm and family in their sudden bereavement.
I bencur entirely in the remarks you bar scrived at Yokohams, and will leave for this on behalf of the Bench, although my leweed port this morning, via Inland Ses, Kobe, broth unavoidably absent in another, Court, The steamer Gronsay, from New York, left have in reference to this, the second loss Nagasaki and Shanghai. Singapore on the 12th inat: for Manila, and is a local bar has sustained within the the 31st inst
NALASH is not so pleased as she might be it is but this is a poor look-out for the of the quality of these "saluty" mistches, and it raised and consented to be towed up to the bus7 expected to leave that port for Hongkong on last two months. I also wish to join with you
The P. & O. steamer Boraco Left Singapore in the expression of our sympathy with the for this port on the 25th iust, at 8 am.
widow and family