INTIMATION
against the possibility of China becoming what Southern Asin has become under military instruction, lest precious Russian blood should be spilt and euormous Bums should be spent, in the struggle with
A. S. WATSON & CO., encoming disasters which we must always
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, JULY 10rv, 1902
Lient. C. Asor has been appointed to the Glory for the Fame, in comisiand
HM 88. Fearless and Sandpiper are in dook at Kowloon,
Mr. Henry Keerick has been aduḍitted
TELEGRAMS.
DAILY PRESS SERVICE.
| FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. |
TIENTSIN'S FOREIGN RULE:
[FROM A SPECIAL CORNESTONDENT. |
(Continued.)
Tlentain, 28th Junse
THE 2.7,0,'8 WORK.
above all things. to be let alone, may be appreciated. Considerations such as these do not argue here against the proposition that the Chinese are entitled to rule their own districts, regardless of the loctors now conveyed as to the need of official reform There may be offcials in the provisionsi government to whom 81,000 Mexican per month; or £800 per year wish to hold on as earnestly as the Chiness wish to renew their old grip.. One may bear also pretty talk of native resentment that the walls have been taken down, and of intention to revogaleno t them as soon as the foreigners get out,
However, it is not to Prince UKKTOMSKI's 4 partner in the firm of Messrs. Jardin THE PHILIPPINE AFFAIR administration, Its German, French, Japanese may not come as easily again us now, and who
theories, but to some of his statements to which we wish to allude. He takes Hong- kong as an example of wrong government of the Chinese, and his remarks about this Colony are interesting, if not exactly in structive. Tato the constituents of the native poption here thare enter, he says, JULES MUMM & CO, LEIMS.
to a notable degree wanderers and criminals, As supplied to Royal and Imperial who find it advantageous for a time to escape from prosecution on their native soil, Courts of Europe.
under the shadow of a liberal foreign govern-
SCOTCH WHISKY
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E BLEND
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Matheson & Co.
Between the afternoon of the 28th and the murning of the 20th ult, five casas of plague were reported at. Tokyo... A spraint conference of health-officials was called on the 29th nit, to consider the measures to be taken for stamping out the disease.
On the 27th alt, the day before H.M.. Pique left Basebo for Weihaiwel, eighty scholars of the Sasebo Female School, with their teachers, paid a visit to the warship and were
LONDON, 9th Joly, 8.10 mm.
THE RELIGIOUS DIFFICULTY. It is proposed to submit to arbitration what sum the United States shall pay for the Friars' land ia the Philippines and also as indemnity for the ecclesiastical buildings which the Americans have occupied. The Vatican is to choose two members of the
erican presiden over the chief court. The Chinese
The government has been interuntions in 100 Italian and Russian directors prosade in curd at meetings at the supervisory council Secretary, is American, with French, German, Japanese and English nadersecretaries. The police serve under a Britual Qual, a Major French Captain han charge of the Banitary120 Ingartment; the Treasurer is German & North the smells now vagrant may again be penned up within the city. Nobody has inti- wegian is Director of Public Works; an am mated that Lis Chinese will be stopped if they Borstary of the governant is an American wish to rebuild, but the river improvement must who was formerly President of Tisutsin 504, and unless councils wholly selfish prevail University. Mombers of the Council real value to be done, in putting and keeping the
thors will be enough work of undoubted pract each $1,000 Mexican per month, the chiefs of ity in commercial trims, to ve adras occupa are 60) foreign polion who resive $29,000 for the sake of sentiment. Military order esta - Mexican per month, and 1,157 Chiness police blished the administration now in power. It whe receive $16.00 Mexiona per month. Cost can be dismissed only by «drallar order, proceed- of the government, including maintenance of ing so to the district comtasuders from the works, has been 50,000 tals per month. The home governments. Whenever it may occur, government has collected about 2,000,000 tsels per year, out of which it has constructed 15 miles and not until then, will antive officialdom be
placated, sed the of street; It has built bighways along the river kai, make this of again the provincial capital,
progressive Viceroy. Yuan Shi-
front, besides turning the site of the city wall into onlevard; it has constructed a fine drawbridge and smaller bridges ; it
mont. It is unfortunately true that badutertained to tea. The girls were presented arbitration court and the Philippine to the departments each £600 per year her tion far some years without working overtime
characters from the mainland or from
neighbouring ports have a way of coming to Hongkong to stop as long as they are tolerated, but we do not know that our proportion of criminals is extraordinary, seo- ing how great is the freedom of ingress into tha Colony. However, Prince UXTONSKI tells us that these criminals, where in danger of being followed up, commit some light offence and get sont to our prison for a short term, thereby escaping pursuit. The hostility between the Chinese, instigatod by the Cantonese authorities, and the local whiter has more than once expressed itself in a very aggravated way in the CLARET, SHERRY AND PORT past, Truc, there have been difficulties,
COGNAC BRANDIES
of the Finest Quality,
AUSTRALIAN WINES
with hat-bands printed with the ship's name,
which they tied round their heads, afterwards having their photographs taken.
During their stay at Kobe, the officers and men of the Talbot made themselves particularly welcome to the community, and especially to the children, whom they aucceeded in pleasing
so wall in the entertainment on the Recreation
Ground. A purse containing £8 19%, was pre sented by the British Indies of Kobe to the sailors of HMS. Talbot to be competed for in any port under conditions to be arranged by the Commander, it having bein Impossible owing to the short stay of the ship in Kobeto institute the race originally intended. Another pre- sortation was made in the shape of a vise Compulttee. Altogether the Talbot will soon
Kobe Chronicle BBYE.
ernment two, while the fifth is to be neutral. Governor Taft proposed as the fifth member Lord Curzon, Viceroy of Tudia.
TEOM OUR CORRESPONDENT.]
GENERAL NEWS.
SHANGHAI, 9th July, 8.30 p.m. has thrown into recreation grounds portions of the old city just within the old walls, where FOISONING AT CHEFOO SCHOOL-only dumps existed before, and it has suppressed
toggery in public, a naleance insufferable to TERRIBLE FATALITY.
except batives in every Chiness city. It has Twelve boys at Chefoo School have died given 250,000 their towards the improvement of
the river and 700,000 tela ymrly to the Im
A NEW INDO-CHINA S.N. CO.
STEAMER.
The 1a Numsang, which has just come out from home to upplement the fest of the Indo- China Stesen Navigation Co., kas been attract- much attention among the shipping com- munity sa she lick in the Harbour, on account of her great sise, which gives her a foremost
evan grave difficulties in the past, but presented to the ship by the Carouation from ptomaine poisoning after eating parial Marime Customs In Chinese years place among the steamers sailing qut of Hong where is there greater harmony between the white and Chinese population than there has be known in the squadron se " Kobo's Pet,” the chicken-pie. One more is seriously ill, but the city gave nothing for either river improve odg. She is specially dedigned for the run
been in Hongkong of recent years A Where was there less ground for alarm during the two past years! To continue The Cantonese natives have never ceased to The Finest Beer brewed in America, summon their fellow countrymen with
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threats from the 'foreign' towo, wending
thither incendiaries and robbers, falling on foreigners even in the harbour, artfully tunnelling beneath the Bank of Indos, and the like. Evidently we suffer from decreasing Chinese population and live in R state of perpetual terror-which, however, does not show on the surface. Prince UERTONEET also informs his renders that the model hotel on the island of Hongkong Similarly interesting information is given about Singapore,
is kept by Chine
A. S.WATSON & CO. where the Prince speculates whether it will
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be necessary to arm the Malays as counterpoise to the Chinese. Then too we are told that there are few beggars in China (a sight of the beggars in Copton might enlighten bim); that the Chinese regard Bussis as a friend and neighbour,
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DINNER TO SIR CHINCH EN
LOFENGLUR.
About fifty members of the Chinese Feklien
community and guests, sembled in the Con- nanght House last evening to attend a banquet given in honour of Sir Chibchen Loferginh K.C.V.O., who was recently Chinese Minister at the Court of St. James, and who arrived, by the German mail yesterday. Mr. Kaw Hong. Tako presided, and nafor- tunately the distinguished guest was unable to be present, bat his two sons, his brother, and several officials of his staff attended.
An excellent dinner was provided, and after the usual loyal tosits of the King, and the
Emperor of Uhins had been honoured,
Teo CHAIRMAN said that he regretted exceedingly that they should be disppointed in the object of their meeting together that night, namely to do honour to their distinguished fellow countryman Bir Chibchen Lofengluh. Unfortunately, as many of them anticipated from the telegram they received
the crisis in bis case has passed, and no further danger is apprehended. The body of one boy has been sent to Shaughs for post-mortem
examination. The official
ment or to the custom fund. The river scheme is a Protocol arrangement, which must be pushed to see if the city is to hold its pinos as leader in northara business. As the Chinese never spent a dollar toward saving the river, if ls quite probable that they never would be done so of their own initiative, Skippers yet
enquiry is deferred until the result of this bring goods north who remember when they examination is known.
[The school referred to above must be the Ulina Inland Mission's School,- Ep. DP.]
REUTER'S SERVICE.
LONDON, 7th July,
THE SUGAR CONVENTION, The Australian Government has doolded not
When melt they los, and that
"coubl=_stenta ~up to the nity and torn their ships in the stream, Nothing muon larger than & gunboat can do that, wold weather breaks mud the kill wend down dirt with the amo which does not clog the airam with a the interior, helps to dill the on the may to the se. So
forked skips drawing" "mors
hers and
twalt
feet to cross Tuku Bar, unlightsred, and thaze, eleven miles off shore, they mit await wentier,
to become a party to the Brosols Bugar which will stable cargo-bosta të go convention.
If there weren channel, a trip of 70 miles water would bring the strips hai connection at Tongku cais distance
about!
LORD CRANBORNE'S MISTAKE. The Times and lost criticise Lord Cranborne's phrase used in the Home of Commons in con- ection with the alliance formed with Japan, and describe it as unfortunate. DEVELOPMENT OF SOUTH AFRICA) and le damage rehandling
Considerable progress has
has been made with the that no other country, NGU Orange River Colony. The number of appli- canta le anormons, std temporary solilaments are being made in urgent cases. Large irriga
ion schemes are aim contemplated,
43 miles but it is made at great delay in time. and even if urgo-bonta, mudd the zih And come up, the river," the DOSE
the Chinese
Nothing
between this port and Coutts. Before being
Hongey
servlon, however, the preliminary run to part swego of coal.
return she will be Bhe feares for Hongay on Sturday On her
service. The Namaqug ins stevi
out for the Indian service. The Nake
dapacity
little more than 600 took. Shun 970 feet long by 17 feet brand, and han - ssion engines of 403 nomiual h.pn marine type, and Howden's forced
Deighton's furnaces. draught. She
commodatio
European pros
Hfting wypliauers sompriung
wincher, derric
steamer›
Jardine, Matheson &
sare a port for
can save it, for other aspirants for supremacy
dreases with constannications addressed to the Editor
Correspondents'must forward their names ended (Dnt as a predatory foe that the English from Bingapore, his fealth" would: ne land settlement scheme in the Transvaal and propose by this improv not for publication, but us evidence of good faith.
All letters for
publication should be written on one side of the paper only.
Younonymously signed I communications that have already appeared in other papers will be inserted.
Orders for extra copies of DAILE Pares should be sent before 11 am, on day of publication. After that hour the supply is limited. Only supplied for Onih Telegraphic Address: Pass, Codes: 4.B.C. 6th Ed,
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are not likely to hesitate to exploit the Chinese as they have wrested money from the Hindus; and so on. But enough has been quoted to show that the Russian writer has laid before the readers of the Contemporary Review a tissue of absurdities, if it be not indeed an elaborate akit.
By
Government Gazette Extraordinary issued last night, Tientsin was declared an infected port
dress
London, 7th July,
than 250,000 table for the Tur from the item known sa nati va
permit ki dibing with thon snd to e- ive personally die reception they had prepared for him. He bad, however, asked his son and his other relations to join the
have already appeared and sinc and they were all, he was sure, delighted
manufacturing sudustry, caine) wool and straw Brai to meet the relations of one who, as Minister at the Court of St. James, had so ably is
the batonte into the markets THE KING'S PROGRESS.
can quite as conveniently be austained the dignity of his responsible office, and
This morning's bulletin states that His a better pilaos, unless special drawn closer the ties between the British and the Chinese Government. Their best wishes Majesty has had nine hours natural sleep daring te retal this market. Other went with Sir Chibcher Lofenglak for bls the night, and that his progress towards also as conveniently become distra
recovery continues uninterrupted. The wound | for the imports now dumped speedy recovery, sad they all mincerely trasted that his much keeded rest at his le discharging freely, and is love painful to sdministration of this aty bever Yesterday afternoon we received from the U. B. Consulate General the following typhoon him to rame an even higher of An sccredited report states that the Coring an item quite distinct from
home lu Fokhion would KOON woable:pus THE CORONATION. warning issed from Manila Observatory at which the Chiness Government was bound ton of His Majesty King Edward and of Hertribution of 100,000 tueli 11:45 am, en the name day -Duprassion
developed crossing 8. Manila, moving to to bestow on one so able and so upright. He Majesty Queen Alexandra, will take place the provisional governm
asked them to drluk with him long life and between the 11th and 15th of August WN. W.
prosperity to Bir Chihchen Lofenglah and his family, coupled with the name of his eldest son. The eldest son of the Minister madu a very appropriate response, and other toasts -- were proposed by Mr. Na SAU SHANG of Thampton on the 11th instant, Guests," soupled with the names of the Hon. WEI YUK, and Mr. Ho TỪNG, who suitably responded-Mr. Ho Texa referring to the able ▲ Chinese stoker of thy Klaut schou jumpod overboard on the afternoon of the 8th Inet. way in which Mr. Kaw Hong Take had arranged the processinge. The toast of The The alarm was given by a pissenger, buoy Press, proposed by the CHAT thrown over, and the ship, which was going responded to by Mr. A. CoxxingHAM, full speed, swang rogne Within fifteen Altogether a must enjoyable evening was spo minutes after the alarm was given the man was which was only marred by the unwoldable ploked up still alive by one of the ship's boate abeeuce of the one whom it was arranged to
Ir is a fairly familiar fact, at least in the Far East, that the number of writers about
Three fetal oases of plague were reported China is by no means limited by the daring the 24 hours ended at noon yesterday, amount of knowledge of the country one of the victims being an Indian from the and its affaire porsased by the literary.. Valetta, admitted to Kennedytown Hospital on the 4th inst. There was also 1 Dou. class in general. We are accustomed to read the products of the pen of the fetal ca borrying traveller who has spent a few months in this part of the world, or perhaps even a week or two only in Hongkong and Shanghai. When therefore we take up a bome review and see in the contents list au article dealing with China we do not as a rule expect much enlightenment, high though
Great excitement naturally prevailed over the
honour
LORD KITCHENER'S HOME COMING.
place furnished both Yards, Ignored for the purpos whatever. source; the sky
Lord Kitalieber is dus to arrive at South- government only the
correct
when it was under no Szy
as at prosent, and when colest Jens much larger, general government is a loser under administration, becanes Tisateis
uted to the govern
What anm
LORD CRANBORNES MISTAKE, Mr. Balfour in the House of Commons wan questioned regarding Lord Cranborne's remarks. concerning the alliance formed with Japan, He said that Ford Cranbornes object was to anggestion that Great Britain's poski. tion was one of dangerous isolatien, and that i from Imperisă Quotams, ale ought to eagerly grasp any all'ance offered, native customs, and
at the Government had never for one moment lalad to mggest that the agreement with Japan, was not entered into with a common
the standard of the review may be. A reader incident, and the captain and bost's crew were Sir Chibchen Lofenglah will procend to anot, and on terms of xbsolute equality.
congratulated on their smart seamanship.
A special meeting of H.M. Justices of the Ferse will be held at the Magistracy, this after noon at 2.16 for the purpose of considering the following applications (1) From Young for the transfer of his pahlican a lon shenkies Boad, under the sign of the tu well and rotnil intoxicating liquors at No. 2,
Metropole Hotel," to B. Esley; (2) from Luiz Manoel Lobo for permission to more his publican's Iusiness from No. 162. Qason a Boad Central, to Nos. 148 and 154, Queen's Road Cabral, under the sign of the Stag Hotel"
into whose bands falls the June number of the Contemporary Review, therefore, will not be so surprised at some of the remarks which he will find in an article therein, outitled The Genius of Ching " and written by Prince HESPER UKHTONSKI, as he might be, were he unscquainted with the readiness with which the public at home accepts self-constituted authorities on the less familiar subjects. With Prince UKATOMSKI's main argument, which is that Russia is China's only possible saviour, we need not deal here. Prince UKHTUMSKI i Russian and naturally does not see Chinese
Following the report of the murders of affairs as we see them. The Prince naturally Japanese fishermen by Cereans, comes the nows finds the dangers which threaten Chion arising mainly from the English. There is of the murder on the lath ult. of one of tho Japanese divers who were working on a fishing
more to be dreaded from the intrusion of mark resently wrecked on the east of Kang- foreigners into the interior of China thauwesto. On information bainggiten, z Japanese from the ten times repeated benevolent police inspecter from Gensan, with a number of destruction of Chinese by our arms, or even - policemen and Corean officials, proceeded to the our careless government of them. We are sens and discovered the body buried in the not certain whether our arine" in this sound, badly mutilated. Beveral Coreaus sentence is an allusion to Blagovestchens arrested on cuspicion. Four of them
or not. But emphasise
problem in the
writer that Russia's
wishes chief
to Grensen and landed to the Governor Јарашев Coneal.
are in progress to demand com East is to guard, the Corian Grevozí
taken
From
Shanghai, and from there will return to his home at Foucher.
HONGKONG SANITARY HOARD,
A meeting of the Board will be held to day
atp.m
salt tax. Last year, recorded, tone, inde
by the London and and Engineerlog Co #mada "tùs handsome
20 Arst-class Chinese, and
gers. Her outgo thembet molera type,
Lour stemm
lighted with also
brile le in borimuud The agents are Slemek,
POLICE COURT. Wednesday, 9th July,
FORE ML FA HASILAND (POLICE
THEST FROM ALMY
OFFICEL
The other day Lieut. Col. Baillie, command Log the 22nd Bombay Infantry, reported to the polito at Thinahatani sration that he had lost a gold hagey ring sad some money. The ring. I said, was worth two pounds sterling, but íta hay in the fact that it was as heirloom ami was greatly prized. Sergeant the Kowloon police, made anguiri-z t of an Indian butler now without Fergeant mont geldimith at 14, Warrant was obtained. log could not be result of the in- www the finding
explanation of
present hom
before his.
Chinaman could not ment was not
on't charge of
wijen "cállvil
prskip, he pleaded nož guilty
The defendant was remanded till to mOPTON,
not Berons KE J-H Kame (Aczinɑ POLICE
itou.
MAGISTRATES
reached 1500,000 and offer the amount this year will be at least 2,000,000 tasks, exceeding by 750,000 tasla the best Chi nese collections, in times of posTON from port: and ofty charges. call income last your mul there can be out for two or three years, whether Chinese oz foruen- ore may be in control. buctus), thə silier con- Led the salt two years ago: and under Chinese method of collecting it by
RETURN OF COBEAN PEINCE, The Grown-Frines of Coren has left London, on his journey homewards. ACCIDENT TO MR CHAMBERLAIN. MrChamberlain met with a somewhat serions accident in Whitehall this afternoon. Tha horse of the bassom in which he was driving fel', and in doing so released the glass shatto fessor Simpson's Memoranda on Plagues, which dropped on the honourable.
gentleman's head, inficting a severn, though Levente must stand twa not dangerous scalp sound The Medical Officer of Hanith, portant Chaving Cross bonita, where he remains seasoned out of them
He was taken to that the bitter
to notice, will more w
That the Board dspate Inspector Frank the sight. His immed ate engagements have
ORDERS OF THE DAY,Y
1. Further correspondence relative to Pro-
Prevent in
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
Allen faititute summary proceedings been cancelled. beforea Magistrate against any person contravening any of the Bye-laws made nader Section 13 of the Public Health Ordinance No. 13 of 1901, instructed by the Medical Offloor.
G. A. WOODCOCK,
Secretary.
so
AGENDA, Further correspondence relative to the moval of the wire noting from the grating the sewers and storm-water drammatu PAS
lication for permission to connect to ament mains until Septemberbeza Results of the examinations made under Hule of Food and Drags Ordinance, 1998,"
Garter ander 30th Jane, 18024 ortality statistics for the socks cader 7th and 14th June, 19-20
The M. steamer Tura, with the next French mail, will leave Saigon to-day, at 2.am., for the port.
The F. & A. stramer dirlie, for
left Kobe on the 8th inat, and is dne here on the 14th inst
Tine stesmer Bentorlich
from (Antwerp, and London, Jeft Bingapore on tho Bth fast for this port
The CPE steamer Athenian setired, at Yokobans at 9am, on the 9th dust, and loft again at 3 pm same day for Kobe, where she
The AL. Beamer Dains left Singapore, for.
from the Bo4, the stacl
nompatation on whi viskled,
Lapp
weder
A Chiraman whose some trasiness appears to be that of an illicit trader in opium--he bad three,
erious convsolions for the offense---was źned 000 or six months for the unlawful posses- on of 18 taels of opium, which he was preparing when the excle opere entered the house, Caite recently the defendout was convidiel oťa similar charge mud fined $350 The the now suposed in the full penalty, and this is the flent. time in about twelve years that it has been indicted. The defendant went to prison. *-- THY FROM THE GODOWE CONTANT. There har recently been
utaber of
may be petty thefts from the premises of the Hong-
Fcial KODZ & Ko
and earsre
thief or fble
factory
detecte arrested
The Miteu
not immime frei coal
comp
was Baked
tosd he was
Co
trap the
Balin
Employers were.
They were to six reeks
not do, and his arrest Jed, to thu'
the theft to the godown. GCALE WES Bentenged to these
sole are
under