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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, JULY 13rw, 1902
It is to Lord ROSEBERY's credit that he has |- A letter fróni oge Hamburg correspondent recognised there facts, and it is still more to will be found to-day on page 5. bus credit that he bas had the couraga to not
on his convictions. Whether we look on the matter from ♬ "Conservative" or from a
The running of the special launches to the V.B.C. is to be discontinued from to-day,
i The Commission nominated by the Pope to examine the religions question in the Philippines was composed of Cardinale Vannufell, Vivemy Tate, Gatti, and Steinhaber.
The Tydain monsoon reporta being discourag- ing, the Lancashire piece goods trade is suffering, somewhat in consequence,
the good ship lay helplessly drifting on to the rocks of disruption. The danger called forth the men, and in the fenders of the great party which came to call itself by the attractive name of the Liberal Party. A. S. WATSON & CO., a revival; and the nation, instinct with life, burst out and found for itself fresh realms to conquer. Then came the Opposition once more restored to health of China, has been proved of the gross value into the State of Sarawak. The Baltanate of the durora, has been appointed to the Cam
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*The departure from Bangkok on kava of Mr. The Sarawak correspondent of the Straits Regimid Tower, H.BM's Minister at Bangkok, The will of the Iste Mr. Charles Houry Broad | Times notes the reported spoomplishment of A was delayed by another attack of forere (78), of Castleview, Weybridge, and formerly long expected erant the absorption of Brunel
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The N-G, Daily News Tokyo correspondent The visitors to the City Hall Library last says that Lord Cranbornes statement in the week were 212. non-Chiness and 77 Chinese-House of Commons about the alliance with 29 In all
Japan, caused great astonishment in that The Times protest against the remark was country, but the newspapers withheld comment. much appreciated.
A Chinanon broke into a native dwelling- house on Sunday, and in attempting to escape when discovered he jumped over the verandah and broke his leg.
The first tie in the Hongkong Water Polo Bhield Competition was played off yesterday evening at the Victoria Recreation Club between the Royal Engineers and the Naval Depot, Kowloon. After a fast game, the Naval Depot won by 5 goals to 2, Mr. W. A. Crake was referee.
A Japanese passenger who was found to be ill on bis arrival at Nagasaki by the NY.K. ss, contemporaries the vast possibilities for Vaata Miru from Hongkong, was adjudged empire even then looming on the horizont be saffering from shelers. The case was at 135 The first of these feelings made him inclined once remored to the Contagions Diseases on his entrance into public life to join the Hospital and the vessel, after being disintacled, rising Liberal Party, but a consideration of was ordered to be detained in quarantine for the comparative littleness of mind. which five days, actuated the lenders, and their narrow views
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Japanese Government, 843 us with 662 den the According to an official telegram to the
st Tientain within the city walls, and 746 cases with 399 deaths outside the walls, had oscurred up to the 29th ult. 1t is believed that the actual number of cases is really much larger through the Chinese habit of conesaling patients seized with contagious diseases,
The U.B. quarantine official at Yakohama has ordered detention and quarantine for five days in the case of those residents in Tokyo who are going to America. The emigrants from Niigata for Hawaii, who arrived at Tokobams by way of Tokyo, were very severely examined before embarking for the Sandwich Islands.
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On the 18th alt, there were at Baizon Belsh, Frencli, & Germans + Bredlish or Norwegian, and 1 Belgian steamers. menting upon this, the Opinion poluis out that although the port has two subsidised lines French shipping there is less than British, and says it would like to know how the proportions: stead in other places.
The profit mede for the year ending 11th April last by Messrs. 8. C. Farnham, Boyd & Co., Ld., amounts to The 1,848,500, and after deducting the smount already paid ja January last as an interim dividend of Ti 335, 6, and wiping off the suspense account of Tls. 100,000, there remains an amount which the Directors propose to distribute as follows. A final dividend of Te. 10 per
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750,000 Carried forward to new seconnt 60,150 Ebareholders will thus receive à dívidsad on the year's working of The. 17 per share.
Brunei bed declined so rapidly of lath that its fall had long been reckoned upon.
· Prezidant Rosnavult is considering the offer of the Commercial Cable Company, which co portion has offered to complate the cable to
permitted to make use of the government Manila one year ahead of the proposed time If
For military reasona. The sk
the War Office has declined to sanction the erection of the Barter memorial" in the Victoris Gardens, Chatham, of which they are owners and the Chatham Town Cound the teaspte. The corporation has accordingly offered another site for the purpose near the Wagborn statue, The officers and mut of H.M‚S. Barfeur are erecting the obelisk in memory of their comrades who fell daring the late operations in China.
Captain E. H. Hayly, C.B., who was here with
brilge for the Conqueror, în command, te dato June
malls left, of the evacuation of Manchuris which
* No newe had creached Japan, when the last (
Count Cassiul has assured the Washington Government has taken place,
M. Klobukowiki, Minister for Fenace at
Bangkok, left on the 5th inst, by the fshong for - Baigon on his way to France, M. Dutusta taking the psation of Chargé d'Affaires.
admitted into the Buddhist priesthood at Another European novice is about to be
Letpadan in Barma. There are some balf a dozen European poongyis in Barma now; and it is quite possible that one of them may be nominated as candidate for the vacant Huild- hist Arelbishopric. The Intost in Mr. Warwick, whose name as a noviceis Theopedans. His admission takes pline about the middle of this month, and will be the third occasion within two months of Europeans in Burma untoring. the higher order of the Buddhist priesthood.
The Deutsche Asiatische Werte (which is
The L. &C. Express maya-The very genuine | expressions of sympathy that have been extended to Sir Thomas nad Laly Sutherland in their great grief at the loss in South Africa of their only son will, we may hops, in part mitigate the heavy blow, though words at such times can bear small par. in seeusging such grief. The edited at Burling reports that for the constric sincerity of the expressions has been general, tion of the railway from Tientsin to Chinking, and their widespread nature shows the esteem a number of German banking institutes have in which the chairman of the P. and 0. Comited in a consortium, which has sent out to pany is keld. It is the cruel irony of fate that Telugtan four engineers for minute Investiga the man who has done so much in the transport Hoss and explorations. These four experts of troops to the seat of the late war, through had already started for the interior, principally the vessels of the company fo dicects should be to see if the Honngho river would offer invin- called on at the last to meet so heavy a loss."
lossabte utatadas to w railway bridge. By infor-
matjon, however, from a reliable scarce, suck In the House of Commons on the 10th ult, obstacles, it appears, do not exist. Mr. Weir asked the Under-Secretary of State
The McAuliffe-Ryan boxing contest was to come off on the 5th inst. A sporting sorrespon-age not only impede the truffle but cance dent of the P. & T. Times writes The betting is about even in the Clubs to-night
(Friday), but we predial by the time `the two
Yesterday being the anniversary of the fall of empire, led him eventually to determine of the Batile, the French shipping in the on adhesion to the remains of the old Tory Harbour and all the war ressols vers decorated Party, which
now denominated itself with bunting and a salute was fired at noon, Conservative.
The historic old prison was razed to the grond Succeeding to the premiership in 1868, on 11th July, 178, at the beginning of the Diana, true to his first love, proceeded, Revolution. At the time of its capture only as he boastfully termed it," to "educate "seven prisoners were found in it. his party, The relations of classes had become intensely embittered, and the Liberale of the day were seeking to widen the breach; to heal the wound by onlarging the liberties of all nud softening down the abuses of prerogative because the objecte bis policy, which was at first swallowed as a bitter pill by the new Conservative Party. The affair, it is true, had at the moment its ludicrous side, and one of the ablest cari. catures of the day represented DISRAELI the Political FAGIN teaching his followers to pick the pockets of the Liberal Party of the principles of political freedom, which up to this the Party bad considered its own peculiar property. A.S. WATSON & CO. Those principles bad, however, as we have
seen, been the guiding spirit of DISMALLI'S The effects of the siege occasionally even now earliest nspirations. Suffice it to say that manifest themselves in odd way, says the Peking under his guidance it fell to the lot of the und Tientsin Times. Quite recently reference Conservative Party to put inte concrete had to be made to the articles of association of Man form those great principles of political and one of our jointstock campuses, and it turned religions, liberty which their leader wout there was not a single copy procurable in the port. They had all gone astray during the were the necessary concomitants of imperial troubles. In the oid recourse had to be made to a telegram to Hongkong for an extract from the official copy there.
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equtest between the opposing forces, centrifugal and centripetal, until in 1886 victory declared for the latter, and the planet under its influence took up its new orbit, But there is danger in the complete ness of the victory. Failing to realise that the unity of the empire was the one point on which all parties were agreed, the saperannuated leaders of the old Liberals On the 80th June, at Nagasaki, BARO C. hung on to the old fetish of disruption, and Nonkiw, youngest son of Thos. M. NORMAN of drove the country into the hands of the Yorkshire, England, to HELENI PITKIEWICZ, of Goldingen, Kui
Conservativu Party headed by Lord DEATHS.
SALISBURY. To a nation accustomed to On the 10th June, at "Oakhurst," Netley Abbey, Hants, Marta Louise, the dearly loved wife of NA: HANEL J. Eos, late of Hongkong
On the 7th July, at 35, Broadway, Shanghai,
the wife of P. L. Barsons, of a non.-
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COLIN BUCHANAN, late Marine Superintendent of the Indo-China B. N. Co., Ld., aged 76 years.
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HONGKONG, 15th July, 1902.
Captain Charbonnel of the Messageries Maritimes a Tarra, which arrived overdue yesterday with the French mail on board, reported baring run through the typhoon during the 11th, 12th and 13th To avoid the centre of the typhoon, the vessel's course had be altered, and owing to the heavy rains, the engines we put slow from the morning of the
to
1921 till next morning.
Japan, according to one who has recently gathered figures on the subject, has the bulk of the import trade in coal for the Liaotung tons go to Port Arthar and to Dalny from Peninsula. Every year from £20,000 to 250,000 Japan, and this is approximately 30 per cent, of the total import. Thus the Japanese coal dealers are justified in their sense of the promising nature of the coal trade there--but they are not without complaints.” Their chief cause for dissatisfaction is the poor accommoda- then at both the ports mentioned for the landing | of the coal, and they are making themselves 'heard in a request that some better arrange.
meats be made. Blace it is obviously to the interest of the Russian consumers that an improvement should take place, it is possible that something may be done.
man meet in the ring the odds will be in favour of Ryan. There is an old mying among boxing men that youth will be surred," and if Ryan at all approaches what we have heard about him there is going to be the best contest in Gordon Hall to night that Tientsin or oven foreign Chica has ever witnessed. We are not forgetting that McAuliffe is a past master at
the game and a ring general withal ; but on the other count he has to meet a man who knows
what he is about, and has weight to back him We are informed that he has got down to 150 lbs, from 178 lbs.
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for Foreign Affairs whether he was awal that the barriers which were erected by the Chinese Government on the Canton River some years constantly increasing accumulation of sils, which renders the matigation of the river daily more difflenit, would ho consider the expediency of communicating with the Chinese Gaverne ment on the subject with a few to the adoption of sack steps as might be necessary to facilitats the navigation of the river Lord Cranborne aid: A clause bas bon agreed to for insertion in the treaty now under negotiation by Hie Majesty's Special Commissioner in China, by which the Chinuaa · Government: undertake to remove within the next two years the artificial obstructions to navigation in the Caston River.
*The German 0ßolul Army Gazekła publishes two Imperist orders, according to which the
Ass is in future to coukist of the infantry Brigade forming the German garrison in East
regiments, one mounted squadron of Faeger. one battery of bars artillery, one mountain battery, one company of pioneers, and two fold hospitals. The other detachments of the brigade are to be sent home and disbanded. The Gorman War Deparment at the same time indicate the stations at which the detachments remaining in the Far East will be quartored.
It was recently reported that the Japanese authorities were using their infuence, to soura the monopoly of the camphor industry in the province of Fohkian, Cbins. A shanghai car- respondent of the Avala has sent his journal an extract from a Chinese paper to the wifest that the Vloerty of the provides lid syred to give the contract to the Japanese nathorities (of Formosa presumably on certain terms. i hu ootal of Amor was appoluted to conduct the
negotiations. Itecently the Tagtül met Mr.
Car Londen representative la balan opportunity of inspeeting Oper's Machine for making and herzuotipally foldlog tin box who packed. It was so that this can be done without a single drop of the liquid being forced out. To tend and work the machine only one man is required and with unakilled Uyone, the depances. Cuzini st Amʊy, and pro- labour The makern claim that a thousand posed an amendment to the terme, which, as small sazijne-tins, for instance, can be folded they stood, gave all power to the Japanese, tho by their machine at x cost of fire shillings, ↑ Chinese authorities being merely rujuiral to whereas by the old soldering procms they would act as the projectors of the ladustry, cost ten shillings; and that one man can fold Japan Conal therapon made some CONUER. fra thousand a day instead of seven hundred, stoun through. Tue box remains stationary dating which is said to be all that a solderur oạn göt
the folding. As the export trade in dane fruits and other things from the Far East, is now rapidly increasing, this maching ja, we' think, sure to come rapidly into usa In this part at was upda of the world. The machines are made för either round or shaped tias,
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Recently a Japanese was sentenced to six years penal servitude for altering a Govern ment railway ticket so as to enable him to travel on another day than the apon which the ticket www.tened Commenting upon the case, the Japan Herald saysThat such an outrageons sentence should have been passed by a Court of Law in Japan is sufficient to show the the administration of justice has not yet reached a very high level in this country. To any but for altering the date on a railway ticket would the judicial Intellect six years imprisonment: appear monstrous, and the judges of the Chan Chiho Saibansko show an extrems lack of humor and insensitiveness to lieple when they prepstrate such judicial blunders as these. It is to be hoped, should the appeal proved onto cenfal, that the case will be taken to the Supreme Court so that it can have full publicity given.”
A New York agrain of the lat just. to the Prince Taan and Dake Lanace, according to a Manila TecaysCongress has Lanchon (Kanan) despatch, at present residing sine die and the great Pallied at Tina (Uruntat), the capital of Chinese Before adjournment action was taken Turkestan, which city is shout ons month's Philipples Bill. Both Notre alle ordinary journey on horseback, west of to eliminate the money, provision rom the Bil Chisoukasti, a gateway out in the most western and the Bill as thus altered was passed. “ portion of the Great Wall. It is reported that also provided in the Bil' that' the the exiles continue to lord it over the natives" les fon for a Pallippines législative asset in that part of the Emperor's dominions, and shall be postponed until the bou by their braggadozio and swagger and loud- taken and two years of ponds talking of what they intend to do won against It is also provided the Western Barbarians," manage to impress and triar lands shall 1 their importanas upon the simple minded hundred- noren, Kashgarians and Tuuganis Chinese Mahome- Fant dens-of Praptei. Torfan and Hami, the latter of the two cite bolig often visted by the two in attor their search for followers and partisans. Owing to the near connection of the two ex-Boxers to the Imperial occupant of the Throse eren the Senator Balley mised Senator Beveridge by and Governor of Chinese Turkestan dars so the throat and proceddud to choke slight them-N-C Dolly News.
the
donators Belley and
rsonal debate. Finally
two vem quickly separated and Benator (1 Beveridge li unharmed.
thresh out its measures under the spur of party conflict with its checks and safe. guards, the absence of the balance wheel of a capable opposition may lend to public disaster; certainly it is bound to conduce to ・A regrettable incident took place on the public inefficiency. This is the condition of Peking-Tientsin railway the other day, accord- affairs at present. We do not afirm that ing to the Faking correspondent of the | N-O. Dady News - It appears that a Brit sh auy of the measures urged by Lord of car was jostled by a Chinaman in a first SALIGEVEY'S Government are of themselves class carriage, and the officer forth with chastised bad or the reverse. That is not the object him for his carelessness The Chinaman with of our thesis the present state of the great dignity and in perfect Franch informed
· Opposition does not, however, hold out ange the son of Hars that he was the newly-appointed ir is not for a colonial paper to meddle in assurance that the great measures now Minister to Austria, Italy, and Spain, and thin politics, Whig or Tery, Conservative or before Parliament will be adequately dis- unless an apology was made ho would report Radical. However much they may affect the cussed on their merits. Such a position is, bim to kis superiors. The officer in language home render, there is for us no part to play, in effect, an invitation to laziness and not exactly parliamentary replied that, if ho nor have we any right to meddle in their inefficiency; and in the airy manner in had known who he was, he would have inflicted mysteries. There is, however, one point in which matters of first-class importance to mure seter punishment. The matter was reported and this correspondent hears that the sternal strite of party, the compiternal the Empire at large, such as the proposed Guaral Creagh has upologised to the Chinese At the half-yearly examinations in music struggle of the ins and outs, to which it is reform of the army system, have been Foreign Ofise on the officer's behalf, a recently held under the auspices of Trinity In some articles by a Tolantear on the French not uninstructive at the moment to turn our shoulderedout of the Parliament, tuere really
Collega, London, at Brighton, we note with troops in Chius doring the disturbance that oyer. As long as government by party is aseme reason to apprehend such a result. The ex. Heungshan experienced very rough considerable interest and pleasure that a Hong- appeared in Lu Reena (Paris) there are some accepted as the ruling agent in our com- It is not, of course, that there is no Taberal weather on her trip over from Macao on Satur- kong young lady has greatly distinguished very unedifying statements." The ter de- plicated system of rule, so long is it essen- Party in the country, but that its antiquated day last. When off Linting Bay one of the hersell Over 60 candidates presented them scribes the turning of Chinosu corpsia out of tial to the well-being of the body politic leadors in Parliament are unable to feel its native crow, who was shipping heavy weather selves for examination and Miss Christine thei- coffins and burning the latter for tel thet both should be real and active. Much pulse, and wrongly diaguose its tendencies, ports, was swept overbeard by a big sea. The Shelton Hooper who entered for the Benior looting of the smaller villages and
moreover | plauder to their officers, und be as the idealist may deplore the everlasting The Party, in fact, in a similar position alarm was at one given and immediate Section, passed with honours, and moreover
preparations made to lower a bost. Captain was the only candidate to obtain this distino- appar contest of faction within our midst, the to that in which D'ISRAELI found the Charko, however, winely prevented this as the tion in Pianoforte playing. At the distribution see strife is but the result, not the cause, and Conservative party in the early seventies. boat would have been at oads swamped. He of the certificates Miss Hooper was specially Bighted a fire in a the circulation of ideas froud which it One by ones the old landmark have been put the steamer about, shortly sighting complimented for her conspicuous autres. We some of the houses were in flames, oud wo were springs is but the indication that the fires altered or removed, and the Party is drift the man, who managed to keep afloat, and beliers that Miss Hooper, before going home, Fausicking the others. In one at Inud my below are in full working order. Times ing helplessly waiting for a pilot who can on coming up to him a rope was thrown which aght for some two or three years by Mr materi lutky mough to from which the strife of party have been understand the new beacons
the sailor caught and was hauled on board, just Werl cur Lathedral organist and it must be beautiful young girl. The This is the position in which Lord twenty minutes after the alarm was given, pentally gratifying to him to learn thai lils old per bat, the vither sastoked her to the far ond absent have been marked by blanks in the growth of the nation, or have been followed ROSERREY has come forward, and, like his The reased man appeared little the worse for pugil has done so well. Some of by dead calme, during which the nation has predecesor Lord BEACONSFIELD, he feels the hit immersion, and was prolific in his thanks to remember that Miss Hooper appeared at ons
do not the genial okipper. By the yielded itself to the influence of the moment neceanty laid on him of educating" hiệ
Clarke bas just complated twen and has permitted itself to drift helplessly party Measures and surroundings change before the currents of blind destiny. Into eren mure thar med., The Conservative of the company, many of them on the those who
Macro run, and it would be difficult for man such a calm drifted the ship of state when, to-day is not the Conservative of Sir ROBBET to dissocie the pleasure of the Napoleonic ware being over, the fires of PEEL's time, and the liberal of to-day in holiday it the ancient part from the Heangahan | beat party died down almost to extinction, and not the Liberal who followed Gzaparor, and its popular and able commander.
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Home / Yau Members elect- July 1, 1902, who are not not be eligible to ozal or Ballotting Committees abexisting member of the subject is eligible for either the Ballotting Cominittnes. *Bar - Hu zandidate shall lage the privileges of
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