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an American missionary declared that the 1 streets of Hongkong wore us safe as those of any big town in his native land. And so for the most part they are. We cannot, however, shut out eyes to the fact that the
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it any the less advisable that special steps should be taken. Mr. HAZELAND has shown, in some of his recent sentences at the Police Court, that he thinks that the infliction of corporal punishment will have a beneficially deterrent effect. There are people who dispute this in the case of Europe offenders, but we do not know thut any, speaking from knowledge, would argue in like manner in the case of Chinese. criminals, even if it were to be granted that they are right about Europeans. certain, at any rate, that the flogged native thief is unlikely in most cases to emerge from gnol any the less thievish in propensities from his flogging. Is there then any addition to the ordinary senteues of im. prisonment for theft and such offences, which will benefit the Colony P. We think
Another day free from plagus ended at noon | Miss Mary MoCalls, the daughter of Com on Saturday.
The German Minister, Baron von Mamm, will return to Peking' as soon as his love has expired,
Venesuela is protesting against the non- sanctioning of the blockade by the Powers.
The prospects of the insurgents are improving
münder McCalls, U. B. N. was married on the 2nd ult, at Newport, to Ident. Arthur | MacArthur, son of Major-General, Aether MacArthur, late Military Governor in the Philippines. Liontenant MacArthur is an officer in the javy junior grade,
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The N.-C. Daily News gives the following
account, from a Washow despatch, of how The Shanghai Mercury says that Sir James General Mu lost his life in Kwangsi-It Mackay, British Commercial Treaty Con-seems that the General, with a force of nearly missioner to Chine, has booked is passage homa 2,000 mes, attempted to force the gates of a for himself and factly by the aort Empress host. walled village, called Lungisi, in Wuyuna-beiss, bat was received with such a hot fire from the A New York telegram to Manila, dated body of rabola bulding the place that in a few Angust, enys: The Ban Francisc Trading minutos General Maand about eight of bis man Company is preparing to ship cotton dirsel were shut down. in front of the gate. General
to Chòus and will endeavour to oust the British middlemen.
The two defendants in the Freedom libel case at Manila haro had judgment given against them, the verdlet being six months' hard labour and a fine of $1,09) (gold) èach. An appeal has been lodged.
Ma's body was eventually recovored, and his men retreated back to Nanning. -. -----
On Coronation Day every man in the Navy either drank the King's health in a tot of rum or received the equivalent in savings. It is the cheapest “big” drink in the Empire. Probably not less than 100,000 men poured out libations in honour of the King. The equivalent of a An official telegram has been received by theration of rum is a halfpenny and half a furtking, Japanees Government, stating that Frames has so that men who do not take up their grog are consented to the return of the rallways at Shan-are entitled to a penny farthing every two days. halkwen, provided she is allowed the privilege The cast, then, of 103,003 rum ratious works of constracting the railway from Tientsia to out at £925, about the price of a dozen bottles of the late Queen Victoria's extra special sherry. Proting fu.
which thirty men will consume after dinner..
The cholera epidemic in Fonchow, pecording. to a native despatch from that city, has declined considerably lately, insomuch that coa.e parts of the city and suburbs where the discass ran mpart a month ago are pronounced at present comparatively free from it.
Offears and men of the Royal Navy who took part in the suppression of the Chinese Bozers bare little reason to be satisfied with the treat.
ment they have received at the hands of the India Office and For-ign Office, says a home
bounties to every man engaged in the opera-
TELEGRAMS.
"DAILY PRESS” SERVICE.
GENERAL NEWS.
{FROM QUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.]
LONDON, 30th August, 9.40 p.m.
TERRIBLE FLOODS IN NEPAUL Owing to the heavy rains causing the rivers to overflow their banks' several hundreds of lives have been lost in Nepaul, while great damage has been done to property.
REUTER'S SERVICE.
LONDON, 28th August,
EARTHQUAKES IN THE PHILIPPINES.
A series of earthquakes has taken place in
Amarionn beadquarters. Sixty natives are re- the More country, Philippine Islands, near the
ported to have been killed, but no Americans.
· LONDO", 28ch. August.
MARKHAM V. WERNHER, BEIT & CO. Mr. A. B. Markham, M.P. in a letter to
CANTON.
[FROM QUE CORRESPONDENT.]
Canton, 30th August. GOVERNMENTAL CHANGED. It is mid that the new provincial Governor Lee Hing-yai is expected to arrive at Canton within ten days; so orders have been given to the Nam Hoi and Ponyü magistrates to make. preparations to revolva bin. Whom he comes he will take over the sale of the present pro- vincial governor, H. E. Tak Son, while the latter will then take over the seals of office from E.E. Tạo Muas acting Viceroy The Mu will then be able to leave bis post,
THE CANTON-BANKOW BAILWAY. Some of the staff of the Canton and Hankow Railway Company have arrived and the
Superintendent of Works, Mr. Grey, an Amerì- can, and his interpreter Leung Bun chee are also expected here shortly from Shanghai,
SA FOREIGNEBS IN THE INTERIOR.V
It is said that the Viceroy has received offofel instenotions froni Peking to com- municate to the officials of the different districts that whenever any missionary or other foreigner travols onder passport into the interior he has to make arrangements to engage either coolies, boats or carriages, and the Chinese oficiale are not to be responsible.
for the same.
A MILITARY TROUBLE.
In consentence of the frequent disturbances caused by local banditti in Waiohow the Vicorar sent soldiers of the Hol Shing regimens to suppress them. However, on
account of a quarrel between some soldiers, the two raguments fought among themselves, and
The Saturday Review conclades an articls. paper. The Admiralty had decided to grant Messrs. Wernher, Bait & Co., "unreservedly the officers had to intervene to suppress the
entitled Châteaux en Cuine" with the sensible It is remark-Abolition of the word lekin from the Chinese vocabulary has an enticing sound; but there is significance in the kops expressed by the President of the Manchester Climber of Commerce, that no other word will be found to take its place.
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tion of such offenders from Hongkong. The power of banishing these" undesirables rests in the Governor, and it might well be more freely used. We get much of the reum of Chinn (Bs Chinese residents will be among the first to admit) coming to the Colony, and having a means to hand of turning back the stream, we should not be so chary of using it. One other point we would urge on the Government, and that is the station ing of European policemen, or in default of then Indian policemen with a knowledge of English, in districts where outrages against Europeans occur. We do not meau, of course, that wherever an European has watch or handbag snatched away or some
The trouble in Northern Sium is reported over. The Bid Observer of the 22nd August
saya telegram received from Musog Narn brings the satisfactory intelligence that Chow Rajwange the Chief of Chiengmai — in command of forces from Narn, blocked the road north of Phrae and osptured about two hundred Shan robbers who were fissing from Phrae, on the 14th inst.
tions, and they suggested, in correspondence with the departments named, that these should
be fix at the rate of 1200 for captains and proportionate sums for officers and in recording to rank. After an exchange of correspondence on the subbject it has been decided to reduce the amount of the proposed bonuties to one-third.
withdraw the nafounded charges made by
him" in the House of Commons on the 19th.
March, 1901, al subsequently repeated to constituent, and expresses his sincera ragrat for the occurrents. Meers Wernher, Beit & Co. have accordingly withdraws the action which they had instituted for slander.]
LONDON, 29th August,
THE RUSSIAN TEA DUTY. The additional customs day imposed by Rassia on certain teas imported into European Russia from the Far East, is at the rate of three roubles per pood, not pound..
THE KING'S PRIZEMAN.
Lient. E. D. Johnson, London Rifle Brigade, who won the King's Prize at Bisley, is treaty. six, an athlete with thin face and keen' blue eyes, zu old King's College boy, born in Leicestershire, a moderate drinker, smokes, and for the rest is an accountant. He had an The N-C. Daily New learns from Yochow, extraordinary experience in connection with.
THE KING'S MOVEMENTS. ander date the 20th ult, that Mr. H. B. Stewart, the war. Being actually refused for the U.L.V.,
His Majesty the King 'has participated in on the 18th alt: for Cheachou, under escort, to of the China Inland Mission, laft Changtah on the ground that he was not sufficiently the deer-stalking now being carried on in good horseman, the young lieutenant promptly investigate the circumstances of the murder of refuted this judgment by going out
the Cape Scotland, and has shot a stag. Messrs. Bruce and Lowis,
After seeing him and joining the Rough Riders. One of the safely off, H.M.S. Snipe and S.M.S. Vorwärts first men that Colonel Cholmondeley, command. proceeded to. Yochow, crossing the Tungtinging the M. I. division of the C.I.V., met when Lake. This, as far as is known, has not been he reached Pretoria was Johnson. It must done before by steamships.
have been a great surprise to the colonal to find the rejected subaltern acting as adjutant of s corps of Rough Riders! Lieutenant Johnson
Bergeant Fulton's victory in 1888. the metropolis for the first time since Armourer»
Under the auspices of the Victoria Recreation
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LORD ROBERTS AT DOVER
The freedom of the city of Dover has been conferred on Lord Roberts.
CHANNEL SWIMMING RECORD, Holbein, who made a second attempt to swin the English Channel, was removed from
Currepondents wast forward their names and ad such outrage occurs a white constable shoulú | Club, the open half-mile swimming champion brings the Blue Riband of marksmanship to the water exhausted, one mile from Dover.
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HONGKONG OFFICE, LA, DES VEUX ROAD Ul. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
Honarono, bet September, 1902-
THE behaviour of the lower class Chinese
in this Colony, of the statue loosely defined -xs" coulie,” has always been of a factuat- ing character, not because the evil characters have at times become repentant and suddenly attempted to reform their ways, but chiefly, we imagine, because certain
But
the
at once be placed at that point. certainly if more than one offence of kind occurs in a certain neighbourhood und it is found that no intelligent constable was at hand, there is a call for more efficient police protection. We trust that we can say this without being taken to cast a slur of the police administration, which is far from being our desire. Eficient municipal government, however, aven in a Crown colony, is not probable, without an under. standing between public and police, and in Hongkong the public does not yet feel that the police force is thoroughly able to give it that full measure of protection agains: lawbreakers for which it has a right to look
It is notified in the Gazette that Amoy bau been recognised by Hongkong as free from
cholera.
On the U. S. 8. Rainbow returning to Manih after dry-docking at Kowloon, the distilling and supply ship Iris is to come here for repairs also,
Monte, Erich Georg & Co, may in their weekly shar. list dated Hongkong, 30th August:We have to report ha a mach more satisfactory market this week, a variety of stocks having been dealt in at rates which in
HONGKONG'S ASSETS AND LIABILITIES.
11th inst.; two prizes; entranos fee, $1. There ship of the Colony will be decided on Thursday,
will also be a four-lengths' (133 yards) race, and a scratch race open to Army, Navy, and Police. On the following day theme will be swum off the 200 yards chatopiouship of the Colony open to all unmere two prizes: The following statement of the "Colony's entrance fee, $1. Entries olcom on Thurs-Assets and Liabilities on the 30th June, 1902, next, at 6 p.m. to Mr. Frank W. White, the appears in the Generament Gazette over the Hon. Secretary.
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LIABILITIES
The Shanghai Times of the 20th ult, saya: Willis E. Gray, representative of the Hankow. Canton Railway Concession, left last night va Subsidiary conus. the Chusan for Hongkong and Cantos, in the interests of that company. Mr. Gray said last night that he had already sent men to Canton. two weeks ago, and that the work was now under way. The road in to extend from Canton to Hankow, and will cover about seven hundrel and fifteen miles, and nine hundred and eighteen miles, including branches. Everything con. nected with the road is to be of American manufacturo, the cinches to be of the latest Pullman pattern. It is not possible to may just Subsidiary soine in transit Fatimate of silver at maint when the work will be completed, but if every
thing runs along smoothly it should be finished. ia nine mouths or a year.
Dopusite not available ..... Crown Agente drafte... Money order remittances Balance overdrawn, bank.... Balance overdrawn, Crown Agente
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He swam 53 miles in twenty-two hours, making
record.
LONDON, 29th August.
PERSIA AND TURKEY.
An understanding in principle has been reached between Pernis sud Turkey, under the
disturbance.
· GUN-RUMBING CATTLE DEALS29, Among othér adventurers, amogglers, and
merchants who for the sake of gain apply arms to the rebels in Kwangel, it is seertained
that the cattle-dealers also, who carry armas for self-protection, are combining this same disloyal basis with their lawful trade. The Viceroy has in consequenos given orders to have the names taken of all the cattle dealers who convey cattle from Kwanglang to Kwongal for sale, and he number of the arms they carry registered. In case they are found to have anything to do With the rebels they ars to be severely punished. NEW MILITARY INSTRUCTORS FOR WHAMPOA)- - Two Japanese military instructors, and also two Chines who have learnt military drill for some time in Japan, have been engaged to give military Instruction and teach deill to the China stadents in the military school in Whampoa. The other day they bad an
view with the Viceroy,
POLICE COURT
Saturday, 31 August.
BEFORE ME F Hageland (POLICE
BY: MAGISTRATE).
THE WELLINGTON STREET BOLBERT." The caso ogainst the opolie who ensfchool a gold watch and chain from Mrs. Sieft la im Welllugton Street on Friday faceavon, nodar circumstances reported in our Saturday, Inna - was proceeded with The defendant pleade not guilty, although caught red-handed,
Mrs. Shefeld described the theft, and was followed la the witness-box by J. J. da Silva, the Sanitary Board forenian who par and caught the defendant and, after handing him over to Mr. Richard Plows, the European who
c. suspices of Russia, for a treaty of commeres
embodying a specific tariff on the basis of the joined in the chase, searched in the place where 60,770.64
most favonced, nation treatment. This is the the watch and chain had been thrown and 1,023,000.00
corollary reported in the recent Rumo-Persian $1,083,770.01
1,559,198 treaty. $2,812,900.44
$
zeatored them to their owner,
His Worship did not take any further evi- dence, being satisfied of the defendant's guilt,
The defünlent in his statement said he was RUSSIA AND AFGHANISTAN.
suffering from » disse and would not get any There are indications of a campaign begin-work Footore and weary after a long and 436,797.28 ning in the Busino Frase in favour of the | fruitless search for a clansman, he was sitting 18,085,74 total or partial abrogation of the Anglo-Russian: down to rest when he saw a coolie running along 2,1126.0 Agreement of 1879 regarding Afghanistan, the street with a watch and omin in ki haud. At a point opposite the defendant he threw (bom The St. Petersburg Note Fremyd in 's down and the latter picked up the articles and $1,642,9.0.44|| further setiols, apparently inspired, mentions was examining them when the Sanitary Board
734,000.00 that Rusis made a formal declaration to Urest | foreman coshed up and arrested him. 206,808.00 British two years ago suggesting a modification $1,640,808.00 of the agreement.
081,41
MORE TROUBLE IN COREA.
LONDON, 29th August.
THE HOUSE-TAX IN JAPAN.
The story did credit to the prisoner's faculty of lurention, but it took nothing of ble fan- tunce, which was one of six months hard labour, the first and leat i 5 days to be spent confinement. He pings of 20 stroken esel...
His Worship directed Lumpector hed charge of the 'osse, to bring the
of the sanitary foreman before the notion of the The Protoon! providing for arbitration of ¦ Enoítary Board and police puicias-ove
BIG JEWELLERY BOBBERT. at Tokyo.
seasons occasion the coming over from the most cases show an improvement, and the ehting kusting for several hours. In the rents are sources of considerable anxiety in the house-tax question in Japan has been signed.
market closes decidedly healthier.
According to a Tientsia despate to the deali, on the 16th alt, a party of five or six Japanese soldiers came into conflict with a oumber of German soldiers at Tongku, the mainland of China of an extra supply of
course of the struggle a non-commissioned native labourers, in whose ranks are many
The Governor's new Peak residence is being officer of the Japanese company lost ble sword, undesirable as well as many desirable furnished with all despatch in view of the ex- which was seized by the Germans. -No one, residents for this Colóny, while, on the pected return of His Excellency Sir Henry however, was seriously injured. It is also other hand, the temporary cessation of Blake on the 9th inst. It will be some tine, stated that ou the 19tk ult. two Japanese active employment in sumie branches of however, before the young bamboo hedges soldiers engaged in a quarrel with seron Russian industry causes sumbers of the less yaluable surrounding the house will serve the occupants | soldiers at a Japanese house at Tongke. Que workmen to return to their own homes. as a safficient protection from the gaze of Russian was sevòroly, injured. 4 Japaness No doubt, too, an outburst of zeal on the passers-by,
soldier was arrested by the gandarmes. Mr. part of the police has an excellent effect in
Harada, police inspector in the Japanese Con- aulnte ut "Tientalo, proended to Tangka the samo day to make onquiries into the matter.
The Emperor of Corsa is about to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of his coronation. Such
Cores, the basis of all festivities, namely money, being unfortunately absent. Hence there has THE KING OF ITALY IN GERMANY the morning of the bih alt on a charge of been much talk of negotiations between the Aatate banquet was given at Berlis in ban- Court and Mr. MaoLeavy Brown, the latter our of the vicit of H. M the King of Italy not being at all disposed to squander upon yesterday ovaning. The German Emperor, superfous demonstrations the small megigun tocating the King of Italy, referred to the
men vs Chan Tala, the women who was arrested on
stealing-over $2,000 worth of jewellery from... house at 18, Wallington Street, and whten (HAS has been on remand erer nose, was sentenced tos motli hate labour Detective secret Kerr covered nearly all of the stojen jewellery-
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
The Imperial German mail steamer König dibert left Shanghai, via Foochow, on the 30th ult, at 4am and may be expected here on or
- about the 3rd inst
of funds remafóing in his hands. Apparently renewal of the triple allianes which, he mid, some exit from that dilemma was found. Bat continued in its old strength and had woven now another presents itself. The Corean itself in the lives of three peoples. · The King Gavoremont announced His Majesty's purpose of Italy in the course of his reply said that the The billiard tournament in the Cirilisa Club the clearing away from our midst of many was brought to a close last work. My W.
to the varions Courts of Europe and asked two nations wonbi advance in the paths of natives with whose presence we can well Goldenburg won the frst prize (a silvor rose-
them to send special envoys to attend the civilisation protected by this old alliance, now dispense. But, whatever be the reasons, | bawlj, and second honours fall to Mr. O, H. Meurs. Betz, s'Jacob & Co. have been ap
ceremony. Naturally the reply was that the recognised as an effectual safeguard for peace. there is most certainly a periodicity in the Channutt, why thereby secured a silver cap, pointed agents in Hongkong for the General Representatives already in Seoul would be displays of the criminal propensities of the To Mr. J. Quinn went the prime for the highest Marine Insurance Co., Ld, of Dresden, capital instructed to act for their respective countries more turbulent of the Chinese in the Island, break, handsome silver cigar-case kindly 3,000,000 marks, working in connection with on the auspicious occasion That did not the Saxonish Re-Insurance Co., Ld., Dresden, please the Corman monarch. He had looked At the present moment we seem to be presented by Mr. H. T. Coleman.
also having a share capital of 3,000,000 marks, for something more splendid. Oue Power, enjoying (as the phrase goes) one of these On Saturday, about half-past four o'clock in The General Marine Insurance Co.. Ld., of however, appreciated his mood and igread to periods, though of course it is nothing like the afternoon, the Colony was visited by a Dresden, obtained the Royal Charter from the send a special envoy. That Power was Russia some of the outbreaks which used to render violent thunderstorm. It lasted for rather less Saxonian Government on 4th February, 1881, and the envoy chosen was Mr. Waeber. But Hongkong notorious in the past, from than an hour bat a very aware though short- and have since that bean working successfully the news is said to have caused anything but the airly days when in August, 1846, ved, The Harbour people were under the all over the world. Their London, establiab satisfaction to the Corean capital. residents were advised to carry arms impression apparently that a typhoon was in the mente are the Consolidated Marine Insurance apprehension prevails that the Russian envoy and not proceed to any distance from the air, for the bulk of the small craft made for the Companies of Berlin and Dresden, Led. 126. does not corus merely to make acte de presence at shelter at Causeway Bay. As it was, however, Bishopsgate Street. From the report of the the ceremonial, but that he brings something up town alone. In thuge times the local papers the storm cleared on as rapidly as it had come Company for 1901 it appears that, besides the his sleeve, something which will invest the were full of acccnuta of outrages, and down and the evening w pleasantly cool, a share capital already specified, the reserve funds rejoicings with an atmosphere of mourning, extraordinary measures were necessary, as result no debt of the heavy rains which fell at the beginning of the year minouuted to It is certainly a source of anxiety to have any history of Hongkong will show Now Streets were flooded in some quarters, but no 885,000 marks, which shows the concern to be importanate frisuude and also to be in possession anutters are very different. The other day serious damage is reported,
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The C.P.B. steamer Empress of India arrived at Shanghai at p.m. on the 29th alt, and left again at 6 p.sh. on the 30th for Nagasaki, where she is dus to arrive at 7 am, to day.
BEFORE ME. J. H Keur (£CTINO -
POLICE MAGISTRATE);
AN INTERNATIONAL: QUA William emitit:~ an→→ Englahman @ James
Irishman, William
O'Neil
Americas, and Musto P Media Oiled, wore sant to the konse, o of detention for vagrancy The Chilion was consisted of sessalt a little | over a week ago, and fined 22 or 7 days *** NANOTTER-BEACHCOMBER, VE
John McIntosh, whong năma proclaims his nationality Beetriah, wat zeut to prison for one month, with hard ishont for failing to return to the house of detention, to which he had been semmitted sa k vaginait C. Houtledge found him Jying asleep, t quarter past five on Saturday morning, on pile of wood su Prays. West, opposite the Central Market.
other
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The steamer Lightning, from › Calcutta, to play left Singapore for this port on the afternoon for half mus of the 28th pit
The P. & O. chartered steamer Glenskiel laft. Singapore for this port on the 30th mit at