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rather series of causes, silver finds itself forced on the market in quantities out of all proportion to the bateral demand These causes are partly of natural, but largely of artificial growth. Few metallic ores are raised that do not contain au appreciable quantity of silver; and the extruction of the metal from those ores has
largely increasel, owing to improved
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the practice of the rest of the world than the present discredited use of silver, now from causes beyond the control of China continually falling in value; the other alao in the power of China still is to remove tira present drawbacks that hinder the expau sion of trade Following quickly upon these, but requiring more time for ite development, is the throwing open of minos, more especially of the gold mines of the Empire. The whole of the great northern. rango of China, from at least the longitude of Peking eastwards to the Corean frontier, is known to be rich in deposits of this metal,” now. so urgently needesi. By stealth, a considerable amount of gold is raised and exported yearly, and this doubtless has been tending to ease the situation, but even what gold extraction exists is dour in coatomy, and is, as far at the Chinese, Government is
policy, which is quite prepared to stringle its own salvation in the cradle. These things
TUESDAY, JANUARY 62, 19
The San Francisco Honolulu cable (laid by the Commercial Pacific Cable Co.) was v¿ened to traffic yesterday,
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General Subotitch has been appointed Gor ernor-General and Commander-in-Chief of dis Amar Territory. This command includes the || Russian troops stationed in Manchuria.
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The Right Røv, the Bishop of Victoria bopos : to sit from Englawl by the An tralie at the The result of the Viestoy's Cup which was ond of this mouth, meeting “tlie Valettx at | run at Calcutta on the 24th alt, was:—Vasto 1, Cretonne 2, Acting S. Vusto sinclud at 6 to 1, Colombo.
A telegram dutel Calcutta, December 17th, says: The plague mortality is increasing, the total deaths last week numbering 13,415 of which the Bombay Presidency bad 6,416 and the Panjab 2,000.
Cretonnest, 8 to 1 and Acetina at 20 to 1. The favourites Record Reigurand Up Guards ware not placed.
A man who is baliosed to have wilfully sot dea to about a hundred-houses in Tokyo, being Some three hundred natiyes, nion and women, responsible for the loss of several lives, w raided the British camp at Shanghai directly! arrested au the 25th ult. in Tokyo. He is but it was vacated, and carried off nearly all the twenty-four years of age. He was arrested in furniture and things in it. One of the culprits | October last'on a charge of arson, but escaped
methods which have considerably reduced the cost of the process. It has thus becoine a sort of by-product in the reduction of other ores, especially lead and copper. The silver thus obtained must be placed on the market independent of price, nor can its production be controlled by the mrdinary SEASON. of supply and demand, the amount of silver sold being passed directly to the credit of the working account of the other metals. Even greater than this is the depressing effect produced by the conduct. concerned, in direct opposition to its present Japan vid Siberia. It appears that some time Company, Amsterň, of the second steamer of
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on the whole world. In former days such a course could have had but one effect China must have been wholly successful, or have ceased to exist as a nation. As a matter of fact China was ignominiously beaten from the very beginning of her ill-starred attempt. She bad enlated jealousy of the nations giving her a fees band, and thought she would be permitted SCOTCH WHISKY to carry out her object in detail. The wsult provel that, so far from being able to defeat the whole work), she was utterly muable to cope with any one of the more
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important Powers singly. She was saved from extinction by the patriotism of her two riceroys who fortunately had control of the basin of the Yangisze, and the desire of the more advanced nations to give her another trial. As a punishment for her truculence ia having slaughtered in cold blood-some hundreds of ingent vietinis, and having
having been arrestest has been sentence to five hundred blows and to his vangnet for thres
months.
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from the police when on the way from the prison to take his trial.
'On the 20th November the keef was laid, in No mail matter can at prosent ho sent from the deckyard of the cethor:ands Shipbuilding
tions received official natics from the Russina by tb's company. The first stgamer, of which ag the Japanese Department of Commuuien the Jara-Chun-Japan line, to ha constructed
are well known to all concerned; yet no
September 15 last, will be Administration to the affect that muils would the keel was laid on
named panna, and the second Tjimahi. The he will come to the front and urge their not be conveyed by the Trans-Siberian route. being put in practice. On the contrary we Formerly, though regular mails were not des- | delivery of the two vessels will probably corn, have been stapidly trying palliatives thatched from Kobe letters maring Vin Juno, and July respectively of this year. only aggravate the disease they pretend to
Siberia" were accepted and forwarded to Port
In reply to Sir Edward Sassoon in the Houso cnc. When will our statesmen see that Arthar, but now oven this cannot be donu.
of Commons on the 4th ult., Mr. Austen something better, and more immediato in Jalgment was deliver-d on the 20th ult. in Chamberlein stated thaf, the Pacific cable bas its action, thin the ineffective attempts of treaty-making which we have lately wit pessed is needel in the present emergency?
The English ma il of the tha ult, wasdirerad in London on the 3rd inst.
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The Imperial Riescope aul Animated Picture Co. will occupy the Theatre Toyal for thres nights, commencing on Im Sth fuse.
The return of communicable disenius in Hongkong during last week was teason of plague (Chinese), both fatal, nad one ease of enteric fever (Japanese), «fatal
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the Osaka Appeal Court in the appeal of Cari Ginther, in the employ of Messrs. Simon, Evers & Co. of Kobe, against the decisions of “the Kobo Chibo Skibausbo, by which he was satenced to imprisonment for a term of one mouth with Inbour, on a charge of gonading a euolio by firing à revolver at him on the Brd January last. Judgment was to the offert that the decision of the Kobo Chino Saibansho was quashed, and the defendant flood 10 yen withecusts.
been laid in perfect condition, and that the texts for insulation and conductivity are satisfactory. Tho consulting angiacors of the Pacific Cable Board have conducted a series of speed trials over the Vaneanr·r-to-Panning section of the calle." These tests show that the cablo is capable of ourying 85 letters a winue with kaud working, 100 lettors a minute with automatiɑ curb working, and approximately 168 Jetlera a minute (84 lufter each way) with duplex aud --- rurbed automatic working. These festa exceed
One of four cases of suspected: pingus which wer detected among the operatives of the Gassad Yaru Spinning Company in Tokyo was declured to be gouniue plagas of the 26th at The visitors to the City Hall Library andAnother infected operative died, and on the Museum for the week ending 14 January as day a fresh case was discovered and former, and a non-Chinese and 3,317 Chinese afterwards found on the premises of the empany to the latter fastitution.
The Authorities in Osaka, as a precantion against plague, have ordered the destruction of
CONFECTIONERY [altempted, the murder of the Ministers of were 314 non-Chinese Bud 66 Chinese to the declared to be plagas, Seven dead rats were
Of the highest class in great variety, imported from the lea:l ing Loudon and Parisian houses.
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the Powers at her Court, she was not por-. mitted to go scot free. China in this could not plead ignorance. In her own palmy days she had recognised the sacred character of guests and envoys, and had herself breu gareful when the insult was offered to her- self to inflict summary punishment ou the offending nation ; and the justice meted out to her was but in accordance with her own principles of statecraft. Instead of suffering the punishment in person, she was, bowever,
penalties required her to pay a sum of dome five millions sterling per annum, a sufli- eicutly light infliction had she only set 31 about payment in a statesmanlike manner. Herr, however, she failed, and the methoda ONLY comeraniations relating to the news columus she has been adopting have only increased
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THE necessity for taking some decisive step to avoid the evils brought about by the continuously falling price of silver is daily
Yesterday at Delhi was to be held the native review and a grand ustive garden party in the Victoria Gardous. Today there is the State ball, on Thuc-day the geost review, and on Saturday the Viceroy leaves Delhi. Various sporting events are distributed through the week.
Kwok Li 'Mui (31), a married woman, was sentenced to three months' hard labent at the Police Court yesterday for crudity to her ten-
year-old son. She bound the boy's wrists with a rope which she fastened to a mail in the wall, then baat him with a bamboo and scorched him
out the head and faso with a lighted wick,
The Chefoo Express says:—“ Chefoo is in fested lately with what might be termed shady characters, and ous fears the advent of crime among as on their account. Such a one was sught yesterday stealing money from the Chinese servants in the employ of a European, and was made short work of and sent away". ultimately coming to Hongkong, we suppose.
Sir B. Barton, the Federal Promier, declares every way her trade, with the that the proposed agreement for an increased satural consequence that she has been Australian navad subsidy drawn up at the compelled to meet the whole by the direct Colonial Conference will be the last of its kind. export of her own circulating medium, and Australia will be able in 1901--when the opera as she bus contrary to the more politiction of certain clauses of the Constitution ceases course taken by her neighbours persisted to effectivo-to establish her own mary in ca. in maintaining her own discredited silver currency, she has been throwing on the foreign markets already overstocked un amount of that metal_which, in addition-to- the other depressing influences at work, has made it an actual drug in the markets of the world.
operation with the Imperial fleet; then the officers and men trained in the meantime in the Australian squadron will be valuable,
A telegram dated Calcutta, December 3rd, say that the Oxford University Authenties Tas visifars latted first, and scored 116 played Bengal Presidency on ton precious day
rats, especially those in the spinning mills Measores will be vigorously enforced in order ta clear too city before the influx of visitors to the Exhibition.
We are in receipt of a neat hand book entitled Oralia and the Exhibition, 1993, published by Ichizo Miwa, Koraibashi, Osaks. The book is intended to give foreigners a brief preliminary
account of the character and object of the Fitth National Exhibition to be held at Osaka this year. It is a highly interesting publication. The letterpress is well worth reading and there are numerous pieturas of tho chief points of beauty and interest in Osaka and the vicinity; also a list of names of denters nud mannfac turers whose articles tourists may desire to in spect or purchase, and the addresses of the principal banks and public companies. The little book forms a valuable guide to the
Forthcoming Exhibition.
The main object of the Kaiser in visiting England has now at last been discovered according to sous wisecres. Half-political, half-matrimonial, this object was to tighten the bonds of amity between the two kindred nations by bringing about a marriage between his eldest son, the Crown Prince, and His Majesty's own cousin, Princess Alice of Alb ny. Doubtless the consent of King Edward, as head of his houso, would be requisito for such a union; but it was surely not necessary for the Emperor to go specially to Sandringham for the purpge His Majesty, in his time, played many parts,
appearance in the role of a match-maker but this will have been the first occasion of his
which is more the business of a mother than a another marrings project which might comme é father. Besidos, rumour at Barlie speaks of
ners with love. This is the proposed union of the Crown Prince with the Princess Alexandra of Cumberland, a marriage which would have the effect of finally solving the Brunswick- Escover question, exactly in the same way as dispused of by the Emperor's own wedding the Schleswig-Holston question was at last with the Princess Victoris, daughter of the
deal claimant to the Elbe Dauties.
the anticipations of the expert witnesses who gave evidence before the Pasilic Cable Committees.
With reference to the recent Ostasiatische Lloyd telegram affirming It to be quiet in Kansu and the rumours about Tung Fa-hsiang to be incorrect, the Shanghai Mercury says:— We believe that this report has been circulated by the Chinese officials merely to derive, for officials that are friendly towards foreigners are of opinion that the situation in Kansa is fur from hopeful. We have now another warning
from Lao-ho-kew, from a correspondent who bas every opportunity of knowing what is going
op. He writes under dute the 4th of Devera- The following tlograms have ber just been received here :-* Ping-Jian-fu, Karsu. A crisis seems imminent, the officials are power- less to act. The Taotui has suppressed ramones but circumstances have got altered. There is cause for grave opprehension it Tung Fu-hsiang is not supressed. The above telograms are very important, showing the situation up there. The officials say that a trace has been patched up until the spring, but, nevertheless, they are afraid that something is going to happen."
CHINESE INDEMNITY OF 1901.
TELEGRAMS."
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GENERA NEWS.
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LONDON, 4th January, 10.5 p..
VENEZUELA,
A Caraças telegram statos that the Venezuekin revolutioniste are marching on-
Caracas.
The Powers-bavo-captared 49 Venezuelin vessels, which love beca towel to Port of Spain, Trinidad. The arbitratio a
negotiations are still proceeding.
THE KING OF SAXONY.
It is reported that the King of Saxony is critically ill..
AMOY RACES.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
Amoy, 5th Janusry, 6.25 p.m.
FIRST DAY. The first day's results are as follows:-
CONSULAZ CUR.
Ion Style Blucherry...
TRIAL STAKES. -
O.F. ... Gutcher
Faith...
Lille Fillic Lock Slapin W. G
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9
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3.
"CHEN CHIZ PLATE.
1
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HAEKWAN CUP.
Biancmange Calibre
Ton
CLUB CUP.
Disgust Sinbod Style ...
KELANGUY CU¿,
Hein Bey...
Orion..
Faith...
AMOY STAKES.
WV. G.... Calibre Blueberry...
CANTON.
FROM OUR CORRESPONDEND]
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Canton, 3rd January.
THE NEW YE`E.
New. Year's Day pusred off very quietly in Shapeen; some of the residents going out rid- ing, and others picnicking in steam.launcher and flower-boats.
A GRAND WEDDING.
On the 29tis ult, a grand marriage took plaço ̈ ̈
Mr. H. M. Bevis, British Delegatë, Shanghai, notifies that an instalment of 20 per cent. of in Canton between the daughter of thaw Tang. the certificats amount. of the Chinese Indem- sang, a millionaife, and a young man of the ily of 1901 is payable on Coupon "B" name of Cheong, also, of rich family. There of certificates issued in payment of Buitishwere large banquets and a theatrical perform- the provisions of auce in the house of Chot Tung-sang, to which, private claims under the Notification of the 12th June last, Cocrous amcag a large number of guests, the Cousals are payable at the London office of the Houg and officials, Toreign and Chinese, wore invited: kang and Shanghai Bank and negotiablo at branches and agencies, Hoogkong and China.
HOCKEY.
There will be a Cup match this ofterunon, at 4 o'clock, when the Club st XI will meet the Club "A team. The following will be the sides:--'
Murphy and Mr. Doukin, R.N.; half-backs, C. P. Chater, Lt. Bollect, R N.. and t. Queruall, A.0.D; forwards, J. Hooper (Captain), P. P.
EWAKGSI.
In view of thoseriousdisturbances in Kwangsi, the Provincial Governor Wang Chi-phonsent a - telegram to the Asting Viceroy Tak Sow at Can- tu. requesting His Excellency to send either the Black Flag General Liu Yang-fa or Geveral Fung Tez-chai. Thereupon the Viceroy con- sulted with Liu Yung-fu and naked him to fako the fire battalinas (each consisting of -Club:—Gen), C. A Parker, R.N.; broks, L. | 500 soldiers) under his command to Kwongsi to serve under the Provincial Governor. Lin Yang-tu did not fall is with such ́s proposal; he said that the Hunan troeps could nevat agreo with the Cantonese, and it would be bad policy to pat them under the control of Wang Chi-chon. In any omorency they would be
necessary to enlist more troops, say tem useless. To sweep the rebels away it would be
bastalions, in addition to what there are in tho arrisons, and they should not be under the control of Wang Chi-chon, So Liu refused to. go and the Viceroy had to desputeh another general, Pan Pui-kai.
PN, and O. J. Barues.
Club "A":-Goal, T. C Gray (Capt); backs, half-backs, Sir Juba Kan, Lt. odgaon, B.F. Lt. Campbell, RE, and H. H. J. Gompertz;
and F. H. Bell; forwards, . F. Chard, A. G. trebor, A. W. Whitlow. Lt. Matt S.F., and
Lt. Collin, S.F. §.
FIGHT WITH A PYTHON ON A BRITISH STEAMER.
the London Express:-
The following New York telegram is from
FIRATES.
Chinnery made 27, Kershaw, 25, Hollins 17, This is the present condition of affairs; and Headlam 13. None of the others reached becoming more pressing in the Far East; and as Chiúa secins unable herself to grasp double figurca. The Presidency went in at itself more to the Emperor as combining basi.J. Wudeliouse, Dr. Dartnell, R. II. Carter and warned by their late experience, we the situation, the time is approaching, if it o'clock, and when stumpe wore drawn at 5 tind that, of the few remaining countries have not already come, when she must be o'clock, seven wickels had fallen for 39 runs. that have up to this retained their saved from the consequences of her own Mr. Powyr-Keck's bowling was deadly. Play silver standard, Sinu and the Philippines folly. We are not here dealing with o was resumed next morning, haye already made the necessary prepara-independent mation; China has by her. Commander Yorke, R.N., has arrived at tions for the introduction of goki. The recent conduct lost all right to beweiheiwei and has taken over charge of the Straits Settlements are seriously contem-considered in the teatter. It is only right Navat Department on the Island. His correst plating a sinflar step. China therefore and reasonable to recall the fact that she title is King's Harbourmaster. The Weihaisel remains as the only commercial state in the lins forfeited her claim to be treated correspondent of the Shanghai Mercury sys world still adhering to a disparaged as a nation at all as a fact she only that a well known and thoroughly competent
The pirates on the Canton river frequently A series of letters is appearing in Madume, standard. Now the disease under which owes what measure of independence. bus American mining expert has lately been there under the general heading of "The First
carry on their d predations in varions diegniers ; sometimes ss officia's of the revenus oraisers, silver laboura is chronic, and proceeds from heen left to her to the sufferance of the (to give his professional opinion on the mining
Ladies of the Day." In the December issue
Captain Golding, of the British steamer
with a protext of sourcling for esutraband, vatural causes inherent in the nature of civilised Powers; and in the interests, of prospect of Weihaiwej. The correspondent is.
the Right Hon. Lady Jeune gives us some Afridi, which has just arrived from Singapore startimes as soldiers patrolling the river, abe metal, or rather the processes of its herself, as of the world, the time has arrived told that he is more than satisfied with what
three or four columns on the Empress of China, ad honghai wth a cargo of and wild times as merchants, sometimes us passed- extraction. At one time almost the whole when she must reform her currency, or
he has soon in the territory, and no doubt
which (says the L. and C. Express) we cat ruly animals relates a very exciting adcanture whichgers, and sometiny és boatmen in slipper-bouls of the silver used in the world was extracted have it reformed for her, and what the mining operations well shuttly be started,
characterise as being very much of a muddl, occurred during, the voyage. At Songspre a so as to take pasgers to a long distance and from ores containing a considerable per Powers have to consider is, not what is A Kole Chronicle correspondent writes under and as it purports to extend over her life datorathon and a Fangat tiger were taken on board.then obfhem. A few days ago a certaio Chinese, contage of the metal, and till a few years agreeable to Chim, but what "has become a date Vladivostock, December 15:- The Ex.
all went well until the scoond-night-bat from, by maro N, ai tiang, came from "Hongkong to Shanghai, when the python knocked the top off ago it was generally expected that when necessity for her further existence. It is change Committas here is in receipt af iustrue.
tou by the night beat; on arrival ke engaged the price of silver had dropped so low as to plain that the present position of affairs tions from the Department of Finanes at St.
its box and made its way into a wooden struct to take bi nalore. Auother boat come on the bridge deck, where the other into en ligion with tuis, and the boatmen started forbid the working of these ores at a profit cannot last; there are too many foreign Petersburg, to soloot from among the prominent residents u apecial Committee and Sub-Com.
zimals were kept. The screams of the birds quarrating. The pirates hen jumped into the a term would be placed on the continual interests and too much foreign property at fall in the metal. The uses to which silver stake to permit China to play ducks and mittee to assist in perfecting the details in careful to write only about such mubjecte as she and beasts attracted Captain Gulding's atten- first boat. beat the beaten, and robbed the can be put as a precious metal are strictly drakes, even with her own money. She is connection with the fres-zone harbour at either knows or thoroughly understands; furtion, and by the light of the mon he could see passenger of his luggage. They were arrested the port of Vladivostock, authorised by we are treated to several very grotesque things. the python gliding bitter and thither and heaton identified, and are lodged in the Nam limited, and have bardly increased in the in the position of a spendthrift bankrupt the Minister of Finance, M. de Witte, such as "ber adopted sun Kwang: Hsu Jung its resting movement. Accompanied by the Rei gaul. 978 ratio as the decrease in its demand who has to be restrained from spending any during his recent visit to the port." The Chi." We might also point out that tho wate holding a powerful lantern, Capitain.
In Fatsban, somewhere near Shekwon, there owing to the discredit cast upon it as a more of his patrimony, not less in his own Kobe Chronicle comments as follows: Japan Empress has been a leading figure on the Chi Gold ng, armed with an axe, fackied the only
was an eartbernware-maker by name Char circulating medium. As an useful metal interests than in those of his creditors, and will have to be on the alert if she
nese stage for not three years, but for somo.reptile. While tho male fished the lantern in
Yong Tai, over sixty years of age. He had silver has not yet sufficiently fallen in price one of the first and most immediate needs intends to make any of her ports-free, for thing over 40 years. Again, Lady Jeane tells the python's face to divert i s attention Captain beer married three or four times, and ali bie ns that even her bitterest detractors do not Golding slashed with bis axe, almost severing wive died without children, which the Chinese to pormit of its coming into any seriously of the situation is such a reform in her if similar action be taken at Dalay as is
Lately he was betrothed enhanced demand, so that the market must currency as shall prevent the necessity proposed at Vladivostock, Japan will find her accuse her of gross immorality." Now that is its body. Hissing and coiling ready to spring call "toogh life."
on his assailuate the python was again foiled by But it seems that the girl did not like the to a girl of seventeen, of the same place. opportunity of acting as a grout storehouse for precisely and exactly what the Reform Party be looked upon as in an especially dangerous of the export of silver to an already over-
For the attainment of the Far East to be gradually slipping away in China have in no uncertain terms charged the flash of the rate's lautern, and Captain elderly bridegroom, for on the day of the condition, with every indication of further stocked market.
Golding rendered it helpless with three terriffe marriage, when the bridal chair was brought to from her. Nothing seems to have been heard to her. It will be needless, however, to go on depression till a balance cau be arrived at, this end, one or two measures are of the since their formation of those Socioler for to point out other inaccuracies, bat people whose blows. Among the other animais on board were tate her to Chan's house, she ran into ber and silver be produced at a profitable price first, and most immediate necessity. One
a Japanese bear, a tapir, an eños, a moniter room, closed the door, and cat her throat with promoting the establishment of free ports in names are eminent should certainly be mora
a pair of scissors, When the door was breken to the pockets of its employer.
of these, we have pointed out, is the substitu-Japan. Indeed the majority of Societies in this circumspect in what they give out apparently lizard, a bamboo rst, a Java peacock, and a lot open she was found in a pool of blood; and the
for the benefit of those who are uninitiated. From an entirely different cause, ortion of a currency more in accordance with pantry appear to be still-born.”
bridegroom had to pay for her faneral.
are very sadly wanting. We should no in ordinary course have noticed the ppoara co such an article had it not been that the author has attained some distinction as a writer in the literary world. It behoves her, therefore, to
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of monkeys.
A TRAGEDY.