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line, is under negotiation. Surroys have been inade for the lines froid Soochow to Hangchow and Ningpo, and from Canton to Kowloon." The British and Chineso Cor- poration have concluded a fresh agreement A. S. WATSON & CO., for the construction of the line from Shanghai to Nanking, but with regard to the other lines no action, so far as the Government are aware, is desired by the concessionaires.
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His Excellency the Governor has been pleased Miss Floy Golmore has been appointed to appoiat Mr. Chang Chun Hong to be assistsub Attorney-General at Manila. public vaccinator.
A special commission will leave St. Petersburg abortly to take over the control of the Chinose Eastern Railway, on which regular trailo will be opened in the month of July next.
The capital of 200,000 Tls for the Grand Hotel des Wagon Lita, Peking, Ld., has been over-subscribed. The plaus, which are by M. Roisin, have been considerably altered in the way
commenced forthwith.
At a Congregation at Cambridge, on 7th alt, amongst other degrees conferred was that of M. (by proxy) on Rov. M. Longridge,
Trinity, claplain of 1.36. Glory.
According to a Honolulu paper, it is not improbable that the Pacific Mail Steamship Company may convert the Korea and all of the vessels of its line into oil burners.
bean apppointed Secretary to the Municipal Conseil and Superintendent of Police in the now International Settlement at Kulangen, Amoy.
Lient.-Col. Donald Mackonzio, S.V.C., bar
The British Ambassador at Berlin, on behalf of the King, hes presented Captain Lons,
A Macile paper mys that the rumour commander of the German warship Litis, with regarding the sinking of a large tramp steamer Captain Lans wain Hongkong harbour caused by the transport the Order of the Bath. entertained to lunch at the British Embassy Sherman striking the sessel while leaving dry- It will be remembered that the fitis took a dock is believed to be unfounded. Qaito so! prominent part in the capture of the Taku forts in Juge, 1980, when Captain Lans was seriously wounded,
It will be at once observed that there are some notable omissions from the list of Lord CRANBORNE Compared with that pre-of extension, sad building operations are to be pared by Sir CLAUDE MACDONALD in 1898. MANUFACTURERS, With regard to the Hankow-Canton line, the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs said the British and Chinese Corporation are no longer interested in it. More will, or at least ought, to be heard about this conesssion if it be true that the Americas Syndicate known as WABNEGURNE-CARRY group, which acquired the rights in this line, have dispose of 60. per cent of the concession to Belgian fauciers. As Mr. HoULGE has properly remarked in drawing the attention of the British publie to this report, the American Syndicate can part with its shares, but it cannot override the political exigencies and safeguards which dictated the support THE MACHINERY employed is of the given by diplomacy to all the railway con- cessions in 1890. Sir CLAUDE MACDONALD latest design and most approved type.
vigorously supported the Americaa con- THE BEST INGREDIENTS only are cession for the Canton-Hankow milway.
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and counted it as a British victory. Ho included half of it among British lines. The sule of the shares to u syndicate of another nationality should invite a strong diplomatic protest..
The King has appointed Mr. Herbert Allan. Ottewill to ho His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Tientsin, and has approved of Mr. Willism Messrs. A. B. Watson & Co., Ld., will open Paterson Waddell as Consul of Sweden and to-morrow for public business their now Norway at Singapore for the Straits Settla. Kowloon Dispensary situated at the corner of {ments, and Don Frederico D. Barretto as Vice- Robinson Road and Cameron Razd. This Consul of Mexico at Hongkong. establishment will be a boon to residents in the suburb, which so for has had to depend upon From St. Petersburg it is reported that the Hongkong for the supply of its medicinal needs. Russian Foreign Department will shortly. The Dispensary is a handsome building of two storeys, substantial and woll lighted. Mr. H. G. Stevens will be in charge.
establish
Russian committee for the exploration of Northern and Eastern Asin, for historical, urchæological, linguistical, and ethnographical investigations. The statutes The King has been pleased to give and grant have been published, and admit of the
His participation of scientific man of all nations. ant Mr. John Alexander Summers Majesty's Royal licence and authority that he may accept and wear the Insignia of the Third Class, Third Division, of the Imperial Chiasse Order of the Double Dragon, couferred apoa him by His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China, in recognition of his sorvices 18 Pro Eessor of English at the Chinese College at Shanghai.
There is, besides the notable omission of the Tientsin-Chinklang railway, a coucession which England shared with Germany, and the still more-important line of about 700 miles through Yuunas. In the opinion of
The Sta Wen- Pão is Informed by its Peking Lord Curzon it would be "midsummer correspondant that people coming t Poking from aduess" to talk of such project is the Kirin report that the Russian Administrator Burmatt-Yunnan line in the present state has been recently doing his best to get into of Central Asian affairs, and the indications favour with the merchants and people of that are not at present hopeful for the com.region, by exorcising leniency and justice in bis administration. He often inferous the people
A. S. WATSON & CO. nencement of the work. Nor are we likely to see progress for some time with the Before the Anglo-German, concession. Boxer outbreak the prospect was far more hopeful than it is to-day. The hatred of the foreigner revealed by the Boxer rising has undoubtedly compromised the financial position of China, and the investing public is inetined for the present to be nervous over Chinese securities.
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AVLICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. Os mannicutions relating to the newscolumns -u'il le addressed toThe EureOR.
The new terms which the British und Chineso Corporation obtained a few months ago for the construction of their line from Shanghai to Nanking will certainly facilitate Gerependiente must forward their namesjand ad. de communications dressed to the titor
the construction of this important railway, support-vention, but us evidence of good faith.
All letters for publication should be written on which, traversing as it does the thickly One side of the paper only.
No songmously signed communications that have populated region of tim Yangtse, is likely to 4 ready appeared in other papers will be inserted, i prove of greater commercial and political Orders for catre copies of DAILY PEZAS shout value to Great Britain than any other sent before 11am, on day of publication. After that Ar the supply is limited. Only supplied for Cash, Tine in China. Scarcely less valuable com- Telegraphic Address: Pass. Codes: 4.B.C5th Ed.mercially will be the line from Canton to Kowloon, and though we are glad to observe that this project is still kept in the forefront, we should be glad to learn that an early commencement of the undertaking is intended.
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BIRTHS.
On the 26th March, at Claregrove, Chefoe, the wife of Jamas MoMuzlan, of a daughter.
On the 4th April, at No. 1, Edina Villas, Shangs bni, the wife of PASTOR P. KRANZ, of a daughter. MARRIAGE.
On the 2nd April, at the Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, ERNEST L. ALLIN, younger son of J. 600ml daughter of Gronas E. KING, of North- W. ALLEN, of Shanghai, to ELIZABETH ENA, wich, Cheshiro, and niece of Captain R. A. J. ANDRESEN, of Shanghai.
DEATH.
On the 4th April, at 1684, Bubbling Well Road. Shanghai, CECIL Azztyn, the elder son of Mr. and Mira. A. WHITE-COOPER, aged 24 years.
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that after the Russians have retired from that part, the Chinese authorities will probably not be able to cope with the brigands, and that on the Contrary the prescuca of Chinese soldiers wil in more injury than good to them.
The blank walls of certain houses near the top of Mosque Street have been secured is an advertisement boarding by a well-known local firm of wine and spirit merchants, whose same appears in letters of such magnitude that they cannot fail to strike the eye of anyone looking at the City from the Harbour or Kowloon. The effectiveness of the advertise- ment is unquestionable, but it dass not tend any beanty-to-the view. How long will it be. till "X's Pills" Haunt their remedial sovereignty from the face of the Peak?
ALswering Mr. Schwaan, M.P., in the House of Commons last month, Lord Cranborne said ne information had been received from Man churia as to the Boxer movement and anti- foreign foaling, bal. His Majesty's Consul General at Hankow had reported that he had received trustworthy information of a throates-
en movement in Kausn. A report from the British Vice-Consul at Tientsin also pointed in the same direction. His Majesty's. Charge h-d'Affaires bas warned the Chines Government,
they had received no corroboration of the news, and the Wai-pa-wa had stated in reply that and that the reports had probably arisen from
During the month of February, the den Navy, was 15.3 per 1,000 of the population por rate in the Colony, excluzive of the Army and
annum, as against 15.9 in the previous month.
A coolie was sentenced to one menth'a bard Jabour at the Poles Court on Saturday for stealing 30lbs of bomp, the property of the Hamburg-Amerika Steamship Company.
On the complaint of the master of the 8.8. Arambe, a Chinese cabin-boy was sentenced to foar months' hard labour at the. Megistracy on | Saturday, for sterling property to the value
of about $400.
The Chinaman who entered the house of Mr.
The answer given by the Under Secretary. Hamphireys recently, supposedly for the of State to Sir CHARLES DILKE'S question purpose of committing a felony, has toon certi with regard to British railway concessions led to be insane, and will be handed over to the in China (reported in our last issue) was eare of his friends. hardly as full and explicit as could have
movements of disbanded troops in Kausa.
The Chinese Minister in London was recently Latorviewed by the London correspondent of tha Matin, respecting the state of affairs in China. He spoke with bitterness, we are told,
of the missionaries, but he attributed the present discout at to the heavy taxation rendered necessary by the payment of the war indemnity in gold. The Government, hu said, had 40,000 men at its disposal to nae against the agitators. The Chinese people were devoted to the dynasty, and the throne was perfectly secure.
In the course of a discussion in the House of
Commons ou a vote for expenditure in con- nection with embassies, missions and consular
services abroad, Viscount Cranborne mentioned that the full amount of the cost of telegrams from Peking in connection with the Treaty and Tariff was £16,846. Even for Chinese negotia- tions, he said, the negotiations in respect of the China Commercial Treaty were preternaturally long. Mr. Wylie expressed the opinion that the money spent on telegrams to the East had been
woll expended.
M. Witto, the Russian Minister of Finance, recently handed to the Tsar a special report dealing with his recent visit to the Far East The Chinese Eastern Railway comes in for great deal of attention. On the whole M. Witte says that the work of construction has been carried out well, and that it will redound to the honour of Russian railway construction. Especial attention has been given to meating the important demands involved in carrying out the harbour works at Dalny, and their completion may be looked for probably within the next twelve months.
joint memorial pressated by Viceroys Chang A Poking despatchstates that owing to a recent
Chih-tung and Yuan Shikai strongly recom- merling the immediate issue of au imperial edict abolishing for over the old style of examinations for the Chüjén (Master of Arts) and Chioshil (Doctor) degrees, and authorising the Peking University to conduct examinations
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JAPANESE NAVAL REVIEW
AT KOBE
A BRILLIANT SPECTACLE.
KOBE, 11th April. His Majesty the Emperor of Jupa reviewed yesterday a fleet of over seventy warships, the brilliant spectacle being witnessed by thousands of people from all parts of the Empire.
EXPLOSION OF A POWDER MAGAZINE AT CANTON.
TEN BUILDINGS DESTROYED- MANY PERSONS KILLED- AND INJURED.
CANTON, 11th April.
outside
The Wingchai powder magazine, the East Gate, consisting of about tea buildings, covering a valley forty acres in extent, was blown up on Friday afternoon, and completely destroyed.
It is reported that the guard were killed! and several persons injured,
No damage was done to the city, but the shock was severely felt.
In connection with the above a correspondent writes as follows:→→
Canon, 11th April Yesterday at 240 pm, the inhabitants of Canton were startled by a tremendous explosion, A large volume of smoke was seen to be rising
in the shape of a balloon from a point sume distance to the N.E. of the city, and it was ovident that a powder-magasine had exploded
-a not uncommon occurrence in Chias.
The writer immediately set out for the scene of the disaster, and, on reaching the small N. gate, found a continuous string of Chinese horrying towards the scene of the disaster. After walking about a mile towards the low hills, from behind which smoke was still rising, indications of the magnitude of the explosion begun to eppoar.
geve's confused and unconvincing explanation. The Government has promised an adininistra- tive enquiry.
A COUP D'ETAT IN SERVIA.
Losnow, 8th April. The King of Servis has executed a curious coup d'état by suddenly promulgating a docros rovoking the Constitution, which he himse}} had granted on the 19th April, 1901, diamissing the Skopshtin and annulling a onuber of laws passed by that body; he then immediato'y pro- mulgated a new docros restoring the Constitu- tion. The motive for this action is not explaineL
LONDON, 10th April.
The King of Sorvia, by submerging the Constitution for a few minutes yeaterday, succeeded in ridding himself of a number of Radical Senators and State Councillors, and re-starting the Constitution with a clasu alate.
BYE-ELECTION IN ENGLAND,
LONDON, 9th April.
At a by-election at Crambarns, Sir Wilfred Lawson (Liberal) has been elected by 3,558. votes, against Mr. Straus's (Unionist) 2,860, votes. Sir Wilfred Lawson replaces Mr. W. 8. Caine.
The late Mr. Caine was elected by a majority of 18 only. Sir Wilfred Lawson's majority is 689-ED, D.P.J
THE CHINESE CUSTOMS.
LONDON, 9th April. Sir Robert Hart has appointed a Russina Commissioner of Customs at Newchwang,
THE STRIKE IN KOLLAND.
LONDON, 9th April.
The Dutch Chamber has passed the Anti- Strike Law by a large majority; the strike is unabated.
THE "AMERICA? CUP.
LONDON, 9th April. Shamrock III has had ouother successful. trial, completely beating Shamrock L
LONDON, 10th April. The new Shamrock in farther trials at Wey- mouth, bont Shamrock I by four minutes in a seven-mile run,
NEW FIELD MARSHALS.
LONDON, 10th April. General Sir Evelyn Wood and General Sir George White have been promoted to the rank
Peasants carrying blookened bears and other wreekage, the roof of a house broken in, t blickened and groaning survivor staggering along, and finally several coffins being carried towards a point over the brow of a hill about two miles outside the small North gate of the city, all of Field Marshals. told a sad tale.
The powder magazine was called Yang Tai, and was in the district called Ho Yo Chi. It covered an area of over an acre, and this spacs was a confused mass of bricks and beatus, from which smoke was still issuing in dense clouds an buried an unknown number of soldiers; several hour after the explosion. Under the ruins le
who had been guarding the magazine had
already been dug out, but workmen were still busy digging.
About three hundred yards from the ruins an unfortunate coolie was lying, who had been blows some distance, and was suffering from a in future and confer higher literary degrees, a fractured thigh and minor injuries. A denes party of Conservative Censors have begunerowd of Chinese surrounded Lim, and though sending in memoriale to the Throne denouncing he bad lain there for an hour, they had not the two Viceroys and their scheme.
Some of the native papers in the North manifest, anxiety over the relations between According to the Suiet, the Russian sleam Russin and Japan. A report emanating from ship companies are at present passing through Manchuria pradicts a conflict between the two a severe crisis in consequence of the competition Powers before long in consequence of some bit on the part of the railways, which is proving terness engendered by the competition in the too strong for them. The journal says it is timber trade in the regions of the Yala Rue-no exaggeration to say that the merchant fleet sta is alleged to havo transferred 280,000 soldiers of Southern Russia is on the verge of ruiz to the frontiers of Manchuria and is fur. At present there is not sufficient cargo to give ther said to have ordered four battleships work to the fleet or even to unsure its cristence, and a score of craisers and torpedo-boats to while, on the other hand, the railways have Talienwan. Perhaps the rumours current secured nearly all the lucrative carrying trade that large and urgent orders for provisions for in Western Russis and the Caucasus, the the Japanese fleet have been placed in Hong quantity of which interferes with ita regular koog, Shanghai and Singapore may be taken as delivery.
for our part we disbelieve in the probability of a something in the nature of corroboration, but
immediate future,
given him so much na o drink of water, This was soon put to rights, however, and by dint of vigorous bambooing the crowd wor forced to stand back. A German missionary was doing very good work, and probably saved two or three lives, as he was provided with bandages. The Chiness seemed unable to help,, It does not ocear to them that there are little woys of alleviating suffering without possessing any knowledge of surgory, and they wait for a doctor or a foreigner to appear
Some of the wounded ware mangled beyond description. Twenty-three were attended by Dr. Ivan, who arrived at about 5
p.m. Most of
PRESIDENT'S EULOGY OF
GOVERNOR TAFT.
LONDON, 10th April. Frosident Roosevelt, speaking at Fargo, eulogised Governor Taft as the finest type of a public servant.
LORD MILNER TO PROCEED TO ENGLAND,
Loscow, 10th April Lord Milner will take two months' leave and proceed to England for August and September. His Lordship is looking very worn.
THE KING TO VISIT PARIS.
LONDON, 10th April, Ata Cabinet Council in Paris, it has been decided that the President and all the Ministers will receive the King at the railway station on the 1st May, and a grand dinser will be given at the Elysee on the 2nd May,
THE EASTER HOLIDAYS.
There was general pessation of business in the injured were suffering from shock, for the the Colony on Good Friday, Sucred services force of the explosion must have been terrible. were held in the various churches and shapels, A wall, formerly ten feet high, which gintied The 21st Annual Prize Meeting of the Hong.
been desired. It was satisfactory only go the Colour's police forces, left for Inspector Cathbort, of the detective depart. far as it served to dissipate the belief that Scotland on Saturday by the English mail on conflict between these two Powers in the portion of Inland Lot 71. (including the kitchen the magnaine, had been cut down as it were with kong Ride Association was begun on that day
not a mile of any of the 2,800 British mailes that figured in Sir CLAUDE MAODORALD's despatch of November, 1898, detailing the concessions granted to Britishers, had yet becu laid with the exception of the North
nine months leave. He is accompanied by his wife and child. Many friends boarded the liner to wish the party bon anyage.
At Tientsin recently General Creagh, V.C., presented to Lieut. Popham of the Sherwood
The Governor in Council having decided that the resumption of portion of the remaining backyard, rear wall and the rear part of the a knife two feet from the ground. Not a leaf house No. 19, Circular Pathway) is required for remained on any tree within a hundred yards of parchase thereof having falled, the said portion a public purpose and private negotiations for the the place,
The number of the dead is as yet unknova,
and will be concluded this afternoon, Saturday being mail day, the shipping and mercantile offices and the banks were again opened in the forenoon, Boeides many private lanuch parties
It is notified in the Gazette that Mr. Hugh Foresters the Distinguished Servion Order of the remaining portion of Inland Lot 71 but is probably not above twenty. Theanfferers and ponies there were two big excursions China railway. Such a statement we find Pollook Tooker, Executive Engineer, has been The troops formed three sides of a square sad { taising an area of about 396 square feet will be are repeiving the best of attention at Dr Swan's to Macao, the Chukong leaving on Saturday paraded even in the Contemporary Review deputed by His Excellency the Governor in Lient. Popham was called into the centre. resumed by the Crown for & public purpose at hospital at Kuk Foa, where they were conveyed evening to return this morning, and the Wing--
Council to not on behalf of the Building Authority in all cases referred to in sections 205 207 of Ordinance No. 1 of 1903 in connection with dangerous buildings,
Asbro who obtained, $25 from Mrs. A.
FATAL STREET FIGHT.
REUTER'S SERVICE.
General Creagh speaking with great dietinot the expiration of four months from the publica during the night, by a gentleman who poses as an authority
ness was heard by everyone present as he recited tion of notice, and that thereupon such on the subject in England. We refer to
the bonour he felt it to comply with the com- compensation in respect of such resumption will Mr. DEMETRIUS BOULDER. To be sure,
mands of the King-Emperor who had given be paid as may be awarded in the manner pro- orders that these honours should be given in the vided by the Crown Lands Resumption the progress made has been slow, as is
BRITISH TRADE. only to be expected when the political Arnold, of Bonhan Strand, by falsely repre- Popham had displayed the greatest gallantry presence of all the troops available. Lient;
Ordinance 1900, troubles in China since the concessionssenting that he was still in the employ of Mr. as they all knew at Betbalie Bridge when at
LONDON, 8th April.. were obtained are borne in mind and Wong Tai Fong, dentist, was sentenced to two
the risk of his life bo hnd performed a cotapi.
British imports for March show an increase especially when their effect in financial months' bard labour on Saturday by Mr. J. H,
cuous act of valour. It increased his very great
On Friday night last a trio of riokshe coulies of over £6,000,000 and exports an increase of circles aboard is considered. Now we Kemp, Acting Police Magistrate.
pleasure in making this presentation that the come into collision in Des Voeux Read outside are authoritatively told that besides
On Friday last, by the P. & O. steamer Derbyshires were his old regiment. When he the Hongkong Hotel. Two allied themselves £9,000,000 as compared with March, 1902. the Peking-Newchwang lino, with its
Coromandel, Mr. E. R. Balilios, C.M.G., took joined Her Majesty'a servico 37 years ago he against the third, and during the fight he
THE DREYFUS AFFAIR extension to Tungcbow (about 600 miles) is departure for Shanghai. From thence he had been one of them. The regiment had done received a kick or a blow on the spleen which which is open to traffic, the branch from will proceeded to Balny, and there take the fine service ever since it was raised, and caused rapture of that organ. He saak down Chung low-so to Simmingting is approach train for Europe. Mr. Belilios is one of the especially in the late war in South africa. The in the street, and expired very soon afterwards. ing completion; the Pelring Syndicate's line first to make the trip home sid Sileria from General then summarised his remarks in The police were called, but the assailants es from taku to the Honan coalfields is in this port since the Siberien Railway - was Hindustani and proceeded to affix the coveted asped, and are still at large. The police, how- course of construction, and their line from opened along its entire route. We understand medal on Lient. Popham's left breast: he then ever, are in cession of their names, and Pukou on the Yangtsze opposite Nanking, that Mr. Belilips will probably reside in England cordially shook hands with him and offered his unless they have gained Chinese territory their which will connect with the Peking-Hankow for some yökre..
personal grafnisfloris.
capture should not be long delayed.
chucí leaving yesterday morning to return the same night; both trips were well patronised On Saturday also the annual tennis match between the Ladies Recreation Club and the H.K.0.0. was played on the Cricket Ground. Yesterday special Easter services were held in the churches.
The services at St. John's Cathedral were fuily chorol, the music being of a unilable Easter character devotionally rendered by the choir, which was at almost full strength. Stanford's Te Deum and Benedictus in B flat and the anthem Awake up my glory" (Baraby) were mung at matins, and at eransonga Magnificat and Nuno Dimittis LONDON, 8th April.
composed by the Cathedral organist, Mr. A. G. Ward. The concluding luntary at the Is the Chamber of Deputies on Moulay evening service was the Hallelujah Chorns" Premier Brisson charged the ex-Minister of from Handel's Messiah. The altar, chancel, War Cavaignae with concealing General Fel- and font were adorned with plants and lieux's letter front his colleagues; the ex-Minister flowers,