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The Island of Formosa, Past and Present. By James W. Davidson, F.R.G.B. MacMillan & Co., London sud New York, Kelly & Walsh, Hongkong.
Ma. Davidson has produced a volume
this section of the book with the liveliest
of the book interest.
A graplin avcount of the Japanese occupation of the islands follows, and then several chapters are devoted to the industries and natural resources of the island. A special chapter of discribes the inhabitants and the final chapter
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 50г 1903
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND
NEWS.
THE TERM " BUDGET,”.
It is diffoult to realise that the form Budget, now so often in every one's mouth, is a term loss
ه جا شده.
FAN AFFROFEIATE MOTTO, There is a quaint specdote of a clergyman (nyn the inburgh Dispatch) who had many fue qualificationų; bat the "graos of preaching was not one of them. As a small token of their esteem the congregation recently presented him with new and handsome pulpit, beautifully
upwards of 700 pages, in which the history, the beadedFormoss of to-day supplies an than 200 years old, the earliest mention of the carved and otherwise embellished, and round people, the resources and the commercial pros. f Fæteresting account of what has been accom-word dating no farther back then 1799. We the entablature at the top ran the appropriate pects of the Beautifol Isis" are dealt with in flished in the island by the Japanese during the borrowed it from the old French language tort" He giveth his beloved sleep."
bongette, meaning a small bay, in which in
TER FRENCH NAVAL ESTIMATES. · Past seven or eight years.
former times it was the custom to put the. Mr. Davidson has produced a volume which
Defeuding the reduction made in the effective must ever remain a standard work on Formosa. estimates of receipts and expenditure when pre-Strength of the French Flost, M. Polletan,
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à very full, instructive and interesting manner. The size of the book, sonsidering the compara- tive insignificance of the enbject, may seems to many somewhat oppalling, but we know of fow He has embodied in it all that is of interest and sented to Parliament. Hencathe Chancellor of | Minister of Marine, declared that the reduction books of the tind more readable from beginning / img ortance in whatever bas previously been the Exchequer in making his sonnal statement had been effroted after the advies of the innst!
was formerly said to open his budget. In time distinguished officers had been taken. Moreover, exists in the English language, dealing with complete a record as it is possible to acquire the form passed from the receptacle to the with the present reductions the namber of mon the island in Eything like an exhaustive/ Besides two new maps the volumo includes contents, and curiously this now signification in the French Fleet would still be larger than was mainly this fact, no fewer than 168 illustrations from photo was returned from England te France, when it that in the United States and German navies, coupled with his exceptional facilities for graphs. The appendix includes a comparative was first used in an oficial manner in the early and he would therefore endeavour to make a FOR PARTICULARS APPLY TO
part of the nineteenth century.
to end than the one before na. No other book written about the island, and the result as is
Dune", and it
vocabulary of the nine savage groups in the island; a description of the land birds, the momalia and the climate of the island, and there is a useful index cccupying 46 pages.
"MYSTERIOUS.”
IROFESSOR KOCH AND CONSUMPTION.
still further reduction. (Cheers.) The penos effective of the British Navy, added M. Pollatas, almost came up to its war effective, because Great Britain did not possess sufficient reserves, The example to be followed was that of Ger- many, as she could at a given moment mobilise
nequiring the necessary information, which induced Mr. Unvidson to undertake a task which has cooupled him practically over since the Japanese occupation of the island in 1893, Mr. Davidson was a member of the Feary Arctic Expedition which re- turned just as the War broke out between China and Japan. He went to Formora with the Japanese Army as a newspaper correspon.
It seems to me that a diplomatic force is dert and many of our renders will doubtless
ing enacted in Seoul Da the It: Maroh recollect the very informing letters which aphers arrived, quite unexpectedly, the German peared over his signature at the time in the Daily Press, Mr. Davidson bas sincs settled in the island steamer amoy in ballast. She did not enter German schoolboy or artisan or bricklayer proposed immigrants in the western part of the collecting materials for a book which all students of the Far East will prize.
A Chemulpo correspondent of the Shanghai Mercury is responsible for the following
CANADA AND ENGLISH ARMY RESERVISTS.
It is twenty-one yours age that Robert Koch published his discovery of the tubercle bacillus, The organism had been found at the latter and of 1881, after years of search, but Koch waited and verited his work before announcing bistrong reserves. find on March 24, 1882. The result in Ger many is interesting. In 1880 the tuberculosis be-death-cute"(much understated) was thirty-one per 10,000 living per annum. Last ye r'it was twenty-one. The diecovory, familiar to every (owing to the national insurance system), has already saved Germany hundreds of thousands of lives and countless millions of money. England's death-rate has not diminished ove balf as much in the same period.
the Customs, but I afterwards found out she brought a distinguished Russion passenger. The Portuguese are commonly regarded as She had been chartered for the express purpose the first Europeans to establish themselves in of bringing this Prince, Duke, or Special Formosa, bat Mr. Davidson says this is an error Director of the Basso-Chinese Bank on a
of the Mor probably due to the fact that the Portuguess runing. visit to the Land gave to the island the name Formosa. Careful ning Calm. Not only was the arrival of resenrobes have failed to discover that the this person a mystery, but the person himself Portagnes bed any settlement, in the island in was a bigger mystery. No one hero has ever the sixteenth century when the name Ilhasen, known, or beard of him. inmediately Formosa" (Beautiful Tele) was applied to he landed he left for Seoul by train. Not even it by Portuguese sailing down the west Japanese detective get a glimpse of him. I const. The Dutch were, the first European happened to know the commander of the steamer he came by, and therefore we had a cup settlers in Fermoin. They landed a large of ten together the day after bis arrival (Sun. early days depended not open the quality day), so I tried to find out who thin sruoger was. Bat the captain did not know, or, if be of the goods, but upon the military strength to control the markets, and we are told that the did, ho was determined to keep the secret. I tried all possible means to pump him about his Dutch consequently valued the island chiefly
mysterious passenger, but I got no information
forco at Taiwan in 1624. Trade in those
CANADIAN CIVIL BREVICE PAT.
The agitation in the Canadian Civil Service to induce the Government to grant a general increase of salaries will strike mest people on a reasonable ene. Canada is notorious, as com pered with other parts of the Empire, for its even the salaries of Ministers are peculiarly economical treatment of the public servico, and low. An Attorney-General of a poor West Indio Island as a rule draws higher pay than a judge or a Lieuteuant-Governor in Canada, and or endivary Australian civil servant would drop dead if he were offered the Canadian rate of pay for his work. Eeeing that the rats of thirty-three per cent, since the existing salary schedule was fremed, probably the Ottawa Government will see its way to taking the matter into favourable consideration.
The arrangements for bringing out a large contingent of English Army Reservista to settle in Casade are "declared off," just when everything was about complete for locating the
Dominion. The Imperial authorities wanted
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came out should be liable to be called upon to servo with the British Army abroad whenever called upon, to do so, bai that except in war time the War (ffice would have no authority to call upon those reservists who might be sottled
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on account of its strategieal position. From Formosa the Spanish commerce between Manila/ from him, and I must say I thought all the living in the Dominion has gone up by about great expectations are based. Its present
and China, and the Portuguese commerce be- tween Macao and Japan scald by constant attacks be modo precarious (that much of it would be thrown into the hands of the Datch, while the latter's dealings with China and Japan would be subject to no interruptions. The Dutch, however, did not and their position as comfort abla as they expected, and were, after 30 years occupation, in 1862, driven out by Koxinga, who sailed from Amoy with an expedition of 25,000 for the purpose. In the succeeding chapter, we have an account of the island ander the government of Koxinga und bis des cendants from 1662 down to its surrender to the imperialiat forces in 1689. In succeeding chapters Mr Davidson furnishes a very fall history of the island under Chinese Edministration, during the eighteenth and ninoteenth centarios, and this forms per haps the most interesting soction of the book, embracing as it does fall records of the foreign intercourse with the island from the expedition of the Hungarian Count Bemjowsky in 1771 down to the cecupation of the island by the Japanese in 1895.
It is especially interesting to residents of Hongkong to learn that when the
more of him for it. 1, however, lesṛat he was a very distinguished personage. The vessel was kept under a full lead of steam, and he might appear at any moment and depart assuddenly as he cams. These were the orders given to the cap- tsin, and, besides, another cabin was to be got ready to receive another Russian passenger- and this person wen note other than Baron Gubsburg. I now became aware there was something in the wind," The next day. (Monday the 23rd March) in the forenoon she steamed cut of barbour for Port Arthur. She bed neither entered the Customs nor cleared, nor reported herself to the Garman Cousal. Two days afterwards His Ex. Mr. C. Woeber. Special Envoy to His Im Majesty the Emperor, also left for Port Arthur. Baron Gunsharg and Mr. Waeber returned again on the 27th March. All this is a mystery, but it is thought that a golden egg has been laid in Seoul and that we shall hear of it being hatobed, "hortly.
A MISUNDERSTOOD TELEGRAM,
About a month ago w published a paragraph which was subsequently copied by the Straits
A JUDGE'S HUMOUR.
In the Pall Mall Magazine for April Mr. E. B. Bowen-Rowlande has a sprightly article on our "Great Criminal Judges." The best thing in it is an anecdote of Mr. Justice Lawrance, who, when a barrister, had to deford a trans
He admitted that the stolen watch had been found on his client, but parently guilty thief. argued that the man had given the plainest demonstration of injured innocence. "Gentle men, when the constable arrested him, what did this poor man do? Do! why he did exactly what you or I or indeed any innocent man would
have done in similar circumstances. He took the high line, and told that constable to go to the devil." Listening to a counsel who spoke of halter as 'aiter, Mr. Justice Lawrance suddenly asked the olork, Is this a criminal court Learning that it was he remarked, "Oh it's all right; but I thought I had strayed into an ecclesiastical enquiry."
English were the look out for papers stating that Mr. H. N. Ferrera, barris-guished French physicist, has discovered that
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ter-at-law, was leaving Hongkong to join. Mr. Chesney Duncan on the editorial staff of the
Penang,
A MARVEL OF SCIENCE. The announcement that M. Curie, a distin-
the substance known as radium possesses the extraordinary property of continually emitting
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West Australian mining company, bat of a ne potato, on the quality and prospects of which
selling price, at well over half a guinos a pound, may not seE IN
OFF ON the side of value f any modesty, but the market new commodity must naturally depend on the production, which, in the case of this particular potute, is very limited, as it is only used at pre- sent for seed, and not for culinary purposes. The Northern Stor was first put on the market in 1901, at the somewhat extraordinary prieo of 21,150 a top, and has since proved of such ex- ceptional merit that it is readily selling at the same price this year, sud, as the planting senson approaches, its price is rising. It is es y possible from one pound of seeds to raise à hundred pounds which would mean that ten shil lings worth of seed would produce fifty peunds" worth of crops, provided that the value of such
a
life variety could be maintained. Trials have been made with it at the Colonial College, Hollesley Bay, Suffolk, and from four pounds of seeds 418 pounds of tubers were grown, and even heavier yields have been reported. Thirty other varieties of potatoes were grown near it, but none of them withstood the altaoke of disease as did the Northern Stars. The tabers are of
highest class, bave double bottoms and are each divided inta ten watertight sections, whilst all carry ten big and six amall boats. Each has five pumps capable of throwing 125 tons of water por hour. The engines are each of 5,600 bp, on the triple expansion principle. With these the usual speed is to he 14 knots, although the ships have suck been tested to lej knots.
HOW RUSSIA KEEPS THE DOOR OPEN.
In a letter dated Shanghai, February 13th, the correspondent of the Outlook wrote:-
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I met a Gaman gentleman te-day who has just artived here on route home from Mukden, in Manchutin. He informed me that he came out to the East with a view of investing money in business in Manchuria. He proceeded to Mukden, which he thought would be a good trade centro from which to commence operations. Upon the day of his arrival at that city be was sent for by the Russian Governor, who told him at once that if his intention was to make any business there it would be impossiblo to do so as he (the Russian official) had strict orders from his Government to prohibit foreigners from doing so. My informant replied that he was a German subject armed with passport, and that he presumed he could do as he pleased in Chinese territory. "Net so," the ENVIRONS. Governor smilingly replied, and added that ke had power to have him escorted by Cassopks NORTH WALES. across the border !
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Mr. Ferrera has addressed the following letter to the occupation of this Colony in 1842. Formosa we are told was frequently suggested to the Editor of the Perak Pioneer-
Dear Sir, I understand that you have been by the British in China as a convenient and kind enough to give publicity to the report desirable acquisition. Chuan and Ninggo were that I have returned to this country to assist in the other places mentioned as alternatives. The attention of the American authorities was also the production of a new journal, paragraph called to the advisability of occupying a portion having lately appeared in the Hongkong Daily of the island. At that time the swift American Pross. I shall accordingly be greatly obliged clippers stored largely in the Chinn trade, and if you will allow me to explain the exact position it was on account of the large number of wrecks of affairs in relation to this matter, Mr. occurring on the uncharted coasts of Formoss Chesney Duncan, the Editor of the paper, and the blood-curdling massacres of the crews engaged me to assist him sometime in the or the life of slavery to which the captives middle of last month at Hongkong. He acted were reduced if they fell into the bands upon the strength of a telegram from the of the savages, that led to the suggestion proprietors which he represented as being to that America should occnpy part of the island the following effect and thus render assistance to the shipping world in general and secure to herself a naval station as well as an entrepot for American gouds. In the very year that the British took possession of Hongkong 197 British subjects were mussacred in Formosa, so that Bugland had ample justification for action. But neither England nor America felt inclined to take advantage of the opportunity, and in turn France and Germany appear to have considered the question, bat finally Formosa dropped out of the view of the Foreign Powers and remained unthought of for a number of years.
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GENERAL SIE LESLIE NUNDLE SUED Upon my arrival at Penang on April 5th.
An action arising out of the Boer war was Mr. Danean informed me that he had misun derstood the telegram which was code and that heard in the King's Bench Division last month, it really ran "Cannot find employment for when General Sir Leslie Rundle and three Ferters. Expect to begin about April 6th other British officers were sed by an ex-Yeoman Mr. Duncan has since gådressed a letter to me for false imprisonment. The Court held that in which he states that bie misunderstanding of it would be contrary to the principle of public the message was due to my treachery, meanness, policy that the orders of officers while war was unfairness and uzmannarliness. Under these going on should be investigated in courts circumstances I have come to the conclusion of justice, and judgment was given for the that I have no siternative but to place the defendants, with costs. The action is an matter in the hands of my solicitors with interesting linstration of the supremacy of instructions to take such steps as may afford civil law in England. No servant of the State Mr. Duncan the earliest opportunity of proving in Great Britain is above the law, whatever his station and office, Policeman and Prime Minis- his charges in open court,
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steamer Empress of Japan The OPR jurisdiction, though Mr Justice Lawrance, arrived at Tokohama at 4 pm, on the 28th inst., who heard the above cuse, in clearly against the and left again at 7 p.m. samo day for Nagasaki, rely dif. where she was due to arrive at 9 pm. yesterday. practica. On the Continent an
The CP.B. steamer Tarlar arrived at practice prevails. In France for ax Shanghai at 3 sin. on the 29th inst, and left ample, Lavie is parte dode of law, with gain at 10am. same day for longkang where WONGNEICHONG EAST.
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The first stop in opening the island to foreign: trade was taken by the diplomatic repre sentatives of America and Russia in 1852, who were successful in luducing the Chiness Government to decʼares Taiwan open to foreign residence and trade. "The beginning of the commercial career of the island," Mr. Davidson says, may be usted from 1858, when the two Hongkong firms, Jardine Matheson & Co, and Dent & Co. first engaged in the Formera trade. True, it was not until 860 that they had representatives actually establish- Eastern & Oriental Hotel, ed in the islands as general merchants; still, itt 1358.9 they both handled a large quantily of 3 Formosan camphor, which was obtained na pre-arranged from the mandarins who had a monopoly of the trade."
Until he has succeeded in doing so I hope that your readers, to many of whom I am personally known, will suspend judgment upon my conduct in this matter. Yours etc.
From the time onward the story of foreign Interoanres with Formous is told with me. detail and many old China hands will pertise
Penang, April 16, 1963.
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A POLO FATALITY.
A Bimls telegram of the 14th inst. to the Rangoon Gazette says that Lieutenant Charaer, 2nd Welsh Regiment, died Subaltra on the 13th from a polo nosident.
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