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I is on the point of completion. The prosent 1 production of the wines in the Gorman aphore in Binatang barely suffices for railway and local consumption, and it will be some months before any quantity can be available for export. Concessions to work minerals have been given to French and British syndicates in the province of Fakhien, Nothing more has so far been done, and the cost of carriage, at least under present conditions, is likely to detract from their value. Bailway construction has been
The Pai-lam (Peking- Hankow) ailway has ben carried woll to Huunn from the south, al bas
His Lordship sentenced them each to three yea imprisonment with hard labour and to receive 24 strokes with the birch within the first week; he also recommended that at the end of their imprisonment, they be deported.
The Court rose.
CANTON NOTES.
[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.]
Canton, 17th November.
AN EARTHQUAKE SHOCK, A slight shock of earthquake was felt by several residents in Shameen this morning, 46; the tremor instel for about even seconds. It is many yours since an earth- quake has been recorded in Canton.
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There have been several fires in Canton during the past week. On the 13th two flower Kuk Fan, and on the evening of the 15th two bats were burn wear the Ying Chu Kai, in or three houses were gutted near Wong Sha, while last night a shop was burnt clown in tonum. The Chinese Fire Brigade does very seem to recognise the danger of fires spread. useful work on those occasions. The citizens ing throughout a whole quirter, and do their in to put them down. Visitors ning have noticed the great number of hydrants in the which the authorities keep in good order,
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THE FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL ISSBE
The DIRECTORY covers the whole of the ports and cities of the Far East, from Nether lands Inlin to Siberia, in which Europeus reside. Not only is the Directory as full and complete in each case as it can be made, but each Colony. Port, or Settlement is prefaced by a DESCRIP Mr. and Mrs. It 6, M64 | TION, carefully revised each year, most ef which will serve as accurala Guinea FOR THE TOURIST, giving overy detail in connection with the plaers, their History, Paporraphy, &c., Ko
The loformation in these Descriptions, con- sisting of a hundred interesting articles, neked with facts, concisely set out, and containing atistics of the TRANE of each Country and Port, would alone mulce to fill a large volims.
The Directories and Descriptions are of
CHINA Nanking Swarow Wad
MH, 6, 0xbeuza Mr. W. Pa fitt Mr. J. A. Dastic
Mr. J. H. Derbyshire Capt. & Mrs. J. Donzins Mr. d. ti. Fonter Mr.J. Downing
An elaborate repnet of over 50 pages on the foreign trade of China for 192 by Mr. J. W. Jamieson, Commercial Attaché at Peking, bus boon issued dy the Foreign Ofee. Mr. Jamieson ways that the apprehensions that heavy additional taxation and tlar affect of declining exchange on payments in respect of the indemnity and of debt charges would seriously affect "Ching's purchasing capacity huvi proved groundios sostenilily progressing. far, and the Customs retares for last year again demonstrate the roanzerative powers of the country. Though the average rate of robed this bortars of that province on exchange ruling throughout the year was lower the north. Two years more ought to see the by about 12 per cost. than the average rate completion of that important trunk line, which of 1991, the value of goods imported was higher at metal passengers and freight as soon as the by neary 4,000,000. This was concurrent sections were opered. The surveyors of the with a rise nt nearly £30,000 in the value of Canton-Hankow-line are advancing along the nativo produce exported, an expansion in 12 North River, sud trains will soon is running month of 14 per cent. The total imports last from Canton to the busy town of Fatshan your wore valued at £19,118,15, and the exports Towards the end of last year the Russo Chiness d. #,693,946. The aggregate of British frass Back advanced £1,600,000 for the building of a is nominally 62 por cout. of the total market vises, railway from Chingling, a station on the but this includes £8,100,000, or i0 per cent, of Paking-Hunkow-line in Chili, to Taiyuan. the the wacle, the value of thereinniling passing capital of Stansi (217 miles). The irriers thranga itongkong to and from Chine, and which, from a commercial point of view, bars of the manufactured produce of Hongkong hitherto separated that province, the adjoining imported into China. Hongkong being a frou province, Sheusi, and the country beyond port, keeping no records of imports or exports, stretching into Central Asin, from the Eastern it is difficult to stato, approximately to what coast are thus to be broken down, nud n·larg" These worn introduced some ten years ago, | 3r.: rbernard extent the various nations trading with China extrusion of Tientsin's export trade may, in constanco, be confidently anticipate The participate in the trade, or to give an accurate
contrace for the Shanghai Nanking Railway la 1 of how much is merely local trade. Mr. Jamieson says that advantage has been taken af lost signed. It should, Mr. Jamieson thinks prove a first-rate investment to those interested. of this difficulty to insinate that, in her anxely to pose n the possessor of the lion's share of Ubian trade, the United Kingdon kas by renring a nasipulation of the Customs ratures, had assigned to her a far larger propor tion of the trade than is hier das; but he provog that, even fuming that not one single pack ago passing through Hengkong is of British origin, or intended for consignmout to a Bratish port, the #1 par tout, les over for thin Buited Kingdom and other British possessions- is equal to that of the combined trade of Europe lexcinding Russia) and the Cuited States After an exammation of India and other statistics, he comes to the conclusion that 50 theagh per cent of the prones passing Hongkong is incontestably of British origin or destined for shipment to Bites po-sessions, and that the shore of the British Empire in Chin's foreign trade must on the lowe i Coupatation constitute 43 per cent, of the whole Siarly be places the trade of Japan and Famosa with China in the second place, with 17 per cent of the whole trade of China; the Continent of Europa (excluding Russia) and the United States, at 144 per cant. each; and Hongkong, which he treats separately, at
jor cout.
On the subject of the balance of international trade, Sir. Jamieson says that the excess of ports over exports, together with the interest on the debt, the payments our account of the indemnity, and the payments in redemption of
the firnign lesos amounted altogether last your
1 £18,594,087. China was able to pay this in site of a heary fall in exchange, and the question arises how was shi able to do so and for Low long can her invisible exports be relied upon to hear the burden of her increasing obliga
tions." Iu trying to answer this he is seek by the large part which exported labour plays, Remittances from Chines abroad are very nich greater than is generally supposed. The remit tugces from the Pacific coast are rouge
SUPREME COURT,
Thursday, 10:1 November,
Is Coiminal JunisDICTION,
BEFORE HIS HONOUR SIR WILLIAM MI. GOODMAN (CHIEF JUSTICE)..
THE GRIFFITHS FERIERY CARE.
John Griffiths was brought up ou a charge of haring on the 126 and 1616 October committed perjury in giving evidence at the Police Cour: In a case in which Lung Pat, a sampan-man, was charged with being fonud in possession of quantity of rope and asks what were alleged have frau sielen from the Nasat Yard Ex- toasion Works. When naked to plead,
Prisoner said-I am guilty, but I was ander the influence of drink and did not know what I
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was doing
Je Lordship-The charge against you. Griffiths, is th-that you made these state ments on the 12th and 161k of Octaber. What 1 understand you to mean by saying that you Were under the indigence of drick-having read the depositions is that originally when you gave this man into custody you were under the influence of drink
Prisoner-Yes.
and their usefulness has often been provid. Mr. and Mrs. A. Kili The wonder is, not that there are ninty-tr. A. Emerson to the water's edge when a lugh wit is. G. fcher small fires, but that the city is not burn captain Fey
blowing.
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A very destructive fire is reported from San. 11. Fretteroff Tong in Shek Lung district. This outbreak Me. W. G. Exsedlay Jr..
Me. t. Glover MA W. U originated in a matshed, in which some gay companions of the lower class hat congingat They wore indulging in a game of cards, and in tlur small hours of the morning
betook themselves to their supper, which consiste of a ent which had fallen into their lands it is apparently necessary to singe the hair of this delicate dish before eating it, and some of the sparks from the hair ignited the stall, causing a conflagration in which 437 It may be assumed that the gay houses -practically the whole village were barut party of players has formed the robber barula which haunt this neighbourhood; their lives would not be worth much if they fall into the hands of the villagers. A vacancy was causal in the ranks of the brigands by the exacu lion of three of their chicts at Caton lust The universal practice of gambling undoubt werk, but such vacancies are easily filled. edly is a great evil, as a ruined garbler is always welcome in a vobler band, or at the worst can start in the business alone.
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The following is the report for presentation His Lordebip-You are not alleging that to the shareholders at the thirty-seventh when you ap eurent before the Magistrate on the onlinary menting, to be bold on Tuesday, the 12th and 16th October you were under the inth December, at noon. fuence of drink?
Prisoner was muddled, your Lordship; the drink bad so much a hold of a that I did not
kaow what I was doing.
His Lordship-To indie ment in that you we knew at the time that what you more was not true. I presume you had sufficient intelligence to know that what you said was not
trump
Prisoner-I wae muddled, your Lordship. His Lordship-do-not-koow whether I can take that as a plea of guilty. What do you
Labour in estimated at 25,000,000 per annum. Manokeris-is said to have returned ka Chinn no kus than £1,500,000 to £2,000,000 in the shapo of rouble notes during the conres of last year, and the Australian contributions can fally, Mr. Attorney?
The Attorney General (Hon. Sir Henry S..
His Lordship-I will accept your ples and deal with the matter if you do not menu to say that at the time you gave the evidence you were s drunk that you did not know what you were doing. I understand you had been drank at the time you gave the man into custody.
Prisoner-I was drunk all day and all night. I was muddled and I did not know what I was talking about.
far short of that amount. Remittance Berkeley)We have the ovidence, my Lord of
m Sirk settlements would, as a rule, appear to be made in produce, and perhaps so the 1spector and others, and will call it i uncessary. I do not think the man wants it, them from the Dutch East Indies and the
however. hilipine Islands. An approximate calcula- tion vi at it conte le maintain the various mission establishments the oaghout the The conully tres out, say,£2,000,000 more. imports capital, too, to defray the cost of always wyer construction may have assisted materially as your was the first year in which pays in rospect of the indemnity. hal ka bis mut, and, us the incidence of there payments seen arouly distributed over a series of years, o abnormal schlition to China's .bilities need anticipated, maless exchange continues to fat While from a commercial point of view the olvoury of the comutry would, thus, for the tit being, seem to be assured, the Government's efficulties in providing funds wherewith to schage their obligations at de date ar reactiur serously on the people, and it
Bis Lordship-I am afraid, Mr. Attorney, I caunot take that as a plea of guilty, if he says he did not know what he was talking about, because the crime of perjury is that he wall know that what he said was falzo.
The Attorney-General-Well, he is an Eng
If he alman, my Lord, and understands. wants to bo tried by a jury we are randy with
-ovidence, but I do not think he wants it.
remains to be soen what can be done to
Bis Lordship-If you want to be tried by a wiimulate progres and promote their mutorial jury here, then we will try you, but I have read welfare, so that the may ho in a positi›a to
these depositions and I quite understand you to meet the growing demands at present being way, that when you gave this man inte enstody, made upon them."
In regard to impots, cotton products resobed and say you saw the rope on the sampan, you were in a muddled sort of stats and had teon the value of £26,58000; opium, 14,609,365; drinking. The question is, what stale you wars rica, £83,069,446; sign £2,692,497; kerasou, £1,503,300 and maths, 1374,7-10.
Tib and 16th glober. Yon then that of fudiou and Japango yara advanced by swore that you found the rope on the wan's sampan. Now, according to the depositions, it
in when you
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or 500,000lb, and 3,000,000, respectively. The is clear you did not find it in the saupan but decline in the importation of Indian oping in it was in the shed, and upon that this man was the last ten years bus heen 18.4 per cont. but convicted. Then he was re-tried and lot off as sines 1897 the average unmal quiatity imported it was found you had made a mistake. If you has remained steady at about 61900cwt. The year before last kerosene of stood bird on the sow that, when you gave that evidence before the Magistrate, you wore drnak, then we must
Prisonor Guilty, my Lord His L dehip-I think that is the most sensible couran to follow. It is quite clear that the Magistrate would not have taken your evidence
those two days if you had been drunk. Sentenco was deferred till later in the sitting to allow some particulurs about Griffiths career to be found out.
list of imports; in 12 sugar surpd its places, try you; but if you mean that you were suber Whereas the one fall by 30 per saat, the other When you gave the evidence then we can accept increased some 4 per cent. Nr. Jamieson eaters at great length into the fetics of your plea. What do you say? exports in recent years. In spite of the great and continuous fall is silver in rod years, and in spite of the decline in the great staple tea-the exports of China have orased greatly in the last ten years, even when theo ralues are expressed in guld. Expretend in silvor, they have more than doubled. The sxport trado with China's Asiatic neighbours. The Attorney-General then stated that from being nearly one-fourteenth of the whole he had been 13 years in the Navy and seven 20 years ago, amounted to one-fearth last year. years a boatswain in the P. & 0. Co. As to shipping, the British share, which in
His Lordship, in passing sentence of three 1582 was 62,10 per cent., and in 182 65.01, was months' imprisonment with hard labour, said last year 50 per cent. Japanese shipping in he took into consideration the prisoner s previous the same period rose from 1.12 to 1 por cout, services, and the fact that he would lose his and German from 5.08 to 13 per can'. In the pension of £13 por antum, coasting trade the British flag covers 66 and the Japaneto 16.5 per cent. of the whol
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BORDERY IN TAN HARBOUR.
Leung Shing-ki and Ho Ngan were charged with baring assaulted and robbed of several articles of jewelry a sampan-woman in Hung hom Bay on the 12th inst.
They pleaded not guilty. The following jury was empanelled: Messrs.
re-election.
Mr. H. D. Raimer Messrs. MT. J. S.. Bain
Mr. J. V. Bruss Mr. Callen Mr. Callot Mr. C. Condy and two
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was done; but the practical results ware in A. A. H. Milroy, W. F. Gardner, C. H. Blason, significant. The Director-General of Mines and Railways has engaged a British engineer N. H. Rutherford, A. H. A. Koechner, J. Hau to gouver likely ground on behalf of the Govern- ter, and F. M. X. Figueirdo.
The Attorney-General (inatracted by Mr. ment. His reports ought to furnish them with F. B. L. Bowley, Crown Selicitor) conducted some idea of the value of the ore-producing dis- the prosecution. In uning the case be said tricte generally, and, as special facilities for that on the evening of the day in question Mr. S. V. Dur exploring are afforded him, they ought to be of prisoners and another man hired a sampan a Mr. W. H. Donalds great interest. The export of iron ore Hanghom. There was only a woman in the Mes, B. Dufour Japan was less than in 1901, but the export of antimony ore from Bunun rose to 10,319 par. She rowed them out into the bay. Mine. Dulot tone, of which 19 per cent, was shipped to Taking advantage of her unprotected stata they Mr. & Mr. H. Eyrs attacked her, stripped her of all her jewelry. and Mr. R. Friedlander the United States. The coal mines at Fing threw her into the water. She screamed, and Count & Countess do
Senns Fernandes heinng were placed in communication with this attracted the attention of two Indian waterway by rail, and supplied 100,000 tons coal and cake to the Hanyang, ironworks, as artillerymen, who captured the two men as they Mr. B. Goldenberg
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ITIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S SHIPS IN THE CHINA SQUADRO A.
Alacrity, di-patel-bral, 1.700 tons, 10 guns, 1,000 hp. Candr. 0. Da Broz, at sa roule for Nagasaki
Albion, battleship. 12,950 tons, 16 guns, Capt.
Thomas H. Jerram, Japan Algurine, sloop, 1450) tous, & guns 1,300 h.p.. Comdy. Howland Nugent, Hongkong Amphitrite, 1st clans cruiser, 17,000 tons, 18,000 .p. Capt. Charles Windham, C.V.O., Hongkong
Blenheim, 1st lass erniser, 9,000 tons, '12 guns,
21,411 h.p., Capt. P. G. Stopford, ai Hongkong
Bramble, gunboat, 710 tons, 6 guns, 1,300 h.p., Lieut-Comdr. C. O. M. Makina, Shanghai Britomart, ganhost, 710 tons, & gnos, 1,300 h.p...
Lieut. Comde. Thos. D. Pratt, Shanghai Crassy, cruiser, 12,000 tons, 14 guns, 21,000 h.p., Capt. Henry M. T. Tudor, Weihaiwei Eclipse, craiser, 5,600 tons, 11 guns, Captain
Stoke, Japan
Espiegle, gunboat, 1,070 tous. 10 guns, Comdr.
Ernest G. Barton, Newchwang Fame, terpede-out destroyer, 300 tons, 6 guns, 5,700 h.p., Lieut.-Comdr. C. Asuur, al Hongkong
Fearless, cruiser, 413 tons, 1 guns, Capt.
Vaughan Lewes, Singaporo Clery, battleship, 12,950 tons, 16 guns, 13,500 h.p. Captain A. W. Carter, Yokohamo Handy, torpeto-beat destroyer, 260 tons, & guns,
4,000 p. in resorve
Hart, torpalo boat destroyer, 280 tons, 6 guns,
4,000 h.p, in reserva Humber, storeship, 1,610 tous, Coudr. John D.
Daintree, Hongkong Janus, torpedo boal dustroyer, 280 tone, 4 guns,
399 b.p.., in reser
Kinsha, river gunboat, 331 tons, Liunt-Com·lr. Christopher P. Metcalf, on Yangtze Leviathan, cruiser, 14,100 tons, Capt. Hon, W:
G. Stopford, Weihaiwei
Moorhou, river gunboat, 180 tons, 2 guns,
Lieut. Comdr. G. G. Webster, Hongkong Muline, stoop, 880 tons, 10 guns, Comdr. 3. W. 3. Planderlasth, en route for Australia Ocean,
12,950 tons, 16 guns, 13,500 battleship, h.p., Captain R. F. O. Foo Japan
Otter, torpedo-bost destroyer. 350 tons, in
reserve
Phonix, sloop, 1,015 tons, 6 gaus, 1,400 h.p...
Comdr. W. H. Nicholson, Japan Rambler, surveying-ship, 583 tons, Capt. Morris
I. Smyth, Amoy
Wuke, Japaz
Riazido, sloop. 98 tons, 6 guns, Comdr. D. St.
Aubyn Robin, river gunmat. 85 tons, 2 gams, 240
a.p, Livut Confdr. C. W. J. Howard, West River
Rosario, gloop, 98) tom, guns, 11,400,
Comdr. Thos. Jackson, Hongkung Sandpiper, river gunboat, 85 tons, 2 guns, 210 b.p., Lipot. Conde. L. W. Jonas, West River Sirias, Zud class cruiser, 3,600 tons, Capt. C. II.
H. Moors, Shanghai
Sparrowhawk, torpedo-bout destroyer, 360 tous, Liont-Comdr. Codrington, Hongkong