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their welfare. What, wo tondor; sould the Shameen be like if left for twelve months to the administrative care of the native officials of Canton ? Those who know how muni-
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Yesterday's plaguò return: až
The German gunboat. Iltis grrived from Swatow yesterday. Baron You Hatessen is in command.
the
Yesterday a man charged with horse-break. ing, who might have been committed to take his trial at the Criminal Sessions, escaped from the precincts of the Polica Court He was in the custody of an Indian constablo..
on
A stowaway from Shanghai, an the s. The Chamber of Mines Importation Agency A. S. WATSON & CO., cipal affairs are regulated in the native city
will have no difficulty in recognising Ltd) has been formed in the Transvaal to Benvortich, yesterday said to a police sergeant. in the precincts of the Magistracy, that the Shäneen would speedily that
import Chinese. The capital is £40,906,
Shanghai was a tine place. He had been become intolerable as
place of
the beach." there for six months, and was General Kuroki's favourite food. says It would residence for the foreigner,
never short of a good meal. appear from Viceroy Wi's draft regolaister Hudy Mell, is beats. We admire all the more that a sita is to be selected at Changsha for his generosity in giving them so liberally to
the Russians. foreign tra le and residence, and this is the part of the city apparently "which the Chinese Government is willing to adminis. ter"in accordance with the most modern
Viceroy WBL and advanced methods." evidently lacks the scuse of humour. Houan, of which Changsha is the capital, DISPENSARY. has long been notorious for its hured of
THE
HONGKONG
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
HAVE THE
FINEST SELECTION
OF
PERFUMERY,
SOAPS.
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We have been requested to remind ladies whe| wish to enter for the ambulare lestires recently advertised in our columns that they shwald send in their names to the Hon. Secretary (Rev. F. T. Johnan) before September 15th.
Large Japanese orders for steel rivets for indiats delivery have put an end to the
strike in the South Staffordships and North. Worcestershire rivet "and bolt trade. The employers have comeded alates nging from 15 to 20 per cent..
The engagement is announced of Captain Sir Thomas Montgomery Caningluns, of Corsehill, Ayrshire, Bart., D.SO., the Rifle Brigade, to Alice eller daughter of Sir William Das Viens. G.C.M.G., and Lady Des Voeux, of 35 Cailogan-square,
It is rumored that several mora Roman Catholic priests (Belgia) have been killed in the Ichang District. Last week the N-C. Daily News reported that four French torpedo heat slestrogors and one French gunboat were all in
readiness to leave Hankow for Jehang, presum
ably on wecount of these ramours.
The Select Committee of the House of Con- mons appointed to inquire to what extent the statutory requirements applying to Britisk sleips trading to and from ports in the United · Kingdom should be made applicable to foreign vessels truding to and from ich ports, have come to the conclusion that at this inte period of the session it is not in their power to prosent final report. They, therefore, report to the
House the ovidenes taken, and recommend that a Committee upon the same subject he-appointed in the next se ion of Parliament.
The incorporation in New York of the Southern Cotton Corporation, with a share
capital of 820,000,000, is "all tizo talk" in circles connected with the industry on both sides of the Atlantic, several owners of mills in Great Britain being said to be. interested in the uuiertaking. The intention is to establisır, throughout the whole of the South warehous whoreiz farmers may, in times of excessive production, stare their "cotton; and
for
it
RECOVE
negotiable warehouse receipts market, und
instead of torcing it on the breaking prices. The growers will, it is claimed, effect the handsome saring of '820.000,00 per
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MARSEILLES STRIKE ENDS.
LONDON, 7th September
The Marseiles strike is over.
RESULT OF THE LEG ER.
1 Pretty Polly.
2 Henry the First. 3 Alnicliffe,
TROUBLE AT THE EMIGRATION
CAMP.
It was reported yesterday that about half- past eight o'clock on the previous night some of the villagers of the small village of Wong Uk, near Laichikok emigration camp, arrested two of the coolies from the cump on 'e charge of",
The stealing vegetables from a garden. villagers were taking the alleged thieves to the public station when they met two Indian con- stables on patrol and handed the prisoners over? to them. The whole ever then proceeded towards the station, and had almost reached Samenipo when they were overtaken by a crowl of coolies to the number of about one hundred from the emigration samp, who sat upon the con The retirement of Sir William Wharton from
stables with bamboo poles and iren bars ung the office of Hydrographer of the Navy rendered
resoned the two prisoners. On the alarm bein out and gave chise to the retreating coolios vacant for the first time for 20 years one of the
iron at Samsaipo the rest of the Lodians raskust most responsible posts under Admiralty control.
They could not come up with the main body. Captain A. M Field, who suceals Sir William is impossible. It is further reported that a herveer. and only succeeded in captaving two Wharton. has had a life-long connection with, Yu Wei will visit Berlin after his siay in Lon-who had tulled off from the gang. Both of the
the forgigier and all his ways. It is truly Gilbertian to be solemnly told in a Viceregal document that here in the very heurt at
It was reported by one of the passengers to conservatism and hatred of the foreigner,
Here is a queer advertisement from the Sea Shanghai from Hankow by the Tuckws on the a Chinese Municipal Council will administer Francisco Examiner: Shantung and Shang-th instant, that in consequence of the American the affairs of a settlement for foreign habiai Silk-Marie on the hand looms in Japan and China Development. Company having passed tation on the most modern and advanced feed in Lyous. France: stylish fabrics, 24 te 2 into Belian hands, the whole American staff on the north, or Hankow end of the Hankow. methods. The question of ways and means inches, yard The to $135." We had not ander. could not very well be overlooked in such ¦ stood before that Shantung and Shanghai were Cauton railway, had been recalled. a set of regulations, and so we have it in Japan. Regulation No. 5 that the Chinese Municipal
The engagement is amouneed of Ewen Council will undertake the maintenance of Allan, aldest son of Bir Ewen Camaro. rouls and public works, and to meet the K.C.M.G., and Lady Cameron, to Ruhel Mar expense thereof a duty of two per cent, willgaret, eldest daughter of the late Alexander he levied on all import and export duties Geddes of Blairmero, Aberdeenshiv, and of
Mrs. Geddes, paid by both foreigners and Chinese. To
The Shanghai Daily News heure un relbite fix its income before having an idea of its expenditure may, we suppose, be consideral authority that serious anti-Catholic distur among the post modern and advancedance has ariser in the Shuichoufi Prefecture of North Kiangsi. The profect was imprisoned methais"
the Chinese Municipal three weeks by the malcontents, and the Council of Changsha, but it is a method Governor of the province has issued instructions Not likely to commend itself to the Foreigu to exterminato The whole can responsible for Consuls or Ministers by whom these regula this uprising- tions will have to be considered.
They need revision badly in order to make then-intelligible. What for instance is meant by the regulation that all land purchases and other business will be con- dreted by the President of the Municipal Council without foreign interference ? Iu No. 10 appears the statement that the lease
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial upl Nothersols Hospitals begs to acknowledige
the department, and has seen a good deal of surveying serving in Far Eastern waters.
The British Admiralty have called for touders from Clyde shipbuilders for two battleships which in point of armainent and armoured pro- The battleships will be tection will eclipse anything yet sitemapted in naval construction 16,500 tons and of high speed.. Tenders are to be sent in by September 2, which is an un- usually short, period for builders to fill up specifications.
Referring to the presence of Kang Ya Wai, leader of the Chinese Reform Party. in London, the Berlin Morgen. Post says that the Chinese Legation there is greatly disturbed at his visit, which is interpreted as being unfavourable to the Government of the Empreis Dowager, Every step of Kang Ya Wei, the journal states, is dugged by secret agents of the Chinese Government, although his arrest or extradition
day. He was there seven years ago, when he received recognition in official circles. Kang Yn Wei, who neted as adviser to the Emperor of China in the period which" preceded the Peking coup d'etat of iras, is staying at the
Hotel Ceril.
with thanks" donations, of five dollars bub from
On Auried 30th news of anti-missionary Shan Tsin On, Yau Wo. Sau Long, Chi We.
troubles at Jaochow, Chingteb-chix, Loping. Hau On. Wai Ou.. Wing Wo Cheung, Cheng | hsion and Liutien reached Nanchang, says the snicide, he changed his name and returned home, Į Universal Guzelte. At Jockow and Chingtah. chin the Catholic missions, hospitals, noil-con- rent were in danger, and the missions at Loping usien in Lintion had bren plundered anil hurnt.
Wing, Tai Shing. Sui Chenug. Hang Man Tal, Un Fung Yun. Frk Wing Li, Un Tak. Kan Hing Lang. Wo Cheang Co., Tat Cheng. and Li Chin Kec.
Indians who were attacked were badly braised, one of them so severely as to necessitate bis removal to hospital. The two coolies who were as having taken part in the resere captured were up at the Magistracy yesterday and wo renunded
eccurred last
the
A. S. WATSON & CO. is for sixty years. from date of opening | The news from the north is that the lung. The local officials had been ordered to protectation Mr. Pollard frst obtained from a priest clothes, he then got an into the street and man
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The MACKAY Treaty does not say that any sought. Kuling Extension has at last been territory shall be leased. In another regulation appears the absurd, stipulation that no ue will be allowed to occupy more than 250 feet of land on the river front" as "otherwise the deamus of all sannot be met." The regulations seem to
secured. The extension includes the north and south ends of the present valley, and a five years` option on the valley to the west husbon secured. The lots we 1:55 feet by 250 foot, aud they are purchasable From the Chinese Cover ment af $200 (Mex) per lat, to be resold to the public st. $250 per lot. The profits are to be
used for the improvement of the estate.
the missions
Mr. S. Pollard writes to the Times from Chao-tong. Yunnan. West China, on May 18. BRITISH SOLDIER RUNS AMOK AT
PEKING. to say that a report is enrrent la Yaunau that Admiral Ting, who was generally supposed to
SHOT BY HIS COMRADES. The Peking correspondent of the Shanghai have committed micide after his defest at Wei- lui-wei in 1894, is still alive. The admiralina native of the province of Yun-uan, his home Mercury sent the following sensational story detod August 27th. A most pitiful incident
evening at quarters of the British Legation Guard, being near Tai-fu. Instead of committing keeping quiet until the storm had blown over. He is now said to be a military mandarin in Someone want to an officer of the Guard and command of some troops, and, serving under scid that one of the soldiers was insane. The Viceroy 1 Hed, is sharing in the attempt to patoflcer went to the barracks to investigate and down the rabellion in Kwang-si. This intorn found the soldier in the art of entting up his As far as the French Hospital on Legation" whose home is also in the vicinity of Ta-li-fu. Since then he has had it confirmed by others, Street, where he was followed by soine English of Chinese coolies with their juricksīns. The and finds that it seems to be generally accepted soldiers. In frout of the hospital were a number us truts.
insane man carried his bayonet at his side, and with this he started to stab the coolies. After making every possible effort to stop him, the pursuing soldiers shot him. He was taken to the American Legation Guard hospital, where if was thought that he was only slightly wounded. from Hongkong have been smoothed over, An examination was made by un English and an Under the British-Chinese Convention no coolies American surgeon, and it was found that he lad could be shipped to a British possession from been shot through the abdomen, and he died in China except from a Treaty port. Hongkong a few minutes. of course is not a Treaty port, and the Viceroy. reading the Convention literally. put objections ROYAL HONGKONG YACHT CLUB in the way of the sending of coolies from here. Now His Excellency has been instructed from Peking that no further objections are to be taken. It is a noteworthy fact that in Hong hung the spakam of wristration of the coolies is far more efficient and for more calenlated to give erory protection to them than that in vogne in Tientsin, Chefoo and other Northern ports.
It is pleasant to read in the Timera poom by Barou. Tekasaki to Lord Tennyson (the late Laurate's sorpraying for an Anglo-Japanese alliance in literature as well as politics. In the Emigration Camp at Luiclikok there are now some 750 coolies awaiting shipment Captions erities may see a dubious compliment in the line when shall I meet again may peor. for South Africa, and it is expected that they less friend and grasp his great, good band will sail aliut the 15th. It appears that all The leg-of-mutton fist suggestion was perhaps dilliculties with regard to the despatch of coolies due to the difficulty of translation.
Here is the programme of music be per- formed on Monday night by the 1st Sherwood Foster Band, the now Fazade Ground, Overture, La Reine d'un Jour (Adam); Suite. Peer Gynt " (Grieg): "The Ride of the Valkyries." (Wagner); morgenu, Patrol (Michaelis); valse" shener mai“ (Strauss and regimental march-- The Young Bay Moon."
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have been framed under the delusion that as soon as the port is opoued, there will be
The Enddhists in Hunan. being somewhat a great influx of foreigners ready to buy 9 alarmed at the possibility of having their the entire city unless some restrictions are temples changed into schools by the Government, placed on their acquisitiveness. When the hare, says the N.C. Daily News, hit upon a completad happy.device to avoid such a calamity. Several Harkow-Canton railway Changshu will doubtless become an in- of the Buddhist temples in this province" lave portaut market for foreign goods, but white passed into the hands of Japanesis priests now in the province, with the object' of avoiding the the jealousy and hostility towards the possibility of their being used by the Government foreignes endure which is so ill-canceled for schools, seeing they belong to foreigners,
Wonders will never crass in Corea. A HONGKONG OFFICE :14. DERVEUX ROAD CI.in these regulations, the city is not likely
The Clean Steinship Company of Liverpool. LONDON OFFICE: 181, FLEET STREET, E.C.
to include among its inhabitants a colony native reporter writes to the Kore Daily Nene
RA follows. There is a serious beast in the owners of the Catchas, say her manifest shows of foreign traders. Viceroy Wet has solici HONGKONG. SEPTEMBER 10TH, 1904. THE growth of opinion among the Chineseted an expression of the views of the Foreignhouse of the man named Kim in Hongsan she find on board total cargo of 2.411 tous, cou district of Choong Chong provines, that wassisting of a very, miscellaneous assortment of regulations,
born which between wild pig and horse. It's goods. Shio was carrying for Yokohama, among chuting the last twelve months or so in Consuls concerning these
hair is like pins and it's mouth is like pig's other articles. No quartor sacks of flour and favour of opening cities to foreign trade has which it has been suggested are been very noticeable. Commercial men have stund as a guide for all ports to be mouth. It make a very curious noise, many three cases of machinery, 574 tons in all. been the prime movers in the matter, but it opened hereafter. If so, and in any ovens, catties of things can be loaded on its back and is interesting to note the political aspect of it is the duty of the British authorities to it casi ruu very fast like the fowls do." the matter which has evidently appealed to point out to the Government of Peking that Section 12 of the these regulations are tantamount to with-
Chinese statesmen.
Lo
For Kohe. there were 5,000 quarter sucks of
flour, and for Hongkong 1.450 tons, including
IMPUDENT HOUSE BOYS.
In the Summary Court yesterday Mr. Justice Sercombe Smith heard a ease in which two Chinese hork and a cook sued European lady for a month's wages. No. 1 boy 'claimed $17 In Parliament on August. 9th Mr. Norman and the others less than $10 each. The defen-
Hour.
MACKAY Treaty provides that five places drawing with one band what they have given patents. Foremnat in an inkstand, inventel by asked the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs dant admitted that the wages were due, though
To-day is the Jewish New Year's Day. Mr. Vernon was reported to have purchased the C. E. & M. 3. Peiping for £5,900,
shall be opened to foreign trade on the with the other. same footing as the places opened to foreign trade by the Treaties of Nanking and Tient- sin"; but in the same section it Is stipulated that "foreigners residing in these Open Ports are to observe the Municipal and Police regulations on the same footing as Chinese residents, and they are not to be entitled to establish municipalities and police of their own within the limits of these Treaty Ports
except with the causent of the Chinese authorities." The draft regulations recently framed by Viceroy Wet for the opening of Changsha to foreign trade clearly reveal what Chin means by, thus differentiating between the old Treaty Ports and the new. In the old settlements where foreign Muni- ipal Councils and police administrations exist they have been organised by virtue of Jocal regulations which were framed jointly by the foreign and Chinesa authorities. There
All the Antwerp shipping compous har stoppel loading gords for Japan. owing to the arbitrary proceedings of Russia in the contra-
band question.
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Entering his shop after the August Bank Holiday, Bristol grocer found the ceiling and wells splashed with batter. birdseed mixed with the tea, and the floor covered with treacle.
A commission of representatives of British commerce will visit Berlin next. April, with a
view to establishing better trade relations
between Germany and Groat Britain.
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Rear Admiral Grenfell, CMG, who was recently second in command of the China squadron, has been appointed second in com mand of the Mediterranean Flest.
The German company of Volunteers at challenge shield for the third time, beating the English artillery by three points.
is nothing in either the Nanking or Tier-Shanghai has just won the inter-company tsin Treaties expressly sanctioning or for bidding the establishment, of a foreign Municipal Council or a foreign police force
Major Dopping-Hepenstal's (RE) office at Head Quarters is quite a little museum of
the Major. When the pen is lifted from it the lid of the ink-bottlo oppas automatically and it shuts again when the pen is replaced. The holder keeps the pen in the most couveniert position. A similar appliance is used for rubber stamps: there are Dopping-Hepenstal patent files; patent arrangements for copying; and even patents for keeping dust from plus. All simple, yet very clever.
The death of Mr. T. C. Bogaurdi, formerly of Singapore, is announced in Ulome papers. He joined the firm of William Mansfield and Co Singapore, in 1871, and remained till he became a partner in 1877. retiring about nine or ten years ago, though he remained for a few years in Singapore as managing director of the Straits Steamship Company, of which he was practiently the founder. He was a member of Council during the latter years of us stay in Singapore, and was also Tanjong Pagar Dock Company Limited Daring the years 1877 or 1878 till 1883 he represented the firm of Mansfield and Co. in Penang. He died ut Amsterdam on July 29.
director of the
The yachting season of the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club commences about the 1st November though a ladies' race may be held at the and of October. A general meeting of members will be called in a few days for business, and to hear all about the amalgamation of the Yacht Club with the Boat Cinh--There are no new yachts. Vernon, the winner of last year's champlouship, Commodore Robinson's yacht, now belongs to Mr. Tooker while Dione is solely owned by Mr. F. H. May.
Major Pratt, R.A, owner of Doreen, leavejety the Colony to-day to take up a position at
Woolwich.
H.K.V.C.
Corps orders issued by Major C. G. Fritchard if he could say whether the German Govern- not in full. With regard to No 1 boy, he Commandant and Adjutant of the Volunteer ment was endeavonging to anire from the otsimed $15 and $2 which he alleged he had Corps, state that there will be a general porads Chinese Government a lease of the Trug-ting boat to his aistress. Defendant said he left on Headquarters on Tuesday next at 5.30 p.m. for Lake, in the Yangtaze Valley, for the purpose the 29tli ait, two days before his term was up. Infantry drill Sergt. Turton, 1st S.F., will und could he make any On the day previous he wonkid not do his work, attend. Artillery units will parade at Head- of navat manœuvres: further statement on ile subject.-Earl Percy and she gave him $1 cumsha to indtice him to quarters en Thursday, 15th inst, for Maxim re about bis duties. Even then he did not do gun drill Sergt. Bartoloms, R.GA, will No. sic; we understand that there is no trath
his work. On the morning of the 29th he attend. Taikoo detachment will parade in the report.
She Taikon on Wednesday, the 14th, at 5.30 p.m. sancy and again neglected his work. afterwards went into his quarters, paid him Maxim gun drill, C.-S.-M. Whelan, R.GA., his wages, and told him to go. whereupon he attending Kowloon detachment will parede at flung the money back at her. He and the the Docks on the 14th also, at 5.30 pm, for other two began to threaten her, and she ran infantry dril: Sergt. Turton, 1st S. F., attend- down to the backyard. No. 1 boy pinched ring. Among the recent recruits are W. H arme until they were black and blue, while the Woolley, P. T. Lauble, T. P. Connelly, J. Quinn and H. J. Knight. Gunners J. W. His Lordship said she should have summoned Kew and B. Clarke, who have left the Colony, others pulled her about by the skirts.
have been struck off the strength thom at the Police Court.
The steiner Enter, which cleared from Shanghai on the 17th it. with a cargo of provisions for Newchwang, was destined for Port Arint, in sight of which port she was wrecked. Her captain, the story goes, was promised 5,000 rombies and a Russiau decoration if he succeeded in making Fort Arthur, and the same sum was to be divided among the rew. She was dispateled from Shanghai by a blockade-raoning syndicate there which is composed of at least four nationalities, one- belonging to belligerent and three to neutral
Powers.
Defendant stated that she had called in a
them as she did not want her name to appear in the papers. sorgeant of police, but she had not summoned
His Lordship gave judgment for 12 without costs..
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When the boy heard the judgment ho mattered something in Chinese to the effect that defendant should pay the money due him. His Lordship called him back and told him he had better be careful what, he said thers, dr he wenkd and himself in gnol. He might be
SETTLEMENT OF THE SHIHEN ANTI-CATHOLIC TROUBLES.
The following settlement has been made by the French authority with the Chinese.
1-The culprits who murdered the. Cathelia
2-The local officials responsible shall be priests and converte shall be severely punished. cashiered and ordered to leave their positions,
A bospital shall be established to com-
memorate the incident at the expense of the
insolent to his mistress, but if he was insolent Chinese Government.”.
The British Government is now repiring owners of vessels carrying Government stores to the Far East to make and sign the following Many people interested in foreign missions declaration: We hereby declare that, to the will hear with sorrow of the death of Mr. best of our knowledigo and belief, the steamship '—-—-—---—- ——-—--` `---muster, gaged for the conveyance of Hudson Taylor. wife of the founder of the China Inland Mission. Mrs. Taylor shared her Government stores to is not carrying The sum of £307,242 figaras in the estimates husband's active interest in the evangelication munitions of waste. gun explosives and/or in a Treaty port, and it was, to say the least for 1904-5 as estimated expenditure on the of China, and she was his companion in the other armament, fur Rassinu or Japanese ports." extremely unwise on the part of the British Hongkong dockyard extension, which will cost frequently dangerous and always weary journeys A distinct merit about the form of the above
Both Mr. and Mrs. Hudson Taylor have been
of war are officially recognised by our Govern authorities to hare allowed. suela an inhibi-altogether £1.245.000. The works are to be through China which he undertook so often declaration is that under it. saly munitions
At the conclusion of the case his Lordship completed in 1905-6.
in weak health, and a message of sympathy was
ment as absolutely contraband. Those ship- tion to appear in the MACKAY Treaty.
Mossra. "Melchers & Co inform us that the sent a few days ago to them from the Keswickers who sign the declaration and curry strongly advised defendant to take out sun Where there is any considerable congrega tion of foreigners in a Chinese city these. Pruz Heinrich has to enter drydock at Convention, at which in past years they had often Government states must be protected, and the monger against all these plaintiff and got them
Singapore and will probably be delayed for a spoken. Mrs. Taylor's illness terminated very demand for similar protestion from other owners punished. extra-territorial privileges are exceedingly
further three weeks. The. Hongkong cargo peacefully at La Paisible, Chevalleyres, Blonay, will become irresistible. desirable, and indeed absolutely essential to will be forwauled by ss. Sechsen.
Switzerland.
The two other servants got judgment without in that Court it, would be at his own risk.
costs.
4.Respectful service and burial of the murdered priests shall be nudertaken by the Chinese authorities sta
The families of the four native couveris who had been murdered shall be given ins
the families of the Catiroho priests.—kiverse! demnities, and indemnities alto shall be paid to
Summonses were taken out in the afternoon. Gorette.