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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 2ND 1905
I found room for improvement in the judicial procedure then in rogas, and I are remodelled the system of receiving and dealing with "petitions" in such a way that the opportunities for extortion on the part of my sta are now mach curtailed. All petitions aro brought to the Magistrate by the petitioners in persion, ad the Magistrale's house, as well un A. S. WATSON & CO., his Court, are spen at all times to all geraous who wish to make statements or to bring complaints,"
Thie, while entailing mich extra work, is the only way in which to make the Chinese realise that there are actually cases where justice, strict and untarnished, is the goal aimed aṭ. This is a form of missionary enterprise calling for the leighest com
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of trouble being disputes as to the owner- ship of land. In one case'n title-deed whose date corresponded to bar your 1561 was put in. Many deeds, poligrees, and other records were destroyed by the Japanese when they captured Woi-hai-wei in 1894; and Mr. Joussven thinks that if there were a survey and a hand court, much of the land would be found to belong to the
Crowa; but not enough, apparently, to recoup it for the heavy expenditure that
It would seem
wonk ho involved. shame to take
nny from present holders, murely bixause recent invaders had destroyed their proofs of owner- ship; and so it is just as well, may be, that there is no intention of exuering the fall legal rights of the Government.
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According to a homo paper, a speaker at the TELEGRAMS.ced on the foundations. The land owned
them to take food unless it lasted of witishy.
["DAILY PRESS" SERVICE.
by the Company at Canton has proved tos smal to contain the moessary buildings of the plant and, as adjoining property is held of high values, It is proposed to salf this lot aud buy another
ceaseless hardship and privation, For weeks at a stretob, at the sowing time and the two anaus! North-East Lancashire Conference of Women's harvests, every adult and child is busy in the fields. In the long and bitterly cold winter Co-operative Guilds raid she had been told by s nights they sit on their kangs, had for the sake of warus augs, kad led to therure that the number of "whisky babies" in during the day workhoused" was appalling. The attendaufs, they issue out of doors so collect fuel and she said, had the utmost difenity in getting TERRIBLE DISASTER AT SEA. larger and choper site, although som what far. ther removed from the centre of the city. The manure, or stand in their boundary-ditches to
Directors have in vier seroral logitione on the watch the poules and hounds from Port Edward Thron times a week they wead their way with chasing the hore over their ancestral soren
bank of the river well suited to nur needs. I heavily laden mules to the Weihaiwoi market,
trust at the next meeting to have something leasing the women at home to moud the clothes
The Chinhua brought 79 survivorssere sbstant on which to report than the and commoses quarrels that will sud in lagt-Monday-Sanitary Inspzotars' Examination,
promise of the past. Unless there are any 8.45 : Tuesday--Ieature by Mr. of the Elsieshho, which was blown up questions to be answered I will propass the Browne on the subject of Physics and
suits."
The trial of Me. H. B. Mulford, ex-cashier of the suspended American Bank at Manila, has opened. He is charged with estafa. The Cableucus coscribes his attitude as nonchalant. It is whispored that a promising gold mine has been discovered at Syang Chau a place 35 miles to the north-east of Ham-Heung, and that offorts are being wale by the Japausss '. obtain a licence to work it.-Seoul Peeas.
The Seoul Press state that it is considerad likely thush the wedding ceremonies of the Imperial Housebold will be celebrated shortly The Emperor, we hear, is to be married first, and the Crown Prince will dutifully follow his
father's example
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The annual procession of the Holy Rosary took place yesterday afternoon in the compound
This week's programine for the Hongkong. Branch of the anitary Institute is as follows:-
VESSEL BLOWN UP.
SHANGHAI, 1st October.
Natural Forces" (Oponing Leature of Wisferit latitude 35:25 longtitude -122.37, Thursday- Sanitary on Saturday morning at 6.30 in the Course) at 9. p.: Inspecters Examination, 8.45 am. Friday-clearest weather. Atotally-submerged Leotora by Mr. F. Browne on the subject of
nine struck the forehold and the Physics and Natural Forces,” at 0 p.m.
vessel sank inside ten minutes.
adoption of the accounts as presented.
Mr. WATKINS Kid he had much pleasure B seconding.
The resolution was carried.
Mr. WATKINS proposed the appointment to the Board of Directors of Messrs. Lai Ini Kwan, A. F. Carrick, N. M. Holmes and C. W. Mend.
Mr. CHAN A. Fook seconded, and the motion was agreed to.
The two foreign passengers were saved; and the drowned include Engineers Mauclum and Muir.
The survivors escaped in their delay at the printers the prospectuses would Pyjamas by swimming.
It now seems that India will surpass Egypt and the South of France as a winter resort this sensou, say the Daily Mirror. The oflices of the Indisa Steamship Lines are thronged with passengers intending to follow the Prings and Princess of Wales on their coming visit to our It is reported that the great dependency. P. O. line have already booked about 9,000
Two boats were successfully lowered, passengers for Indian ports, and it is impossible, over now, to obtain thrst-class pa-sage to Bombay but a third was cupsized.
oa the Anchor Line before November.
Ho
Francis Greenwood Peabody, professur of of the Roman Catholic Cathedral. It was very Christian morala of Harrar, is dead. Professor impressive and was largely attended. A special Peabody was horn in Boston 1847. feature in the procession was the presence of the graduated from Harvard in 1969, Harvard divinity school 1872, and received tho degres of four bishops.
D. D. from Yale in the same yeer. He was Information has reached Hongkong that the jussar of the First Parish Church, Cambridge. French cruiser Sully, which was on the rocke at Bay d'Along, has now become a total wreck,
(REUTER'S SERVIOS,
FOREIGN PRESS ON THE ANGLO-JAPAN AGREEMENT,
THE
The CHAI MAN intimated that but for a
hata been issued that day. They would how- aver be ready for distribution on Monday.
This concluded the business.
WILLIAM POWELL, LIMITED,
The fourth ordinary yearly menting of share- {holdera in this company was hoki at the offices of the company, Alexandra Buildings, at novu on Saturday.
There were presest: Mr. W. H. Ga-kell LONDON, 29th September.
(chairman) and Mr. G. C. Maron (dirsetors) ;. The Franch press las received the Anglo- also Messrs. H. Gyrs (manager), L. S. Lawia,. 1974-80; and Fark mauu proforor of theology Japanese Treaty favourably and sees no J. W. C. Boom, T. Arnold, Feror Saith and Harvard divinity school, 1890-90. Ho was reason why it should cause any ill feeling C. A da Ross,
The MANAGER haring road the notice con- the last typhoon having caused her to break in author of "Mornings in the College Chapel." between Russia and Great Britain; it convening the meeting, the CHAIRMAN said Joz pts $27 Perdoz pis $3.25 There is, as we said, very little crime; and tan. The departure of the local salvage parly “Short Addresses to Young Mon on Personal siders that the safety of Indo-China is Gentlemen-The report and statement of
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there is no police force. The ubrions has been cancelled. conclusion is that the absence of a
polica force is responsible for a lack of criminal records: bat ir Jonsson is care
ful to point out that this would be an erroneous criticism, as the victims of crime rarely fail to make complaint. The secret ,,splits $2.40 appears to be in the "modified patriarchal system wouder which the vast majority of the people still live and die," and the absence
A. S. WATSON & CO. immigratis, and funds soldout change hands
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Correspondents must forwart their names and as drusice with communications addressed to the Easter, not for publication, but as evidence of good faith
All ictters for publication should be written on one side of the paper only.
No
The Government Gazette announces that is
Religion," Founders Day Hampton," Afternoons in the College Chapol,” aud **Jeans Christ and the Social Question." His
light of Fukus Beacon, southward of Hirato-home was in Cambridge, Mass. shima, Provines of Hisen, Nagasaki Prefecture,
has gone out, owing to the damage of the lautoru. The lantor will be repaired and re- lighted as an early date, of which due notice
will be given.
According to the Seoul Press, Mr. Hsu Kew Sul, nominated by the Emperor for the Premiership, has sent in his refusal of the office three times. That paper remarks :--"It seems that Mr. Han has a mind and policy of his owu, and does not cure to le a mere puppet in the hands of the Japanese."
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German traders we exercising their winds
strengthened by the alliance of Japan-to a accounts having besa in your hands for some Power with which France bas excellent days, with your por mission I will consider them relations.
as read. We are pleased to again como before you with what we may justly consider a satisfactory report of the year's working. The
Artide No. 4 is viewed in St. Petersburg
as to their country's consular representation in with aluri, and considered open to the Macharia. Before the war German com.
widest interpretation. mercial interests in this region were looked after by a commercial agent antioned at Viodivestock, Should, however, Port Arthur and Dalny, orany large part of Manchuria now pass tuto the hands of Japan, the terman Consulate there will no longer suffice. "Iox.
A few weighty German papers consider the Treaty unobjectionable, while the rest declare it is moet manneing, and urgo a Russo-German counter alliance of which they believe M. Witte's wish is to be the
expenses in connection with the business for the past year have been somewhat heavy, but this we anticipated would be the case for the first year in our new promises aud consequent extension of business. You will observu from the report before you that we still continue to write cost. At the close of the year under review dowa our stock on hand, reducing it to a low
ever the peace negotiations my terminata," precursor; they also advocate the inclusion the value of our stook was about $53,000 more
says the Humburger Nachrichten, "we think it not inopportuns to remind the department iù question in Berlin that it is a matter of the most urgeat importanon in view of the Geralalt
export industries to establish consulates both at Dolty and at Newchwong without delay,
of France in the counter alliance.
ANGLO JAPANESE SHIP-OWNING COMBINE.
of clue fonds. Mr. JORNSTON writes:
The country is 100 poor to tempt
except among relatives. Farms are often mortgaged, but nearly always subsequently redsomed. The villages are generally named Bishop Brent of Manila epoke for two hours after fam lies that have lived in them for many genturies. San Chis Tan is the village of the
Sept. 25 in denunciation of the opium Sua family; Ch'i Chin Tan is the village of traffe. Ho made the usual comments about the Chi family; and so me with most of the England and the commercial lack of conscience: villages in the turritary Tille-deeds and
and committed himself to the assertion that the tombstones all reveal the suma txin, the landownars are everywhere the dirsat value of the opina imported into China is collateral descendants of the people who greater than of all the other imports combined.
the days of the Sung or the Ming dynasty. Farmera in Korea, says the Scou! Press, are A curious result of this is the manner upon the whole, a credit to their country. It
is true that they enjoy a prolonged spell for some time push Values have fallen very staffed by Japanese. The combine are buy has been dull for some time past we look for a
tilled the
Jame
or
in which individuals identify themselves will
their own ancestors. "I baght this land and now the Liu family are trying to steal it from during the winter months, but this is of mecos- me." complains a potitioner.
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than that of the previous year, the increas being principally in connection with the furnishing department. We hold at the present tima no old or deteriorated goods having dis posed of same from time to time during the year. LONDON, 29th September.
We found it absolutely necessary to carry a clear The Standard states that an Anglo- and up-to-data stock, having so many climatic Japanese ship-owning combine has been influences to contend against. I am pleased to Now that the war is over, thers ought to be a formed in London with a capital of be able to state that the sales for the first three general revival in the shipping trade, which has | £5,000,000, and offices in London and Liver months of the present year, July, August and beon under the strain of considerable auxists pool, the latter of which will be partly September-are-in-excess of the corresponding-
months of lust year, and although trade
low. The present price for now iron and stock
When did you sity. From the sowing to the reaping they steamphips is in fact the lowest on record Newing forty of Japan's purebased transports considerable increase of business during the
buy it remarks the magistrate. "In the fourth year of Your Ching." says the petit ioner, and sure enough his title deed bears the dave of 1727. Nearly every man has his few acres of arable land sud his shure the cons
apa pasture land every ous is responsible to someone else for his correct behaviour, and all owe come obalionce to the elders of his house
o anonymously signed communications that have already appeared in other papers will be inserted.
Onders for extra copies of DAILY Pass should be sant before 11 am. on day of publication, after that hows the supply is limited. Only applied for Caskur s'un tuny. At present the villages of
Telegraphic Addresa: Pass, Color: 4.8.0, 5th EZ, Lieber's
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The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, OCTOBER. 2xD, 1905.
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work exceedingly hurt, and from sun-set all through the exhausting summer days they are labouring away in the fields, with the exception of a brief rest at mid-day.
A New York inlegram days.-Tho Japanese
steamships are to be had at 5 s. per too, while, as for old ships, they can be bought at 355. to 40. per too. According to Mestre, H. E. Mess and Co.'s circular, steel vessels of 2,000 to 3,000 tons, only ten years old, have been bought Lately at 408. per ton, while fine wooden vessels
and several huge cargo beats. BLOWING UP OF THE "CHATHAM" IN THE SUEZ CANAL
coming season over that of last year. Our
manager reports that he has a good and reliabi staff of assistants over each department so that we should be in a position to meet all demands for the coming winter. There is nothing that occurs to 16 to add to my remarks, but I shall be happy to answer any questions or give any
the village bending nvy has hoisted the Japanese lug over the hare been "going" at 208. to 253. per toc. vessel to pieces, and sont three huge information that shareholders may desire.
Soon after the American transport Logan
Commander Islands whichare in the Behring Weibaiwei are to a certain limited oxteat, so
ixtween Kamschiatku and the Aleudis islands, far as their domestic affairs are concerned, like the latter belonging to the United States and so many little self-contained republics, eadlitas former to Russia. What this new departure with its president or headman.
Every individual is bound by rigid nawritten law to portends is unknown. The islands are unim conform to the will of the major et saater pure portant and are only valuable for fishing, having and to fulfil his duties to the community no strategic advantage. oven they fuvolve his own discomfort. Recently I had to decide a cass in which an individual was nconed by his fellow-villagers left Hongkong a lady passenger missed jewellery of refusing to subscribe towards the engage
Others lost articles of the ment of a travelling theatrical
He worth $3,000. company admitted that he was in the wrong, and pro- aggregate value of $2,000; and the thief of mised to contribute his full share forthwith.
thieres managed to escape with their $5,000 respon There is thus a clear sense of mutual-
worth of booty. At any rate, on September sibility, and a general obligation to co-operate for common ends. There are many points in 25th, thors wore only theories that some common between the mediaeval village common-
professional thief rust have joined the crew. nities and burgbal associations of Europe and
The Manila police detained all but the first the present village communities of North Chinn, bat the analogy must not be pushed too far. class passengers. The absence of the seiguorial or manorial trale. He seems to be the fortunate pos-system in China is alcne safficient to vitiate sessor of a sering eye and a facile pen, to say such comparison."
The power of description betrayed in the judge from interesting appendices he has
Ma. R. F. JOHNSTON, until May of last. year acting as Assistant Colonial Secretary
now at Wei-bai-wei at Hongkong, is where be replaced Mr. B. WALTER as Secretary to the Government and Magis-
The curious phenomenon known
us the
Floating Island" has again made its appear ance, after an absence of soven years, on Lake landing stage at Lolore. The floating island is some 801by 15 yards in extent. It generally remains risible for six or seven weeks, and then gradually sinks. On one occasion a party of collegians planted the island with cabbages, but the boatmen excried off the plants.
Shipbuilders and their men have been passing through trying times, but now large orders may to anticipated for both war and merchant vessels, and a general rise in prices.
Loxus, 28th September. The explosion in the Chatham burst the columns of water, and and debris 2,900 feet high; the east bank of the caual-is des- troyed for a distance of 600 feet, but the west bank is not damaged; dredgers and divers are already at work clearing the debris. The railway at Sweet Water Canal
THE MOROCCO QUESTION SETTLED.
There were no questions, and the CHAIRMAN Proposed the adoption of the report and accounts
Mr. ARNOLD-I have much, pleasure in seconding the proposition. I think the share- holders have overy reason to be gratified with the result shown.
Mr. LEWIS proposed the sleation of the Chairman (Mr. Gaskell) and Mr. Moxon us directors for the ensuing year.
ME. BONNAR seconded and the proposition was agreed to.
Lordon, 28th September. The Franco-German-Morocco agreement | be re-slooted anditor of the company. has been signed in Paris.
Mr. BONNAR moved that Mr. Perey Smith
Acetylene gas machines are making a good fight for a hold upon the lighting business in China, and they will probably get a good share lighting is likely to obtain. The Chinese in of it, certainly most of what this line of is intuet.
the open ports, where bicycles have been introduced, ran to acetylene gas lamps, and, inasmuch as they run to cheap things at the same time, it is quite common to see a two dollar and a half lamp on a twelve dellar and a half bicycle. Comparatively for Chinese shops bare taken up with acetylene gas illaminant, most of them passing from the one extreme of small kerosene lamps to electria Lights in the open ports, where such modern conveniences are to be bad at all. Practically all of the calcium carbide at present used in if any, being manufactured locally.
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CANTON AND HONGKONG ICE. COMPANY.
shareholders of the Canton and Hongkong Loo The second ordinary general meeting of the
and Cold Storage Company, Ltd., was held on
Mr. Rosa seconded, and the motion was carriol.
Mr. SMITH-I thank you, gentlemen, for tho confidence you have placed in me, and I hope I deserve it. While passing a vote of thanks
to yourself, Mr. Moxon, for the excellent to the manager and staff, may I also pass one
services you base rendered the company during
Road Central. Mx. A. F. Carvick (president) better position than I am to know what time was in the chair, and there were also prosent, and attention you have dévoləd to the interestz Chan A. Fuokl(vice president) Tsang Yuen Kai, of the company. G. A. Watkins and Messrs. Chan A Tak (scrotary).
-
written for Mr. Commissioner STEWART foregoing extract should not be confiued to Derwentwater, a fow hundred yards below the Chins comes from the United States, lite. Saturday at the Company's office, 11 Queen's the year. After the mager, no one, is in LOCKHART's Lunual report, which has just the literature of the pigeon-hole. It be. arrived from His Majesty's printers in comes almost a duty for Mr. JOHNSTON to
LANDSLIP ON THE PRAYA. Loudon. Dryness is never or very rarely add to the bibliography of China, formidable as that has already grown. He has syur
The CHAIRMAN-I thank you, gentlemen, for A landslip occurred on the Praya West, a characteristic of official reports relating
opposite the Kee Wing buildings, on Saturday
tho vote of thanks accorded to Mr. Moxon and to China, where there is so much interest-pathy, also, which is necessary for such a
The Chairman-You have before you the myself. We always do our best to safeguard morning just before 10 o'clock. Without ing- material; but Mr. JOHNSTON's des- work, His predecessor wrote disparagingly
A football match will be played on the ground warning, part of the ground in the middle of accounts at out and those present absolutely the interests of the firm as much as possible, in 1902 of these village head-mon; pot so of the Hongkong Football Club at Happy the road anak, leaving a circular hole of about nothing which requires comment from me, the and hope to be able to steer the company inte cription of his experiences of the hundred
Mr. JOHNSTON. He shows their power and Valley this afternoon, starting at 5,30 o'clock and fifty thousand Chinese anong whom
its effects, and decides that they are of great sharp, between teams chote from employees of four or five feet in diameter. When this was only transactions being these necessarily caused smooth water. That is all the business before his work lesnake literature. These proassistance to the Government. These head-Messrs. Jardins, Matheson and Co. and the
approached, it was soon that the subsidence by keeping the property of the company together the mosting, gentlemen. I thank you for your vinoials of his are "remarkably friendly,
was greater than at first appeared. From and the payment of such outstanding secounts attendance. Dividend warrants are now ready,
as the Directors thought justified in settling. and the manager will distribute them. peaceful, and well dispused towards the men are a result of the natural evolution of Eastern Telegraph Company. Tho following the mouth, the hele gradually widened
of about ten feet, baing Stace the last meeting, several vacancies British Government, as they would be "go life in those parts; and as village will play for the Tolegraph Co-Mackey, the outer goal; Preshaw and Hanrou, books; Laing, in shape like life thereaway is pictured for us as almost Staves, and Battiscombe halves; Davies, it was about twelve or fourteen feet. The resignation or death of members. To fill that an egg, while in depth occurred on the Board of Directors, either by (he affirms) toward any Government that
ideal by this graphic official pen, we can Murray, Kempthorne, Elves and Harris, concrete had apparently kept the surface from vacancies Mesura. Lai Hai Kwan, A. F. Carrick, treated them fairly." But like all Chinesc,
N. M. Holmes and C. W. Mead have been slipping further than it did. Fortunately, no
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRESS,” they are fond of litigation; and, unfortu accept the head-man with the rest
odd to read, apropos their possible removal, nately, it is difficult to convince them “that
that one result would be a growth of to tow the Government dredger St. Dunstan to
H.M.S. Iphigenia,, instead of the detra, in one was, injured and the hole was quickly nominated and these appointments now requiro
SIR,--With referance to previous correspon your confirmation. Before moving the adop British justice is not a marketable com
tion of the accounts, I wish to say that dence concerning the non-admission of soldiers modity," This illustrates, by zicochet the individuality which in rural China would Labuan. The Iphigenia is thus again delayed
throughout this season of apparent inactiv-to the Y.M.C.A, may I be allowed through still bo dangerous and premature.” TOLSTOY | getting home to England, having recently been quality of Chinese justice. These people, would be doubtless fascinated by this sout to Amoy to cope with the local riots on the
ity the Directors have not been idle, but during the medium of your paper--to ask the religious the past four months have effected a reorganiza. people of the Colony if they approve of soli accustomed to that kind for so long, are
She will go to ignorant and iterate peasantry, whose ore of departure for home,
tion of the affairs of the Company and have proundings. In the course of a few months always offering bribes to the Magistrate's
Labuan for the Naval Court Martial to be held
arranged to push the erection of the ice plant a good number of soldiers leave the Colony. underlings, and it is “all but impossible" lives are generally peaceful, uneventful, there--of which Court Captain W. B. For
at Canton so that it will be turning out its by for Home, and I dare say they will mat omit to to make them believe that his decisions and probably happy." For legally or not,
next hot season. The contract for this plent, make it as widely known as possible that the are not thereby influenced. Mr. JouNTON they hold the land; and, as Mr. JonNerow
including all machinery and building, has been Y.M.C.A. here is a closed goer to the soldier. let to the Oriental Construction Co. and their Would it not be very regrettable If, when appears to have anticipated the idea of says, in conclusion :
Manager states that the first instalment of doing so, they would be able to say that real mechinery will be delivered at Canton within Christians failed to disapprove? I am etc.
It is forwards.
nor will be president. Thones, all being well, she will preceed to England. The St. Dunstans is a heavy boat to be towed by the Iphigenia. They have the advantage of living in a (3,600 tons) and, should rough weather be ex the Cauton magistrate Chan Pax HAU, healthy climate, and their splendid physique perienced, will be somewhat of a handful with regard
precautions against and the great age to which they often live prove HMS. Flora is the Iphigenia's relief for the
that their normal condition is not one of squeeze." He says:
Chins Squadron.
to
barricaded.
WEATHER REPORT.
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following report
On the 1st at 12.10 p.m. The barometer continues to fall over China and Formosa.
Pressure is highest aver Central China, and lowest over Mancharin, and over the Fasilic to the E. of Formoss.
Gradients are moderate to slight Fresh N.E. and E. winds may be expected in the Formoes Channel, and over the N. part of the China Bes
Forecast-Moderata to N. winds squally, showery,
six months and before that time work will be
CORRESPONDENCE.
Y.M.C.A. AND SOLDIERS.
DUNERA.