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must be some expansion of production; and to have refrained from saying a particular class of goods must be produced in greater quantity It seems natural to suppose that an increased production of goods for domestic consumption only would also have the effect of improving China's purchasing A. S. WATSON & CO., power. But as Professor JENKS puts the
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The King has been pleased to upprove the appointment of Mr. James A. Clyda, K.G., to bo Solicitor-General for Scotland, and of Mr. Jaba Scott Fox, K.C., to be Chancellor of the County Palatine of Durham
The Manila Coblencwa, in a "telegram "from Et. Petersburg, of all places, nuonnon that Vladivostok is new on Äre and will undoubted- ly be razed to the ground." Other detaile, decidedly "exclusive," are given.
A Paking message to the N.-C. Daily News ail:-II.B. Chu Bang chi proposes to raise loan from France to buy back the Chinese Eastern Railway from Japan, while H. E. Yuan Shil-kui proposes to increase the capital of the railway, and to run it as a joint enterprise of China and Japan.
case, it is a fair question whether soun- tries, if they double or triple their sales to China, are going to be willing to take twico or three times as much silk and ten in exchango, at prices which would be substantially the same thoso at present; or whether they will take more products of other kinds from China.". This may be a fair question," whatever is mean? by the phrase; but it appears also to be a question readily answered. Statistics of trade of all countries appest to answer it, To take as a very brief example, British W kave sometimes to find fault with the trade with China (exclusive of Hongkong quaint logic of theologians; and it is only fair and Macar) was represented in 1899 by to pillory the intellectual foilies of the undevon t. £3,669,452 imports and £7,136,706 exportsline or some more formidable material should Mr. E. H. Parker does not so why toas of
In Professor Jesus' phraseology, Grent Britain sold China twice as much as she bought from her. This would appear to bo an inexplicable circumstange, an impossi-ths hen or the egg.
WHISKY.ality, in fact, if we were to accept the
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of H. E. the Governor at the thostre last night
the Zerrilla Comedy Company should feel gratified at the reception which an appreciative audience accorded their third performance of
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THE RUSSIAN STRIKES.
LONDON, 20th November. The Russian strikes end to-day.
SUPREME COURT,
Monday, 20th November.
IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION,
BEFOLE SIL F. T. Pragot (CHLEY JUSTICE).
A MURDER CHARGÉ,
Later the heading. "A Spanish Giantess with Bunch of Whiskers," the Manila Cablenou thas politely refors to the arrival of a lady passenger:-"A. Spanish woman measuring op. proximately 6 feet in height, with a body a little larger round than that of Mayor Brown, MORE KISHINEFF MASSACRES. the village of Ching Po in this colony on Tel
and adorned with beard and whiskers, was the phenorzenal creature that came on the boat."
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generally applicable. There appears, more over, to be very little correspondence of ratio in the figures for 1968, when both British imports accounts were reduced.
theu £2,679,307 and
ex ports £8,798,015; or in other words, the sales were ocsiderably more than two and half times the amount of the purchases.
The barque Lallu Rooith, of Liverpool, which We believe it has been long regarded as
was given up as lost, han, says the Liverpool a fallacy of economics to insist that Echo, been reported passing the Isles of Scilly, nion's iniports and exports must on her way to Queenstowo. Since the vessel balance each other of necessity. Certainly left Brisbane two hundred. days ago for Falmouth and Queenstown, where this was due it does not appear to
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there is another method of increasing China's power to boy, by assisting her to develop Usfortunately, China does not desire such assistance; and at present the prospect of advancing that development seems as remote as ever, if we except the railway movement, and ever here China Foems determined to check it by an unwar-
speculators.
There must be some mistake about the fuport which saysEemarkable but nupleasant details of the importation of pigtails into Bugland from China were given at an inquest at Badford en the body of a man whose wark it was to
handle pigtails, and who had diel from anthrax, It was stated that the pigtails were cut from the beads of Chinamon, and the Coroner, comment ing on the fact that they were often made up
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her purchasing power shows little sign of inability to keep pace with the demand for foreign goods; and the only reason for im- porters to wait on exporters must be an
cadetnic one.
adjourn the quest for further inquiries,
England must ba undargoing a reaction to witcheraft days when the newspapers, in cm muction with the murder of a girl, seriously publish nonsense like the following Dr. Alfred Russel Waltaon, the well-known autentist,
hot Aid ex-Futes, Godtarda-Bhar Sven-Hedin-las-start on another tour in Fortigating the tunnel-mystery-hy-trans
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HUKTOS.
On 19th November, at No. 5 Elliott Crosecut, the wife of W. B. WALKYD (Standard Oil Compitiy of New York), of a son.
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On 15th November, the wife of Just TBA, MARRIAGE.
On 14th Nordber, at Sunghi, HERMAN VAN nk Ves, of Tchengtau, i Manat Lamrody, of
Rotterdam.
HONGKONG OFFICE: IOA, DES VEUX ROAD C. LONDON OFFICE: BI, FLEET STREET. EC.
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in Central Asia.
Mr. A. D. Sassoon has given £25 to the Union Jack Club.
The 293 ease of plague is recorded. There is also a European case of enteric fever.
The Robinson Piano Co. annonce their removal to-day to No. 10 Des Varuz Road.
£20,558 worth of silver coinage for Hongkong Jeft London on Oct. 15, per P. & 0), Macedonia,
It is reported that twelve thousand Russian prisoners have expressed a hope to be naturalised as Japanese,
Inspector of Folies Gourlay stopped a rinsha'
LONDON, 20th November. Renewed massacres of Jews have occurred at Kishineff.
FATAL FIRE IN GLASGOW,
LONDON, 20th November. An outbreak of fire in a men's lodging house at Glasgow on Sunday land serious results. Thirty-nine men were fatally suffocated and thirty-two injured. The number rescued was 290. ANOTHER STEAMER TRAGEDY.
Lovbox, 20th November. olie at the junction of Wing Tok Street and - A steamer catastrophe recalling the Des Van Lund on Sunday night, and asked sad fate of the Stella in 1899, when his licence. The coolto ma lo a pestones 105 passengers lost their lives, is
reported from St. Malo
to
to look for it, and while so engaged suddenly dashed aeross the road, just as a tramer was passing. He collided with the car, and as a result had to be removed to the Civil Hospital,
where it was found that he had received many
severo contusions,
The South Western steamer, Hilda (belonging to the same company as the Stella) has been wrecked, and only five people saved. The number
[REUTEL'S KERVICE.]
A London paper says of the Tsar's manifesto on Lus conclusion of peace: It is couched indrowned is 99.
maly and dignified language. It refers to thy Jepanos as a brure and mighty enemy, and is altogether in agreeable contrast to previces utterances. It is virtually a frank and authori. tative rezantation of the contemptuous estimate A less good. of the Japanese before the war." natured view of it would see it as another example of egotism, eg. the Japanese love baten Ur; ergo, the Japanese are brave and mighty.
A tablet to the memory of Captain John Campbell, late of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, was unveiled in the Missious to Seamon Church, at Poplar, last month, by Me. J. II. James, Lendon taunager of that line. Captain Camp- bell was in command of the Japanese transport Hitachi Maru whon sho was sunk by the Russian squadron on June 15, 1994, and his heroic conduct on that necasion aroused the greatest
admiration both in Japan and England. For many yours Captain Campbell had been a supporter of the Missions to Seamen.
Some interesting facts respecting the growing possibilities of the British Empire were given at the opening of an exhibition of Empire-grown dotion at the Manchester Town Hall on 17th. Oct. Mr. J. A. Hutton explained that already this year 4,000 bales of cotton had been received from the West Indies,
over 3,000 bales from West Africa, aud over
500 balas from Fast Africa. These shipments repruscated a money valno, of £100,und and it was hoped that this would be doubled before the end of the year.
THE KING'S HEALTH.
LONDON, 18th: November, The King, while shooting at Windsor, trod in a rabbit hole and tore a tendon above the aukle. His Majesty's general health is excellent. Several sympathetic messagee have been sent, including one from the London County Council.
CHINESE ENGINEERING AND
MINING CO.
The report of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company for the year ended Feb. 28
| leave £13,355
to
Lo Kun Mui and Lo Fat Hing were sharged, the former with the murder of Lo Sim Ka at
September, and the latter with being accessory aftor the fact. Pris mers pleaded not guilty.
The following jury was snipanollad: Mosers. E. J. Chapman (foreman), W. T. Pigram, Robert Wilson, Thomis Slade, Win. Turner, J. F. Millor and P. Holmo.
The Attorney-General conducted the case for the Crown, and Mr. H. W. Slada appeared for the defence.
The Attorney-General stated that prisoners were charged--the first man with murder and
the second with harbouring and receiving the first prisoner after the commission of the crime. brother also.
Prisoners were brothers, nud the deccssed was a All three lived together, with the wits and children of the col prisoner. The case, for the prosecntion rested on the ovidence of this children and the admission made by one of the prisoners. From the ovidence of the children it would appear that on the evening of
the 28th September, about 7 or 8 o'clock, u the second priscuer, as the result of which, it is all, the man struck the woman. Then a fight
quirrel arose between deceased'und the wife of
took place between her husband and the deceased?. the latter being attacked by the former with a bamboo pole, inflicting injarios which caused death. Apparently the second prisoner assisted
his brother to hida tho bedy.
Dr. Wm Hunter, medical oflicer in charge of.
the public mortuary, stated that deceased bad offered from multiple injuries, the mutual cause of death being the broken breast bone pressing on the heart. A bamboo pole, such me that pro- duced, would be likely to cause such an injury
Mr. A. C. Franklin, wiistant Government anaigas, spoke of tracing blood stains on tho bamboɔ pole submitted to him and to obtaining similar result on the examination of a knife,”
The other evidence as already reported, was raported, after which counsel addressed the jury and his Lordship summed up.
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The jury were abзont a considerable time, and
ou their return the foreman announoud that they bad found the first prisouer guilty of man- slaughter but the second was not guilty of the charge brought against him.
The second prisoner was acquitted, and the first was acutened to three youra' imprison- mont.
POLICE COURT.
Monday, 20th November.
BEFORE MR. F. A. HAZELAND (FIRST POLICE MAGISTRATE),
À COOL THIEF.
A coolio was charged with the larceny of a
last, after providing £100,000 in respect of the redemption of debeatures, and the expenses of administration in Europe. There is a balance of £162,958. From this "C11.000 has been cotton-provided to cover the east of the action referred to at the last general meeting, and £49,000 has beau trosferred to the reserve for depreciation account (as against £20,000 last your) leaving net profit of £111,959, which, together with The bins of C1,896 brought forward," makes A total of C113,355. An interim dividond
1x. per share was declared in Juue. quantity of clothing and a camphorwood bex The Buard proposal that a further dividend from two shops in Queen's Road Central on of 1s per share be declared. Lax free.
he carried forward. making 10 per cent, for the year, which will Baturday. subject to income tax. Tha dobonlure isama has been reduced by £58,040, £10,000 having beera drawn for redemption in the ususal
course, and debentures to the amount of £48,040 haring heen purchased at a discount and cancelled. the amount of the discount being £2,168. Thres of the company s steamors have been sold in axCORR of the inventory value. A new steamer, the Kaping, with loading capacity of 3,540 tons and estensive presenger accommodation, making the outward voyage to China. The cost of this steamer is approximately £42,009. Since the natumn of 1904 the part of Cling Wan Tao skipping throughout the year. has been thrown open to the recaption of Extensire buildings have bean erected in connection with coalivemigration and for the Imperial Maritime Customs, as well as for the company's own
Edward the Coufessor's day was celebrated on 3th October at Westminster Abbey, of which g was the founder. The Rev. Dr. Outles, of Christ Church, Oxford, delivered a sermon, in which he said that recently it had brou asked, in view of the sudden bound of Japan to the Trout, whether tho Christian ideal could fairly be regarded as absolute. This was the latguage of ignorance of panic, of despondency," he said.We should welcome Japan and regard her adrent as yet another fastimeny to the working of the Spirit of Gad. The oz cause of natious' decay is au Christian Christianity." This was surely bogging the question.
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speaking at Harrow, said he had been engaged
scendental clairvoyaume, He knew that the man who was with Mise Money was an old sweetheart of hers, and that she jumped from the train tonyoid his approaches. Dr. Wallace A branch railway from Manila to Pasig is declared that he had since recognised the man." expected to be opened on Dec. 8.
The old-time Russiau punishment for convicts is now regarded as a reward for valour. The Taar has approved the achous for the military colonisation of Siberia, and it is reported that upwards of 100,000 times-expired soldiers who took part in the late compaign will be settled with their families in various parts of Siberis during the next five years. Behind this schetas ¡can Lo seen the wish of the Bureaucracy to be a large body of reserves ready at hand ju the Far East, and at the satus time to keep the dis affected soldiery away from European Russia.
Since the drawing ap of the Trademark The now Land thoroughfare opened by Regulations by the Board of Commerce, the
the King on October 18, as reported by our differout Ministers at Peking havo, says the Loudon telegram at the time, is thus described: Nanfangpeo, raised many objections against Aldwych is a crescent, whose horas implage them. With the exception of the Japanese and
apou the Strand at St. Clemont Danes and Enesian Ministers, all object to the regulations Wellington-street, and from its centre runs on the gromad that, according to the latter, any
the wide bulevard, which a happy inspiration lawsuit, arising out of the brad-mark dispate, has christened Kingsway, crossing Holborn shall be teled, not by the Consul concerned in to the junction of Theobald's-road with concert with the local authorities, but by the Sealhampton-row. It is a few yards less than ¡ officials of the Office for the B-gistration of threegracters of a mile in length, and save Trademarks, being thus directly in conflict with for a short distance the width is 100 ft. the existing powers of the various Consuls as throughout." Punch has a cory happy cartoon magistrates. Their intention, therefore, is to depicting London and Paris as ladies. London present this point as a basis for refusing to thanks Paris for the loan of her fashion book. recognise the whole of the said regulations.
Mr. W. J. Garnett, hitherto Third Secretury to the British Embassy ut Coustantinople, is now on his way to Peking.
-It is proposed to establish lolterius in Sachan and Auboi raise funds for railway-building.
There was a Chrysanthemum Show at Amoy Saturday. It was held on the Kalangan Recreation Ground.
on
HONGKONG, NOVEMBER 21ST, 1905. PROFESSIN JENKS has contributed to the North American Review some hints on how to extend commerce in the Far East, which we feel obliged to suggest, with the diffidence and respect inspired by eminent an authority, ought not to be accepted as the final word on the matter. This oxpert, whose name is familiar if only for his recent visit to Chiua in connection with the movement for currency reform, commits himself to the doctrine that in creased sales to China must depend upon increased purchases from China.
We are informed by the police that there Journal of the American Asiatic Associa was no fatality in the harbor on Saturday tion mentions Professor JENKS' contri- afternoon, resulting from the disaster following bution in terms of unqualified approval on the heavy wash from the outgoing torpedo and remarks: The assumption is only boat.
The
"Punch" Fairs in now the professional world's tennis champion, having beaten Peter Latham by five sets to one.
too common either that we might be willing Lieats. A. P. N. Thorowgood, and A. M.. to sell be the Orient without securing a fair Clark, R.N., hare been re-pasted respectively to equivalent in ratura, or that the Oriental the ornisers Hogue and Sutlej on the China country to which we might all would have Station, both on promotion from the rank of an unlimited supply of cash with which sub-licat. to pay for our goods. Simple as the The Bishop of Landon says he views with
principle is, it seems that it cannot be too dismay the declining birth rate, which is the often mpented that if we are continually result of the miserable gospel of comfort." He to expand our sales the must be a implores the Church to teach the responsibility corresponding expansion in the Orient that parried life entails.
of the power of producing those goods which the West may be willing to take in exchange." This is not a statement readily controvertible, although it would have been safer, perhaps, to say that there
purposes.
AMERICANS IN DANGER.
is now
The story told his Worship showed that the deferslaat welked-into the fist shop from which he purloined the clothing: He then walked some distance along the strast, euterock another shop, put the clothing in a box, and was carrying the lot out when he was detitaed and handed over to the Police.
His Worship held the offence proved, and as the defendant had previous convictions, se tenced him to two months' imprisonment with hard labour and six hours' stocks.
BEFORE MR. C. D. MELBOURNE (ACTING SECOND POLICR MAGISTRATE).
|-
EUROPEAN CONSTABLE ASSAULTED.
A native was charged with assaulting Con- stable Lenahan while in the execution of Lis duty at Haaghiom on Sunday night.
A Manila paper publishes the following The coastaude informed his Worship that as Canton, November 14-The outrages against he was walking along the street be met the the Americans in China, especially in the
| defendant, who looked suspicious. He stopped provinces near Canton, continus, A woman convert to the Baptist mission was bentally him and, on searching him, found a quantity of beaten at Teungchau because of her having illicit opium on his person. Witness then took desorted the religion of her forefathers. the defendant in charge, and as they were pro- least this was the apparent cause of the assault, but in reality it was because of her friendship ceding to the Police Station two other men for the American missionaries there. She was wers observed approaching them. given two thousand () strokes with a bamboo pole and nearly died under the torture.
At
Defendant told the constable that these two men were in possession of a quantity of opium. There is a fote being organized at Wuchow to hoteur the originator of the boycott against Witness stopped them, and while searching America. He is now dead but great ceremonies them with one hand, held the defendant with aro to attest the love and reseration of the the other. While the search was proceeding Chinese for his accomplishments in that direction The fete is to take place on the defendant struck the constable a blow on November 16th and the authorities fear that it the month, at the same time wronobing himself will be accompanied by many outbreaks against fres. He ran away, but was later re-arrested. the Americans there.
Defendant, on being naked what he had to
In Canton there is evident a determination
Among the new industries on the ore of birth HONGKONG VOLUNTEER RESERVE to exclude the American from any participation say, admitted being in possession of the
in the Philippines is one about 13 ka oponed up
ASSOCIATION.
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in Pandacan for the production of cocoa ùut oil for the purpose of export. The factory is n
There was a very good master ou Satarday modern one in every respect and is erected by the last. The principal scores in the "Pool" com- Philippines Products Company. It is endowed petition were as follows:- with the very finest and most-approved machin ery, the oil expellers being of a type never before erected in any factory in existence. They ar newly-invented machines which, in practical to in the factories where they were built, have proved to exceed even their inventor's expectations. Coconuts are now being received
by the now firm from all parts of the surround-
The gentlemen who have naturalised asing country, a number of bayers being out in Japanese subjects have now to blush for the neighbouring provinces getting the best nats honours more or less deserved Mr. Alfred available. Over 400,000 mats are now in storage Bioal, the empiris authority on things Japanese, and in the process of being shelled ready for mys one of the qualifications for naturalisation the test which is to be given to the machinery, in Japan is the possession of good morals.
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in trade. Whereas bofore the boycott the opium, but denied striking tho constable. agents of American concerns were welcome said the constable fell while chasing him, visitors to the offices of the big merchants bers.
For being in possession of illicit opîum, dis They are now shuaned and take their lives in
Worship ordered him to pay a fine of 813, while on the charge of assault he was food $5,
their hands when they go into the city. The American consul at Canton has not yet returned from Linchow and there is no definito report as to what his coanission finds there.
THE GERMAN COMMERCIAL
TREATY.
Peking, 14th November.
The reason for the delay in the settlemont of the German Commercial Treaty is that Germany has claimed freedom for foreigners to
THE JAPAN-CHINA NEGOTIATIONS.
A WARNING FROM THE FRENCH MINISTEL,
The following telegram appeared in the N.-C. Daily News.
Peking, 15th November, In connection with the negotiations between Japan and China, the Froach Minister at trade inland, and the right to tow vessels on Peking has warned the Waiwapa that if the Tangleze. The Waiwapa has opposed China recognises all the rights and concessions
these claims on the grounds that the former
will increase the number of transactions between Chinare and foreigners and the latter will reduce the likin revenue.-N. C. D. N.
claimed by Japan in Mancharis, the other
most-favoured-nation clause, and will insist on Powers will have similar claims under the their claims,