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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28TH, 1905.
The plague return ou Dvo: 23 stood at 304 | delicately organized one, with a narrow margin between succoss and failure. Hence cares and 286 deaths. There were two cases of the question of labour is all important, formallpox and one of diphtheria.
On page 5 to-day appases the boycott con- however economical the management and elaborate the labour-saving appliances, a tribulion (omitted yesterday), local sport, somo certain amount of human labour ja Ladis.ows items from India, and other matter,
A. S. WATSON & CO., pensable. It is Chinese labour which has set aging the wheels of industry, and other
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here by the drabis next month.
cinsees of labour have since come to help to keep them revolving. It is not that white men could not do the work (although that has been alleged) but because it seemed desimble to avoid the crea- | tion of a class of " mean whites" who would lower the prestige so essential to the WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. holding of the land. The Attorney-General of the Transvaal, Sir RICHARD SOLOMON, bas submitted figures, quoted by Mr. BALFOUR, which show that too much has been made of the criminality of Chinese CHAMPAGNE labourers. The number of serious crimes
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following their advent was proportionately infinitesimal; the number of labourers who had committed offences entailing more than six months' imprisonment amounted only to the minute totl of one-seventh of one per cent. In the mutter of desertions the figure is still wore microscopic, for on the day in September when the ATTOENKY, GENERAL spoke only 257 out of £5,000
Thirty-six N.C.O.'s and mon, one woman, and one child, Ceylon Mauritius Battalion, Royal Garrison Artillery, arrived on the 22nd instant per as. Bechuana from Colombo for posting to
H.K.S.B.R.G.A.
A marriage has been arranged betwroon Erio William, eldest son of Mr. W. W. Maan, of Ravenswood, Bexley, Keat, and Josephine Catherine (Kitzie), only daughter of Sir Ewen Cameron, K.M.G., 41, Merosfell.gardons, Hampstead.
The 2nd Battalion Worcester Regiment, now TELEGRAMS. in Ceylen, will, it is expected, replace the 2nd Battalion Queen's Own Royal West Kent
("DAILY PRESS EXCLUSIVE SERVICE.] Regiment at Hongkong. The 2nd Battalion of the gallant Firms," of which Lieut.-Colonel THE SITUATION IN SHANGHAL. hi. C. Ingonville-Williams, D.5.0., is the commanding officer, went from Bloemfontein to the hand of "spior breezes" last year. It
sorved with distinction in the South African
War.
SUPREME COURT.
27th December.
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION,
BEFORE MI. A. G. WISE (PLINE JUDOE).
SHANGHAI, 27th December.
A CROSS-ACTION, The British Assessor, Mr. Twyman,
The coee was concluded in wbịch Ching resumed his duties at the Mixed Court Kwai Wan, trailer, claimed from Leung Wai this morning with police in attendance Ting, alias Chin Chin Tong, the sum of $VO, but without any guard. Everything so und delivered.
Some months back an American named Ernest Horvitz was charged at Shanghai with forging a cheque for nearly Tie. 10,000 on the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank and is now normal. cashing it through the Chartered Bank. He get away from Shanghai to Valivostok remained there until the recent rioting, whan he proceeded to Japan and took passage by the II.M.S. Korea for America. News has now het recived in Shanghai of the arrest of Horwitz in San Francisco.
Poking report says that French offers of capital for railway and mining purposes have racontly been made, and suggestions thrown Mr. Edm. Johannsen has forwarded two out that Chino having already accepted British pretty calendars for 1906. The embossed work, loans in connection with a railway closely representative of mechanical dastry, is connected with Hongkong, and therefore much decidedly artistic and both the date block and more dangerous than the Ameriena lise would wall pocket calendar are certain to be apprehave, beon, the can well afford to accept assist cinted by recipient.
Tho Civil Service Cricket Club have decided to be "At Home" ou New Year's Day, and members and friends are assured of a good will be a pick up cricket match for epoons, sad a bow's competition.
ance "where the only object aimed at in B higher rats of interest than is possible at bome."
coolies were absentor eleven-eighteenthe afternoon's sport beginning at 130., There misunderstandings with Japan. The Tokyo
of one per cent. Of the, absentees nearly half were found within five days. There are, no figures available for the comparison, but it seems safe to say that under the KRUGER regime, dosertion and crime among Kaffir labour would be much more in evidence, had there been political necessity for raking up and massing such evidence.
It appears, Lowever, that the most. important reason adduced for the threat- ened action is the alleged con omic failure of the experiment. There were promises, perhaps too lavish, that white labour would benefit rather than
The novel "drawing" at Moare. Gregor & Co's wine and spirit stores has taken place, and those who happened to make parchases on the 15th inst., the day indicated by the finger of chance, ure notified that they are entitled to receive half of their purchase money back again
A piece of crown land at Deep Water Bay, consisting of 19,600 square feet, was the subject of an anation at the Public Works Department yesterday afternoon when Messrs. Shewan Tomus and Co., acquired the letting rights for susO.
We hope China is not going to allow stapid
newspapers generally aro aggrieved at the delay in the negotiations in Peking, and some of them urge the suspension of the negotiations, A wire to the N.-C. Daiy News says the Kokumin, semi-official, while denying the parsiastic rumours, points out that if China ignores Japan's good will, she will lose ber internation status, but believes in China's good sense and in the early conclusion of the negolistions.
The Edstern World ways that the Japanese Government bas in contemplation the following plan for the establishment of a match mono- poly: bat will it improve the breed of matelas? That the existing match manut oturers in the country, over 30 in namber, be in corporated into one big company. That the new company be granted the sole right of
said privilege run for a term of 10 or 15 yours. That some two million you be paid to the Government for the privilege. In the farther auce of the above plan a project of law will probably be submitted to the forthcoming
RUSSIA.
LOYDON, 27th December. The revolution in Moscow con tinues.
15,000 casualties are reported.'
[RELTER'S BERVICE.
JAPANESE NAVAL ATTACHE.
LONDON, 25th December. M. Kaburaki, the Japanese Naval Attaché, who is leaving England, has been received at Buckingham Palace and decorated with the Victoria Order, third class.
RUSSLA.
heing balance due on acborot af insteins pills.
In the oro-action the previons defendant claimed from the plaintiff the sum of $50, mqrey lent.
Mr. F. X. d'Almada o Castro represented the plaintiff in the first action aul the defondant in the second, while Mr. R. A. Harding appearat for the defendant in the first and the plaintiff in the second..
In giving judgment his lordship said tho two stories told him were absolutely irrecon- cilable. Both were made up with the gratest care, but one of them, was wrong, Ching Kwai Wan's story WILS that he sold a box of pills for $140, received $50 an account, and was new claiming for the balance of 800. The receipt he gave for the 850 was on account of pills. Loung Wai Ting's story was that be, or somebody else, brougat $200 from Canton for the puichess of arms to take into the interior of China, to be usel, lis Lordship presumed, against the authorities. Wing said that after a time the transactions foll LONDON, 25th December.
through and he came to Hongkong to reclaim Desperate fighting continues in the streets the $200. He was then told that $100 had been of Moscow; fusilades are continually ex-paid back; later another $5 was paid, leaving $50 dno for which the plaintiff was euing. Of the two stories one was a pure fabrion- tion, and his trouble was to say which wa Both as they stood ware equally possible, but were there any outside circumstances to make the leaning one way or the other? He did not think the plaintiff in the cross-action came bore to talk about rifles without there being some. thing in it. With regard to the pill story ho
changed, and all the central streets are barricaded; it is impossible to catiuate the
casualties.
of tho
was against it. If the defendant paid for pills
THE COLLISION AT WOOSUNG.
THE "PEKIN" AND THE "FOYANG" DAMAGED. The N.-C. Daily News of Dec. 21 give the following account of the steamer collision ra cently reported in our telegraphic news:- In the receipt would have said something about it, collision took place in lower section the early hours of yesterday morning a serious but it was for money. That was in favour of river between two of the Chins Navigation the rifle story, and judgment would therefore be
Pekin (Captain for the plaintiff, Leung Wai Ting, with costs. Company's steamere-the Sparke) and the Poyang (captain Bennett). and the Pekin arriving from Ningpo. The cause of the collision is as yet unexplained. The result was so serions to the Ningpo boat that she had to be beached om Black Point. She was out down to and below the waterline on the star- board side, forward of the paddle box, the Poyang atem ontling a huge hole in her sids renching alwust amidship.
suffer by the introduction of Chinese and Museum for the week ending the 24th manufacture and sale of matches. That the The Puyang was outward-bound for Hankowi
A. S. WATSON & CO., labour, as white labours in old California
undoubtedly benefited by it.
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should be addrewed to THE EDITOR,
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Return of visitors to the City Hall Library December, 1995:-
Total
Library Museom Non-Chinese..... 287. 165 Chinese
412
110 *2,477
2,587
Sir Mortimer Durand, the British Ambas- idor at Washington, bas had an interview with
The answer is that just as white labour was at first only enabled to exist by the presence of Chinese labour in the Californian mining. fields, so it has been lately at Johannesburg, On the resumption of industry after the war the white population flocked back to Johan.roference to a claim fo $1,500,000 (£300,000) nesburg, not all, by any means, to engage in work belonging to the mines, but all it exception to engage in business which can only be carried on if the mines are in full working. Coloured labour was then defective, and if the shortage had not
damages minds by the owners of the Manila Dagupan Railway for the use of the line by the Amexican military authorities during the Spanish-American war and the subsequent Filipino rising The railway is owned by British subjects.
In the Dutch Second Chambor, on Nov. 23,
ression of the Diat.
Bishop Ridley replies in the Times to Baron Sugematen's letter about missionary indire tious. He likens that dignified protest to the Tokyo riots, bat charitably allows it may be “a. symptom of the great strain" through which the Japanese Juve been passing. His "onrafal analysis" of the protest ignores the Rev. Sopera admission; excuses the two foreign missionaries who invaded the Baron's garden
a
was not occupied as the time.
POLICE COURT.
Wednesday, 27th December.
EFORE MR. F. A. HAZELAND (FIRST
FOLICE MAGISTRATE).
ASSERTING HIS RIGHTS, Joseph A Bowen, a man of colour, was charged with doing bodily harm to John Mooney at a dwelling place at 'Tytara Reservoir. Both men were overseers at the works there, and defendant alleged that the other man interfered when he was chastising his wife. Bowen was remanded till to-morrow.
OIL FOR HIS REVOLVER.
The force of the impact brought down the Poyang's topmast, which snapped off just above the masthead light, the broken spar falling on the boat-dock, splintering same and also the ceiling of stateroom No. 4 which fortunately The Tessel's stem was twisted, many frames being best and broken and she also sustained large holo in her part her above the hawas pipe; and a large gap in her bows below the guards and extending aft about six feet, shows, where the Pekin's guards were encountered The injuries sustained by the Poyang all being beach her. She made fast alongside the
were in attendance. and their baggage, and stood by natil two tage,
Captain Nelson, the Assistant Marius pending further inquiries. Superintendent of the Company was notified of the rollision and proceeded to the scene of the disaster in the company's launch, which return. ing brought back the Poyany's two saloon
A native on landing from the Macro steam-
ONLTComenications relating to the main column beeu made up, by Chinese as well as Kafirs, during the debate on the East Indiou Budget, because they were young, and therefor well above the water line there was no necessity hoat was found by the palice carrying a rivolver Corra pondents must forward their names and ad. it is pointed out tline the white population M. Bos, as leader of the Liberal Democrata ignorant; forgets the English alergyman's Pekin and took aboard about 80 passengersi megistrate oxplained that he bed brought it here
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HONGKONG, DECEMBER 28TH, 1905.
of the Transvaal is economic-the restora- tion and development of its main source of
districts and the general growth of popula
would have had to go.
Powers.
They are able to made a strong defence of the open door policy, stay because coloured labour on the mines who he regarded as the best guarantee of the has been largely tuereased. Of this increase, safety of Datch interests in view of an eventual therefore, a large proportion must be reckon-policy of expansion on the part of the rest Before the adjournment of the debate ed as simply enabling the white mou whom the Colonisi Minister, M. Fock, read a telegram iu Lord MILNER's words, "the mining announcing that the Prince of Boni in the industry provides with a livelihood in Celebes and his wife had been taken prisoners. directly," to subsist in Johannesburg, It must be written off, so to speak, against this white population; and only when that has been done can we begin to talk with any fairness or accuracy about comparing the increase in the coloured unskilled labour and the white skilled labour which is
and railway rates between them practically
tion depen? -then we shall be able to make up the revenue of the Transvaal. The
importing all the equipment needed for restarting industry, and this equipment consisted of articles paying both the duties
insulting offer; corrects Baron Sayematan with regard to Japanese marriage law, and pardons Bishop Awdry's lapsus under the First Offenders Act. Bishop Ridley reminds Japan how much she owes to missionaries; and chides Baron Suyematsu for his irritation. We are afraid to combat,
Mr. Horace George Warren, formerly The Government has made known the pro-C.M.S. Missionary in Japan, settles the ques- posad modifications in the Port of Antwerption of Japanese commercial honesty once and Bill destined to meet the objections of a section for all (in the Times). He says the isolated of the Chamber. Thero include the appoint caves of Japanese honesty were das to bushida, ment of a commission, composed of members of which he forbears explaining; and goes oŽI :-~ Parliament, and engineering experts, to oxamine « Christian principles and the nobler Western the question of rectifying the course of the ideals are beginning to permeate every rank and
Antwerp.
ke
His subject was the evolution of a landscape,
passengers.
There was an vafortunate fatality on the Pekin, one Chinese being killed, but in spite of the large number of native passengers, and the impiinent danger of sinking, excellent discipline was maintained. The Pekin is to be temporarily repaired where she lies, and will then go into The Poyang's repaira should be com dock. -pleted within a fortnight. She arrived at the
G. N. S. wharves yesterday afternoon.
The Shenghing was sent to Ningpo yesterday in the place of the Pekin, 1-
THE DISASTROUS FIRE IN GLASGOW.
the
in his belt, and when brought before the
in order to have it oiled. He was remanded
KCHAZEY
Chan Tung, a maid servant, was reminded ·
over $100 from 93 Hollywell Road on Christ- mas Day, as were also a inau and xnother man
on a charge of stealing articles to the valno of
on a charge of receiving the articles knowing them to have been stolen,
THE FATALITY AT THE NAVAL-
YARD EXTENSION.
shaft.
INQUIRY AT THE MÁGISTEACY.
An inquiry was conducted by Mr. F. A: Hazaiend and a jury at the Magikfrney yester. antually employed in the mines. Then the Sabeldt, and the rating of various credits for class, profession and scenpation in Japan, and! expropriation. In the "tary portion of the we may confidently look forward to the time
day afterdon into the circumstances aitend-.. opponents of the experiment have seized scheme it is proposed to reduce the outlay when Japan will prove herself as truly grout in
The Times of Nov. 21 says:-Up to 10 ing the death of Lo Fo Kin, a Chiness employes IF, as has been said, the central problem upon the fact that the Trausvaal revenue from 108,000,000£ (£1,320,020)-to 63,000,00UF. { commerce as she has shown herself great in
The Times (£2,520,000), the saving being mainly effected diplomacy and war." There is a certain great. o'clock last night the process of identifying at the Navalyard Extension, who was killed on has been falling since the war.
claimed. | Chater, Mosers, G. Gittins and H. W, Fraser. answers them very plausibly, and we can- by suppressing the forts at Termonde and about a Pharisen-au imperturbable and the dead was continued. At that hour out 12th December: Tlus jurymen were: Sir. C. P.
The inmates of the Royal Infirmary and
Arthur John Williams, chief agent of Messrs, tion. Our respectful kow-tows are to Mr. Barnhill poor-house injured in the fire are wealth, on which the progress of the rural pot de better than quote. Customs duties modifying the advance Kine of defence around monumental insolenes which compels admira. of the 39 victime, 30. had been
the parish council, who clothed those who had the Navalyard Extension, described the operation The following extract is taken from a Calentia escaped practically naked from the barning of the craze in question which caused the death Warren, formerly CM.S. Misionary in Japan.making favourable progress. Mr. Motion, of Panchard, Lowther and Co., the contractors for paper of the 5th inst. Mr. Ales Marsh by building, and had them conveyed to Barnhill of the man. It was a three ton hand timber counsel applied before the High Court to day poor house, states that, of the 129 men in this
yesterday morning and dismissed. Five of the usually worked by a gang of six coolies, throe en esoù of the two handles to the driving for leave to file a plaint against Mies Mildred light, 135 were supplied with other slothing crane, with a jib about 45 feet long, and was Grain, masiost accompanist; and Mr. Maurice men were detained, us their condition and cir-
His opinion, from the information Bandmann, theatrical managor, for Re. 5,000 cumstances warranted it. A few of the men
expressed great dissatisfaction with
provided for them, he reocivod, was that the jib had boon lower- damages and also for an injunction restraining clothing that was
od too rapidly and the brakesman had lost The jib. fall *ou. the the lady from performing and assisting Mr. Evidently they anticipated obtaming a com
men were supplied with much better clothing Bandmano. Mr. Marsb is a singer and teacher plate outfit. The officials maintain that the control of the braka, of singing and Miss Grains was in his employ than they were before the disaster. Yesterday wall and broke, the broken part striking as accompanist but, it was alleged, broke her morning the parish council authorities had deceased on the head as he come up the steps. agreement, and joined Mr. Bandmann's Opera numerous applications for clothing, but on in-He concluded that the brakesman must have Company as an accompanist, thereby causing vestigation it was found that the applicanis lost bis head. All the six men working the Mr. Marah serious loss and inconvenience, It
So numerons were the requests for permission erano immediately ran away and had not since was further alleged that Mr. Bandmann bad to view the bodies that quetes had to be formed, been found.
By Inspector Warnock-It did not, in h wrongfully procured and induced the breach of and people wore admitted in batches of 20." It was obvious, however, that many persons ware Miss Grain's contract with Mr. Marsh, though impelled to visit the mortuary by mctives of he was aware of her being in Mr. Marsh's curiosity only. Yesterday afternoon the Pro. employ. The Court granted a rule, the plaint curator Fiscal issued instructions that relatives Dr. Hunter said he examined the body of being returnable on Tuesday next, the 12th inst, might remove the dead bodies of their friends for the deceased the day after the accident and burial. Tre only have bean removed by relatives, The bodies will be bied to-morrow, The four death to be due to multiple injurias, the men who escaped are in a sad plight, and there principal one being a fracture of the skull.
John C. Ritchie, foromen mason, spoke to
and the rates.
The
Sir Archibald Geikie anticipates another reason why the revenue was higher im- deluge. He deliveret a lostare at Cambridge disentangle the vexed question of coolie
mediately after the war than it is now was in connection with the newly formed depart ment el gengrupby which cordially labour from many of its embarrassing
because Johannesburg was then heavily relativus, and be the sooner able to appreciate
recommended to the support of the oniversity. the importance of the news which was
and he said that the great fact which mot the telegraphed to us the other day; that the
student of physical geography at every atap new British Governinent proposes to stop
The reason why the was the universal decay of the surface of the at once the supply of roolis labour to South
revenue has faller since is because the land. This decay was so material, be declared, Africa. We need not then consider whether shops are full, and there is no longer the that even if the agents at work never incrensted In activity a comparatively short period would the Chinese emigrant makes a good or a
snice to reduce most of the dry land to the bad bargain; and we can certainly dissociate import of dutiable articles.
question of a rise or fall in the white pop-level of the sea, and confront us with another the subject from any party question what-Intion has nothing whatever to do with deluge
fall in the revenue." Company it becomes a purely national issue, thi &
after By kind permission of Lt. Col. Aithir and not even international; for no one will directors, if nobody else-und
Officers, the band of the 11th Infantry will admit that the supply of labour can be all they should know what they are play the following programme of muste, at the divorced from the supply of ore. From an talking about-have declared that the King Edward Hotel during dinner, on Thurs authoritative acount of the Witwatersrand Transvaal is new prospering. The Chuir day the 28th Dec, 1905 (weather pormitting.)
of the Consolidated Investment no... Vuoita? beds, which since they were first worked in mau
Vesturfanera"... 1887 have produced a total of more than Company is reported to have spoken most waltz... L £126,000,000 worth of ore, we note that the optimistically to his constituents, and attri-Solection..... ere is essentially of a low grade, averaging buted.the" all-round advance
ever.
Sung..... "Adien Marie"
to the pro- Patrol
8. 11. per tou, mised at a working costsence of the Chinese. If a men convinced of 30s. 11d., which leaves 12s. per ton as against his will be of the same opinion stili, net profit. The value is low a compared however, it is hopeless to convince the with the 140s. per ton of Kalgoorlie and the radical reformers against their convictions. 205s, of Nevado, while, owing to the nature If the Chinamau has to come home again, of the formation, the working expenses are at the instance of his tender-hearted friends, higher than anywhere else in the world.it is als certain they will get no gratitude The industry must of necessity, be a from him in general.
Au Iran R243iui ... Cooto Messager
À COOLIE'S SUICIDE:
hud not been in the disaster.
is a proposal to raise a relief fund. They were housed last night in the police office.
At
Dead March" in
opinion, require an experienced man to work the erene.
Stephen Adaink
the close of Salvation Army demonstration giving instructions to the coolins working on The Egyptian Patrol
Touch Scups A coolie named Ea Hung, employed in a last night in the City Hall adjoining the police the crane to pick a stone up. He was of opinion DINER Mex-Red Fish ou Sance. Entrees-infled Pigeon with Green morning at 22 Wing On Street. When the marched by playing ho Chicken, Hotch poteh, Fish-Rolled and Parsicy Masine store, committed suicide on Tuesday offies in which the bodies lie, the massed bands that the six coolies engaged that morning were Qual Inspector Warnock said there were no wit- to view the bodies was visibly touched. Pest, Veal Cutlets and Potato Chips, Iced Ascock rose at 5 o'clock to prepare the morning Suxt, and the long string of people waiting capable of working the crane. paragras and Mayonnais Bauce. Curry Kabob.
nesses who saw the accident, and the jury Jointe-Roast Leg of Lamb and Red Currant meal he found Ha Hung hanging by a ropo sides praise is awarded to the man Findlay for With his gallant condnet in beading the rescue, and
constable named James agreed that there was no need to hear other Jelly, Roast Capon and Haun. Cold Meats-Phea round bis neck and fastone, to a beam, sunt, Gamo Pio. Salad-Beetroot. Vegetables
witnesses. McCourtney are also highly spoken of. H
A vordict of death by misadventure was Boiled Petstous, Mushot Puistoes, Cauliflower, the assistance of two fokis he cut the body the services of
Entranets Gooseberry down. Though it was warm, life was, however, brought down man efter man through the Carrots, Poiled Rice,
returned. Tart, Teed Pudding, Pond Case Cheese. Fruit extinct. It is suspected that deceased was smoke and water. The disaster is to form Tea. Coffee. Treserved Orange.
worried by his debta.
the subject of a searching inquiry."
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