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A telagrim to the M.-C. Daily News, dated Peking, January 6th, sags:-The French Consul has cous-ated to the proposal of the Vicuroy of the Two Kwang, after vigorous negotiation, that the French troops which entered Linchon, Kasungsi, to protect French subjects during the troubles in the provisor, and have remained there to the present time, shall be withdrawn during the present wook, and be replaced by Chiusas troops.
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Losnos, January 10th. he French Chamber has reassembled and M. Douuer elected President of it.
CHINESE LABOUR IN THE
TRANSVAAL.
because they are schooled to call the parties
The opportunity of looking over the 2.8. TELEGRAMS.] lying this practice, one must remember the uncle or father and tell the tales they are Dello, one of the new vessels put on the ran by the P. and O. Company, was embraced by many exceptional place which a son occupies in the ordered to tell, thus protecting the people people yesterday. Instead of lying at the affections of his father. As an ancestor wor- from whom they should wish to be pro- wharf an announced, she lay at her moorings, shipper, he anticipates posthumous alten-tected. Then, strange to say, the law and launches plied to and fro. The tions from his offspring, but more material affords protection to the purchaser. It visitors were delighted by the appearance of this A. S. WATSON & CO., pertapa is the wish to secure that support acknowledges the proprietary rights of the big roomy vessel, the large, promenade deck
which all Chinese sons reader to their individual who has bought an adopted son should stand still higher in
appealing to mest, and as a result the P. and C. the popular parents or foster parents when overtaken or daughter, or who has acquired aestiounts. by old age. Or, it may be he regards it as aprentice or servant. The girl bought for grossly commercial transaction of baying the house of ill-fame is, of course, described the hoy for a small sum, training him to as a servant or something different to what his trade or occupation and then selling him she is Thus, though it be perfectly well WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.ut a greatly enhanced value which gives known that a young person has been stolen, himi a substantial profit. Even Chinamon and the party buying his or her takes with sons of their own buy other boys and himself criminally liable if the transaction were in other than flesh and blood, the adopt them with Tallvard's definition, of gratitude before them. With regard to girls, how caused touch him, an ixamanity which is the case is somewhat different. As every not calentated to further the ends of justice body knows, the femalo portion of society
or to eacle those engaget in the work of occupy a very inferior position among the suppression to strike at the ront of this Chinese. The girls are purchased with a crying evil. Certainly, it seems that we have view to making then servnats in Ltive something to do gut before we can square families or keeping them 1.0 the age practice with precept. Our authorities when they can be profitably disposed of are facial with the bounden duty of remov. as wives or concubines. There is anothering this reproach from our midst and fate to which many are condemned, and should bestir themselves by adopting that is too well known to call for any monstres which will make the infamous particular reference here.
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Bearing these facts in mind, it will be easy to so the commercial possibilities which the natives realise who engage in kidnapping. Of course, the risk is 'great, at least in Hongkong, but in eighbouring porte the nefarious trade can be conductel is comparative safety. The method is very simple. A man or a womun-both sores are identified with the practice-by appeal ing to childish feelings may induce a boy or girl to follow him or her, perhaps to see
a procession, as was the inducement men 27.00 tioned in one case at the Magistracy this weet, The child is got on board a steamer
The Queen's Fusd for the relief of the uns mplayed avonuted on Dec. 9th to £119,927.
King Edward VII, soat two fias carrings horses as a Christmas present to King Hasken
1.
The Wesleyan Methodista af Wanchai ero making special efforts to rovito roligious fervour.
The ex-Chiness Minister to London was to
CANTON.
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
January 11th. THE ANTI-FOREIGN VICEROY.` It is reported that Viceroy Shum bas vicen private instructions to all the military officers eujoining them not to wear foreign socks or rubber shoes. By abstaining, they will show | patriotism and preserve their military diguity.
CHINESX INVENTIVENESS: SMOKERS' NOVELTY.
The boycult of American goods bas given" an impetus, to local industry. Sien tho condemnation of American cigarettes a large cigarette factory was established here and has now a large and prosperous basiaoz Following in the wake of its foreign pro-. decesors, the Wing Fook Company has tried to make its produce as attractive as possible and less now on the market a novelty in the shape of a combination packet of cigarettes and matches. This is not a bad idea. Tho
LONDON, January 10th.. The Chinese labour correspondence, which has brou published, shows Lord Elgin at first directed that every stop should be taken to prevent the shipment of 14,700 labourers already licensed, but after a strong protest The Transvaal Miners' Association held from Lard Selbourne, Lard Elgin cable?/cardboard pankota. contain 10 or 20 cigarettes.
of Chinese labour can achieve. With the
with 10 or 20 matches respectively. The sides
masa menting at Johannesburg on Deg. 19th, to protest against the importation of Chinese, that the licenses would be allowed to stand. of the packet are provided with a chemical com. There were 100 persons present. This Sir Henry Campbell-Bannertuan, speak-position, allowing the match to be struck meeting, says the Times correspondeal, probing at Liverpool, said he regretted the thereon. This novelty is finding favour ably represents the utmost the local opponents inability to cancel the impertations already among Chinese sinkers and the factory is licensed, and that the sudden issue of doing a touring business. This is perhaps the 13,000 fresh liceuses in November would signs of invativeness, the conservative Chius- require elucidation. The Government was now awaiting the advice of the responsible Transvaal Government.
satisfactory results obtained not the better methods of supervision introduced by the new Gerorament superintendent their cause will become still more hopeless. The uneasiness aroused by Chinese orimee a few months ago is disappearing, and nobody but the platforma
arator is found to impugn the seɔnomie suce:ss of the experiment.
By kind permission of Lieut-Col. A. G Fitton, D.S,O, and Officers, the Band of the Second Battalion "The Queen's Own" (Royal West Kent Regimont) will play the following programme of musie during dinner at the Hongkong Hotel, this (Saturday) evening → March..
Unter dem Beigenbauner," lon Overture ......* Mignon,' -
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The Bohemian Girl,
...... Balte Valec ATS "Amoureuse,' Polonice
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VOLCANOES IN ERUPTION.
LONDON, January 10th. Mousts Vesuvius and Etun are in eruption; the lava is pouring down the side of the fenicular railway, which is seriously dannged.
A slight shock of earthquake has been felt in Vienna.
THE CAUCASUS.
LONDON, Jannary 10th. The revolution in the Caucasus is erlen
first instance in which a native concern showe
an having bitharto left this branch of com- mercs entirely undisputed in the hands of Westerners. Who can say that our fashiona and the latest cruzes will not ten years later come from China?
JAPANESE TRAINING, Viceroy Shum has selected twelve of the most efficient amongst the officers trained by the Japanese to instruct the 4,000) recruits that have lately been eurolled for the Southern army.
CHINESE SPOETA
The inter-school sports organized by the Board of Education took place yesterday afternoon on the spacious parade ground outside the East Gate and were attended by an immense crowd. It is thought that 110 fewer
than 100,000 spectators were present. The gathering WOR certainly the largest that has been witnessed here the ground was one denes black mass of moving
"D." AND "E." ARE FAVOURITE and taken to Hongkong. Most children, enlozdurs from the Meift Fico Insurance Co. Paisley Sauce. Entrees--Jugged Hare and Bedding, und the rebels bare seized the railways heads. The sports wont off very well.
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A Chinese body was found in Giluso Street, opposite No. 23, on Thursday. The one of death was plague. This is the first case for the year..
Dr. Morrison, of Peking, is returning to China after all. The services of such a sinologue are regarded as indispensable during these times of
by the way, are stolen in this way frou Pakhoi and Cantón. Arrived at Hongkong, the unfortunate child is harboured in some house, and negotiations are opened for his disposal. As usual in most Chinese trans- actions, the vendor and the prospective The business is conducted by intermediaries, and even when the bargain is concluded it frequently hap-stir and change. peus that the child is passed from one
Messrs. Gregor and Co. are to be pangratu purchaser to another. Sometimes the "go-lated on the basutiful reproduction of a famous between absconds with the purchase money picture which they have sent out sa a wall aut the aggrieved party reporting the calendar, matter to the police finds that he has made a mistake and is laid by the heels for
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As a rule, the children are seldom bought to be kept in Hongkong. The risks of discovery are too great for tint-They are usually sold to persons in Siam or Singa.
send before 11 am, on day of publication, After that pore. The boys may be disposed of to Move the supply is limited. Unly supplicu
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cortectora, and it is remarkable that they are-passed-like chattels-from one to another without realising that they are being sold. Otherwise it seems difficult to account for youths of eighteen years and upwards not breaking their bonds and asserting there- selves as free agents. Even the immigra
King Oscar of Siveden has couferred the Kuighthood of the Royal-Vass" on Mr. Gustav Harling, Swedish Vice-Consal Hongkong.
at
The Nagasaki Prees says that up to Dec. 29th, 35, Russisa prisoners of war had been sent home from Japan, and there were still more than 30,000 left iu Japan.
Individual shipowners in Japan, who own 180 vessels of 350,000 tons, propose to form a great steamship company with services to all the leading Asiatic and European ports. It is reported that the capital required will be at least 20,00,000 yen.
From Essen it is reported that the Krupp works for 1904-1905 will pay a dividend of
of
tion laws are evaded by those responsible 7 per cent, and will increase the reserves by for the sale. A man assumes the slave's 3,00 1,009. The pension faad for the men name and marches past the immigration all classes employed in the works was solarged, officer with the requisite Buswers to the on the motion of Mrs. Krupp, by w. 1,000,000, usual questions. Girls are treated differ On page 19, readers will God some interesting catly. They are sold into establishments notes from the Statist about “ Ind Chinas,” un
THE FOG.
Bion
Sullivan DINNIE-flors d'Euvres, Windsor Canapes, Soup-Ox Tail Soup. Fish-Boiled Fish and Currant, Jelly, Grilled Fillet of Beef and Tomatoes, and organised a general steiko, Sweetbread Patties. Curry-Crab Curry. Joints Beast Australian Lamb and Mint Sance, Boiled York Ham and Champagne. Sauce, Cold Game Pisand Plain Salad. Sweets-Semolina Fudding, AMERICAN EXPORTS TO CHINA.here very into to-day. Tipsy Cake, Dessert-den-Fruit. Butafia los Cream and Finger Cakes, Apricot Tari,
A`LOCAL MERCHANT'S OPINION, The San Francisco Chronicle quotes a bal CRUSHED TO DEATH.
letin issued by the Bureau of Statistics of the Choag Kit, a colie, was killed at the Naval Department of Commerce and Labour in Yard on Thursday afternoon. He was sugaged America, to show that the exports of American bauling a four-wheeled loaded track, and at the products to China during the ten months entrance to the Naval Yard it ran down sending October 31st, 1935, were more than incline and jammed him against a stone piller, doable in valto those of the corresponding rushing him go gaverely that he succumbed to period in 1904, and nearly twenty times the bis injuries before be could be removed to the value of the experts of ten years ago during hospital,
the same months.
ALLEGED MURDER NEAR KOWLOON.
A somewhat mysterious occurrence in reported to have taken place near Kowloon on Thursday About a mile and a half from the city the body of a Chineso, presumed to be that of a priest, was found under circumstances which point to murder, but the manner in which he met lie death is not stated.
THE VISIT OF H. R. H. PRINCE ARTHUR OF CONNAUGHT.
We understand that the Reception Committee for the entertainment of H. R. H. Prince Arthur of Connaught on his arrival in the Colony next month, devided at a meeting held yesterday to invite the public, both European and Chinese, to illuminate their premises on the right of February 10th along the route to be followed by H. B. H. in proceeding to and returning from the Ko Shing Theatre, where he is dining with the Chinese community. The details of the rate will, we understand, be
are
Owing to tho denso feg encountered în the way up, all the Bongkang river boats arrived
[FROM ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.] On the 10th, the fourth annual graduating exercises, the ceremony of presenting diplomas to the medical studente, and of the opening of Hackett Lectura Hall, took place in the Hackett Medient College for Womno. Among those present were the United States Consul General, Dr. A, A. rulton and Mrs. Fulton (the founder of the institution), Wen Tantai (representing His Excellency the Viceroy Simm), Bay. C. D. Cousins, Mr. Owen E. Pomeroy, Dr. C. A. Hayes, Rev. S. G. Tope, Mrs. Mary H. Fulton, M.D., Mrs. Hogg, the lady Dr. Bhi-Min Hing,. and the lady Dr. Lo Shau Wan,
MACAO.
[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT]
This, that journal argues, is proof that the boycott in China has had no effect va American trade with that country; and no
This institution has done immense good to alarm on that head was or is excusable. There
the inhabitants of Canton and surrounding never has been a general boycott of our pro-districts, especially in the lins of midwifery, nets through the Empire, aud, in fact, none nursing, women and children's diseases, and is was possible, continues the San Francisco greatly appreciated. papor. The great mass of the Chinese people are totally disinterested in the subject of the American exclusion of contract ecclies and the letter ure certainly unconcerned over the manner in which the exclusion laws
January 10th. administered here in respect to those privileged,
DISTLIBUTION OF FRIZER. to enter the country. American goods find
Last Saturday was a red-letter day for the lavour in China, however, on thoir meriis. Leal Senado. It was the day for the distribu The boycott bugaboo was started for the tion of prizes to the pupila attending the acboots purpose of alarming the timid manufacturers under the care of this institution. The attend- and exporters Suterested in the trade with ance was, however, small, and I noticed that China, in the expectancy that it would enlist many officials and even several representatives their influence, through fear of the loss of of the Senado wezs ocnspicuous by their absence, trade, to aid those who are interested in the although invitations were sent to them, HE admission of cheap labour into the country, for the Governor was represented by the Colonial, selfish reasvus, without regard to ita effest on
Secretary. The Chairman of the Serado mada American labour and American industries a speech, in the course of which he made some We (Hongkong Daily Press) submitted this remarks concerning the Government, which
either as adopted daughters or as servants, article or the Paraugs, and some curious Japan-published shortly. It is also proposed to invite to an American merchant in the Colony, with the Colonial Secretary, representing the
ese remarks about foreign music. O pige 0 residents on the Peak whose houses face the
Harbour to place a red lamp in each of their and business-like brevity, he said, after reading a request for comment. With characteristic windows.
there is an article showing how some of Aus. tralia's public money goes, an account of the exciting adventure of a Shanghat house-boat, and an agreeablo chat about the Order of the
usual skare roport, local sport, and police and other news items.
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bad treto on the part of the chairman to Government, protested against. It was
oboose an occasion like this, when so many of the young people were present, to attack the Government, as it tends to instil disloyalty into these young hearts.
THAT human beings are daily bought and and knowing their economic position it is sold in Hongkong is a startling fact. To not surprising that they allow themselves some it does not bring any sense of abock, to be bandied about from hand to hand as because familiarity with the distressing cir.chattels without protest. cumstances have somewhat dulled their Saveral people have reduced this iniqui-Garter. Page 3 is occupied partly by our susceptibilities, but to others the statement tous business to something like a fine art, may come as a painful surprise. Though as is seen in the practice euphemistically
described as it be difficult to realise that any form of slavery can exist under the British flag, it boy or girl is brought down from Can arrangements for relaxing the regulations by Ld, an extraordinary general mating will be natrustworthy, but it is certain that the ing of the lottery was held to-day in the
flying the white pigeon."
tou and sold, say, to people in Hongkong. is nevertheless only too true that there is a fairly extensive trafficking in boys and girls,
The necessary formalities are completed, in addition to the usual buying and selling the money is paid, and the boy or girl of wives and concubines in the Chinese becomes the property of the purchaser. But he or she only romaine a day or two community here. Occasionally the police are successful in running some of the delin. and disappears. With his or her vendors the same routine is gone through next, it quents to earth, but those cases ure only a slight indication of what is really a large may be in Macas, and after that Cantou is | perhaps tried. In this way considerable business, onducted with method and ap parently with profitable results to those sums can be made by the parties. This engaged in it.
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In Hongkong it is quite as everyday
practice, it may be as well to add, obtains more in the disposal of girls to houses of
ill-fame.
In attempting to suppress this evil the
police are confronted with great difficulties. When a case is reported to them, the facts
A notice appears among the advertisements in the Shanghai papers, received yesterday afternoon, saying that at the roquest of ten sharebelders in S. C. Farnham, Boyd & Co.,
be then called * The Shanghai Dook Co., Ld,”
Nonsense! It is a sample of numerous statements that have been appearing in the West, designed to bolster the wholesale pro- Paganda which President Roosevelt has declared improper and impossible. I cannot, of course, say to what extent the figures themselves are
argument
THE BANTA CAÑA, AGAIN,
This institution is now, in my opinion, s Government institution. The monthly draw.
to elect two members to sit on the committee
basod On them in hönselse. held on January 23rd, to consider the
presence of Inspector de Fazenda and his suite, desirability of reconstructing the company, to suffering. The ugurou probably do not allow On Saturday at the members will assemble Americen trade with China has suffered unl is superseding the committee of the institution.
for forward contracts, and they must include and to appoint liquidators for that purpose.
This is probably one of the best mans of exports that have not been sold. Some firms, with the thres Government nomines. settling the troubles that have beast the present Standard Oil, for instance, carry big stocks on The shareholders know that this side. But the less said about this business their holdings are or should be "gilt-suged" the better, until it is settled."
The British Postmuster General has made
which picture postcards sent to places abroad have boun debarred from bearing a communics tion on the left-hand half of the addrosa aido. All such post-cards ena, therefore, so far as the British Post Office is concerned, now pass at the post-card rate, provided that they are otherwise in conformity with the regulations. It is matagement. not, however, universally accepted. Positive information bas bon received that cards of the kind described will not be allowed to pass as post-cards in Jupas, Spain, or the United States. Mr. John Burns, when being sworn in as a
member of the Cabinet, and kissing the King's hand, wore his customary blac lounge snit and
the
howler hat. The King's greeting to Workman Minister was particularly cordial The unemployed of Battersea look upon Mr.
bat are displeased with the dicastors. If tha
resolutions are carried, the new siguboard should swing at the turn of the tide, and the * Shanghai Dock Company" baled on to fortuna, We bare confidence that it will be so, and that the
present proprietors, with a little patience, will
come into their own again.
THE CHINA ASSOCIATION.
The Daily News learns the
occurrence for a boy or girl to be reported to the police as missing. On the face of them, those reports would suggest little beyond some more or less temporary family loss, but to those with a knowledge of Chinese life and the many peculiar ways that are is difficult to appraise the statements made inexplicable to the Western mind, they to them. Many people report the loss of ceeded, "determined to use our almost en becoming altogether more representative of
Burus as a truiter, and they embodied this opinion in a rusolution they passed on Doo tre se distorted and exaggerated that it 12th. We are, in consequence of his action in entering the Cabinet," the resolution pro.
result of the presentations made by Sir Charles Dudgeon and Me Bland on behalf of the Chins branch, when they were at home last summer, there is a probability of the Chins Association taking on a greater activity and deavours to prevent bis return to Parliament at British intoresta in China,
certain
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
The P.M. str. Manchuria left Yokohama on Jan. 4th, and is expected to arrive here on or about the 17th.
The British str. Cambyses, with a enrgo of Japan coal, left Moji on the 11th inst. for this port, and is due to arrive here on or about the 16th inst
The C.P.R. str. Empress of India arrived Jan., and left again at sun on Thurdes vi nt Kobe at 7.30 pm on Wednesday, the 10th Nagasaki for Shangbai, where she is due to arrive at 1 pm, on Sunday, the 1th Jan.
Tho Silk ex C.P.R. sir. Empress of Japan, which left Hongkong on the 13th Dec. aud
PUBLIC BUBSCRIPTIONS ACCOUNTS,
Boletim Ecclesiastico has just published the accounts of a public subscription for the con- straction of a church in Portugal and of the Bazaar promoted by the Rev. A. Gomes last October for the St. Francis School.
Better late than never. Apropos of this, nothing further is heard bara regarding the reconstruc tion of San Paulo. The enthusiasm for the scheme seems to Lavo oozed away.
WEATHER REI RT.
The Hongkong Oknercatory yesterday isaned the following report-
Ou the 12th at 11.55 am-The barometer and Japan, has risen generally, particulary over Chins
speak with eloquence. They reveal the child 10 "save face," and when in vestiga-the next election. We also desire to know, in decisions by the London Association, the work a transit of 28 days from Hongkong and 19 days romains central over Chins to the North of the
operations of the unholy trade which tions are made it not infrequently happens view of his statement that be considera ne nar flourishes by matching children from their that the police find the man they want is worth more than £500 a year in wages, whether parents and selling them to other Chinese the one making the report. The stolen be intends to devote the remainder of his who put them to a variety of uses.
children themselves add to the difficulties, £2,000 salary to the cause of the unemployed
workmen of Battersea."
from Yokohama.
Tue depresion is still shown over the Pacific Yokohama on the 22nd Dec., arrived in New York on Wednesday, the 10th Jan., thus making to the N.E. of Japan, and the anti-cyclona
Yangtis. of the Shanghai branch will be carried on by The Chargeurs Roures Co.'s str. Amiral mitten: Messrs. J. O. P. Bland, W. B. Clayton, Magon left Singapore on the 12th Jan., am. the following very strong provisional com Sir Chas. J. Dudgeon, R. S. Freeman, Cecil Halliday, H. E. R. Hunter and E. B. Bkettowe, port on the 11th inst., at 2 a.m.
The P. & O. str. Pekin left Singapore for this Mr. P. F. Lavers remaining Secretary.
for this port.
Formoss Channel, and the N. part of the China Gradients continue rather steep over the Sea, and very strong mouscon is indicated in both areas.
Forecast:-Fresh N. winds; fair, cloudy.