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characterised... the figures as simply |_ The Tang Wa Flood Bellef Fand now ridiculous," and pointed out that the amounts to $320,003. population give an average of little more than five persons to every house.
No one who know anything at all of life is a CO., Chinese city can accept figures like the
above as reliable. To give an average of tea persons to every house would probably be very much under the mark, and then in addition to the registered houses, our correspondent. says there are hundreds of small houses and huts both in the city and its suburbs which are not registered or numbered, so that the official census lamentably fails to supply the information which is needed, especially if it is true that a poll tax is under consideration. Mr Morsa, in his recent book on The Trado and Administration of the Chinese Empire, after
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CANTON.
YORM OUR CORRESPONDENT,
12th August,
TER CANTON FLOOD FUND BAZAAR, The cash anlos at the Bazaar on the 10th instant amounted $10,173.15 cents which exceeds
the cash sales of any previous day. The nam
SUPREME COURT,
Thursday, August 19th.
IN SUMMARY JURIDICTION.
BITOR KR. H. H. J. GOMPERÍR (ACTING PUIGNE JUDGs).
BOHOLAR AND COMPRIDEER. Aolion was brought by Ip Keo against Wong
ber of visitors was considerably larger on that Hok Lau, second compradors of the as day than on the preceding days. I belivyo this!" Hellas,” to recover the win of $184, the is due to the gentle hlat given by the committee equivalent of 8200 in Chinese subsidiary ooin of the Baasar the other day to the stall holders, for money-lent.
There were not many faney ptloss paid for
the same amount to quench his thirst at the On articles. Mr. Chor Kuca Yeuk bought an embroidered picture for $1,000 and he also paid. Lok Aarated water atell. Mr. Cha Shew Yoak purchased's pisca of embroidered silk for $400. There were numerous purchases ranging from $5 to $200 A wealthy Cantones gentle. man presented halt the proceeds of the sale of hours to the Bazaar. It is reported that the building is worth several thousands of dollars, On the whole it appears that wrated water and coffee stalls tave had the most UJORKS..
LONDON, August 13th. Great festivities continue at Auck-socompanied the Viceroy to the Bazaar the other It appears that Taokai Wen Teang Yao also
A new daily paper, recently made ita remarking that the estimates of the popula-appearance in Shanghai, sed in reporting the tion of Cinton bave ranged from 500,000 to reception on the Kamo Maru” 2,500,000, anys the figure now generally startling information that an improper con accepted is 900,000. If this estimate in Cort was held on board. An advertisement based on the return of the number of sumably by the publisher of the new journal, in the other Shanghai piperr, inserted pres registered houses and shops, it is probably states that the word "improper" was a much nearer the mark than the estivante printer's error. The written word in the copy land in honour of the American recently furnished by the Superintendent of was imprompta." We imagine that there has battleship fleet. The armada sails on Police to the higher nuthorities, but as it since been an impromptu performance of the Saturday. would still take no count of the hundreds melodramatic kind in the office of the news of small houses and huts" which are neither paper. registered bor numbered, nor of the large boat' ppulation, it must be regarded as a wholly inadequate estimate.
If it is a matter beyond the power of the authorities in Canton, where a police force is maintained ou modera lie, to take a reasonably accurate census of the population of that one city, we can hardly hops to get reliable informations as to the population of the entire empire. The population of the Empire has been variously estimated from 270,000,000 (Roccait, 1904, and Her PISLEY, 1878) to 421,000,000 (Pororr
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Lift accidents seem not infrequent in Shang. hai. Last work a young man named C. M. Sequeira age 18, an employee of Messrs. the lift on the top storey of the firm's new Mustard & Co. was about to get out of premises whon the lift, without warning began, to deseand slowly. Sequeira olutobed the gate with his hands and when the top of the lift became level with the for his hands got
pinned and anfering great agony for twenty He remained thus minutes before he could be extricated. The little anger of his rigat hand bean torn off and bis other dugera baily orashed.
jambed between the two.
CORRESPONDENCE,
THE OPIUM QUESTION.
{TO THE ELITOR OF THE "DAILY PRESS"].
Ste-May I ask the Ho-Me-May bow be can recopile the statement he made to your rogending the opiam divans with the Renter's reporter that no proposals at all were being made
in excess of the trutu, sad that the num-tel-gram you will be publishing in another
ber of the inhabitants of China Proper was probably less than 270,000,000. And Sir
olumn P-Youes eto,
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LONDON, August 17th.
anys that Germany is actively working for The St. Petersburg "Novoye Vremya” the establishment of a bank and trading facilities at Tabriz, it believes, with the idea of securing the summoning of an interan. of Algeciras, tional conference in Perain, similar to that
TROUBLE ON A BRITISH DESTROYER.
LONDON, August 11th. The crow of a British destroyer which arrived in the Firth of Forth from the recent manoeuvres becoming dissatisfied with their rations and the stopping of shore leave, threw the gun sights and signal books over bard. Several have been imprisoned and it is understood will be court-martilled.
OPIUM IN HONGKONG.
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day. Bome of the newspapers criticise his meannes. They say that he only want in the Bazaar for a few minutes and purchased a botile of lemonade for 35, and left immediately. Being a native of Kwang Tang, and enjoying the reputation of being well provided with funds, it was expected that he would have been amongst the most generous,
CANTON-BANKOW RAILWAY-FORMIGN LOAN
THREATENED,
It is reported that II: E. Uasng Chi Tang
Mr. E. J. Grist (of Megate Wilkinson and
Grit appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. R. Harding for the defendant.
Plaintiff said he advanced the defendant $200 in Chinese bank notes, for which he received an acknowledgement. This amount was equal to $184 in Hongkong currency. -
In aross-examination, defondant said, he resided of the French College, Canton.
Why did you call yourself a trader fn the writ?—I did not know the customs down here.
Do you speak Frebok Yes..
I put it to you that you were not living at have lived in Hop, Canton at all, you were living in Hạnṣm 1—I
You've lived there most of your time?—I weat there when I was very small,
for my education at the College.
Hate you any property little; enough What is it Money.
How much have you got P-3300-odd.'" How much infereal do you get on it Foar per cent,
+
Per annum ?—No, per month.
Mr. Harding then put a series of questions, has sent many telegrams to the Railway Com-clothes-What do you want to ask me all these
concluding with, How much do you pay for yoom...... pany instructing them to collect the secondations for? Iam saing the man for money Directors should delay in doing so the Central a yest. instalment of the Railway stares and that if the Question repeated-Several teas of "della."
Government will take back the line, raise the. wecessary funds from foreign countries and itself construct the Kwang Tung section of the line. This section of the line, he added, is ons of the most important lines in China and he intends personally to visit Canton and Liang Hu in the satams to inquire into the complications. CHINESE · DOOTS 3 CHARGED WITH
Year ist, brother had a wife named Ip Lung Shi?-How do I know her name. wife What used you to esil her!
What, don't know the name of your brother's
in-law, auntle, or something of that sort,
His Lordship Probably he called her mother-
Witness-No. I called her Ah £0.
Mr. Harding said the defense was that thə defendant went to the witness and requested PROFESIONAL, INCOMPETENCY."
him to ask Ab So whether she could lend the Yesterday a Chinese Doctor named Luk Fak defendant $20. He went, and on March 5th was arrested on a charge of professional the amount was handed over to the defendant incompetency. The complainant in a wealthy at Ah Sa's bouts in Des Youx Road In Cantenere, named Lo Ki Wong, who resides in twenty cent pisser. Defendant give her au shs Western Barbarba. Lo deposed in Court acknowledgement which he that he ment for doctor Lak to attend to his 13 happened to be in the plaintiff's name, end
read out. I year old daughter who was slightly ladisposed the woman said she London, August 11th.
wanted it in her on the 10th instant. Doctor Luk, after feeling name. Defendant wrote another acknowledge- Hongkong's proposals for the closing of the girl's pulsen, declared that she was enffering ment in Ah So's nime, but by inadvertende loft the opium difans are for the present, infra diphtheria. He wrote out s prescription and the original one on the table. When the 4LEXANDER Hosra, the British Com porcial THE OPIUM REFORM MOVEMENT. abeyance, owing to the absence on the
left. Shortly after Miss Lo took the medicine defendant left the house the woman noticed the Continent of the Earl of Crowe.
she began to vomit and had several convulsione original acknowledgement, ami gave is to with almost fatal resulta. Mr. Lo seeing the plaintiff to hand over to defendant, but the pomazziana sandið inn of his daughter immediate- plaintif failed to return it. ly sout for the doctor aggia who on arrival- prescribed some counteracting medicine. The parpose of the first medicine, it in stated,
vary strong tonic. Lo, however, did -not give the second medicin's to his daughter but gave her instead some "lizard powder “ which had been recommended as a paracea by s friend. After taking a dosò of the powder she recovered.
AFTER THE "DENS" ARE CLOSED),
megha anjum reform movement seems to be somewhat at a standstill in the distriot of Yasgehow just
Attache au o veport for 1906, referring to ®CuBtn3$ w the population of the Whong Thigh elacod including Mongolia, at 438,214,000, said: “Having visted 15 of the 18 provinces of China proper as well as the three Manno, as if the officials are not quite sure of Cronberg and had a most cordial meeting was to cool the blood while the second was found for the defendant with coat, told the.
churian provinces and seen how scantily many of them are peopled, I doubt very much whether the whole of China, Man- sheria, Mongolin and the Hein Chiang or New Dominion contain a population at all approaching the usually accepted 400,000,000. Now, Mongolis, and the new Dominion (Tibet, Turkestan &a) is in area nearly 500,000 English square miles inrger than China Proper, so we may take it that Sir ALEXANDER HOSE would agree very closely
on the part of the higher officials, but they the next move. There is certainly sincerity have a gigantic nadertaking before them and they should have, wherever possible, the empathy and co-operation of the whole foreign community. The oplam dans are all cloned but the shops licensed for the sale the drug are still doing business, and the people on still consume as much opium in their own homes as before,
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Defendant's avidanja (which was in sovordanoO with his solisitor's opening statement) having boen sabatautiated by Ah So, his Lordship plaintiff he did not believe a word he had asid and advised him to leave the Colony.
IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION, BEFORE SIE FRANCIS PIGGOTT (CHIEF JUSTION.)
At the trial of the osse a dostor from one of the Government Hospitals was called and gave
A QUESTION OF SALE. evidence regarding the two prescriptions. He
The hearing of the action concluded in which stated that the medicine on the first prescription the lip On Insxrance, Exchange and Loan and when taken would produce the effects stated Sheng Exchange and Trading Co., Ltd. sued was the proper medicine for curing diphtheria Co. Ltd., and the Hongkong and Manila Yuen by the complainant, as in diphtheria cases it was
Li Po Yaug. and Li Po Kam for $49,052,62
INTERPORT POLO TEAMS. "The interport polo teams were entertained last night at the Hongkong Club. The band of the 3rd Middlesex Regiment played during dinner,and a smoking concert following at which there was a very large attendance indinding sary to ulear the wind pipes and all the as money lot. The Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock tubes of the langs so as to prevent them froin EC., and Mr. MoNeill from Shanghai, who Ormiston, songs by Magar, B. C. Graff, F. C. the medicine subsequently prescribed could east, Donnys and Bowley) appeared for the spianoforte dust by Messrs Grimbis and- Carroll, W. H. Hanniball, F. H. Thomas, not be administered to a diphtheria patient. If plaintiffs, Mr. M. W: Blade, who was instrasted
Sutherland, P. W. Goldring and J.
the girl bad taken the second medicine it by Mr. F. P. Heti (ot Messrs. Bratton and Cochrane and a revitatation by Mr. L. Hutchin. might have killed her. The magistrate Hett) and Mr. C. E.-H. Beavis (of-Mesn
A Chinese farmer near An Tan in the New with the estimate for Caioa Proper made Territory was tilling his land with ballook and H.B. the Govenor. The programme comprised being choked by phlegm and other matter. But were instructed by Mr. F. B. L. Bowley (of
pleagh-on Weinerday when he was struck by lightning and killed instantly. The butlook was uninjured.
On August "rd, Shanghai, at "Ennerdalo," to by Mr. Rock, if indeed he would not Mr and Mrs. K. FLERFON, a daughta (1179 regard even that figure na too high for a HONOKONG OFFICE: JOA, DE V ROC area of 1,535,000 English square miles out LONDON OFFICH: 131. PLEXT STREET 3.0 of a total of 4,800,000 square miles, which
is the total ares of the whole Empire.
The Daily Press.
HONDRONG, AUGUST 14TH, 1:08. ABOUT three years ago Sir MATTHEW NATHAN made an effort to get a reliable estimate of the population of Canton in order to forni an approximate estimate of the rate of mort-
China is stated to have declined to accedo to 8 request made by the Government of Rassia Lor permission to extend her telograph lines Tomsk to the Chinese frontier for the purpose of facilitating commersial communica tion with Chins.
INDO-TIBETAN TRADE.
OFFICIAL REPORT.
The following information has been received from the British Trade Agaat at Yatung:- The volume of trade during the year under report has been well maintained the total value of the imports to Ludia being Rs. 23,90,783 and and exports Rs. 14,49,708. These figures are. probably exceptionally high sa the spring of 1907 was very late and merchandise which
son. During the interval selections were given on the saxetophone, kindly tent by Mosers Moutrie and Co. A most enjoyable evening was spent, Mr. H. P. White, chairman of the olub, presided over the entertainment.
ment Board,
ordered Doctor Lak's signboard to be im mediately taken down, and suspended him from further practice, threatening severe punishment if this injanetion is disobeyed.
THE RECENT TYPHOON.
Shortly after the late disastrous typhoon
of lives lost. Yesterday is Excellenos Viceroy Chang memorialized the Throne giving full details of the damage done and the number received a cabled decree noknowledging. recsipt
Wilkinson and Grist) represented Li Po Yong and Li Po Kam; while Bir Henry. Berkeley. KC, who was instructed by Mr, R. D Atkinson (of Moara, Desoon, Looker and Descon appeared for Kwok Tik Ting, the defendant in the counter-claim.
Counsel, having concluded their addresses, his Lordship reserved judgment.
INDIAN ITEMS.
requested the Viceroy to secure the co-operation that one of them has since died; of the memorial and expressing the great mill operatives in Bombay three Parsi eshool- As an aftermath of the recent riots of the igmpathy of the Throne. The decree boys were so roughly handled by the mob: of all civil and military officials to relieve the
affair.
It is re
An Iranian Parsi liquorshop kooper who shop in the height of the riots had his shop badly damaged for his temerity,
JOHN BURNS-ARCHANGEL Owing to the heavy consumption of tobacco would normally have been carried in February in his parish magazine an interesting anecdote The Vioar of St. Etheldreda's, Fulham, relates ality from plague in that oily, and he came to and cigarettes in China, His Highness Princs and March was held over autil April and May-consuring the President of the Local Govern the conclusion that the population of Caulon / Tiog, President of the Ministry of on' account of the deep snow which closed the Agriculture, has proposed that the Government passes for some time. Again the roads were. was not known within a quarter of a skvuld establish a Government Tobacco Mon earlier part of 1968, so that the returns of Wasa guest, and in conversation with him the He states that at a recent dinner of the million. Every writer who has ventured to opoly Buroan in Peking, the object of which passing trade for these months are high, In Bishop of London expressed the hope that the Farely blooked for any length of time during the Diocesan Chapter of St. Paul's Mr. John Barns give an estimate differs from every other on ahall be to improve the growth of tobacco this way the total volume of passing trade for President of the Lost Government Board the question. It was estimated in a Customs. With the Empire and push its sale. The the year under report has been accidentally would have meroy en St. Paul's Cathedral, and anfferers and not to look upon it as a slight dared to give shelter to three Europeans in hi trade report about ten years ago as 2
matter in at present under consideration $2,500,000,
forced up as the larger part of the but a native official report not many years
exports pass through Yatung and thorts and not allow a tube railway to be ran under
the Chambi Mr. Buras Two Chinese, after undergoing six months-Valley without being opened. It is
road "The foot is, Bishop, I have a before gave the population as 499,288 imprisonment in Victoria Gaal for kidnapping different articles in detail. The Chumbi Valley you look among the purse in messin on the authorities and merchants here yesterday sentenced Mr. Tilak to 6 years imprisonment
ANOTHER REBELLION IN KWANDOI. special and personal interest in St. Try to examine the fluctuations in the
of Paul's, for I aia always to be found there. I exclusive of the boat population. We have a boy from the Puu Ya distrist were rearrested people ove thate prosperity more to the practical roof over the choir stalls you will and me with
Telegrams were received by the local Mr. Thetice Davar (the Farai Judge) who soon the bont population estimated at 20,000.ment preferring a charge of armed robbery, on
on an extradition, warrant, the Chinese Govern monopoly of the carrying trade which they outstretched arms. I am one of the aroh
that the soldiers under Colond Chang Tsan forgeditions writing in his paper the "Marathi”? When Consul Generel MANSFIELD was asked the ocession of the kidnapping, against both ing at Kalimpong and selling at Phari, The Board explained that long years ago he was ported that the Colonel is dead. The rebels
enjoy between Kalimpong and Phari then to angels." the actual profits which they make in buy.
Tak at Kong How, in Kwangwi, hare has been warned and threatened by an anony for information on the subject in 1904 hemen. Mr. Donngs, from the Crawa Solicitor's staple import from Tibet to India is wool. It employed by Sir William Richmond, E., Bu-have-captured Kong How and other towns,
The President of the Local Government. shot the Colonel and rebelled.
mous writer. replied: There has beco a recent census, office, appeared for the prossentica-before-Mr. was thought that the volume of the wool wasso designs of at least, who figure in the The Military officials in Kirangai have cabled hut it is confined only to certain areas, and Kempat the Magistracy yesterday. The case Tibet Mission; but there has been nothing to trade might increase very rapidly after the does not include the floating boat population, i was adjourned.
justify this hyperfine faire cra: The quantity Honam nor the villages in the outskirts
imported during the zintar 21917-48 WES Aerial 2350 meebeeed-before-Mr. Kemp orally high (31,510 maunds, is probably The estimate. is 90,000 houses, will an at the Magicday via the wave pure dae to the local weather condition. Yo -average "bidas persons in each house." charged with stealing a gold watch and whi bgarosfor 1997-07, 13,900 maunds, le secounted Our Canton correspondent, alyout ten attempting to make the complainant receive the for by the bad state of the pssss during the watch illegally, It appears that the four mou tries capable of expansion in the Chambi Valley daya ago, furiale some particulars of
earlier part of 1907. There are no local indue Census which the police of the city had watch and subsequently tried to induce him to other than piece goods, which are brought in operating together, stole complainant's gold and the local demand for manufactured articles taken quite recently in which the Superin-pay $50 to them is consideration of which his balk from Kalimpong, is met by a few traders endent reported that there are 3,858 watch would be returned. Complainant report: prot to cover their expenses,
who find it suficiently hard to make a sufficient streets in Canton, ie, both walled cities, the ad the matter to the police, who arranged for #uburbs and Honam"; the total number of they came upon the thieves and restored to the detectives to shadow him, with the result that registered and unmbered shops and houses complainant his watch and his money. The were returned as 90,863, and the total rat prisoner sentenced to six months' imprison. population as 187,336
low,
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS. The sir, Glamorganshire left Singapore on
THE CHINA TEA TRADE
make better provision for the registration of British ships in British India have been revived, The proposals orig.cally made in 1905 to
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Linc cairforcemente no the voiciers in Chat is being taken with rafadenosin sabiding pro
and the crisise of the Steator of Commerce vicinity.aca inadequate-le-copy with the rising, prosale, sasa as the tonnage rules to bare Colonel Chang was formerly a merchent inscribed, the mode of registry, and the perform Some time sga the enthorities in Peking Kwaugsi. He offered his services to ex-Viceroy of the had under consideration a proposal to inercaso Shum. He captured that range
anes of the duties of the Registrar. the tax on fea, in order to meet the growing rebel, chief, Luk Ab Fat, and was made a extending to the whole of British India the ties for their consideration, it was found that Admiral Li Tsun loft this morning with a body it is issued to merchants without their being
has been deafted with matter was referred to the provincial authori-colonel for his bravery and military ability, credit system for the payment of day on salt requirements of the revenos. When the
the obrest
in the way of the proposed increase. Their there were numerous and serious diffoalties of troops for Waokow. Excellencies Chang Chih-tang, Yusa Shih-
which prevails in Madres and Bombay, whereby kai, and Duke That have therefore recom-likely to return to Kwangsi shortly. There has are settled in Madrasand Bombay the system It is reported bere that ex-Marshal Sou is duty, on their execnting bors and depositing required to make immediate payment of the securities for mended that the scheme be postponed, but they been trouble in that province ever since his has worked well, in that it has facilitated the payment of dut when the accounts have arged upon the Ministry of Agriculture,
distribution of salt and reduced the price to the consumer. point of view of those engaged in the trade are Ite advantagee, too from the obvions. The Bill has met with the approval: Commieto
Industry and Commerce that the tea trade departure and Viceroy Chang, in a recent should be encouraged in every possible way, memorist to the Throne, stated that Sea is and this is the origin of the action of His the only man capable of keeping that Province Highness Prince Pa Ting, who is seeking to
ment the second to three, the third to six weeks, the 12th inst,, and is due kete on or abent the establish a tea combine and to finance it with quiet. Ex-Marshal Sou was degraded and of the Committee of the Bengal Chamber of
Our correspondent and the fourth was remanded.
18th inst. a.m.
joint commercial sad eficial capital.
banished during Viceroy Shum's régime,