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necessary than the punishment of the coolies who were caught by the police perpetrating these outrages on the peace and order of the Colony. It was both desirable and neces- mary that the Governmost should endeavour to lay their hands upon the actual insti- gators of the disturbance the men who 8. WATSON & CO., were secretly influencing the public mind and indirectly, if not explicitly, inciting the mob to such acts of violence as were committed,
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once that an interim dividend of Tis, 2.50 Per share, for the last half-year ending October 31st, 1908, will be payable to shareholders on January 5th next.
A Tiantain paper in a brief note condemning the gambling imports at Shanghai states that it learns from a reliable source that a large number of failures, including some Foreign hongs, is expected in the New Year.
An American named Hogan, formerly a sor-
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DEATH OF A SUGAR KING.
LONDON, December 28th. The death is announced. of Mr. Claus Spreckels, a wealthy American sugar merchant and a large share
Company.
geant in the United States Marias Corps, has bean foully murdered in his house at Danalapan, Philippine Islands, by a native. The mardor holder in the Oceanic Steamship
Fars to have been committed with a bolo.
The Committee of the Shanghai Athletio Association have decided to hold the Shanghai Marathon Race distance eighteen miles-on Saturday, the 13th March next, commencing at 2pm. The route of the race has not yet
been decided on.
The fourth annual children's sports mooting under the auspices of the Kowloon Hoket Club is advertised to take place, under the auspices of His Excellency the Governor, on New Year's Day at the King's Park,
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Before Mr. J. H. Kemp at the Magistracy
THE TURKISH PARLIAMENT.
LONDON, December 28th. The Turkish Parliament has been
inaugurated with complete success.
VENEZUELA.
LONDON, December 28th
yesterday a Chinese wonian was charged with A peaceful revolution has been stealing ten pesris valued at $1,100 from the tenant of 26. Stanton Street. Two other accomplished in Venezuela and every- natires, a man and a woman, were charged with thing is reported quiet. receiving the pearls, and the case was remanded
not spontaneously but in accordance with pre-arranged plan of operations. It was clear that there had been organisation, and the plain duty of the Government was to discover the organizers and effectually teach the Chinese community that these outrages cannot be perpetrated with impunity in a British Colony. The machinery for dealing with the position was ready to hand in the Peace Preservation Ordinance of 1886 and under its provisions certain banishment orders were issued agalust few Chinese eight in all, we believe, who were sacer- NEW We have just unpacked our tained beyond question to have been SEASON'S CONFECTIONERY imported
and prominently identified with the boycott from the loading London, Parisiau
movement. The great disadvantage of American Houses.
action taken under the Peace Preservation Ordinance is its comparative secrecy, and the great cause of complaint has been that banishment "ordors were issued without a public trial against men who donied the The Rev. E. W. Twing, the superintendent offence with which they were charged by of the Chinese Mission at Hawaii, who has been the Government, Part III of the Ordin-appointed a delegate to the Opium Conference at anos clearly lays down the procedure in Shanghai, is at present in Hongkong, and regard to deportation. It provides that intends paying a visit to Canton to make
inquiries in regard to the opiam question. whenever, during the existence of the Proclamation, it shall be represented by the FULLER'S CONFECTIONERY.
Captain Superintendent of Police to the COCOANUT TAFFY, ALMOND Governor-in-Council, sa written inform TAFFY, CREME APRICOTS, SUCRE DE LA CREME CARAMELS, PEPPERation, that the removal from the Colony of MARSHMALLOW any person not a natural born subject of the King, whether such person shall have BALLS, &c, &o, da
been naturalised under the provisions of any Colonial Ordinance or not, it necessary for the public safety, it shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council, if it shall appear to him, after making such inquiry as to him may seem sufficient, to be necessary for the public safety that auch person should be banished from the Colony, to issue a banishment order, &0. Every order of banishment made under this Ordinance has to be forthwith reported by
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Secretary of State for the Colonies. His Excellency the Governor, even were this procedure not explicitly enjoined upon him, by the Ordinance, is not the man to sanotion deportation without satisfying himself of the truth of the allegations brought against the socused person, and we have every con fidence that no man has been banished from the Colony without good cause. All, we
The return of visitors to the City Hall Library and Masoum for the week ending the 27th De camber, 1908, shows that of non-Chinese there were 232 to the Library and 98 to the Museum, and of Chinese 133 to the former and 2,085 to the latter. The Library was, therefore, used by 365 persons and the Museum by 2,183.
were found guilty, fined $15 each and bound
FRENCH PRESIDENT
ASSAULTED.
LONDON, December 27th. President Fallieres was knocked down in the streets of Paris by an unemployed waiter. The President happily was uninjured.
BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP.
LONDON, December 27th. Johnson bas defeated Burns in the
Sergeant Gorden charged eight natives before Mr. J. R. Wood at the Magistravy yesterday with fighting at Changchau. The defendanta Boxing Championship at Sydney after over in the sum of $50 to be of good behavior a contest of fourteen rounds. ter six months. A similar sentence was passed on four ecclies who were convicted on a charge of fighting in the Central Market.
While a German blue-jacket was purchasing a handkerchief from a self in Queen's Bost Central he felt a ing at his trousers pocket and turned in time to see a coelis running away with his parse. He pursued the thief, captured
him and handed him over to the police. At the Magistracy yesterday Mr. J. R. Wood son- tenced the native to six weeks' imprisonment with hard labour.
We have received rules and regulations and the classification of the entries of the second annual Horse Show to be held at Manila on the 11th, 12th and 13th January. There are in all 49 classes, and some sixty emps are being offered for first and second prizes. An attrative booklet advertises both the Horse
CHINESE SEIZE ANOTHER STEAMER.
CANTON, December 28th The Chinese authorities have seized near Chutau- the steamer Tai On shan and brought her to Canton. It is alleged that the "Tai On not a British steamer, though she has been flying the British flag.
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TOKYO, Des., 17.
A TRAMWAY' COMPANY PROBLEM.
The affairs of the Tokyo Railway Company are now, with the approach of the year end, attracting great attention, for it may be said without exaggeration that a crisis has arrived in the history of the company. The half yearly meeting will be held on the 20th, when shareholders will be asked to give their approval to a balance sheet in which for the first time dividends are considered of secondary import ance and large sans are set aside for depresia tion and reserve. Even the directors forogo their customary bonus, 50,000 yen, because of their determination to reform the company's position. The soconuts show a net revenue of 1,642,403 yen. Instead of using the bulk of this in seven or eight per cent. dividend as on previous ocopsions the directors propose to dispose of it as follows-To reserve for depreciation 500.000 yen, te amortisation fund 175,000, yen, to dividend at 4 per cent. 870,000 yan, carried forward to gether with amm from last account, over 200,000 yen.
.THE. NEW POLICY,
No conservative business man could find fault with this balance sheet, but in a country
the extent of 3 per cent, they are to be unde debtors to the extent of 3.3 por cont. Thus one Firregularity leads to another. The whole situation of the company is full of interest, and the coming meeting of shareholders will most likely be an exciting one.
QUEENS OF THE PACIFIC, On the other side of the Pacific they are lamenting the decay of their mercantile marine while Japanese owners are continuously ex- panding. These are thoughts as one looks at such a vessel as the new Chige Mary, which has just loft for Hongkong on her maiden voyage. The T.K.K. feet is now worthy of the Atlantic, and if American legislators continue in the same conservative attitude regarding the principle of marine subsidies the time will soon come when the T.K.K., N.Y.K., mi C.P.R. vill share the Pacific passanger trade between them. The two former companies are unk ing undisguised efforts in this direction and already almost monopolise the trade out of Ban Francisco and Seattle. We are on the ere, too, of developments further seath, in Columbia and Chile, both of which countries are now "opened's to Japan by treaty of commerce, and the attrac- tions of both are being more or less advertised in this country as fields for Japanese emigrants and commerce. In Tokyo there is established what is known as the Chilson Propaganda.
where such substantial methods of business are which seems to be doing neful work, gads.. Tokyo Railway may be indeed described as cultural industry. At a dinner given the other novel. But it is necessary, and had it been the evening to Mr. Hicki, the newly appointed practice of the company from the first to look Minister to Chile, the conditions in the South ahead in this way the shareholders would have American States and the prospects of Japan in been a more satisfied body of men to-day that region and in mutual trade wore discussed, Indeed, the conviction grows upon one the Mr. Ano, head of the Toyo Kien Kaisha, more the affairs of this company are studied was present and announced an arrangement that there has been mismanagement and short-hetwoon the Japanese Government and his sightedness from the first. When, a few years company to open a service to Chile nert year ago, the Tokyo Railway Company, with a sub. In this way does the Government foster comerçe saribed capital of 60,000,000 yen, was formed with other countries, at the same time helping by the amalgamation of the three existing tram infant industry. There can be no question way companies, an agreement was antered into that this policy is the right one at emoh a stage with the city authorities, the one-sided character of development as Japan is now in, and that the of which was not then realised. The company, result with be the ultimate domination of apparantly, blindly entered into this agreement, the trade of the Pacifle of veseele under the which bound it to the following conditions Japanese flag. To surrender its whole property without com- pensation to the city 50 years from date; to carry ont certain extensions in the suburbs; to pay a certain tax to the city from which the latter hoped to derive an income of about 300,000 yen; and to charge a fare fixed in consultation with the city. These conditions are hanging heavily on the neck of the company to-day. They were made in times of great business activity and expansion, and the representatives of the company were without the experience that they have had since.
not at all common, the balance sheet of the nection with industry here, especially "agri”
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE
Lady Lagard's first "At Home" since her return to the Colony was given yesterday, sind it is unnecessary to say that it was very largely attended. Lady Lugard looks well and ancefved. a constant succession of congratulations upon her recovery from the indisposition which obliged her ladyship to leave Hongkong for the summer.
The orchestral band of The Buffs was in attendance at the "At Home," and with dancing in the ball-room, and refreshments in the supper rooms and on the lawn, a pleasant couple of hours were spent.
This evening His Excellency the Governor and Lady Lugard are giving a dinner in honour of Their Excellencies the Japanese Amador and Madamo Kato,
Apparently the item which has worked most to the disadvantage of the company in the above agreement is that compelling it to make The expense is extensions in the suburbs. heavy and the lines when in working order are naremunerative under the present system of fares by which for four sen passengere can travel any distance. Citizens not only reap an advantage from the tramway, and landlords an An inquiry is proceeding at the increase of property value, but the city derives great advantage from the improvement of streets, yamen of Admiral Li Tsun.
Wherever the lines go they carry reform, [The 8.8, Tai On we learned, on inquiry at Narrow, crooked, ill-paved, unlighted, depressing Correspondents must forward their names and believe, have now given the requisite assur Show and the Manila Carnival which takes the Harbour. Office yesterday, is a British gaburtaa thoroughfares are straightened Visconti; Captain Baron Meyern Hebenbergr Editor, not for publication but as evidence of ces not to again offend in the same place from the 2nd to the 9th January, steamer owned by the Tai On sx. Company: broadened, lighted, and levelled up in a manner
From a Manila paper we learn that one of She is trading between Hongkong and Kong.
moon on the West River, and on her last trip that must be very pleasing indeed to a negative Carnival is the great interest which local mer- with a Chinese theatrical junk and sank it. As is that of the backwoods. In short it may be Ne anonymously signed communications that notion has been distinctly salutary, though chants are taking in all kinds of concessions. have already appeared in other papers will be the exaggerated accounts of the Govern. The Carnival headquarters are literally swamped rds for extra copics of DAILY FERSE ment's action had the unfortunate result of with applications for space on the Carnival should be sent before 11 am on day of paralysing trade for a time. It was the ground. Last year the first Carnival was publication. After that hour the supply is
mited. Only supply for Cash.
penalty of secrecy and now that normal con- matter of speculation. This year it is a "go Telegraphic Address: PRESS.
ditions have been restored in the Colons and all concessions are sure to be good paying Tai On by two Chinese gunboats. At the time fares are incressed. To the ordinary business Codes: A.B.C. 5th Ed. Lieber,
propositions. P. O. Boz., 34. Telephone No. 12.
NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. ONLY communications relating to the news solum should be addressed to THE EDITOR. addresses with communicatione addressed to the
good faith.
one side of paper only.
manner, and have bem permitted to return
The following guests have been invited;--- Sir Francis and Lady Piggett, and Mise Oxley; the Hon. Mr. May, C.M.G., and Mrs. May; the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Pollock; Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Erskine, K.C.B., Lady and Miss Brakine; Commodore, Mr. and Miss Lyon Captain Erskine R.N.; Captain Marquis L. H.E. Major-General Broadwood, C.B.; Colonel Darling R.E.; It-Colonel Chamier, C.M.G., and
Rt. Rev. the Bishop of Victoria and Mrs. Manor, Mr. and Mrs. Funaten; Comm: and Mrs. Volpicelli, Mr. Wilder; Mr. and Mrs. Scott.
All letters for publication should be written on to the Colony. The effect of Government the meat satisfactory features of the coming to Kongmoon, it is reported that she collided local administration whose ides of mending rosis Mrs. Chamier; Captain Heathcote, AD.C.; the
inaerted.
BIRTH.
the advisability of so amending the Ordin ance as to provide for a public trial of the
a result of the collision thirteen people were dreaed, and their relatives and junk people claimed $4,000 as compensation from the owners of the steamer. The owners declined to entertain this amount, bat offered claimants and the result has been theseizure of the topay $1,000. This was not deemed sufficient by the
said that the tramway carries civilisation with it in the sabarbe but the unfortunate shareholder has to pay and get no profit in return.
THE FARE QUESTION. Proftless, at least, will be his lot until the
THE CHRISTMAS MAIL
A curious feature of this year's Christmas of the arrest of the steamer she had not her mind this might seem an ordinary necessary of Mail was that people did not seem naziona to Lt.Colonel Watson, late Commandant of the register on board, it being the custom we business, but not to one acquainted with business claim their parcels. Notwithstanding the notice
derstand, for her to leave it at her first port of B. V. C., left Shanghai by the last English call and obtain it on her return trip to Hong affairs in this country. First, of, all, by the in the newspapers that the Post Office would be On the 28th Decembor, at No. 6, Mountain accased persons might well be set down mail and was accorded'n send-off that the N.C kong. The absence of the register would no agreement itself, nothing can be done without open on Christmas morning when parcels would View, Peak, the wife of 0. D. THOMSON, of s among the questions for early consideration Daily News describes as unique in local annuls, dont lead Chinese officials to the conclusion the consent of the city sathorities, and through be handed over to the addresses, not many took [1702 by the Legislative Council. More than His carriage was drawn down to the jetty by that thandel by Captain Lawrence and carries those officials, the central Government authori advantage of this facility. Yesterday, however, On December 22nd, at Shanghai, Jupria, twenty years have passed since the Peace eight artillery ponies, with outriders, and is commanded by Captain Lawrence and carries ties. These operations involve an amount of saw very few left of the big parcels mail,and when
MARRIAGES.
European officers; youngest daughter of the late EIOHAND MARKWICK, Chief Assistant L. 1. Custom, to Mascoe Dz Preservation Ordinance was enacted. The escorted by detachments of the Light Horse Souza.
daughter.
DEATH.
Chinese may be assumed to have a better and the Mounted Infantry. At the Customs steamer Tai On has been released, the. Chi- mind, suggesting in fact that a matter of vital numbered 1,199 it will be realised that the postal
On December 23rd, at Shanghai. GLOBAL MON- GRIETY JAKESON, to EVELYN MARY, youngest appreciation of the fundamental principles daughter of Mrs. H. S. GOODFELLOW, Shanghai. of Bristish rule and British justice than On December 22nd, at Bhanghai, ALEKANDER they had then, and, should occasion unhap. MACLEAN, Canadian Government Trade Commis pily arise at any future time for the issue of zióner, aged 75 years.
The Daily Press.
jetty a large number of volunteers from all units of the Corps were drawn up to bid fars well to their Chief. After inspecting them Colonel Watson went down to the jetty to fud it thronged with people. Nearly all the officers
the
of the 8. V. C. and S. M. P. well & Proclamation under the Peace Freserva representatives of the Customs, HONGKONG OFFICH: 10A, DES VEUX BOAD Ction Ordinance, it must be evident that it Consulates, and the Municipal Council were LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET. BC would be to the advantage of the Govern- present, und numbers of volunteers who had ment and the commercial community alike boen unable to don their uniforms and fall in were the accused persons given a public with their comrades were present in mufti trial, and the deportation orders issued only Lond cheers were given as the hour for the departure of the tender struck, and when the upon conviction by the regular Court of Gutzlaff moved away from the jetty there was Law. To permit of this the amendment of another enthusiastic outburst of cheering. the Peace Preservation Ordinance would seem to be necessary, and we suggest that the subject is one which may now reasonably be considered.
HONGKONG, DECEMBRE 29TH, 1900. THE gratifying announcement was made by a Gazette Extraordinary yesterday that His Excellency the Governor, being atisfied that it no longer necessary for the preservation of the public peace to continue in force the Proclamation issued under the authority of the Peace Preservation Ordin- ance 1886, has been pleased to direct that the Proclamation should be cancelled, and
No ouse of communicable disease was reported in the Colony last week.
Particulars of the death by drowning of Mr Barlow, of the firm of Messrs. Tait & Co. of Taipeh, recently announced in our columns, are now to hand. It appeared from the evidense given at the inquest that Mr. Barlow and Mr. F. C. Hogg want out in a boat on the river to have a swim. Mr. Hogg had got
We were informed late last night that the negotiation inconceivable to a more pratical nese Authorities having satisfied themselves international importance was on the board instead that she is a British steamer.]
[REPTRE'S SKEVICE.).
THE RIOTS IN PARIS,
LONDON, December 26th. Fifty-two police and Republican Guards were injured during the recent riots; fifty. six of the rioters will be prosecuted;
LATER,
The unpopular medical examination bas bean withdrawn and M. Clemenceau has consured the chief of police for introducing police into the examination Lall simulating candidates.
ASSAULT ON PRESIDENT FALLIERES.
it is remembered that the parcels for Hongkong officials have not been idle,
of a paltry increase of fare. Then there is the It is interesting to learn that the rat poison opposition of a more or less corrupt Press and introduced have kept the rodent way from the the more feared opposition of the lower classes, packages. Puddings, as usual, constiinta large which might take the form of our amasking porportion of this mail, and though some had no ander the smallest incitement. These are forces other covering than brown paper they were not the authorities have been unpleasantly reminded attacked by the rats. Practically the only of on previous occasions when the people accident was to a Merry Widow" hat which have shown their displeasure at official acts was consigued from London! As the average But still, the people are not blind to what is parcel mail is about 350, the figure already just. The company shows by its accounts that mentioned, 1,199, indicates a heavy Christmas the present 4 sem fare is unremunerative and parcel mail, heavier indeed than in previong perhaps this unanswerable argument will be years, more effective than have been the arguments on Statistics of the letter post are not available> the subject pro and con hitherto, as the public but there ba little doubt that the have simply refused to be convinced while the company was paying the ordinary dividend.
POSITION OF THE SHAREHOLDERS,
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number dealt with this year shows an advance on previous years, there being no less than 140 bags for Hongkong.
The Tokyo Railway Company may be described as one of the largest Japanese and the
CHRISTMAS ROBBERIES. largest foreign concern in this country. The
During the holidays thieves are reported to subscribed capital is 60,000,000 yen of which have entered the Robinson Piano Co. store 37,000,000 yen is paid up. Over 20,000 shares in Des Your Road, by breaking e pane are held by foreigners, representing a million of glass in one of the side windows and
LONDON, December 26th.. While walking in the morning in Paris Macho is to have another newspaper, the into the water and was swimming, when Mr. with his secretary and A.D.O. President Nosa Vida, to be edited by Mr. L. Ayres da into difficulties in deep water. Mr. Hogg went Fallières was seized by the neck by a waiter and a quarter yen paid up and foreigners are entering through the window. When the Silva
to the resons and mausged to get his friend to named Mattia who tried to pull the Pre-more largely interested in this than in any other manager of the Company returned to the offee
Barlow dived off the boat and unfortunately got
concern, foreign or Japanese. A peculiar situyesterday he found the back door open an o on has arisen with regard to the new shares examination revealed the fact that 100 Chinese of the company. When the last oill was made gramaphone records valued at $120, had been some months ago, owing to the stringency then stolar prevailing, ahareholders wars given the option Another attempt was made to break into Dias The man named Alfred Hall, who was recently effort to gain a place of safety, Mr. Hogg, find. Borntobed and stick broken, proceeded with of paying in or paying the company interest at Brothers' tailering establishment, but was not exaggerated rumours of contemplated action extradited from Hongkong to Manila where he ing that they were both drowning, was obliged his walk and tunched with his usual appetite. the rate of 7.3 per cent on their unpaid share attended with success, the thieves evidently
had been wanted on a charge of embezzlement to free himself and make for the shore, which
a notification is accordingly issued cancell. At the Magistracy yesterday Mr. J. I. Kamp the shero. Subsequently, however, Mr. Barlow sident's beard. Mattis was arrested. He ing the same. "All's well that ends well." sentenced & native to three months impri-was carried away by the current. Mr. Hogg is supposed to be a Royalist. He grappled The action taken under the annction of this sonment for entering a shop in Queen's, Boad again went to his assistance and made a plucky with the President and rolled him on the Proclamation has evoked much public East and stealing a quantity of cigars. attempt to get him to land. The drowning ma ground. President Fallibres, whose ear was
clutched him, however; and, after a desperate
criticism, occasioned, however, more by the
which obtained currency among the Chinese than by authoritative information of the steps the Government actually took or intended
RUSSIA. was sentenced to imprisonment for six years and he eventually reached with much difficulty in * a day.
LONDON, December 26th. completely exhausted condition. At the inquest
resolution held by the Japanese authorities the osuse of The Dum bas adopted a
Therefore if the coming shareholders' meeting adopts the present dividend of 4 per cent, holders of new shares who have not paid in will be debtors to the company to the extent of 3.3 per cent on their holding Whoress it was universally anticipated that the company would declare the usual dividend as it is able to do
being disturbed in their work.
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to take. When warmly sympathising with the kindred Star -occurred in the early days of last mouth according to latest mall news, the Colony The tragic occurrence caused the deepest regret
Specialities for the Skin the of to be guarded by thros ships of war, the Patria, among the foreign residents at Taipeh and minch peoples, and hoping that the Government it was patent to everybody, as we pointed. Amelia and the Adamustor. The latter is sympathy is felt with Mr. Hogg at the failure will safeguard their interests. out at the time, that something more was coming from South Africa.
of his gallant efforts to save his friend.
leaving the unpaid now share holders debtore to
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