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some sign in connection with the recent straight as it should be, and that there is
movement in beadquarters. However true some justification for the feeling of the and wisely opnceived were the ideas of the gentry and people that the Government has ancient sages, as to the mutual relations of not deserved to be trusted. They do not, governor and governed, it is nevertheless they say, understand what is momt by the the fact that the machine of government statement that railways are to be a falar undertaking between Government and
The President of the Board of War, Tick TELEGRAMS.
Liang, has wired to the Tartar Generals, Viceroys and Governors of the provinces neking them whether they have carried out his in- stractions to build gunboats for coast defence
ad for patrol purposes.
Many quaint specimens of English are seen in
could never be got to work. While the Gentry; they have, they make bold to sa Hongkong. The latest issued by the proprietor
of a native hotel is an invitation to his customers There Are "500 numbers and every one are entitled to get more or less present.
to attend the Christmas drawing at his place.
In view of the approaching establishment of
Parliament, the Prince Regent has consulted
his Ministers to the desirability of forming a
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LONDON, December 29th. Severe earthquakes have occurred in the Province of Calabria, and in
Sicily.
Messina, the capital of Sicily, is on fire, and is practically destroyed.
There is a heavy death roll.
THE SEIZURE OF THE S.S. "TAT ON."
APPARENTLY DUE TO A MIS-TRANSLATION.
Our Canton correspondent writes under the date of the 28th inst
I wired you this morning that the steamer Tai On was seized by the Chinese Authorities and taken to Canton. It appears that on the 8th of July last the ss. Tut On, flying the British flag, collided with a junk carrying the Kin Wah Yük Theatrical Trompe near Ang Ko Tau. The junk sank and sight persone were drowned. The proprietor of the theatrical troupe, who is also the owner of the junk, institated an action against the owner of the steamer Tai On for the loss of sight lives and property. The Viceroy communicated with the British Consul, requesting that the
The British Consul replied that he was not aware of any British rossol bearing that name boing registered at tho Consulate. The Viceroy afterwards communicated with the Governor of
a British-owned steamer. His Excellency the Hongkong to ascertain if the se. Tai On was
Governor la said to have answered that the Tai On is not a British steamer and that he was able to state what nationality the vessel
THE WEATHER IN ENGLAND. be tried according to Treaty Regulations.
LONDON, December 29th. Severe snowstorms and heavy
the average status of Americans in China is not frosts are occurring throughout Great
Traffic has been interrupted, and there have been many shipping casual
ties.
PROPOSED INDIAN REFORMS.
A. S. WATSON & CO., ages laid down the principle that the had enough of these governmental afhite, State's only raison d'etre was the well-being and recall the promises held out with of the people; the State, in the persons of rogird to the telegraphs which did not those who administered it, laid down the prevent the Government from practically directly contrary rule that the prosperity of confiscating the whole of the privato shares the people was the appanage of the rulers, An even worse case was that of the Canton. to be exploited for their own particular Hankow Railway. It is here no excuse to
responsible Cabinet. Their Excelleney Chang benefit. Office was a species of property to any that the foreign concessionaires were Chih-tung and Yoan Shih-kai are heartily in be bought and sold, and ils proceeds little better. The Government took the favour of the idea, but Prince Ching thinks belonged absolutely to the possessor; it was concession away from the original con- that this is not the time for it and suggests that the carrying out to its extreme logical limit tractors who had broken their pledge, and the question be shelved for three years. of the old adage-beati possidentes. Clover announced ité intention of raising the money Mr. T. Jernigan, concludes a long letter on business men as the Chinese have ever been by a patriotic subscription from its own the subject of the U. S. Court for Ching with and able as in their administration of com- subjects, who were promised fall control the following observations The report that mercial affairs, this one false bearing has We all know what the result has beep. thrown the whole machine of government The Tientsin-Pakou line is not as yet two good is false. If the American name has been Britain. NEW
out of gear, and has kept China in a con- years old; may it not be that things are shamed in China it is due more to the corruption cleaner there? We have again the authority and want of social culture of some American laual state of turmoil snd disorder. When of Peking itself that practically they are officials than to the average American citizen." Manchu succeeded Ming, the instinct of the about as bad as they could woll be. The The Chinese Commissioner to the Inter- new government was to rule their newly-ac-
money bas gone, and there is no one who national Fish Congress, Koo Hing Ming, my quired possessions as a conquered country, finde it his duty to tell whore. It is that the United States has promised to send and to prevent concerted action by notorious that the first thing done was to different species of fish to China to assist the industry. Thereupon a San Francisco journal diminishing the means of communication appoint a number of useless and besmirched concludes that with the Americanization of the Mines were closed and ronde permitted to officials to various nominal posts about the Chinese fish the re-awakening of China ought to fall into decay, and everything done to line, long ere any beginning of the work be pretty well on toward nccomplishment. isolate the various provinces. Unfortunately was thought of. Peking complains of this, trom sheer laziness this condition lasted but there is unfortunately a good deal of long after the time it might have been use suspicion that the crime here was not in ful, and was one of the chist causes leading having appropriated funds intended for FULLER'S CONFECTIONERY. to the great Taiping Rebellion. With the construction to their own private uses, but ALMOND suppression of that movement a few of the rather that they had forestalled the capital, COCOANUT TAFFY, TAFFY, CREME APRICOTS, SUCEB wiser beads commenced to see that if the All all events the result is much the same there is no one room big enough in Hongkong DE LA CREME CARAMELS, PEPPER country were to be brought into safe condithe foreigner has been found to provide the MARSHMALLOW tions, a complete revolution in the methods fonds, and this time he has engaged to ask LUMPS,
of intercomununication was required; bul. the majority brought up in the old school refused to see the inevitable, and stuck to the old groove till the war with Japan one more awoke them out of their slumber. This led to the extension of the telegraph service, but the only railway that had been
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no questions. Whether the result is likely to be satisfactory, for either lender or borrower, remains to be seen. Seeing how little sign there is of any disposition to amend, it would certainly seem to be kinder, in the interests of good government in China, and the welfare of people and
We fancy we have heard it remarked more than once that in the matter of overcrowding Hongkong beats Glasgow. In a recent speech on the Housing Bill the Lord Advocate is reported to have said that "out of a Boottish population of 5,000,000 there are 2,000,000 living in one room." Now, we are quite sure
belonged to. The Governor is further reported to have said that if the Tai On is flying a British fing, she had no right to do so, se it would be a fraudulent not.
On receipt of the Governor's reply the Vicero y LONDON, December 29th.
immediately instrusted the Commissioner of Members of the Indian National Customs at Kongmoon to detain the Tai On Congress strongly approve of the pro-replied that he could not detain the vessel on her arrival at the port. The Commissioner
jected reforms.
because she had taken out British papers at the British Consulate. This zowed the ire of the Viceroy as the statements made by the Commissioner did not agree with the replies of the Governor of Hongkong and the British Consul. N
The Mabommedans, however, are dissatisfied.
THE BALKANS.
LONDON, December 29th. Frontier incidents are occurring be.
to accommodate two million perions, even if tween the Austrian and Servian they were packed like pesa in a bag.
troops.
While schemes are being considered in France to expand population, a writer in a recent number of the Tokyo Keizar Zasshi suggests the adoption of a marriage tax in Japan for the purpose of preventing over- population and at the same time of obtaining a new source of revenus for the country. Accord ing to the latest census, saya the writer,
THE TOKYO TRAMWAYS.
TOKYO, December 29th. At the annual meeting of share holders of the Tokyo Tramways Co.,
On the 26th instant the Viceroy instructed Admiral Li Taun to dispatch the gunboats Kong Tai and Kong Ching in charge of Colonel Lam Kwok Cheung and sub-Prefest Wong Yan Tong to proceed to Chiu-tau-shan to seize the Tai On. In the afternoon they sighted the steamer steaming up to them. The gunboats hoisted siguals requesting the vessel to stop, but she took no notice of the signals and proceeded on her way. The two gunboats then gave chase and hoisted other signals indicating that, if she
introduced was looked upon still Government alike, to require some means of population of Japan is returned at 484/ the report of the Directors was adopted and dropped anchor. The tw, depatiss boarded
practical control. It is not meet that we should find ourselves in the unenviable position of riveting on Ching the yoke of the eunuche, who have already brought her
useless incumbrance, only it for outnudist TOM SMITH'S CRACKERS. foreignera to make money of
The result of the Russo-Japanese war, which largely turned on the good use made A. S. WATSON & CO. by Japan of her more rapid means of com o low. Yet that is what we seem to be manication, at last convinced the Govern-doing, for there is little doubt that here, as LIMITED
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ment itself, that to be safe from attack from in the case of the copper ten cash isrue, without milways had become an actual ertain eunuchs in or about the court of the necessity Foreigners had been for many years pressing them on Peking, but had oyarshot the mark by the indece it urgency with which they pressed for concessions in all parts of the Empire, with the natural result that the suspicions of Government and people were aroused as to their ultimate
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to China: --The argument was sound as far as it went, but one thing was kept in the background. Who was to do it? Here at once Chine's old failing came to the front there was so confidence between rulers and ruled; their interests were different, their methods incompatible. With a system of banking instituted centuries before Europe had thought of such a thing, and with bank ing facilities almost as perfect as those of
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HONGKONG, DECEMBER 30TH, 1908.
The Bishop of Victoria ia to address the new rear meeting in the Theatre Royal on Sunday
night.
Mrs. May will distribute the prizes at the Belilies Public School to-day and parents and
friends are invited
The iron structure at Blake Pier is practically completed. The shelter looks a substantial one and should not diappear when the next typhoon strikes the Colony,
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donation to the funds of the Hospitals-V. Atienza (for 1909) $10.
Mr. John Bechynden, who is well known locally by his connection with Shanghai's Dosks, has recently undergone an operation in the Shanghai General Hospital.
The Board of Bites has made a suggestion to the Throne that, during seven days of the Chinese New Year festivities, the mourning dress may be discarded.
millions, and it is increasing annually at the after very violent proceedings which rate of something like half a million. Even called for the intervention of the now, the writer adds, Japan is suffering to a certain extent from the effects of over police. population, and if her population is allowed to grow unchecked at the present rate, it is evident that the country will at no distant future be confronted with a serious problem
THE 8.S. « FATSHAN" INCIDENT.
CANTANKEROUS CANTONESE-EENEWED
EXCITEMENT.
Our Cantoni correspondent writes ---- The local papers say that the Portuguese Consal, in a communication to the Viceroy, states that the case will be tried at the Portuguese Consulate, and requesta His Excellency to delegate deputies who understand English and
French to attend at the ensulate on the day of the trial to watch the proceedings. The Consul further requests the Viceroy to prohibit the Self-Government Association and the Local Press from continuing to discuss the matter and adds that if further meetings on the subject are held or opinione published prejudicial to the trial of the sccused, it will be impossible to regard the evidence for the prosecution without suspicion.
The Municipal Authorities have endorsed the company's application to the Government for permission to increase the tram fares.
refused to stop, they would open fire on her. On seeing the latter signals the Tai On slowed down
her nud told the Captain that they wore authorised by His Exosiloney Vioaroy Chang to seize the vessel and take her to Canton. The Captain made no objection, steam launches | were dispatched to the Tai On to convey all her passengers to their various distinations. The Tai On was then escorted to Canton by the two gunboats and arrived here yesterday morning.
Some sort of preliminary inquiry was held at the Admiral's Yamen in the afternoon in the presence of Admiral Li Taun and a Deputy The decision rests with the Home from the Viceroy's Foreign Affairs Department. Office.
The Press opposes the increase and is inciting the people to violence.
[Particulars of the questions at issue were set forth in the letter from our Tokyo correspond ent published in yesterday's isane.]
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SANITARY BOARD
It is reported that the foreign officers of the steamer, when questioned by Admiral Li and the Viceroy's Deputy, stated that the steamer Thi On was not owned by foreign capitalists, but ned by Sunning people surnamed Yu, and that the compradore of the steamer bore the same
surname.....
The above is a Chinese version of the story. Later in the afternoon I interviewed Captain Lawrence of the steamer. Tui On who said that the steamer left. Hongkong at 7 p.m. on the 25th instant for Kongmoon, Kamchuk and Kan LONDON, December 27th.
Kong. The Tai On arrived at Kongmoon on Swansea has beaten the Australian Rugby the 26th instant at abont 6 am. and left that At the Southport for Kamchuk at 9.55. a.m. While passing football team by 6 to 1 African Olympic games in Johannesburg, Cha-Tan-Shau (Plover Island) at 10.55 am Mr. Walker ran 100 yards in nine and two the Tai On was stopped by two Chinese gun- fifths seconds. This constitutes a world's Several Chinese officials and a body of milors boats named Kong Tai, and Kong Ching. His Excellency the Viceroy is said to havs
record.
armed with revolvers boarded the steamer- replied as follows: "Hitherto in all interna- tional cases of this kind both foreign and
One of the officials told Captain Lawrence that thd have been aathorized by the Chinese Authorities have always relied oz, and recognised, the evidence of Chinese, un
to seize the Tai On and take A special meating of the Sanitary Board Viceroy dertakers. In Tientsin, Hankow and elsewhere was held at 12.30 p.. yesterday for the purpose her to Canton. Captain Lawrence protested the most advanced nations of the world,
there are official records of similar cases. The of considering the question of declaring Nos, against this action and told the officials China still remained without a currency.
Magistrate's undertakers examined the corpsa 11 and 12 sheds, Sassoon's Villa, Fokfulam that the Tai O is a British steamer The reason she well knew her commerce
and it is proved that there were wounds. The Boad, to be infected with foot and mouth and owned by Britikli subjects. He asked the From, two opposite, and seemingly perfectly was carried on by means of silver ingots.
sxcused surrendered himself and appeared so diseases. Mr. R. O. Hutcheson preaided, and officials to state their reasons for seizing the Engineer-Losat. H.J. Clegg, recently attached promptly that surely he must have kicked the there were also present Hon. Mr. W. Chatham vessel, but they refused to do so. The officials incompatible reasons the ery of the Chinese These ingots bore no State mark, but to the Naval Yard. Hongkong, has been an If he did not do so why should be appear (Vice President), Hon. Mr. E. A. Irving said that they had come to carry out orders to be permitted to ruin themselves in their merely the impress of a private bank: and appointed to the Egmont, as additional assistant to answer the charge?" The Viceroy naka the (Registrar.General), and Dr. Pearse (Medical given by the Viceroy and that both the own way has of late years increased in why? The bank had early learnt the lesson to the chief engineer at Malta dockyard, for Portuguese Consul to fix an early date for the Officer of Health),
British Consul and the Governor of Hongkong volume and intensity. It has been mainly that good faith is the foundation of pro-ga-mountings.
trial so that the grievance may be redressed. The COLONIAL VETERINARY SURGEON had refused to recognised the Tai On as a concentrated on the subject of railways, stable commerce. The State founded its On Kennedy Road, which at its terminus near
On Christmas Day the Self-Government wrote as follows-I have the honour to report British vessel. The officials then sent for regarding which it seemed to many capable ordinary practice on the reverse principle the Naval Hospital is not without danger to Association had an excited meeting regarding for the information of the Board that foot and several Chinese boats, and after the passengers and well meaning men a hardship that that what came into its hande was its own, pedestrians at night, owing to its precipitous the Fatahan incident. There was, as usual, a mouth disease have appeared in Nos. 11 and 12 bound for Kamchuk and Kew Kong were nearly the whole construction and manage and not to be enquired into. Time after sidos not being protected, there is now being very large attendance. Many hostile speeches sheds belonging to the Dairy Farm Company, discharged into the boats, the officials gave orders were made by the speakers-Tam Sai Po, Chan at Soon's Villa, Pokfulam Road The two to the gunboats to ascert the Tai On to Canton ment of Chinese railways should have time the Blate had assayed to introduce a crested a useful fenes:
Ya Shing, Kwan Cho Tin, Lam Chi Cheong, sheds form together one building, divided only The three vessels arrived at Whampoa at 9 p.m practically passed into foreign hande currency, but with the same result: good Mr. Aglon, Commissioner of Customs at Lai Cher Choi, &c. They decided to boycott all by a partition. The sheds contain 17 cows, on the 26th instant and left for Canton at day- Lately, it is instructive to notice, that the faith was good enough for the merchant; Hankow, will shortly leave for home on three goods bearing Butterfield and Swire's chop and and three are infected. I beg therefore to break the following morning. None of the body most interested in the construction of for the State it was a useless and months furlough. During his absence. Mr. also all their steamers, Passengers from the recommend that sheds Nos 11 and 12 be foreign officers and the Chinese crow have left Tailways, namely the Government of China needless luxury. That such is still the Engden will be Acting Commissioner and Mr. steamer Fatehan "will be branded so as to be declared infected areas under byelaw 12 of the the steamer, None of them went to the.
recognised by all." It was also suggested that Importation and Inspection of Animals Bylaws Admiral's Yamen tself, is beginning to find out the reason ruling principle of government we have Fitzgibbon, Acting Depaty.
Judging from what Captain Lawrence told "a good hiding.” be given to those travelling by in schedule B of Ordinance 1 of 1903-1908. that is at the bottom of the seeming anomaly only to look at the copper oins of the day
A memorial to the Throne suggests that that vassal The members of the Association The PRESIDENT proposed that the building me it is quite clear that the s.s. Tai On is a British owned vessel. However, there must be It is allowed on all sides that it is not the to discover. Yet this debased coin only soldiers besont from Poking to Anwhol in order say that they are upholding China's diguity, be declared infected. want of means; for China is sufficiently some five or six years ago was ushered in to provent another revolt and at the same time whatever action the Government might take.
The VICH-PRESIDENT seconded, and the loose brick somewhere to cause such confu- sion. It may be that the Viceroy gave the wrong wealthy herself to put up without any with a flourish of trumpets as an instance impress the soldiers of Anwhes with the efficiency One of the speakers quoted the Hongkong Hotel motion was agreed to.
murder caso in his speech and said that the A second letter by the CoLoSTAL VETER
name of the steamer when communicating with apparent effort all the capital required It of how far China had gone on the road of attained by the troops in the capital.
The Board of Posts and Communications bas murderer was sentenced to death, although INARY BURGEON stated:-I have the honour the British Consul and the Governor of Hong. is not want of structural ability; for, where reforming her old ways. It has been the
no direct evidence to prove that to report for the information of the Board that kong. Another point which might give rise to triod, the Chinese have always proved them- custom with regard to this for Peking to decided to open a General Post Office at Lhassa there was selves capable constructors,—a fact lately oast the finger of scorn at the provincials and branch oflves in all other important the prisoner did kill the woman. The British Festerday afternoon the manager of the Dairy some confusion in the matter is that the man- emphasised in the building of the line from It was these wicked provincial officers that Thibetan cities, so as to facilitato communice-Consul, the Viceroy's Deputy and the Nam Hei Farm Co. reported that he suspected that ons darin translation of the two chumcters
Magistrate were all denomiced as being unable of the cows in No. 10 shed, Sassoon's Vills, into English is Tai An. Naturally if the dis to carry out their duties properly,
Pokfulam Road, was suffering from rinderpest, patches bore the last mentioned translation of Peking to Kalgan, and to a less extent i did it all; true, but Peking had taken care tin between Thibet and the outside world
in the first instance to make the provinces The marriage has been celebrated at Tientsin
The local press have agreed to suppress the The shed contains 17 cows, one calf and one the two characters both the British Consul and the little line already made between Shang hai and Sungkinng. The reason is in pointPay through the nose for the ouncession, of Miss Edna Hillier, daughter of Mr. H. Mpablication of all hostile speeches so as to avoid ball. Twocows have now contracted the disease, the Governor of Hongkong were doubtless and had deprived itself of the means of even Hillier, Cammissioner, I.M.C., and Dr. David giving excuse to the foreign consuls for re- I beg to recommend that this shed be dealsred quite correct in replying that to their knowledge of fact not far to seek, and has for long protesting. Whatever happened Peking Brown, of Tientsin. About three hundred people questing the Viceroy to prohibit these mas at infected aros under byelaw 12 of the Inhere was no British yousel bearing that name, been grasped by the foreigner, and impressed had taken care ahead that it, at least, would attended the reception, including Sir Robert and meetings. According to the Police regulations portation and Inspection of Animals Byelaws
Lady Bredon, and Miss Bredon, M. Casonave, Mr. enforced sometime ago no meetings can be held. by him on the Government of China, yet for be no sufferer, whoever had to pay the piper. E. G. Hilior, Sir Walter and Lady Hillier: Sir without the consent of the police authorities a schedule: B of Ordinance 1 of 1903-1908.
Now very much the same has happened John Jordan, Lady Jordan and Miss Jordan, It is therefore evident that the responsibility with regard to the railways, and the only Me and Mrs. E. H.R. Wade, Miss Daly, Mr rests with the officials, and the decisions reached at the meeting are therefore open to the difference is that this time Peking has had C. D. Jameson, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Rockhill, inference that they have the tacit approval of
the officials, the grace to acknowledge that all is not se and Dr. Morrison.
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all bis dioning it is only to-day that China
is after generations of apathy at last come mencing to have a glimpse of the truth This is, however, possibly the most whole
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