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that without an entire change of method, by the late Dowager, and if she had done no China was doomed to extinction as an mors would certainly hava deserved wall of empire. This grasp of the political situation the country; but she is doing more, for the was all the more wonderful, that ofset puris supplying in the case of the new monarch pose the late Express DOWAGER had done the want which was so conspicuously absent her best by surrounding the young Emperor in the ease of her own husband, and by while yet a mere child with the vicious looking personally after the education of 00. socisty of eunuch to extinguish any the young child will doubtless be able to remaining spark of character. Nearly as control if not effectually remove entirely the bad had been the upbringing of his unfort evil influence of the eunuchs about the Court unata predecessor Tux Cui, but Tuna which told so heavily in the case of her Cxt ou arriving at years of discretion had unfortunate husband. commenced to show some of the hereditary genius of the founders of the Imperial line of Tang, and Tes Hi was determined that at whatever cast the thing should not be repeated; so having got rid of T'und Car, every care was taken to emasculate, body and soul, the young sovereign. Bodily the trial seems to have been successful, and the unfortunate boy lived a life which can but be described as a living martyrdom. Mentally' there was that within which all her efforte could not be altogether re- pressed, and, like his predecessor, the youthful monarch, on arriving at yours
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of discretion felt the instinct of his divers currents that baset him in life ih race too strong for his feeble body. Unfortunately, the counsellers whom he called about him, though like himself patriotic and unselfish, were not men of sufficient mental grasp to tackle the diffcul- ties of the case, and in an evil hour for himself and his country the young Emperor confided his hopes to YUAN Bar Kar. It is by no means clear that Yuan intentionally betrayed bia manter: He was probably sufficiently sagaalous to wes that with the tools he had selected the work of safora could not be carried to a successful issue, and stared his apprehensions tothe DowAGE REGENT. Withya woman of Tex Hr' character a hint was suficient. She had never permitted any considerations of right or wrong to disturb her resolves however sanguinary, and the present attempt to ro duce her authority to insignificance called
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The writer of "Hits of China" ↳ * TEELGRAMS. Westminister Gastle notes the curious provision on the occasion of the conveyance of the late Emperor's coin to the temporary reating place of two foreign pumps of the best quality," for the use of the troops charged with keeping the roads olear of crowds
Under the proposed Chinese Naturalization Code, it is provided that Chinese may be naturalised foreign subjects and vice versa. In- termarriages between Chinego and foreign sub- jects are also allowed. It is laid down that undertakings of voluntary consent must be
undo in all cases and must be placed or record with the Chinese Government.
Northern Chius and Japan. His place on the "Damara. Mail" will be filed by Mr. Stanley Kingsbury, late of Hongkong who has joined the stall of the New Zealand journal,
Copyright Ordinance, 1894)
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THE NAGOYA LOAN.
LONDON, May 9th.
The Nagoya Municipal Loan has been over subscribed tenfeld and the debentures are now quoted at 1
premum.
THE CANTON-HANROW RAILWAY LOAN.
NEGOTIATIONS TO BE RESUMEU.
LONDON, May 9th,
It is semi-officially amounced at Berlin that negotiations regarding
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INTERESTING FORTUNE TELLING CASE,
BÉEKING A LIFE STORY,
At the Magistracy pesterday afternoon belore Mr. F. A. Hazeland, the hearing of the charge pgainst a native named King Chun, of obtaining by a fales protenos, jewellery to the value of $3,045, was continued..
Mr. Leo d'Aluindo o Chistes (of Messrs, Gold, ring, Barlow and Morrell) prossented, and Mr. W.E. L. Shenton (of. Messrs. Descon, Looker and Deason) represented the defendant.
Chan Man Hing, recalled, was cross-examined by Mr. Shenton. She said she went to see the
defondant on February 6th to get her fortune toll. She went to see Lith hebanse ber nisah. told her he was an export. The amah did not day she had soon him many times batore,
Did you go because you wished to knquabits your future was Yes.
You hoped, I subrett E would be a little better than
Ki
Mr. Aliud objected, and his Worship asked Mr. Shanton to put the question clearly.
Are you not a concubine?—Yes.
And were you not on bad tering with the
kit fat No.
In your first interview with the fortune teller, didn't you take some joss divining papers to be translated No.
Did he tell your fortune?—Yes.
What did he tell you? ~He said I was“ vory poor formerly, and had to be sold to several families. Farther he stated that I would have to remove a mols from my face; if not it would grow larger. Also that I must worship, and if I did not knew the way he offered to worship for me. group shall enjoy certain privileges It I did not renfove the male he said I would with reference to delivery of material lack wealth and children. The defendant told me he worshippod for me on, his vemadah for the Hankow-Chongtu line, and the beneath the heavens. I did not see the defend- appointment of a chief engineer for aut worshipping, but he asked for $5 for so
doing and I handed it over the Canton-Hankow line.
The inner details of the life of an Oriental monarch seldom come to the light of day, but we are coming to learn enough of the life of the late Emperor to know that if
It is stated that at a recent meeting in constituted one of the strangest romanses reference to anti-opium measures, Prince Kung, of history; and not the least strange part of the Anti-Opium Commissioner, proposed to add it all has been the high nee of duty, to the severity of the Opium Prohibiting Laws which in spite of all the defects of his early next year. All officials who smoke opium should education seems to have beau the actuating be cashiored of their rank. They will then be, motive of his life, but which under a trecsson the mine footing as the common people and circumstances, seems to have brought if they should not break of the opium habit during life only grief and sorrow, not they should, later, be liable, as other opium only to himself but to the country smokers, to be classed as ontrasts and to bo
will be resumed it a few days with a loved so well. We see a reflection of theived of all citizen rights and privileges, the Canton-Hankow Railway Loan Mr. Walter Jones, editor of the Gamew to arriving at a settlement of the the curious disagreement amongst the com- Mail," New Zealand, arrived in Hongkong pilers who, according to Chinese practice. yesterday. He is a son of the Hon. Mr. Jones question.
It is proposed that the German loan have been appointed to write the official of the New Zealand Legislative Council, story of his life. The strange events of his and is a well-known Dominion pressman, shall be increased to £3,500,000 and early career, but above all the circumstances was here two years ago. Dariet extended to the line between, Hankow for During attending the coup d'etat of September 1893, his present tour he will visit Peking, and Chengtu, while the Anglo-French have, we leara, proved a stumbling block in the way of the compilation; those engaged in the work taking such entirely opposed views of the surrounding circumstances that progress has hitherto been found impossible. The disagreement only affords another proof The report of the Chine Export-Import and of the inadequacy of the sources of informa-Bank-Compagnie. zu. Hamburg, for 1908 shows Lion available to the mers outsider in available profit of m. 1,255,200 The usual 4 even plusible account of one per cent dividend is declared, and an writing, on of the strangest épisodes in all history the extra dividend of 46 per on making 60 per cent in all. The total reserves Regency of the Dowager Empress TSE HL.
are in. 1,500,000. A balance of m. 5,282 is carried forward. The report states that busi nees in general in Japan was little favourable, In North China matters were only brought to a more or less satisfactory remit by great exer tions Conditions were highly unfavourable. The Company had in Southern China a small,In the House of Commons on the 7th at quiet but healthy business. The surprising Mr. McKennon Wood, Undar Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, said:--By an agree fluctuations in silver again impeded busines
ment signed on September 9, 1905, the Chinese Government undertook that if it was found necessary to borrow money from abroad for constructing the Canton Hankow Rail-questions put to the witness were not relevant, A CHINESE LOVE STORY.
have but his Worship remarked that he did not think way, (1) British financiers should priority over others in furnishing & loan, Mr. Shenton was wasting the time of the Court. The story regarding the dumping of a large provided their terms were not less Liberal You have considerable savings haven't you P.-.-.
Yan. quantity of rice at a certain house in Bridges than those of the financiers of any other country
should have the first option of contingut On March 24th
When was your third visit to defau Street, and the subsequent forcible removal of (2) If British spital was employed, British two women from the house, has taken on a now orders for material purchased be cf-the out of Chins (3) dressing..
half the Engineers, Governor-General Smith of the Philippins Is.It appears that both women were bought to nationality that found the money. No final lande, was a passenger on the Nikko Maru which Hongkong from Canton by lovers. Ons was agreement for this loan has yet been concluded, to him?—Yes.
And His Majesty's Government have reminded arrived here yesterday from Manila. The dis- married, while the other was betrothed. the Chinese Government of the undertaking tinguished visitor is a guest of H. E. Sir Fred. are dissatisfied with their lot, yielded to the given by Chang in 1906, and have stated that a persuasion of the temptere; and left home and lon given to others without any guarantee erick Lugard at Government House.
friends to coms and live with their lovers in that the funds would be expended for the Kongkong.
purposes for which the money was lent would undertaking.] be regarded as a breach of the spirit of that
News has reached Ceylon from Suez that Mr. N. Lazarus, the optician, has died of cancer.
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The golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Still, of Canton, was announced in a London paper of the 5th ult.
The annual tennis match between the Hong- kong Cricket Club and the Ladies Recreation Club has been fixed for to-morrar afternoon at 4.45 o'clock.
A very interesting esse occupied the attention of the Chief Justice in the Supreme Court yesterday when the Governor's right to figure as plaintiff in an action was contested.
for immediate notion. The counsellors of the young Emperor who had advised her relegation to private life were barbarously exterminated, with but one exception who contrived to escape; and there is little doubt that it was her first intention that the Emperor should follow; but here aven in her A. S. WATSON & CO. rage, the saw that some discretion was no- cessary. She had not a substitute emperor, in fact, at hand; there had been diflculty about the choice of Thar TIEN, and the nation looked sakande, as being of the same generation as Two Cai, be could not per form the correct ancestral morifices; and no one of the next generation was as yet available to put in his place. Besides, the Foreign Powers were looking on suspiciously and none knew, baiter Than Ter Hr where
The total output of the Chinese Engineering the money supposed to be spent on sad Mining Company's three Mines for the week defences of the land had gone. ending 24th April 1909 amonated to 29,227.96
tous.
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Hongkong, 26th April, 1909.
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[Atthe Paris Conferenco holdat the beginning of April the British group was represented by Mr. W. Keswick, M.P. of the British and Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Chinese Corporation, Mr. C. E. Addis, of the Mr. Carl Meyer, of the Chinese Central Rail- ways, and Mr. George Jamieson, CM G. The French group was represented by M. Simon, manager of the Banque de l'Inde Chine, who was elected chisman of the mesting, and Ullmann. The German group was represented by Herr F. Urbig, of the Denteshe. Asiatische Bank, Herr Emil Rehders, and Horr Cart Erich.
When the fight was discovered, however, the husband of the married woman and the fanes of s
. It was rather a curious thing, wasn't it that
Were you kidnapped when you were a small the fortune he told you was correct P. Yes. chid-Yan
You went again to the defendant, didn't you Yes, between the 14th and 19th_Feb-". raary,
Why did you go again ! — To ask him to tell my life story,
What, again -Iss.
And when he told your life story he gave you the nenal written paper, didn't he? My ash brought it read to me
Where is the paper?I returned is to hím because he said he had to pray for 49 days.
Mr. Almada suggested that a number of the
Did he then tell you to take all your jewellery
Why?—He said, "If you bring all your jewellery to me I'll seal it up with a charm. After that it will never be snatched from you." Did you take all your jewellery?—All except two pieces I was wearing.
You kept the tin in which the jewellery was sealed alosed until about the 8th of April, didn't
No monymously rigned communications that | Bome, had even hinted that the death tank and the sales during the period to 27,587.43 the maiden collected five male" friends and TIE JAPANESE CRUISERS AT You-Yes.
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one side of paper only. have already appeared in other papers will be of the Emperor might lead to the capture of -inserted,
Peking, and with the capture of Peking, the destruction of the Mauchu line. The Emperor was spared his life indeed, but, except life, everything that could make life endurable was rigorously excluded, and the remainder of his life may best be described as a living death.
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4. On May ani, at Shanghal, to Mr. and Mr. W. F.O MIDDLETON. a daughter,
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These facts, well known to all residents in Peking, though not officially recognised by the Legations, went far to add a human interest to the ceremony to which the various foreign Governments had sent their special representatives, and it was felt by all that though the young Emperor had really died a martyr for the country he loved so well; the work of reform was still only in the most embryo state, and that China needed
At the Magistracy yesterday Mr. F. A Haze and fined a natire $50, with the alternative of two months hard labour, for trespassing on the bomb proof ground of the Amy Ordnance Department,
"followed' the slopers here, Aftar remoring them from the house in which they lived in Bridges Street, they took them to one of the Canton river steamers, and there as previously reported, both women jumped overboard, one being drowned. Her body was recovered of Sunday,*:
Lieut, Colonel M. 8. Blach, Queen's Own The police subsequently arrested four of the Cameron Highlanders, on completing the her why came from Canten in pursuit, and the qifying period in command of the 20 two lovers. They were charged before Mr. Bettalion, stationed at Tientsin, has been. Hemp at the Yagistracy yesterday and promoted brevet-enienst,
Mr. A. W. H. Bellingham, engineer të thei Britishi Municipal Council at Tientsin, has boon nominated by the Chinese authorities to succeed Mr. C. W. Kinder, late General Mangir and Engineer in Chief of the Imperial Railways of North China, Tongshan.
The return of visitors to the City Hall Library,
reihanded for a was
AN ABDUCTION CHARGE.
SAN FRANCISCO.
LONDON, May 9th. Admiral Ijichi has entertained 700 San Francisco notabilities.
The Governor of California, the Mayor of San Francisco and a number of naval and other officials dined with the Admiral on the flagship.
FRENCH POSTAL STRIKES.
WARSHIP IN READINIS.
Why did you want fourteen days before open- ing the tin Defendant told me I was to sak permission before opening it
Why did you open the tin on April 8t ash told me she heard the defendant was a knavé, and suggested that I should open the tin and see.
Was-your-smash present P-Yes.
Why did the defendant go to Maono with your smah --To go to the Shing Wing
templs to warship, and to obtain blessings.
Did you pay the passagers of both ?--No. I paid my amah's
Did you at any time become the god daughter of the defendant?-No.
Have you over tiffined with him P-No. After further aross-examination, the hearing was adjourned.
ILLICIT OPIUM.
LONDON, May 10th. The French Warships at Tonlon have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness to take up positions along bered matshed at Mongkok on Saturday for the coast the maintenance of having in his possession a quantity of opium communications in the
-Excise Offers arrested a native in an unnum-
in the event of the without a permit, and machinery necessary for the preparation of oplum, The drug was packed in bares ready for sale, and it is believed that the defondant has been doing a thriving busines with the railway staff. The paraphernalia for preparing opiam was discovered in a distaat outhouse, the key of which was found fa defendant's pocket when he was arrested.
At the Magistroy yesterday before Mr. F A. Haseland an amah was prosecuted on His Late Imperial Majesty of Kwano Br
charge of abducting a girl fifteen years of age. could scarcely have been the recipient of
According to the story told by the girl, which funeral honours more suitable to his life all the countenance and assistance that her and Museum for the weak ending the 9th was corroborated, the defendant arranged than those that have been accorded to him. Foreign friends could afford her, Whatever May, 1909, shows that of non-Chinose there that she should take some clothing. to the Without losing in magnificence, extraneous was the immediate cause of the death of the were 451 to the Library and 186 to the Museum defendant's house in Blacksmith Fans, Later, versmonics
Emperor, regarding which owing to the and Gaboroke to the firmer strangeness of itssurroundings miany sinister the latter, The Library was, therefore, used by and say the defendant was her mother if general strike of postal employes. rigourously tabood, while in accordance
gestioned. The girl was first at the treating
The men on furlough have been with all the acts of bis late Majesty, rumours, none of them more than wild 709 persons and the Museum by 2,712.
place on the day agrood, the defendant China has emphasised her intention of gusson, have been current, the broad fast
Some weeks ago a native stole a quantity of misequently appearing and waving her hands recalled to their stations, entering the comity of nations by inviting remains that up to the moment of his jewellery and a 86-bill from Junk at Aberdeen as she approached. Without specking the pair
JAPANESE ROYALTIES AT as honoured guests at the ceremonies, the death: the late Emperor was practically With this booty he proceeded to foco, where proceeded to the Canton Steamers Wharf.
BUDAPESTH. There a prisoner in his own palace, and the real he pawned the jowallery, and spent the money When near their destination the defendant Foreign Powers to sand their special repre- sentatives. It is to the credit of the moving spirit was the imperious lady, the raised. On his return to Aberdeen on Saturday asked witness if she was hungry, and on her Empress Dowager, who literally stood ho was recaptured, and yesterday Inspector replying in the affirmative bought her a busin
LONDON, May 10th. Regency that the whole of the pageant has band the Throne, and compelled him to Dymond placed him before Mr. J. H. Kemp st of cunji. Just after eating this witness WALA
Prince and Princess Nashimoto are been carefully organized, and without her will, has since his death become more the Magistracy on a charge of larceny. The met by a relative, who called to her, at present in Budapesth. II._M the sacrificing anything of the essentially than ever apparent. Unexpected has been the offence was proved, and the defendant sentenced the defendant ran away. Chinese complexion of the state ceremonies,
His Worship Is this prosecution by the Emperor of Austria-Hungary has every ware has been taken to confarm in part devolving on the new Dowager, widow to two months' imprisonment with hard labour:
Begistrar-General P When the N.D.L. steamer Goeben arrived in details with Europesu stiquette. The result of the deceased Emperor, During the
Inspector Kerr-No, your Worship visited them at their hotel. lifetime of the late Regent relegated to utter | Engkong from Shanghai on the 21st ult., & Defendant asked his Worship to try the case cannot but be gratifying to all concerned, Chinese as well as European, if for nothing insignificance, the fact that she is now in passenger Mrs. Rolt, who was booked to London, dispassionately and let justice be done. If she Loco parentis to the new Emperor during his was landed with typhoid fever to which she attempted to abduct the girl she was willing to more than that, the 'ceremonies have gone far to show that there is nothing so ingon-years of childhood, has brought her to the stumbed on the following day. The Neufter any penalty; in fact, she would allow the sistent between the two civilisations of the front; and apparently disclosed the fact that Daily News say: Although the deceased was Court to eat her in pieces. She was engaged with the girl's mistress for about ten days, and East and the West but that by judiciou the sorrows of her husband as eircumstances comparatively brief stay of a few months, her the girl took the clothing to her: (defendants) | Holstein ex-Director of the German and he had to be removed te hospital:
she was not each 'an indifferent spectator of only a visitor to Shanghai, still during her!
house on her own initiative,
and then
kindness and geniality had made many friends rounding of apparent discrepancies, the two
seemed to indicate. Although apparently Mrs. Bolt was a charming entertainer and on HisTorslupShe said you arranged she was may be found to perfectly blend. In the
anxious to keep herself aloof from all merely | several occasions assisted at the Hanbury. In to bus daughter and not a servanti present - Instance there is in addition a strong common bond between the two, polili al acts as aware from sad experience stitate converts as well as at other places where Defendant- I never said that has
His Worship said the evidence for the pro- of the result in the case of the late Regent her songs and recitations, were a source of Whatever we may think of the monetary of a woman's interference in the higher pleasure-to-all, and considerably added to-the-secution was altogether too fimsy, and it was wisdom of the changes attempted by his late
The fact that very obvious that most of the testimony given Imperial Majesty, no one has ever called in realms of statecraft, she has been apparent. mocess of the entertainment.
ly doing useful service in the more domestic she was to have been married immediately on in the witness box was conded. It was not question the entire bonesty of purpose affairs of the household. She unearthed her arrival in Lendon makes her death an outcient to convict; therefore he would die which instigated them, nor the far-sighted the secret of the illegal board accumulated exceptionally sad mess of the young monarch in recognising
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charge the defendant.
DEATH OF A GERMAN
MINISTER.
LONDON, May 10TB. The death is announced of Dr. von
Foreign Office, who was the originator of the Anti-French policy in Morocco
Mr. F. A. Hasaland, bafory whom the case was tried at the Magistracy yesterday, remarked that it was a bad one and imposed a fine of $500, in defealt three months' imprisonment.
RECKLESS DRIVING.
Some of the riceăn coolias at Wanchai appear to be imbued with extra energy, for of late they have been making the pace su fast that they have been unable to baul up in time to avoid collisions. One coelis, while travelling, at a high rate of speed along Wanchai Road knooked a small boy down, and did not wait to see what dauage se had done. The boy's leg was broken,
Another accident occurred in Arsenal Street, where a pedestrian was overtaken by a risha, and run down. In this instanos, however, the coolie stopped, placed the injured man in his· ́ ricsha and conveyed him to No. 2 Police HOW TO BE BEACTIFUL-Hoop your com Station. The victim was removed to hospital, plexion, Mrs, Ellen's Créme Charmante, Lait where he is expected to be detained for a comple Charmant and Special Skin Tonic and Poudre of weske, The coolie appeared before Mr. F. 1. Charmant will enable you to do it. Her Haraland at the Magistracy yesterday on Specialition for the Skin are the study of charge of reckless driving, and the hearing of the lifetime, A. S. Watson & Co. Lt L. Bele Agents i charge was adjourned, bail being find in the
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