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whon very few cases occurred in the Colony. To show the improvement this year we compile the following table:
T. tal to end of Juna
Year
Total for the
year
-1895
44
1896
1,204
1897
21
-18. 1.125 4
1898
1.820
1,297
1899
1.486
1,064
1900
1,087
1901
1,651
766 1,487
1902
572
382
1903
1,415
1964
510
1,278 376
1905.
304
196.
1906
393
843
1907
240
123
1908
1,037
1909
105 to June 14 We are unable to complete the table as the Medical Reports for 1908 have not yet been published, but a study of the above table shows vory plairly that after the month of Juue we may expect to as a substantial
assertion.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 15TH, 1909,
The plague return for the forty-eight hours onded at noon yesterday contained eight osace, bringing up the yone's total to 105. Among the eight was a Portuguese living in Haiphong Road, Tsimshatsui, The case was fatal as also were four Chinese cases.
The many friends of Captain W. H. Lunt, of the C.M.S.N. Co., will be interested to learn that his youngest son has left for the United States to study for the Ministry, Ms. Lunt will atndy at Worcester College, a well known seat of learning in the Eastern states. This is believed to be the first time that a Shanghai. bora boy has gone home to study for holy orders Ho has the best wishes of many friends for ki future onroer.
The fiftieth anniversary of the opening of Yokohama as a treaty port will be celebrated on July 1. At a recent meeting of the committo in charge of the arrangements it was resolved :--- To discharge fireworks day and night on the day of celebration. To provide procession-cars, und
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PRINCE ITO RESIGNS.
TOKYO, June 14th. To-day HM. the Emperor formally relieved Prince Ito of the office of Resident General of Korea, and appointed Viscount Sone, the Deputy Resident General, to the vacant post.
Prince Ito has been appointed President of the Privy Council.
SHIPPING NOTES.
A message from Honolain states that ofllcors of the United States army transport Diz, who have been experimenting with Philippine. coal on that vessel, report that the coal from the islands bas 'excellent steaming qualities and bas proved very satisfactory on the Diz
A message from Boston, dated May 14, states that officials of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company denied that any plan was ander consideration for the abandonment of Its Oriental service, but admitted that no profits were being derived from the service and added that, if there was not a change within a yaar er so, it might be deemed advisable to coase ruaning freight vessels between these points. It was also stated that the company's line operating along the Facific coast from San Francisco to
Panama was doing a very poor business..
According to the Tokyo danbi, (ranslated by
illuminate the streets. To anvel the late THE STRIKE AT HONOLULU, the Japan Gazette, the British stunner In- Naosake Ii's bronze statue. To hold buse-ball matches, boat-rates and other sports. To post. pane various imponding religious festivals to that day.
At the Magistracy yesterday Lan Fat Ting wlos extradition is sought by the Government of Chinn on a charge of armed robbery was
TOKYO, June 14th.
verclyde while leaving Yokohama for Yokkai- chi about 3 p.m. on the 31st ultimo, collided with the T.K.K. steamer Tenyo mara, striking
The situation arising out of the her on the starboard side. Five plates of the Japanese vessel wore slightly beut near the strike of Japanese labourers-in-Hawaiind lutch Captain Ben, of the Inverclyde, immediately paid a visit to the Tenya while is becoming more serious.
The Tonyo the Harbour Ofen sent an offcial.. maru was, however,, allowed by a Lloyd's sur- veyor to rasmne her voyage, leaving Yokohoma for Hongeng at 10 p.m. on the 1st instant.
The police searched the offices of discharged. Previously Mr. Kemp discharged the mau but he was re-arrested and brought the Japanese nowspaper, and the before Mr. Kemp who yesterday again dismissedStrikers' Association and seized him. He was however arrested again on a similar charge. r. Reader Harris appeared incriminating documents. entered the plea that he was a political offender
JAPANESE WEAVERS AND and that he was wanted by the Chinese Govern
THE EXHIBITION. ment because he was a follower of Sun Yat Soz.
for
defondant
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occusious
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A daring attempt to rob a European on Saturday night was frustrated by the pluck of the intended victim. While Sergt. Tawrence was proceeding to barracks late on Saturday aight by way of a path inside the military grounds he was attacked at a dark part of the road by two coolies who rushed at him and attempted to throw him. Fortunately they did not succeed and the sergeant tackling them caught one man and the other run away. The men who was caught was placed before Mr. Kemp at the Magistracy yesterday, and belag convicted
was sentenced to six months' imprisonment.
were conveyed to the reverend gentlemen and
TOKYO, June 14th. Yesterday the weavers conferred with the representatives of the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce,
NEW HOMEWARD PASSENGER
SERVICE.
There are many routes to Europe but most. people ovince a preference for other things being equal--the cheapest. That boing so, a new service which offers adequate accommodation and vensonable speed, may well attract attention.. The Shire Line, whose steamers are well known in Hongkong, are about to inaugurate a passenger service between England and the East, the great recommendation of which, is that it is cheaper than most of the others. The Segura kas
been taken from the West Indian trado and
pled on the new China and Japan ruu. It is
a steamer of about 5,000 tons and carries 50 first clues prssengers-no other classes being catered for but the great consideration is that the passage from here to England only costa When it is added that the cabins are £35. roomy and comfortable, that the saloon and other general roots are well appointed, and that the journey can be covered in 38 or 40 days, it will be seen that the service has advantages which should appeal to the homo-going public. |
Yesterday a party of visitors wore shown over the Segura, which takes its name from a river in Spain, and they found the conditions all that were desired. Captain Hayes is a genial skipper, ́who should inspire confidenes in those under his
care, and the other officials showed themselves no lose agreeable. A former P, and O. acting parser, Mr. W. S. Tyler, is the steward in charge. The local agents aro Messrs. Jardins Matheson & Co.
THE BANDMANN OPERA COMPANY, At the Theatre Royal last night the Band- mune Opéra Company staged "The Merry
The two maguifiveat turbine steamers Heliopolie and Cairo, built by the Fairtold Shipbuilding fo. for £650,000 for an ultra-Widow," un attractivo musical comedy, and
mach
there can be no doubt that the little maids dje luxurious oxpress passenger service. advertised at the time, between Marseilles and full justice to the pisee. This, fact was made Egypt, were put up to auction at the Baltic apparent by the heartý applause which continned Exchange aleroom, ou behalf of the builders, throughout the performance, the popular waltz and the excellent solos being greatly appreciated. The vessels were built only last year. The upset price for each steamer was only £150,000. Miss Florence Beech as Sonia, the Merry There was a large and interested orowd of Widow, was a delightful hostess, while Mr. shipping people at the sale, but they were not Fred Coyne as Prince Danilo (Becretary of difficulty of finding remunerative work for suchable ability. The principals were ably sup The Chamber represented the interested enough to bil-possibly of the Legation) fulfilled a diffent part with consider seriousness of the impression that unusually fine ressels. The steamers are of ported by the remainder of the Company, and would be created in England by a nearly 11,000 tons gross, and fitted with triple thus it came to pass that a popular comedy was
for Batman's Merry Maids. refusal of the weavers to exhibit screw Parson's turbines, and on their trial trips done full justice to, and earned fresti laurel made nearly 21 kuots. They have accom- specimens of their work at the Anglo-modation for 709 first and 251 second class Japanese Exhibition.
The weavers, however, stood firm and decided to acquaint the English the Rev. F. B. Meyer. Atite dose messages of with the reason of their refusal, feeling greeting from hinese Christians in Hongkong confident that it would enlist their further assurance of goodwill and sympathy sympathy. with the objects of his journey to and service in Canton, Amoy, Kaling and other parts of China where he purposes to travel and to so journ for lenger or shortor periods as the repre-
tions in the West. sentative of Churches and Christian institut-
The work of segregating the lepers in the
Philippines is being done very thoroughly and rapidly all over the archipelago. The provinces of Mindoro, Masbate, Romblon, Capiz, Iloilo, Antique, Negros, Sumar and Leyte have been
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BELGIAN ENTERPRISE IN CHINA.
LONDON, June 14th. King Leopold in a speech at Antwerp urged the Belgians to e
JAPANESE STRIKE AT HONOLULU.“
passengers.
TO-NIGHT'S FAREWELL PERFORMANCE,
Owing to the steamship arrangements probably necessitating the departure of the landmann In the Osaka Marine Court on Wednesday, Merry Little Maids Opera Co. on Wednesday the 2nd instant, an inquiry was held to investi-morning, Mr. Smith, the manager luns decided to play "The Waltz Dream" on Tuesday night in gate into the circumstances surrounding the stranding of the C.P.R. steamer Empress of China in the Inland Sea, while on her way from Nagasaki to Kobe on February 19th leat Captain J. B. Stevenson, the pilot, was examin- ed at great length. In the course of his evi- dence the Pilot made the following important statements
diminution in the prevalence of the disease in Hongkong. To date, only 105 cases have been reported this year, and if the monthly distribution of cases which has been shown in past yeare holds good this year, we shall not be wrong in anticipating that this year's letal will be lower than any since 1897.
Our Peking contemporary is very severa
"In the opinion of on our Sanitary Board. the majority of the Chinese people," it anys, "the abolition of the Sanitary Board will help a great deal in stopping plague." But it, of course, offers no proof of this ridiculous Our contemporary, however, ROBT. PORTER & Co's does say that-Sanitation has to be en BULL DOG BRAND"couraged in all countries, but that its "enforcement is the sole method for the GUINNESS STOUT·
"prevention of plague is strongly doubted, "which is evidenced by the muitary con- IN PINTS AND SPLITS.
"dition in Canton and many cities in South "Chine. In these places, plague has never A large audience of Chiness beard yostarday "played such havoc as it has done in Hong-through interpretation, in the London Mission Church, Hollywood Road, an address from "kong." If our contemporary were in a position to furnish ang trustworthy statistics as to the prevalence of plague in Canton and other cities of the mainland we should be in a better position to form an opinion on the subject. All that the Hongkong authorities bave been able to learn in this connection is that when plague is bad in Hongkong, it is equally prevalent in Canton,and vice versa. According to ur contemporary's information the only cases of plague in Canton this year aro cases imported from Hoogkong, but last week our correspondent at Canton sent us a translation of a letter addressed by an
dividual to the Self-Government Society gone over three or four times and it is believed
that but few if any lepers remain therein. Ou tablish a Bank for financial houses in which drew attention to the prevalence
some of the other islands a few have been located China to facilitate Chinese trade. of plague in Canton, and stated that and will be picked up on the coming trip. This "the number of people who have work of segregation has been going on since died through contracting the disease has 1906. Ur to that time the relief extended to been countless, and the epidemic is still lepers was more in the nature of aiding the spreading rapidly in every part of the individual lopor: the larger project of exter- city." If this statement is true, the theoryminating the disease from the archipelago was is exploded that the prevalence of plague is never taken up to any extent; not affected by the sanitary measures taken The Japan Mail says:& fong telegram to combat it. It is notoworthy that by far sout by Mr. Chirol to The Times on the 30th the greater proportion of the cases reported ultime and published in that journal on the in the Colony this year have been from 2nd inst., is referred to by Japanese lending districts beyond the limits of the city of newspapers with much matisfaction. Mr.
Searches of the offices of the Japan We are much surprised to see in the Peling Victoria, and we think it may with confidence Chirol was able to say that he found in Japan Daily News an article on Plague in Hong be said that the comparative freedom of the spirit emisertly friendly to England and con kong suggesting that the disease prevails city ia due to the increased attention which ciliatory towards China. He was also able to ese labour organisations and of the and Chientao problems, as well as towards other revealed that a conspiracy was forming here as much as ever it did. The article is is being paid to elementary rules of sanita-say that Japan's attitude towards the Fukumen office of the newspaper "Jiji" have based on a dispatch from Canton which tion. How far the encourgement which has questions pending between herself and Chius, however, does not, in our opinion, warrant been given to the keeping of cats is con-is just and moderate. The legram com to wrest the control of the affairs of the deduction our contemporary has drawn tributing to diminish plague is an interesting bined with the leading article which appeared the island from the whites. from it. The dispatch in question says question which it is very difficult to answer, at the same time in The Times will certainly "The plague season has conie, but nothing but the smallness of the returns is presump. of the success of the touch is heard of it here in Canton save tive evidenca occasional cases which are imported from experiment. Hongkong. As usual, when plague first makes its sucnal appearance in Hongkong,
A contemporary his revived the perennial the people escape to Canton from the former
complaint about neixes, with especial reference place where the sanitary laws are so strict
LONDON, June 14th, that they do not even allow persons to have
to Sunday morning church & die, says the
Prince and Princess Nashimoto, of the time to attend to their eick, whereas
Straits Echo. "Being human, we cannot deny that noisos often annoy 119, but being Japan, have proceeded to Paris. here in Canton the Fong Pin She has done
journalistic, and therefore somewhat super-
Prince and Princess Kuni are more than the outside world knows towards Mr. J. S. Dobie, the Hongkong agent of the euring plague stricken patients, Plague Chinese Engineering & Mining Co., Ltd., human, we go on to say that we have little. patients treated by Chinese methods in this forms as that the total ontpat of the Company's hospital show a high percentage of recovery three mines for the week ending 29th May, shown by the returns." However that may 1909 amounted to 31,247.37 tons and this sales be the statement does not justify the concla. during period to 32,115.23 tons.
The return of visitors to the City Hail Library +ion that plague is as bad in the Colony ever it was, and much worse than in Canton and Museam for the week ending the 13th June, 1909, shows that of non-Chinese there Our con- and other cities of South China.
were 429 to the Library and 206 to the Museum, much. True the article does not say this and of Chinese 256 to the former and 2,352 to big dram would stop Chinese fire-crackers in the Black Sea on Sunday, was □ Vancouver on Saturday the 12th inst.
the latter. The Idbrary was, therefore, need by in cemeteries. The European gentleman who Russian submarine, she collided with in so many words but that is the idea 685 persona and the Museum by 2,558. raucously yelled hir self hoarse the night before, which a reader with no other-know-
Stanley Ling, whose address pras - given ps ledge of the subject would derive from a perusal of the article. It says: "It is Feak Hospital, reports to the police that early
A torpedo boat destroyer was evident that the Sanitary authorities, who on Sunday morning while he was riding in
public chair he either lost or had stolen from have been raising the hue and cry for years him, a pocket books an open faced silvor Waltham
burned at Sebastopol as the result of |ast are helpless, and that nothing sub watch, and from his finger a gold ring value £1. that is without noise among yon, cast the first the ignition of some naphtha. The stantial towards obtaining a better method There were also taken away another ring and a complaint."-After all, much depends on the
f treatment of the disease has been dis- silver cigaretta case, the total value being £9.
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place of the "Prince of Pilsin," and we are asked to state that the tickets issued for to-night are void and money will be returned from the book- ing office, Lut; in the event of the " Prince of Pilsin" being played to-morrow night, the said tickets will hold good.
A QUESTION OF NATIONALITY.
#TRUCK OFF AMERICAN REGISTER.
Lucas Castro was brought before the U.S. Consular Court at Shanghai last week charged with creating a disturbance.
"On the last trip up the Inland Sea, on the Emprees of China, May 14th, Captain Archi. bald emme on the bridge shortly after 9 a.us The ship was then off Kominase Shima, and after saying 'Good-morning' to me, he called the 2nd and 3rd officers over from the port side
The accused was examined at some length by of the bridge, to where Captain Archibald and Mr. A. Bassett, District Attornuy, as to how he During had acquired American citizenship. I were standing, on the starboard side, and then
the examination it developed that Castro had in front of us three said: 'I know how our
been born in Hongkong and that his father had been in Hongkong and that his father had been a native of the island of Gasm but had left accident happened. There may have boen a little set, but it was due to bad steering The Captain then continued to cantion both officers Guant many years ago and had taken up his residence in China and died in China without about watching the steering. And it is rather ever having returned to Guam. Castro himself remarkable that when the Empires of Ching had never been in American territory, and his arrived at Vancouver after her grounding, both sole claim to American citizenship was the the 4th officer, Johnson, and the Quartermasnit of the Spanish-American War, when
United the
States acquired jurisdiction tar. Thompson, who were responsible for the over Gam Castro has several brothers steering and course that morning from 4 to 6 older and younger than himself, all of whom, he stated, were registered as Spanish subjects. As. am, were dismissed.*
a result of the examination the District Attorney concinded tlust Castro had been improperly re gistered at the American Consulate General as an American citizen or as a person entitled to American protection, which matter was reported to the Hon. Amos P. Wilder, American Conent General, who ordered that Castro's registration in the American Register be cancelled, which was done. The police charge sheet was then found that Lucas Castro is not an American citizen, that the statements made by him on October 24th, 1905 in eonseetion with his marked as follows:-Upon investigation it was
registration at that time were false and misleading, and his registration at that time was wrongfully obtained. His registration at this Consulate Coneral is canceled.
Asked whether he knew for what reason these men were discharged, witness said he understood Thompson was discharged because he was a bad
A telegram to New York from Honolulu states that 8,000 Japanese labourers have struck work,
The leaders have been arrested for helmsman. inciting disorder.
LATER, haro powerful influence in swaying English.
The Japanese at Honolulu have all opinion."It will be noted that the Mail which is in a position to know, says the tele-been released on bail. gram was saat by Mr. Chirol, and not by the The English Mail of the 15th May was ds. Tokyo correspondout of the Times. vered in London on the 12th inst.
For stealing eight chairs from the Taiping Theatre a coolie was at the Magistracy yester day sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment and six hours in the stocks.
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The Court asked why witness did not see that the quartermaster carried out his Instructions properly Witness replied that it was impos
on a foggy night, with the steamer travelling at the rate of afteon knots an hour. sible for one man to attend to all these matters
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Mr D. W. Craddock, General Traffic Agent of the C. P. E. Royal Mail Steamship Line, informed us yesterday that he was in receipt of a cable from Yokohamu advising that a wireless
message has been received from the Empress of China to the effect that she will reach Yokohama at 7 s.m. on the 16th inst. The ship left Van- couver one day late, and as the 16th is her correct
JAPANESE ROYALTY IN PARIS. date of arrival at Yokohama, she has made up
one day on the voyage To scuro information of this kind,, proves the usefulness of the wire less system
OPIUM EXPORTS FROM INDIA,
Dr. Eatherford (Middlesex, Brentford Min.) in the House of Commons last month, asked the Under-Secretary for India what were the opium exports from India in 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, and 1909, respectively; and what stops the Government were taking to carry out their dealered policy with the Government of Chilua.
Mr. Hobhouse (Bristol, E.. Min.)-The figures are:-1905, 63,053 chests; 1906, 63,517 chests: 1907, 63,415 chests; 1908, 62,408 chorts. In 1909 the export will be limited to 56,800 LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS. chests. In accordance with the arrangement made with China the export of opium from India is being reduced by 5,100 cheste per annum. This is with from 1908, the
being taken, as suggested by the Chines Government, as the basis of the slcalation.
sympathy with the irritable protostarts who already there oud. have just been French Mail of the 23rd ult., and mails from average export for the five years anded 1905 usually do the complaining. Noises are very received by President Fallieres. much like children, in the sense that it is only
other people's noises we object to. The trail
The M.M str. Armand Belte with the
London of the 22nd at, left Singapore on Monday the 14th inat. at 4 pm, and may be expected here on Monday morning the 21st
same afternoon.
in that all men love noise, when they make it RUSSIAN NAVAL DISASTERS, and will leave for Shanghai and Japau en thoselves. It is held ont ax, a laudable ani- bition that euch youthful scion shonki endeavour to make a noise in the world." The European Salvation Army officer of the
LONDON, June-14th........ The Kambala," which was, sunk
besure someone he knew happened to be a jolly an ironclad, which was attacking in good fellow, will snarl at the Chinese hawker the naval manoeuvres
for rattling his rattle or tinkling his gong. Fraccibla.objections to noises should always be met with the stone-throwing parable. Let him
point of view.
crew were saved,
The C.N. Co.'s str: Linas left Shanghai on the 13th inst, and is duo here on the 16th inst.
The Silk or per CPR. str.-Monteagle arrived New York on Friday the 11th inst
The CP.R. str. Empress of India arrived The I.G.M. str. Manula which left here on Friday the 21st alt, arrived at Sydney on the 13th inst morning.
THE GROWING PORT OF DALNY.
The Manshu Nickihichi says -The Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs revenue for the port of Dairen (Dainy) never exceeded Tia. 100,000 year till last year. Since the beginning of this year, however, the receipts liave averaged over Ts. 100,000 a month and have already totalled more than Tls. 500,000. About Th. 150,000 more is expected from the goods now awaiting shipment on the Wharves. Allowing a span of 4-dnll-months-from-June to September
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