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EXCELLENCY païated out that with the Increase of Dock accommodation in the Far East, and the construction of railways to the Treaty Ports, this Colony could not
The owners of seventeen sampan appeared always hope to maintain its past trade preponderance, and he expressed the convic-before Mr. F. A. Hazeland at the Magistracy & CO. tion that if it is to advance at the rate at yesterday on the charge of mooring their bosta which it had hitherio a dvanced it would have in the junk anchorage at West Point. They
wore fined $7 apiece. to take full advantage for industrial pur poses of the nearly inexhaustible supply of cheap labour that can be attracted to it and of the convenient sites for carrying on manufacturing businesses which exist in the New Territories." The only development of this kind down to the present that has taken place in this territory is a mining enterprise, but since it was announced in the HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR Legislative Counci! two years ago that it was
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apparently advancing beyond the prospecting stage, nothing has happened to again bring the enterprise prominently to the public notice. In addition to this mining ester-
Aswarm of locusts doucended upon Manila laat Thursday. They swopt in their millóns over the various districts, particularly intramuro, They passed in about an and Bagumbayan. hour, and did no damage.
A Tokyo paper states that the girls of the capital annually consume some Y50,000 of ogg-capsulates of the whelk which are mostly produced in the Island Sea and Coast of Chibs. A silkyarn factory in Nagano contemplates offering egg capsulates for chowing to the factory girls as a means of keeping them from garrality in working hours.”
In consequence of the disturbances that have prise there is another Chinese venture ou
often been caused by the depreciation of the the north shore of Mire Bay, where silver copper cents and the discovery that cortain un- and lead are being mined. We have heard principled merchants have been in the habit recent rumours also of the discovery of gold of importing copper from abroad to make in the New Territory, but whether it exists in conterfelt coins, the Shanghai Total bas paying quantities bas yet to be determined. In Old Kowloon we have seen the commence- ment and unfortunately the speady extine-
written to the Commissoner of Customs to prohibit the importation of copper.
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THE GARTER DECORATION.
Advices have been received at Shanghai
tzekiang overflowing its banka and flooding the which indicate that there is danger of the Yang- Bottlements at Hankow. Local firme have been asked the rates for flood risks, but there is a
LONDON, July 19th. Lord Selborne has been made a reluctance to accept such business. The level of the river a week ago was 44 ft. 9 in, and the water was still; the godowns are 49 ft, sbore sen Knight of the Garter in succession to
the late Lord Ripon.
level.
At an extraordinary meeting of shareholders. of Mesra Wooks and Co., Ltd., Shanghai last week a resolution was passed unanimously authorising the directors to create and issus de hentures providing for the payment of principal rains not exceeding The. 200,000 (Shanghai gyoos) with interest at the rate of 7 per cent, per annum, the debentures to be made redeem- ablo at any time after the first five years and within twenty years of issue,
THE POPULARITY OF PRINCE BUELOW.
LONDON, July 19th.
LOCAL SPOET.
WATER POLO SHIELD COMPETITION,
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LUSITANOS V. BÓŸAL ENGINEERS.
A very good game was witnessed at the V.R.C. enclosure last evening when the Lusitano Ro creation Club met the Royal Engineers in a shield match and defeated them by two goals to one.
The teams word :--
Lusitanos: R. Carvsilo; C. G. Alres and. J. M. Lopes; F. L. Roza, E. M. O. Romedios, C. A. Rodrigues and A. J. V. Ribeiro.
Engineers: MoCrory Goodyer, Barton; Morrish: Coxon, Holmes and Marshall.
A very good game resulted between thesa teams, the Lusitanos having the advantageso far as the actual swimming went, but falling in: arrear when it came to a question of throwing. This was the order in the first half, but In the second it was changed. The smart R.E. keeper was asked to do too Prince Buelow, the ex-Chancellor much, and there is little wouder that the scene was changed. Reza was successful in first of Germany, on leaving Berlin for his netting for the Lusitanos, and Rodrigues country seat was accorded a tremon-followed with a goal which it was practically impossible to sare. The Engineers rallied and dous ovation, as his carriage proceeded Marshall found the net with a clever throw, but
did not allow them an opportunity to equalise.
Final: Lusitanos, 2; Engineers, 1. the R.E. still remained in a minority and time
Complaints have been made regarding the high rents in the French Concession at Shang-i hai and a number of Chinese firma recently through the streets of the capital to petitioned the Viceroy showing that in these the railway station.
that the property owners in the French Con. ADMIRAL CURZON-HOWE ILL
The Prince Regent and the Grand Council tion of the flour milling industry, and have decided to issue instructions to the Viceroys roduction, and praying that the Shanghai Tao--| and Governors to sperintend the election by the Provincial Connois of a number of gentle men to serve as probationary members of the Benste on the lat of the 10th moon, and to order the successful candidates to be all in Feking a month later.
the only other dew industry on a large scale that has since been started is the brewing industry, Probably the mention of this will recall to some readors the reference of the gynical SIDNEY SMITH to there being no two ideas. more inseparable than Beer and
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baril labour,
times of trade depression they find it impossible to bear the high rents in the Settlements and cession have absolutely refused to make any tai may be instructed to again request the French Consul to persuade the house owners to reduce the ronte. Viceroy Tuan Feng has that exchange is so low and trade so bad in made the following rescript:-Considering Shanghai at present, what is set forth in your petition is undoubtedly true. You have already petitioned the Shanghai Total to request the French Consul to advise the house owners to reduce the rants and the Shanghai Tantai-is hereby instructed to consider this beat method of again approaching the French Consul and the Courts with the request that the circumstances be put clearly to the house owners, both foreign and Chinese, and a reduction of the rents be effested in the interests of trade.”
The nativo who attempted suicide by jump- in three strongths, containing 5%; 10% and 20% Britannia. Wuat event," be asked, "ising overboard from the 6.8. Osang after she there more awfully important to an English Luft Singapore on her last voyage was charged of pure carbolic acid.
before Mr. F. A. Hazoland at the Magistracy Colony than the erection of its first bre house?" It is a long time ago that the yesterday. The bearing was adjourned, a con-,
stable informing his Worship that he under- first brewery was started in Hongkong anood Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co, had perhaps the initial attempt to establish this agreed to ship the defendant back to Singapore. industry was considered more "awfully
A coolie whose raiment consisted, of nothing "than the subsequent attempts.
TYPHOON ALARMS. important
more than a holey pair of trousers was charged Certainly there has been no flourish of trum-
before Mr. F. A. Hazeland at the Magistrasy
Typhoon alarms descended on the colony pets about the erection of the latest big yesterday with the larceny of a quantity of breweryat Laichikok which started operations clothing from s shop at Wanobat. On the eri- again yesterday. Aboat, noon the black cae, a few months ago. A large amount of capital dence his Worship convicted and sentenced the point downwards, was hoisted indicating s has evidently been put into the venture, and defendant to three weeks, imprisonment with typhoon to the south of Hongkong, and it was not long before the small emft began to act on in the interests of the development of the
the warning, Bampaus and junks were seen The case in which Lottie Kingabry was making their way to shelter, but on this occa Colony as a manufacturing and industrial A. S. WATSON & CO., centre, we wish the new Bravery better charged with returning from banishment was on a larger number than usual semel their own efforts luck than its three or four predecessors in called on before Mt. F. A. Hazeland at the indispond to rely on
Detective Cashuron and sought the assistance of steam launches, the Colony experienced. Several manu-Magistracy yesterday,
informed his Worship that he had been unable + One launch WAS WAS noticed with fally facturing industries on A smaller scale to find the defendant, and that he believed she half a hundred juuks and sampans in tow employing the most modern machinery are had left the Colony. The bearing a sad some of the others had almost as contemplated by enterprising Chinese in adjourned,
large a number. By night the green, red the Colony while in the neighbourhood of
green lights were exhibited. Canton enterprises of considerable import ance are developing, one of the latest being the manufacture of fabrics from ramie Perhaps the creation of new industries in the New Territory is not to be expected until the railway is open, but as the signs of the times point to a great development of manufacturing industrias in Caioa, we think the shipping and railway facilities which this Colony will afford for the distribution of produce and manufactures encourages a belief in the future of the Colony as a manufacturing and industrial
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY
AND KOWLOON. DISPENSARY. Hongkong, 19th July, 1999.
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According to the Manila Cavlenowe American LONDON OFFICE: 151, FLERT Stanet. E the yield of gold in the Philippines was over
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The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, JULY 20TH 1909.
During the week ended 17th July the com-
municable diseases reported were-two cases of plague (both fatal), three cases of anterio fever, and one of puerperal fever (fatal).
north
A Chinese girl, 15 years of age, was before Mr. F. A. Hareland at the Magiatmoy yester
The warning from the Manila Observatory day charged with stealing from her mistress to the American Consulate-General was "July at Kowloon City three gold finger rings, one 19 at mox oyclone or typhoon over gold hairple and one jadestone bangle. She Chines Sea moving W.N.W." admitted the theft and his Worship, after bind- ing her over to come up for judgment when
Registrar-General. called apon, erdored that she be taken to the
Considerable alarm is feit in some quarters in the Philippines over the fact that Hawaiian agents are in the Islands engaging labourers for the sugar plantations about Honolulu. The four in expressed that this levy upon the already scant supply of labour in the islands will be sorely felt in the districts where workers are most
needed. Doubtless the drain will pinch in some sections if the Hawaiian agents succeeded in obtaining the 1,000 per month they are repre sented as desiring.
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A NEW SOLICITUR.
At the Supreme Court yesterday Sir Henry Berkley, K.C., presented to the Chief Justice
LONDON, July 19th. Admiral Curzon-Howe underwent a serious operation on Thursday and the latest bulletin announces that he is in a very weak condition,
THE SITUATION IN PERSIA.
LONDON, July 19th.
LEAGUE TENNIS.
CRAIGENGOWER V CIVIL SERVICE. Last week end the Craigengewer Cricket Club mot the Civil Service Cricket Club in the tennis tournament competition, and the former won by nine gumes. The scoras voro a follows:-
G. A. Hancock and L. A. Rose beut B. O. Hutchison and J. R. Wood, 6-5; beat 3. D. Mackenzie and G, A. Woodcock 8-3 ; beat F. A. Bilen and A. G. Pile, 9.2. R. Basa and R. Phillipe best R. O. Hutchison and J. R. Wood, 6-5; lost to J. D. Mackenzie and G. A. Woodcock, 5-6; lost to F. A. Biden `and A. G. Pile, 5-6.
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A Russian circular to the Powers declares that the circumstanco that the Shah of Persia has taken refuge in the Russian Legation at Teheran in nowise modifies the principle of in- ternal non-interference with the af-scored by the Civil Service fairs of Porsia.
1. A. Rose and J. D. Kinnaird lost to R. O. Hutchison and J. R. Wood, 3-B; bent J. D. Mackenzie and G. A. Woodcock, 6.5; beat F. A-
DEATH OF DON CARLOS.
Biden and A. G. Pile, 6-5.
Craigongower thas won by 54 games to 45
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE TYPHOON SIGNÁL AT MACÃO.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKONG
DAILY PRESS."
LONDON, July 19th. The death is announced of Don
SIB-A paragraph inserted in your issue of to-day stated that the typhoon signal was heist- Carlos, Duke of Madrid.
Don Carlos was a grand newphew of Fered at Macao at the Harbourmaster's during dinand VII sad alaimed the Crown of Spain on yesterday and that apparently no indication of the ground that Isabella, daughter of Ferdinand bad weather was forthcoming.. The signal VII and Christina, and mother of Alphenso. XII, owing to the Salie law, was debarred from hoisted did not indicate the position or direction the succession. The hair is Don Jaime who is of any typhoon: it was simply an informative signal that something might happen. Now we an offlor in the Russian Army]
soo the black cene just holsted at the Hong- kong Obeseratory justifies the signal at Macao. The coming typhoon is new within 300 miles of the colony and possibly the Macao Harbour. master smelled it.-Yours,
PANIC AT A CYCLE RACE.
LONDON, July 19th. At a Cycle Race in Berlin the an application for the admission of William motor which was doing the pacing ex- Blakestone Hind as a solicitor to practice is ploded and was hurled against a stand that honourable court. He said that the papers had been filed in order and the essential fact crowded with spectators, scattering
a
ANTI-ROX.
OPIUM SMOKING.
HOW IT IS BEING SUPPRESSED IN CHINA.
had been established that the gentleman had rain of fire upon them. A score of respecting the opinn question in China was
been admitted as a solicitor in England by the affidavit of Mr. Hett.
His Lordship admitted Mr. Hind to practica and trusted he would have a successful carver.
MANILA AND CHOLERA,
summer dresses were set alight.
Many of the spectators were so panic-stricken that they jumped over the barrier on to the track and were overrun by competitors in the most of whom were thrown
In spite of the efforts that have been and are being made by the Bureau of Health to stay the spread of cholem in the provinces, says the Cablenews American, the disease is slowly but hurt. surely spreading, and latest reports show that it has invaded new territory and in some cases han already secured many fictims.
race, and
were
persons Altogether four burned to death and 32 injured, mostly
The Japan Garette states that on certain dates this on porforcances will be given at the Honge Theatre, Tokyo, by an old man, sixty savou yours of age, named Gensbichi Katada,
The report for the 13th shows six provinces A feeble but somewhat prolonged earth-quake who claims to have been endowed with the art
return of 166 by burns. shock was experienced in Yokohama at one of magic power from a "sannin" (imaginary be and 20 pueblos infected, with minate to one o'clock on the morning, of Julying supposed to possess mystic power) in the so- csses and 94 deaths as compared with 46 casos
bitude of the mountainous district in Miyagi Pre.., on the 12th and 114 on the 11th.
No cases or deaths were reported in the city fecture. The principal performances will, says of Manila and no enspecte, although the police the Tokyo Fress, consist of the striking of a and the sanitary inspectors of the Bureau of of the previous day for large bell with his head, walking over a bed of Health were on the lookout all day on the 13th
any cases of suspicious sickness. fire and the blade of a sword, bathing in boiling inst: and the afternoon
Unannounced, but armed with the authority
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The Planters Association at Davao in the Philippines have asked for troop to be stationed there and American officers in the Moro district favour the request.
.
The Echo de Paris saya it is stated at the Ministry of the Colonies that M. Millies Lacroix, the Minister, intends to visit. Inde
China.
The directors of the Shanghai Waterworks Co., Ld., have declared an interim dividend of 15/0 per share for the half year ended June 30, 1909,
water, and other miraculous feats.
THE NEW SHAH..
LONDON, July 19th. The new Shah, whose age is
A further report by Sir Alexander Hosie published in London last month as a Whits Paper.
Two years have elapsed, the report says, since the issue of the anti-optom decree and the promulgation of the anti-opium regalations, and, although advices recently received from the provinces are somewhat conflicting in regard to
the execution of the measures devised
for suppression, there can be no doubt that, in spite of the absence of say well-organised auiform scheme for accomplishing the task, much is being done, and, in some perhaps too much is being attempted in too short a time with the machinery available for the purpos
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As regards anti-opiam medicines, their num ber is legion. They are of native and foreign manufacture, and many of them contain opium or morphis in varying quantities. The husk of the foreiga opium ball made up into pills is also sold as a cure, and most of the reports from the provinces draw attention to the serious evil which these so-called remedies are creating- an evil far worse than the disease they are
thir-advertised to cure,
of the director of health, 150 sanitary inspectors, teen, has been formally informed of aided when needed by the police, began a housS
WEATHER REPORT
KING SISOWATH
The new chief of the London Fire Brigade, in succession to Captain Hamilton, will be Com. to house inspection of every dwelling in the city his accession to the throne of Persia. conditions of the dwellings and their occupants, mander Cowper, of II.M.S. Spartiate, if the of Manila in order to ascertain the exact health London Council adopt the recommendation of The search developed several houses that needed the General Purposes Committee, Commander attention but no case of suspicious death or Barlton Valentine de Mornay Cowper, who is disease. forty-four years of age, his had twenty-nine years' continuous service on board man-of-war.. He commanded the Plover during the rebellion A water pole match was played at Yokohama in the Southern Philippines in 1899, and for on Jaly 9th between the Y.ARC. and a team his work received the thanks of Admiral Dewey from the Monmouth. The sailors wore out-and of the American Government. He was in command of the Ploter during the Doxor rising, classed, being beaten by 6 goals to zil.
and made a successful expedition against Chinese pirates in 1900.
It is reported from Cambodia that all is not well with King Sisowath, whose health is being andlerminded by rheumatism and other ills. He is a difficult patient with whom to deal, and the French Resident is somewhat uneasy with re- gard to him.
Opium smokers are in many cases becoming opiam ar morphic sates, and developing a craving which is still more difficult to eradicate. Anti-opium societies are also much in evidence, and, although some doubt is thrown on their ellescy, they are said to be of assistance to the police authorities in unearthing breaches of the regulations.
One of these soolaties in the Canton province offers small monetary prizes to mokers who break off the habit through the use of the medicines which it supplies, but it is careful to add that proof must be forthcoming that claimants for the prizes were actually smokers.
In a brief report of the speech which LORD CREWE, Secretary of State for the Colonies, delivered at the annual dinner of the Corona Club, in London last month, occurs the following paragraph:-"They found the Hinterland of Hongkong eager to extend its sphere of industrial operations by the great railway movement which was taking place in China, the ultimate results of which must be to bring the civilisation of the Wost into the heart of that great mysterious Empire." The New Territory ceded by what is known as the Kowloon Extension Agreement of 1898 is sometimes referred to na "the Hinterland of Hongkong" but the Hinterland to which Lond CLEWE refers is evidently a territory of much greater area, -nothing less, in fact, than the southern provinces of Chins which are to be tapped by the great trank railway from Hankow to Canton. As regards that part of the Hinterland of Hoogkong known as the New Territory, or Kowloon Extension, an area of of about 280 square miles only, it cannot be
King Bisowath is also troubled on religious said that much eagerness is yet being shown
matters. He sent for a French missionary, to extend its sphere of industrial enter
and, it is said, asked what he would have to do to become a Catholic, The populace is ignorant prise." At least, one hears very little of it
of these facts but the King's entourage is aware of it, and views, the situation with on but in the older portion of the Colony as
easiness. The Bonzes are upposed to the can well as in the Canton district there cer-
version of Sisowath, and declare that if need be tainly are signs of growing eagerness to
they will shut him up in one of their convents.
The question of a successor to Sisowath is E Rengers. It is suspected by the Mainichi Dempe extend the sphere of industrial operations,
Sisowath himself The C.P.R. str. Monteagle arrived Shanghai already being discussed. first he says that from what he has seen of the that one of two Chiness passengers who com
to be succeeded by his young son at midnight on the 18th inst, and left agam at and the sooner the New Territory is brought political situation of the foreign countries it is mitted suicide by jumping overbeard from one South coast of Chins between? Same as No. 1. Sonphanovong; the Bonzes and the Ministers, 5 p.m. Monday for Nagasaki where she is due within this spisere the better for the Colony expedient for China to have a fixed foreign of the vessels during the voyage, was the as a whole. Three or four years ago Sir MAT- | policy. In the second he urges that China murderer in question. So far as the Japan South coast of China between ) -N.E: vinde. however, favour the eldest son of the King, to arrive at 6am, on the 21st inst.
The return of visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum for the week ending the 18th July, 1909, shows that of non-Chinese those were 379 to the Library and 197 to the Museum, and of Chinese 241 to the former and 2,606 to the lattor. The Library was, therefore, used by 620 persons and the Museum by 2,803.
H. E. Tang Shab-yi has presented two Memorials to the Throne; one on Chinese Diplomacy and the other on Currency: In the
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Suspicion having been aroused that the Chinese murderer of General Franz Sigel's grand-daughter in New York lud escaped to Japan, the Yokohama harbour police instituted searches for the probable culprit on board the China and Minnesota, which arrived thers from Amerion on the 6th and 7th respectively, but found ne suspicious character among the par-
TREW NATHAN in one of his Budget speeches must have a uniform currency, otherwise Garetle knows, there is absolutely no ground impressed upon the Colony the importance unforeseen international complication are rare for this ingenions suspicion. of the maintenance of existing industries to rise.
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On the 19th at 12.15 p.m.-The barometer has fallen alightly on the S. coast of China, and risen moderately in the Philippines,
A circular depression appears to have formed in the low pressure trough to the NE, of the ! Paracels
It is probably moving towards W.N.W.
The returns from Indo-China are not yet in hand.
The Japanese returns are also missing, but probably the high pressure aras remains over the Pacific to the South of Japan.
Moderate E. winds may be expected in the Formosa Channel and strong N.E. to S.E. winds along the S. coast of China
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours anding at 10 am. to-day, 0.43-inches.
The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon to-day is as followe Hongkong & Neighbourhood (*)
winds, Formoss Channel...moderate. :
Hongkong and Lamocks,
Hongkong and Hainan...strong
(*) E. to S.E, winds, strong; squally,
showery,
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS,
The King has become aeurasthenic; he com. plains that the dancers of his palace no longer dance as they used to; that the elephants of the palace die one after the other-a bad omen-and
The "Indra" Line str. Indrawadi is due that the workers in the royal art palare do not here on the 26th inst.
The N.Y.K. str. Ceylon Maru (Bombay Line) work with good will. The monarch fies into a temper at the slightest prevocation, or without left Moji on the 18th inst., and is due here on
the 26th inst any at all.
desires
The N.Y.L. str. Kamo Maru (European Line) leff Kobe for this port via Moji, Taintso and Shanghai on the 17th inst., and is due her on the 28th inst
The LG.M. str. Goeben carrying the German Mails with dates from Berlin of the 30th ult., left Colombo in the 18th inst. a.m., and may be expected here on or about the 29th inst.
The T.K.K. str. Tenyo Maru arrived at San Francisce on the 17th inst.
Monivong, an ensign in the French army, at The LG.M. str. Prina Ludwig which left presant et Pom Ponb, who is known to be well here on the 16th inst. at 6 pm., arrived at disposed towards France.
Shanghai on the 19th inst. at I am