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of the opium divans. Be it remembered that Chinoso as well as Europens liquors are taxed, and it is a notorious fact that the consumption of European wines and spirits by the Chinese in the Colony is greatly on the increase. We have, indeed, heard the Chiness credited with contributing two thirds of the revenue from this source, Whether that is really the case is not shown, we believe, by any published statistics, but we think there is no room for doubt that the Chinese population does contribute
under the Liquor Ordinance a sum which added to the grant-in-aid receivable from the Home Government, is more than suffic. ient to cover the direct loss on opiam at the present time. The revenue from liquor duties last year was $387,000, and if the enlculation is correct that full two-thirds of
An extract of meteorological observations
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mada at the Hongkong Observatory airing the TELEGRAMS. month of February shows that the average maximum temperature for that period was 66,5, and the average minimam temperature 66.2 degress. We had 189.9 hours of sunshine for the month, and no rainfall.
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His. Excellency the Governor has appointed a Commission to inquire into and report on questions relating to the making of wills by Chinoso;
the Chinese parsonst law and custom iu force in the Kwong Tang Province; and to draw up a series of prim- eiplos embodying it and to advise bow them
Copyright Ordinanco, 1894.]
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PRINCE ADALBERT
IMPROVING.
ST. PAUL'S COLLEGE.
FOUNDATION STONE LAYING OF NEW CLASS ROOMS.
RANDOM REFLECTIONS.
Now is the Spring of our disccatont. These damp, clammy days may be good growing weather, as the agriculturists say at Home, but
humidity.
It provided a salutary cleansing on a general Friday's rain made a difference to the Colony. scale, and the flowers and the grass look fresher and brighter. It gave a new lease of life to all
The doremony of laying the foundation stone they are very trying to the ordinary indivi of the new class rooms and clapel for St. Paul's dual. Most people prefer the heat to the College took place on Saturday afternoon in the Presence of HE the Governor and a good attendanes of the British and Chinese com munities interested. A surpliced choir of Chinese led the praise, and the clergy present included bis Lordship the Bishop of Victorio, nature, Bers. F. T. Johnson, A. D. Stewart, and others. On the conclusion of the appropriate "office,"
It is marvellous how a story gains in tho the stone was laid by his Excellency with tolling. Hongkong was a week ago mildly"
excited by the report that a tiger was at large to be well nad truly laid," and added on the island, bat an imaginative northern In the faith of Jesus Christ we place this journalist tells his readers that "the residents foundation stone in the name of God the Father, of Hongkong are mach alarmed in consequenos God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost." of a tiger or tigers having been sighted by The stone was inscribed St. Paul's different persons roaming about the Colony." A Collage. This foundation stone was laid by figer in Queen's Road would be a sensation. HE. Sir Frederick Lugard, K.C.M.G., C.B., Bat apparently Mr. Stripes dose act like the
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Hongkong air, and hea dountless returned to his haunts,
LONDON, March 12th. The condition of Prince Adalbers of Prussin is quite satisfactory. The Emperor and the Empress have the words I declare this fondation stone returned to Berlin.
may best be administered by the Hongkong Courts. The Commission is composed of his Honour the Chief Justice, Sir Francis Piggott (Chairman); his Honour the Puisno Judge, -- Mr. H. H.-J. Gompertz; the Hon. Mr. W. Es Darios, KC., Attorney, Gouoral; the Hon, Mr. A. Brewin, Registrar General; the Hon. Dr. Ho Kai; the Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C... the Hon. Mr. C. Clementi; and Mr. J. D.
this amount is borne by the Chinese com- Lloyd (secretary). For the purpose of making. munity we get a sum of $258,930. To this this inquiry the Commission is to have such add the grant in aid by the Imperial Gov-powers as are vested in the Supreme Court for ernment and the direct loss from opinn enforcing the attendance of witnesses and for i practically covered what revenue compelling the production of documents, the European community contributes under this heading can therefore · bo devoted to other purposes. It may not
gonerally known that a Chinese syndin e
year or two ago was prepared to pay the Government 8180,000 a year for a samsh farm: We mention this because it seems to support the view that, taking into account the fact that there is now a large consumption of foreign wines and spirits by Chinese, their contribution to the reveque derived from liquor must be somo thing like two-thirds. Thus the assump tion to which we draw attention at the beginning of this article is seen to be false and misleading. At the same time, the point that the particular community which provided the revenue now being abandoned should provide the substitute is a principle
CHINESE RUNS AMOK.
THREE MEN KILLED; EIGHT SERIOUSLY WOUNDED.
The Wa Suea boarding-house at No. 218, Des Voeux Road Central, near the Sineers Company's store, was the sons of a sensational tragedy early yesterday morning, which has resulted in two men being killed and ten others remored to hospital with more or less serions injuries,
Shortly after 5 a.m. a Chinese, who was formerly employed in the boarding house ne á foki, and who had been staying there for two or three days, ran amok. Carrying a chopper in osch hand he made a sudden and violent attack on the sleeping inmates, and from a house of reposs the boarding establishment soon charged into a house of panio.
THE BAGDAD RAILWAY.
POSSIBILITY OF ANGLO-GERMAN AGREEMENT.
LONDON, March 11th. The Berlin Conservative newspaper, "Krouze Zeitung," commenting on the Bagdad Railway situation, says that if England's principal concern is to exclude foreign sea power from the Persian Gulf, then, as Germany's interests are purely commercial, it ought not to be impossible for an Anglo-German agreement to bo reached doing justice to England's special position.
I hear that if the Colony of Hongkong does not soon possess a wireless installation of its own one will be erected out at Lown, just beyond the has already been obtained. It would be quite British frontier. Permission, I understand, fonsible to have a wireless station at Lewa, sanding by the railway telegraph to Kowloon, the mesenges received by wireless. Hongkong must be about the only important port in the Far East now unprovided with an installation for cominercial purposes.
His LORDSHIP said it might be well if begave a brief history of the stops leading up to the cere monyof that day. For years past the school ad joining his house with its very limited space had schoolmasters, but the Diocesan training college boon used for training Christian catechists and having boen removed to Canton, the Anglo- Chinese school care a sinal! auxiliary to St. Stephen's college. As his Lerishimcould no longer spare that portion of his dwelling house for school purposes be consented to additional olags rooms with now aliapel being erected on that land in order to give facilities to the Church Missionary Society.
The Legislative Council smiled on Thursday Their Chinoso friends promptly took the matter afternoon us it enjoyed the public house-scene se up. They received a handsome donation from graphically portrayed by the Hon. Mr. Hewett of the girl making herself agreeable to the Ting Fang, and they obtained sufficient money of beer. The little sketch, however, served its an illustrious old pupil, his Excellency Wu
oastomer the while a boy brings along, the pot to justify the preparation of plans by the archi-purpose, which was to direct attention to the teats, Messze. Leigh & Orange. Meanwhile advisability of proventing women from filling present lending his private chapel, desired & Excellency the Governor had to confess that it the Chinese coagregation to whom he was at any office in a public house. But alas! Hie larger building in which to worship, and with has defied the ability of the Government to some European sympathisers they mised a
give a definition of tho werd barmaid" which be provided for 150 day scholars and a chapel the svelion, and the task has been pissed on to for the scholars which would serve also as a the Licensing Board. church for the congregation, He said dayectolars advisedly because there world not be accommoda- Lionfor boarders except in one or two exceptional onses. St. Stephen's College met that need at pre sont but ho hoped there would be quarters for two Out in the street a rapidly growing crowd
LONDON, March 11th. English masters. He was glad that the founda gathered, but gave the house a wide berth.
A message from Washington states tion stone would bear the name of a Governor especially the Building Authority, to the fact I might draw the attention of the public, and Policemen were early on the scene, and that the object of the concentrating of who had done so much for education in the that Hongkong, like Piso, can boast now of a others arrived and endeavoured to the American naval and military forces building tablets bearing the names of those should fake up a position in the middle Colony, and he proposed to erect inside the leaning tower. To get a good view of it, one force an entrance. When the door's wore
gentlemen who lind contributed large donations of the
between tho Parade the Cricket ground, end
With the fury of a madman the armed Chi- nese, swinging his lethal weapons round his head, attacked all who came in his way. The
Dic Post says that the nego tiations between Turkey and the Bagdad Railway Company have resulted in an agreement regarding the Gulf section.
An
An understanding, offering a basis
will shortly be reached.
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which should not be forgotten when the doors of the house were locked at the time, and for negotiations with Great Britaining fand, as a result of which class rooms would will embrace all that it was hoped to achieve by
Government is considering the new taxation proposals which will probably be rendered necessary as the opium revenue of the colony diminishes.
Mr. F. S. Brookman, visiting sporetary of the Y.M.C.A. for China, is at present in Hong kong.
Work on
the new church for the Christian Seionee body of Hongkong has been commeno ed on the site in Mardonoll Road,"
The Gazelle auzounces that the Hon. Mr. A M. Therason returned to the Colony on the 27th ultime and resumed duty as Colonial Treasuror
Owing to therain on Saturday the Blake Shield Competition among the Companies of the Volunteer Corps had to be postponed unti April 1st.
fantry, now at Malta, hus boon ordered to Tion.. tain, while the 1st Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers now at Tientsin is to go to India.
the terrified inmates had apparently neither the opportunity nor the presence of mind to open them and make their escape. Within the house there were shrieks and groans as the madman rashed from room to room and threw hitaalf apon the occupants e
900.
THE UNITED STATES AND
MEXICO
forced open the custodians of the peace on the Mexican boundary is now found themselves confronted by the Chinese who had wrought the mischief. They made gallant attempts to effect his arrest without doing him injury, but the frenzied cashughts imperilled the safety of the police, of the madman maile this impossible and greatly For a long tiras the policemen were kept at bay by the mad foki, and it was only when he was severely wounded that they were enabled to
The 2nd Battalion Somersetshire Light Insecure him. Then an inspection of the promises was todo, and the eleven wounded men were found. The mater of the boarding-house, ona of the first victims, recolved such serious injuries that he expired from the effects on the way to the hospital. Eight fokis and two boarders, all of whom were more or less seriously injured, were also sent to hospital The madman when
the hospital, but he mesumbed on the way, secured was placed in an ambulance and sont to.
Two of the men adraitted to hospital expired yesterday.
We learn that Messrs. Marty & Co.'s stemmers are being fitted with wireless telegraph inetel lations, and it will be possible for them to keep in touch with Haiphong at Hongkong. Mosers W. C. Jack & Co, have boon entrusted with the ordor
the night of the 5th inst at Nabasima, 95 miles The Ricamer Carnarvonshire went ashore on
from Kobo. It was reported that there was seven feet of water in the fore hold, but it was expected that the vessel would be refloated op the 8th inst
DEATH OF A PIONEER CHINA
7 MERCHANT
It is
FRANCO-GERMAN NAVAL COMPARISONS.
The Odd Volumes Society, after having been a back number for a year or two, has been brought to the frout again. It is to bo hoped that it will remain active for many years.
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officially explained as being intended to the scheme. The building would cost $25,000 ground and
and the treasurer informed him bat upwards look at the tower surmounting Straat Andrew's to check filibustering and the sm
smug-nt 20,000 had been subscribed. Ho thought Hall, Perhaps the Building Authority will gling of arms and inen across the that the fact of their having so speedily reached take a closer view, just to see if he can have frontier in order to benefit a fruitless that age was a striking testimony to the the public that it is really as safe as the tower
liberality of the Chinese and their appreciation of Pisa insurrection which has been disturb of the Church of England and the Church ing the borders for nearly a year past, Missionary Society. It was also a splended
Two reasons contribute to the increased momento of the zealous work of the Rov. A. consumption of foreign liquors by ChinoBU Taessage says, certain, the
that unofficial foreign representations have
D. Stewart and his Chinese colleagues.
about which we are beginning to hear A Chinese scholar thereupon presented bis a good den: The greatest without doubt prompted America's action.
Excellency with a silver trowel as a memento ofis the change of fashion. In respect of the coonsion.
wines and spirits the Chinese hare cor- HE EXCELLENCY thanked the donor fortainly been congnored by the West, and the old the silver trowel, which would always romain wines have osrtainly declined in popularity. fashioned samsha and other grade Chinese in his house as a remembrance of that day. In the words of some of the advertisements Proceeding, ho said that the development. in which we used to read at Home, "European LONDON, March 11th.
educational matters in Hongkong was simply liquors have won their way" to the Celestial M. Delcasse, Minister of Marine, amazing. It was only the other day that he had palate with a thoroughness which is shared at stated in the French Chamber that by the pleasure of opening a new extension at St present by few other Western innovations. The 1920 Germany will have 20 Dread- privileged to lay the foundation stone of that foreign liquors is the suppression of the opiam Stophen's Collage and that afternoon he was other reason for the increased demand for noughts and France the same number,extension to the school which had boen habit. Those who have indulged in this pre- while Germany will have 12 armoured founded as an auxiliary to St Stephen's tico must have something to take its place, and cruisers and France 18, but the latter and devoted principal, the Rov. A D. Stewart. terious liquors which should never be allowed to College under the control of the earnest
so they turn more often to the cheap and dele- will be more powerful than Germany (applause.) They are indebted to his Lordship be placed on the market in any country,
for the site on which that building was to bo erected as it would involve a considerable
Shanghai, which is supposed to be less diminution of the Bishop's dwelling house snobbish then-Hongkong, shows distinctions in space. The cost had been met by the generosity a way unknown here. That is, with regard to of Chinese friends added to some liberal the licensing of the various clubs in the Settle- subscriptions from Home. Ha welcomed most mont. It is well known, says a local jonzual, - heartily that latent addition to the schools of the "that for years it has been the custom of tha Colony, more expecially because it was self. Council to exact a licence with its concomitant had emerged from the condition of state the sale of intoxicating liquors in what are supporting. It showed that the Colony fee from those private persons who undertako
aided institutions to that of Independent virtually private clubs, but the big clubs, these bodies willing to pay for value received. That to which" gentlemen only" "are admitted, havo school and St. Stephen's had the great advant- been allowed to go soot free. At the same time, age over other schools in the Colony in having attempts have been made to compel the very and took an sotive interest in the public and or was bested by an American the Charch Missionary Society to promote able se any foreign club, to take out licences social life of the settlement. Of commanding pseudo-millionaire, is related in one of the education. He noted what his Lordship aid for the sale of intoxicants. There has been An amusing case, in which & well-known as teachera men who had given their services to best class of Chinese nimbs, quite as respect- presence and genial manners, he well played the papers The latter called one day at the former's with regard to prarsling accommodation for the three or four swagger clube to which part of taipan of a loading hong in those days shop and expressed his desire to purchase & pink boarders, and he hoped that in the future they foreigners only are admitted, and from which a strong feeling that in diferenticting between
when tea and the noble article" were the chief nothing suitable la hand; bat thought he could and further that they would follow the more humble clubs to which the less exalted of the merchant princes of the China trade ring as a present to his wife. The jeweller had might be able to provide each accommodation, one hand, and the leading Chin sonlube and the experts and plecs goods almost the only imports, find what was wanted, if given time. It would, ample of St. Stephon's and admit as boarders foreigner belongs on the other hand, the and when muck and track was beneath their however, be an expensive business, as such pearls other than the tons of Christians. He Conncil has been making fish of one and fowl of
were very rare and extremely costly. The
quite in sympathy with the contention that approximate traffic at all stations on the British Westminster, on 12th February. He was eighty Rue de la Paix, paid up without a murmur the might have a successful fature and he hoped note that the Council has postponed its removal Mr. Antrobus died at 167, Victoria Street, 20 object, and thres months later on visiting cluded with expressing the hope that the school just one, and to be quite contrary to the purchaser declared that expense was would not dotain his hearers longer, and con the other. The distinction seems to be quite as the Chinese paid the opium revenue section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway for the years of age, and was third s013 of Sir 70,000 francs demanded for the pearl, which bad
usual practice in other places, and we regret to months of October, November and December, Edmund Antrobus, second which has been abandoned, the Chinese,1910, and January and February, 1911. The Antrobus family, Baronet. The duly been discovered during his absence, that the principal and the staff would regard the until some unknown time in the future."
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Captain F. W. Lyons provisionally, oficial member of the Legislative Council with and subject to His Majesty a plasšura, to be an
effect from the 9th instant, during the brace on leave of the Hon. Mr. F. J. Badeley,
The financial statement of the recent Carnival at Manila shows a credit balance of P. 27,770, in spite of the fact that the aeroplane flights caused a direct loss of more than P. 8,000, though the Director General reports that these flights were indirectly of great benefit, not only to the Carnival but to the community at large.
Born in this Colony and in Singapore an impression seems to prevail that the revenue lost to the Colony, from opium due to the compulsory closing of the smoking divans bas had to be borne almost entirely by the European taxpaying members of the com- munity. The liquor duties, it is said, shifted the weight from the shoulders of the many to the backs of the few. This, remarks a Singapore contemporary, is the one essential eloment in the whole situation, common to Hongkong and the Straits. With all respect,
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased we have to say that whatever may be the to appoint Captain F. W. Lyons to not as Cap casa in the Straits, our contemporary, if it tain Superintendent of Police, Superintendent believes that in Hongkong the population of Fire Brigade and Superintendent of Prison, that previous
joyfully paid the old-tax Superintendent of Police and of Fire Brigade, and Mr. P. P. J. Wodehou to set as Deputy tion on opium have heen liberated "from during the absence on leave of the Hon Mr. F. any taxation at all," and that the new tax-J. Badeley, or until further notias. tion is thrown entirely on the European community, is grievously in error. We are The Gazette publishes a statement of the
and not the European, should be called return shows the number of passengers as 123,- upon to provide its substitute, but can it be 923, while the money realised on coaching was fairly represented that the European tax-848,092.11, and on goods $11,026.86, making payer in Hongkong has been made to grand total of $59,119.01. shoulder this burden? It is a miscon
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NEW ITALIAN MINISTER TO
PEKING
If there are still any ok residents who remember the Treaty ports and Hongkong in the sixties they will learn with regret of the death of Mr. Robert Crawford Antrobus, portant fria of Lindsay & Co., nus of the who was then taipan in Staughai of the im-
pioneer firms of the China trade and one of the first to establish a house in Shanghai. Mr. H, T. Lindsay head of the firm, visited and re- ported on the port in 1832, ten years before the signing of the treaty of Nanking andor which General at it was formally opened on 17th November, 1843, although the European firma did not establish themselves there till several years later. The late Mr. Alexander Michie was at that time co- partner with Mr. Antrobus, Mr. Antrobus was for some years one of the Municipal Councillors,
notice..
London, March 11th. Count Sforza, the Italian Consul Buda Pest, has been appointed Italian Minister to Peking.
THE PARIS JEWELLER AND THE SMART YANKEE,
pearl of unusual size and purity, to be set in a
would be
A month Inter the Yankee wrote from ralts of that afternoon as a reward for the for generations held a high position amongst the pearl, but had decide that she would prefer
is well known, have America to say that his wife was delighted with devotion which had brought them from home the merchants of the City and West Lind of a pair of pondsuts to a ring. Could the jeweller and friends to ongage in missionary work. He London, and were amongst the earliest of the longer and much more expensive job then the that the boys turned out by St Paul's would be provide a duplicate? He could; but it would be hoped the students would gain distinction and big tea importers. The late Mr. R. C. Antrobus original, as sheh jewels were very diffionit to sino types of Chinese character with high stand. was a director of the Economic Life Assurance matter. By return of post came the reply Time The death occurred at the Peak Hospital Becicty, The Thames and Mersey Marine dud expense no object: I want the twin of the ards of life, At the present time we think it Saturday of Mr. H. W. Kenny, acting-manager Insurance Co., the Bibi Eybat Petrolana pearl in my possession. At the end of sir The singing of the National Anthem conclud ception. can with confidence be said that the grant of the International Bank at Canton Deceased, Company, and the Schiboisff Petroleum Co. Ho months, the indefatigable jeweller was able to ed the proceedings. in ad made by the Imperial Government who had been at Canton for two years, was well was a magistrate for Middlesex and London. In write I've got your pearl at last. It is exactly together with the proportion of liquor known in Hakong and in, the Sixnits, and was
18/3 bo married Emily, widow of Me. W like the other. It will cost you 140,000 francs.” taxation contributed by the Chinese more told in the highest respect. Much sympathy will than covers the direct loss sustained by the be extended to hit raintives and to the bereaved jady whom he was to have married this month Government Treasury from the suppression The funeral took place yesterday.
Hope Edwardes, af Netley, and daughter of Colonel Ireland Blackburne, MP. of Hale Hall, Lancaster, and had one son, Mr. Philip Humphrey Antrobus, and two daughters, Mra H. T. Methold and the Hon. Mrs. Gilbert Rolle
The fortunate discoverer of the treasure is still ▲ regulation made by the Governor-in waiting for an answer from the smart gentlemen on the other side of the Atlantic, who had Council states that no deg brought from succeeded in selling to the jeweller's agent, at a Shanghai will be permitted to land in this vastly enhanced price, the original pink pearl! Colony for a period of three months.
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BOBRICK RANDOM.
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
Singapore for this port on the 11th instant, at The P. & O. 9. N. Co.'s str. Devanha left 8.30 a 1., with the outward English Mails, and is dno hero on the 15th instant, at about 6 a.m. left Bombay for this port via Colombo and The NY K. str. Bingo Maru (Bombay Line) Singapors on the 10th instant, and is expected here on the 28th instant.
The Silk shipped by the B.M.8. Empress of
fidia from Hongkong on the 11th ultimo, and Yokohama on the 19th ultimo, was delivered in transit in the remarkably quick time of 18 days New York on the 9th inst. thus making the from Yokohama and 26 days from Hongkong