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An order made by the Governor in TELEGRAMS. take the Republican Army to TELEGRAMS.
of view of total expenditures, the superiority of the monarchical polity from the point of Council provides for the narrowing of view of cheapness does not seem very clear. Staunton Street by the erection of a lean- Thus, while Great Britain with a populato-shed to be used as a vegetable and fruit tion of some forty-two millions has an annual expenditure in the neighbourhood
market.
Sealed tenders will be received at the
Peking to restore order.
A train-load of Paoting-Fu muti. neers started for Peking on Saturday. The railway authorities blew up a
(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENOT.]
THE MUTINY AT PEKING. TERRIBLE LOOTING SCENES. bridge, and the loyal troops killed Dapy fleeing innocents in mistake for looters.
FOREIGNERS TAKING REFUGE
Invitations are being issued by the of £152,000,000; the United States Repub-Chancillor and Court of the University lic, with a population nearly twice as large,
of Hongkong for, the opening ceremony only expends £159,000,000. Considering which takes place at 2.30 p.m. on Mon-
IN LEGATIONS. '. the large ares over which the seventy cád
day next. millions of population is scattered, it must
Reater's correspondent at Peking be agreed that the administration of the United States is not expensive. Turning Colonial Secretary's Office until noon on explains that dissatisfaction created by to the Republic of France, we find that with Monday, March 11th, for the improve-the failure to pay Yuan Shih Ko's WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, a population of 40 millions the expenditure ment of reads near the junction of Bon-
is about ten millions more than Greatham and Pokfulam Roads, Britain, but the many State enterprises and monopolies in France serve to greatly awell the total expenditure: Switzerland is the
It is notified in the Government Gazette that Mr. C. G. Alabaster has been'
FOREIGN GARRISONS TO BE REINFORCED.
At a meeting of the Foreign Ministers, partly as a result of a request by Tang Shao-Yi to prevent troops was the cause of the mutiny further bloodshed and damage to pro- et Peking.
perty, the Ministers decided to bring Two thousand troops started loot-in all available troops from adjacent
BRANDY cheapest of the Republics, the total expen- duly elected to act as a member of the ing on Thursday. Hordes of coolices ports.
Our Brandies are
GUARANTEED
TO BE
£2 odd in the United States, £4 odd
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] THE COAL STRIKE.
NEGOTIATIONS BUSPENDED.
LONDON, March 2nd. All negotiations in the coal dispute were suspended yesterday afternoon till next week.
The niners affirm that the strike cannot
be arrested within a fortnight.
Strikers to the number of 1,065,000 are enjoying holiday sports and entertainments.
COAL-OWNERS DIVIDED.
MINERS ODSTINATE.
!
In the House of Commons, Mr. Asquith. announced that the coal-owners of practi cally the whole of England and Northi Wales have accepted the Government's About one thousand troops of vari-proposals, but the South Wales and Scottish diture being 41 14s. per head, against Licensing Board during the absence on and loafers swelled the ranks to 5,000, over 23 per head in Great Britain, leave of Mr. Shelton Hooper.
and an orgie of destruction followed,ous nationalities were expected to owners have declined them on the ground that they are bound by existing agreements, reach Peking yesterday,
A Japanese battleship has been in France, 2 add in Germany, and £2 16. THE FAREWELL ADDRESS TO R.E. only cessing with the exhaustion of the
looters in the early hours of the follow-ordered to Taku to establish wireless in Italy. Japan, which spends about £1 per head of population, is the cheapest
Sheets are lying in the principal Clubs ing morning, when seven incendiary communication with the Italian station monarchy. Throwing out the items which
and in Kelly & Walsh's and Lane, Craw-fires, some of very large area, were at Peking.
burning in various quarters. ford & Co.'s stores for signature in con- nection with the Address which will be presented to H.E. the Governor on the day of his departure from the Colony.
do not come under the bead of administra PURE GRAPE tive expenditure, the position of the republics
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is improved. The United States then spends £114. per head, and France 22 108, against 22 16s. spont by Britain, £1 12. by Germany, and 21 14s by Italy, the expendi ture of France, it must be admitted, is heavy, but we do not have to look far to find other reasons for this. The severest ...$29.40 2.45 test that can be applied, however, is iu re- gard to taxation, for it may be safely said ...31.40 2.70 that the expenditure of an administration bears a proportion to its taxation. British taxes amount to some 2125,000,000, which gives a proportion of £3 per head. In the United States they amount, including, of course, the high Customs
to £110,000,000, which makes £1 12. per
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hoad. France shows a heavier taxation of £112,000,000, mounting to £2 168, per Gold and White Capsule 43:40 3.70 head. Switzerland shows a total taxation of some three million pounds, or, saya total -FINEST OLD BROWN
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after
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the
fact that administration in the United States and Gərmany-a republic and a monarchy-is very cheap, and administration
in Great Britain and France-a monarchy and a republic-is comparatively dear. In the case of Great Britain and France it will be observed that we are dealing with coun- tries which are homogeneous wholes as far as public expenditure is concorned, The United States and Germany, on the other hand, are Unions of States, where only part of the expense of administration is defrayed by the federal goveraments, the different States themselves levying taxes. Thus the reason for the extraordinary cheapness of Gorman foderal administration is mado clear when we find that in a State like Russia the total exponditure is £5 28. 78. per head of population and the direct taxes Ds. 8d. per head. Thus the administrative expenditure of Germany and the United States must be considerably raised from the figures given above to enable a correct esti- miste to be made, although it is certain. that the actual total would still remain below that of Great Britain. The fairest
Mr.
THE GOVERNOR.
TRAGEDY IN A HOTEL.
MERCHANT COITMITS SUICIDE.-
LEGATIONS PREPARING FOR A SIEGE.
A grim spectacle was provided by Martial law is in operation. All is the gangs of mutineers, thrown into quiet in the vicinity of the Legations, prominence by the glare of the flames, but canuounding continues in the battering in shops, shooting and direction of Fengtai, with which eity bayonetting shopkeepers who would communication is cut off.
In strong contrast, were the detach
The Legations are preparing for
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] JAPANESE LOSSES.
Fritz Eberius, of the firm of not promptly hand over their valu Heuser, Eberius & Co., export and im port and commission agents, was found tables, and staggering off laden with siege. dead in a lavatory at the Hongkong Hotel loot. on Saturday morning. He had a bullet wound in his head, while beside him was a revolver, one chamber of which had ments of foreign troops marching been discharged. It appears that the unmolested among the crowds and deceased, who was not a resident of the hotel, entered the premises shortly before bringing in foreigners to the Lega- noon, and visited one of the lavatories on tions. the ground floor, the door of which he locked. The first intimation that any thing was wrong came from one of the hotel coolies, whose suspicions Aroused by the fact that the door of the
were
A number of foreigners were fired! at, but were unhurt.
There was further looting and skir
lavatory was shut for such a long period. mishing throughout the following day. Numbers of the looters have been executed.
He secured a ladder, and looking over the wall saw the body of the deceased lying on the floor. He at orce informed Mr. Taggart, the manager of the hotel who obtained the services of the hotel engineer to break in the doo
The police, who were at once moned, identified the body as that of Mr.
the
So far the losses sustained uprising are estimated at £3,000,000, Loyalists are patrolling the streets,
Eberius, and conveyed it to the public and fresh trouble is feared. mortuary,
The deceased was a married man, and
resided in Macdonnell Road. He leaves a widow and one child to mourn his
loss.
It is stated that financial worry was responsible for his tragic act
In consequence of the tragic affair, the ball masque which was to have been held
in the German Club on Saturday night was postponed. The flag at the German Club was half masted on Saturday and Sunday,
The funeral will pass the Monument this morning at 9 o'clock,
A FORTHCOMING PIANOFORTE
- RECITAL
BY A NOTED FRENCH PIANISTE. A pianoforte recital is announced to be given at the Theatre Royal on or about March 9th by Madame Laure Miquel-Alzien, a notod French pianiste, who has gained repato all over
Ou Saturday a detachment of artil- ery marched to Duke Kuei's palace, shelled the gate, looted extensively and burned a portion of the palace,
de-
city
Prisoners are being summarily capitated on the outskirts of the and many headless bodies are lying in the streets.
·
a
Toxro, March 3rd, The Japanese are stated to be the heaviest losers among foreigners from the looting at Peking.
CANTON.
{FROM OUR OWN. CORRESPONDENT:] . Feb. 29th:
SHAMEEN.
The representatives of the miners have. rejected the Government's proposals, being unwilling to submit the Federations' rates
of minimum wage to any form of revision.
Mr. Asquith has consequently felt that no useful purpose can be served for the present by continuing the conferences. He hopes to make a further statement on Monday.
THE GOVERNMENT VIEW."-- Mr. Asquith in the House of Commons on Friday said the Government had con- sidered the question without class or party bias, and did not intend that what they be lieved to ben dwindling minority of employers should unduly delay the attainment of the object which he believed the minera properly submitted to them.
This message was delayed in transmision. EFFECTS OF THE STRIKE.
LONDON, March 3rd. The effect of the strike is daily widening- Tens of thousands are being thrown idle, the industries at the docks and the steam
Food trawlers being especially affected. prices are rising
LAW-ABIDING STRIKERS, The strikers are showing an excellent spirit of law-abiding, and in some districts
An assault-at-arms was given in the Club they have passed resolutions thanking the Theatre by the Garrison, consisting of box-authorities for not sending extr police and ing and bayonet fighting, with the addition sasuring them of their desire to keep the of some Japanese wrestling and bayonet peace,
RECOGNISING THEIR MISTAKE. fighing. This is the first exhibition of the kind which has ever been given in Stameen
the
The speeches and interviews of a number
and it provoked a great deal of enthusiasm. A raised ring was made in the centre of the of the Englishmen's leaders indicate the floor and the seats tiered round about with feeling of the mon that it was a mistake to a large number of people seated stage. Prompt at the opening her the reject the Government proposals. house was full, and the first item, a g-round contest between two light-weights, Seaman It is stated at Cardiff that the reason for the suspension of the negotiations is to This fight lasted only a minule, but it was vines and Private Ward, was commenced.
OPTIMISM AGAIN, A
a punishing minute for Ward, who was enable the men's delegates to obtain the rather easily knocked out. Then followed, a views of the districts on the subject of the real good night of 3-rounds between Sapper
Mr.
Cleeve and Private Scrimshaw. Cleeve had guarantees for a fair day's work. rather the better of the first round and his Asquith insists that this difficulty will be
manner a satisfactory met in opponent was pretty well done up at the round Scrimshaw was more to the fore, proceeding with the Bill
end of the two minutes.
In the second
before
though Cleeve got some serviceable body Telegrams from the coalfields show that punches in just at the close.
The third
round was a real fight to a finish, both then the strikers are most orderly, and the belief Civilians are arming themselves, going for all they were worth, but Sapper is provalent that the strike will not be Cleeve got the verdict. Then followed some prolonged, though the coal-owners are not barricading their premises, and creet-Japanese wrestling which was much appre
so optimistic. cinted and heartily applauded by ing gates across the streets.
audience.
An eight-round contest between Stoker The British railway guards are pro- Mils, at one time lightweight champion of tecting women and children.”
The mutineers looted and burned the railway station, and robbed the Passengers.
It appears that the Northern
the
TEADE PARALYSED.
As an instanco of the paralysis already
the Mediterranean Fleet, and Corporal Cove effecting trade, it may be mentioned that·· was the next item. Cove began very well 20,000 workers were thrown idle at Glasgow and had casily the best of the round. The pace was too hot to last and when Cove go yesterday and 100,000 shipbuïders on the his man down twice at the end it fooked Clyde will be rendered idle in a week's tune. like his fight.' So it proved, for, though Mills put up a good show in "the second round, at the end of the third round by some fine body punches Cove knocked his man
Another fight between Seaman Hathaway
latter got the verdict; while in the next
comparison that can be made is that be- Europe and is now touring the East. Madamo Chinese Army combined in the nil down and he was counted out,
Miquel Alzie first studied at the Conlaging, believing that the arrival of servatoire de Paris, whore, at the age of the Delegates from Shanghai and thirteen, she was awarded a first prize for.
Northern troops.
It is now ascertained that mutineers on Thursday looted Foreign Office itself.
the
the
Mr. W. E. Harvey, Labour MP for N.E. Derbyshire, in an interview declared "We will not hurry like the railwaymen. The strike will continue for a considerable time.” BAILWAY COMPANY SEIZES COAL.
The Great Central Railway has refused to and Private Armes was a trifle slow and the fight Seaman Bennison and Private Frost give up coal in transit at Sheffield, declaring
we had the best Show of the night, Frost
verdict.
its own purposes.
A CHANGE OF OPINION.
The Radical papers which yesterday were acclaiming the victory of the men, to-day
he got in with some good left handers, but the Seanian was too fast on his feet for It was him and tired him considerably. nobody's fight till the tast round, when gor his man down twice and secured the condemn their great mistake" in not Bennison's superior physique old and he
accepting the compromise whereby, they were The last fight between Seaman Gisby and the gainers, and declare that they are on Private Morris was also very good. The acting with a disregard to the national Morris had a interests: longer reach, hut Gisby could take any men were well matched. amount of punishment. Morris got the verdict on account of his fine show in the second Found, where he all but knocked his man out. There was also some bayonet fighting by the Japanese and the Baluchistan troups which was very much appreciated.
·PROCALE ON THE OUTSKIRITS OF CANTON, On Tuesday afternoon and night there
The populace was notified Saturday that persons in the streets A successful tour in after eight o'clock at night would be
enormors shot.
GETTLEMENT EXPECTED.
tween Great Britain and France, and it will be seen that, tried by all tests, the idea that a republican government is dearer than a WHILE, of course, none of the nations has monarchy will not bear examination. Of piano playing,,She then went to Germany Nanking meant the dismissal of the had a longer reach than his opponent and that it has statutory powers to seize it for officially taken exception to the establish
course, a republic is as much open to cor- and studied the piano with Professor Thurner, harmony with the famous composer, Hich- ment of a republic in China, there have not
ruption as a monarchy, and any kind of
ass. After three years she succeeded been wanting expressions of private opinion as to the difficulties lying in the way of government can be made as dear as public in carrying off the Rubiartein Prize in Burlin opinion will allow. But this is quite a Hor success since thon on the cocert platform administering a republic. Among objections raised to the republican foria of different thing from intrinsic dearness. has been continuous. She made her appearance Theoretically a republic should prove the in Berlin, Vienna, Badsposth, Moscow, Bras- polity, there occurs the old one of expense.cheaper of the wo, since the simpler cere.sels, Antwerp, Zarish, Cologue and Monte it being claimed that a republic is more monies of a republic and the absence of any Carlo, and everywhere was revived with the expansive thau a monarchy. The chief hereditary princes to draw upon State funds greatest approval. example on which this dictum is based is make for economy. So persistent is the idea, the United States, but, putting aside for the however, that republice are more expensive under the direction of the famous Kappelmeis moment other questions, it is too often than monarchies that it is hardly likely to for Megelberg, was followed by a visit to muniqué to the foreign residents ro- forgotten that the United States is not one be dissipated by the examination of the England, where she so delighted Kubelik that gretting the disturbances, which, he country but a group of countries covering figures, more especially as the figures hardly he engaged hor to give several converts with half a continent. To compare the expend-reveal the whole truth. Cheapness by itself him. In London she played at the St. James's said, were unexpected, and added that iture required to administer such a group is hardly a virtue, however. A nation pay Hall and the Queen's Hall, before Queen every precaution would be taken to of countries with the expenditure required ing heavy taxes and having a good admin Alexandra, and she also had a great triumph to administer a group of islands like the istration may be more prosperous than one United Kingdom is obviously unfair with small taxes and poor administration There is also the great difficulty of deciding what is and what is not expenditure for the administration of the State.
she had Holland, where success in Amsterdam with the orchestra and
Yuan Shih Kai has sent a com-
at the Albert Hall, at a concert at which prevent their recurrence. Princess Henry of Battenberg and the Duchess
of Albany were present. The Times in a critique
of Madame Miquel-Alzien's playing said: -* Her
Thus the was delivered in London on the March 1st from a lady's hand.... :
Mr. John Williams, M.P, in the gourse of aapeech in West Wales, said he expected settlement of the strike on the 7th inst. on satisfactory lines.
EFFECT OF THE SPRIKE IN NORWAY, A wire from Sarpsborg, in Norway, states Ko Tong, a few miles up the railway from fortnight's notice on account of the British was continued fighting in the vicinity of that two thousand men have received a Wong Sha. Fighting was occasioned firstly Coal strike.
...
by the attempt for arm and band some. ENFANCE PRICES ON THE CONTINENT. of the troops. The friends fe villages The strike is greatly affecting the prices objected to this and the result was a quarrel Lending in a fight between three large villages of coal in France. The price of bunker cool There was a serious recrudescence Yesterday a thousand troops were despatched has risen from 29 to 40 francs, and house-
from Canten to the district to put down the hold-coal is now 60 francs.
GERMAN SUPPORT FOR STRIKERS.
Miners
The English Mail of the 3rd February prodigious technique is quite disconcerting of the disturbance on Saturday mor- trouble and have brzo successful. Altogether
Reuter's correspondent at Bochum She plays ing, particularly in the western part to date about 2,000 men of the newly re- Scruited army have been disbanded and to
telegraphs that the German. Amendments of the regulations govern. Bincerely and scrupulously as a great artist," of the City. Whole streets were morrow the 1st of March will see another Federation has made an appeal to desist
and the Daily Mail described the charm of her looted and there were many fires.
3.000 disbanded according to datest reports. To-day the city is remarkably quiet; but from overtime work while the coal strike is playing " as "more affecting than one can say.
Matineers from Peking, reinforced whether there will be trouble to-morrow or proceeding in England. Numerous mest not is another matter upon which one can ings have been held in the Ruh coalfield. by soldiers, looted Paoting-Fu and hardly venture an opinion. That the dis-To-morrow the men will discuss the wage old haunts goes without saying, but it is owners, whose answer is required by the burned large areas. Other bodies banded pirates will simply return to their question and submit demands to the coal-
very likely that some of them may band 5th instant looted Fengtai and Yungpingfu.
together in or around the city and suburbs. The German newspapers Forwaerte states, and this is a grave danger to which the that the Schichan miners at Elbing have by Government is quite alive and against which 3,000 to 600 decided upon a strike.
A. regulation made by the Governor-in
expenditure on State enterprises, such as posts and telegraphs, railways, and State monopolies, cannot be included in ing the Hongkong Tramway Company's administrative expenditure, because these system are published in the Garette stand on the footing of self-supporting enter- prises. Excess of revenue obtained from them or any deficit incurred by the State in their working alons can be properly included under administrative expenditure. How ever, considering the question from the point
Council provides that the licence fee for the public performance of stage plays in the Seamen's Institute shall be 81 per annam, and not 150, as provided by the table of fees formerly published.
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The delegates from Nanking have telegraphed to General Li Yuan-heng
they are taking precautions.