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ao progress has consequently be made. All mining enterprise is carried on in the Province by the most primitive methods, and the local Government, so far from giving it every encouragement, levies extraordinarily high taxation on the output--something AT THE WELCOME DINNER like sixtran dollars a picul in the
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of tin and thirteen dollars in the case of copper. In short, every mining are and industry is said to be blod to the fullest extent. The administration is as bad as it can be. Bribery and corruption are said to be ns rampant as ever, though Tutuh Tea has worked hard to check it. If this bo 90, it is obvious that the first step towards pregress in Yunnan, as everywhere else in
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possibilities, and the conditions attached to some of the reported loau proposals indicato an appreciation of this in many quarters. The news that the Yunnis Government is now negotiating with a Japanese corpora- tion for a larga loan is interesting in view
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Governments have little to offer as security, other than roventos which come within the definition of federal revenues," the pros. pect of any loan negotiations with them heing carried through is not hopeful. As we have said before, more liberal mining laws would encourage the investment of foreign capital in China to the permanent benefit of the Government revenue and the wolfare of the people at large, and we are glad to learn that immediate revision of these laws is contemplated.
A meeting of the Legislative Council is called for to-morrow. The principal business will be the introduction of the Budget.
It is reported that a Belgian Syndicato is sending a representative to Yvonaufu for the purpose of getting the proposed West River railway contract fixed up.
Friday the 10th ingt, is another Chinese holiday, being the second anniversary of the outbreak of the Revolution which resulted in the overthrow of the Monarchy.
In the final Ce holes) for the Club Championship, played on the links of the N.R.C Golfing Association, at Negishi, Japan, Mr. A. Wraggo defeated Mr. G.G. Brady by 12 up and 1 to play. Mr. Brady was playing a little below his gano, while his opponent was at his best,
Mr. C. Bunje, who has been for the past nine years or more an assistant in the well-known Hongkong firin of Messrs, Chs. J. Gaupp & Co., watch and chronometer makers. jewellers Id opticians, left yesterday by the Paul Lecat for Singapore, where he goes to open a branch of the firm.
TO-DAY'S CHINESE FESTIVAL.
* ASCENDING ON HIGH.'
To-day is the Chinese festival of Ch'ung Yong. Mr. Dyer Ball in his Thing Chinese" as the following to say regarding this festival:—
Ages ago, a Chinese received a warning that
a dreadful eatastrophe
would happen to him and his family. To avert it he escaped to the heights; and in commemoration of this event, on the ninth day of the ninth moon, many Chines take a holiday, or an excursion of a few hours, to some neighbouring hill, or mountain. The Peak tramway in Hongkong, providing a convenient mode of reaching a summit, is largely availed of, to the wonderment of the English traveller, who is at a loss to understand why such an exodus of natives from the town is taking place. About 3,000 usually take advantage of this convenient mode of ascent, though on a wet day (such as occurred in 1804) the number may be reduced to one-half of that, trams run. The Oriental Theatrical Company ning continuously throughout the day for is to provide Manila with a new theatre
their accommodation. at a cost of 300,009 pesos. The building gala-day best, with silks and satins Dressed in their will be five stories high, containing galore, and with happy faces, family theatre, roof garden, restaurant, buffet. Lelegraph and telephone offices. The
groups may be seen wandering along the mountain reads, while troops of friends theatre is to provide seating accommoda-and acquaintances may be noticed chat- tion for 1500 persons.
ting their loudest and enjoying the treat The Osaka Marine Court, before of a whiff of fresh air after months of Presiding Judge Tanaka Hisao, began confinement in narrow streets and close shops. Up at the Peak itself, the base recently the hearing of a case arising out of a collision last December in the Inland of the flag-staff is black with human Ses between the P. & O, str. Unental beings, who, from the distance, look like and the Japanese sailing vessel Fukushigeants on a lump of sugar; and on the read Mere, Mr. Yoshida being Public Pro. slowly meandering their zigzag course up curator in charge. Captain King, of the hill are clusters of pedestrians; other Kobe, pilot of the Oriental, and Mr.
black specks on the path are home-bound Tagashira, in command of the sailing wonders wearily tending their down- ressel, have been examined.
ward course, though many patroaise the irat again and besiege the empty cars, like excursionists in England, the dis- appointed ones, who have to wait for the next trip, nearly blocking the station.
The British America Tobacco Company a Chinoso cigarette vendor prosecuted before Mr. F. A. Tfuzoland at the Magistracy yesterday for infringing one of their trade-marks. His Worship held the offence proved and inflicted a fine of $100, the alternative being two months' inprisonment. His Worship also ordered the forfeiture and destruction of every chattel, article, instrument or thing by means of, or in relation to, which the offence had been committed.
recom-
This Chung Yong festival is looked upon mare as a partial holiday than a feast in the strict sense of the term. Many Chinese, though perhaps not five per cent of the whole population, avail themselves of this opportunity for a little relaxation from business; those who do so being such as are blessed with leisure, or who desire an outing, or who are pecially superstitions. In connection with its calebration few fly kites from theso elevated positions. The writer, himself, has seen reumanta of kites at the Peak and the block-bonse; he has also seen fous-paper lying about, though, on the whole, few make it a day of worship.
A meeting of the Sanitary Board was held in the Board Room yesterday after- noon. An application for a conveniezice at University Gate Ledge was mended to be granted, and five other papers relating to ordinary routing business were laid on the table and disposed of in the space of about minute. The members who assembled to transact this business were:-Mr. D. W. Tratman (President), Colonel Irwin
AN, September 7th, (Principal Medical Officer), Dr. F. Clark here on Thursday from Suez en route to The Hoating dock Snurabaya arrived. Medical Officer of Health), Hou. Mr.
Sourahara, and is still in the Aden Har
We observo that "the well-known aovelist and globe-trotter, Mr. Lawrence Mott, of New York," has been giving to the Japien fasette some interesting if at times gruesome, sidelights on the fight-
FLOATING DOCKS.
DUTCH, ENTERPLE IN THE EAST..
TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.
"DAILY MESS" EXCLUSIVE SERVICE.]
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
SHANGHAI, October 7th. Yuan Shih-kai has been elected President of the Republic of China.
The voting was as follows:---
YUAN SHIH-KAI...... 507 LI YUAN-HUNG........ 179 [This telegram appeared in our morning "Extra"
yesterday.-Ep.]
THE
[TROFON REUTER'S AGENCY.] GREAT BRITAIN AND
RECOGNITION OF CHINA.
LONDON, October 7th.
Reuter learns that Great Britain - will
announce the recognition of the new régime in China on Friday.
THE FUTURE OF THE PHILIPPINES.
IMPORTANT PRONOUNCEMENT BY THE NEW
GOVERNOR-GEKRIMI...
MANILA, October 7th.
Mr. Harrison, the now Governor- General of the Philippine Islands, has announced that the policy of the United States contemplated the ultimate inde- pendence of the Philippines and, as a first step, promised immediately to give the natives a majority in both Houses of the Philippines Legislature
CANADA'S GOVERNOLGENERAL.
LONDON, October 7th. The Duke and Duchess of Connaught leave England for Canads on the 17th
inst.
PRINCE. ARTHUR'S WEDDING.
ENORMOUS, VALUE OF PRESENTS.
{THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.] THE HOME RULE CONTROVERSY.
AMERICAN-TRISHMEN COMMEND THE
NATIONALISTS.
NEW YORK, October 7th, At a Home Rule meeting, a resolution was passed congratulating the people of Treland on their advancement in the struggle for an Irish Parliament, and bartily commeading the Irish Party for their determination to refuse a Con-
ference or a compromise with a noisy and ridiculous handful of spoil-hunters and factionists, who were in no senso entitled, ́either polítically, morally, or nunerically, to represent or speak for Ulster. Asum of $5,000 was collected at the meeting.
SIGNIFICANT DISCUSSIONS. Significance is attached the meeting of Sir Edward Carson and Mr. Bonar Law in London yesterday afternoon. It is stated that they discussed the question as to whether a basis for a Confernce was possible. This is given prominença in the Press, together with the fact that Mr. Asquith is to-day the Minister in attendance on the King at Baimoral.
The Unionist papers state that no furmal decision as regards future policy was reached at the meeting between Alr, Bar Law and Sir Edward Carson, who decided to wait until after Mr. Winston Churchill's speech at Dundee to-morrow. IMPORTANT DECLARATION BY THE HÒME SECRETARY.
Mr. Reginald McKenna, the Home Secretary, speaking at Pontypool, said that a Conference on the Home Rule question meant nothing but pointless procrastination, when one of the parties opposed nothing but a flat negative to the proposals of the other party.
The ex- clusion of Ulster was doubtless advocated
LONDON, October 7th. It is announced that the public will not be admitted to view the presents at the wedding of Prince Arthur of Con- naught to the Duchess of Fife. They are estimated to be of the value of £100,000.sentatives of the people. Pearls, which are the gems of the season, figure largely in the jewellery,
with the object of rendering. Home Rule impossible, The Liberal party refused to submit to the rule of a minority, and the Home Rule Bill would pass in the next Session by the authority of the repro
THE LABOUR TROUBLE AT DUBLIN,
314HTENS XEFUSE ODARD OF TRADE'S
PROPOSALS.
FREE TRADE CAMPAIGN. APPEAL TO TARIFF REFORMERS BY SIR JOHN SIMON.
LONDON. October 7th,
Sir John Simon, K., P., the Solicitor-General, opened at Glasgow the Radical Free Trade campaign.
Hc quoted statistics to show that the decade
LONDON, October 7th. The men on strike at Dublin have accepted the Board of Trade's proposals for a settlement of the strike, but the sines Mr. Chamberlain's proposals were masters have refused them. The scheme promulgated had proved the efficacy of proposes the appointment of Conciliation Committees, consisting of the masters and the men, but requires that the men should first meet the management.
E. A. Hewett, C. M.G., Dr. G. HI, L. Fitz-hour. This huge structure which is towed williams, Mr. Ng Hon Taz, Mr. Chan by the hug boats Allow and Titan left Kai Ming and Mr. W. Bowen Rowlands Nieuwediep, Holland, towards the end of (secretary).
June, last and called at Algiers, Port Said, and Suez. She will probably proceed this week to Colombo and from there will go to Sabang. Singapore, Batavia, and Sourabaya; which last port should he reached in November. On the about three and half knots, the best day's voyage cut the average speed has been run being a hundred and tea miles. The Monday received injuries necessitating ing that he has seen, both in Canton and slowest speed attained was off Cope St. could exist if sympathetic strikes become The Report declares that no community Nanking." Mr. Mott, it seems, happened in 24 hours.
Vincent, when only 36 miles were covered
The foyage through the the general policy of Trade Unionists. to be in the thick of the fighting at Suez Canal was accomplished more easily Canton, and his vivid description than was anticipated, despite the break-
A STRONGER OTTOMAN NAVY, suggests that be s some claims to occurred through the dock slightly touch-
age of a
mercury indicator, which recognition as a writer of fiction. thonghing the bank. we de en regnise Mr. Mott as being
As the result of falling from a tram-car whilst it was in motion, a Chinese on
his removal to hospital.
During the course of the last three days some person entered No. 14, Arbuthnot Road, at present unoccupied, and pur- loined four brass gas brackets, valued at $30.
A string band provided music during the dinner hour at the Peak Hotel last night and after dinner played on the roof garden which was gaily decorated with coloured lanterns.
Two Chinese who were charged with assaulting a Chinese constable during the execution of his duty at Yaumati market
were sentenced to a month'a bard labour by Mr. Hazeland yesterday.
A Chinese who was charged before Mr. C. D. Melbourne at the Magistracy yesterday pleaded not guilty to a charge of returning from banishment, and was committed for trial at the Criminal Sessions.
ONLY & low days ago we commented on the strange neglect of the shineso authorities to exploit in a business-like way the great minoral wealth which vo many of the Provinces aro known to possess. The information we published yesterday regard ing competition by foreign firms or syndi cates to advance large sums of money in the Province of Yunnan for the development of mining enterprises indicates clearly enough that there is plenty of foreign capital offer for this purpose conditional Within on proper socurity being given. the past few months we have heard of loan contracts in Yunnan by Franco-Russier group in Tonkin, as well as by German and Japanese frus. All these loans have had to do with mining. The Ko-Chiu Tia' Refinery was mentioned as the borrower in more than one case, and in others the Provincial Government itself was the prospective borrower, oa gonditions as to security in which the mining rights the province were involved. The Province of Yunnan is regarded as one of use eest in mineral hocht in Chiou. gepper tin, lead and spelter are there in great abundance. but suck afforts as are Reflections, published made at present by native miners to develop relating to the innouncement that the this wealth are half strangled by the avaris forthcoming performance of "Twelfth ciousness of the local Government. The Night by the Hongkong Mummers authorities have in the pust made some
will be "the first amateur Shakespearian show of doing something by engaging Production in the Far East," we
jeign expert advisers, but the advice theso informed that the Tokyo A.D.C. staged have tendered has not beer usted upon, ind The Merchant of Venico" last year.
in
At the Magistracy yesterday, Mr. F. A. Hazoland ordered a Chinese contractor to pay 850 compensation to a woman who received serious injuries as the result of carelessness on the part of the con- tractor's
operations at Pokfulam. The woman was employees during blasting
standing quite 100 yards away when she was struck by two large pieces of granite,
among the novelists who are well-known. The Japan Gurite, we may add, gives a pizure of Mr. and Mrs. Mott making the rounds of Canton on a Shanghai wheelbarrow
etc.
TURKISH COMMANDER'S IMPORTANT
COMMISSION.
London, October 7th.
Commander of the Hamidiel, has gone to Reuter learns that Captain Renout, the
FOURTEEN PEOPLE. KILLED AND 17 ÍNJURED.
DVINSK, October 7th.
TERRIBLE STORM IN ALAŠKA.
NEW YORK, October 7th."
steretion of the docks had been delayed a Owing to strikes in Holland the con- rear, thus frustrating the very interesting original project This was to place one built in America which was to be inside the present fasting dock a small towed to Amsterdam, and inside this second deck a floating crane was to have Rome and London to purchase warships been put the whole arrangement being and to engage oficers Messrs. Luzac & Co., of 48, Great intended for the convenience of transport
to place the Russell Street, London, have just issued Souring are length 140m. 93c. breadth,
in Java The dimensions of the Ottoman Navy on a stronger basis. a new catalogue on the Far East, includ-am. 06c. depth, 4m. c. and the lifting RAILWAY, DISASTER IN RUSSIA. ing the Libraries of the late W: G, Aston, capacity is 14,000 tons. She embodies all C.M.G. (late Japanese Secretary
the latest improvements and is fitted with four powerful winches as well as four HB.M's Legation, Tokyo), and the late anchors and chairs. She has sixty-six Herbert J. Allen, F.R.G.S. (some time compartments, of which forty-four are
The Kieff to St. Petersburg express IL.B.M.'s Consul at Newchwang, China), nder water level and her capitans are
driven by three oil engines.
The tem This catalogue contains some 2,195 porary steering gear and high pressure
collided with an uncoupled engine yester- numbers. including many interesting entrifugal pumps are worked electrically day. Fourtees people were killed and items on China, Japan, and the Far East rancine steam engine fitted on top of one the power being meantime supplied by a generally, among which we notice a copy of the sides. At her destination, power
17 injured.
of the Ka Chin T's Shu Chi Cheng, will be supplied to the motor by cables Chinese encyclopedia, the largest printed laid from the chore electrical installation. encyclopædia in the world, consisting of The engineers can see at a glance by the $2150 5,040 volumes. There are also good mercury indicators, and an arrangement selections of books on the languages of of coloured electric famps, both the height these countries which should be useful for of water in each compartment, and almost destroyed by a terrific storm. The students.
whether the valves are open shut; the possibility of accident ur error is thus sandspit, where the gold was dredged, reduced to a minimum. A commodious house has been built for the cres The was washed away, and 500 houses were tugs Atlas and Titan ara fitted with wire-demolished. The inhabitants are working less and Captain Baker is in charge of Two deserters from the Roumanian the whole affair. The tags belong to the
to gave their property among the icy army recently performed the extraordin Amsterdan Tug and Salvage. Company, seas, which are breaking over the town. ary feat of travelling from Bukharest to which has carried out some remarkably Paris-a distance of 1,000 miles, which long and dificult towa-Times of India. occupies thirtysix hours--under Orient express, When the found clinging to the brake apparatas arrived at the Gare de l'Est they were under the train They admitted that According to the Brussels newspapers a special session of the States which are they had deserted from the Roumanian army and having no money, and wishing parties to the International Sugar Con- to get to Paris, they had adopted this vention will be held in the autumn, iu uncomfortable way of travelling. This order to discuss the position to be taken is the second of such cases in Paris within up towards Great Britain and Italy, who ship of England, knocking out. Afee a fortnight, a man having travelled under withdrew from the Convention the train from a station in the Pyrenees. September 1st.
1,000-MILES JOURNEY UNDER A TRAIN.
the In answer to the query in Random Monday,
on
are
express
THE SUGAR CONVENTION.
A town in Alaska called Nome has been
BOXING.
ENGLISH FEATHER-WEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
WON BY KID LEWIS.
LONDON, October 7th..
At the National Sporting Club Kid Lewis won the Feather-weight Champion
on
| Lambert in the seventeenth round.
Free Trade, which was important and valuable when times were good, and an absolute necessity when times were bad. He appealed to Tariff ReforIÐ 31 # Conservative statesman had described an to abandon their policy, which a past
dead and damned."
THE. MILITANT SUFFRAGETTES.
INFURIATED WOMEN ARRESTED IN LONDON.
LONDON, October 7th. Miss Annie Kenney, the notorious leader of the Militants, was re-arrested at a meeting in London under the provisions of the Cat and Mouse" Act. After a fierce struggle against infuriated wogen eight arrests were made by the police for obstruction.
FRENCHMAN'S FLIGHT OVER
LONDON.
PROTEST AGAINST THE AERO CLUB'S ACTION.
LONDON, October 7th. Mr. Claude Grahame White and Mr. Gates, the manager of the Hendon Aerodrome, have resigned their member- ship of the Aero Club as a protest against the action of the institution in suspen ding the certificate of M. Moninais," the French aviator, for flying over London on the 11th May.
ANGLO-AMERICAN PEA CE
CENTENARY:
New York, October 7th.
The British Committee of the Angio- American Peace Centenary appeals for £60,000 to carry out the British pro gramme in the Centenary celebration, including, besides educational scheren, the erection of a Memorial at Westmin- ster and the purchase of Sulgrave Manor, the ancestral home of the Washingtona.