INTIMATIONS
THE
precluded herself from doing so for another ten years. The Government, however, can scarcely be in doubt as to the nature of the reply which the Powers in all probability will make to her request. Ten years ago, when the present Tariff was arranged, the
A. S. WATSON British Government and the other Treaty
& CO., LTD.,
ESTABLISHED 72 YEARS.
Powera also, we believe, expressed readiness to agree to an increase in the Customs Tariff up to 123 per cent, upon one very important condition—the abolition of lekin, By the MAOKAY Treaty the Chinese Govern- ment definitely recognised that the system of levying lekin and other dass on goods HIGH-CLASS
at the place of production, in transit, and at CONFECTIONERY destination "impedes the free circulation of
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH, 1913.
The_French mail of the 21st October TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.
was delivered in London on the 18th November,
H.M.S. Minatur, firgship, left Woosung yesterday for Amoy, and is expected to reach Hongkong next Wednesday.
[TELQUAN LEUTER'S AGENOY]
THE PANAMA CANAL
TRAVERSED BY SMALL STEAMER.
NEW YORK, November 19th
marriage of Mr. L. J. C. Anderson, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, to Miss Mary Josephine
A telegram from Panania says that a Nobel, who arrived at Penang from Home recently, was fixed for Monday, the 17th small steamer, the Louise, with the lead- iust., at the Church of the Assumptioning Canal officials, yesterday traversed. the whole of the Canal. This was made possible by the progress made in cutting a channel through Cucaracha slide, the last obstraction.
Mr: C. C., Wang, who recently went to America on a mission connected with the Unification of Railway Accounts in China,
commodities and injures the interests of trade," and undertook to discard completely SELECTIONS OF THE PUREST AND these means of raising revenue except as Commission from 1887 to 1906, and in
CADBURY'S
In fancy boxes in great variety. Bourneville Nut Chocolate.
regards the salt tax, nativa opium and FINEST QUALITY, IMPORTED
native produce. That undertaking has not FROM THE LEADING LONDON, been fulfilled, but, as the reader who perused NEW YORK AND
PARISIAN the Cabinet's programme of Reforms which we reproduced in our yesterday's issue will, HOUSES.
perhaps, have noticed, there has been no change of opinion regarding the detrimental CHOCOLATES effect which lekin has upon the general trade of the country, for the Cabinet refer to it as "the greatest obstacle to industry," and it is again declared that lekin shall bo abolished. The obvious answer to China's demand for an increase in the Tariff is that the Treaties already pledge the Powers to agree to the raising of the Tariff from 3 to 12 per cent, as soon as China has satisfied
levies on merchandise have been abolished throughout the country. It is not a qua tion of the willingness of the Foreign Powers to agree to the increase, but of China's ability to fulfil her part of the bargain, go far, the promise given in the Treaty has not been worth the paper on which it was
FULLER'S CONFECTIONERY
Assorted Chocolatos, Marzipan
THE TROUBLE IN MEXICO.
FEDERAL OFFICERS EXECUTED.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY. ]
INDIAN UNREST IN SOUTH AFRICA.
URGEST NEED FOR SETTLEMENT. »
'' REAL AND SERIOUS TEST CASE OF EMPE
WETHAIWEI,
PRESENTATION TO MR. R. WALTER, SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT.
An interesting function took place at King's Hotel, Weihaiwei, on 11th inst, when a representative gathering of merchants and residents met to take leave of Mr. R. Walter, and to present him London, Noveraber 19th. with a silver bowl and other tablo orna- The evening newspapers in editorialsments as a token of their exteen and dealing with the Indian rising in South regard, and their appreciation of his courtesy and kindness in his relations Africa, all dwell upon the extreme with them during the past eleven years. gravity of the position of Natal, and the Mr. H. L. BEER, acted as spokesman likelihood of serious unrest in India and said- occasion like this, apart. unless the trouble is quickly ended. All from the particular object that brings realise the fears of white people in South
s together, is to be welcomed, for it Africa, who are determined to maintain reminds us that we are, after all, one the European standard of living, but City, that each of us has intereste in common with others, apart from the A blockade by the United States is ex-rge how imperative it is that there cultivation of his own vine and fig-tree
should be a speedy remedy of the present interests outside the boundary stones The German pected in a few days.
position. The Westminster Guzette that enclose his property. The Governi Minister las requested the German mer-
emphasises the Imperial Government's ment under which
WD. live is not chants to submit inventorica in view.
grave concern at the position, and says that it would be difficult, if not impossible, to democratic, and under, the circumstances of this Huerta is still continuing to India will never believe that the Imperial transact business at the Talace.
The Government was unable to persuade the remains, we have no votes, no elections, suggest any alternative, Still the fact At St. John's Cathedral yesterday after organisation of the Congress was com- Union to accept an Imperial view, and and the community is in noon, in the presence of many friends, thepleted yesterday
appeals to Baer and Briton, capecially responsible for the management of its marriage took place of Mr. Percival- Meanwhile, the rebels at Juarez, the latter who claim to be good Imperial-own affairs. This being so, a healthy Douglas Wilson, formerly of Ayr, and threaten to seize the Mexico-North-ists, to help in this emergency, which is public opinion cannot flourish, and we low on the Engineering staff of the Public Western railroad, which is Canadian a real and serious test-case of Empire. even run some risk of losing our sense Works Department of Hongkong, to Miss.
cured for the Chinese Government the services of Mr. Henry Carter Adams, who was statistician of the Interstate Commerce
charge of the division of statistics of the same Commission from 1906 onwards. Mr. Adams has heen engaged for one year, during which it is hoped that he will organize an efficient system of railway accounting for China,
WEDDING AT ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL
MEXICO CITY, November 19th.
по senise
of citizenship. This is, I believe, the
Chocolates, Chocolate Car them that lekin and all other similar Hilda Gibbon, of Warrington, who owned, unless the officials repair and The Festminster Gazette also urges the first occasion in the history of the
Carranza intends to withdrawal of the £3 tax
and contrel the fields and collect the the immigration restriction within the
Union. revenues therefcum.
Indian leaders must keep the strikers within bounds..
arrived in the Colony last week. The operate the line. changal of the Cathedral was prettily decorated for the occasion with beautiful palms and flowers. The Bride, who was given away by Mr. P. H. Holyoak, wore
a cream satin charmeuse dress with voil
and wreath of orange blossoms, and
The Constitutionalists have executed some twenty Federal officers captured at Jarz This proccding has rather
LATER,
A telegram from Durban to the British
Territory that the community-whether
happen to be Eastern, or how come from the West has, as a whole, without. official control or initiative, taken spontaneous and united action. I hope, therefore, that you will, for the reasons I have given, regard this as a welcome.
The difficulty of the Chinese carried a magnificent bouquet of white disconecrled Washington, raising doubts India Committee in London states that event in that it reminds us we are one
chrysanthemums. The
mels, Creme de Menthe Delight, Caramel Mou a la Creme, Almond Taffy, Pepper mint, etc., etc.
KOHLER'S CHOCOLATES
written Government is that lekin is not only one. in great variety.
of the main sources of revenue in the JACQUIN'S NOUGAT FIN. Provinces, but a souren of illegitimate wealth to a large army of collectors," and until the Central Government manages to CALEY'S CRACKERS
make its control of the Provinces effective | Highland dress, was attended by Mr. and the capital. Foreigners are crowți- of the Finest Quality in great variety.
there is little likelihood of these vexatious lavies being abolished. The leve of lekin ("contribution of a thousandth") dates back only to the Taiping roballion, when the exigencies of the Government drove the A. S. WATSON & CO.. authorities to devise new forms of taxation.
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WILSON-GIBBON.On November 19th, at St. John's Cathedral, PERCIVAL DODO LAS WILSON, SOU of Alexander Wilson, Es, late of Ayr, to HILDA, daughter of the late EnwARD GIBBON, Esq. of Warrington
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The Constitutionalists are threatening
little Misses as to the expediency of assisting the the situation is getting serious. The community. We brush aside our social difficulty of feeding and keeping order distinctions, and we meet-n gathering, Dorothy and Joyce Holyonk attended as bels bridesmaids and looked very dainty in
is increasing in every house. The active representative of the whole community, white and watuve, with bats to match, and
whom honour is due, they carried bouquets of manve cam the town of Orizaba, whose capture will intervention of the Imperial and Indian Chinese and foreign-to honour one to It is scarcely. anula. The Bridegroom, attired in cut off communication between Vera Cruz Governments is necessary lest greater necessary to say that in. Mr. Waker we
hardships ensue.
C. H. Blason as best min. The eering towards the coast. mony was performed by the Rev. V. H. Copley-Moyle, and at the conclusion the organist (Mr. Donman Fuller) played Mendissohn's Wedding March.
reception was afterwards bold at "Capsuimun, Barker Road, the residence
NO BLOCKADE DECIDED UPON.
WASHINGTON, November 19th, President Wilson met tlie Cabinet, mid.
have had one who by his unremitting.
A message from Pietermaritzburg says attention to his official duties, has won that it is officially stated that the report our respect, and one section of the com- of an Indian being logged to death is munity will be glad to remember that, absolutely false. The Indian died recent during his long stay here, he has not
afterwards a denial was issued to mortem examination by the district sur civilization and of a nominally Christian ly at the Ballengeich mine, and a post forgotten what is due to his position as an oficial representative, of Western report that a blockade in Mexico had regeon and two doctors showed that death government. But if there is one thing
decided upon. The advisers' "to" the
of Mr. and Mrs. Holyoak, where the usual toasts were honoured, and the happy couple subsequently left for Canton and Administration favour patience while Macao on their honeymoon. The Bride's the Constitutionalists. pursue their go-away costume was of grey whipcord campaign. cloth and hat of black tulle, lined with pink.. A friend in Highland dress attended the reception and played some Scottish airs on the bag pipes.
FATAL SHOOTING ACCIDENT AT
FOOCHOW
AMERICAN JILCEJACKET KILLED.
Asad accident which had a fatal result about a week ago. A seaman of the occurred in the neighbourhood of Foochow
USS Wilmington named Stanley Reeves Taylor, while on a shooting trip, was shot in the thigh accidentally by a comrade. Every effort was made by the man's comrade to stop the flow of blood, but these endeavours were unveiling and Taylor died from shock and luge of blood. The body has been brought to Hongkong and will be sent to the United States for
The original theory of the lovy, was one tnth of ouc per cent, on the value, but Mr. H. B. Mouse in his valuable book on The Trado and Administration of China" observes that "practica soon parted corn pany with theory, and the official rates were much increased." Nor is the tax uniform in its incidence in all Provinces. Hunan is proud of its independence und freedom from these non-customary exactions; but Hunan is exceptional. Mr. M Monar mentions Kwangtung as more typical of thos
o'country. "Here between Canton and Wuchow, a distance of about two hundred miles on the West River, there are six lekin barriers," each constituting a barrier to the f muvement of traffic, and each involving delay, vexation and payment. In that put of Kiangsu, lying South of the Yangtze, that are over 250 atations, collecting or preventive. To get at the mount paid by the people is more difficult, in the case of lekin, Mr. Moran saya, than of other laxes, the collection being much more in the hands of the officer in charge of each barrier and bis subordinates than is possible with other taxes. He quotes an instance in which the burini. proper charge was $4. The accretions" on this charge--meltage 1038 on melting, freight, costs of transmission and general office expenses-amounted to a further $6.50-an "accretion" of 162 per cent. This apparently does not melde "collectors' charges," and Mr. Monex saye that students of things Chiness would promptly reject suggestion that the addition for collectors' charges, the personal emoluments of the active agents, can be as low as 10 per cent. This illustration will suffice to make plain to this general reader how lekin humpers trade and commerce in China, and will also suggest the immenise
HONGKONG, NOVEMBER 20TH, 1913.
NOTHING more has been heard during the past week or two regarding the Note which the Foreign Office at Peking addressed some time ago to the Corps Diplomatique relative to the revision of the Customs Tarifs, but the subject is one which is doubtless riscaiving the earnest attention of the Powers. China has a Treaty right to
request cannot be ignored. Article XV. of its control over thn Provinces.
difficulties in the way of its abolition until
HANGUINARY BATTLE.
The Mexican Constitutionalists have captured the city of Victoria, in the State of Tamanpilas.
The victorious commander reports that every member of the Federal garrison was killed,
The battle was one of the bloodiest in the revolution.
THE HOME RULE WARFARE:
LORD LANSDOWNG'S REMEDY.
LONDON, November 19th Lord Lansdowne, speaking at Brighton, insisted that the proper solution of the Home Rule question was a reference of it to the electors. Failing that, the Opposi tion were prepared to consider the special treatment of Ulster, accompanied by such changes in the Bill as would thereby he At the Magistracy yesterday, Mr. Wood Tecessitated." If both these are refused Gued a Chinaman 81.000 for being in
we give Ulster all encouragement, in her unlawful possession of 100 taels of raw resistance, and hold the Government opiume
PETTY THEFTS..
was due to natural causes.
FRENCH MINERS ON STRIKE,
DONAI, November 18th. Six thousand miners are on strike Pas de Calais,
at
The National Council of miners yesterday resolved upon дл imme diate general strike in order to secure an eight hours' day and the abolition of long shifts.
BIG DIAMOND ROBBERY
BRUSSELS, November 19th Two robbers broke into Klippuer's diamond cutting works, bound up the watchman, and stole diamonds to the value of £19,000 sterling. The watchman, who has been arrested, says that he was asleep when the robbers entered.
AERIAL FREAKS.
PARIS, November 19th. The aviator Chevillard twice looped the loop. He was accompanied by a passenger,
BOXING.
more than another that inerits our esteem, ities. we indicate in the Address Wo have signed his invariable courtesy in all his relations with us. We, therefore, ask Mr. Walter to accept our gift as a "token of esteem and regard." "Good-bye": is rather a sad word to utter, but we shall allow ourselves to hope that our "good-bye") should have been coupled with an a revoir, and that we shall sec Mr. Walter in our midst again. We congratulato Mr. Walter on his promotion we hope he earries with him not unpleasant recollec tions of his long residence at Weibaiwei. We wish bim a prosperous journey, "a happy réunion with his family, and every success in the new career that lies before him as Colonial Secretary of British Honduras.
Mr. WALTER, who was evidently taken by surprise, said he had no idea, when ho received a note from Mr. Powell inviting him to the Hotel, that he was to be the recipient of so handsome a gift, and to hear such kind words shout his work and his life in this community. He was con- scious that he had tried to do his duty, but he was also conscious, that he had often failed, and he was very glad to find others judged him so leniently. He had travelled much in recent years, and was now once more on the move to the other side of the world-a stranger and a BOSTON, November 10th.
sojourner" with no continuing city. Whether he ever returned to Weihaiwe Gunboat" Smith was awarded the
was, as the ancients would put it, on decision over Sam Langford at the end the knees of the gods. He thanked them of a 12-rounds contest. In the early yourds Smith assumed the aggressive, Langford not making any serious defence The Daily Telegraph states that the Smith weakened, and Langford belaboured of $29, in clothes and money, and $20 Cabinet yesterday mainly considered his opponent with right and left to the worth of clothing, respectively. The $39 the Estimates, which are expected to body. At the finish Sinich was tired, worth of clothes and money were taken
Haiphong Road, Kowloon, is alleged to from their conduct."
A faki employed by Po Cheung, in responsible for any disasters faulting have absconded with a gold watch valued at $100.
Seeing a door open at 373, Queen's Road, West, someone went inside and left with property to the value of $284, of which $189 was in money.
Two Chinese students have been robbed
THE CABINET MEETING.
ESTIMATES; NOT ULSTER.
LONDON, November 19th
SAM LANGFORD' DEFEATED.
ask for the revision, and, therefore, berthe Central Government has strengthened from one of the students upon arrival inatal nearly £200,000,000 in 1914 and 1915, while Langford was quite fresh
the Hoi-wing. The other theft took place in the student's rooms.
Dr. Pape, the German resident in
An opium charge was brought before Bangkok who shut his broller dead some Mr. Wood at the Magistracy yesterday little time back, is to be sent to Germanyformer was stated to have absconded but had to be dismissed because the to stand his trial.
with sixty-five marked dollars.
Dr. Arnold, Adviser to the Ministry of Finance, a Peking paper says, has entered upon his duties in the Currency Reform Department of the Ministry.
the British Cominercial Treaty, known as the MacKay Treaty, which was negotiated io 1902, preserves. for either of the High Contracting Parties to the Treaty the right to demand at the end of ten years a revision of the Tariff then arranged and accepted by the Treaty Powers China in making her request to the Powers is simply railing herself of her Treaty right." If no demand be made by either side within six months after the end of the first ten years,” the
The Chinese Government contemplatca Treaty provides that the Tariff eball remain in force for ten years more reckoned establishing a branch office of the Bank of China in London. Dr. Chen Chin-tag, from the end of the preceding ten years, the special agent of the Ministry of and so it shall be at the end of each encces-Finance resident abroad, will be given sive-tan years." Therefore, if Chian had
charge of the matter. not made the demand now she would have,
ACCIDENT TO ME RO TỪNG
The following paragraph is taken from the Peking Daily News of the 12th inst.
involving fresh taxation. Nothing was dons regarding Ulster and Home Rule,
The Daily Chronicle, confirming the statement that the Cabinet did not con- sider Home Rule yesterday, says that the Government has no intention of making overtures to the Opposition."
+ IMPERIAL DEFENCE.
LONDON, November 19th.
The Commonwealth has now received
one and all for the kindness that prompted their action in giving him so handsome a token of their regard, which he and Mrs. Walter would always trea sure as a memento of their stay at Weihaiwei
Mr. Walter then turned to the Chinese who were present, and, speaking in the Meny local dialect, thanked them also for tho spectators were surprised at the decision. evidences of goodwill they had shown
towards him. FOREIGN OFFICE APPOINTMENT.
LONDON, November 19th. Mr. E. V. P. Thurstan, secretary to the First Minister of the Sultan of Zanzibar, lias appointed Cousal at
Calais:
OBITUARY,
PARIS, November 19th.
announced of Mathilde
The silver bowl, a handsome and. artistic piece of work, was procured through Messrs Lavers & Clark, Shang- hai, and bore the inscription:
Presented to R. WALTER, Esq
by the Morchants and Residents of Weihaiwei as a token of esteem and regard. 12th November, 1913.
The death
The wayward young man, broken in health, was sent to the south-west to Marchesi,
recuperate. He was in gaol in Arizona The deceased lady made her debut as a for stealing whindquarter of beef. He
Mr. HoTung, the Hongkong millionaire,
a reply from the Imperial Government who took a trip to Mukden, met with an the car was stopping, and had one of his accident at Shan-kai-kwan. He fell as to the suggestion to hold a joint, Con- hip bones dislocated. Dr. K. Gomes is ference upon defence. It is understand singer in 1844. She subsequently became wrote home: Dear Father-I've picked attending him. It is expected that he that the reply states that a Conference at
will have to remain in bed for two or three weeks.
present is impossible.
a music teacher, Madanie Melba and Mise up some flesh since I came here, but am Ada Crossley being among her principal still confined to my room. Please send pupila.]
| me $100."-Argonaut,