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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH-THURSDAY, JUNE 30TH, 1881.
The Foochow Herald says that about fifty or sixty Chinese in Foochow city, who had been caught in the act of shaving their heads, were sentenced to receive a bambooing and to pay a fine of 3,000 cash cach, for having disobeyed the Imperial command not to shave their heads for one hund- red days, and upon liberation, their heads were painted and varnished.
During last year 553 houses in Tokio were entered by robbers, who killed seven persons, wounded fifty-six, stole yon 6,307,25. Of highway rob- beries, there were 74, with two persons killed, seven wounded, and yen 599,38 stolen. Larconies from houses were 33,260, yen stolen 67,446.636. The numbers of pockets picked were 516, with a total loss of yen 2,834,494 Persons deceived by swindlers, 631; yen lost 2,357. Money was acciden- tally lost to the amount of yen 16,129.62; and 5,456 articles were lost. Fires 119. Robbers arrested 281, and 2 females. Petty thieves; 981 males and 3 females. Incendiaries: 19 males and 2 females. Murders; 27
nows we can, wo shah.in the meantime
Wo-beg to congratulate our con temporary, The Mercury, on the negotiations above referred to, hav- ing faller through. If the telegrama sent by Reuter to Shanghai are of the same class furnished at $15 per month to our Hongkong contem- poraries, the Mercury is far better without them.
"Some correspondence has taken ment and Colonel Beaumont, of Eng place between the Australian Govern- land, the inventor of a new tramway motor, and which is said to have the advantage of being both noiseless. and vapourless, being worked by compressed air. been tested on some of the English lines, and is said to answer remark- ably well. The agreement between the Government and Colonel Beau-
The motor has
mont is to the effect that the latter
should send to Sydney at his own expense one of the motors, together
with apparatus for compressing the air for experimental trial on the line here, and if it is found capable of taking a load of 30 tons up a gra- dient of 1 in 19 for half-a-mile, at the rate of eight miles an hour, and that it will also run 20 miles with- out re-charging, the Government will adopt these motors for the use of the Tramway Department. Colonel Beaumont has evidently great faith in his invention, as he takes all the expense and responsibility of sending out the motor."
"was greater than the market afforded. whole of the evidence taken runs in to the throne was published in the
Through the Six Companies they sent the same groove; that the Chinamon Shen Pao about Opium. He com- reproduce the tolograms from the their money to China, and brought who come to California come volun-plained about the falling off of the North-China Daily News, util gomo them here, and that is the way in tarily, although many of them are Government revenue owing to the more satisfactory arrangement cu bo which they come." Mr. King, agent financially assisted to get there, and negligence of the Wei-yuans. He de-made, as we don't see why we should of the anti-coolic clubs said:"The after their arrival are put into some plored the increasing taste for the not get the telegrams at first hand majority of Chinese males probably kind of employment. For this as- consumption of opium. He proposes We fail to see how the morning paper when wo are willing to pay for them.. come here voluntarily, as Mr. Pixley sistance they pay a percentage of that the lekin tax should be made should have a monopoly, to the disad. suggests, but are bound by servile their wages until the stipulated sum heavier and heavier, and to prevent vantage of a more enterprising rival, labor for long terms of years, and is paid, and the contract cancelled. the Government being defrauded pro- as we provide the public with a popa- while such contracts exist they are Mr. Seward, who disputes the part poses that the lekin tax should be lar paper, at a much lower scale of sub- to all intents and purposes the absol- assigned to the Six Companies, tri- for foreign opium Tis. 150 per 100 scription and cheapor advertising rate, ute slaves of the contractors. For umphantly cites the evidence given catties; the native drug being cheaper than our venerable contemporary." although these contracts are void by the managers of these companies can-well-afford to boar the same by our law, yet the superstition and before a committee of the Senate of tax, and he proposes that it should fear of the Chinese bondsman for his California in April, 1876, to strength- also pay Tls. 150 for 100 catties. He master is so great as to prevent him on his views. We think he is suggests that the Northern and from breaking his contract. That rather unfortunate in this matter, as Southern Superintendents of Trade, such fears are well grounded we shall where self-interest is so intimately the Tartar General of Foochow, the show by ovidence, and we shall estab- concerned, the honest truth could Hoppo of Canton, the Viceroys and lish, further, this fact, that death at hardly be looked for from that class Governors of Provinces should be the hands of a Chinese assassin has of Chinese, and their evidence, on the consulted, and is of opinion, that frequently been the fate of the Chi- face of it, is worthless, and totally something must be done in this nese slave who attempted to break unreliable. We are rather at a loss matter.-Mercury. his shackles and regain his freedom.” to understand what Mr. Seward is There can be no manner of doubt referring to when he speaks of “the whatever in the minds of right think- advanced position which the Chinese ing persons, that, if the above state-Empire has held in regard to slavery, ments were properly established, and of the democratic quality which authenticated by reliable evidence, pervades its polity, and the absence there has been a great deal of Chi- of caste among its population." He nese servile labor in California. We then proceeds to say that "the most have seen so much of what has been lucid statement which I have seen in called domestic slavery in Hongkong, regard to the forms of servitude similar in a great many respects to which exist in China, is contained that described by Mr. King, that we in a report made by Dr. Eitel, inter- cannot but believe that he had good preter to the government of Hong- grounds for most of his statements, kong, which will be found in the However, Mr. Seward asserts that Hongkong Government Gazette of the the only evidence presented to the 4th February 1880. The system as Commission in support of the de- described is a part of the patriarchal claration made by Mr. King regard polity of China, and is so far unlike ing the assassination of Chinamen the slave systems of other regions, who attempted to break their contract, than an injustice is done by speaking was founded upon pure hearsay, and of it as slavery." To Dr. Eitel's declar Subscribers who do not receive their generally unworthy of credence. ation that he had never seen an adult spapers within thirty-five minutes He then proceeds to define a distinc- male a slave in China, he adds his after the time of publication roill obligetion which is to be drawn between a own testimony after a twenty years by communicating with the Editor. contract to repay money advanced, residence in the country that he had or due and owing in any way, out of never seen a native to whom the term earnings. Under the former, the slave would seem applicable. Dom- individual might be required to give estic servitude in China is undoubted- his services for a month, or a year, ly a system which has existed from or five years to his creditor. He would not be at liberty to choose his employment, he would be in a sense In Part III. of Chinese Immi÷ a man in bonds, and any consider- gration Mr. Seward dwells at some able class of such labor might justly fongthi on the objections which have be considered servile. Such con- been made to the presence of the tracts as these, according to Mr. Chinese-in-California, and raises at Seward, are discouraged by the Amer- the very commencement of the first ican Government, both at home and chapter the point, which has excited abroad, although in some instances so much discussion in Hongkong, (such as apprentices bound to masters notably in the celebrated Perusia in order to learn a trade, and seamen), case about three years ago, namely, they are permitted and sustained by the character of Chinese labor in law. The laws, of course, do not foreign lands, whether it is servile disfavor contracts to repay money or free. Acknowledging that the advanced, nor discourage in any people of California would be entirely sense the obligation which a debtor justified in condemning the system should entertain toward his creditor, of labor if it were tainted by the and we may safely enough assume essence of slavery, Mr. Seward trusts that if a Chinaman in San Francisco, to be able to prove conclusively that or Sydney advanced a friend in it is not (he does not say, nor has Canton, or Hongkong, à sum of been) in any sense a system of slave money to enable him to emigrate or servile labor "although it is such money would be recoverable in a perfectly certain that Chinese women court of law but morally that is a have been held in California under matter which has no bearing on the contracts, and that the system in vogue question at issue. Taking the whole so far as they are conserned, is one of the evidence adduced, and giving which should be condemned and cor- Mr. Seward every credit for believ- rected" It appears to us that the g what he asserts and for having foregoing sentence is somewhat in-the courage of his opinions, there consistent and contradictory; however a cursory examination of the facts laid before the Congressional Com- mission by the anti-Chinese party may clear up matters considerably. Mr. Pixley, agent of the municipality of San Francisco deposed that the men at least came voluntarily; under contracts of labor undoubtedly; but ae those contracts were not entered into under coercion, the men were certainly free emigrants in a sense. Many of them came on their own means, others had to wait until the first comers made money, and sent them their passage money. There were indisputably " many instances where the Chinese Six Companies, or wealthy members of them, send to bring them here, in order that they may go upon their rolls and-become-laborers, out or which they make money as middle men or agents! The Central Pacific railroad demanded ten thou sand of these laborers, and the demand
time immemorial, and although not in accordance with European ideas may possibly have much to recom- mend it. It is not however with domestic servitude in China we are now dealing, but with the so-called servile labor of Chinese Emigrants in other lands.
(To be continued)
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Weather permitting, the Band of the "Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers " will play in the Gardens at. 5.45 p.m. to-morrow.
males and 2 females. Paper money counterfeiters arrested, 1. Rapes, 3 Gamblers; 732 males, and 18 females. Criminals escaped from prison, 84 Shanghai Mercury.
We offer the above piece of news to the promoters of our proposed Tramways, as a valu- able hint, which may aid their plans materially. If Colonel Beaumont has such faith in his invention, as to take the new tramway motor out to Australia at his own expense, thore
seems no reason to doubt that he
After our previous remarks on the Hongkong Tramway Scheme, the would do the same for Hongkong. appended extract from the Shanghai What do the professional experts Courier speaks for itself. Any think? If we must have tramways lingering idea we may have entertain- let us by all means have them of the ed that philanthropic motives, and
most improved class. Which shall the general welfare of the inhabitants it be, ponies, steam, compressed air, of this Colony, had some slight in-
or wire rope? flucnce with the promoters of the scheme, has vanished into thin air. Can there be any doubt, after perusing the Courier's paragraph, that the whole concern is simply a gigantic business speculation, and
The steamship Meath went into dock at Kowloon this morning, and the Russian corvette Europa goes into the Cosmopolitan Dock to-mor-nothing more?- row.
We have been requested to inform our correspondent "British Easign" that the Naval and Military services of the Russian empire are at present. in mourning for twelve months, for the late Emperor, and that while such is the case it is not cus- tomary for Russian men-of-war, or indeed the ships of any other na tionality, to dress ship," although all salutes or similar compliments are duly paid and acknowledged.
cannot be a doubt to the unpreju- diced thinker, that men who are brought from their own country by and under contracts with the Six Companies and similar organisations; who are herded together in gangs and numbered as if they wero so In accordance with a Horse Guards many boasts of burden; who remain General Order issued in April last, by entirely under the_control_of_the order of H. R. H. the Field Marshal contractors until the money advanced Commanding-in-Chief tha for passage, &c., has been paid off, isation of the Infantry of the Army without the power to better their takes effect from to-morrow the 1st positions in any way can hardly be of July, and from that date the 27th termed froc agents. That they are Inniskillings will assume the title of not slaves in the same sonso as "The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers," the negroes were, prior to the great in conjunction with the 108th regi- war between the Federals and Con-ment and three regiments of militia. federatos, may be at once conceded; The 27th will form the first battalion but on the other hand it is equally of the regiment, and in virtue of be cortain that they work on a very coming a Royal corps will in future different footing to ordinary emi-wear blue facings on their European grants from Europe or Eastern States, uniform. and that apparently was the point which the Anti-Chinese party in
TSO TEUNG TANG ON OPIUM-A
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"We hear that the prospectus of the Shanghai Tramway Company has been issued from the office of Messcs Jar- dine, Matheson, and Co. The capital of the proposed Company has been placed at Tis. 100,000, in shares of Tis. 100 each. The tramcars are to run from the East Gato along the Bund, through Hongkow, to Wayside, a dis- tance of 2 miles. The rolling stock will consist ultimately of sixteen cars, and they will be worked by 200. ponies, but at the outset the company proposé to work only eight cars, with 100 ponies. The service is set down for every ten minutes, and the fares for the journey will be five conts per pas- senger. It is estimated the dividend will be from 11 to 12 per cent on the capital. For the present we reserve our comments on the scheme, but there is no doubt there will be considerable opposition as far as the Bund route is concerned,"
"We have endeavoured to make.
LATEST COMMERCIAL
INTELLIGENCE.
Thursday, June 30th, 1881.
One o'clock P.M. The rush on Docks was well sus- tained throughout yesterday after- noon, and the stock gradually advanced until 56, and in a few' instances as much as 57, became the figure for cash sales. It must how- ever be understood that the cash business done was not of an import- reliance need not be placed on the ant character, so that too much
present quotation. A very large amount of business was done on time, nearly eight hundred shares changing hands at 58 for July, and 59 for August, and there seems to be.. a strong inclination this morning to, continue on similar terms. We do not question the bona fide characters of these transactions, but it certainly seems puzzling from more than one point of view.
Banks remain firm at 54, there being no sellers at that figure, al- though if a point more were offered, somo transfers would bo-booked.
Referring to Reuter's Telegrams the Shanghai Mercury says:- arrangements with the agont of Reu- There have been a few sales of the ter's Company for the supply of tole-Sugar Refining Co's shares at 184, but grams to the Mercury, having offered there are plenty on offer at the price. to pay the same inte as our morning We have not heard any other Stock... contemporary pays ($60 per month);
montioned creepting Hotels, and tha but the negotiations have fallon inquiries about the last named led
aro anxious to give our réadors all tho
California desired to establish. The few days ago a Memorial from Teo through, from no fault of ours. As we to nothing definite.