A. S. WATSON & Co. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS,
AND
GENERAL CHEMISTS,
Manufacturors of the following AERATED WATERS, viz : SODA, TONIC, SARSAPARILLA, AND POTASU, LEMONADE, GINGERADE, RASPBERRYADE, AND PHOSPHORIC CHAMPAGNE.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH-MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH, 1881.
We are informed by the agonts, Messrs. Jardino, Matheson & Co., that the steamship Glenfruin loft Singaporo for this port on Friday, the 2nd inst.
secluded gardens where Camoons, Por- tugal's greatest poet, worthy brother of Shakespeare and Dante, composed the magnificent Lusind.
to return.
surroundings may be accepted as evidences of grandeur. Chinoso pro- cussions, like Chinose decorations, are absolutely sickening in their sameness. the world, the might and power of the magnificent Cleopatra, Age cannot Like Rome, erstwhile mistress of Shakespearo said of Egypt's queon, the Portuguese nation have departed, never wither her, nor custom stale. Her The commercial age we infinite varioty; other women cloy the live in has never suited the romantic appetitos they foed, but she makes notions of this most ancient and chi-huugry where most she satisfies." valric race, The old English adage As the grand procession of Chinoso about suiting one's self to circumstances is a doctrine altogether unknown to
in honor of HougKung is arranged by the various guilds, it would be impos Lusitanian ideas. Tho impracticability sible to computo the number of persons of any nation being able to exist on who took an active part, as each guild the glories of the past, rather than on is responsible for its own arrangements. A party of Police, in charge of In-
the exertions and struggles of tho pre- Tho guild system of the Chinese re- spector Matheson, made a raid upon a
sent, has never presented itself in its sembles in many respects the Livery- gambling houso on Saturday, and cap-thren, and we see the result in the de-old trading companies of Edinboro, proper light to our Portugueso bre- men of the City of London, and the tured 21 Chinese, mostly domestic ser- vants in the employ of Europeans. They were brought bofore the Magis. trate the same day and remanded.
one side and written in Chinese on the other; and the men were parti- cularly impressed with the necessity of keeping the thing quiet, and in order to further this end they were It is notified in the Gazette that is lodged in small groups all over the Excellency tho Governor las appointed Colony, some living so far out in the Mr. Edmundo Arthur Carvalho to be a suburbs as the Sowkewan-road. The temporary clerk in the Colonial Score- contract bore the name of Koopman-tary's Office. schap, who will be the European al- Tho. inauguration of a new club luded to by Lau Aluk on his arrival called the Wanchai Club took place on here, and the terms of it are not al-Saturday last by a ball. The dancing Deliveries in Town and Harbour from together calculated to make oven a commenced at 9.30 and was kept up coolie's fortune. The men were to till a very late hour by a large com- agree to go to San Francisco, and pany numbering nearly 200. from thonco to "a certain place (no name mentioned), to work 26 days a month for $30; they were to find their own food, houses, cloth- ing, in fact everything; no mention is made of medical attendance or hospital accommodation, and when it is remembered that a certain rail-
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SHIPS' MEDICIENE CHESTS REFITTED, PASSENGER SHITS SUPPLIED
Prompt Attention given to Coast Orders.
HONGKONG DISPENSARY,
HONGKONG, SHANGHAI PHARMACY,
SHANGHAL
CANTON,
CANTON DISPENSARY,
THE DISPENSARY,
Foocnow.
way cost as many lives to make as sleepers were laid down on it on ac- count of the pestiferous nature of the climate, it must be conceded that these coolies are entitled to some consideration in the matter of medical attendance, when it is pretty well known they were going to work in a place where they would die by hundreds. Their destination in fact leaked out, and the consequence was that of 700 who signed the contract unme and addresses with all for publication, only 107 were really taken out of the
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The method of shipping these free" emigrants was to give each coolie $2 when he signed, and $5 when he got on board, which, with
his
passage-money was to be deduct- ed at the rate of $5 a month after he commenced work; coolie catchers, who could bring men willing to sign, got $8 per man; and of the large number who ran away who received $2 each, no doubt may cost $8 more, which in the total must have brought the sum dropped by the enterprising Koopmanschap to a considerable item.
As to the detention, it was due entirely to the coolie shippers, It was arranged that the men should go off to the ship from all the various wharves between Whitfeild Station and the Gas Works, in small batches of six or eight as they happened to be lodged, so as not to attract atten- tion, and it looks very much like trying to get these men out of the harbour without any examination at all; be that as it may, the detention had nothing whatever to do with the Government, as it was caused by cire cumstances in which they had no participation.
Some of the coolies who were to
have departed by the Oceanic left it rather late bofore they made up their minds to remain behind, as it was only a few minutes before the vessel was east off from the buoy that they put off their intended journey by jumping overboard.
The British ship Geraldine Puget, Captain Wilkinson, arrived here this morning from Newcastle, N.S.W., and reports:-Left Sydney ou the 20th June. Met a typhoon on the 18th August, in lat. 11.42 N. and long. 131.40 E.; the wind commencing at North and veering round to the wost- ward. and finishing up at the South.
the 20th in lat. 21.8 N. and long. 119.42 E, experienced heavy S.W. had very light winds and unsteady gale with a very high cross sea; thence weather with much rain throughout.. On the 28th July, passod. the bark Cutty Sark in lat. 8.46 N. and long. 100.13 E. from Sydney to Shanghai.
describe trade as having been rather
Latest advices from the Coast Ports. dull for several wooks past, but now
on the eve of a revival, Swatow is
gradually returning to its normal con- dition, and on one day last week there were no less than ten steamers in the port at once, At the time of the stop- page of business at this port, the go. downs were full of merchandise of every description, and the action of the Guild had the effect of largely re- ducing, although not quite exhausting, the stock. That trade will now receive an impetus is certain, as large orders have been received from the Coast, which will result in heavy shipments from this port for some time to come.
MACAO.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT).
Saturday Evening.
THE China Mail, writing on the re- cent departure of the Oceanic, com- mences with a wail about the "diffi- culty of obtaining information from Departments," &c. It ought not to be a matter for surprise that no in- formation was forthcoming on the application of the evening print to one department, the head of which had so recently to cry-"Save me from my friends," and the Mail, pre- tending to ignore the rebuff received at the Harbour Office, says with sweet resignation:-"Under present conditions, however, such guarded conduct on the part of a Government officer is not to be wondered at." After commenting at considerable length on the case of the Oceanic, The Mail says "$30 a month the Mail winds up with the observa-were awaiting them" (the coolies), tion that it will be the fairest but there was nothing to guarantee course to all parties to reserve com- the men 30 cash; and information "Gem of the orient earth and deep upon what at present seems to was sent from San Francisco to the sea, Macau," thou art worthy of the be an insufficiently explained deten- effect that these "passengers," would highest praisos divino, inspiration can tion of a regular line steamer." The find on their arrival at "a certain give theo. True thou hast fallen from remarks of the Mail on this Oceanic place" that they had been brought lower in public estimation, until thy thy high estate, and sunk lower and business show one of two things there on a "chii chi" pidgin. We wretchedness and misory have become either the writer is steeped in ignor- have heard of these poor wretches a byeword to the scornful tongues of ance touching the matter in question in times gone by cutting their other nationalities; but thy beauty still or it is one more example that the throats with broken bottles, throw- remains, and a bright future might yet evening paper sticks at nothing in ing themselves from high places, be before the fairest gem of the Portu. the shape of misrepresentation and and putting an end to their miser- guese crown if the prejudices and falsehood to attempt to throw able lives in many ways, but if one bigotry of that "old, old faith" which discredit upon the Government of thing is calculated to lessen this evil has done so much good, and workod this Colony by attributing the deten- more than another it is the action of such irretrievable harm to the advance. tion of this steamer to the action of the Hongkong Government in re- ment of nations, could only be abolished officials. As facts which are inconfusing to recognise as bona fide free in favour of a free and onlightened trovertible will upset all the "sup- emigration the system now referred policy suited to the age we live in. positions" set forth in the paragraph to, which is but a modified type of To the student, acquainted with the referred to, we will give a few.
the coolie traffic of years ago.
mighty past, when Portugal's greatness was the theme of every nation's praise or envy, Macau's degradation is an ocean of bitterness. Gazo on her palaces, homes of the adventurous spirits which made the Lusitanian name feared and honoured, and which still live in the dire vista of an almost for gotten past; wander aimlessly through the magnificent churches, monuments of the enterprise of the Jesuit Fathers, rightly named the pioneers of science from the days of Ignatius Loyals up to the loyal faith of their native land; the present time, erected in honour of
meditate on the uncertainty of human fate in the towers and fortresses, rominants of a different age to that we now live in, which still cast a gloomy shadow over the blue waters of the loveliest spot in the East from the far Ind to the shores of the distant Yellow Sea; droam of the almost forgotten glories of a nation's grandeur in the
It is rather more than two months ago that a Chinaman appeared in Hongkong, and he immediately set about the business which had brought him to the spot. This man, who has resided on the Pacific Coast for many years,
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
We learn that the Hongkong Hu- mano Society will meet for practice to-morrow, Tuesday,
The German schooner Wagrion was hauled up on the Patent Slip at Bel- cher's Bay this forenoon,
Saturday's Gazette announces the re- cognition by the Governor of Dr. O, F. von Möllendorff as Vice-Consul for Germany at Hongkong.
is known in San Francisco as On Shing, and in Hongkong as Lau Aluk. From the time of his landing here, Lau Aluk has been busy in beating up coolies, and he announced shortly after he came that a Euro- pean would arrive in Hongkong and make the final arrangements for
The American ship Mary L. Stone, sending the coolies away. The Mail says "no contract whatever had been Captain Field, which arrived hero this morning from Hiogo reports :-Had a entered into." This is absolutely severo typhoon on the 24th ultimo. false. Lau Aluk and the man trap-On the 26th, 27th and 28th ult. expe- pers who assisted him managed to rioncod strong gales from S. W., lasting get 700 men to sign contracts; the 48 hours, since then fine weather to contracts wore printed in English on port.
cay and ruin which surrounds us in this miniature Babylon of the middle
ages.
Lately the gem of the orient earth has been on feta. Not in honour of Portugal's patron saint, not in honour of her gifted son Camoens, not in honour of any Lusitanian celebrity of the golden past. Macno has put on holiday attire to do honour to the Chinese god Hong Kung, and the masquers and mummers dre without descendants of the ancient warriors an exception true sous of Han. The from the banks of the classic Tagus remain quiescent in their poverty and pride, and contentedly allow the Chi- ficence of the pomp and pageantry ofsup. noso to enjoy themselves in the magni. erstitious bigotry, as they have already development of commercial enterprise. outdone them in the more practical We may despise the Chineso for their
but in spite of our antipathies we must strange superstitious adherence to and ignorant idolatry of ancient follies;
give them credit for their perseverance, their generosity, and the indomitable energy they invariably display in every act of life, from a rebellion against the cided malodorous operation of "chin. Emperor, to the more ignoble, and de- chining" their ancestor's bones,
The late Mr. Hong Kung was a warrior god of some renown. He was a pirate, but according to the ancient precepts of Chinese morality, pirates wore very worthy and highly respected members of society. Mr. Hong Kung's virtues were of the notorious William Brennan order, that is to say, he robbed the rich for the sole purpose of assisting the poor, and like the late lamented Brennan, the warrior god at last fell into the hands of the authorities, but more fortunate than the Irish highway- man, he managed to escape, by the assistance of a duck's head, in some mysterious way which we are unable to understand, but which has since kept that useful and nutritious bird sacred from the sumptuous menu of all Chinese feasts during the Hong Kung festival. The effect and influence which this festival bas upon the minds of the Chinese will be best gathered from the following brief account of what has actually taken place in Macau during derived from authentic sources, and the the past few days. Our information result, wherever practicable, of personal observation may be relied on. At the
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although a poverty of idea is painfully conspicuous in everything connected with decorative art, which is widely different from processions at homo. The whole of the separate guilds were represented with the same kind of carved figuros, the same gaudily dres- sed men and children, the same horrid tom-toms and screeching music, the same wretched ponies, footsore or lame in almost every instance; in fact, a procession which took two mortal which filled the streets of the ancient hours to pass one given spot, and city from early mom till dewy eve, was, after the first five minutes, a long continued, sickening repetition. The the thousands upon thousands of on- most enjoyable feature apparently to lookers who crowded, the line of march in length we should imagine, which, was a huge dragon, over fifty yards manipulated by about sixty men, went
class, who hardly know whether to through a series of ludicrous antics,
laugh or run away. The carving on
much to the amusement of the coolie
some of the ornamental boards was
very fine, but it looked frightful to see
one side of the board a mass of
other a rough piece of China pine, curriously carved ivory figures, and the
without even a coat of paint. The dresses were new and generally magni- ficent, but a mandarin with a splendidly embroidered silk coat, and the tattered nether garments of a chair coolie was too frightful to contemplate. Outside all was intended to be glaring and effective, but want of a very small amount of care greatly detracted from the general tout ensemble. The various flags or banners were exceedingly pretty, and very conspicuous for the artistic embroidery work. Hong Kaug has been greatly honoured; his coun- trymen have been most enthusiastic, nos liberal, and decidedly enterprising in their efforts to keep his name green with the rising generation, and to per potrate his fame with becoming éclát. Good has certainly come out of their efforts, as the exodus of countless thou. sands from the many Chinese cities in the vicinity to take part in the ceremony must of necessity have benefited Macao from a commercial point of view, and given an impetus to trade which she bazaar by gas light were most effective, badly needed. The decorations in the but the grand procession, unique in its proportions, may be correctly described as six miles of tawdry tomfoolery.
Wo learn that at 8.45 p.m. this evening the Hung Hang Fantan House, in the Rua do Jogo was the scene of confusion and alarm. It appears that while some 260 persons were engaged at the game of fours a bomb containing about Žibs, of gunpowder was thrown by some one unknown on the counter.
It is believed at Macao that this was a
present time the number of strange Chinose in Macao is computed by the authorities to exceed fifty thousand. The amount subscribed by the various guilds, and the Chinese community at large for the decorations and other purposes of the festival, is said to have reached over forty thousand dollars. The decorations are, as usual, ou the most magnificent (Chinese) scale. That part of Macao known to Euro. signal for a general attack; and during peans as the Tau-tan street, has been the din of confusion the gamblers op- converted into a huge bazaar. The propriated each others stakes; mean. whole length of the thoroughfare has while the watchman at the door raised been rooted in with matting, hung the alarm and the police soon respond- with chandeliers, and lanterns of every ed, and in a twinkling of the eye some corated with cabinets of wax or wooden conceivable shape and hue, and de. 20 policemen appeared on the spot, and were followed shortly afterwards by II, figures ropresenting various episodes E. the Governor, the Procurador, the in the life of the warrior-god, so com- Commandant of the Police* Force; and ploto in every respect, that Madame Tus-other officials. The doors were imme saud would die with envy could the ve- | diately barred by the police and the nerable Frenchwomen be conveniently fortune seekers were without exception transported from bustling Baker Street searched. On the persons of two of when the whole of this arcade is it had the appearance of revolver car- to the classic grovosjof Macao. At night these a quantity of cartridges, which
up with thousands of brilliant lamps, tridges, were found, and they have been the perspective is really splendid, taken into custody. We also heard of although the narrowness of the street two celestials who met their deaths at and the immense concourse of people the hands a police constable, the par- render locomotion and sight seeing ticulars of which are as follow :-At a a dangerous and exceedingly arduous mat shod theatre, it is stated, the pastime. The procession of course is actors committed some blandor, when the grand event, and grand enough it a crowd armed with stonos commenced certainly is if magttitude and gorgeous pelting them, when the police enter-