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HONGKONG SAturday, MaŸ 18, 1879.
THE CHINESE IN THE PHILIPPINES.
The question of Chinese immigration into the Philippine Islands is seriously occupying the attention of the Spanish authorities and is being freely discussed by the Manila press. The Diario of the 9th inst. publishes a lengthy article on the subject, and under the heading "Is Chinese immigration convenient or not?" takes: the following discouraging view of the
case
"What is found in our relations with the Chinese? On their side, deceit, perfidy. exploration, fraud, and immorality; LI-MA- HONG with his fleet; 30.000 Chinese plotting to assassinate the Spanish col ny under the pretext of finding gold at Cavite; under the Government of don SEBASTIAN DE HURTADO, another similar attempt by 50,000 men; later on they unite with the English to resist the valorous Don SIMON DE ANDA; they supply arms to the Moors of the South, and are untiring in their persecution of our missionaries; their country is closed to our travellers, excepting a few open ports where a great deal of rottenness, infection and danger are found and an infinite swarm of poverty-stricken, enslaved and On our side we give hungry beings. extraordinary protection to the Chinese; their persons, their commerce, industry and customs are fully protected by our laws; all our ports are open to them, all our frontlers are at their disposal... There are 100.000 Chinese in the Philippines, only half of whom are taxpayers. They falsify our products, and pervert our customs; they are forming a population Inside our own; they are like an excrescence which lives at the expense of our organism; they are A constant threat against life under all its favorable aspects. What does Chinese Immigration bring us? Absolutely nothing. The Chinaman comes here destitute of money and of intelligence; he brings vices, Infirmity and cupidity. Our agriculture, whatever it may be worth, is entirely owing to our indigenous population... In a province there may be, among Spaniards and natives, twenty tradesmen. These will have to compete with about 300 Chinese who keep about twenty open shops, who have agents everywhere, buy and sell with false measures, acquire all the product in stock and send it to other Chinese who are not registered merchants, and thus deprive the natives of the country of their only source of trade and profit."
After detailing at great length the disad- vantages of Chinese immigration, the writer comes to the following conclusions:-That the Spanish Government should absolutely prohibit the influx of more Chinese into the Islands; forbid the opening of more Chinese houses of business in the interior; make it a law that those tradesmen who are established outside the ports open for foreign trade, should within five years, transfer their houses of business to these open ports; that no Chinese merchant should be allowed to extend his commercial operations beyond the municipal. rádius of his residence; that those Chinese who have intermarried with the natives of the Philippines, who have been Christianised and intend to perpetually remain in the country, should be privileged to enjoy the full civic rights of Spaniards so long as 'they reside at a definite place. From these restrictions the writer in the Diario would exempt all the Chinese functionaries or representatives of the Chinese Empire accredited to the Government of the Philippines.
·LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE China Mall' old friend and contributor, General W. Mesny, arrived here from Shanghai on the 16th instant by the Indo-China Co. s'camer Kutsang and has gone on to Canton, THE N. C. Daily News says that the tea bust ness in Hankow, as so far reported, has been almost entirely confined to Russian buyers, who have taken Keemuus at from 15 to 20 per cent. above last year's prices. H.M.S. Alacrity, Commander R. Blair Maco n chic, arrived at Singapore from Sarawak on the 7th inst, and will shortly come on to Hong- Fong. The Imperituse left the Sarawak river Batavia on the 4th insty and thence will return to Singapore,
GENERAL Edwards, the commander of the forces here, will leave early next month for Australia He is going officially, to inspect the defences of the continent, probably with a view to estimating the amount of assistance our Australian cousins could render here if events made it necessary Tr' is reported that Capt. Turner, of the steamer Duke of Buckingham, now on her way bere "from Halphong, shot himself in his cabin the diy before the steamer arrived in Haiphong, Last week. Captain Turner was lately in com- mand of the Duke of Westminster. No parti- culars are to handappa
THE Straits Timer says that advices from Pahang indicate that the Sultan is very restive under the British Resident's claims. ACCORDING toa Singapore contemporary, Captain Car has detained H. M. S. Constance at that port pending a telegraphic answer from Admiral, Salmon as to the disposal of the man Forsy, of the Orion, now under sentence of 12 months! mprisonment for striking a superior officer;
A LEADING local sport," whose influence, in racing circles is almost all-powerful, has sug gested that the text ince meeting of the Hong kong Jockey Club shall be confined holely to subscription griffins. He thinks that over a hundred griffins would be subscribed for, and that first class racing would be the result. The suggestion is worth thinking over,"
We bear an extraordinary story showing the idea prevalent at home as to the famine in Chins. A lady sent out a large cake to her brother, a rather prominent man here, and in the accompanying letter expressed an affectionate hope that he was not suffering from the scarcity of food! The poor man went down into the cellar, gnawd the cake ravenously, and expired. Help bad come too late.
THE Straits Timer of the 8th inst. says:-The election of Mr. Shelford to the chairmanship of the Singap re Chamber of Commerce and his nomination to its representation in the Legislative Council is as excellent an arrangement as could be made. Men of position, who have yet leisure to devote to public affairs, are scarce in Singapore, and we have to take as much duty out of them as possible. The selection of Mr. Shelford to represent the Chamber of Commerce of course leaves vacant the seat he has hitherto held at the Legislative Council, and it is presumed that that is likely to be offered to another well known member of the Chamber; but indeed the field of choice is so limited that speculation is too easy to be interesting. SAYS the Hyogo News:-The sale of the Government Rallways in again mentioned in the vernacular papers, and it is asserted that an arrangement is nearly completed with the 15th National Bank-generally known as the Nobles' Bank-for the establishment of a com- pany with a capital of 70,000,000 yen to take over the lines. The proposal is said to be that the Bank will find 43,000,000 yen of the capital required, the household Department 000 000, and the remainder will be raised from the general public. It seems strange that when the disposition in many foreign countries tends in favour of e acquisition by State of all rail- ways within its borders, here in Japan an entirely opposite policy is likely to be adopted.
A MEETING of the Justices was convened to be heldat the Magistracy on the 16th inst. to consider an application from our worthy friend Mr. Hock
Goon to temporarily transfer the Grand Floter to
Mr. James Price Rees. Only one member of the Bench attended, and that was Mr. Pollock, acting magistrate-a very disgraceful state of affairs, we venture to say, and which fully bears out the comments in our editorial of the 14th inst. If Governor des Vœux does his duty he will at once abolish the entire Bench of Justices as at present constituted. These excellent J. P's are seither useful nor ornamental, so that their official existence cannot reasonably be justified. Mr. Hock Goon's application-Mr. Granville Sharp and the Seamen's Chaplain being non est
was unanimously, acceded to.
( 18, 1889.
SATURDAY, MAY
The latest edition of "the Flying Dutchman" is Mr. Raat, who was arrested at Singapore the other day on a charge of murdering some Chinese in Sisk. Raat, after being before the magistrate, was released on baila somewhat unusual pro cedure in murder cases unless we err greatly, and he has slace vanished. The daly evidence adduced at the police court against Raat was his own,admission that he had killed the Chinese, and be pleaded justification. His basty flight from Singapore, however, is decidedly suspicious. This is only one more nail in the coffin of the -'sgraceful Chinese coolie traffic to the Straits Settlements and the adjacent Dutch settlements which has caused so much discussion of late. Our excellent contemporary the Macao Indepen- dente has the following with reference to the Hongkong amateurs who have arranged to give a concert in the Holy City on Sunday night in aid of the ruined Portuguese chapel on Penha hill:"The troupe of Hongkong amateurs is anxiously expected here, as it is well known that each of them is an artistic revelation. Come, oh 1 come, to relieve us of our tiresome monotony and to afford us a few hours' contemplation of the beautiful! This is altogether too utterly utter. As the propagator of first-class rubbish the Macao Independente not only takes the cake, but easily waltzes off with the baker and the bread van. Our excellent friend Cattaneo is doubtless "an artistic revelation," and we are only sorry to have to miss "a few hours con- templation of the beautiful" as represented by Charley Grace, Von Wille, Withers, Craw and other local Adonises, Johnny Hazeland ought to go across to Macan and sketch the beautiful ones in their war-paint,
We call the following statistics of the trade of Japan from the Nagasaki Rising Sun :-
The declated value of Imports and Exports passed through the Custom Houses of the treaty ports in Japan during March was as follows:
Exports. Imports...........
of
..$ 4,890.564.09 6.198,951.92
· Total ...
$11.059,516 at This shows an exceas in Exports over Imports $1.308,387 83.
Of the above the following values were passed through the Nagasaki Customs-
Exports.... Imports
Total
ן
of
$564.110.55 402,708.60
**$966,819,15 --
The revenue collected at the Custom Houses the treaty, ports during March was as follows: Export Duty .................$ 74,705.04 Import
.... 272.808.58 Storage Fees ............ 132853 Ships
4.633.00 3,138.48
-$156.713.63
Miscellaneous...........
Total
Of the above the following amounts were col- lected at the Nagasaki Customs-
Export Duly.
......$3.190.65 Import
****** 10,865,** Storage Fees,
70.71) Ships
1,890.00
780.21. ...$17,097.86
Miscellaneous
Total
K
The declared value of Exports and Imports Passed through Shimonoseki Customs for Corean Trade during March was as follows
• Shimonoseki
ốt giáo On the above, $756:48 duly was collected.":
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saw some Chinese, houses of a type which certainly struck me as being very remarkable, and such, I am told by old residents in China, as do not exist in China. That houses should exist here. holding a vast number of people, only some two or three of whom have any light or air during the whole twenty-four hours, that there is absolutely no opening to the outer air at the back, and that the whole of the many tenants.in. the building-except those only at the dark and the front-should be absolutely without ventilation, is certainly not only, beyond my experience but, is something the Government is bound to make effort to remedy, It was pointed out that after all the deathrate here is not very great in spite of these insanitary conditions, but that is a subject which I think has been scarcely sufficiently locked into. It is quite true that 32 per 1,000 (I think that was the rate last year, but I speak from memory) is not a very enormous rale but it is an exceedingly high one for any country,
an
Mr. Ryrie I think it is almost the same as Liverpool."
The Colonial Secretary seconded. Mr. Ryrie-There was a good old custom here that when a Bill was introduced it had at tached to it n statement of objects and reasons. That has been given up, for what reason I do
not know.
His Excellency I think the sonic objet, has been tolerably well served, sering you have not to discuss it to-day.
Mr. Ryrie-But then we had it before us. His Excellency-Well, it has not been the custom in my time. If the hun, metuber thinks my explanation is in any way insufficient-
Mr. Ryrie-It is not that; but if we have the statement of objects and reasons we can study
the Bill.
Mr. Ryrie-I do not contest that at all. His Excellency-If it is the definite wish of the Council to have such statements as the hon. member has alluded to I have not the least objection.
The Bill was send a first time.
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The Acting Attorney-General moved the first living here now, and though they may not com- mit crimes in the entony itself they do make thin reading of the Bal
place, as we have abundant evidence to show, a sort of basis for committing depredations on the neighbouring country. Now, thereford we have to face this state of things; a state of things which is producing increasing inconvenience, which by giving safe protection to criminals is causing a great amount of milsery and welched- ness, and which is causing a great deal of irrita tion on the part of China, Hongkong being practically a refuge for her criminals. We have either to allow this state of things to continue or we have to milke extradition 'n great deal more easy. On the other hand we have another, very great difficulty, and that is to avoid causing fear on the part of respectable and law-abiding Chi- nese in this colony, who 'from their riches or position make themselves 'objects of enmity to people in power in China and thus render their position unsaf That has to be avoided, and to sicer a course which will avod Scylla on the one hand and Charybdis on the other is a matter of most considerable difficulty, I may say that I hold the view that the time has not yet arrived, but I believe it will come, when this evil will as une such tremendous proportions, when it is- known that Hongkong is such a secure place for Chinese fugitive criminals, that what I venture to think should be done now, gamely to make extradition very easy, will be forced upon us. Her Majesty's Government do not think that the time has arrived, and consequently have. accepted my alternative, which is practically this Ordinance. I may say they hire made extradi- tion a good deal easier by the suggestion of the clause relating to the taking of affidavita in China. Of course the objection against this is that affidavits taken in China cannot he trusted, and that you may through these affidavits give up innoccal persons. The fact of the master is that at present we have such tremendous precautions that the: Viceroy of Cantọn cánuot get the worst criminal... excent at a cost of six or seven thousand dollars.. and I think if the Chinese authorities wished it. there would be almost the same possibility of, their getting any innocent person now as if we were to give up Chinese subjects on the mere demand" of the Chinese nuthorities. I have. talked over this matter a great deal with persons, who are interested in it and they agree with me. In those cases with which I have had to do, I have had no doubts that the men were mon- stróns criminals, but I had.doubts, not from any reason that conlt be expressed but rather from an instinct, and perhaps because of that I ought not to have acted upon it, I had doubts I say. as to whether the evidence in the case was genuine. It seems to me that if the Chinese authorities have an end in view, and that end a good one, they think they are justified in using any means to accomplish it, and in my opinion the witnesses called in these cases were pro- fessional ones, although they proved the case very beautifully. We know the extreme diffi- culty, the almost impossibility of interpreting. expressions exactly in two languages so different -even when a man site quietly in his study with plenty of time the task is far from an easy one and the difficulty of making a cross-examination effective is very great. In fact some experienced men have given it is their painion that cross examination in a differentlanguage is abhost use- less. My experience in other colonies has been. confirmed here. From everybody speak to on the subject, from the Chief Justice to the Magistrate and all those who have conducted these cases in Court, I have 'the same story. A man may, make up a story and although you are certain is an untrue one, cross-examination falis.com" pletely to affect it. That being the case, with all these precautions we render it no less likely that an innocent person may be given up. I firmly believe that is the case. I firmly believe, that while our precautions render it more difficult. to secure the extraction of a criminal, they do not render it less likely that an innocent person may be extradited than if we look nono at all. It is for that reason that Her Majesty's Govern ment have accepted my alternative proposal, that is, this Ordinance, which was one of the alternatives sent in, and have suggested in addi- tion this clause about the taking of affidavits in In all other countries affidavita ́are China.
His Excellency-My remarks will be re- ported. You have not to pronounce n the principle of the Bill until it comes up for second reading. You will have very excellent reports, and you can cut the report out and have it beside you, and I venture to think it will be just as useful as if you had printed with the Bill. His Excellency-Oh! I think you are The system the hon. member has alluded to is Been certainly an abnormal one. If I were going very wrong-England generally has reduced to something like 19 per thousand, to ask for the second reading to-day it would be and London is below to, so Liverpool important that there should have been a state- conceive as being anythingment of objects and reasons, but I do not ask can hardly like that my impression is that it is something for the second reading to-day, I have seen like 24 per thousand. But at any rate I am same of these statements in which the explana. quite certain that 32 is a very bigh rate, for, tim given was nothing like as full as I have recullect, there are two things here which are given at this meeting, entirely absent in England, and if these were taken into consideration by an expert on the subject it would be found to make an enormous difference. First, a very large number of people here, when they are ill, want to go to their own country to die, which would greatly increase the death rate here if taken into account. On the
THE EXTRADITION OF CHINESE. other hand, I am told, we get a certain credit for deaths we do not deserve those of people who His Excellency-Before the Attorney-General are brought here from the Australian Colonics, propses the first reading of this Bill 'I wish to California, and so on, who are taken ill here say a few words. I had intended to write a and die, death, of course, not being attributable message on this subject, but I have been very to the unhealthiness of the Colony. Bur unwell for the last few days, and the duties of the Governor of this colony bave become so ar. although that may be the case to a certain extent it is very much out of the way com- duous of late that I find it is not always possible pared to what is the case on the other hand, to write all I would desire. Therefore I am namely the number of people who go home to compelled to try and do my best, on such know. die, and whose deaths may be considered to ledge as I have, to explain the matter viva voce. At the same time I wish to appeal to the re- have occurred in "Hongkong. That is one cause. Then there is another. In civilised porters. The subject we have to discuss is one of countries it will be found on examination extreme delicacy. If they do not think proper to send for revision such remarks as I make, which of statistics that a rate varying between 40 and so per cent. of the deaths is that of infants I think is the proper course to pursue in a mat under five years of age. Now when we con ter international delicnee, I trust they will sider our exceedingly low birth-rate it is obvious exercise extreme caution about what is printed. that a very large part of our deathrate has got Of course if that caution is not exercised it will be a matter of obligation with me in future to to be met on that account, considering that one of the very great causes in other countries is hold the meetings in private when such subjects 1. have the strongest non-existent here, namely the enormous propor have to be discussed. tion of births, children under five years being objection to private meetings on matters of much more liable to die than old people. The public interest, and consequently I do not think fact of there being so few children renders it it necessary to adopt that course on this occasion, impossible to make any very considerable addi- I merely ask if it is not thought well to send my tion to the death rate in order to compare, it remarks for revision, that extreme caution may favorably with other countries. For these two be exercised with regard to the report, because reasons or death-rate-even If it were a not- this is a matter which places me to a certain mal one, and I say it is abnormal-cannot be extent on the homs of a dilemis: on the one. by any means a safe guide for us to say that hand my explanation must be tolerably full and after all we are so healthy things cannot be very free, or it will be obscure; while on the other bad. My idea is that if things were gone into it exercise of that freedom renders it difficult to would be found very high indeed I won't go avoid saying something or other that may touch so far as to say it is enormous, but it is very international susceptibilities and consequently high. I do not think anyone who looks create difficulty. Now with regard to the Bill at the matter dispassionately is otherwise itself. Her Majesty's Government have from 'convinced than that the Government is time to time had their attention directed bath by reports from Governors of Hongkong and bound to do its utmost to put an end to a state of things such as I have described from Her Majesty's Ministers at Peking to the namely, the condition of a large number of the difficulties and delays that surround the con- houses in Hongkong. At the same time, on cession of demands for the extradition of Chinese inquiring as to these objectionable clauses, I criminals from this colony. Early in my career found that they would have caused a vast here a dispatch came out to me asking me to amount of irritation, and friction, and difficulty, make a report on the subject, and at the same among the people, who could not understand the time requesting me to draft a law by which the causes of the objection, people unaccustomed to functions which are now discharged by the our ways, who would have believed to a certain Magistrate in extradition cases should be trans extent that we had committed exprópriation, by terred to the Supreme Cours I wrote a very full. putting conditions on their property which they despatch on the subject, and although it will be did not expect when they bought it, while I found quite impossible for me to read the whole of it, that they would not have produced a satisfactory for reasons that I need not particularise, I think state of things within fifteen or twenty years it necessary almost to read some parts of it as that being the average life of a house here, and as the best means I have of explaining some of the clauses were not to come into operation until the difficulties that surround this question. His talien in extradition cases. China is the only the houses were taken down and rebuilt, of course Excellency then proceeded to read passages from country in which hitherto they have not been until the whole of those to which these objectary of State, forwarding a draft Ordinance on of view, may have ground of complaint. It is the thing could not be causidered satisfactory his despatch, dated 8th August, 1888, to the Secre- allowed and therefore China, from her point: tions were made had been rebuilt. Then it the subject, together with remarks made at His possible that this clause may be the means of sending away an innocent man, but that occurred to me whether there was not some Excellency's request by Chief Justice Russell other means of achieving the same end and notes by the Attorney-General The des persibility exists now, and you must do some So long as the poor and homeless Chinese who
without, doing any harm to any one. There patch mentioned the difficulties which had arisen thing to render our obligations to China under are dragged before Mr. Wodehouse and charged
occurred to me a way, but whether it will between Her Majesty's Covernment and the the Treaty, real ones, instead of, as at present, with the heinous crime of sleeping in the
be effective' not time only will show, Chinese Government in the interpretation of the practically setting them aside. It costs six or Wanchai market-having, like the lowly Nara-
seven thousand dollars to send away the worst It is an experiment I bave consulted some terms "criminals" and "proof of guilt" as used rene, nowhere else to lay their heads-are able
of those gentlemen who have large public in the extradition clause of the Treaty of Tien- criminal, and we have some four hundred of and willing to pay the $1 fine imposed by a magistrate who ought to know better, we shall MEETING OF THE LEGISLATIVE interests, and they have approved of it. Sup- sin. The Chinese Government held that the them here at this moment, and we know that not complain; but when these unfortunates are
posing it cannot, no very great harm can be done word "criminals" included all who had offended this reputation for security is certain to spread. packed into our already over-crowded gaol to
by, trying the experiment; we can easily draw against the law of China, whereas Her Majesty's News may spread slowly in China but in time that is certain to spread. When we contemplate fa our horns if not successful. The means Government had excluded all offences of a berd with criminals, we shall at once send round the fiery cross and vigorously.commence A meeting of the Legislative Council was I alluded to that we should take up a political character, and also, following the Judg what that means in the future, anybody who a new crusade against the Police. Thspector held on the 16 b inst. There were present:certain number of houses in this exceedingly ment in the case of Kwok Ashing, all offences considers the matter must come to the conclusion that such a state of things must he put an end Swanston is no doubt a very efficient officer, His Excellency the Governor (Sir William de insanitary condition resume them on behalf of not recognised as such by European natioun. but we think that his energy and ability might Voeux); the Colonial Secretary. (Dr. F. Stewart); the Crown, giving the owners very full com- As to "proof of guilt," Her Majesty's Govern- to. As soon as this Ordinance came out--I did be much better employed than in initiating and Mr. J. Leach, Acting Attorney General Mr. H. pensation, taking every precaution that they got meat rejected as entirely insufficient what the not read it before it went home, It having been carrying out a petty persecution of an industrious E. Wodehouse, Acting Colonial Treasurer; Mr. the utmost compensation, and then rebuild Chinese desired should be accepted as such, drafted by a former Attorney-General who had a class of Chinese whose poverty is their only N. G. Mitchell-Innes, Acting Registrar-General; it ourselves, or think more preferably-sell namely, a charge made by a responsible Chi- very high reputation, so carefully as I otherwiss crime. If Major-General Gordon does not at Messrs. P. Ryrie, C. P. Chater, Wong Shing, J. the land with the condition to build houses of a nese official; bet the practice bad not been should have done--I looked into it and I found once put a stop to this ultra-officiousness. Keswick, B. Layton, and Mr. Seth, Clerk of construction such as would satisfy our sanitary guided by any very clear principle as to the certainly an objection on one ground, namely regulation. It is not probable that the Gov-nature of the proof required. Reference was that you create a certain insecurity on the part which can only lead to trouble--we hope that Councils.
The minutes of the last meeting were read and ernment will lose anything on it, as the "run" made to a particular case reported in a previous of long residents in the colony, who may think His Excellency the Governor will see fit to
on these new houses will be such that the Gov. despatch, which His Excellency interrupted bis | ibat this extradition law may be used for the confirmed, interfere.........
ernment will be repaid the loss on the land needed reading to explain was a case with reference to purpose of undus exaction upon them. Now here again is a very great difficulty, We for these backyard. That, however, remains to an offence against the examination laws of China.
cannot exempt them from the law. That be proved. Besides, if the Government does lose He said he ventured to think that was an offence money, it is with some loss to have the town which the Chinese had a right to consider from would be absolutely breaking through our built in a sanitary condition, instead of semaining their point of view a very serious offence indeed. obligations. We are bound to give up any. in the present state. Then comes the question The whole of their system was based on examina- body who is found guilty, whether resident of compensation. Remption, under the present tlon and he could quite imagine this was one of in Hongkong or otherwise, so long as he system, is unsatisfactory. Though it, may be the worst offences a Chineso could be guilty of is a Chinese subject. At the same time my said that everyone who leases land does so with It struck him, therefore, we ought in such a case. Chlaese friends in the colony may be perfectly the condition before bim that If the Government to go outside the principle that had governed secure. Their views have been represented to wants to resume it, it can do so, the Surveyor-extradition laws hitherto and make it ad exiradi-me quietly, and the face of the manner in which General, fixing the compensation-though that tien offence. However, his view had been over they were represented to me "shows the extreme A Bill to amend the Ordinance relating to these may be argued, nevertheless I do not think it is a ruled on that point. His Excellency then re fear which exists of the officials of China in the good argument. I think that unquestionably sumed the reading of his despatch, in which, Colony. It has been a revelation to me Their was read a first time.
"THE POST OFFICEMANA there ought to be absolute security on the part after reference to the difficulty and delay which views had to come through two or three hands.
1887 was read a first time.
A bill to amend the Post Office Ordinance of of the owners of the land resumed that they get attend applications for rendition under the preto reach me and those who brought them far- full value, and for that reason I have taken sent system, and to different views which have ward did not wish to have their names disclosed. advantage. of this Ordinance to improve prevailed as to what should be deemed sumielent I know the feeling which largely exists among CHINESE DWELLINGS."
And that slate of things, not only as regards evidence to justify the surrender of a person the Chinese, and I wish them to feel with regard The first reading of a hill entitied The Crown resumption for this purpose but for all whose rendition is applied for, His Excellency to this Bill that any law-abiding inhabitant of Lande Resumption Ordinace was next.
purposes Whether I have hit on the best went on to refer at some length to the unsatis-Hongkong will be just as secure when the bill. His Excellency said:- wish to explain the method is a question to be considered in Com factory nature of the evidence of all Chinese it passed as he is now. But we cannot make circumstances under which this Bill is intromittes, but I have devised, with the assistance witnesses and the consequent difficulty of dsliv. any special exemption in their case. The duced. It will be in the recollection of the hoo. of the Chief Justice (who is now gone home)(ingata just decision. Attention was then Chinese would naturally say You are given members that last year, or the year before, the plan: by which all these difficulties are fairly directed to certain objections against the to such power under the treaty and you have no met. There will be a Board, composed of proposed transfer of their extradition duties right to make any such exception I think we three members, one appointed by the party from the Magistrates to the Supreme have put into the Bill something which may whose landfit to be resumed and one by Court suggested by Chief Justice Russell, make the law-abiding resident of the Colony the Governor, and the Chairmen will be one His Excellency then spoke as follows more secure and less likely to be charged of the Judges of the Supreme Court. I think I cannot go into all this, but I proceed to improperly for the purposes of excion. The that Courts of Law, in regard to us, speaking mention that the delays and difficulties that Magistrale has always had to report, og each fron an Executive point of view, if they do err in have arisen in extradition cases have been due case, but now he will be required to refer specially considering rights generallyer on the side of to the precautions taken again, the sendition of in his refox to the length of une ilunco Individuals tighter madi sgalastropubileurights possibly innocent person. On that point here been in the colony, the time which has clapsed That Kind my experience recollecting caves is the great difficulty in the matter. Eliber we since, the commisson of the crime for which
yöğresumed where the Governm
have get to have the exiting state of things extradition le sought and the character he bears, had to
sindeed.
going on, by which a large and rapidly increasing | Will Yegard to people who have not been in the xand
number of Chiucio criminals are living in the colony fol any considerablótime for people who golony the polios tell me there are 400 of them have escaped from Chins we joual to a puriHĂM
A VERY difficult case to decide taxed the legal capacity of our friend Mr. Pollock, at the Police Court, yesterday morning. A Chinaman from Yau ma-ti charged two other men with stealing three jackets, value $c. He alleged that they went right into his house and openly appropriated the clothing. Then the evidence turned to pigs. He said he had eight, told how much he paid, for each, what kind of dispositions each pig had, and so on, and then went on to accuse the prisoners of stealing four of them. Then he quitted the witness-box, and Mrs. Prosecutrix was brought in and had a turn. She swore by the seven saints that her husband only had four pigs, and never had any more, and that the prisoners stole one. In the end it turned out that the prisoners had sold four pigs to the pro secutor, and that to save himself the pain of paying he laid the charge of stealing against them. He was fined $25 for his baseness.
The first statutory meeting of the shareholders in this company was held in the Hongkang Hotel on the 15th inst. Mr. Fullarton Henderson presided, and there were present :-Mess. George Fenwick (general manager), A. Woolley, G. R. Stevens, and H. Hartas,
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The Chairman said that as it was simply the statutory meeting required by the Companies Ordinance there was nothing to report, but any questions would be willingly answered. There being none.
Mr. Fenwick stated that the business was pro gressing as satisfactorily as was, anticipated, and he thought they might safely look forward to an interim dividend of five per cent, at the end of the six months,
That concluded the business.
COUNCIL.
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THE LATE STORM.,
On the motion of the Colonial Secretary the Governor's recommendation that $3400, be voted for repairing damage caused to roads outside the City during the storm of the 29th April was referred, to the Finance Committec.
NATURALISATION:
Li Man Shi, otherwise Pakshan, being de sirous of naturalising, passed bis first degree,
SLAUGHTERHOUSES.,
A CORRISPONDENT, who is evidently one of "the elect," senda the following wall from Nganking to the Shanghai Courter, under daté the ayth ulto, The Chinese are growing more and more in impudence towards foreigners. Here is one more instance of heathen injustice and contempt of Treaty rights. In Tung-ch'eng, 120 If north of Ngan-king, the students assembled in the place for the examinations. Hearing of the proposed sile of a house to some Catholic missionaries, they went to the fan which the missionaries had just left, and where they had been lodged for a couple of days, dragged the eldest son of the landlord before the district and forced the mandarin to administer Roa blows magistrate, did the same to two of the middlemen,
to each of these unfortunate creatures. The latter have ever since been in prison, spending their hard-earned cark upon the Yamen runners, to be allowed a little fresh air or to receive the whole of their allotted daily rations. This is indeed a crying Injustice ! Everybody in China knows the right missionaries have to travelling and acquiring properties in any of the 18 Says the Straits Times of the roth inst. :- We provinces, but the authorities seem only too Public Health Ordinance was introduced, la understand that the directors of the Jelebu glad to see them hampered by any action, not which, were certain clauses on the subject of Mining Co. have deposited Bro0,000 with a local directly proceeding from them. The magistrate, backyards, which rave te to a large amount link at 61 per cent. Interest. The rate ir high not daring to oppose the actins of the students, of discussion. These were, for reasons which but the Directors had the money to lead when the latter, along with some of the gentry, have appeared good to my predecessor, amitted from money was tight, and they seem to have taken gone so far at present in their encouraged the Ordinance, but re-appeared for the Or- full advantage of the circumstance. This is audacity as to forbid entirely the entry of their diance lately passed on the construce fanny. We were under the impression that the city to foreigners in general. But what, will you tion of buildings. On Idqylei Into the capital of this Company was to be devoted to Ask, are the provincial anthorities doing in the matter I found that while there, Eve strong working without delay certain alleged Valuable, face of soch glaring violation of traty rights? | rénsons for improvement la the direction.
in deposits at Jelebu i but it would seem, if our. That is just what one would like to know Abi on the whole it seemed to me Singapore contemporary may be relied on, that. When ill China begin to act according to the money lending and not tin mining is the business principles of her own moral teachings, be fals to or the Jellybag promoters,
lovelysers and fearn to keep her wordt
created would be greater than the remove. On the other hand vinced of these avila, for 5 west
under the systems ∙May nos by Ho, but
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