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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1890.
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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1890.
TELEGRAMS.
THE MASSACRE AT VITU.
LONDON, October 29th. Rear Admiral Hon Sir E. R. Freemantic has landed one thousand men and will advance on Vitu to punish the murderers of the eight Germans who were killed there last month in a fight with the natives. It is fully expected that a battle will be fought.
THE STRIKE IN AUSTRALIA.
November 5th. The Australian strike is virtually over.
(Special to Hongkong Telegraph.) TERRIBLE DISASTER IN THE NORTH.
SHANGHAI, November 7th.
A terrible explosion has occurred at the powder milla at Taipinglu, three hundred workmen being killed, and the city of Pa-chau almost completely destroyed, with great loss of life.
Taipingfu is about 80 miles from Shanghai, on the Yang-tac.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE agents (Messrs. Adamson, Bell & Co.) Inform us that the Shire" Line steamship Pembrokeshire, from London; left Singapore for this port to-day.
A FRAGMENT of a statue has been found in an excavation at Verona bearing the tantalizing inscription, "Praxiteles made me." This reminds one of old coins offered for sale, bearing the Imprint, "40 B. C."
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RETURNS that have been made to Parliament show that there are in Great Britain and Ireland 3.800 miles of Irland navigation, of which 1,000 miles are on open rivers, letving 1,800 miles of canals, the greater part of which are in England. AMONG the passengers who arrived to-day by the Glengyle from England, were seven trained nurses for the Civil Hospital, The ladies, who were uniformly attired in neat costumes, will doubtless be very valuable additions to the staff, vice a batch of possibly pions and well-meaning, but certainly unqualified, Catholic sisters. THE Band of the A. & S. Highlanders will play the following programme at the Cricket match, to-morrow, commencing at 4 pm. :—
March.........Steeping Maggis".
.......... Walduufel.
".., Planquoite. Balection****** Cornet Selo, Love's eld west song" Molloy. Galep....Wardastrinken"....... Fausti TRAINING for the approaching Sky meeting is actively going on, score of ponies being taught to travel round Happy Valley every morning. There is every prospect of a good meeting, but the hardness of the course is a considerable drawback. A Sky meeting, we may explain for the benefit of the ladies, is alleged to be the short
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was involved. He had never heard any one being arrested and punished for not following the custom of having a chlef mourner they always had one. A widow could follow next to her husband's coffin, but would not he the chief moumer. The law appointed a nephew as a chief mourner, who would have to perform sacrificial functions. It was the chief mourner, only, who would worship and sacrifice. Women sometimes, offered up sacrifices, but could not perform the prescribed funeral worship, He knew of no case in which a woman, not a chief mourner, followed the coffin and carried the nucestal tablets and staff. In the Heungshandistrict of Kwangtung he believed such was done it was quite incredible, though, that that should be a practice there. After a nephew was chief mourner he would be entitled to the property of his uncle, upon the death of the widow. A widow (first wife) was the heir to the property of her husband, except as regarded the property assigned for sacrificial purposes, which would revert to the male chief mourner. As Roon as the widow, died the nephew would be regarded, and actually become the owner of her husband's property. He had heard that the term Hao-tis (chief mourner) had been applied to women, but very rarely This Law of Rites prescribed that the nephew in question must be the chief mourner, and nabody else could be appointed. In the case of there being no male representative the widow would have to find out the next of kin, of suitable agt. It appeared to him that the "nephew" spoke, in his examination-in- described an impossible state of affairs. In the nature of things the nephew would be the It would not be impossible, but incredible, heir, and would himself be the Shinghai. that the widow was the Shingkat. The widow would be in the deepest mourning, and or such she would be the Hao-fas, not the Shingkat. A chief mourner would not wear satin shoes, for that would denote hap: piness instead of sorrow. As to the blue braid in the nephew's queue it should be blue for son, and the nephew having become the son, by law, he shaold have blue braid Interwoven with the hair of his queue. As to disinheritance, it was possible in Chins, magistrate and proved to him that the son, the heir, was unfilial. No one could disinherit a son except by special legal process in very extreme cases-such as inhuman conduct by him towards his parents or relatives. He knew of a case of a son being buried alive after the youth's father and mother bad obtained the permission
His Worship, In concluding the Inquiry, sald that there seemed no ground for entertaining any suspicion la connection with the case, and from what he had been able to elicit there had been no laxity on the part of the Sergeant, con- sideting the amount of ground he had to cover. Whilst it was possible that the deceased might have been inebriated, and so fallen into the water, there was sufficient evidence to show that it might have happened from other cautes. He therefore recorded a finding of" found drowned." It was a sad case, and he was very sorry indeed, but he was pleased to say that the Police had done their duty.
THE LOOCHOO ISLANDS, Referring to this bone of contention between" Chini and Japan, the Shen-ne says -
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The Liukin Islands were converted by Japan into Okinawa Ken years ago. Does Chins know It? If China knows it, she should speak of them as Okinawa Ken, and not as Lukiu,
From Foochow to these islands'ls by sailors' reckoning about 40 watches. They lie south of Satsuma, and are 36 in number, mere handfuls of rock scattered in the occan. Kumeshima lu the largest. The whole group only measures about 400 li from north to south, and less than 100 from east to west. Anciently spoken of as South, North, and Middle Islands, they are later heard of as Middle Island, and the king has borne the same surname from time immemorial
His country, small and poor, and lying close to Japan, began to pay tribute to China during from falling under the hard feudal yoke of Japan; and China accepted the role of protector. three yeark, and were allowed to carry back Tribute-bearing Junks arrived at Foochow every goods free of Customs duty. When a king of Lluklu died, his heir. applied to China for authority before ascending the throne left vacant. China would then send ber envoy and his coad- jutor, equipped as officials of the highest rank, to invest the new king,
their
"Another thing I noticed in these concession worshippers. They misplace their confidence in so-called mining managers—notoriously incom petent men are appointed managers of mines which are considered second Mount Morgans which never pay a dividend...
They mine to pay, make it impossible for a
treasury as they deplete the company's for comforts and wild mining foilies. Their principal aim seems to be to defeat the curiosity of strangers able to judge of the value of mines. They shew activity in managing affairs by spending their time at seaports, Singapore, Pe nang, and Bangkok, with a few quartz or alluvial specimens in their peckers, probably heirlooms purchased from Asiatics, which they shew to local shareholders, probably over a bottle of fizz. These are delighted with their manager's success, and rend cables to their directors and consulting en- gineers in London applauding the wisdom of their manager. The delusion goes on in spite of unfulfilled promises of dividends, but sooner or Inter it is unmasked-much to the company's SOTTOW. I need not say there are exceptions to this rule, though they are faw indeed."
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AMERICA AND FAR EAS TERN
· COMMERCE,
The Australasian. and South American for September contains a review of the United States' trade with the Indies, China, Hongkong, and Japan, and points out with doubtful accuracy ousting his English cousin in Eastern seas at no the brilliant prospects of American capitalista
Tux Secretary of the Balmoral Gold Mining / chief, in thorough ignorance of the Rites, and the Ming dynasty, hoping thus to be protected 'extremely remote period. It is well, sometimes,
a., Ltd, having telegraphed enquiring when the the following reply this afternoon from the result of crashing might be expected, received
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The king's residence was called Shou-if Shan; the port, where vessels from China anchored, Napa; and these, with Kumi, were the three principal centres. The country was barren, the people poor. T'al Tsu, of the Ming dynasty, the services of 36 families of skilful Fukien mariners, which conduced greatly to the improves meat of the native junk trade.
to see ourselves as others see us, so we make no publish the glat of any communications from our apology for reproducing the article referred to extenso, and shall be glad to receive and readers on the subjects therein touched upon, The statement :—" It is shrewdly suspected that the Silver Bill will have some effect, as far as the stirring up of direct trade between India and the United States is concerned, though just now how this can happen is more than we can
determine is very suggestive. We "shrewdly suspect "that the Editor of Australasian bus "let a cat out of the bag" which his countrymen will scarcely thank him for. That he "crowed before clear of the woods" is only too apparent
MARRIAGES of convenience, which have been one of the greatest banes of social life in France, are said to be on the decline. The French girls are too irresistible. THERE is evidently na poetry in Dubuque, Iowa, | The directory of that city contains the pemes of Mr. Hok Goon, as proprietor of the Grand Hotel, more especially if a widowed mother went to a (the first of the line. 1308-1399) gare the king with the "almighty dollar" nearly down to
Longbody, Longnecker, Longbacker, Longman, A. S. WATSON & CO., LD, Longheel, Longapray, Longhead, Langfoot, but
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XMAS and New Year parcels for the United Kingdom posted before 3 p.m. on Wednesday next will reach London' about Dec. 24th, and those posted before 3 p.m. on Nov. 26th will reach London January 7th. Senders of parcels are requested to post them, if possible, a few days in advance.
Sydney, November 6th, 1890, 2.42 p.m. "30th November: We have crashed only low grade ore up to the present," THE adjourned annual meeting of the Justices of the Peace was held at the Magistracy this morelor, when Mesers. H. E. Wodehouse, A. G. Wise, W. Judd, Granville Sharp, and Major General Gordon were present. The question before the assembly was the advisability or otherwise of renewing the licence: granted to. The Justices discussed the question with closed doors (wherefore this secrecy we know not) for upwards of half an hour, after which the Presi- dent announced that it had been decided to withhold the license, but Mr. Goon could, if dissatisfied, petition the Governor-in-Council for a reversal or alteration of that decision, a course which, we understand, will be taken. WANGANUI (NZ), A forgotten little city that aleeps among interminable sand-hills, got up a race-meeting last month, and the principal gentleman amateur distinguished himself in various un-expected ways. As he was an exten- sive advertiser, however, he was let down easy
of the local magistrate,.
Mr. Hastings made a formal protest against the acceptance of Dr. Eitel's evidence of the law of China, for the propose of discrediting the tion. He submitted that it did not bear on the evidence of the principal witness for the prosecu
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SIR H. PARKES has made a statement in the N. S. W. Parliament to the effect that the causes alleged for the strikes are wholly inadequate to
that the employers are blamable for not improving the position of the marine officers before the strike occurred.
THE Russian troopship St. Petersburgh, Captain Saltauy, which, arrived this morning from Wladivostock en route to Russia, has on board 436 time-expired soldiers and a number of $1.00 officers, with their wives and children. She has gone into Aberdeen dock for general repairs. 1.10 None of the soldiers will be allowed on shore.
AT the Police Court to-day the Oplum Farmer, 1.25 through his solicitor, Mr. Mostop, prosecuted, Hu Chong Ku, ore of his accountants, for embezzling the sum of $rog 80. Mr. Wilkinson appeared for the defence, and the caIG WAS, UPOR the application of Mr. Mossop, adjourned until 0.60 Monday, the prisoner being allowed out on bail
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.00 CONSIDERABLE excitement was caused on the 7.50 Rialto yesterday afternoon through the appear- 12.00 ance of a fair damo aimed with a subscription- list and a fixed purpose. Her mission was to Za Boc. raise funds for one of our churches, and although the investment could scarcely be looked upon as remunerative she gathered in the shekels $1.10 from the poor unprotected Jew and Gentile In the most remorseless way, much to the joy of 1.35 the multitude.
1.50 ALFRED Hays that "In the Spring the young man's fancy" takes a matrimonial turn, November seems more the mating season in 200 Cathay and district. Mr. J. J. Bell-Irving la announced as contemplating a union with Miss Eva Gertrude Piercy of Denbigh our only 0.75 Queen's Counciller will shortly leave for Ceylon, to meet bis bride; and half-a-dozen less prominent citizens are awaiting the arrival of 6.75 their beloveds. Wang Hing says he never did
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office next day, with thunder in his eye, and crumpled paper in his hand, a terrible fear sud- denly arose that he hadn't been let down easy enough. "Look bere," he hollered as he executed an impromptu pas seul all over the room; "this dashed reponer of yours say I lost my reins in that infernal steeplechase What's the meaning of it? Who's responsible for this miserable outrage? Who did it? I'm going for the fellow, whoever he is!" The editor. assumed an attitude of shocked surprise. "Dear me, you don't mean to say that such a groundless assertion-" "Oh, dash the assertionWhat I want to know is, who did it?" "I sure you, my dear sir, that the unprincipled liar who per- petrated that "Oh, blow the unprincipled far! You passed the thing, sir, You're You say there that I lost my responsible. reins, and yet you were on the ground yourself, and if you weren't blind you might have seen that I let the animal bolt with me at the start, I lost my hat, too, only you were afraid to say it. I lost my head into the bargain! Didn't you see that you-you-you dashed Ananias? I lost my saddle and my stirrups, and burst my collar, and came in hanging on by my spurs and the horse's mane, and all the crowd hooted, and somebody threw a hunk of mad at me, and when I fell off at the last jump I saw you-you, irjast falling to pieces with laughter. I was drask-hopelessly drunk-if you want to know what was the matter, and you saw it all, and there's no dashed excuse for your conduct in not publishing a correct account of the proceedings, Don't let this sort of thing happen again, please. Come out and I'll shout. You're not fit to be trusted with a newspaper." And the editor went out and was shouted for like a man drink ing in a dream.
issues before the Court, and that the witness
(Dr. Eitel) having answered the questions
taken with a view to rebutting that evidence. His Worship over-tuled the objection, holding that the evidence of Dr. Etel was strictly pertinent to the main issue in the cast. With regard to the evidence on that point (the law of China) if both parties were willing to accept Dr. Litel's evidence he would not call further evidence.
Mr. Hastings still objecting,
Chun Kal Ming, third clerk of the Magistracy, said he was well acquainted with the Chinese law of succession. If an elder brother died nep ew and a widow then, the leaving a nephew would be the Hao-tsa (successor), Hao-tsa was the Chinese term for chief mourner, who was, of course, the successor. The Hao-trs was he who succeeded to all the property of a deceased father or relative, both that relating to sacrificial properly as well as the corpus of the estate. The widow, as long as she lived, her husband's would have control over property. Neither the widow nor her nephew, the Hao-fis, could do as they liked with the When, however, property of the deceased. the widow died the whole of the property reverted to the nephew. When an elder brother died without issue the property reverted to the next of kin of his younger brother. In such case a nephew, would follow as chief mourner and the body of the deceased would be washed by him as chief mourner. Such a law, or rule, prevailed for the purpose of preventing the direct line being broken. The chief mourner would, in addition to other duties, carry the mourning staff, chup chu. It would be wrong for a widow to worship as Hao-iss at the funeral of the deceased. It was the men who invariably worshipped at the graves of their parents. It was considered
great misfortune in China for a man not to have a 1 son, because without a son to worship the grave the funeral rites would cease. In cases where there was no son the next of kin was appointed, or rather virtually adopted for the purpose of supplying that serious deficiency.
The term Hoss could be applied
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THE MYSTERIOUS DROWNING CASE.
fully, in the absence of the Compakka, Punti, and other people. Skingħaí | day morning.
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Soon after this, intercourse between China and Liukiu was broken off, and not resumed for some tens of years. The king was a prisoner of the Japanese, but found means of letting China know that though overpowered by them be would never willingly become their vassal, and he was allowed to return to his country and resume tributary relations with China.
It was owing to the voyages of his tribute bearing junks to that country that the fitte wealth that found its way from outside into this
poor little archipelago was obtained. The money for the fitting out of the expedition was borrowed from the Japanese, and eight or nine tenthe of the goods brought back from China to Liuklu eventually reached Japan, the fu kiuans being too poor to buy more than a very small proportion. Official restrictions on both sides then prevented trade being carried on directly between China and Japan, and the Liukiuans make a considerable profit out of their position as carriers and middlemen. When they had quite ceased to be necessary to Japan in that capacity, Japan extinguished their nationality and transformed their country into Okinawa Ken. By this annexation, Japan gained no glory, and Lioklu suffered no disgrace, and judglug from precedent events, it is not impossible that Japan may one day restore their former degree of independence to the Islanders. Until that arrives, however, unless China is ready to help them to obtain it and desirous of doing so, she would act more logically In accepting what is for the present, at least, an accomplished fact, and speaking and writing of Okmawa Ken and not of Linklu.
In July, however, Wang A-ts'uan, a junkman of Cheahaihlen, rescued 3a of the islanders from one of their vessels in distress, diimasted and rudderless, 21 beleg passengers, the rest sailors, with a cow and a donkey.
On 29th June, nearly a month after they had set out on the trading voyage which ended so unexpectedly, they were rescued; and after being treated with the kindness and hospitality which they so much required, were sent back to Linkiu entirely by the Chinese authorities, the new political status of what was once Lluklu being entirely ignored. The sending back of these people was reported by the provincial authorities to the Emperor, exactly as such occurrences had been reported before Japan outraged the opinion of Asia by annexing Liukin. We are convinced that China acted with good judgment and with dignity in declining to make the annexation a casus belit, and that in deriding she avoided a course which would have drawn on her the derision of Europe and America; but is there not a good deal both of insincerity and of lnconsistency In first declining to take any energetic'steps to prevent the antexation of Lukiu, and then ignoring the fact that. It has been accomplished without her leave)
·MINING." EXPERTS!!
The following extract from the Singapors Free Prass fits one gentleman, whose initials are H.M.B., like a blister
and
astonishing fluctuations and a desperate its old figure after a few short months of struggle of the American Silver Kings" to run it up to, the old four-and-sixpenny level. To sum up, the Silver Bill and its beneficial results to the "Silver Men" has been a very dismal failure. That the Bill was pushed through the Senate to specially benefit United States foreign commence there can be no doubt whatever. That the hard-headed financiers of London have defeated its promoters Subjoined is what our commercial contemporary in an equally patent and undenlable fact, has to say upon the subject.
OUR TRADE IN THE ORIENT. The confidence of American merchants träding with South and Central America has been some- what rudely assilled by the events of the past few months, Brazil's revolution, the Central American struggle, the trouble in the Argentina Republic, the financial panic in Uruguay, and the unsettled feeling in Chill, all following each other in quick succession, have been strongly suggestive of future difficulties that may involve these countries and temporarily engulf all their mercantile and industrial interests. It is last now, therefore, that renewed interest is felt in our opportunities for the extension of commercial" relations with the Orient and the principal Oriental nations are the subject of profound còn- sideration on the part of our business men,
That our total trade with these countries niready forma quite a respectable aggregate, the Accompanying table will show, the figures given being taken from the report of the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department for the year 1889.
Export. Imperta. Total Trade, British East Indien ...8 631,478. $10,014,501 $16,105,014 China,........... 0,701,121, 19,058,479 10,10,348 Hongkong 1,680,569 7.410,135 „Japāḥ someenippens 4510.975 10,687,99% #1,307,067 *Hutch East Indies så -0,149,504
7,410, s Philippine Islande 179,047 10,399,309
10,371,15
Total $13,431,246 $20,866,102 B28,570.450 Besides the above amounts there are a few hundred thousand dellars to be added for our commerce with the scattered islands of the Asiatic archipelago.
There is certainly enough inducement in these figures to lead us to cultivate the various markets in the East more carefully than is at present the case, and it is a notable fact that all are more or less susceptible of improvement.
Take japan as an instance. Her Oaks E Commercial. Exhibition offers un such opportuni ties as we could nowhere else obtain, to display to Japanese buyers the superior merits of our goods and to learn what they are most in need of, the styles they prefer in the different lines, liberal customer of the United States than she is etc. Japan is quite capable of being a far more at present. Our liberal, purchases of her silk and, tea constitute one of her most desirable sources of outside revenue and we certainly ought to be able to do better with her than take out a paltry one-fifth in trade.
CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS. At the Police Court to-day, during the adjourned extradition proceedings in respect to the zendi tion of Su Fel Wun, whose arrest, under exciting clraumstances, took place in East Street some three weeks ago, some very interesting evidence to both males and females speaking generally, touching Chinese funeral rites and ceremonies but when speaking particularly of one who held the mourning staff it meant a male. was adduced by the defence, in rebutting the The termination is meant descendants and evidence of the chief witness for the prosecution, could not mean a wife, or grandmother, or any a zophew of the man whom it was alleged the prisoner had killed in the neighbourhood of other but a direct descendant, It was not Canton recently. Mr. Hastings appeared for the likely that a widow would follow her husband's Chiasso Government, and Mr. Caldwell was for remains to the grave carrying in her hands the the defence. Dr. Eftel, Government Inspector of mourning staff. Such a thing would be Schools, was called to prove what Chinese funeral outrageous, it was quite Incredible. The customs rites and ceremonies were, with a view to showing he referred to were universal throughout China. fundamental that the man who was brought forward as The customs described ware the nephew" of the deceased Jewelles could conditions of Chinese society.
The care was not concluded at six o'clock, not be such, upon his own showing; be A FAIRLY-large and excellently entertained having stated in evidence that no one had audience witnessed the performance of "Lmourner) at his uncle's funeral, although he performed the function of Shingkat (chief Perichole at the Theatre Royal last evening (the witness) would by Chinese custom and law 1.00 Mla Piafsted excelled herself in vivacity be bound to
those functions. perform
At the Magistracy this afternoon Mr. and brightness, and she was exceptionally
Dr. Eitel said he had been 18 years In China, Wodehouse held an inquiry into the circum receported. The accompaniment were and during that period had devoted himself stances attending the death of the European
of Chius, said encouragingly t by G. vary SUCCESS-
to the study of Chinese customs. He had lived constable William McLean, P.C. 71, who was eight years in the interior of China amongst the found drowned near Murray Pier on Wednes- agschef d'orchestra To-morrow evening will
performance, a small army of Austri
Wong Atak, a boatman employed on a sam- amateur vocalists-some of whom will make meat "successor," and Hoo-ist stood for.
"chief mourner." In cases of death by violence pan at Murray Wharf, said that on the 5th their first appearance on the stage and some
it was obligatory that an inquest should be held instant, at 6.30 am, he saw the body of deceased 1.10 their last-having consented to assist in the chorus of "Maritana." Mr. Harding has had
by a magistrate, and the chief mourner, who in lying at the bottom of the water close to Murray China was the successor of the deceased, would Wharf. He promptly reported it to the Police. 1.00. his voice electilcised for the occasion, and there
wash the body of the dead. The Book of Rites Dr. Marques said he had made a post mortem sro no seats obtainable, except by the good (Lei Ken) laid it dowa from the most ancient examination of the body. There was a slight 0.40 graces of the beadsome young man at Kelly & times that the chief mourner should wash the bruise on the right leg. The heart was fatty,
Walsh's.
body of the person in respect to whom a funeral The body presented the dual appearance of He was opinion that 940 Ar the Legislative Council meeting on Monday, was about to be conducted. The "nephew death by drowning. 030 the Orders of the Day will be:-
would, he considered, be stating a deliberate false drowning was the cause of death. There was 1. Financial Minutes.
hood if he said he did not know the character no trace of alcohol in the stomach, as there 3. Report of the Finance Committee.
tow and yet maintained that he was able to read would have been if deceased had been drinking 3. First reading of Bill entitled "An and write Chinese, because the character is an hour and a half or two hours before falling Ordinance to amend The Cattle Diseases, was one of the first letters taught in the Chinese Into the water.
Dr. Chamberlain, of H.M.S. Rattler, stated Slaughter Houses, and Markets Ordinance, school primer (Tre Tai Tso). In speaking of the 1867
funeral rites and ceremonies of China he was that he saw the body in the water at 6 30 am. A First reading of a Bill entitled "An Ordinance speaking from personal observations and from his water police boat was there, and the body bo fsbed out by the to amend The Chinese Emigration Consolidation knowledge of what was laid down positively was about to Ordinance, 1889."
in the Book of Rites, which was a guide to lukongs, but the servants of the Victoria Recrea First reading of a Bill enthied "An Ordinance ceremonials in cases connected with the living tion Club objected to the body being put to amend the Public Health Ordinance of 1887." and the dead. It was the recognised authority on the landing stage. He went into the water First reading of a Bill entitled "An Ordinance of the Board of Rites. Where there was a chief and fished the body out himself and put it on the to amend the Arms Ordinance of 1859,"
mones the principles of the Book of Rites floating stage of the V.R.C. He examined the Third reading of the Bill entitled "An could not be set aside. If an uncle had a wife deceased's watch, which had stopped at 12.35. Ordinance to give further Pawers to Companies living, after his death his property would revert After endeavoring to excite artificial respiration with respect to the Alteration of their Memoranda to her. The property would not necessarily he smelt alcohol. He was sure of it, for the froth
revest to the nephew, except as regarded pro- lasued from the man's mouth. of Association.
Committee on "The Supplementary Approperty allotted for sacrificial purposes, The Detective Sergeant Hadden stated that he went widow would not be at liberly to adopt down to the V.R.C, at 7 am, and saw deceased priation Bill, 1889.
Committee on The Appropriation Bill, 1891," 'a' sephew as chief mourner, and It. wond lying there. His revolver was in the little box Committee on the Bill entitled "The Squatters' be considered an outrage to bury a gentleman fixed under the lamp on the whart Witness had Ordinance, 1890,"
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China is, just now, the cynosure of all eyes in the commercial world: Merchants and bankers are patiently waiting for the barriers that have kept at Western, elvilization to be let down, for an invitation from her people to come and stay, There are those who discriminate trifiers with Every day brings them nearer the goal. Now it fruth into three categories or degrees of com- is a railroad project, now a uluing undertaking, parative iniquity. There is the positive degree, that they take hold of, while the increasing liar" the comparative degree, "past-parti-frequency with which the Chinese officials and cipled llar" and, as A climax to the scale, wealthy men turn to us for assistance in develop. the superlative person commonly dissified ing their vast mineral resources, in providing under the epithet mining expert There them with armaments, etc., shows the graduat are species and sub-species of the last drift of her people. Only recently, an influential named genius, and though there are mining Chinese newspaper, the Skin Pao, to an article miring experts Singapore on the necessity of developing the mineral wealth experts and Hongkong have not been without oppor. tunities of studying individuals of the sort China is known to contain coal fields of indicated in the grammatical witticism above twenty times the extent of all the cos! fields in referred to. There are two lines, of operation Europe. Hunan alons contains as much coal that are successfully practised by some gentle as all Europe. Shantung has gold, silver, lead men who may be called upon to "stale a case iron and coal mines. Shantung, Chibit and for a concession or mining property. But South Manchuria have coal fields stretching combination, possibly unconscious almost, under 250,000 square il of their ares, and Shaus, of the suppressio vary method with that of the 14,000 square IL It is calculated that the coal- suggestio falsi, and the general tendency to thereis stored would last the world 2 433 years, at recommend the use of rose-coloured spectacles, a yearly consumption of 300,000,000 tons, Hupch, taken together with the hopefulness inherent in Hunan, Kiangel, Kirio, Manchuria and Mongolis hamsaity, in viewing "prospects" or pro- all contain cost, copper and Iron mines" spectuses, will go a very fair way to enable people to see perfect bank "books in the running streams" falluvial and river dredging), "sermopa in stones" (lodes and reefs), and "good in every thing." Much of the responsibility of this rests with the incaution of the seekers after wealth, who
With regard to trade with India, Hongkong, are not prove to be over-critical where their wish is natural father of their convictions. It is a the Dutch and Spanish possessions, there is not more hopefal sign for the fature that of late the so much to say. The mother countries in sach task of examining concessions is falling to pro- case jealously monopolise all they possibly can perly qualified men of recognised sclentlic of their business and outride merchants find attainments, but of their predecessors, in some few opportunilter. That it will always remain cases criticisms might with justice have been to ir very improbable. The time will assuredly. passed, Identical with the opinions expressed by a come when the natives of India will recognise well-known experienced Queenslander, who has the advantage of trading untrammeled in the been recently studying the vicisitudes of the world's markets. It is shrewdly suspected that mining boats in Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, the new Sliver Bill will have some effect, as and Slam. He views are given in letters of far as stirring up direct trade between India which passages have appeared in Australian and the United States is concerned, though fust papers, and from these a few extracts may be how this can happen is more than we can taken, whose correctness can be tested by many determine at presenteren dagplangan sen here Judging from his letters, be regards the in We are not the only nation that is watching: mining operations in these pinces with a great engely, the tide of opportaalides in the East, deal of suspicion, for this is what he says *England is not disposed to let them pass her bg,
Of course, it is useless to crowd the Chinese too much or to try and force upon them improve. ments for which they are not prepared. They will take their own good time in all they do and will proceed faster if allowed to do so without outside interference.