After a little further discussion, the fees were. lowered by $35 in each case, making the rate for versels up to 400 tons $75; up to 700, $100; 1,000, $125; 1,100, $150; 2000, $175; and over 2000, $300; with this alteration form 2 was pasard. The title and introduction were also passed. The Council then retumed.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1891.
million dollars worth
at a comparatively early date. The new line turned on the fist of September next, and the The Attorney General stated that he had put in the $150 on his own account in the first instance, will not in any way damage the interests of them is to be finished and in working order by but on consideration thought it would be better Canadian Pacific Company. The goods to 1805. This will open up largo rico districts the prosperity of the to have a scale, as for a small steamer it would be carry is the new liner will be brought and greatly add
for allways to by the Northern Pacific Railway kingdom,
will undoubtedly be prohibitory and for a large steamer simply Ticomy, which has its terminus in Tacoma, be to Siam what the leading arteries is the a fine, and ther weal' so on working.
His Excellency suggested to put down the It is a positive fact that the. Canad an human body are to the heart they will constitute scate by 15 per cent, in each case. After trying Pacific steamers have to shut out cargo at the means whereby the produce of foreign states lower figure at first, then if experience showed Var couver almost every trip. That, of course, will be widely distributed over the corpus (sh that it did not resily meet the necessity of the detrimental to trade, and if by assisting we say) of the country, and thereby, also, the case it could be raised, if they continued largely in carrying the surplus and whatever other cargo produce of the land can be easily, cheaply and to load in spite of this restriction,
is offering, we can keep the godowns empty Mri Keswick ngrred that this alteration would on the other side, it stands to reason that the quickly transported to the port-Bangkok being, As regards exports hence to Bangkok, the prevent the Ordinance from being a hardship trade will go on developing, for shipper will find Presumably, the terminus of all the lines,
that all they can gather for shipment is quickly falling off so noticeable a couple of months ob persons who of necessity must work on
carried on to its destination In China and Japan. go, which was attributable to the great Sunday, even if only for an hour,
We are on the most friendly terms with the fire in the Chinese part of the city-in Canadian Pacific Company, whose special agent which upwards of a Mr. George R. Dodwell is. Which should show of uninsured general merchandise and house you that there is no truth in the rumour respect property WAS destroyed--has at present ing strained relations between the Fairfield
no appreciable effect on the trade, which Company and the Barrow Shipbuilding Company. exhibits signs of rapid Improvement and steady The Bartow Company's tender was lower than development they the Siamese Government is not ours so they got the contract to build the three blind to its own interests, in view of the undoubted pluck of the directors of the Scottish Empresas. There has been no quarrel, and there is no spite or jealousy at the bottom of the Oriental Steamship Company, and the Holt projected so-called opposition line to Tacoma. line, in putting on new steamers on the rente almost every year for the past five At no great distance from Tacoma, on the years, is proved by the great improvements boarders of the Srund, there have been distely introduced into the Custom House Depart covered coal, gold and silver mines, with the ment, which is now practically under European result that towns have rapidly sprung up there, management, and the news brought to hand by last steamer that the second Siamese railway, a vast amount of American capital has been
the Bangkok-Paknym-Fetrieuw llae is to be at once taken in hand. This, together with the invested in the neighbourhood, and rallways are new being constructed from Tacoma to the mining districts at Cariboo, Seattle, etc. This Korat railway, will tap some of the best rice all means increase of trade, and the latter producing districts in the country, and thus will, of course, result in the development of the hastea the rapid development of the well-known mineral and agricultural resources of "the land shipping trade.
of the White Elephant."
THIRD READINO,
The Attorney-General said that the alterations made in the Bill bad been very small, and a probably this would be the last occasion an which the Council would have the pleasure of meeting His Excellency it was desirable to put the Bill through at once. He therefore moved the suspension of the Standing Orders in order to read the Bill a third time.
Mr. He Kal would, not like the Council to be lald open to the charge of passing this Ordinance through in a hurry. He saw also that two of the unofficial members were not present, and he thought they might be afforded the chance of saying something on the Bill. Unless the Bill was very urgent, such suspension of the Standing Orders was not needed. The Bill would un- doubtedly be passed, as he thought there was no real opposition to it from any quarter.
His Excellency pointed out that the objection would only mean that he must call a meeting for to-morrow morning. If it was for the public advantage, of .course he would do so. He had qulie made up his mind to the principle of the Ordinance being generally admitted, and it was his duty to pass it before leaving the Colony, and not to leave it to a locum tenens. But of course if this objection was pressed he would have a meeting to-morrowW mornlag, which would be completely in order. The Ordinance would not come into operation at once. There were two months clear, and if the hon. member would withdraw his motion he had not the least objection to put la another month, in order to give every opportunity of urging any objection from outside before the bill should come into force. He thought that would meet what the hon, member dealred to ensure, and would enable his Excellency to leave the Colony without leaving an invidious task to a locum tenens.
Mr. Ho Kal withdrew his objection, and the date was altered from July 1st to August rst,
On the motion of the Attorney-General seconded by Mr. Mitchell-Innes the Standing Orders were suspended, and the Bill read a third
time and passed.
THE GAMBLING ORDINANCE. On the motion of the Attorney-General, seconded by Mr. Mitchell-innes, the Bill entitled the Gambling Ordinance, 1891, was read a third time and passed.
The Council then adjourned sine die.
WELL DONE, THOU GOOD" &c.
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The following has been sent to us for publica-" tion:-
GOVERNMENT HOUSE, Hongkong, 4th May, 1891, DEAR MR. KESWICK,-The receipt of your letter of yesterday has given me very great pleasure, though I cannot say that it has caused me surprise; for I was always confident, as far as you were concerned, that the letter of the Unofficial Members of the 24th ultimo was signed in the hurry of business without sufficient consideration of the terms used.
You only do me justice in saying that, had the letter, from which you have now withdrawn, been couched in respectful terms, it would have received from me the respectful consideration which, would in such case have been due to opinions emanating from such a source.
As regards, your motive in withdrawal, to which you refer, I will say that not only can it not be impugned, but that I am confident the manly and independent course you have taken in admitting and repairing an unintentional wrong, will add largely to the es "mation in which you are already held by the community of Hongkong,
Yours very falibfully,
(Signed) G. W. DES Vœux.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE TRANS- PACIFIC TRADE.
MINKS AT PUGET SOUND.
TACOMA,
amount of
Tacoma is a magnlücent port, with plenty of deep water close alongside the piers and wharves. Buildings are being tam up there at a great rate, and the city, large as it is at present, bids fair to become, within the next ten or fifteen years, a great rival of San Francisco as regards its ship ping and mining interests. There are enormous bolels there, huge warehouses, electric rallways, the electric lgbt, and every sign of modern pros perity. It is one of the finest and most go-ahead cities in that vast continent. At no very far distant date a line of steamers will be running from Vancouver to Australia and, it was rumoured when I left that elty, a cable will before very There is plenty of long join the two continents. enterprise, as is well known, amongst the American mercantile classes which, as regards the development of Tacoma and neighbouring backed with any ports, is capital.
So it is clear that with anything like a fair run of luck the new Co. vessels and the Canadian Pacific Company will be carrying vast quantities of cargo to and from China which mat one time would have been shipped exclusively by vessels using the slower and less certain Suez Canal route. It may, in fine, be taken for granted that the Canadian- Pacific and the new company's vessels will be employed in the development of a trade which must benefit the mercantile communities of the Far East generally, and as such should be regarded with the utmost 'lavour by all who have large commercial interests at stakes in the Orient. The development of the trade between Vancouver and the Far East is, I believe, the mst remarkable feature of tradsl affairs yet kanwn, and tends to very strongly prove that "where there's a will there's a way,”
FIRE IN QUEEN'S ROAD, About half-past one o'clock yesterday morning fire broke out in the premises No. 331, Queen's Road Central, an eating house which stood at the corner of Queen's Road and Morrison Street, The alarm was sounded, and the Fire Brigade were soon upon the scene, under the direc tion of Actlog Superintendent Horapoo! and Assistant Superintendent A. Chapman. Owing to the absence of water in the maini it was fortunate the fire was in such close proximity to the harbour, from which a good' supply of water was obtained. The fire, how, ever, by this time had spread to the adjoining shop, No. 333. Queen's Road, a coppersmith's shop, which was soon enveloped in flames. The burning buildings being doomed the brigade. turned their attention to keeping the fire located, which they succeeded in doing. The tea shops, butdings of three stories in height, were entirely gutted, and we learn that No. 331 is insured for $1.500 in a Chinese Insurance Office, the other premises not being insured,
THE LAND OF THE WHITE ELEPHANT.
The Bangkok papers have of late teemed with allusions to the sinister aims of the French Republic upon Stam, aims which cannot possibly commend themselves to the English Cabinet, considering how closely our interests are bound up in the little kingdom. The question, therefore, now absorblug the attention of many is whether Stam will, when the time comes, be enabled to keep the French out of the Melkong valley, and then count upon England's friendly Intervention? We at present, through our great and important trade with the country,—and many other interesis
A NEW LINE OF STEAMERS FROM HONGKONO.
Commander A. Marshall, R.N.R., well known in the Far East as the popular skipper of the renowned tea-clipper Stirling Caitli, arrived here from Vancouver Int Saturday by the Canadian Pacific Co.'s chartered steamer Batsuta, on a special mission. A member of our staff interviewed him on the 4th inst. .
I am here, sald Captain Marshall, as the special representative of Mr. Richard Barnwell, managing director of the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, who is also one of the leading directors of the Scottiah Oriental Steamship Company and managing director of the "Gulon" line. Mr. Barnwell has charge of all Sir William Pearce's vessels and shipping in terests, all over the world, and sahis steamers the Parthia, Abyssinia and Batavia, now chartered by the Canadian Pacific Company are about to be supplanted on the Vancouver run by the three new and magnificent Empresses it is neces- sary to find other employment for these three Gulon boats. To do this I have visited Canada and the United States and specially looked into affairs in the neighbourhood of Tacoma, Seattle, Portland (Oregon), Victoria, and Vancouver In fact the whole of the Puget Sound parts and their trade prospects have been specially studied by me. It is now just about four years a stace first crossed the Pacifle from Vancouver to Yokohama. Os that occasion I commanded the sibyssinia and my freight consisted of a Chinese coffin and five or six tons of four, That sort of thing did not last long. The trade, with which merchants in China could calculate and this port, are now ten and twelve cents--and
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hold they key of the position in our hands, and surely it is neither a just nor a common-sense policy to allow suck a position to be weakened by any apparent want political cordiality. Not that we say there exists any such want of friends ship between England and Siam, bet a more generous treatment in regard to the present Trans-Salween and other boundary questions might have the effect of leading to til further welding of the two nations. The conductors of the Press could and should lend material ald is this respect, and what suggests itself to our mind is that means should be used to obtain the widest information regarding the country; that those chosen to do this should bestow upon it all the care and time essential to bringing out a cyclopaedia of social facts regard ing trade and other resources, and thus assist to make Siam better known to the outside world. Some idea of the stale of the trade between Hongkong and Bangkok and Salgon may be gathered from the Siamese Custom House Retors for last year. The total exports were some $5,000,000 lx excess of 1889. whilst the Imports from Europe and elsewhere were nearly $7,000,000 over and above the total for 1889. Steamer freights, however, which at this time last year were steady, at 20, and 23 cents per-picul-according to description of cargo
CORRESPONDENCE.
[We do not necmally endorse the oplzione kapressed by Correspondents In this columa).
A PEACEFUL TRIUMPH. TO THE EDITON or the "Hongkong TelégraFM,” SIR--Permit me through the medium of your columos to call the attention of marers and officers of the British Merchant Service to the fact that a Bill entitled "An Ordinance, to restrict the loading and discharging of cargoes in certain waters of this Colony was read a first time at the meeting of the Legislative Council held here yesterday morning. That the efforts of this Association and its friends to cause the abolition of a custom which is deemed a great hardship, and injustice by members of the profession generally, both on home-going and coasting steamers, has so far resulted in complete success is undeniable, and it is with feelings of unqualified pleasure that I make this announcement and heartily congratulate you upon the measure of success altained by the force of reason and arguments based upon facts-not by means of violent outbursts of Indignation, justifiable and otherwise, such as brought trouble and misery upon tens of thousands of our countrymen in the Australasian colonles last autumn.
In thus briefly referring, on the spur of the moment, to what is, I presume, practically a "Sunday Observance Law I cannot conclude without paying a brief tribute to the public press, which has, from first to last, been pleased to accord the movement the inestimable assistance of its support
As I shall avail myself of an early opportunity of speaking publicly upon this subject, dealing with the rew Bill clause by clause, I refrain from further trespassing upon your' valuable space at the present Juncture.
Yours faithfully,
SAMUEL ASHTON,
President, British M. M. G. Association.
College Chambers,
Hongkong, 30th April, 1891.
HONGKONG WASH-HOUSES AND BAKERIES.
To rw Eon of the "Hanakoma TeleRA 19.”
SIR,-Referring to your graphic descriptions of the grave state of affairs Ennected with such two important local industries as bakeries and wasb-houses (for which the general public will doubtless be very grateful) I write as an old Hongkong resident and as a family man to say that unless action is taken to remedy the very serious evils which undoubtedly exist, I trust you will lead the weight of the influence of your widely-read journal to any efforts that may be put forth with a view to memorialising the Government on the subject.
Although your “show up" of the bakeries was published in September last, I am in a position to state that the Lower Lascar Row and other so-called bakeries in Chinese districts are In the same filthy and insanitary condition as when your article was published--and yet it is alleged that Hongkong is progressive ! O tem- pora morar!
Thanking you for favoring, this with a corner in an early isque.
Yours, etc.,
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¦ OLD RESIDENT. Hongkong, and May, 1891..
SCOTS WHA HAE, &C.
TO THE EDITOR or the "Fionokoná Talegrar,"
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perhaps the following suggestions might be made.
It is one-alded and directed to exclude from its operations all native craft, which on short voyages to southern ports can compete success fally against foreign-built vessels.
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on the island affords a bright exception to the treatment shipwrecked prople have been receiving for some time past at the hands of the Chinese, for they say nothing could have been kinder than the behaviour of the Islanders amongst whom they landed.
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Has consideration been given to the food supply of the colony, which is largely imported The river steamers leaving Canton on Saturday THE BRITISH CONSULAR SERVICE
IN CHINA. morning bring large suppiles both for the European and native colonists. Is this perish.
the hot weather, on board the steamers, or are able cargo to be allowed to rot, particularly the vessels to refuse its carriage on the Satur day evening departures from Canton, se throwing the colonists' food wants on the stale supplies of previous importations?
Many time charters are in existence based on the old order of things. To reduce the the charterers ability to work in this harbour by a maximum of nearly 15 per cent. during the remaining currency of their charters would in flict a hardship on all who have such contracts pending, For, If they had been aware that this Ordinance was contemplated, they could have provided for a lessened payment to the ship owner in the event of such legislation becoming operative during the term of their charters. Under such circumstances is it not equitable that the Ordinance should not take effect till six months from the date of its passing?
Why should work in the harbour be signalled out and not that on shore ? Is it not straining at
gnat and swallowing a camel i
Yours very truly,
a
W. H. WHITEHEAD. Hongkong, 4th May, 1891, "
[This letter did not reach us in time for publics
tion in our last night's issue. We shall feel greatly obliged if correspondents will kindly remember that our hour of publication is 5.30 p.m., and forward their communications as early in the day as possible.-Ed., Hongkong Zeligraph:]
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THE HON, JAMES JOHNSTONE KESWICK AND THE PUBLIC.
burden to maintain their jealous husbands in idleness and compartive case. I have seen the savage Luaus, or Lisu, in the prefecture of Yang- chang Fu, Westera Yunnan, ploughing their unhealthy fields in the valley of the Luchiang river, with women baressed to their ploughs, lastead of cattle. The men held the plough, and were fully armed:
Yongan does not appear to have been regularly, annexed, and fficially administered, its Chinese province, until the thirteenth century, when Kublai Khan, the Mongolian conqueror of the Chinese Empire, penetrate with his victorious troops through the whole ef Yunnan, even to Burma, imposing his Imperist sway over both these equntries, and in fact over nearly the whole of Asia,,
A correspondent who signe himself "The Chinese Times in Elysia," writes as follows to the N. C. Daily News
Under the played device of an ironical vindi- ention of the Consuls from the strictures of the Chinese Times an ingenious writer in your con- temporary shows up the weakness of their case rather too strongly, for with all its faults it can not be but that there is something to be said on
•T the side of the Service.
This YA PIRYiAce, is officially divided and subdivided for the convenience of her'er adminis tration in much the same manner as other Chiles provinces, that is, as follows:-4 circuits, 14 préfectures, 4 departments, 3 districts, 13.
sub-prefectures of thei 7'ing class, 16 sub- prefectures of the Che class, and 39 counties, all of which are entirely under Chincic rule. Besides the above, there are 3 prefectures, sub-prefectures ofthe Chow class, and, 4 counties, enjoying Home Rule, ander hereditary nativa chieftains. Yunnan province consists chiefly of an elevated platene some 5,000 to 6,000 feet above sea leveli It. in intersected by several mountain ranges, some of which have peaks of great altitude, (especially those near the confines of Thibet) which are perpetually covered” with snow. The climate of Yunnan is pleasantly: cool in summer, and fairly healthy, especially on the table land forming the principal portion
the "Lu and the Lungchuan of the province. The valleys down which dow the Lautsang Rivers te however very warm, sultry, and dreadfully unhealthy, so much so that few people live in these valleys, although people living on the neighbouring heights descend to cultivate various Crops on the fertile slopes.
The natural resources of Yunnan are great „Indeed. It produces everything necessary for the sustenance of a dense population, despite fta prejcht poverty-stricken, appearance.
The article consists of a war-dance,, amusing. just, and in perfectly, good taste, over the pms trate farm of the critic, while the criticism itself is evaded. The writer demands of any critic such an exhaustive study of the Consular staff an would involve a residence of at least five years at each of the twenty-one ports, bealdes an inde would be past his prime and the house would finite campaign In Peking, by which time he be counted out, or he would be counted out of it before he had a chance of opening his mouth. Under such an exigent canon it would be forbidden to any one to comment on missionary" | doings who was not five hundred years old. The appeal to those wonderful archives, too, which are in the same breath pronounced inaccessible, le a humorous touch which cannot fail to be appreciated by those whom it concerns. When the smoke of the fire-works has cleared away the writer's position remains so cleverly velled that one cannot say positively whether he means, to controvert the assertions of the Chinese Times or whether, granting their truth, he denies to the 'facts the significance attached to thám,
There is probably a wide discrepancy between the views held within its ranks and those TO THE EDITOR OF THE "Hongkong TelegrAPR," prevailing in the market place as to the raison Opium, hemp, r, rhubarb and other drugs SIR Really, I became much perplexed when fire of the Consular service, and thle 1, abound. Malze rice, wheat and other cereals I saw in last night's Telegraph the Hon. Mr. precisely the polat which needs cicative up are grown almost everywhere. Pears, oranges, Keswick's letter addressed to the Head of the before any mutual appreciation of arguments, lemons, and other fruit, potatoes and other Executive, withdrawing everything that he did can expected. If the service be a self-com..
perfection in many different places. Fine oxen, month or two. I cannot believe myself that own glory, there could be scarcely any difference excellent sheep, gants, pigs, dogs, ponies, asses,
of opinion that the end of its being has been mules, fish, ducks, geese, peacocks and fowls, owing to pressure of business, he signed the protest, or whatever it is called, without looking creditably attained. That something very like are also reared and eaten as food by all who can at it. Is this a hole to creep out of ? Undoubt this doctrine is openly held by many in the service, afford, such, Mahomedans of course abstaining edly this is a very poor excuse. Not a child, and tacitly by many more, will not perhaps be from the abominable fish of the hog and the Sir, would have done what the Hon. Mr. Keswick seriously denied. But this is not at all the ideal of dog, Milk butter, tes, sugar and salt are alo did. He had more than once, and yesterday the Consular service held by themercantile public produced in various parts of the province, and at more than ever, pre ved his inability to represent Not that they do not like to see the flagstaff and reasonable prices Clothing stuff it, however, the interests of this colony in the Legislative the gold and silver lace, the buttons and the very dear, although coarse flannels, and strong Council. It is high time that he should be velvet collar-indeed there is not a British sub silks are woven from native produce, and an called upon to resign his place in Council imme-ject in China who would willingly see his Consul abundance of fine wool is available for manufac
bate a jot of his proper dignity, even for anturing the best of cloth on the Introduction of diately, and the vacancy occupied by one more
Immediate advantage to his nationals; but the suitable machinery for that purpose. The mineral competent than himself. What we want is a man of the Hon. Mr. Whitehead's character, merchants and others regard these accessories wealth of Yunnan is something enormous, and independent to the core, and not a mere time not as the end but the means; the polish on the almost inexhaustible. It is greater by far tha server who only opens his mouth to utter an instrument which is intended not to he hung up that of any other provlace in China. Rubles "it" or a "but," as you very well said, in your for ernament in a rack, but for quite mundane and sapphires, garnets and topazes, amethysts leader of last night,
and every-day uses. What, they ask, is the and, fade abound in the western prefectures, finest despatch writing, what is even a pile of Gold, silver, platinum;* nlckel, copper, tin, lead, Thanking you in anticipation, my I am, Sir,
Blue books to them, if their material interests. zing, iron, coal and salt: also abound in many are neglected by those who are paid to defend places. Copper is especially abundant. Its Yours very truly,
oges are of excellent quality, and have been worked for ages in over one thousand different Hongkong, 5th May, 1891.
places. This rich provlace has been more or less open to Chinese commercial Intercourse for! the long period, of twenty-two centuries, and it has been administered entirely as a Chinese Province, for six centuries or more yet nothing have been done by the Chinese Government for the benefit of the native tribes whose country has been so forcibly annexed to the Chingae Empire.
both in and out of the Council, for the last tained quati divine institution existing for vegetables, are also cultivated to more or less
B. D. F.
THE ASHDOWN AND RYAN CONCERTS.
To The Boron oF THE "Hoнakond Treegraph,”
SIR,-The Committee of Management series of concerts recently given at the Garrison Theatre and Theatre Royal, City Hall, in aid of a fund for the benefit of the widow and orphans of the late Bombardier Ashdows, R.A., and the widow of Musketry-Instructor Ryan, of the Hongkong Police, resulted follows:.
The concerts for Mrs. Ashdown resulted in the realisation of a sum of $362.04, after paying all expenses, and the one entertainment at the Garrison Theatre enabled the Committee to set aside for Mrs. Ryan $53,32
On behalf of the Committee of Management I shall esteem it a favor if you will tender our warmest thanks to Mr. C. H. Grace, who most
willingly undertook to arrange the City Hall concert, and the ladies and gentlemen who so kindly gave their valuable services; also to Mr. Ruchwaldy and his talented pupils, to Messrs. Kelly and Walsh, Ld., the City Hall Committee, the Army and Navy and public generally for their liberal support, and fast, but not least, to the Hongkong Press for the cordial assistance they invariably give to all deserving cases.
The amounts stated above have been handed to Capt. Goold Adams, commanding the Battery to which the late Bombardier Ashdown belonged, and satisfactory arrangements will be made that they will be utilised to the best advantage for
I am, Sir,'
those concerned.
Yours faithfully,
J. MEREDITH, Garrison Sergeant Major, Hongkong, 5th May, 1801.
THE WRECK OF THE "HOLME
EDEN"
them ?
At one point the writer, unable apparently to sustain bin ironical consistency throughout, drops inadvertenly into unison with the Chieris Times. Perhaps the fact was too patent to be denied, even in jest, that public praise of an against him in the quarters whence promotion. comer, while he who snubs his nationals and represses their enterprise, if only he has managed his foolscap dexterously, is on the high road to ministerial favour,
ended annually in various ways throughout the province, but despite this fact, the people are exceedingly poor, wretched and miserable. The wealthfast of the natives are neither fed, dressed, or bossed with anything like comfort not to say lacury. Their best food in frugal Indeed, and their best clothing is far inferior to that worn by Bur servants in Shanghai, whilst most of their houses would hardly be considered good enough for the cattle on respectable English farm.
The principal object of the Chinese in retain- It is of course impossible to bring together the|ing hold of this province appears to have been whole of the acts of all the Consular officers to secure the control of its rich deposits of copper extending over the length and breadth of China, add other metals. Millions of taels of silver are and covering a period of nearly fifty years in order to prave this or any other proposition. But it would perhaps be fair and also feasible, to select soma representative cases, where men have been pushed forward; in the service and promoted over the heads of seniors, or contrariwise kept back. Take one or two of these men whom the powers that be have delighted to honour, the all of the service, and see for what merits they were advanced, or, if that be not ascertainable, mark the subsequent behaviour of the men as the best indication of what they think "goes down" at headquarters Mark also the bearing of any who may have suffered rebuffs, and observe in what respects they have changed their tactics in order to escape future displeasure.
This great misery is no doubt, principally due to the lack of water communication, and the badness of tall roads, hut hi great deal, of it is also due to the general incom petency of Chinese officials to govern alien races, and to the incapacity of the wretched people to govern themselves. Yunnan will never flourish under Chinese rule! Something better is" Recestery, Goodreads must be made, habita of industry must be encouraged, and the corvit system abolished before any good can be effected. There are ten Impartant" roads by may reach the bich travellers and merchandise may] provincial capital of Yunnan, from various
pins of China and the surrounding countries, but the best of them is not so good as the worst of country roads in England. The accommodation for man and beasts on the best and most frequented in wretched in the extreme. All of them are difficult and costly,
It would really be an interesting enquiry, and If residents at different ports would, without mentioning names of the men, or even of places contribute what they know of Conestar proceeds ings in their districts, dafs might thereby be obtained from which some "definite conclusion would be derivable as to the theory and practice, of the Consular Service; and the responsibility for the existing state of things might then be more accurately distributed between the system Land the men.
YUNNAN: ITS TREASURES AND and e'oven days'overland journey is the shortest
TRADE ROUTES.
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time in which the capital of the province can be reached from the nearest river port,
The steamer Myrmidon, which arrived at Shanghai on Saturday inst (April 25th), brought up
The first and-most-important of there ten Captain Prentice and 14 of the crew of the steam- At a meeting of the China Branch of the Royal routes in the Imperial highway from Peking SIR-After reading the Hon. J. J. Keswick's ship Holme Eden, 3:400 tons grosa reglater, from Asiatic Society held in Shanghai on the 20th, the gh Chiki Shantung, Horan, Hupel, letter to bin Excellency the Governor, published Lender, which went ashore in a thick fog on the its treasures and trade routes," Dr. Edkins, botders of Bm The distance from 'Peking Antwerp, belonging to Messrs. Angler Bros. of alto, General Meany read a paper on Yunnan: Hunan, Kuelchow, and Yunnan and as far as the in this morning's Issue of the Daily Prázt, surely Scotchmen will be proud of their countryman, Lencoune Islands the previous Thursday morning occupied the chair.
pimage of Corrado lain to Mander Falby this route is 8,200 for ever and the St. Andrew's Society of its President
and became a total wreck. The Chinese gua- General Meany, after some, introductory 2,700 miles, and tv takta, ordinary travellers at the following extracts The superficial area of journey," Four months is, however, the usual ladie of the circumstances to which it refera, li host Chase Woo brought the chief officer of the remarks, read his paper, from, which make least one hundred to accomplish the
difficult to conceive a more abject and cringing ill-fated ship and the remainder of the crew. letter being written by, even the meanest lick The Mercury says that the Holme Eden lek Yuunan is over 100,000 English, square miles time: Freddent halts and rests are necessary spitle in Hongkong and there are a good the February 22nd, and after calling at all the way eight degrees of longitude, and is this larger that everyston for teen speed at corals we
Antwerp with a general cargo for Shanghai on It extends through seven degrees of latitude and for the welfare of man and beast, so it happens of them and it
Tit only shews how urgent it is that the rate-payers should tell the Home Government ports, left Hongkong on Saturday the 18th inst, to than Italy, but not nearly so densely populated pack animals sie wil changed at certain well most emphatically that they are not represented come up here, All went till Wednesday night, as the Italian Kingdom. The population of know and regally established centies for that as they should be in the Legislative Council, when a dense for set in, on account of which the Yunnan has been variously estimated by the purposeCafts engaged at Peking may how and demand that a searching inquier be made abip was obliged to proceed as slowly as possible, Chinese Government, as well as by individual car com a tarr Holangyang Fo on the Had 17 River in shour thirty days without changing, but fato the whole system al Government (in the lead being have at frequent intervals. The collectors of such statistics, af from- 2:19, 37 Hongkong, with a view to is being remodelled, ship struck at about 3,30 am. and Immediately millions. In 1877, at the close of a civil war that wirely donealries Imperial Post comfor and fixed on a proper basis, so that the officials began to fill, and seeing she was setting down, had lasted over twenty years, and had greally bearing important dispatches to or from Peking be made to feel that they are our servants and not the captain ordered the boats to be lowered, it reduced the number of inhabitants, I estimated and Yunnantametimes do the whole journey, our masters.
being then so thick that it was impossible to see the population to be about one mililon, families, miles, in thirty days, but they change I am, Sir,
more than a yard. Is doing this one of the Two years later, an official cansus laken, and posice every ten of hfteen milles. anilors fell overboard, but was picked up by the the population was then declared to be ever be adrese changes Thas travelers 10 The advent of steamers in China has brought AE ONE OF MANY.
second officer almost before he touched the eleven million Individuals. About two thirds of about Hongkong, 4th May, 1891, moonlehe
of
far the distant province of This is the only accident to be the present inhabitants of Yunnan, consist
Peking
cart to Tientsin in three recorded of those on the vessel, a, fact that various tribes of Lolo, Lim, Mu-so, THE SUNDAY LABOUR BILL.
fier and speaks volumes for the coolnesss and discipline ·Misotny
embark there on a steamer, and reach called; or collectively TO THE EDITOR or tær Konaxone Tesugnari, maintained on board, and for the promp
by river seme to Hinkow in four days. fit the Junk may be hired to go up Hankow has to-day been summoned for to-morrow fore. The officers and crew of the ship numbered 26 noon at 11 o'clock. I cannot possibly attend as all told, and 13 of those under the command of
Yappize Hiver Intough the Tangding Lake, and part to the scarcity of rice both at Balgon and it is mall day. The second readleg of the Bill of the captain got into one the boats, when
up leysa river to Cheayuan Fo, Kucichow Bangkok, and also to the lack of means of rapid entitled "An Ordinance to restrict the Loading they were lowered, the remaining 13 getting
provitice, in forty ya Here the land journey and casy, transport from the interior of Slam to and Unlading of Cargo on Sunday in the into the second, which was under charge of the
commencer The whole journey may be accom- Bangkok, the capital and chief port through waters of the colony is in the orders of the day. first officer. The two boats appear to have lost
plished in eight days actual travelling, but which the kingdom's exports pass 'en route to should like to be present to oppose the Bill in sight of each other in the thick weather, that
hals and rest are necessary, so one hundred Singapore, Hongkong, Europe, etc. It must be its present form or at least to endeavour to of the captain making for Gutzlaff Island, off
days is the patal Ume occupied in the Actuil, anics of this "fest "This is the best The Belavia and Zambert a chartered borne in mind, tas, that the increase during secure certain amendments to it, but as that in which they were picked up this morning by
(for officials Just now, in the way, by Mr. Frank Upton of Kobe to run from the past three years in the number of impossible I beg to send you for publication the Myrmidon having spent the intervening
afloat and sekora ́) neveriho", Japan to the Pacific last. They have nothing steamers running between Hongkong, Swatow stain criticisms. His Excellency the Governor time, except for a short space, while they were
luous and comfortless task to to do with the new line between Tacoma and and Bangkok has been, more or less, in excess has stated that for all practical purposes I might ashore on one of the faints, tossing about
faridise-cannot-be profitably. Hongkong, touching at Japanese ports and of the demand for tonnage er, at all events, it just as well send my remarks to the newspaper in the open water. The occupants of the
kuẩn by this route as the duties Shanghal It may be taken for granted that a has not been backed up by the expected large as deliver them in Council,
the Chaon "Woo took them on board wester
show are so heavy new log will be started within twelve months sice crop for the present, year, ot, the building of effect can thus be cool, and that the same chief oficer's boat were more fortunate, as
Lɛde too costly for sale from the present time, and that they will have railway lines running into the interior of Slam, Is this Bill introduced under Instructions from day morning, and the castaways speaks highly all they can do to carry the cargo adering in which would, as a natural sequence, prove the Secretary of State for the Colonies. If so of the treatment Lasy received on board, the shot it in Amaly probable that the serview will | valuable feeders to the trade of the port. The it. le, kimidet uasises to oppose it, or to offer. Chiness war vessel: The experience of Captain Aars to be anguisanten by and is two more viestie – Fest sed of the Korat railway lay however, to be any sockmanta növerse so its passing, though | Premios and the malicien along with MINE WHIS)
water.
Owing to the shortness of route and the certaloty-between the land of the white Elephant" },' SIR,--A meeting of the Legislativa Council títnde' and 'efficacy of the measures taken the Chinese, Fas-Fin," a "teria which Sharékzi in four or five days... Thence they g
on the delivery oftheir consignments; developed weak at that. The drop is, we are assured; due in with remarkable rapidity until, about a year ago, it was found that the three chartered boats were not able to carry all the cargo offering, and sae or two outsiders were engaged to meet the demands of shippers.
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--heathen, · because the Chinese bave failed to convert the native tribes to Con- fucianism, or any other system of morality, These primitive people still retain many of their ancient manners and customs, refraining as much as possible, from social Intercourses with the Chinese. They have also certain tribat distinc tions peculiar to the member of their respective bibes, thus the Misers and Lung-jen tribes, in the eastem part of the province, live and dress differently from those of the centre and sort of the province in the chat, capecially in the prefecture of Kaangaan Fa, I noticed the women lest drewed in, white shirts with large bide WER men. These women are as a rule.exceedingly collars, something, like. English naval-service- active and rigorous, and food of p their work is over. In the evening pis Loin and other tribes, the casele wery THE women, bare to work hard Hind
of all the
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