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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
No. 64.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1899.
Intimation.
LIMITED.
MR. J. J FRANCIS, Q.0., ON SPHERES OF INFLUENCE
AND THE OPEN DOOR.
delivered a lecture before the Hongkong Odd Yesterday afternoon Mr. J. f. Francis, Q.
Volumes Society, at the City Hall, on "Spheres of Influence and the Open Door" The public and the ladies of Honglong had been invited to attend and readily availed themselves of the opportunity, the Chamber of Commerce room, in which the lecture was given, being too small to accommodate comfortably the vary large audience, amongst whom were His Excellency the Governor, Sir Henry Blake, and Sir John Hastings and many ladies. The chairman, Mr. Carrington, the Hon. John Barrett, commander T. Jackson, introduced the lecturer in a brief
were most apposite, and it is, Interesting to note that land sales in the now territory have been forbidden, except at the risk of the parties concerned, This is practically the first plece of Information anent the new territory that the Government A. S. WATSON & CO., hope that it may be regarded as a sign have placed before the public and wa that we are no longer to be left entirely in the dark as to what has been or is being done with the lately acquired hinterland. WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. The questions which the Honourable E. R. BELILIOS has notified his intention of putt ing at the next meeting of the Council will certainly be awaited with interest by the public and we hope that they will embrace the question of the continuance or otherwise of the Customs Blockade and the control of Kowloon City. It would also be interesting speech. Per Joa.
to leam what steps are to be ten for the proper policing of our new ferritory, and when the construction of roads is to be taken in hånd.
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THE following Particulars and Conditions of These Wines are too favourably
known to need comment.
Sate of Crown Land by Public Auction,
to be held on the spot, on
TUESDAY,
the 21st day of February, 1899, at 11 A.M., are published for general information.
By Command,
T. SERCOMBE SMITH,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary Office,
Hongkong, 4th February, 1899.
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Particulars and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sale to be held on Tuesday, the 21st day of February, 1899, at 11 A.M., by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of Two Lots of CROWN LAND, at Mong Kok Tsui, Kow- loon, in the 'Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 Years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOTS.
1.OCALITY.
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LIMITED.
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LIMITED. SHEWAN TOMES & Co..
Agents,
Sample bottles and smaller quanti.. ties will be supplied at proportionate wholesale rates. ...
We only guarantee our Wines and Spirits to be genuine when bought direct from us in the Colony or from our authorised Agents at the Coast Ports.
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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1899.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
We are glad to see that the Honourable T. H. Whitehead intends to inaugurate a crusade against the insanitary state of the Colony, as evidenced by the two questions of which he gave notice at yesterday's Coun- cil Meeting, viz:—
FLUSHING DRAINS AND WATERING ROADS.
Are the Government taking steps to provide for the Aushing of the drains and sewers and the watering of the roads throughout the City by the construction of tanks along the upper levels either for fresh or salt water," and if the latter for the construction of the necessary pumping stations?
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REFUSE DESTRUCTORS. Ard the Government taking any steps to in- troduce destructors for the disposal of the city refuse i
That the flushing of the drains of the Co- UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF lony at all times requires attention goes
CANTON, LD.
without saying, and the fact of the "sepa W. H. PERCIVAL,
Agent,
rate system" being adopted in Hongkong, NORTH-CHINA INSURANCE CO., LD. by which special storm-water drains are pro- vided and none of the rain-water finds its W. H. RAY,,
Secretary,
way into the sewers to cleanse them, and CHINA Traders' INSURANCE CO., | carry off any accumulation of sediment that may collect in them, shows that it is not only during periods of drought that flushing is necessary. At present the drains appear to be in an exceedingly bad state, if one can judge from the stench to be met with in the vicinity of most of the traps, and the sooner some proper method of flushing is adopted the better it will be for the health of the Colony. If our water supply is insufficient to allow of an adequate amount being used to keep the drains in order it is high time that sea water was employed for the purpose and the stand about to be taken by Mt. WHITEHEAD deserves the unanimous sup polt of the community.
YANGTSZE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION,
LIMITER, GEO. L. TOMLIN, Acting Secretary,
CHINA FIRE INSURANCE CO., LD.
W. H. T. DAVIS,
Local Manager,
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THE NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA, LIMITED.
NOTICE is hereby given that the EIGHTH
on
ORDINARY' ÄNNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the National Bank of China, Limited, will be held at the BANK premises, Queen's Rand. Victoria, Hongkong; SATURDAY, the tith March at NOON.
The TRANSFER BOOKS and Register of Menthers of the Company will be CLOSED from the 25th day of February to 11th March, 1899, both days inclusive.
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM GLASGOW AND BIRKENHEAD.
"HE Company's Steamship THE
*MOYUNE," having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods, are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf rind Godown Company, Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained.
No Claims will be admitted after the Gonde have left the Godowns, and all Clairns must be sent in to the Office of the Undersigned before Neos on the 24th instant, or they will not be recognized.
All broken, chafed, and dainaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be
examined on SATURDAY, the 18.b instant.
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Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before a P.M., TO-DAY.
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TELEGRAMS.
(By Telegraph.)
Special to the "Hongkong, Telegraph"
THE SITUATION IN THE PHILIPPINES.
MANILA, 14th February,
2.10 p.m.
ILOILO TAKEN. - Iloilo was taken by the Americans on Saturday afternoon. Only a slight resistance was made by the Philipinos.
SPECIAL LICENSING SESSIONS.
A special session of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace was held in the Justices Room at the considering the following applications: Magistracy this morning for the purpose of
(1) Henry James Faunch for a Publican's licence to sell and retail intoxicating liquors on Praya East under the sign of "The Fraya East the premises situate at houses Nos. 38 and 39, Hotel,"
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(a) James Dodd for the transfer of his Pubilean's licence to sell and retail intoxicating liquors on the premises situate at houses Nos. 90 and 92, Queen's Rend West, under the sign of The Western Hotel "to Hinrich Vartelmann, Publican's licence to sell and retail Intoxicating (3) George Leitch for the transfer of his liquors on the premises situate at houses Nos. 148 and 150, Queen's Road Central, under the sign of "The Sing Hotel to Frank Llewellyn Hazell,
The choir was foccupied by Commander Hastings, Acting Police Magistrate, and there were also present the Hon. T. Sercombe Smith, Mr. J. Dyer Ball, Mr. D. Crawford, Mr. C. W. Duggan, Mr. W. M. B. Arthur, and Deputy Superintendent Baddeley,
who said his client was a partner with, Drews, Faunch was represented by Mr. Thompson, the former license holder. Drews was now dead, and Faunch wished to carry on the busi
ness.
The application was granted, there being no police objection.
Mr. Hursthouse appeared. for the applicant. He said his client was 43 years of age and had never held a license before. He had been to sea since 1873 and held a masters certificate since 1880. There were five certificates of good character, the most recent one oeing from Messrs. Sander, Wieler and Co.
Mr. Francis in his opening remarks said the Daily Press of that morning had furnished him with an introduction. That paper emphasised the danger of using imperfectly understood catchphrases, as it termed "spheres of in- fluence and the
open door," by reference to an article in the Times of the 9th January. He did not think the illustration applied; the Times, he thought, had not misused the phrases, though it might be mistaken in its statement of the circumstances as they existed at Shanghai, Bat undoubtedly the phrases were frequently misunderstood and misapplied, and as the subject matter in respect of which they were used and misunderstood and misapplied--our trade with China and England's position in China was of the utmost importance to us and any mistake might have dangerous consequences, it was as well to try and clear up the misunder standings and avoid the mistakes. This was the object of his lecture. He did not propose to tell them, as the Daily Prete said was his object, all about spheres of induence and the open door. The subject was much too wide. Neither could he narrowly detine the tents; they were not capable as yet of accurate dytîni- tion. They had only recently came into use,ing a police objection. the open doer quite recently and only in con nection with China, spheres of influence of less recent date and in connection with Africa, They were of such recent date that no authority on international law had yet discussed ov defined them. The things the phrases sub. stantially represented lind always more or less existed, but the phrases themselves were new and applied to new circumstances, He proposed to deal tirst with the order of the twn, "spheres of influence." He then pro- LONDON, February 12th. ceeded to analyse the idea according to the die A circumstantial report is current that the tionary meaning of the words, sphere" being remains of M. Andrée and his contrades have a circle, an area large or small, a field of action,
and one of the meanings of" influence," accordin been found beside the balloon, in Northerning to a recent authority, being controlling or
CONSULATES BURNT. The Philipinos burnt, the outskirts of the town and the British, American and German
consulates.
Received at 2.30 p.m. Issued at 5.30 p.m.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
'M, ANDREE'S VOYAGE TO THE
NORTH POLE,
Siberia....
THE DREYFUS AFFAIR.
In spite of the Committee's rejection, the Chamber has adopted the Dreyfus Bill by 332 to z16.
THE SPANISH AMERICAN TREATY
SIGNED.
President McKinley has signed the treaty of peace between Spain and the United States. GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES.
The United States Ambassador at Berlin has strongly protested against German conduct in Samoa. Herr von Bülow, speaking in the Reichstag, repudiated the designs on the Philip pines which had been attributed to Germany He said that the Filippinos had received ne kind of German support and believed that German and American interests would clash nowhere in fature.
WEATHER REPORT.
The Observatory repon says On the 14th at 11.45 am. The barometer has risen in the Sea of Japan, fallen in S. China. Pressure is tease of China cliente moderate to highest over Corea, and relatively low off the
rather steep with strong monsoon on the coast, slight with moderate monsoon in the N. part of the China Sea. FORECAST-Fresh N.E. to E winds; cloudy, some drizzling rain.
LOCAL AND GENERAL. DURING the week ended 11th February one case of puerperal fever and two cases of small pos were reported in the Colony. One of the small-pox cases, from the City, terminated fatally.
application was granted.
There was no police objection and the
The third application was refused, there ba
Mr. Crawford remarked upon the great fre- quency of transfers.
3. Arthur said the applicant was very rarely the sole proprietor. These places were gener rally carried on by a syndicate. There were. three or four interested parties generally.
Mr. Crawford mentioned the matter brought forward by him at the last quarterly meeting, when he spoke in favour of the Government amending the Ordinance so that no che should be allowed as quarantors who
supplied the applicant with liquor, and gave notice of his intention to propose a resolution.
regard to it at the nest. meeting. The Hon. T-Serembe Sath I think we ght to have a bigger meeting than this before we discuss it; this is a special thing.
Mr. Crawford then gave formal netice that he would bring the matter up at the next meeting.
The proceedings then terminated.
·TRAINING NOTES,
accomplished in the splendid time of 2.513, his last quarter taking 31 secs. and bis last mile 12inishing as strong as a lion, Mr. David's his last quarter being done in 34 seconds, a by Dunrobin went over the same distance in 2.53.
no means bad performance. Mr. Glendaye's Forest King spurted for half a mile in 103, last quarter 20 seconds, and the same owner's Derby Crack Aberdeen took 1.06) to cover the same distance, his last quarter also being done in 29 seconds.
directing power not based uji authority. He explained the meaning of the phrase as applied to the conditions as they existed jur Africa, namely, that two Powers, say England and France, having established themselves a neighbouring points on the coast, looked naturally to extending their jurisdiction to the hinterland, and in order to avoid collisions and for their mutual convenience they agreed that each should recognise certain areas as under
. Yesterday (Monday) morning, the ppnies were the inluence of the other than was, that each Power in its own sphere should be free to do mestly given trotting exercise or quarter and what i liked to the exclusion of all inter-half mile spurts. Mr. Hopeful's Derby Griffin ference on the part of the ather The phrase, was seat for a mil and a quarter which he "sphere of influence could not be applied to territories already in aur possession or under our protection, but only to territories which were looked upon as plens of fiture action influence of other Powers. This was illustrated and from which it was intended zó exclude the by a reference to the case of Afghanistan, which was an independent kingdom, and recognised as such, but which had been twice if not thrice invaded by England to prevent its filling under Russian influence. The lecturer then passed on to consider the meaning of the phrase "open door, which he said was entirely gommercial, as the phrase "sphere of infuece was wholly political. It had its origin is the phrase "the Glenmore and Strathfter were the first to opening of China." with which all were fimiliar. put in an appearance this (Tuesday) morning,
riedy referring to the history of foreign inter-
and spurted half-a-mile in 32, 1931. Glenmore ing of Cain Constan, as work of 11 Latt's rectal, Nite-Cok-up, and Mr. Kelly's course with China Japan, he said the open-having slightly the best of the Mr. G. England, with some little assistance from subscription grifin Sirdar, Mr. Cumming up, France, buy England had never sight to secure galloped a mile in 34, 109, 1.41 2.16). The any exclusive advantages in China, but on the all pony running away from the sub in the contrary had rendered all the assistance she straight and beating him by half-a-dozen to other Powers in making their treaties.lengtles. Train is in splendid condition just and these were in the main modelled on the now, and if he can only keep up his form for, treaties with England. All the advantages the next week, will be sure to render a good others and under the favoured nation clause secured by Englind enured to the benefit qi account of himself. Sirdar's training gallops have been consistantly good, but I am afraid were shared, in by all alike. But recently China he is hardly showing that improvement which had granted exclusive privileges to certain is always eagerly looked for on the eve of the Powers in breach of her heaty engagements. Up to the time of the China-Jajun war in 1804 England might have enforced the policy of the Peking, which was of no use, ball by warning open door in China, not by using threats at other Powers, as in a recent case elsewhere, dat any encroachment would be garded as an unfri endly act. Now he feared it was too late, andthat would be transformed in spheres of action "spheres of induence" were being created which and authority, the lenses that had been acquired being converted into cessions of the leased territory. Enghind therefore had to consider how her interests could best be conserved. I had been suggested to him paly the previous day that there was no necessary contradiction
races.
THE MARIONETIES.
Last night D'Arc's Marionettes gave another performance in' their pretty little Bijou Theatre and the programme provided was excellent. at West Point The house was again crowded
The pantomime of “Blue Beard," which was produced for the first time, was carried through without a hitch, the scenery and dresses being as good as ever and has been added to by the all that could be desired. The harlequinade
introduction of "Josy and Cauliflower on the ran dan," which is a most amusing affair, particu. larly when the Policeman is obliged to halve himself in order to effect the arrest of the randanites, Blus Beard" in to be repeated to-night and we can assure our readers that this very clever show is well worth a visit.
PROPOSED REDUCTION OF THE
JAPANESE ARMY,
A section of the Progressists, who are novo- eating the reduction of the Army, propose to lay a petition before the Throne setting forth their reasons for this proposal. They intend to point out the hardship imposed on the farmers by the Land Tax Increase Bill and the dangerous
the Army. Attempts will be made to induce they claim can only be readjusted by reducing condition of the State finances generally, which
members of the House of Peers who sym- pathise with this view to present a similar petition, and to bring pressure on their body to vote for a reduction of the Army when the Budget is underconsideration-Kébé Chronicle,
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THE HUG OF THE BEAR.
[BY MRS. ARCHIBALD LITTLE] Russian methods of diplomacy seem never to vary. First they stir up trouble, then they look for a favourable moment to intervene.. One would almost think so clever a people would occasionally invent something different But they never do." Fishing in troubled water's" is their idea. When all State secrets are disclosed, even Lord Salisbury's, then it will be known who caused the troubles in Armenia, uver which a large portion of the English nation went wild without, as it seemed to lookers-on, accomplishing anything unless, as it seemed from afar, a continuation of those troubles. Then, too, it will be known whether it was not at Russian instigation place after place in China had been given to Manichiu, an effete race, in capable now of really controlling the Chinese. Hence troubles, and Russia's opportunity
The attempt to pass off the deposition of the throne by his step-aunt and adopted mother, young Emperor, and the usurpation of the concubine of a previous Emperor, and by some people in Chini said to be of Eurasian stock, has
imposed upon the work People in Eng- land do not realize that it is not simply a ques tion of young Emperor or Dowager Empress, but a question of Chinese reform and the Chi- nese nation. Shall the will of the people be allowed to prevail, shall China be allowed-as Japan happily was allowed to reconstitute herself, and become once more a powerful nation, and a strong bulwark.against Russia i Or shall reigns of terrorism and corruption Be continued, and peaceable, law-abiding millions of Chinese-including tens thousands of young men with aspirations-re main paralyzed by the rule of a Mantchu tribe that has lost its manliness without gaining - the commonest cleients of European civiliza- tion, even a rudimentary idea of the laws, of
of
decency? May China develop herself? Or is she to be forced by European Powers with hage armaments into rebellions and revolts and further weakening--a prey for the nations, like Turkey?
People in England have got into the way of
Chinaman." thinking of that "funny, funr They crowded round one of the 1st mpacious and corrupt of China's rapacious and corrupt Mandarinate-Li Hung Chang, They were disgusted by having forced upon them some inkling of that great Tough freebooter's real nature. "Lie" they could manage; other Chinese names puzzle them, all so much, alike, so difficult to remember, and often so comical sounding. *
Thisit is probably that blunts theirsympathies, and prevents a great outburst of enthusiasm for Kwang hau, that youthful Emperor who has withstood the temptations of wine and women, and with his extraordinarily large and brilliant eyes and sad, gentle countenance, placed him- self at the head of the party of progress, and inaugurated a long series of reforms in accord ance with the wishes of the Chinese people. In Grasshopper, Mr. Masters up, galloped the
England people often say we are deficient in three quarter mile in 32, 1.04 and 1.36, a per- 8104 men at the present moment, the world chong" and "Flyaway Stakes" at his mercy. fermance that ought to place the Wong-nel. Senerally we reproach with its lack of grandeur,
Is it not possible we are looking for that im The Wisen went a mile and a quarter in 360, possible combination, the rough greatness and 1.12), 18, 2.23 and 2.58 and is steadily imenis of a Ilismarck combined with all the proving, Feliose Dreary accompanied by and 2.16, Yellow Dwarf beating his stable fontebelle galloped a mile in 35, 1.09 1.43 companion by over ten lengths,
THE following is the Club team for the foot: ball match, H.K. F. C. . V. R. C., to be played to-morrow aftemoon at 4.30 -B. James, goal; H. Pinckney and T. H. Hornby, barks R. Shewell, C. T. Kew and W. Armstrong, half. backs; H. W. Looker, A. R. Lowe, P. A. Cox, H. Hancock and I. D. Danby, forwards. THE General Agents of the Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Co., Ltd, inform us that they have received a telegram from the mines stating that 38; tons of quartz from between "spheres of influence" and the "open. Aberdeen, the pony was however rushed along i crowned heads of this century, if we amit the Great Eastern Mine was crushed yielding 288 i door." In England the door was open to all and so fast for the first three quarteré that there
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The quartz from the Zulu Mine has not yet been crushed. Crushing will be récom menced at the earliest possible moment.,
viously fined for selling spirits to which anore A KOWLOON compradore who had been pre-
water than the quantity allowed by law had, been added was severely dealt with by Com- mander Hastings at the Magistracy this morn- ing, being fined $200 Inspector Duncan visited his place on the sth inst, and purchased a bottle of three star brandy for 75 cents. On the contents being analysed they were found to contain 10 per cent. excess of water.
Honourable Member gave notice is certainty The second question of which the of equal importance. Some method of dis. posing of the city refuse la badly needed, an is only too well illustrated when bad weather interrupts. the service of the refuse boals and heaps of garbage are allowed to collect in the town. We would also cail the attention of Mr. WHITEHEAD the dirty state of many of the lanes | and alleyways in the town, where filth of all descriptions is thrown out by the Chinese and allowed to fester and poison the atmos. phere for days, with apparently no attempt whatever on the part of the Sanitary authori ties either to see that it is removed or to take steps to punish the perpetrators of the
A WOMAN living in a matshed a Taihang nuisances and prevent their recurrence, It appeared at the Magistracy this morning and is in these filthy slums and alleys that the told how early in the day ten men, some of plague and other filth diseases breed and whom carried weapons, broke into her dwell until some proper system of supervision anding and took away property valued at $135. periodical inspection is devised one cannot She reported the occurrence to the police, who expect the Colony to be free of disease. accompanied her to different lodging houses in The prosperity of the place depends upon the city. She pointed out three men as being the shipping trade and whenever the port of the party of depredators, and they were is declared to be infected this trade formally charged this morning, but were re is greatly disorganised by quarantine being manded for a week. imposed on arrivals froni Hongkong at the different ports. Hence it is of the utmost importance that the town should be kept sweet and clean, which can never be done with the present inadequate system of super- vision exercised by our sanitary authorities, Since the above was written we have received a letter calling attention to the refuse nuisance, which we publish in another column.
THE following football matches have been arranged for the next few days—
Thursday:-D. Co. R. W. Fusiliers z. Royal
Engineers.
Saturday:V. R. C. . 25th Co, Eastern
Divn., R.A. Monday:38 Co., Southern Diva, R.A.
HMS, Centurion,
1.
The above are Shield Competition tick. On Monday next on the Military ground the The Honourable CP. CHATER'S questions R. W. Fusiliers will play the Hongkong Foot with reference to the Kowloon Extension | ball Club,
foreigners could enter and bay land, apen mines, or engage in any form of industry. It might be that Powers that acquired territory in China would keep the door open as it was kept open in England, but he very much doubted it. of spheres of influence" presaged the disrup ile also expressed the opinion that the creatios tion of the empire, j On the conclusion of the lecture, which was listened to minst attentively by the audience, a vote of thanks to Mr. Francis was proposed by Mr. Granville Sharp,
the Chairman, who said he believed that under The motion was supported by Mr. T. Jackson, Lord Salisbury the foreign policy of England had heeft conducted on principles of right and justice and that when we were considering our interests in the Far East we must remember that the home Government had a very wide horizon, to scan. He thought that every one that he was much better informed on the subject who had heard Mr. Francis's lecture would feel than before.
The lecturer in acknowledgling the vote of thanks, proposed a similar vote to the Chairman which having been accorded, the meeting
terminated.
BLIND AND DUMB CHILDREN IN
JAPAN.
Mr. Glendaye's Aberdeen and Forest King went together for the mile had a quarter in 32 1.0 1.38, 2.15 and 2:51. Forest King winning easily at the finish. This was a most dis appointing gallop. for the many supporters of
virtues and revealed to the world in the poetry
friend, Li, He is in no sense of the word a of a Temyson For rough greatness, and rascality there is the English people's old fitle inan. virtues, Kwang-su, with that awful sadness But for genius and all the that has inspressed even members of tha Foreign Diplomatic Corps to poetical prose, at all events; Kwang-hsu shines out as at once. the noblest and most pathetic figure among the too short-lived, and too often forgotten, late: was nothing left in him at the finish. Strath German Emperor, It seems the destiny of more and Greif galloped one-and-a-half-miles. dynasties to perish in men, who
regret that I did not catch their time
expiate the as I am sure it was a good gallop, the last the Peking Gazelte ordering the Prince of Li
errors of their line; and if we may judge from quarter only taking 32 seconds. Minstrel and to conduct the annual sacrifices at the Imperial 1.41, last quarter 35 seconds. Ure and repoy now the Emperor has never failed to appear, Jim Crow, covered the three quarter mile in Ancestral Temple, a ceremony at which till galloped a mile in company, in 37, 1.12, 1.48 Kwang-hat's days are numbered, As Emperor weed, Mr. Master up, accompanied by Pine- and 2.20, Mr. John Peel's Derby griffin Sea- over China's millions be las already ceased. apple galloped one and a quarter miles in 34 to his aid in that palace whose paths to exist, unless some foreign nation comes
Mr. Buzey's Wild Rose galloped a clinking disposing of the old pony without being pushed. 1.08, 142, 2.16 and 2.40, the griffin easily have run with the blood.of China's noblest; till no one, man or woman, whom he can trust mile in 36, 1.12, 1.46 and, 2,161, Straightaway. covering the same distance in 44. 1.23172.00 and 34.
February 14th, 1899.
EARLY BIRD.
FOREIGN PRISONERS IN JAPAN
engaged making preparations for the raception The Osaka Prison Office has been busily of foreign prisoners- when the new Treaties
is left beside the young Emperor within its forbidden precincts. But let us not forget that the Empress is more than believed to have a secret treaty with Russia, that she is certainly. carrying out the line of conduct advocated by the Russian Ministor a year and a half ago of places of trust, and that all who know: China preferring Mantchus, in place of Chinese, to all
know, if not stopped, this must lead to disrup. Dynasty at the time of the Taiping rebellion. tion, China. tried to drive out the Mantchu.
per the European brotherhood of nations, and The Taipings wished then as Christians to
Manichu dynasty was re-established on the to catablish such a universal peace as the young. Tsar now calls us to Thanks to England, the throne, and the Taiping rebelllon crushed
come into operation. There are no cells, how- foreign prisoners, and as the necessary altera in the Osaka prison suitable for detaining ever, tions will entail considerable expenditure, the Government has agreed to grant a subsidy in aid to the districts of Hyogo, Nagasaki, Yokohama Investigations made by the Government show and Osaka The expenditure required by the that the number of children of school age in the Osaka prison amounts to Y2,000. As for food, Empire at the end of 1897 was 7,730,441. Of foreign prisoners will be given if possible the this number 9,025 were blind or dumb, and same rations as those served out to Japanese, of the 9,025 there were 2,476 blind boya, 1,858 only 187 of these were attending school. Out but in case of necessity, it is stated tha: Euro decay. And England so far has not moved A certificate one finger to help forward the party of progress.
by
Now again the Chinese people, in especial the youthful literali of China, with the youth, ful Manichu Emperor at their head, want to work out their own salvation and reform thems selves. But Russia is supporting the party of
blind girls, 5 boys and girls both blind and food will be given upon A CARII fepons be tree, a grand-the grandest
dumb, 2,731 dumb boys and 1,950 dumb girls. The blind children were most numerous in Nilgata prefecture, where there were des blind boys and cheer was also highest number of dumb thre, the figures being 154 boys and 129 girls
was also highest in the same prefec Kels Chronicle,
prison doctor. Konce This latter statement is not very satisfactory opportunity has been lost. But if at this seas What has been naked for all along is that the con of goodwill the sympathy of the British food given should be such as foreigners can pours forth in one warm wave across the ocean eat front the very first. A foreign prisoner may to the doomed Emperor in his palace at Pek would think it necessary to order different China sad secuma real žive, and impenetrable possibly be brought very low before the doctoring how much may not yet be done to belp food, Kole Chronicle
ally in the Far Easter Fall Mall Grasilië,