The Chinese Municipality are endeavouring to instituta some means of disinfection in the worst quarters of a Native City. We wouldn't advise them to be too discriminating, but go right through pointed Tarlar General of F
The newly appointed Tariar General of Foo. chow is still in Peking. The Empress. Dowager is reported to be trying to squeeze Tis 400,000 out of him in addition to the ordinary fees, as "Foochow is considered a very rich post.
The Tattar Concral of Fengtien who recent ly engaged drill Instructors from the Military College to drill his troops, which he found utterly inefficiem, is so satisfied with the results that he has applied to General Yuan to engage hin several more.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1899.
THE TRANSVAAL
the following to the third number of the Fellow Master Charles Burdon Hayward contributes
Dragon. He says-
Now that the situation in the Transvaal is so interest to know something of the Buers, their critical, and a crisis so imminent, it may be of history and origin,
Cape Colony, and soon afterwards immigration During the 17th century the Dutch occupied began. The Dutch colonists poured into Africa now the greater part of the white inhabitants of in such numbers, and multiplied so fast, that South Africa are their descendants and are
called Boers.
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The Exchange Telegraph Company states that the troops now being sent out to Natal:
except, in the case of sick men, until the British from England will not be withdrawn from South Africa, nor will any reliefs be made Government has adequate knowledge that the Transvaal has given right and justice to the this means that our troops go out for an British settlers in that Republic Practically indefinite period.'
WHY KRUGER MAY NGT FIGHT,
SWALLOWED WHOLE BY AN
ALLIGATOR..
Chinaman at Paknani, says the Bangkok Times On Saturday an alligator made a meal of a of the 25th September. The man was bathing and spectators say the saurian swallowed its at the mouth of the creek there about 5 pim victim whole. It all happened so suddenly that 'no assistance was possible.
present week, a marked fall in the high tem the Cape passed into English hands, the Boers Sintes. If we could credit the authenticity. those who know the ins and outs of the politicsartial to monkey as an article of diet. After
There has been during the latter part of the peratures which have ruled for the month of September. The minimunt temperatures for the past three mornings have been 46°, 46′ and | 44 respectively. At this rate we may soon veenzer a touch of frost,
hose of our young folks, and our big folks for that matter, who were away at Petal-ho wh in D'Are's Marionettes were here before, will welcome the news that the show will open for a short season in the Gordon Hall about October 9th. They will thus have an oppor tunity of seeing one of the prettiest and neatest little exhibitions of the kind that have come this way.
THE PLAGUE IN EUROPE.
The bubonic plague in Portugai is reported in a London dispatch of Septembergth to show no tendency to spread, but rather appears to be dwindling. The British Medical Journal says there is no need of alarm in regard to the clisease. It asserts that the best safeguards against the plague are cleanliness and efficient sanitation and denounces the quarantine as 'opposed to the true principles of preventive medicine." The Journal also points out, that even in dirty Portugal, the disease is barely keeping alive,"
THE AMERICA CUP.
At the beginning of the present century when were very discontented and some of them, sooner than live under English rule, moved away to the very outskirts of civilization.
The majority of the Roers however remained around the coast, till in 1836, the British abe lished slavery, that institution which they cherished next to their freedam,
So like the Jews of old, the Baers trekked away Eastward with their wives and and fami- lies and founded the Free Republic of Natalia, hoping to find there a home where they would he free, and able to maintain their old customs, and above all to keep their slaves.
Terrible wars with the Zulus followed, and in 1843, the British Government, ever on the track of slave-holders, followed and annexed Natal to Cape Colony,
A second exodus of the Boers followed and
as many rs 30,000 crossed the Orange River and founded the Orange Free State,
Still the British followed and in 1848, pro- claimed English rule beyond the Orange River, The Boers resisted in vain, and finally crossed the Vaal, and founded the South African Republic, where they were joined by the Natal. loers. England recognized their independence in 1852.
In 1877, the opening of the gold mines caused a vast inrash of Englishaien, and in consequence of this and of the Boers' cruelty
to the natives, the Transvaal was annexed in
"In 1880 the Bocis recolte and the British were beaten at Bronker's Spruit, Laing's Nek, and Majuba Hill. In 1885 their independence as assured them, subject to British control of their foreign affairs.
The record in the America Cup race up to the series, which is now causing so much excite ment is as follows:-1879,- Magic (winner), American, schooner rig, 98 tons, owned by Mr
In of the state of the Litlanders had be- F. Osgood, Cambria (challenger); British, come se intolerable owing to the Boers'oppres- schooner, 198, Mr. J. Ashbury, 1871,-Colum
sion, that the Reform Panty sent word to Dr. Bland Supple (winners), American, schonners, Joneson Governor of Rhodesia for aid. He 220 and 310 Mr. F. Osgood and Mr. W. Petered the Transmal with 700 men, but the Douglas, Livela (challenger), British schooner, Bers, prevented the Johannesbing Reformers 280, Ashbury; 1875, "Afadeline (winner), pining them by closing the rifts or fords, and American, schooner, 152, Mr. J. Dickerson jameson was forced to surrender at Doonkop. Countess of Dufferin (challenger), Canadian, He and his officers were sent to England for schemer, 139. C. Grifford; 1881,-Afischief | trial, and the situation became strained that in (winner) American, sloop, 79, Mr. J. R. Busk, the beginning of 1809 a petition signed by Atlanta (challenger) Canadian, sloop, 8421,002 Uitlanders was sent in the Queen. Mr. A. Cuthbert; 1885-Puritan (winner), A long correspondence followed, and large American, cutter 140, Mr. 1. M. Forbes numbers of troops have been sent to the Cape, Gruesta (challenger), British, cutter, 80, while 19,000 mote are about to sail. Sir R. Sutton 1885-Mayflower (winner),
The military forces of the Traustadt consist American, cutter, 101, Genl. Payne, Galatea, of the State Artillery sonie fao strang, and some (challenger) British, cutter, 90, Lieut. 3,000 volunteers. W. Henn. R. N; 1887-Volunteer (winner) American, cutter, 152, Genl. Payne, Thistle (challenger), iritish, cutter, 149, Mr. J. Bell; 1893, Pigilant (winner) American, curtier, 178, Mr. Morgan; Palkyrie 17. (challenger), British, cutter, 155, Lord Dunraven; 1895 Defender (winner), American, cutter, 202, Mr. Iselin, Palkyrie (challenger), British, cut. ter, 210, Lord Dunravem. It will be observed that Canada has represented the English ambition to win the cup on two occasions and England herself has been responsible for her own defeat on the seven other occasions.
THE DEAL WITH SULU,
Mr. W. A. Croft writes to the New York World under date 27 August a scathing criticism of Mr. McKinley's policy in the Philippines. He says
The President of the United States can at last score a victory He has bought a live Sultan. The American demand for Sultans is perhaps not very lively, but Mr. McKinley has taken time by the forelock and purchased the Sultan of Sulu,
run-
The Sulu archipelago comprises.140 of the southernmost of the Philippine Islands, in the equatorial region. Of these ninety-five are in- babited by a wild, naked, hardy and warlike race of Mahometans, whose members--Jura mentados-have the vivacious habit of ning amuck" with a razor-like stiletto, killing as many (hristians as possible before they in turn are killed and transplanted to Paradise. They have never recognized any authority but their Sultan, and Mr. Mckinley has now adopted the tactics of Spain in hiring this religious gentleman to continue his services.
The Sultan is to become a permanent officer of the United States, and is to receive annually while he lives $6,000 in gold and "perquisités" amounting to some $11,000 more-an amount considerably larger than the salary of any of the Governors of our States. The fact that be keeps harem of innumerable...wives- and concubines; in violation of the law abolishing polygamy in Utah, does not seem to embarrass Mr. McKinley at all. Neither does the fact that slavery flourishes in the Sukan's dominions, in violation of the thir teenth amendment of the Constitution, which declares that slavery shall not exist within the United Sites or in any place subject to their jurisdiction."-In-fact, the permanent retention
All the Boers however are liable to be cont mandeered' under their Fickt Cornets, while the country suits their military operations, being conosed of rolling grassy plains, studded with Rocky Kopjes, which afford their marksmen splendid shelter.
16
THE YELLOW DRAGON."
LETTER FROM SHANGHAL
The following is an encouraging letter to the conductors of The Yellow Dragon, sent by a -one-time Hongkong resident :---
SHANGHAI, 18th July, 1899. The Editor, The Yellow Bragen. Dear Sir,I have read with no small amount of pleasure your paper, and F congratulate you and your collaborators on the excellence of its various and varied contributions, as well as its
beat get-up.
As Editor of the first Anglo-Chinese School Magazine published'in Hongkong (as far back as 1881-2), write you this not to claim the honour of being the pioneer of literary school ventures in the Far East, but merely to hope that the Vellow Dragon will not have the same fate as my Our Boys, and your prede- cessor, The Scribbler, whose Editor, Mr. S. R. Minny-Ade Solomon, is here, and who perhaps may feel inclined to give a few re- miniscences of his school days and journal,
Gallus Saex may not have known that the St. Joseph's College paper, Our Boys, was ever in existence, and so he did unt mention it, unless he does not consider the Christian Brothers School an einglo Chinese one. 'Quei qu'i en soit. I sincerely wish your new venture every success, and may you, when you leave your editorial chair, find some one willing succeed you, and continue the good work you have so well begun.
Our Boys' died, simply because no one cared to bear the onus of the position when I left Hangkung, while The Scribbler went those were days when progress, did not stalk out of existence through lack of support. But prominently, but nowadays with so many brilliant scholars in your schools, the Editor ship of a school paper should be a coveted Growing reminiscent, I cannot forget the pleasant pitched battles of words the rival papers were engaged in. Those were pleasant days. We waited the issue of each other's paper with a truly savage delight and eager
seat.
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years, have been unknown in ber history. The Tacping rebellion, the greatest and most threa
compared with the terrible fong years in tening of civil collisions recorded in modern history, dwindles into insignificance when which European nations were engage in the destruction of one another. China has never gine in the prehistoric nges or neolithic period played the part of an aggressor.except I ima when our primitive forefathers had doubt bouring savages. But since her history began less to struggle for bare existence with neigh-
The special correspondent of the Daily the process of formation China has never, sent tion than that of a war of conquest. Korca official said to me the morning, I pledge my Telegraph at Cape Town, in an interesting out an army with practically no better intou-
letter on the situation, says An ex-Transvaal our aggressor before the celebrated wont for it that if England sends out thirty or general of the Tan dynasty was despatched to effect subjugation. So it was with all other full thousand troops, not a shot will be fired.
Talk like this will not sound unpatriotic to historical facts, the reputed Flowery Land with its dragon throne, and supreme civiliza
of that wonderful Republic. The speaker not wish a shot to be fired; bat he wants this tion, was long the object of envy to our neigh- bouring States. Enumerate the wars since the pronged aga ended. I should phy the opening of China, to the world, such as the
poor Bluers, he added. It is they, and not the opium war, the French war, and the war with sping clique at Pretoria who would be shot. Those readers who may be anxious Japan, and see whether Chine has ever been once the aggressor. The excessive fondness call to mind that when Jameson's Raid sent a about the fate of Johannes Paulus should of peace which she enjoyed so long and. unceasingly has rendered that kinetic energy, kept a saddled horse at his door until the panic through the capital the gallant President the vital propeller of nations' activity, latent and almost non-existent.
terror was over, and he had not been across European nations side by side
the fall of Con-
a home for twenty years, as Vrouw Kruger stantinople to
said. this day, watch with Stephanus Paulus. But the reason for the No, I feel quite reasured about keen feeling of envy and will for, an opportunity to inflict misery and slaughter upon
spread belief in a peaceful solution, given the means to enforce it, is the success of Sir Charles one another. Wars and rebellions have whet-
Warren's expedition in 1885, Sir Charles knew then into their present attitudes, though their the way, did Sir F. Carrington and Sir Evelyn ted the spirit of these nations and transformed exactly how to treat the President, and so, by primitive purpose was the war of conques: Wood. A Press colleague tells me it was quite China with the loftiest mountains for her bar. rier on one side, and the greatest ocean on the refreshing to hear Sir Charles by down the other, had no connection with the outside world. This and this" said he will be the whatever. She found
new boundary." Itut should like to consult had nothing to con- tend with except few inferior States which my burghers, You will do nothing of the were long, Jong ago absorbed. So she has the kind; my officers have laid down the line, and arcest chance or inclination to progress, and will observe it. And so pa, and so on. most naturally conservatism developed until it the Anglish Government to keep in mind is to It will be so again; the only consideration for his attained to such an appalling magnitude impress on the recalcitrant President that the that a most powerful stimulus must be needed longer he resists and the more expense they to remove the abstacle that blocks the path to
are put to the more, sweeping will be their energy are ineffective to supplant centuries of There is another reason why I believe in peace, advancement Forty or fifty years of effort and
conditions. No trifling should be the motto. capacity of adaption, objects to innovation,
one that will strike many readers, who do not welcome exclusivism, and remains satisfied with the old order of things. In short, conser
know their President intimately, as imaginary. vatism is the stumbling-block that has kept under the weird religious powers of life on When Paul was about five and twenty he came progress at lay.
the veld, and he disappeared into the wilder ness. There, like another Jacob, he wrestled with the traveller Unknown; like another Moses saw the burning, bush. You smile at these ghostly influences, but there is many a Boer ful of to-day, despite your locomotives and telegraphs, who is going through the same Paul Kruger told of these spiritual struggles. crisis. Long afterwards very close friends He had talked with Gabriel, and among other things the Archangel had foretold thint he should thrice defeat the English; but he must avoid a fourth battle--for it would be disastrous, The modest President it would seem, put the the affairs of Laing's Nek, Ingogo, and Majuba his own credit, though he had small share in them, and I am assured this hint éelestial will save Paul risking too much in the contest with Mr. Chamberlain. In my humble opinion, the authority of the seraph is good enough to cover a retreat. I am certain any pious Beer would accept it.
PROGRESS BY ASSIMILATION OF FOREIGN IDEAS.
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To abolish it or to weaken the force of con- servatism, demands most stringent exertion. Side l side with conservation there reigns an assimilation of foreign ideas which can by no means be noticed by a superficial glance. It will in time completely displice conservatism. That quality is especially noticed in schools of Western learning, where under the influence of a new atmosphere, is instilled into the heart of the people that new spirit which is to dispel conservatism. People look with a shrug of the shoulders at the innovation and the forces that have elevated the Western nations, but when they assimilate them and find more good as been obtained, they will take deep ront and like conservatism itself will not easily be destroyed. This is the reason why young se grow dissatisfied after they have been placed in a different surrounding. The Chinese may hold a pessimistic view respecting Western politics, arts, science, and religion, but if they could once. emmprehend their true working, they will rapidly assimilate them. They needing temarks on Transvaal affairs :-- to be taught to discard conservatism and that the new China is not to be formed out of the ashes of the old, but from the adoption of new forces and new ideas that are being placed before them for assimilation. The desire for radical change is not found in the spirit of the Chinese people, but will germinate from the leaven that is being introduced by the spread of Wester ideas; so will arise the future buil power, and energy. ders of a new China, equipped with wisdom,
the progress of China will not come necessarily Thus then we have attempted to show that
through partition, that it cannot come from the ashes of old China, but that it may come from the introduction of the new forces which are
science, afts, and religion. set free by the entrance of Western pulities,
A. S. YUEN,
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in the St. John's College Echo.
THE TRANSVAAL CRISIS.
DEPARTURE OF TROOPS FROM INDIA,
The Spectator has the following very interest-
All alligator charmer, it is now announced, will "call the alligator up" on Wednesday,
done is curious-also cruel. The Doctor* when it is hoped he will be made to answer for his misdeeds. The method in which this is flants into the river on a raft made of plantain trees. Ile is fortified with foods and toothsome triiles with which he propitiates the water spirits. A monkey is also providud, for an alligator is many incantations and ceremonies the dich cuts off the monkey's fingers, and the poor beast screams with pain and terror. Also it naturally puts its mutilated hands in the water, and what with the blood and the noise some alligator is pretty sure to come and investigate. Then it is duly harpooned, and in course of time receives its happy despatch. As this seems to be the alligator season mentioning that one 40 feet long is said to live'
it may be worth f near Bang-pa-in,
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GAMBLING IN PENANG.
A correspondent of the Penang Gacette writes to the effect that at the present moment Street, where the tenant is a well-known a gambling-house is being run in Chulia keeper of a house of ill-fame, and the chief sharper is a man who has long been wanted by the police. Two years ago, there was a hue-and-cry after him, but he escaped and fled to Rangoon Now, he has returned to Penang and, with the assistance of five other equally notorious sharpers, has started the house mentioned, a most lucrative gaming business at operate among the coolies and hawking com- manities, and it is reported that they netted The gang chiedy
some $3,000 last month, of which $300 went in bribes to informers and others. With the force, it is wonderful that the den in question more recent arrangement of the detective has not been visited. The gang contemplate running another ganiing establishment next
month.
Another correspondent writes The result of the wah-weh lottery case, which you have pallisheil under the heading of Heavy Fines and Appeal,' has given general satisfaction. Mr. 'Sullivan is to be congratulated on his treat. ment of the convicted offenders. It is notorious that, in cases of this kind, where a conviction evidence, a tine, unless the amount be a sub- is never obtained except on unimpeachable stantial one, is a totally inadequate punishment. The Penang Sin Poe speaks in high terms of Inspector Fiddes action in the matter, and I agree with it, that the thanks of the community are due to this officer-for the able manner in which the prosecution was con- ducted."
NOTANDA.
CALENDAR.
OCTOBER. Aleteorological means based on fifteen years observations to 1898,
24.982
B:racter Thermometer
Humidity... Rainfall
176.2
..71
-5-794
TO-DAY. Tuesday, roth October, 1899. Chinese-5th of gik inoon of 25th year of
Kwang-si Sun-Rises
......... ser. 56mіть. Sets
shr. 39min. Moon-fa. Det. S. Ehr, a,#, High water-
thr. asfimin. Afternoon ....kr. gopmin. Low water-forning 6hr. 46min. Afternoon, thỳ. 49min. ANNIVERSARIES.'»
1834-Lord Napier died at Macao? 1856-Sir J. Bowring demanded the release of the crew of the Arrow by the Canton authorities,
1892-1, &O. Co.'s steamer Bokhara wrecked on Land Island, Pescarlores, with loss of about 125 lives.
TO MORROW.
Shipping
SACHSEN, German steamer 3118, F Ments Arrivals
9th Oct-Shanghai 6th Oct, Mails and ANDING, Chinese steamer, 1,158, J. W. T.
General-Melchers & Co. Stewart, roth Oct,-Shanghai 7th Oct, General.-C. M. 5. N. Co. KIUNIANG, British steamer, 1,740, C. F. Ar- old, 9th Oct.,Wuhu 3rd Oct, General Buiterfield & Swire. STATE OF MAIRIE, American ship 500, Colcard, 9th Oct-New York 20th May, Kerosine Oil-Standard Oil Co.
OREGON, American battleship, 10,188, G. F. F
Wilde, roth Oct-Manila 8th Oct. ROSETTA, British steamer; 2,039, C. C. Talbot, R.N.R., roth Oct.,-Yokohama 3rd Oct., MARIE VALERIE, Austrian steamer, 2,648, A. Mails and General.-P. & O. S. N. Co. Feliner, 10th Oct.,-Kobe 4th 'Oct., Gene ral-Sander, Wieler & Co. NIPPON MARU, Japanese steamer, 3,307, J. F. Allen, roll Oct.,-San Francisco and Shanghai 8th Oct., General.-P. & Q. S..N. Co.
Clearances at the Harbour Office. Thaighing, British str., for Swatow. Farsang, British str., for Swatow." Kiangnan, Chinese str., for Omru. Sungking, British str, for Amoy. Doric, American str., for Amoy.
Germonia, German str., for Robe Hong Leong, British str., for Amoy. Pingsury, British str., for Singapore.
Departures. Oct. 10, Duric, American str., for San Francisco. Oct. 1o, Decima, German str., for Yokohama Oct. 10, Halching, British str., for Swatow. Oct. 10, Hong Leong, Britishstr., for Singapore. Oct. to, Atukiang, British str., for Cantos. Oct. 10, Shanghai, British str., for Japah, Oct. 16, Sungkiang, British str., for Manila. Oct. 10, Kiangnan, Chinese str., for Otaru. Oct. 10, eluping, Chinese str., for Canton.
Passengers-Arrived,
Ballock, C. Buchanen, R. Pinmez, Wm. D. Per Sachsen, from Shanghai-Messrs. G. Wheelwright, Mr. and Mrs. Crombic, Mr. and Mrs. D. Anz, Mr. Rondfield, Mrs. Prentice, and Miss Taw.
Per Resetta, from Yokohama-Miss Wilson, E. Gill, Major Coates, Lients. Lee; Rotherham, Messrs. E Thomas, E. J. Potter, Tatham, R. Mr. S. A. Seth, Misses P. Seth (2), Messrs. Lewico, Mrs. Che Sun, Mr. Wong Shing-hing, Painter, Brision, Major Hare, Messrs. Slade, Mrs. Cheng Heng-clio, 17 Chinese and 3 Japanese. A. Cattarinich and J. Deck.
Per Marie Valerie, from Kobe-Messrs.
STEAMERS EXPECTED.
Names.
Sydney Pekin
Sanuki Adru
Changsha ....
Chusan.....
Bayern.......
Frem.
Saigon..
-Due.
To-morrow
Singapore.....To-morrow Singapore..... To-morrow Port Darwin...Oct. 13th
Arrition Apear... Singapore ......Oct. 13th Poseidon
Singapore jOct, 13th Singapore Oct. 14th Colombo.........Oct. 17th- Kasuga Maru...... Thursday Id. ...Oct. 19th
We won't direct se attention of shipping firma to the style in which "Steamers Expected" and "Profected Sailings" are now published in these columns, and in so doing respect fully urge the managers of shipping firms to give Brdora Lo their clerks to furnish this office, on the formë “already sup plied gratis with the latest available information every day.
Ship.
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PROJECTED SAILINGS.
Abergeldie Algoa America Maru Andalusia
Destination.
Date.
Portland, &c. Now, th San Francisco, &c. Nov. 21st San Francisco, &c Nov. 14th Havre, &c. ...... Nov. 15th Argyll
New York, &c......Oct. 25th. Bamberg Havre, &c. Nov. 30th Bayern
Straits, &c. Nov. 8th Belgian King San Diego, &c. ...Oct. 31st Breconshire......Victoria, B.C....
Oct. 28th London.......... Oct. 17th. London, &c......... Oct. 24th San Diego, &c...Dec. 15th San Diego, &c. Nov. 15th New York Ok. desp.. Kobe & Yokohama Oct. 20th San Francisco, &c Dec. 16th Shanghai.Oct. 13th City of Dublin...Victoria, BC... Oct. 14th Coptic
San Francisco, &c. Nov. 4th.
Catchas Candia Carlisle City Carmarthenshire. Challenger
Chinese-7th of 9th woon of 25th year of Changsha
Wednesday, 11th October, 1899.
Kwang-sh Sun-Rises
Sets
shr. 50min. shr. 3Smiu.
Hone
zhr, tzmin. Shr. omin. şkr. 1zmin.
It is difficult to say exactly how many men the Roets will be able to put in the field, or course, if the whole Dutch population of the Cape and of the Orange Free State threw up work on their farms and fockal to support, President Krüger in holding down the Out- landers, they might easily produce a body of fifty thousand men, but that this will take place is far from likely. What is probable (nay, we should say what is almost certain), is that only the younger and more adventurous of the Dutch this is not likely to mean a hody of more than farmers will come to the aid of the Boers. But
five or six thousand men. Let us suppose that the Boers themselves can put twenty thousand men into the field. Their total force, then, is not likely to be more than twenty-five thousand men. And this, remember, will not bean organis ei force, but mather a mob of good marksmen, But a mob, even when each person in it provides his own transport and cominissariat for, say, a week, is not an army. That groups of Buers five hundred strang, or even a thousand, will 6ght very effectively in a rough country must, of course, be admitted. It is probable, indeed, We are informed that the last batch of troops that good shooting and individual resource and for service in South Africa left India on the pluck may make an unorganised body of six or 23rd September The first brigades should be at seven hundred men a more formidable force Durban, if they left India at the scheduled time, than can exact drilling and close organisation, before last Friday, so that there would be a When however, it comes to bodies often thou large British force in Natal by this.
sand or fifteen thousand men, the want of COMPOSITION OF THE VARIOUS GARRISONS.. organisation and of cohesion will be very The addition of the 1st King's (Liverpool) greatly felt. The Boers will, we grant, not
High water-Morning. and the Manchester Battalions to the forcé fail for want of company, or regimental organ.
Afternoon in Natal will increase the number of regularisation, but they will for want of brigade
Low water-Morning ...... Infantry Corps in the Colony to five, the other organisation. Their strength in numbers will
Afterinan Battalions in Natal being the 1st Leicester c actual source of weakness, as also will
ANNIVERSARIES. shire at Ladysmith, ander Lieutenant-be their artillery. A force of six hundred men 1399--Order of the Bath instituted Ritles (Lieutenant Colonel Gunning) and the which each man looks out for himself, cas-1707--Battle of Camperdown Colonel Corleton and the rst King's Royal without guns or any impedimenta, and in 1492-America discovered. and Royal Dublin Fusiliers (Colonel Cooper) act without confusion. A force of fifteen
1666-Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co. at Maritzburg The departure of the 1st King's thousand men encumbered with guns, and
formed. from Cape Colony leaves two Regular Battalions necessarily trying to work together without
1880-Señor Garay, Spanish Consul at Shang and a half there, the rst North Lancashire knowing how, will be in a very different
hai, accidentally drowned at that port Lieutenant Colonel Kekewich), the and Royal position. If then, the Boera in force
by falling into die Kwangpoo River. Berkshire (Lieutenant-Colonel Evans-Gordon), meet us in force we do not think we need
1881-The first steamer (the feifoo) left and four companies of the 2nd King's Own be afmid of the result. But perhaps it
Ilongkong for London with passengers (Yorkshire Light Infantry), whose other. Com-
to establish a Chinese firm there. panies are in Mauritus, The deficiency, how force, but will keep up a rushing war as they 1896-Death of Archbishop Benson of Lanter.
bury. Home the 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers.
it would mean the abandonment of Pretoria There are already two regular Cavalry regi-and of the forts at Pretoria and Johannesburg..
contract for loan of £2,300,000 to ments in Natal, the 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers, But even if they refused to meet us in the open,
Chinese Government for Newchwang under Lieutenant-Colonel Chisholme, and the and determined to play a waiting game, we do
railways. 18th Hussars, under Lieutenant-Colonel Moller, not think it would be successful. And for this the former at Maritzburg, and the latter at reason. In the old war the majority, nay, Ladysmith, besides three Field Batteries and a practically the whole of the people of the Transs Mountain Battery, and a substantial force of vaal were against us. Now the majority are Engineers, both milway and field. The delay on gur side, and would welcome us as deliverers, announced in sending out three Fickt Batteries not as enemies. For example, there are even to Natal from fiome really leaves this arm of in Pretoria some thirty thousand Outlanders. the Batteries ging from Home would be officers and med, only, without horses and guns to relieve officers and men going from Natal to India. By retaining the latter in Natal for a while the Batteries remain manned by acclima tied officers and men familiar with the country Qualified non-Commissioned officers and men of the Cavalry at Home are being demand ed by the War Office to volunteer fortemporary duty in South Africa as saddlers, shoeing- smiths, etc.
will be suid that the Boors will not meet us in
China Chusan
Diamante Doric.........
Coromandel....Europe, &c... Oct. 14th Manila............ Oct. 13th San Francisco, &c. Dec. zzrd Eastern... Sydney, &c...Oct. zoth Emp. China. Vancouver, &c......Oct. 25th Enp. India ...!
Nov. 22nd Emp.-Japan.
Dec zath Formos Ampy & Tansui..Oc Inch Gaelic
San Francisco, &c. Nov, joth Haimun... Swatow
Oct. 17th Hakual Maru...Vladivostock, &c... Oct. 26th Hector
London......... Heidelberg ...... Havre, &c. Nov. 5th
Nov, 14th Hongkong Maru San Francisco, &c. Dec. 9th Java
Landan...mer Nov. 2nd Kasuga Maru.Japan...... Oct. 21st Kawachi Maru...farseilles, &c...... Nov, 3rd König Albert Straits, &c. ...Dec. 13th Maidzuru Maru... Swatow, &c.... Oct 15th Maria Valerie Straits, &c. ...Oct. 11th Nanchang Tientsin
Oct. 11th Nippon Maru...San Francisco, &c.Oct. 19th Danfu.... Marseilles, &c...... Nov, sth San Francisco, &c.Oct. 25th London........ ...... Oct. 31st
of these "twin: relics" is obviously conceder |-ness, and when they came out, what running ever, is to be made up by sending out from 'did last time. We do not think this likely, for 1898-Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Co. sign Kinshiu Maru...Victoria, B.C.......Oct. 19th
are left.
comments What unmerciful criticisms were passed. But both papers are gone, and only bright collections are love was the Rafiles School paper, The Raflesian, another Anglo- Chinese undertaking, printed in Singapore, whose Editor won the Government Scholarship years ago and is now one of the leading lawyers, Mr. Seng Ong Siang, the present co-editor of a Straits Chinese Magazine. I had the honour of being a frequent contributor to this very excel- tent journal. So after all there were many the service the most efficient in the colony, as if then, the Boers were to allow us to enter before you in the field, and who knows I may yet have to come down from my perch it
matters little if I do.
in the bargain with the Sultan,
The question now arises, what next? Shall we muster into our service the Malay King of Mindanao and pay him his salary of $50,000 a year? Why not?. He has an army of 100,000 savage men, and there is much more reason to dread and placate him than the Sultan of Sulo. Will the President appoint the Archbishop of Manila bis viceroy, to administer justice in Luzon? Why not? Unlike the slavehold. ing polygamous despot who is appointed liis Sulu viceroy, the Archbishop is
Christian be prohibits polygamy he punished slavehokling as a crime; his people seem ambitious to establish a republic
In conclusion, as one having always a keen like our own, and Admiral Dewey says they interest in literary school ventures, especially are intelligent, orderly, and capable of govern ing themselves. In short, why are we fighting of Fragrant from any birthplace, the Island Aguinaldo and hiring the Sultan of Sulu ? Will of Stream I will watch your pro- not the Methodist missionaries get along with humble services whenever you feel inclined to gress with delight, and venture to offer you y Aguinaldo better than with the potentate of Mahoniet ?NE MARKE
ask.
-If the President would once märe take-his stand on the tail end of a railroad train and attentively listen for vox populi, it is: possible he would hear a remonstrance, against slaying men who are fighting for their liberties, while conmrining a filthy and barbarous tyrimit on his heathen throne, paying liim a salary and unfurling Die Stars and Stripes above his abominations
÷Especially;-you-kriew, repeatedly declared that Its own to enforce
Do you allow yourogra fice ?was skec
Commerce
time.
-be President has no policy of
boy to sleep in your the Chamber the day
Your well-wisher,
C. E. DE LOPES E OZORIO,
Whilom Editor, ? Our Boys'
CAN CHINA PROGRESS BY HERSELF?
(From No. III. of The Yellow heats The more I read, mark, learn and inwardly digest, the stronger becomes my conviction that China by herself can and will never progress. The lack of the faculty of adaptation is a very pronounced characteristic of the Chinese. It is discernible in the fong run of her history that China at the very start as a nation has enjoyed a long and uninterrupted peace. Wars swell ing into the magnitude of a hundred or thirty
and the horses in use.
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the Transvaal and to occupy Pretoria and johannesburg, and to rely upon dilatory tactics, we should find ourselves at once welcomed and strengthened by a great friendly population, which we should at once proceed to arm and organise. The occupation of Johannesburg A and the Rand district would at once nad ten thousand, or even fifteen thousand men, to our forces. Again, we should not be holding Kaypak na isolated posts, but a great city in railway com munication with the coast. The railways and Stevi the deep hostility of the majority of the papered Liberat........... Besides the forces above enumierated there 'tion to the Boers have, in fact, entirely are the native levies being organised by the the incal conditions--we say "local" advisedly, Empress of China sixty special service officers sent out from Eng.because we do not forget the importance of the Prosper.......... land-rome five months ago. These will be general race problem in South Africa and DeJuan d'Austria - Cosmopolitan specially added by the Natal Police and Volun-have made them favourable to us instead of teers which consist of Natal Police previously most unfavourable, as they were in 1881.. It known as the Natal Mounted Infantry-630 would seem, then, certain that the Boers cannot Eeropensamt 8ster an unter the old afford to play a waiting game, and it resist veterin Colonel J, G. Dartnell, C..., who the advance of our troops in the open. We do was originally in the Central Indian Horse, not say that necessarily this means an im- and served in the Zulu War in 1879 and the mediate victory for the British troops, but it Transvaal campaign in 1881, including the would hardly be presumptuous to say so. Battle of. Laing's Nek: There are also 1,546 Redvers Buller is not Dr. Jameson, and a Sir Volunteers in Natal, some of them Mounted brigade of British cavalry is a very different Carabineers, and other Artillerymen; the latter thing from the young gentlemen in picturesque two contingents fought in the last Transvaal hats who lost their way and their heads at War and lost some forty men altogether. Krügersdorp,
Rosetta
Onsang........
Orestes Pakloi
Poseidon
Shanghai...... Oct. 12th Yokohama & Kobe Oct. 14th
Preussen. Straits, &c. ......... fan roth Prinz Heinrich... Straits, &c. Dec. 27th Queen Adelaide..Victoria, B.C... Nov. 18th
Sachsenrin Oct. 11th
Saint Irene.....
Sibirin
B.C.......Dec. gli Sanaki Maru... Kobe & Yokohama Oct. 12th Savoia
Havre, &c. Oct. 14th Havre, &c. ...Nov. 20th New York, &e...... Qk. desp. Marseilles, &c...... Oct. 21st San Diego, &c. Oct. 20th Manila
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Yawala Maru...Manila, &c.
Oct 13th Oct. 27th
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