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DISORDERLY AT THE THEATRE.
Mak Piu, a coolie, thought it fun to alirow mat into the pit from the gallery of Ko Sing Theatre. Mr. Kemp thought three dollars or ten days would meet the case.
QUARANTINE.
18th April, 1951. Dear Sir-The Chamber, learns from the Government that the Bengal Goverment, having been assured that Singapore had beca free from plague for ten days, has withdrawn the regulation of the Veince Convention at Chittagong as regards vessels arriving from Singapore:
I am, dear Sir,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1901.
or resolutions to propose I shall be glad if he If any gentleman has any questions to ask will do it now.
TO-MORROW.
leaves for Marseilles and London."
Noon-1. C. Co.'s steamer Chelydra leaves for
leaves for Japanese Ports.
Cargo ex Coromandel subject to rent. Cargo ex Lowther Castle subject to fent.
Indian Ports.
骨
MONDAY, 22nd,
Doparfed
Singapore Mr. H. F. Gray. For Colombo
Per Konig Albert, from Hongkong for Mr. and Mrs. Erich Bauer, and Mr. P. J. Genoa-Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Kelly and child, Cowan. For Naples Mr. R. Rintoul. For:
Messrs. G. B. Parlett, "P. Hearmann, Lieut. Walwyn, Messrs. P. Sachse, E. Delbanco, S. Chapelle, Rey Z.. Loreale, Miss J. Zolignac Rev.P. Gabardi, Aliss, Kaethe Kuerss, Mr. and Mrs. Hbestoop and children, Messrs. E.
Noon-M, M. Co.'s steamer Oceanien with Sackermann, F. Koch, Emil Haller, M. Flatt
Mails etc. leaves for Europe.
them to the best of my ability. The Govern- persecuted Christians of the ordinary Wester ment have accepted me as the medium of com type. The same writer also claims the reform Daylight-N.. Y. K. steame: Sanuki Maru munication between itself and you, and I place movement of 1898, which heralded the uprising myself entirely at your disposal for that pur-of last year, as the work of Christian mis-Daylight-N. Y. K, steamer Kasuga Maru pose. My sole object is the welfare of the ionaries, meaning of course Protestants. So, colony generally, with which mine is intimately far, therefore, from contending that the Protes bound up.
tant propaganda is non-political, it were nearer political through and through. The mission the truth to affirm that missionary work is aties may of course claim, like everyone else, J. J. Kaswick said-Gentlemen, I am sure the right to propagate political as well as we have all listened with very great intarest to religious doctrines, but they cannot blow hot the extremely lucid and able statement made and cold in the same breath, nor escape the by Mr. Chater on the subject of the Reclama natural consequences of their acts. If they tion to the eastward, and which work will, 1 believe, be of very great advantage to the ampire under cover of the protection accorded aim at at subverting the existing polity of the Marine Lot-holders. Mr. Chater has not said to them in their religious character, they must one word too much of the great utility of hav-expect the fate of those who attempt to sit on ing the scheme carried out, and I for one have great confidence that it will be accomplished, without accomplishing the political purpose to two stools. They, will degrade their religion although at the outset difficulties may have to be contended with. As you will have observed, principles.
which they have. prostituted their Christian Mr. Chater has evidently taken very consider able trouble in the matter and has left very little to be added in support of the project.
Mr. Keswick concluded by proposing the
Tyniericy ware fined two dollars or seven days, area of building land would have been placed Swaney chose the seven days.
at the disposal of the colony if that part of my original scheme had met with acceptance. Unfortunately the Naval Authorities hrad, before my proposals were submitted to the Govem ment, made all arrangements for the enlarge. ment of the present Naval Hospital and for the construction, on the opposite spur, of an Epidemic Hospital in connection therewith, and so were, I presume, unable to assent to the suggestion for the removal of their establish- ments to more healthy and less crowded sites a Kowloon. I do not, however, despair of the ultimate acquisition by the Colony of the ground in question, and of the ultimate expansion and development of that neighbourhood on the lines indicated in my letters. I have much pleasure in stating here that from His Excellency the Governor and from the Colonial Secretary and from the Director of Public Works, I have received every courtesy and at tention in the course of the correspondence and negotiations that have resulted from my first letter of the 12th June last, as well as from His Excellency Major-General Gascoigne, who was administering the Government at that date and before whom the matter came in the first inst-resolution reported in our yesterday's issue. ance, and I feel assured that, if you, gentlemen, determine to accept the Government proposals, as embodied in the Colonial Secretary's letter, of the 12th February last, any suggestions you may have to make with a view to the improve ment of the general plan, or to the modification of the details or conditions, will be gladly re
No doubt the missionaries do their best to ceived and, will meet with the fullest and the discriminate between the true and the false in fairest consideration at the hands of His Ex-all such cases, but "for ways that are dark and cellency and of his officers.
for tricks that are vain the Christian Chinese is peculiar, and, thanks to his foreiga instruction is several degrees 'cuter than his heathen brother,
Yours faithfully,.
R. CHATTERTON WILCOX. MR. CHATER'S NEW RECLAMA- TION SCHEME.
The lateness of the hour at which the meet. ing was held yesterday prevented us from giving Mr Chater's explanation of his proposed new reclamation, which was as follows:-
Gentlemen, have asked you to meet me here to lay for the purpose of taking your opinion, as the owners of lots along the Eastern Fraya, upon the project for the reclamation of that portion of the sea front of the city which have, with professional assistance, elaborated and submitted to the Government, and which' has been provisionally approved of and accepted by those in authority.
My correspondence with the Colonial Secre lary on the subject has been so recently published in the local papers that the details of the scheme must be fresh in your memories. I have, therefore, only to remind you of the broad outlines of it and to put before you the reasons which, in my opinion, ought to in- fluence you to accept the proposals which I have the authority of the Governor to submit for your consideration...
I have dwelt at considerable length in my letters on the advantages to accrue to the colony at large and to the revenue, from the prosecu- tinn of this work. I have now to point out, how you, individually, are likely to benefit by it and to what extent; and I hope to satisfy you, as I have, I believe, succeeded in satisfying the Government, that it is a work which ought to be taken in hand as speedily as possible and carried through with the least possible delay.
The idea is to reclaim from the sea a strip of land, very nearly a mile in length, extending from the Arsenal to the East Point Sugar Works and (except in front of Jardine's pre- mises and the Sugar Works) not less than five hundred and twenty feet in depth from front to back. This will allow of the widening of the present praya from 50 feet to 75 feet; of a new praya 75 feet in width, and of a main street running through the centre of the reclaimed land, from West to East, also of 75 feet in width. Thirteen thoroughfares, each fifty feet in width, will run from the present praya to the new one, dividing the reclaimed area into convenient blocks. There will then be left 345 feet in depth of building land in two blocks, to be divided out among the marine lot-holders in proportion to their respective frontages. A marine-lot holder, therefore, having a frontage of go feet, will be entitled, broadly speaking, to 345 by so or 17.250 square feet of land, for which the Government propose to charge 25 cents a foot by way of premium, and Sico a quarter acre by way of Grown rent, and for which they are prepared to grant a Crown lease for 99 years with the option of renewal for another period of 99 years at a rent to be fixed by the Governor for the time being. 1 estimate the cost of reclamation, sea-wall, prayn, streets, sewers and all expenses at a figure not exceeding 75 cents per square foot of available building land, and, even if the cost should, through any unforeseen events, run up even to 31 a square foot, the land will still be worth having at that figure.
In my first communication to the Gorem ment I suggested a reclamation to a depth of 445 feet only, and the Government should not demand any premium for the building land acquired by the owners of lots fronting the sea. I found the Government, however, enlightened by the results of the reclamation in the central part of the city now nearing completion, most inwilling to forego the exaction of a premium in addition to the benefit to be derived to the colony at large from the largely increased area of building land and to the Treasury from pros- pective rents and taxes. The first proposals by Government were for a valuation of the re- claimed land and a division between the lot- holders and the Treasury.of the surplus, alter payment of all expenses. The Colonial Secre tary's letter of the 13th September last gives expression to the view. In my letter in reply of the 29th September, I combated this pro posal, pointing out the widely different chanc fer of the Wanchai district and of the properties there, as compared with the central district and the properties in that neighbourhood, and the little prospect of any considerable profit. At a later date I had an interview with His Excel lency the Governor on the subject and, while 1 found him willing to consider and modify the terins referred to in the Colonial Secretary's letter of the 13th September, I found him fully determined to secure for the Treasury some direct and immediate benefit out of the pro- posed reclamation in the shipe of a premium on every foot of building land acquired by the lot holders. Under these circumstances there was nothing to do but to recast my proposals and to see if some alteration could not be made which would enable the lot-holders to pay, and the Governmentto receive, thedesired premium, On careful reconsideration of my calculation it seemed to me that the lot-holders could only afford to pay a premium by getting permisssion from the Government to take in further land from the sea, and subinitting this idea to His Excellency, it proved to be an accept- able solution of the difficulty, and there fore I assented to a payment of a premium of 25 cents a square foot on all building land reclaimed, on this understanding that a further 75 feet in depth might be included in the scheme, the 75 feet to be thrown into the sea. ward blocks, so that they should have a depth
With the substitution of Leighton and Caro line Hills for Morrison and Hospital Hills, the cost of filling in will be slightly, but very slight ly, increased by the greater distance of the fummer sites from the sea, but there will be economies in other directions more than suf. ficient to compensate, and while the scheme, as a whole, will be less advantageous to the colony and to the Treasury, it will be no less advants geous to you, and more simple and more easy of execution.
Now, gentlemen, why do I recommend you to undertake this work and to accept the Go- vernment conditions? In the first place, be cause your Wanchai property has never been of avery profitable description, and is becoming daily less profitable because of the rapid silting up of the foreshore from the Arsenal to Jardine's. Secondly, because the extension of the Naval Yard and Arsenal now in hand will still further intensify the unfavourable character of your location and render still more rapid the sifting up of the foreshore in your vicinity. Your present Wanchai property will soon become of less value to you than it is now, and if it is to pay at all it will only be by substituting Chinese houses for the present erections and by taking your godown business elsewhere. If you ask me whether my proposed extension seaward of this Wanchai district will lead to any general improvement in rents and values out there, think I may safely say yes. The new seawall will be a continuation of the new front of the Naval Yard and Arsenal and will be con- structed in a depth of 16 or 17 feet of water, giving easy access to the new praya for the largest cargo-boats and lighters and for small steamers. There will be little future risk of silting up when the shore line is carried out into deep water and into the main line of the currents. The front blocks, 225 feet in depth, will give ample room for godowns of the latest and best patterns. The back blocks and the ground now occupied by godowns will afford room for a large number of Chinese houses on the most approved sanitary principles, for which there must be, with our rapidly increas- ing population, an ever increasing demand. The improvements now being effected in the Queen's Road, from the Parade Ground to the Arsenal, and the advent of the Tram, now as sured, will facilitate the movement of population from West to East, and the chamcter of the new district with its brind thoroughfares, wide streets and sanitary buildings must attract a large population. The Wanchai property owners will bave, sooner or later, to reconstruct their properties, and the present is the most suitable time for doing so and the proposals now submitted allow of its being done, if you will only combine together, at the least possible expense and on a scale which will inost assured ly make the undertaking a profitable one to the undenakers as well as a blessing to the colony generally. We have before us, to guide us in coming to a decision, the result of the Praya Reclamation in the Central District and we shall have, in carrying out the work, the bene fit of the experience there obtained as to the precautions to be observed and the errors to be avoided. The Eastern reclamation will be a much easier task than the work done in the Central district because of the much less depth of water in winch the sea-wall has to be con- structed: because a wall of much less section and constructed of smaller blocks will suffice in the sheltered position of the Wanchai Praya, and by reason of the fact that the requisite earth stone for the work is much nearer at hand and can be brought to the spot by land carriage instead of by boat, a good deal of stone from the present sea-wall being also available. The toul cost will also be very much less-75 cents to $1 as compared with $2, On the other hand the value of the land re. claimed cannot well cacced, unimproved, $4 a square foot, while unimproved value of the pre- sent réclamation was fairly estimated at $7 per square foot. You have also to bear in mind that, as pointed out in my letter to the Colonial Secre tary of the 29th September last, your present propery, during the Reclamation works, will probably not maintain its value as effectively as did the property of the lot-holders along the Central Praya, but loss and inconvenience arising in that way will be diminished, as far sections as was done in the reclamation now as possible, by the carrying out of the works in so nearly completed,
THE MISSIONARY QUESTION.
(Continued from yesterday.)
Nor can it be said that such action of the Protestant missionaries is a thing of the past- it never was in fuller activity than it is at the present moment. Quite recently there was a communal feud in the neighbouring province of Kwangtung in which the adherents of an English Mission were so far victorious as to inflict damage and loss on the heathen party opposed to them. Seeing they were getting the worst of the fight, the latter took counsel of their elders, and went over in a body to an American Mission in the game district, claim- ing its protection. The ceremony of baptism was presumably deferred for closer examina- tion into the merits of the sudden and whole. sale conversion, but the protection was not de- layed on that account, and demands for restitu- tion were promptly preferred against the raiders. The Chinese quarrel thereupon resolved itself into, a negotiation between the two foreign mis- sions as to the number of buffaloes and pigs that had been stolen during the feud. To the question why they recognised the American missionarios who are keen on the dollar-as representatives of the Chinese claimants, it was replied by the spokesman of the English Mission that they were only too thankful that the discomfited leather did not go over to a French Mission, as in that case a twenty-four hours' ultimatuin backed by shot and shell might have summarily closed the dispute.
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The confessions of missionaries leave manner of doubt that these interferences are habitual among them, that they not only espouse the cause of the just, but of the unjust, that their converts are in the habit of palming off on them involved and one-sided stories, whereby the unwary missionary is led to compromise bimself in disreputable transactions. practice is so firmly established, and is so The well understood by the Chinese, in the north, south, and centre of China, that it is no un common thing for whole villages to become Christians as a strategic move in some old- standing feud It comes as natural to them as castling the King at a particular stage in the game does to a chess player. The value of the missionary factor in village warfare. may be overestimated by the Chinese, but their faith in it seems to be amply attested by their acts, Whole villages do not go over to the Christians without a cause. They do not pro- pose to serve God for nought,
Where transactions of this character con- stitute part of the routine of missionary work, where purely native affairs are settled by the negotiation or adjudication of foreign officials, it is obviously trifling with words to maintain that Protestant missionaries refrain from inter- ente in the secular affairs of the Chinese.
assume on
The Canton Missionary Conference state the case with perfect frankness. In a letter published in the newspapers a few days ago, they claim, in explicit terms, the right of inter- tering in Chinese, judicial procedure where native Christians are the litigante. They con end, of course, that this is done in the interests of justice, but for any foreigner his own sole authority to be the arbiter of what in just and valust
insist" for that is the word-on the Chinese a, Chinese quarrel, and Magistrates dealing with their own people in a particular way, is to disintegrate, the sovereign authority of the empire, and to reduce its ad- ministration to chaos. The Canton missionaries baze their pretensions on the wording of the American treaty, which provides that "those who quietly profess and teach this doctrine shall not be persecuted on account of their faith, and that any Chinese convert who peace ably teaches and practises the principles of Christianity shall in no case be interfered with." By a liberal interpretation of these words.the Canton missionaries appear to have persuaded themselves that they hold a cuminission lo jay down the law to Chinese Magistrates, as well as to their own Consular authorities, in purely Chinese matters which have no relation what- ever to "the faith Christianity," We may be pardoned the or to "the principles of observation that such a faculty of self-persua sion, though valuable in certain spheres. of human activity, is rather to be distrusted when complex ethical problems as arise our of the throws into contact with such delicate and
relation of China to the rest of the world,
I strongly recommend you to take up the work. It will involve, of course, a heavy ex- labour such points of detail in mission practice, But it may well seem supererogatory to penditure of money, but that expenditure of seeing the whole drift of the propaganda is money will be spread over a period of to years avowedly to effect a revolution in China, In at the least five years for the actual work of the words of Dr. Faber, a learned Protestant reclamation; five years more for the work of missionary of Shanghai. recently deceased: building and reconstruction. It may involve a "The Chinese fully realise that the propaga small loss of present income while the work is tion of this religion concerns nothing short of going on, but I feel assured that the loss of the very existence of the Chinese peculiar time and of money and the expenditure will be theory of life in its entirety-that is to say amply repaid you by the results, and that not individual, social and political. merely will the colony benefit on the whole by you will, I feel confident, proft not merely by the acquisition of the new ground but by the ultimate improvement in values of your present property..
of 225 feet as against the 150 feet origin the creation of a large additional district, but of raissions take higher flights than the manage
proposed.
A further observation on the letter just quoted may not be out of place here. Mr. Amoki Foster makes the sweeping assertion that "No one who knows anything of the Taiping Re bellion doubts that if it had hcceeded, a pro- nouncedly Christian governnical, of asort, woukl have held sway over all his Now, I do not pretend to know much about the Taiping Rebellion, but if personal contact with it, and subsequent reflection can teach one anything, I may claim to know at least something of that movement, and I, for one; entirely dissent from. Taipingism as anti-Christian as the worship of Mr. Foster's confident predicate. I consider
nouncedly Christian Government would have Baal, and would as soon believe that a pro- come out of that movement as that an eagle could be batched from the egg of a turtle.
(To be continued.)
THE PLAGUE,
Number of cases reported (Chinese 17
up till noon of the 17th April, 1991 Number of cases
reported during the past 24 hours
Other Asiatics a Europeans..... 0 Chinese in 7 Other Asiatics o Europeans.......
Total number of cases reported to date 126 Number of deaths reported (Chinese ...... 116 up till noon of the 17th Other Asiatics o April, 1901.
Europeans O Number of deaths reported Other Asiatics o Chinese....... 'I during the past 24 hours
Europeans... Ő
--
Tatal number of deaths recorded to date 117
SMALL-POX.
Number of cases reported (Chinese .........$1
up till noon of the 17th April, 1901 ..... Number of cases reported during the past 24 hours
Other Asiatics 7 Europeans......10 Chinese Other Asiatics o Europeans...... o
Total number of cases reported to date...69. Number of deaths reported (Chinese 40
up till noon of the 17th April, 1901.... Number of deaths reported during the past 24 hours
Other Asiatics 2 Europeans... Chineseg✪ Other Asiatics o Europeans... 0
Total number of deaths recorded to date 44
NOTANDA.
CALENDAR.
APRIL.
Meteorological means based on ten years"
observations to 1893.
- Thermometer....
Barometer
Humidity. Rainfall
TO-DAY.
WEATHER REfort.
30.059 62.0
·B5.
408
On date al On date t
10a.m. Darometer.....
29 83 Temperature
35 Humidity....... 96
Rainfall.
0,01
29.73
76 87
TO-DAY..
Chinese-30th of and moon of nih year of Thursday, 18th April, 1901.
Kwang-su -Sun-Rises
Sels
High water-Morning
Afternoon Low water-Morning
5hr 48min.
bhr. romin,
Shr. 8min.
ghr. 3min..
zkr. 6min. ahr. 34min.
Afternoon ANNIVERSARIES. 1770-New South Wales.discovered. 1855-Commercial Treaty between England
and Siam signed. 1862-The sch. Eagle plundered by pirates,
under the leadership of an English- man, near Green Island, Hongkong; the captain and some of the crew murdered.
188-Reception at Goverment House Hong
kong, by the King of Hawaii. . '... 1885-Convention between China and Japan 1897-Turkey declared war against Greece. settling Korean difficulties.
TO-MORROW.
:
Chiness-1st of 3rd moon of 27th yeur of Friday, 9th April, 1901.
Kwang-sü Sun-Rises
sht. 48min, -Sets
6kr. 19min. Moon-In Perigie shr, a.m. Moon-New Moon 5hr, zquin, B.M. ́ High water-Morning 8hr. a5min. Afternoon ........ går 57min. Low water-Morning 2... 2hr: 41min.
Afuruves...... “Fky, zzmin, "
ANNIVERSARIES.
1858-The Editor ofthe Hongkong Daily Press sentenced to six months imprisonment 1875-Great fraud on the Comptoir d'Escompte
for libelling the Governor. de Paris at Yokohama discovered; suicide of the captured criminals, W, S. Swaby and V. Cantelli 1881--Lord Beaconsfield died. 1882-Death of Charles Darwin, the great 1894-The 3.5. Nitton Maru Hecked
Aylen Bay
naturalist,
TUESDAY, ağl
Noon-T. K. K. steamer America Mara leaves
for San Francisco via Shanghai, etc. Cargo ex Denbighshire subject to rent. -
WEDNESDAY, 24th." Noon-C. P. R. steamer Empress of India with Mails passengers etc. leaves for Vancouver B.C. Daylight-O.SK.steamer Anping Marulcaves
for Coast Ports:
FRIDAY, 26th.
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W. P. Deas, Mr. and Mrs. J. McDonald and ring and N. Platring For London-Mrs. Hauptmann Long and child, Messrs. F. Eick- hoff, Thomas Kerr, Mr. and Mrs. Capell, Miss Purdey, Miss Goodirham, Messrs. A. C. Fife,
children, and Mr. A. C. Walde. For Bremen -Capt. H. Krebs, Mr. Weylandt, and Mrs.. Munim and child. From Japan-Mr. W. Roenius. For Colombo-Messrs. Greenshields and N. Gal. For Genoa-Mrs. Prof. Baltzer and children, Miss Neumann, MrM, Hayne- A. Evers, Misses Emma and Elly Evers, Mr. mann, Mr and Mrs. Abegg and children, Mr. A. Hofmann, Mr. and Mrs. J. Westphalen and children, Messrs. Fintaro Omura, K. Himatori, R. Taki K. Miyajima, K. Otani, Y. Omori, H
4 p.m.--NY. K. steamer Farala Maru leaves | Saionji, De Erdmannstener, Messrs. Madges,
for Manila.
SATURDAY 27th.
Hauptmann v. Tiedemann, Mrs. H. Raspe and child, Earl of Sandwich, Messrs. W. A. Yorke, W. Steinier and Moelger. For London-Mr. and
Noon-P. & O. steamer Sobraon with Mails Mrs. M. Russell, Messrs. Y. Kato, L. and V.
etc. leaves for Europe.
TUESDAY, 30th Noon-U.S. Mail steamer City of Peking leaves for San Francisco via Shanghai
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWE.
MAUS DUR
Indian (Lightning) goth instant. American (City of Wbing) 1st instant. French (uus) ist instant, American (Gaelic) 26th instant. Australian (Eastern) 27th instant. Canadian (Empress of Japan) 6th prox. American (Hongkong Haru) 7th prox. American (China) 15th prox.
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this port via Manila on 15th inst, and is dac The steamer Eastern, left Part Darwin for here on cr about Saturday, the 27th inst.
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Hetherington, R. A. Wylie, R. Laird, W. J. Botdies, W, and E. P. Smith, C. Delapay, J. Mrs. M. Beart and children, Mesdames W. W. Wilson, E. D. White, D. Christisan, Mr. and Till and children, Balfour, Misses, Slade, Greenshields and Capt W. Smith: For Bre men-Messrs. A Takahashi, P. Friedmann, Eyrio Otani, Mr. and Mrs. C. Weinberger and children.
From Shanghai for Colombo- Messrs. Stafford Kansone and Tichomiroff. For Genoa-Mesdames Dyer, Skattowe, R. Lund, Gallant, Capt. Usedom, Mr. and Mrs. J. Aronid, Mr. and Mrs J. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Guffins, Drs. Krosta, Christie, Messrs. Chu, von Kottwitz, Th. Rochell, Arendt, J. Lantzen- berg, Adolph Schmidt, Koestenbaum and E. Busch. For London-Mrs. HD. Hutchison and child, Mr. and Mrs: Shirmann, Mr. and Mrs. Mathieson, Misses K. Wood, Quelch, Mrs.
ton, child, Messrs. Campbell, Holmes and G: Houls.. J. P. Donovan, Mr. and Mrs. Rawthome and For Bremen-Mr. and Mrs. Hoerter, Mr. and Mrs. Aug. Eblers and children.
Per Prins Heinrich, for Shanghai-Messrs.
The M. M. Ca's steamer Indus, with the A-Haupt, C. A Sanches, S. Marti, K. Schulte, next outward French Mail, will leave Saigon. B. Elkins, H. Fige, A. Rombach, J. D. J. M. Marquez, W. L. Wheeler, E. Alexander, to-day, the 18th inst, at 11 am., for this poft.
Musso, R. Lund, Master F. Marti, Mrs. Mac kenzie, Mrs. S. Wortman, Mrs. Grandson, Mr. and Afrs... Silbermann. For Nagasaki Messrs. Francois, H. Hechter, Mr. and Mrs. Renauld. For Kobe--Messrs. D. M. de Ama ral, E. Figueiredo. For Yokohama—Mr. B Pratt.
The steamer Benvorlich from London and Straits left Singapore for this port on 16th inst., and is due here on or about Monday, the 22nd
inst.
The N. Y. K.'s steamer Yatata Maru, (Australian Line) left Kobe via Moji for this port yesterday, the 17th inst, and is due to arrive here on Tuesday, the 23rd inst.
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Mails &c., lett San Francisco for this port via The P. M. S. S. Co.'s steamer China, with Honolulu, Yokolutma, Inland Se, Kobe, Na gasaki and Shanghai yesterday, the 17th inst.
HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK RETURNS. U.S.S.'Isla de Luzon at Kowloon Dark Argus..... U.S.S. Bennington...
America Mariz
Burnside Styx
Kweiyang
Ping Sucy se
Compania di Filipina
Shantung
Lung Tsing.
Hangchow
U.S.S. Concord
Colonies.
Perla....... Peltiana
Trinan
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SHIPPING REPORTS.
Captain Villeneuve, of the French gunboat Vipere, from Hoihow and Boddamn, reports: Very good voyage,
from Wuhu and Chinkiang, reports:- Capt. A. A. Crawford, of the steamship Hsieh Dull rainy weather with N.winds to Hieshan's, and moderate wind and sea with E. winds to Hongkong.
STEAMERS EXPECTED.
Names.
Frodi.
鄭
4
Colchas
Singapore
Tomorrow
Ceylon...
Singapore
April 20th
Socotra..
Singapore,
April 20th
Lightning
Singapore
April 20th
Indus
............. Saigon......
April ajat
City of Peking Japan
April 21st
Hiroshima Maru... Singapore
April 1st
Cosmopolita
Aberdeen
PASSED THE CANAL
Outward-4th April-Orel, Dardanus. 9th April-Oak Branch, Glenartney, If. H. Meier, Glenturret, Japan, Claverley, Kawachi Maru, Coningsby, Gloucester City, Preussen. 12th April-Bayern, Hitachi Maru, Laos, Eidsvold, Folmina. 16th April-Machnon, Achilles India, Adriatico, Deucalion, Easingwold, Ville, d'Alger.
Homeward 2nd April-Tonkin, Kiauts- chou, 4th April-fxion, Malacca, pih April- Wittenberg, Ransa. 16th April-Patroclus.
Arrivals at Home-17th. April-Polarst- jernen, Kawachi Maru, Hamburg, Benjamin F. Packard, Ision, H. H. Mater.
Shipping,
Arrivala.
Renvorlich
Glenshiel
Singapore. ... April 22nd Japan
.....April-aand April 23rd Japan... April 26th Eastern........
Part Darwin... April 7th Empress of Japan. Vancouver..... May 6th Hongkong Maru...San Francisco... May th China .............San Francisco... May 15th style in which "Steamers Expected and rejected Sallinge
We would direct the attention of shipping firms 10 the now published in face columns, and In so doing respect fully urge the managers of shipping fems to give order their clerks to furnish this office, on the form already sup ved gratis with the lamp walishia information wer
PROJECTED SAILINGS.
Yawata Maru...Moji.... Gaelic
Ship.
Destination, "Date"
Ajax
London Ambria
April 30th Haviec.........June oth America Maru... San Francisco, &c,April 23rd Anping Maru Foochow
April 24th Antenor.... .......London...
May 14th
Hallaarat 4138 Shanghaj
Asturia........... New York. May 4th
April 27th
Bayern
Calchas
Straits, &c. ... July 5th Landon
May 28th
April 18th
May 18th
May 15th
April 20th
Candia Canton
Shanghai, .....London..... Carlisle City......San Diego, &c.
China..
HSIEH Ho, British steamer, "1,082, A. A. Crawford, 18th April,Wuhu & Chinking SIMONGAN, Dutch steamer, 1,818, Sandman, Ceylon
13th April, General Siemssca & Co.
VIPERE, French gunboat, 450, Villeneuve, 18th City of Peking 17th April-Samarang and Saigon 29th Chelydra March, Sugar-Yuen Fat Horg
GISELA, Austrian steamer, 2,640, F. Mosca, Doric.........
April, Hoihow and Boddam 17th April.
Cuptic ..... 18th April,-Singapore 12th April, General. Duke of Fife -Sander, Wieler & Co. LIZARD, British gunboat, 715. J. C. Watson, Emp. India Emp. Chin 18th April,-Canton 17th April. MAIDZURU MARU, Jap. str., 868, K. Sabozima, Gaelic
Emp. Japan 18th April-Tamsui, Amoy and Swatow Gisein 17th April, General-Mitsel Bussan Kaisha
Clearances at the Harbour Office. Hotmoon, British sir, for Canton. Jacob Diederichsen, Ger, str., for Haiphong. Pak Kong, British str., for Canton. Pronto, German str., for Saigon. Hue, French str., for Quang-chow-wan.
Hating, French str. for Moji, Thyra, British str, for Moji.. Shauki Maru, Japanese str., for Sisgapore. Denbighshire, British str. for Shanghai. Perla, British air., for Amoy. Priyang, German str., for Port Arthur.
o Ping, Chinese steam-launch, for Wuchow
Departures.
San Francisco, &c. May 1st Singapore, &c...... April.1gh San Francisco, May 25th. San Francisco, &c.June 17th Victoria, B.C. May 7th San Francisco, &c. June st
Vancouver, &c...... June sih
April 24h May th San Franciscu, &c. May th Yokohama, &c...
April 20th Guthrie
Sydney, & May 9th Hamburg Straits, &c. June 13th Hiroshima Maru Moji, &c.
April 13td Hongkong Manban Francisco, &c May 16th Hupan: ...Foochow April 19th Idzumi Maru Victoria, B.C....... April 19th K. Companion... Portland, &c. May 20th Kagoshima Maru Bombay April 26th Kasuga MaruJapan April 19th Kiantschou..... Straits, &c.uly rath König Albert Straits, &c. Aug sand Königsberg.....Havre, &c. ... May 3rd Kweiyang.....Manila Loongsang Manila Maidum Maru. Tamui Nippon Marusan Francisco; Olympia. Victoria, B.C. Perla.. Manila Preussen.......Straits, &c.
April 26th April 19th April 21st &c.June 11th.
April 26th. : April 18th
May 29th
May 15th May 152
We know also that the political aspirations This proposal is embodied in my letter to the
munt of tribal feuds whenever circumstances Colonial Secretary of the 15th November last
favour them. The Jesuits in the 18th century Since that dale, another trifling alteration
plotted to depose one Emperor and instal had been made in the design as set out in that letter. The first proposal was that the new.
another, and thereby brought about the so- 1 propose to ask you now to signify your ap called persecution, and the expulsion of all reclamation should terminate, to the eastward, proval or disapproval of the scheme as a whole, missionaries. The Protestant missionaries in at Jardine's East Point property. It is now and your acceptance, broadly, of the Govern- the roth, espoused in a body the cause of the proposed to carry the reclamation along itement conditions. Your assent given here will Taiping Rebellion. They hailed the move- front of Jardine, Matheson's premises and in not bind you definitely to all the details, some ment as the "Christian insurrection, and did front of the Sugar Works and to give them an of which have still to be worked out. The their best to encourage it and to ingratiate 1896-Cholera reported prevalent in Singapore April 18, Paul River, American ship, for Yoko. Fyrbus. Liverpool May 10th interest in the scheme to the extent, of 160 whole matter bas yet to be submitted for the feet in depths of building land on their northem consideration of the Secretary of Stage for the boundary
Colonies An Ordinance will have to be passed, This appeared to be due to them, as the carry- agreements will have to be prepared and ing out of the reclamation involves the destruc-signed, and probably some of the conditions tion of their barbour frontage to the west. altered or modified
deeply regret that it has been found im practicable to carry out my original suggestion for the acquisition of Morrison Hill and of the Naval Hospital Hill Bad for the removal of both these impediments to the expansion of our City eastward and to its more perfect ventils tion. You will have noticed in my published Jeter to the Government what a magnificet
themselves with its chief, who, however, refused td have anything to say to them, and expelled them with violence. them with violence, chellion is claimed as a triumph of missionary teaching. Mr. Arnold Foster, of Wuchang, writes in a recent letter to I am here to answer any questions you may the Spectator: No one who knows anything ask so far as I am able, and to give any ex of the Taiping Rebellion doubts that, if it had planations, I'am here to listen to any sug succeeded, a prbouncedly Christian govern gestions for the ireprovement or alteration of ment of sorts would have held sway over all the schones you may have to suggest. It is Chipa. No doubt its Christianity would for a my duty also and it will give me much pleasure time at least, have been something of a travesty
to convey to His Excellency the Govenor any of New Testament Christianity, but the rulers proprials you may have to make and support | would not
herefore have neither, hated ont
on
1807-The Greek fleet lai? Prevesa in ruins and-the-Turks-captured the Maluna
April 18,
April 18, 77othar, French-str., for Heihow. April 1B, Sacula, German strä for Shanghai: April 18, Feithing, British stri, for Shanghai April 18, Daphne, Germm str, for Nagasaki.
hama,
British battleship, for 1809-Pue d'Arcos, presents his (Spanish) April 18, Peria, B, Bists, for or Sinapore.
British credentials at Washington Minister April 18, Canton, British sur, for Swatow Stone ordered to Madrid from Berlin April 18, Zwird, British str. for Ampy 1900-Death of Mr. Boyd Bredon Commis April 18, China German sir, for Newchwang
sioner of Customs, at Swatow
April 18, Hatch He, British sir, for Canton,
Pass.
AGENDA
STO-DAY:
Company
Panger—Arrivent
Prinz Heinrich Straits, &c Prinzess Irene Straits, &c. Richmond Castle New York
Aprilz3d. Woo-Sachsen... Strails, &c. June 27th Sanuki Mani Marseilles, april 19th Segovia. Havm, &c. May 26th Shinano: Maru... Kobe & Yokohama April 26th Sobraon... Marseilles, &c. April 27th San Diego, &c.&pril.zoth Straits, &c. Aug 8th
silo, &c, April 26th pai anglesApril 200
B.C arwin, &cidAprik
Per Girela, from Singapore Signor Catane and wife Signor Von Vinemayer, Signori
Conte Sanvert
Strathgyle. Stullgart
Sungkiang
Stechuen
Tacoma
inan
Ulysses