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HE following Particulars and Conditions of T
Sale of Crown Land by Public Auction, to be held at the Offices of the Public Works Department, on
MONDAY, the 16th day of instant, 1901, at 3. PM, are published for general information.
By.Command,
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
LABUAN NOTES.
An address on vellora in a silver casket to men of an earlier generation. Immediately a Mr. Clifford, late Governor, has been started by end came seals were placed upon all the (From Our Own Correspondait.)
a section of the community regretting the papers of this man, who knew too much of the LABUAN, August 26th.. On the 22nd inst. a fire occurred in the new motives which caused him to resign and ex-dirty side of many political jobs: (national and towns of Jesselton (Api-api on Map) burning to Pressing their admiration of his actions. It has international) at the present slona bidden away in a decent obscurity, from which the Italian the ground 14 Chinese shops. Whether inten-not met with the response in Labuan and on Governor happened to be there on a visit at tional or accidental it is not certain. The the West Coast that might have been expected. Government is not desirous they should
September and.
the time. Uneasiness is still felt there for fear of an attack by the rebel bands.
Persistent rumours are prevalent that the D. N. B. Government intend greatly increasing the Customs dues on the 1st January next. Of course this will not apply to the Crown „Colony of Labuan, but it will prove an incentive to the Chinese smugglers of Labuan to increase their illicit trade with the mainland.
A magnificent pine apple, grown on the Pulo Daat Estate opposite Labuan, has been on view for the last few days in the Labuan Trading Company's premises. It measures
12 inches high (actual fruit), z feet. inch circumference, 16ts. 14 ounces weight, this is believed to be a record size. The en. closed photograph will give a good idea of dimensions as it has been purposely photo graphed on one of Dawson's Whisky cases to serve as a comparison.
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The adherents of Mat Salleh have attacked and killed a Government servant near Tenom. The district officer there was unable to capture the perpetrators of the crime and the latter have, now entranched themselves strongly, awaiting the advance of Government troops.
Governor Birch arrived in Labuan for a short stay on Sunday, 1st inst
OUR LONDON LETTER.
(From our own Correspondent.)
LONDON, 16th August.
emerge.**
The revelation contained in Bismarck's
letter has given rise to a feeling of insecurity in the minds of many Continental public men, and to muzzle the dead is now considered in some respects, even more necessary than toʻ impose silence upon the living, upon whose discretion bread-and-buiter must, to a large extent exert a restraining influence.
LORD KITCHENER'S PROCLAMATION.. The terms of Lord Kitchener's last proclama- tion, which practically appoints September 15th as the date for conclusion of legitimate hostili ties, have given lively satisfaction to all but Pro-Boers That factious camp found itselfțin difficulties, seeing that one portion of its Press treated, the Proclamation as the idle and ineffective railine of a man unable to attain his goal-a sort of feeble waggle of the expiring snake-while the opposite wing in. dulged in, lurid ́accounts of the revolting horrors and brutalities about to be introduced into the conduct of the campaign, as a prelude to the total extermination of the Boers.
Your leading article of 18th July last is entirely in accordance with the requirements of North Borneo, but it is useless to expect any progrès under the present regime, where the sole policy of the Chartered Company is to obtain revenue for dividend paying.
We already begin to scent the policy of the Directors in order to create a fictitious trade for this useless and foolish railroad, which, briefly stated..is to close the rivers along its route and compel the luckless natives to send their produce by rail. Should this quixotic policy prevail, the only possible end will be the impoverishment of the country. The Chinese traders will not bear the extra burden, but the native producers. The latter, besides being fleeced by the unscrupulous
THE LATE EMPRESS PREDERICK. HE P. M. Company's Steamship "CITY OF PEKING," will be despatched for SAN
Celestiale, with their dubious weights and
The funeral of the Empress Frederick, which measures, will have the additional burden of FRANCISCO, via SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, INLAND SEA, KOBE, YOKOHAMA and HONOLULU, on TUESDAY, the 24th instant, at Noon, taking Freight for Japan, the
the milway freight to be deducted from their may be sala to have begun last Saturday even- United States, and Europe. Passengers are allowed to break their journey at any point
scanty earnings. The railway officials willing, concluded in a great military spectacle on Through Passage Tickets granted to England, France and Germany by all trans-Atlantic. loon, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of doubtless be Eurasians and Baba Chinese, to Tuesday morning, when, followed by a long to retire, General Lyttleton will already have
whose fingers, as usual, a not inconsiderable procession of royal mourners, she was carried amount of primage, or say private lekin, into her rest in the little Church of Peace at
It was in accordance with the Empress' own wish that the toffin lay in State in the village church of St John, Cronberg, instead of at the palace itself as would otherwise have been arranged, and so when night first laid her soothing touch upon the land, soldiers of her own regiment, who had begged permission to render this last service to their loved Chief,
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Hongkong, 30th August, 1901.. 1003 Particulars and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on Monday, the 16th day of instant, 1901, at 3 P.M., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of One Lot of CROWN LAND, at Hung Hom, Kow- 75 Years, commencing from the 5th Novem- ber, 1900, with the option of renewal at a CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 75 years.
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In this country absolutely nothing is done for the education of the native population by the Government. Only in the larger villages is here and there a native to be found who can read or write, consequently the latter fails an easy prey to the cupidity of these
Babas and
Potsdam.
The Continental journals of Leyds and Co. ·
· found themselves if the same" predicament, and a comparison of their views, as stated, form an amusing and exhilarating holiday, occupa tion. General Lyttleton who returned to South Africa this week, will in the first instance, take up the position of Chief of the Staff, so that when the moment comes for Lord Kitchener
the strings of action in his hands, and to some extent, know the subordinates over whom he will take the command in chief. Lord Methuen, who has more than once been named as Lord Kitchener's successor, will return to England with him, being in peed of a rest. The date of Kitchener's departure from South Africa is still, unsettled, though September 18 persistently mentioned in what ought to be well-informed. circles:
not very high principled Eurasians, who really hold the destiny of this country in their hands-although, no official bore her down the wide stairway of the home the change should be effected before it is war-
would ever admit it. It is a state of affairs to
be deplored but, so long as the insane idea is held that Chinese traders confer, benefit on the country instead of draining its resources, no improvement is to be looked for. The Chinese trader is also dear to the official for other reasons not always legitimate. Whatever were Spain's faults, it cannot be denied that her system adopted in the Philippines was superior to any other nation's,-as far as the Malay races were concerned, and would be eminently, quited to this country. In the Philippines the hative was better educated and thereby more intelligent than the common populace of Spain, yet he never lost his respect for the ruling race, without ever practising that cringing servility, so dear to the Chinese and other Eastern races, which appears to find such favour with British officials. Hence the Fili. pinos acquired many Westem habits and above all a liking for Western manufactures of all kinds. To obtain these hè of course required money, and to acquire the latter he was com pelled to plant and sow, to reap and mow, with the result that the Philippines became the principal exporting country for agriculturar produce of the Far East. Of all the Sugar, Hemp, Tobacco, Coffee, Copra, Indigo which the country. produced, not one picul, not one catly was produced by Chinese, but entirely 1995 by native labour. The Chinese were there the pedlars, the petty traders, facilitating in a way the disposal of the importer's goods owing to the apathy of the latter towards the native, they abominably cheat all those who are unable to protect themselves and their business is based upon false weights and measures and on [80c.adulteration of the produce they buy, and the American Government has very wisely pro hibited their coming.
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Hongkong, 10th September, 1901,
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The future of Bornes is in its agriculture; not | gambling farms and opium Chinese will never become, agriculturists away from their own country, hence every inducement should be given to the native population to cultivate the soil They would be permanent residents, not migratory like Chiasse. Let the governing powers take a leaf from the Philippine book, it will take time, but will pay better in the end The races of Borneo are akin to the Filipinos ;
what was possible in the one country is also possible in the other, but before it can be so, radical administrative changes must be made, which are next to hopeless under the present constitution.
Another attempt to create a fictitious trade for the railway is pending The owner of a ago factory at Menambak has been ordered by Government to transfer the factory to
Beaufort (the Clapham Junction of Borneo
In A D 2500) a place they are trying to boom: Beaufort is away up the Paday river, out of the sago district, hence the mw produce would have to be sent by train, river | carrlage being prohibited. The owner denture to remove his factory and it would be interest ing to know whether the Chartered Coy, posses under their charter the arbitrary powers to cómpel him to do so,
There is a good deal. of public anxiety lest
If Lord
of her widowhood, while Beethoven's funeral. music softly sounded from the organ. The rated by circumstances, for continuity of pur- pose and of practice is a highly desirable Emperor and Empress, their elder children, policy, which has been somewhat lacking in and the sons-in-law of the dead Kaiserin all our dealings with the Boers. awaited her coming in the great hall, and closKitchener be recalled before the toth October, ing in immediately behind the coffin, stepped this will be the fourth change in the supreme out with her into the darkness. It was a weird command of an army not two years in the and beautiful sight, for the way of the moving procession was lit with naked torches, which flickered and smoked in the light breeze, yet never failed to cast ablaze of light upon the
ag raped c. fin surmounted with a golden C. As the Empress raade her last journey. all lights were extinguished behind her, so that, when the soldiers tenderly laid their bur den before the altar of Cronberg Church, the road just traversed and the Castle she had left for ever, were but. dimly outlined by the uncertain moonbeams, while the little chapel was visible throughout the whole country round, a brilliant beacon in the surrounding darkness--which thing was an allegory.
field.
THE UNIONISTS
The great Unionist Demonstration at Blen. helm is regarded as a wonderful success.
Certainly the Duke and Duchess of Marl- borough played the part of host and hostess to their three thousand guests, as if they had spent their lives in organizing buge fetes, instead of undertaking that role for the first time. At the meeting, the political ar- rangements were no less perfect than was the social programme for the rest of the entertain ment. Above the platform, a huge sounding board was erected to minimise for the speakers, as far as possible, the strain of addressing a large audience out-of-doors. The point in the
The King, and other English Royalties did | not reach Cronberg till Sunday morning, an hour speeches which attracted most attention was the allusion made by Mr. Balfour to the over. or two before the main service, which was con- ducted by the Court Chaplain. It was very short-representation of Ireland at Westminster, of else it may be that the strain of publicity at such which there las of late been such unpleasant a moment, would have been too hard for those evidence in the persistent obstruction of the who were really mourners to bear. At the Nationalist party to every measure of public conclusion of Dr. Dryander's. prayer, King moment. Two days later, Mr. Kimber, M.P. set forth in a clumn of the Times, the popula- Edward laid a beautiful cross upon the coffin, and then, accompanied by the Kaiser, im- tion statistics upon which the movement to mediately left the church,
reduce the number of Irish members is based,
here, for the first time, the wishes of the dead said that Mr. Kimber's statement was a per- On Tuesday the final scene was enacted, and] Without reproducing âgures here, it may be Empress were in part over-ruled, for, from fectly straight-forward pronouncement, which Wildpark Station to the royal mausoleum, the anyone acquainted with the rudiments of arith- passing of the Kaiserin was with pomp and metic could readily follow. So far as justice in pageant befitting the daughter, mother, and concerted he certainly proved his case up to. wife of Kings. So rigorously were the public the hilt-and his case in a nutshell amounts to and even the press representatives excluded this that on, the population basis, the Irish from the line of route, that little of the true constituencies should be reduced by thirty-one, inwardness of the sad ceremony. bas reached and that number added to the English elector: the world. Four thousand soldiers lined theate. The anger of the Nationalists over this road, and a large number took part in the proposition is perfectly intelligible, the mora procession itself, including all the Head so as everything points to the introduction. quarters Staff, and leading Generals. Her during the life of the present Parlament, of a Redistribution Bill aimed at the anomoly. late Majesty's crown was carried by Count von Waldersee. The Imperial and Royal mourners There has, however, been no official announce- followed the bearse on foot, three abreast, the ment to this effect, and it is, thought possible,
first line consisting of the Kaiser, the King and Prince Henry. The Empress, Queen Alex andra, and the Princesses drove to the mau- soleum by another route. After all was over, the King returned to Homburg, where he will remisin for a cure, rendered additionally necessary by the strain of the last week, which bas left him looking "haggard and weary," to use the words of one honoured with a brief interview on the day succeeding the funeral.
that the Government intend to gather more fully the sense of the nation before proceeding in a direction whence there is no return.
PARLIAMENT.
There have been two all-night sittings during the past week, but it is beyond the wit of man to discover any advantage which has accrued there from Whole classes of votes on Supply were closured, in accordance with the new rules, and
thus millions were granted practically without discussion of any kind. The Naval Estimates were taken last night, when Captain Pretyman: asked for 27 millions, or nearly four millions in excess of last year, of which a considerable portion is required for the urgently demanded defences of walia.
THE FRENCH NAVY.
THE LATE SIGNOR. CRISPI. The death of Signor Crispi had been so long anticipated, that coming at the times of national mourning, it aroused less comment than might otherwise have been expected. A few laudatory articles appeared but it was left to French journalists to in the leading British and German papers
It is of interest to note that in yesterday's. prove, by their bitter, almost scrurrilous abuso, Figaro some details were given of the chief Another trader, intending to establish a saw how great a power in Europe the Italian points in the forthcoming French Naval Egţi. mill at Beaufort was informed that he wouldStatesman had once been. His day, of course, males. The most significant item is an ullow. inot be allowed to^ship his planke down the was past before physical death claimed him, ance for twenty more submarines of the type Padas river, but they must go by train to and already, though but five years separate us at present used in the French navy, and Weston and there be transhipped in vessels for from Adowa, Crispi was in the way to be for three others which are in the nature of experi Labuan. With double freight and tranship gotten in the arena of international politicsments in new types brought to notice by MM ping charges to contend with, the trader cannot even as Baralieri, the General whose impruy Romanoid, Maugas, and Beitin res compete with water b'me planks from Singa dence cost Italy that terrible defeat, is a name When these addilons are completed, de total port and Sandakan. The natural route would be which med recalled with difficulty when the of French submarines will be no less than two or three thirty-five, a fact which should surely give from Beaufort dirzet in native craft to Labuan notification of his decease, only two or three Nitives are also lo be probibited from going days'after that of Crispi, appeared in the papers pause to the British Admiralty, whi -up and down the river, they also must use the | The Italian Government kept constant watch yet able to include, one of these engines of Trallway 1 Is it to be wondered at that this by means of police agents posted round the destruction upon the effective llit.desynte
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