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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S MES-OLD SINGAPOREANS will regret to hear of the death of the Rev. William Aitkin, M.A., formerly minister of the Singapore Presbyterian Church. After leaving in 1882, he was for some years minister at Trinidad and lately
SAGE TO CONGRESS. President Roosevelt's message to Congress deprecates a change of tariff. It recom mends reciprocity so far as compatible with the interests of home industries, admitting a
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NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The Open Door.. The portion of President RoosEVELT'S Message to Congress which will have more interest than any other for Far Eastern readers is that in which he refers to China.
According to Reuter he urges the framing of a great policy of full and fair intercourse with China and the nations on a footing of equal rights, and advocates the open door including access to internal waterways.
This is undoubtedly the subject which has been bothering all interested in China and the China trade ever since that trade first
commenced. China has from the outset put up barriers against the foreigner and his trade which it has taken years and, the expenditure of much treasure and valuable lives to break down', even
The insurance has been taken out by a syndicate of those people, tradesmen principally, why would lose large sums of money if the Corosation were not to take place next year; and insurance is only to cover a period of twelve months from the present date. The rate of insurance is £10
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markets. It strongly re-asserts the Monroe doctrine, and the necessity of steadily in creasing the Navy to secure respect therefor, It dwells upon the benefits as well as the evils of Trusts, and advocates legislation em powering the Government' to inspect their workings before restrictions are imposed. It 10s, for each £100, arges stronger measures to exclude undesira-
THE BALL SEASON appears to have fairly bles from the country. It fosters the mer stated now. Invitations are out for the Insti cantile marine, the ratification of the Istution of Engineers and Shipbuilders Dall, to thmian Canal convention, and a speedy con be held on Friday, the zoth instant, a Masonic struction of the canal. It urges the framing and Volunteer Ball are said to be on the tapis, of a great policy of full and fair intercourse and it is whispered that subscription dances with China and the nations on a footing of are to be held at Kowloon. Taken fon the equal rights, and advocates the open-door whole it looks as though the season is likely to including access to internal waterways. be a fairly festive one.
WRECK OF A DESTROYER. The Torpedo boat destroyer Salmon has been wrecked by collision with a mail steamer in Hardwick harbour. Two stokers perished.
THE TYPHOON.
NOTICE FROM MANILA.
Mr. W. A. Rubice, U. S. Consul General, kindly forwards the following copy of a telegram which he received from Manila yesterday
MANILA OBSERVATORY,
December 4th, 4.45 p.m.. Depression crossing south Archipelage, moving west.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
to the very limited extent at which we have at present arrived. China has plainly given the rest of the world, to understand upon every possible occasion that she wished to keep exclusively to herself and did not want any outside help or interference. This is all very well from the view of Chinese conservatism, but it is not in accordance THE BRITISH CRUISER ORLANDO with the spirit of the times and the great arrived yesterday from Woosung,. struggle for existence and the survival of the fittest which is eternally going on. The
holiday.
malions of the West have ceased to be con- QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S BIRTHDAY was tent to lead a humdrum agricultural life and observed throughout Singapore as a public have taken to manufactures instead. They must find a market for their goods and as the output is continually on the increase MR. G. PIERCY has returned to the Colony so they are obliged to seek for fresh and resumed his duties as Headmaster of the markets. The opening of new markets Diocesan School and Orphanage. is absolutely necessary to the existence
nations and hence THE MAN charged with stabbing a Chinaman. of the Western they refuse to rest content when told that in the abdomen, (who is since dead); will be they and, their goods are not wanted.
It is not, as a matter of fact, the question tried at the Magistracy at to am, to-morrow, of China for the Chinese, nor is it a quesTHE NEW FEDERAL CHIEF of the Forest tion of the breaking up of China. It is
simply that the Western nations must Department, Federated Malay States, is said be allowed to make a bid for customers in to be quite the youngest of the Federal Officers. China. If the door is thrown open and they' are allowed to push their goods through the length and breadth of the land to their hearts content they will be satisfied. But if, on the other hand, China insists upon the closing of the door against them they will
A SITE for a Drill Hall for the Chinese com- pabies of the Singapore Volunteer Infantry has been selected, and the swearing in of members commenced yesterday.
...
TWO FATALITIES occurred on the last trip of the Kanig Albert eastwards. An army doctor named Richter shot himself when the ship was in the Suez Canal, and in the Red Sea a stoker died of beat apoplexy,
be driven to forcing it for themselves." It | ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET Sir H. Keppel is undoubtedly for China to decide. She is at present in Singapore. It is understood can prolong her existence as a nation in that the Admiral received a telegram frous H. definitely by throwing open her markets to M. King Edward enquiring after his health. the world, or she can strive to continue in her policy of isolation. If she should choose the A. S. WATSON & CO., latter course we fear that it must eventually mean her downfall, for nowadays the struggle för existence is so acute that no country can afford to drop' behind her fellows in the matter of advancement, If China will not open the door herself she will have it opened for her and she will have only her- self to blame.
Hitherto all trade advantages have been very grudgingly granted to the Western Take the question of the West River for instance. This immense water way was nominally thrown open to trade, but so many rules and regulations relating
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THE XXII. BOMBAYS break up their camp to-morrow and return to barracks at Kowloon,"
their place.being taken by the Hyderabadis. The site of the camp is a trifle, nippy this cold weather, situated as it is just in a pass which forms a natural windshaft
THE FLEET now in Mirs Bay is not carrying out any dark and deep secret design, as so many people seem to have got into their heads, but is merely going through firing and other exercises. At the same time H.M.S. Wour- which is making a careful survey of the locality, so we may expect to have a reliable chart of
THE EMPIRE COMEDY COMPANY played to a rather poor house last night, but those present made up in enthusiasm what they lackedlin numbers. Adson's acting, singe
ing and dancing (only he does'nt dance “just now, bad cess, to him) the ballet and Miss Emmie Smith's singing, of "Lousiana Loo; stand out as the gems of the programine and alone are worth a visit.
THE HEARTS of the subordinate officials in the Government service are glad to-day, as a circular has just been issued calling for ac2 counts to be made up of the increases of pay from January last. These accounts will be paid over almost at once and we congratulate the Governor and his Council în doing an act of hiress to a very hard worked, underpaid section of the community,
A LITTLE ACCIDENT occurred in Ship Street: last night. A gentleman went down to this salubrious street to see if was true that a typhoon was expected. And he got it, for he commenced an argument with a lady who, to emphasize her remarks, threw a lighted lamp at him. The lamp did not go out, but he did, and arrived in the street well ablaze. Some
blankets were thrown round him and the flames subdued, and the unfortunate man was convey. éd to the Civil Hospital, where he now lies.
his pony enough exercise. Yesterday Mr. Pony, MR. D. E. MOSES evidently does not give
thinking matters were getting too slow, started off from the Metropole Hotel on bis own. The mafoo was left at the start and amused himself by contemplating a fast receding set of boots followed by an empty swaying cart. It was not until the pony had raced through Taikoo
and fetched up against a log on the Shaukiwan Road that it seemed to think that running away wat hardly the game it was cracked up to be.
THE FRENCH CONVENT BAZAAR is to be held in the City Hall on the roth instant. The good work done by this institution is too well known to require telling again by us, and it is to be hoped that the Bazaar will receiva the support which it so eminently deserves. As a general rule the male sex fights somewhat shy of these functions, but we can assure our male readers that an hour or so put in at the Bazaar will not be wasted. They will find. many things there to interest them and will be tempted at every turn.
TONGKING RICE FOR CHINA:-A Foo
in that city have bought from Saigon, thorough chow dispatch reports that the Chinessauthorities
the French Consul, some 40,000 "shib" (a shib equals 16 calties) of rice, owing to the meagre harvests experienced in. Foochow perfecture
of Tonking rice in such a large quantity will inaugurate a new departure for Fukien prov ince, which will probably become a regular customer of Tongking in the future, instead of depending upon Hupeh and Anhui provinces to supply shortage as in previous years.
to ports of call and routes to be followed THE NEW ITALIAN feet for the Northern were made, and so many vexatious exactions station will be composed of the flagship Marco this year. It is expected that the introduction.. imposed that it is now barely possible for a Pole, the cruisers Puglia and Lombardia, and foreign owned vessel to be run on the West three first-class destroyers, under the command River at a profit. And China somehow or of Rear-Admiral Palumbo, who will meet the 6.96 $7.66 other utterly fails to see that it would be to returning Admiral at Hongkong.
9.60 her own advantage to foster instead of The throwing open of 12.00 13.02 hindering trade.
d her ports and trade routes would un- doubtedly increase her revenue fourfold, but this she fails to realize. Her policy of ex clusion is à fatal one and must in the end lead to her own ruin, for the Western nations cannot afford to sacrifice themselves for her whim. China must either take warning now and consent to advance with the rest of the Mirs Bay before very long. world or go to the wall in the great struggle. If she awakes she can undoubtedly hold her own, but if she insists on continuing her A VERY COLD BATH was inadvertently present suicidal policy she must be gradually taken by a Chinaman last night at the ice had it not been for international jealousy, the ferry, missed his footing and fell between absorbed: It is not too much to say that House Street Wharf. He was running to catch
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THE HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE st. Sausia, especially built for the Pacific, and hitherto used as an ambulance ship for the German China Expedition, will open the new German lide from Hongkong to Japan and The date of the coronation of King Ed-Vladivostock This line, by means of ice- ward and Queen Alexandra has been fixed breakers, will run all the year round, it is said, for the 16th June next.
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THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR. General Elliott has captured twelve Boers, -660 horses, 100 vehicles, and 300 cattle, in the northern district of the Orange River
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BANK OF LIVERPOOL FAUDS. Golds, the defaulting book-keeper, of the Bank of Liverpool, has been arrested.
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AT THE SINGAPORE SPRING MEET ING, says a certain pink coloured paper usually taken by members of the sporting proclivity, a local follower of the Sport of Kings had been doing very well at the Totalizator, and as each winner rolled up he celebrated it by sundry "stengahs." Just before the last race, a chum, who had also done well, insisted on bis joining him in a magnum of the Boy, the result being arithmetic was a bit frayed at the edges, and that when he reached the totalizator his
instead of taking five tickets on Gee No. 9, his iancy, he took nine tickets on No. 5, which rolled home an easy winner and he cleared $1,000,
There seems to be a modest little moral lurking somewhere shyly in the recesses of this tale.
DESTROYERS have been having a very big run of ill luck of late and people are beginning. to wonder how it is that we have so many crip- pled craft of this description. The reason is not A destroyer, to be of any use, must far to see. A destr be able to manoeuvre at a very high speed and her crew must be able to handle her. Intraining the crew a great amount of risk must necessari- ly be run before they are thoroughly efficient, and THE HON, TREASURER of the Alice stands to reason that it is cheaper in the long run to cripple a few destroyers in training men Memorial and Nethersole: Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following dona-than to lose a whole fleet in time of war owing
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