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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
"PAK TSE LANE is very bad and we recom- mend the ground floors should be closed, is CANADA AND JAPANESE AND
what the Quarterly inspection Committee think of this obnoxious thoroughfare. CHINESE IMMIGRATION..
LONDON, April 15th.
PRESENTATION TO THE HON, J. H The Canadian Iminigration Commission STEWART LOCKHART, C.M.G. A moet reports that the restrictions on emigrationing of the Hongkong College of Medicine for Chinese will be held in the Legislative Council imposed by Japan sufficiently provide against Chamber at four o'clock to-morrow afternoon, the dangers of the influx of large numbers of under the presidency of Major-General Siz W. Japanese into Canada.
J. Gascoigne, K.C.M.G., Officer Administering the Government, for the purpose of presenting an address to Mr. Lockhart, the Rector of the College...
The Commission advocates the ultimate -exclusion of Chinese, with an increase of the poll tax to five hundred dollars in the meantime."
LATER.
GUNNERY ACCIDENT ON
H.M.S. "MARS." During gun practice on board. H. M's battleship Mars at Queenstown, the breech of a big gun blew out, killing two lieutenants and nine men and wounding seven men.
THE KING'S BIRTHDAY.
The birthday of King Edward will be celebrated at home on the 30th May, and on foreign stations on the 9th November.
RUSSIAN MINISTER SHOT.
other city in the world which bad 129 persons to the acre and yet this wast
was the density of the. population of the city of Victoria as a whole including all the outlying vacant lands and the villages, Race Course and cemeteries in Na. 1 Health District, the Public Gardens and all the vacant military land in Nos. 2 and 3 Health Districts, and all the unoccupied hill side belaw the upper level of the City Health Districts Glasgow, which was the most densely crowded of the large cities of the United Kingdom, had but or persons to the acre. In conclusion, he pointed out that it would also be seen from the tables attached to the report, that the Health Districts, a and y, REPLY TO INQUIRER:-Mr. F. Brown, in which districts the outbreaks, of bubonic the Honorary Secretary of the Hodgkong-plague almost invariably commenced and were Football Club, kindly supplies, the following the most severe, showed the greatest number information in reply to Inquirer: The record of occupants per floor, namely 9.1 as compared attendance for a match of any description is with an average of the City of 7.6. 114,887 at the English. Cup final of 1901, The attendances since the final was taken to the Palace are:-1895, 42,560; 1896, 48836; 1897, 65,891; 1898, 62,017; 1899, 73,833; 1900, 68,9451 1901, 114,887:
ANTIPING PONG LEAGUE-Ping-pong has become such a rage in Paris that society men cannot go anywhere without being lassbed into a game of ping-pong, so they have formed an Anti-Ping-Pong League, says the fames Review, a new ping-pong journalThe mem
THE KWANG-SI REBELLION.
INTERVIEW WITH A CHINESE BANKER.
THE REBEL PROPAGANDAS As the general tendency appears to be lo minimize the gravity of the state of affairs in Kwangs and the surrounding neighbourhood the following interview
ew with a Chinese Banker
The Russian Minister of the Interior (Mbers wear a distinctive bulton, so that the ladies may be of interest to our readers an Sipiaguine?) has been shot dead by a student.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE GERMAN GUNBOAT TIGER arrived from Swatow this morning.
cannot feel offended when members refuse to play, since they have sworn never to part ticipate in this fool sh, unmanly English pastime."
IMPURE WATER has been found in a well at 85 Wellington Street. The Government Inorrow. There are several prisoners awaiting and was of the opinion that the water was so Andyst (Mr. F. Browne) examined a sample
THE CRIMINAL SESSIONS commence io.
trial.
A LATE DEVICE to beautify (3) British North Borneo stamps is to superscribe them "British Protectorate in red.
THE WATER SUPPLY, what little there is, at Kowloon, Tytam and Pok-fu-lam, is reported to be of excellent quality. DRUNK: For being drunk and incapable at the Connaught House, G. Moffat, was fined Sz, or seven days. He paid the fine. CHOLERA For the past twenty-four hours ending at noon, there were six cases of cholera which terminated fatally. All the victims were Chinese.
THE BANQUET to be given by the Chinese
Community in honour of the Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart, C. M. G., will be held at the City
Hall on Saturday next at 7.30 p.m.
tainted with impurities as to be unfit for potable purposes and likely to prove injurious to health. The matter will be brought before the Sanitary Board this evening. Mr. Osbome minuted that the analysis was not attached to the report and no more wells should be closed till we have a sufficient water supply. Better have slightly impure water than none at all This well should not be closed, but the owner made to line it properly."
MR.W. G. WINTERBUBN, formerly of Pen ang and now of Hongkong, has an interesting article in Cassier's Magazine for March on the Chinese junk, and dealing generally with the Chinese shipbuilding industry. Mr. Winter burn writes in optimistic manner of the Chinese
workman, "the best Smiths," he says, -* fitters moulders and boilermakers from Burman to Japan are Chinese. In every foreign settle 1.50
A KINTA BUTCHER advertises "Australianent, Borneo, the Straits, Tonkin, the Philip 1.75 oxen ex cart, more bone and skin than flesh, trained under the European supervision in pines, we find Chinese artisans, who have been forty cents per catty-highly recommended to Hongkong or Shanghai, and who emigrated those who understand the process of softening to those countries, where their services are
always in demand.".
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PLAGUE --Two cases of Plague were notified to-day, one Chinese from 45 Des Voeux Road Central, and one Indian from 28 Shelly Street. This brings the number of cases to date up to fourteen.
A ROUGH PASSAGE was experienced by the Glenogle on her last trip from Tacoma to Hongkong. She got into very tough weather, lost three boats and had the captain's cabin
swept away.
THE LIMEWASHING RETURNS for the fortnight ended 29th March, showed that in the Central district where there are 3,851 houses, 576 had been newashed and 489 inspected
since the last report,
in
"I arrived here from Canton two days ago, and I was surprised to notice amongst my friends a total ignorance of the affairs in Kwang-Si. Some are of opinion that the "rising" as they term it, is nothing more than the doings of a band of robbers, As you are, probaby, aware, Kwangsi has always been the
fallen through, people are led into the belief bou-bed for rebellions, but as en many have
that the present rising will follow in the footsteps of the former ones. As one who has done business in the disturbed area for over seven years as a banker, I think that what I say can be faithfully relied upon.”
Thr first inkling we had of the affair, was when I went to a small and flourishing town called Ping Nam, on the banks of one of the tributaries of the West River, whither I had gone from Shek sing, my head quarters, to collect some money. This was some time in February, After concluding my business, I hurriedly returned to my home in Shek-shing, but what was my surprise to find that the town was already in the hands of the rebels, under the command of a man named Kwok Itap pears that one quiet day, about forty men, dis used as opium merchants, came into the town and said that they were travellers passing. through. Towards the evening more arrived' and by the time that dust set in, the town
act was to capture all the local Man was completely in their hands. Their first darins, seize all the banks, including mine, and throw open all the prisons and liberate "the prisoners
AN INCORRECT RUMOUR-The rumour
The next day printed pamphlets were that the new British stamps were to be with issued and posted up in all the public: drawn turns out to be incorrect. Last month a places. These turned out to be their pro. statement was made in the House of Commons paganda. The following is an exact transla- contradiction of the rumors. The new tion of one Sons of China, ac rela stamps are not very pleasing, perhaps, but they robbers. Treat us not as such We, the seem to stick as well as the old ones, and proper Chinese, are governed by foreigners, answer the.x purpose. No doubt the stamp for are not the Manchus the present usurpers collectors would have been pleased at their of our throne, foreigners? They have not withdrawal, as it would have increased the justly ruled us, The groans of the masses dre value of those already issued, but it seems that not heard; their grievances are not redressed England can worry alone. on inartistic postage they have sold parts of China to the Western Their mandarins are a mass of corrupt officials stamps without any very serious rise in the death rate. According to one of the London people; they have declared war upon nations, papers many journalists and steckbrokers have without our knowledge, and now demand given instructions that all letters are to be wa Southerners, increased taxes, UNJUST WEIGHTS-At the instance of placed on the breakfast table face downwards Why should we be the sufferers? We are Telegraph Inspector Ford, the shop-keepers of No. 131 The Hongkong Telegraph
to meet the payment of the indemnities. so that their appetites shall not be disturbed by Connaught Road West, and No. 163, Des the sight of the stamps. Such supersensitive nothing to them Why have we allowed our Voeux Road West, were each fined $25 for souls should not be brought in contact with the selves to be thus trampled upon? True sons keeping unjust weights.
of China, and of the South, we pray of you to:
ganda Our first, is the overthrowing of the consider these things and
and read our propa
present Manchu dynasty, second, founding a new dynasty with a Chinese Emperor on the Throne, third, the helping of the oppressed and needy, fourth, introduction of reform, fifth, the protection of trade, and sixth and last the establishment of Kwang-si, Kwang tung and Kwai chow, as the three seats of the Government, with Canton as the capital with an Emperor, and a Viceroy for. each province of Kwang-si and Kwai chow in conclusion to be interfered with their lives are to be be it known that the Western people are not protected and their trade not to be meddled with. Let them go in peace. We are the en emies only of the Manchu dynasty We have spoken. Such said our Chinese Banker is the rebel propaganda
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1992.1 NOTES AND COMMENTS.
BIG FIRE AT PENANG-Spring Grove, Penang, the Residence of Mr. O. Sielcken, of Messrs. Belin Meyer & Co. has been entirely gutted by a fire. The dimage is estimated at $30,000. The property was fully insured.
The Kwang-si Rebellion. The aims of the Kwang-si rebels, as set forth in another column, are, apparently the overthrow of Manchu rule in the South. In fact they wish to cut off the Southern Pro-SMALL-POX OF A MALIGNANT TYPE is vinces from the rest of China and set up raging badly in Penang. Two European their own government at Canton under a Chinese Emperor. Who this Emperor is to be, or whether any selection has been made, we are as yet unable to say "The pro- gramme of the rebels distinctly lays down that trade is to be fostered and that foreign- ers are to be protected and respected, so it is very evident that the present rising is not of an anti-foreign character. How long this benevolent attitude towards foreigners will continue, however, remains to be seen. Among the rabble collected in a rebellion there must always be a large proportion of bad characters, and it is doubtful if the leaders will find it possible to keep this rowdy element, which would certainly be more or less anti-foreign, in check.
Master mariners are down with it. 75% of seizures are said to be proving fatal. A great many of the community are taking the precau- tion to have themselves vaccinated. TWO SAMPLES OF MILK, submitted for analysis under the Sale of Food and Drugs Ordinance, 1896, for the quarter ended 315 March were found to be adulterated. Samples of rum, brandy, whisky, gin and beer were also examined, and were found genuine. EXPENSIVE CIGARS -Chan Shing, who by the way is an inveterate smoker quietly appropriated a box of cigars valued $6, the property of Messrs. Lane, Crawford and Co. Before Mr. Kemp this morning the was duly charged by Mr. A. H. Skelton, with the result that Chan Shing will be debarred from smoking the coveted weed for two months,
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It is interesting to note that the rebels style themselves the "HUNGS." HUNG SIV- TSEUN was the originator of the Taiping rebellion, and it must not be forgotten that this great movement, which very nearly ac-A DISGRACE TO THE COLONY" is complished the overthrow of the Manchus,
ordinary affaits of life.
A HUGE ALLIGATOR says the Bangkok Times, is reported to have become the terror of a portion of the upper Samarahan river. For the past five years the beast has been in the habit of attacking boats so persistently as to upset them, upon which one of the crew not in frequently falls a victim to his jaws, My informant could tell me of twenty-seven people that had been so taken in the past five years, besides a much larger number who had been injured. He himself had been four times at On the last occasion the beast seized the boat tacked in his boat, which is a fairly large one by the gunwale, and worried at it until it sank, But before he could extricate his teeth, his quarry managed to get ashore. The natives assert that every man who has tried to capture this scourge has himself been captured, so do. one is willing now to undertake. Four Malays in a dug-out were attacked a few days ago, but were fortunate enough to get ashore before their boat was swampeil...
OVERCROWDED HONGKONG,
At present over thirty towns and villages are in rebel bands, The Imperial troops under the joint command of Marshal Su und General
Ma are quite unable to check the advances of the rebels They, the rebels, are, woll armed with Mausers and revolvers As question of whence they receive their WORST CITY IN THE WORLD.
the wear
MEDICAL OFFICERS REPORT
men disg inland f In his annual report
for
the year go practically
to he submitted to the Sanitary Board aus
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was originated and fostered in the very dis what the Quarterly Inspection Committee of trict in which the present rising in proceed the Sanitary Board think of the Gough Street ing. We are told that a direct descendant latrine. In their second report, dated 4th at their meeting this evening, the Medical in their of one of the Taiping leaders is at the head March, they say it should be removed or rebuilt Office of Health deals at length with the of the movement and that a Taiping veteran on modern sanitary principles. "The stench question of overcrowding in the city of Vic heard is one of its leaders, so it may well be that is overpowering and pervades the neigbour toria. He tabulates the total of each Health troops the present rebellion is simply a revival of hood. People less sensitive than, Chinese District, the number of persons per acre, the any the Taiping rising of the early fifties, though at present we have no news of any picien would not tolerate the nuisance for a day
Chinese houses and floors, and the number ofness, and am sions as regards Christianity on the part of TELAUTOGRAPHIC MESSAGES -EX-
pmates per house and per floor. Speaking of Befor the leaders..
This rising, although it has reform for one Lyons telephone wires with with the use of a No. 5 District shows more than 800 perso
the actual surface. crowding which exists in the periments were made recently over the Paris more central districts of the city he says of its objects, apparently has no connection new apparatus, a "telautograph, which tran- the acre, while Districts Nos, 6, 9, with the reform parties of either KANG YU smits an exact reproduction of a telegram as WE or SUN YAT SEN, but appears to be a written by the sender. The trials were very are also far 100 densely packed w purely patriotic movement undertaken by the successful, though the handwriting as repro beings and it is essential to the Southern Chinese to accomplish their reduced by the machine was somewhat shaky of the Colony that ar lease from the Manchu yoke. At present the But this fault should easily be corrected by the speedily found and put into disturbed area is too distant for us to be inventor. The apparatus will be thoroughly affected to any appreciable extent, but there tested in the Ministries, after which it will be for this insanitary condition can be little doubt that the success or failure put at the service of the public.
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