11
4
Gold, £4,481,456
98,193 039.80
123. 4. 53434 935 24
Bills Payable (including Drafts on London Bankers and Short Sight Drawings on London Office against Bills Receiv able and Bultion Shipments), (2,273,675.78 Profit and Loss Account,
3,590,683.17 Liability on Bill of Exchange Jer discounted 6.250.816 115, 18, at which up in the date Luana have run off,
-$33,143.734-24
Assets.
Cash,....... Coin lodged with the Hongkong
Government agains! Note Circu- lation in excess of $10,000,000, Bullion in hand and in transit... Indian Government Rupee japer, Consols, Colonial and other Se
curities, Sterling Reserve Fund Invest-
ments, viz -
5,500,000 on 3974.55063 2,207.901.63
9,960,868.75
Laso,om Consols bulged
with the Hank” of
England as a Spe
cial Loniton Besérve
Labqsma f Cuire
10 £125.00 $t,gra,non,mm
THE
COAL.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1903..
They also state that, owing to the very great fall in rates of freight between Shanghai and Majin considerable business has been done, the natives taking this advantage to lay down their ordinary requirements. Therefore, many charters have been effected as low as $1.10 per
inn.
KEROSENE,
--
Business done in all brats of this article $157,746,445.70 has been small and confined priz ipally to Tea Shop transactions with the exoption of a small sale of Deynes from first bands at Tis 2.25 per i ca e less 22, la ball od a small quantity changed hands at Tis. 1774 per gallons, Messrs. Wheeloch and Co state that the de cline in price is at doubt dar to the rise in exchange
VESTERITY'S EXCHANGE. Os Loanos, Telegraphic Truster and 94 Rank Bills, on demand ... 19 41 bị Credits, 4 months' sight 24.99 | 'ments & months' sight.......................' yl .M.1.79 ON BERLIN, (demand) ON PARIS, Bank Bills, on demand.... 2 20
Credits, 4 months' sight... 2.1. ON NEW YORK, Bank Hills, on deraand...42
Credits, 30 days' sight ON BOMBAY, Telegraphie Transfer
20.000 10 6429aja 470300
War Loan,
£337,000 Olier Sie.
"Ting. Securitie
Marling In the Books
£39-2591
------- 10,003,000.00
Bills discounted, Loans & Credits, 96, 307,282.43
Bills receivable,
Bank Premises,
"
On demand
ON SHANGHAI, Telegraphic Transfer
Private o days sight ON YOKOHAMA, TIT. Sovereigns, Bank's Buyang Kær. Gold Leaf 100 much, pur fael .... Bar Silver
OPUM QUOTATIONS.
Yester Bay's qrundions are as follows.
go,055,86,46
1,314,42 54
$252,740.445.70
GENERAL PROFIT AND 1.05% ACCOUNT, HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI DANK-
MALWA NEW
1F
LAST YEAR. OLDEST
ING CORPORATION,
36th June, 1903.
Dr.
To Amounts written off-
H
Remuneration to Directors,... Dividend Account :—
1.10 per share on 80,000 shares 120,000 € 4/6, Dividend Adjustment A/c:- Difference in Exchange be
tween 4/6, the rate at which the Dividend is declared,
PATNA NEW3
01D
15,000.00
BENARKS NEW
OL
tr
PERSIAN (PAPER).
533,333.33
and 1/8, the rate of the day, 906,666.67 Transfer to Silver Reserve
Fund,
*
Transfer to Bank Premises
Account,
*500,000.00
200,000.00
Balance forward to next half-
yeaï, maliciou
divided Profil,
Cr.
By Balance of Ce
31st December,
goz,.....
Amount of Net
59
Profit for the
six months end-
ing 30th June, 1903, after mak ing provision for bad and doubtful debts, deducting all
Expenses and
435,472.73
Interest paid
and due,......... 2,155,210.44
435
031
131]
.85
$14 54 fago .25 5'16
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Perhest 040/900 980/1,0003 1,050/10p
1,0371 1,050
fis
fis
.
1,0372 1,050 790/230
CANION NOTES.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
CANTON, Jly 27th, 1903.
A FIKP.
A lire broke ou; yesterday morning in a raw medicine store a short distance east of the steamer wharfs. Four or five shops were! burned and a quantity of medicines destroyed 1,435,683.17 | The hand pumps responded promptly and the pumping station soon had water playing on the $3.599,083.17 fire. That many more houses were not des
troyed is due to the way in which the men worked the pumps and the host.
STERLING RESERVE FUND.
Tu Balance..................
$to,co0,000.02
By Balance 31st December, 1902,$10,000,000.00
(invested Sterling Securities)
T. Balance
A TIEF CAUGHT,
|
put up these proclamations. He could how. ever give no proof that he had been commis. sioned to do this. Chan refused to believe him. A Kin became very angry and attempted to shoot the Magistrate. Magi trate Chan had him arrested and immediately bahended. It turned out that A Kin had been commissioned to put up the proclamations and also to bring the leaders of the rebels to a conference with the Viceroy, When the Viceroy learned that his agent had been beheaded he was very angry and ordered the arrest of Chan and had my taken to Kwai Ping, tried and condemned death. Whether the sentence will be carried out remains to be sear
KIPANGSI REBELS IN HUNAN.
According to a Peking despatch of 22nd u printed in the Mangkai Times, news received hon Chang Sha is to the effect that the Kwang, si reels have penetrated into the province of Hunan,'” In districts such as Yung Paw, Ching Cha, etc., the rebels caused their proclama tions to be posted up at many prominent; places. In them they declare their i .igntion to revive Confucianism, to elevate the Yellow!, to sup- port th: Emperor and lastly to massacre the corrupt officials, and exhort the people in general to join them. J. E. Chao Erh Shun,
THE CANTON-HANKOW RAILWAY.
American
CHINA IN MANCHURIA ARMING,
A Moukden dispatch states that the Chinese The Universal Gazette, which belongs to
officials in the various cities and towns of the tree Manchurian provinces have received Mr. Wills Grey, the Engineer-in-Chief of the
secret instructions from their Tartar Generals American Development Company, says that though the agreement regarding the Hankow- to mise as many ablebodied men as possible within their respective jurisdictions, whilst Canton Railway has already been signed by
ams of modern make have also been dis- the Chinese Government and
tributed to the officials concerned. It is com syndicate, though the work has already been commenced, both Russia and France have puted that the Chinese authorities in Man- churia have realy distributed in secret at with 200 recently come forward to try to take the railway under their control, utilizing certain Belgians least 60,00 sands of Mauser
in the provincial as stalking heres with this object. A certain astridges for each, so th Chinese bighofe (presumably Sheng Kung-capitals Moukden Fogtien province) Kirin Trilsibar (elting pan) is also desirous that the Belgians should iris pr vnce) and control the line, and he has already ordered Sir Chiang province) there is quite a dearth in firearms of modern panern. When the Cheng ung Liang Cheng, the Chinese Ministri to the United States, not to countersign any
Russians came down from Siberia in 1900 the more of the bands issued in the United Sites,
mandarins buned large quantities of their Mausers and ammunition in all sorts of un- in order to embarass the American Company and prevent it carrying out its contnict
ely places-to be dug up in times of emergency. lu une last, however, some one gave the secret to certain Russians and this becoming known the arms were hastily and as quietly as possible transported to the officials of smaller cities so that when search was sub- sequently made by the Russians very few arms were discovered by them. Whether the newly raised men are intant by the mandarins to give assistance to the Russians in the event of war
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC STREET TRAMS.
The work of laying down the lines for the new street tramways is progressing well, about two and a half miles of rail being already com pleted, while other important stretches are
well. Most of them speak it passably' well- hance they get over their initial' nervous. e. They certainly understand most of what is said to them in English, even when they seem loși for a reply. Their opportunities for Conversing in the language have not, up to the present, been large. They are rapidly making up leeway in this respect.
Nine people ut of ten who visit the Japs, on board their warships come to the conclusion that Jap nese naval life is, to all intents and purposes, the same as the British, but there is this remarkable difference, that the first thought of the Japanese cadet when relieved from duty is to get at his books; the same thing in a modi- in all sorts of odd corners ponug, over books fiel degree applies to the oven. One sees them
on navigation or cognate su jects. It looks rather unnatural in contrast with British char- acteristics, but it is the fact. They have a weakness also for musical instruments of sorts, notably the Japanese fiule, which is fashioned sit of bamhan, and blown from one end. in the ward-room, where the cadets oat, sleep, and sudy, they go in largely for the study of art-the Biri i-h variety, by the way. Each cadet has his own special locker and his own special brand of drawing-book.
With the exception of the officers, every cadel, petty officer, and seaman sleeps in a hammock of British pattern, slung British-wise.
the Governor of the Province, has sent by within sight of that goal. In sonse parts of thewitt Japan is an open question, but more pro. They all smoke cigarettes, but not to ex $5,
the waterways quantity of munitions es. ented by a special detachment, lo Yung Paw the worst affected district.
The insurgent are concentrated principally at Nanning and its adjoining districts. The pry › Cán Lung Itsien is in a state of seige the insurgens. As it is but pooly garrisoned, it will be an easy victim unless re-inforcement comes in time. The local garrison has had an encounter with the, insingents, resulting in the retreat of the later.
bably the Manchus will look on at the straggle and then join the victors in crushing more campletely the vanquished.-N. C. D. Äews.
THE OPENING OF PEKING.
way the work of removing the trees to the side of the road appears to be causing some delay, The power-station at Bowrington is also welt adva ced, and it will not be long before the roof is put on, while the beds for the engines are now being placed in position. The trolley- wire poles are being erected in some parts of The negotiations with the powers as in the the city. When complete the service will open ng of Peking as a commercial Minister comprise 20 cars, to for Europeans and 16 for to China pressed the Government to decide natives. The former will carry 32 and the
the questio without further delay but the Paz latter 44 passengers. The total length of the
Wap is not to be bustled even by its most cars will be 9 feet and maximum width 6 feet obliging friend Mr. Conger. Op nion in Gov. 6 inches, and they will be lit with electricity.ernment circles are divided upon the subject,
The magistrate of Kwei Hsien Chen, a native of Canton, has made himself, quite a record. Sure the beginning of the China New Year, the magistrate has executed no fewer than 2 05-N. C. D. Neus. nien in forty days. From the time of his arrival he has put to death 6,0.0 or 7,000 persons. The victim are generally pat to death without trial. Wang Ch Chun, the degraded Governor, recommended the magistrate in a very eulogis- ing manner to the Throne.
The new Viceroy, H. E. Tsen Chan Hsuen, has different views. On his arrival at Kwangsi, E: immediately summoned the magistrate in question to his presence, and the first quest on put to him was the exact number of men he killed and whether or not he gave any trial to those whom he executed.
The Viceroy at once mdered the Magistrate to be put into jail for trial, seeing that the frightened and excited magistrate could not give him any answer to his questions,
Among the officials denounced by the Viceroy to the Throne, is Huang Shen Chi, a Tactal, and a personal friend of the Viceroy whom he has known for twenty years.
partiality in his dealings with his subordinates has won for him a good name.
The Viceroy dismissed the Prefect of Ching.
chow and the magistrate of Kwei Ping for
no
is
TIENTSIN.
a
THE JAPANESE JACK-TAR.
AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON.
A somewhat generous development of the quality which tanks as the sincerest form of dattery. grafted upon other and more origina-
For some time a thief has been at work on Shameen. Umbrellas have disappeared mysteriously. A day or two ago a gentleman on Shameen saw a Chinaman with an umbrella other reason except that both of them are the past week. In Chinese circles no Edicts Japanese navy what it is io-day-a formidable over his head which he recogumed. Then he
noticed his wite's umbrella under the same man's arm. He spoke to the Chinaman and said Friend, you have my umbrella." "Yes," replied the Chinaman, "your boy told me to take your umbrellas to you as you had forgot· ten them." The umbrellas were handed over and the Chinaman immediately disappeared Later the same man was caught in a himse and handed over to the police." He will stay a while in a place where umbrellas are not needed. $3,590,683.17
LEPERS GIVING TROUBLE, Some lepers who live in trees about Canton $3,599,683.17 || have been giving trouble. Complaints have been laid before the officials that these lepers are capturing women and girls and detaining them in their boats for inmoral purposes. The soldiers will not arrest the lepers and the offi ciais do not know what to do with them.
CANTON, July 20th. ANFICIAL SCARE. The Canton officials have had a scare. night or two ago some one started a rumeur that some Wai Chan rebels were man bing of Caulon city. These men were reported to be members of the Triad society and were deter
mined to loot Canton. It is well known that the Viceroy has taken most of the soldiers with him to Kwangsi. Not more than two hundred braves have been left to guard Cantoo. The Viceroy has also taken the money chest with him so that those in charge of the government have a sorry time. When the officials beard that the Wai Chau Trinds were coming lanterns were displayed on the walls and officials rushed about in great excitement. D course, the rumour proved fatse. 11 is more than likely some one aware of the state of the city and the anxiety of the officials started the
SILVER KESERVE FUND). "
„$ 6,000,000.00 By Balance 31st December, 1903$ 5,500,000
Transfer from Profit and Loss
Account
31
300,050.00
$6,000,000.00
A. J. RAYMOND,) H. E. TOMKINs) { Directors, H. SCHUBART,
J. R. M. SMITH, Chief Manager C. MAY, Chief Acting Accountant.
We have compared the above Statement with the Books, Vouchers and Securities at the Head Office, and with the Returns from the various Branches and Agencies, and have found the same to be correct.
W. RUTTON POTES Auditors. A. G. WOOD, Hongkong, 28th July, 1903.
HONGKONG WATER POLO LEAGUE COMPETITION.
We have received the following list of fix- tures from the hon. secretary :-
Aug. 11, V.R.C. 9. S.F.
4, R.A. v. R.E.
5. Y.M.C.A. v. V.R.C.
10, Lusitano 7. S.F.
12, H.K.V.C. 7. R.E. 14, Y.M.C.A. 2. R.A. 17, H.K.V.C. v. RA. 18, Lusitano v. Y.M.C.A. 19, R.E. . S.F. 20, Lusitano v. V.R.C. 21, Y.M.C.A. 2. R.E. 24, H.K.V.C. v. S.F. 26, V.R.C. .. R.A.
COMMERCIAL.
YESTERDAY'S INTELLIGENCE.
The following are yesterday's closing quota- tions:
...$680 s. L'don £64.10 Banks...
38 5. HK, C. & M. St. B. Indo-Chinas...
- Douglas...
Shells.
China Sugars
Docks
Farnhama
Lands Itels
441
94 9.
41
£1.4 5. ...$ 94 213 ... Tls. r58 5.
...Sigg b. Iço. b.
FREIGHT.
In their report of the 23d ult., Messrs. Wheelock & Co., Shanghai, write There is no change to report in our homeward freight market since last writing, and if anything the fallen off; the prices of tea are still so high that antity of cargo to go forward has slightly buyers prefer not to do anything until they come down, which may happen at any moment as the native dealers are not expected to be able to hold out much longer.
Cuastwise. Things could hardly be in a worse condition than at present, and rates all round are almost as low as we have ever seon them; there is a large amount of tonnage seeking employment and we do not see any. chance of improvement for the next month or
10%
A
some Ministers (Chinese) taking the view that it would be wise to open the capi al, and there- by as it were internationalize it in order to protect the Metropolis from possible damage in the event of an armed, collision between (From Our Own Correspondent)
Janan and Russia as seems not improbable at present owing to the highly dangerous state of Tientsin, July 17th. We are making up this year for the last three affairs of the Three Eastern provinces. On comparatively temperate seasons, and everyone the other hand it must be a source of great trouble to the Government if foreign cences. more or less played out. Your correspondentsions are established right in Peing where is feeling the effects of six years' work without a break and most be forgiven a little dilatoriness. is feared all the ancient rights of the present Since the return of A, Lessar to Peking lasters would fall into foreign hans. These are the chief reasons why the subject still Tuesday there has been a sudden cessation! "war news" and most people have it that all remains unsettled, and it is not safe to hazard chance of war is now over. I think, however, the present deliberations-China Gazelle.
even a guess at what will be the outcome of any conclusion na this head is premature. From the recent Havas telegram that the Czar is going to visit London it would almost seem that Russia is doing anything and everything in gain time. Reater has not confirmed the His strict im-report which is disbelieved here, and may have been spread merely to throw the Japanese Cabinet into confusion and if possible create misunderstarding between the Allies
Everything has figuratively gone fat berc or movement of any kind indicate anything going on. The few persons left in Tientsin are interested chicfy in the opening of the new church here, which after three years hard work, interrupted by the Siege, is to be consecrated and used for the first time on Sunday 19th. The half of what will be a very large church, which is now built, is a handsome, substantial, points at which the two systems tough, there is of the at least one essential difference; and since it is cruciform building, perhaps one
brick work in China. In difference in national temperament it ies nest pieces of Though somewhat lacking in architectural outside the category of mere technical training beauty, on the cutside, once inside one is in- About the last quality in the world one would pressed by the dignity of the loty roof rising think of tacking on to the jap. man-s' wars in magn ficent arches into a dome lined with man's character is that irresponsible "jollity" dark polished wood, the chancel being circular which legend has associated with bis British and lighted by narrow stained glass windows. The altar is richly curtained and the new altar prototype. One does not, for instance, credit him with the anthodox sweetheart in every nort; frontals are very handsome; these, also the
back to his vessel after a day ashore. He is cross and candle, being gifs in memory of the and he is generally able to find h late Mr. Sent, as is the beautiful fitile dy chapel in course of erection. The pulpit has the mildest of" roysterers," but not necessarily been given by six British officers who were Raioned in Tientsin and attended the tem porary church room, while the very handsome solid brass lectern, cagle with outstretched. wings, is given by nine Tientsin residents in memory of the late Mr. Munro of the Honkong and Shanghai Bank.
habitual opium smokers and are quite incap able of diskbarging their respective duties.
THE LATE MR. HECTON SAMP SON.
At an inquest held ät Shanghai kat week on the holy of Hector Sampsen, who shot himself on 21st ult, it was stated that dreeased had been in bad health for a long time and had suffered from sleeplessness lately. The heal had a su upset him. A bin her of the deceased deposed that he had forked through his papers and pockets and had found nothing. He had not looked over his Bank account, o did not know how his finances were, but believed them to be all right. Anyway, there was nothing to cause this. He had not heard him making any complaints Deceased was always cheerful In the spring deceased told witness that the doctor had viven kim 3 months to ve bat he said it with a smile as much as to say he would give them the lie. For about 15 years deceased always carried menthol in his pocket. had suffered from neuralgic headaches and
The jury without retiring returned the verdict
that deceased committed suicide whilst in a
state of temporary insanity accelerated by the
excessive heat.
The funeral took place at the Pahsienjao Cemetery at 6 p.m. on 22nd ult and was at tended by about 50 old friends of the deceased, The burial service was read by the Rev. C. E. Darwent and a very impressive addres was given by him afterwards. He pointed out that it was not for human beings to judge in such cases of calamity, and that anyone might be similary affected by temporary illness of the
on the brain, which was all times Table to give way under any sudden stress. coffin was carried to the grave by eight friends of the deceased;
The following from a Russian to Russian
readers is not, I think, without interest, and seems a complete answer to those who speak of the Siberian railway as a commercial enterprise.
tive national characteristics, has made the lighting machine in Eastern waters, without the Eastern picturesqueness. But the fact that power has not been sacrificed to picturesqueness is one among many proofs of the discriminating imitativeness displayed in the modelling pro cess. The British navy, of course, has stood for the model.
But while there are a thousand and one
ay
the worst of comrades. He is moderate in most things-in his smoking, his drinking, his
and aboard. language, and his general habits, both ashore
drawing their supplies from the ship's stores against their pay. They are of Japanese manufacture. The men do not drink to any extent at any rate, not to the British extent, They eat "foreign" food for the most part, cooked by their own inen, and they eat it with [* fneign" knives and forks in foreign fashion, but the Japanese do not make a fuction of feeding. They talk little during meal, pre- ferring to give their main attention to business. Once a day, or thereabouts, they eat Jap nese food with chopsticks, and they are more expert in the use of the knife and fork than English people could possibly hope to be with the chop- sticks.
As a matter of fact, the Japs. make more noise over their actual deck-work than their eating; with the British Jack Tar the case 15 reversed. But the Japanese are under perfect discipline all the same, and notwithstanding the apparently free-and-easy terms exising between all branches of the service. Th-cap tain is the most approachable officer on 'baard ordinates, but he is implicitly obeyed. The the ship, and the most familiar with his sub-
cadets mix freely with the blue-jackets, but are
invariably saigned and respected,
THE HANOI EXHIBITION-
"I have just seen a letter from a Frenchman who has considerable knowledge of the far East," writes the London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. & in it' he compl.ins of the way in which Englishmen bave 'boy- colted or ignored the Henoi Exhibition. Hanoi, in French China, is only two days voy- age from Hongkong; that is to say, it is not in
an inaccessible spot from which accura e information cannot be easily got. Yet according to the letter the English papers have either taken no notice whatever of the Exhibition, an important part of which has been a Con- gress of Orientalists, or have given ouls a few lines to it, based on entirely mis'eading rumour. The Fren hman is astounded,' and the letter revents him as unable'quite to make'' up his mind whether to attribute the ways of the English to systematic hostility or to "prodigious ignorance." The explanation is probably pure indifference. It is a most regrettable indifference, of course, that causes people who live in the Far East not to care about the languages of the East. But perhaps it is better than deliberate hostility to everything English, which M. Pierre Loti has shown in his recent book on India."
The fact, as regards Singapore and the l'anoi Exposition, is that no systematic attempt was made to make known its scope and attractions. The directorate, as far as we learned, entrusted the distribution of circulars and the advertsing to Honkong, and very little was to be found out down bere till the. Exposition was well- nigh over. Then piles of advertising pam- phlets that had never been distributed c. nie to light. But any way there is no leisured tiss here that can afford time, except under rare circumstances, to get away for a holiday. The rule is for me to work hard while they are at it and then take a holiday to Europe, or if time presses, to Japan.-S. F. Press.
[Writing in January last, our special corres poodent who visited the Exhibition said, "It would be useless to try and hide the fact that the Exhibition is a complete failure; that is, in the strict sense of the word. * * * !: is certain, so far as the Exhibition itself is con- cerned, that there has been a complete want of
that there has been too much talk and too little real work done tiron he first start off***
rumour to frighten the guardians of the city. I body which no douls acted very powerfully ever has been rather a shock to political enter-journal anent the recent visit of à japanese sound administration from the beginning, and
this was their purpose they succeeded actinir- ably. There have been rumours for several days that the Triads are unusually active. From different sections of the city there are rumours that Triads from Wai Chau are coming to the city in unusual numbers.
KWANGSI
Foreigners and Chinese returning from Kwangsi report that the Vicco is not having an easy time. Chinese say that his soldiers are defeated in every encounter. After a defeat the soldiers join the rebels. Just now it is reported that the Viceroy is doing his best to buy over the rebel leader. Many believe that this is the only way the rebellion can be put
down.
MAGISTRATE CHAN.
Magistrate Chan of Kwai Un may lose his head. This morning it was reported that he had been beheaded. Alagistrate Chan has ruled with a high hand and in some way dis pleased the Viceroy and he is now in prison
DEPARTURE OF S S.
"PEMBROKESHIRE"
FOR HONGKONG.
The
The Shire line steamer Pembrokeshire after having had her bull temporarily patched in the International Dock at Shanghai was undocked last Saturday afternoon and berhed alongside the C. M. 5. wharf. She left for Hongkong on Thursday afternoon in tow of Messrs. Butter field & Swise's s.s. Whampoa, and may be ex- pected in port on or about Tuesday next. Capt. F. C Everett is on hoard of the Shire boat as pilot. Upon her arrival she will go into dock where the extensive repairs necessitated by her recent s'randing on the North Saddles
on
In one important organising detail the British model has not been followed. The
the
Everyone around the place seems miserable and disappointed, and the impression one gets from the authorities is that they are thoroughly tired of the whole thing and that it will be a great relief to them when it is all over." This is our correspondent's view of the exhibi- tion, and we have no reason for believing that he desired to manifest any hostility towards the exhibition, and as he has resided in Hanoi for many years he cannot have been "pmdi. giously ignorant" of the subject with which he was dealing.-Ed. HK. T
THE PHILIPPINES OPIUM. MONOPOLY. -
If he has one weakness it is in the generous display of medals-generally medals and not the mere ribbons. The majority of the officers wear four or five, which appears to be a fairly liberal allowance for their two wars, but here again the British model has not been departed fram to any appreciable extent. The South African war has been responsible for two per In a recent issue the Navy Kasi published man, as a general rule, without reckoning those awarded for specially distinguished services. at Port Arthur remarks that the Eastern Chi.The Golden Kite," which answers to the pese Railway was constructed to serve imperial British V.C., is, however, very sparingly issued, ends and not merely as a commercial enter if one may judge from the number worn by prise. The costliness of the undertaking how this detachment of visitors, says an Australian
Russian papers have already drawn Prise.
squadron to those shores. A petty officer on attention to this question of expense, and the Matsushima is entitled to this honour, but Professor Meegoolin has drawn some highly there are very few others, if any, similarly unfavourable comparisons between this line privileged. The medal is of silver, except so and the Siberian one He points out that far as the golden kite itself is concerned. although it was constructed under much more advantageous conditions and had now the serious constructive difficulty to en- counter which the Siberian line had and Japanese have no naval troops answering to our Royal Marinė Light Infantry. As against commanded also much cheaper labour, the this, every semman is regularly and thoroughly cost of the Eastern Chinese line was drilled in the use of the rifle and bayonet. 120,000 roubles per verst against only 85,000 The weapon in service now is of Japanese roubles per verst the Siberian Tine.
pattern and manufacture, similar in design to Prof. Meegoolin attributes this differerce with- ihe Mauser. It takes clips cf Ave out any hesitation to the wholesale and open cartridges at a time by means of the Mauser robbery which prevailed throughout construc-mechanism. The rifle is fitted with a tion, the want of all records and construction knife-bayonci, slightly longer than accounts and the absolute lawlessness and latest British pattern, and possibly more effec debauchery which prevailed everywhere" live for cullass work when used independently. The reason this was so he attributes to the Among the Japs, the rifle goes by the name absence of a special committee appointed by of the Thiny-five year pattern," from the fat the Ministry of Ways and Means such as that it was patented and issued in the 35th supervised he construction of the Siberian line, year of the Mikado's reigs.
It is sighed up the Manchurian line being built by a so-called le 2,000 yards in English numerals. Even in private company under the Finance Minister. the case of the big guns manufactured at the Of course the company was a pure fiction as Japanese arenals, bearing Japanese brands ever, one knows long since, and this makes and Japanese patent marks, the same principle the Professor's criticism the more painful. As is followed in the sighting-always the English to the future prospert of the railway he is very numeral in centimetres. But in the armament doubtful.e considers it very questionable of these Japanese warships there has not been when the line will be in a position to repay any a slavish imitation of Western methods; very of the capital expended, if ever. The revenue frequently.ure finds, on close examination, of the line scarcely suffices to cover the cost of that important parts of the bigger guns have
It will be a shame to Ameriran civilisation if the traffic in opium in the Philippine Islands been improved upon by Japanese inventors- working.
something in the breech-block, perhaps, or the is made a matter of government monopol, and elevating gear. The Marconi installation of profit. We can not afford to go into this bus- wireless telegraphy on board each of the vessels iness. It is bad enough that the American Oc includes certain mechanical contrivances, in-cupation of Manila has resulted in the multipli- troduced by a japanese torpedo lieutenant. All cation of drinking places and of the houses of of which goes to show that our new Eastern ill fame. These are perhaps unavoidable in- at the Russo-Chinese Bank there, were pro-
cidents of military rule, of the concentration of allies can do something more than imitate. nounced counterfeits. The man was taken to the Japanese Gansulate General where he is
Their signaling appartus is done at night large bodies of troops. But the use of opium kept a prisoner. The date of trial is not fixed, pensate for the exclusively polical nature of by searchlight on the English dot and dash is another matter altogether. This is not an the railway. These cuterprises are the advan plan; also their flag-wagging by day, but the American vice; it is essentially Oriental but it will take place within a few days.
ced guard of the Russian advance on the East | dots and dashes have a somewhat different When, therefore, a protest comes from the lead The native cash shopman further brought in
commerce being but an auxiliary to Russia's One story of the canse of his fall is the follow-ninety-six of the forged rouble notes to the ing. Chan has been very active in catching the Consulate General and told the Japanese action in the Far East. The work is finished. caning to the Moise cuide. They use the of the Methodist missionary work in the Philip when one comes to think of it, the constant which the "Colonial Government advises shall has caught and beheaded fourthousand of them. presented by the same man, but this statement constructed. Dalny and l'ort Arthur are almost use of the English numeral and English signal- be established it commands autention, rebels. He reports that within six months he. Inspector that these additional notes were at An-important line of communication has been semaphore, top, alter a similar alethod. And pines against the proposed opium monorely The New York Evening Post alludes to is doubted by the Japanese authorities.ready. These are the facts, will all these underling appliances is easily explainable. The Charges have been made against him that he
takings fail because they are unprofitable when he Japanese text books on naviga- the subject in the following terms: condemned and beheaded men without any
The only problems before us are to reduce the tion, gunnery, and torpedo practice are printed For two generations, England's complicity
· 17ns lived trial. Chan is an intelligent man. abroad and even now has a semi-foreign house
losses to a miminum and to strive for a success in English. English is a compulsory subject in with the opiam trade in India and China has the curriculum of the Japanese naval academy, been the occation of moral flings at her by and lives in a kind of foreign style. One
ful issue.or
They study Euclid, algebra, and trigonometr Americans, We would listen to no excirca, morning he was informed that the city was placarded with a proclamation offering pardon
LAST year the Penang imports from the in English, and even in their spare time the Talk not to us about fixed native habits. We were not to be caught by mumblings about to all robbers who would give themselves up.
Siamese western states (including Kedah) cadets in the wardroom get their relaxation. A man known as A Kin, a well known robber
reached a value of $750,000, of which tin ore, from English books. From which it appears regulating a vice which could not be sup The exports from reasonable to conclude the majority of the pressed. But, alas! our proud Imperialism leader, called at Chan's yamên and reported
accounted for $608,201. that he had been ordered by the Viceroy to
Penang to Slam amounted to $1,500,000, graduates ynderstund printed English passably hat now forced us to swallow all those brave
under sentence of death.
5. S. CONSUL-GENERAL,
U. S. Consul-General MeWade left this morning for Wu Chau to have a corference with the Viceroy.
THE KWANGSI FAMINE.
From different sources I fear that the famine is practically over. The new crop has been cut and rice is available. The difficulty is to get money with which to buy rice, However, the suffering has been relieved so far as a dis turbed district can be relieved. The whole district is unsettled and a large part of it in a state' of anarchy,
THE VICEROY AND THE REBELLION.
PARDONS OFFERED.
A correspondent writes informing us that Magistrate Chan of Kwan Un is in a had way.
will be carried out
MORE SPURIOUS BANK NOTES On Saturday afternoon a Japanese named Sadakich Okamoto arrived in Shanghai from Tiongkong on the T. K. K. steamer Americe Mar. He immediately went into a cash shop in the Broadway and asked for change for some rouble mates. The cash shop owner: was suspicious, but before the arrival of the policeman the Japanese ran away leaving the notes in the shop. The man was subsequently arrested and taken to the Hongkew Police Station. All the notes, to the number of seventy-one rouble notes after dus inspection
China Gazette.
1.
JPANESE Minister Takahira, at Washington, will not go to Japan this summer to spend his vacation. He has been requested by his Go!- erniment to remain in America indefinitely in view of the importance of diplomatic business now pending. The Minister had been granted six months' leave, to begin July 1st, and was about to leave for San Francisco en route hom.
Of course the Manchurian railway is repre- fitable as a commercial enterprise, but its con structors were not striving after commercial denis. It may be asked if this is so why is so much trouble taken to make special rates for opin at Dalny, open up mining concessions in Manchuria and secure timber en cessions on the Yalu. These things were necessary to com-
STRONG OPPOSITION, The suggestion that the Philippine Govern- ment establish an opium monopoly in the Islande, with a view of better control, of uaffic in the drug, does not meet with favour in the United states. In fact, the bill has roused pro- tests almost as vigorous as those that followed the forcing of the opiam trade on China by Great Britain. The Chicago Evening st calls the plan a grave mistake," and one "which the President should rectify as quickly as possible."
The Boston Post says:-