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CONTENTS.
Birtha, Marriage and Deaths. Leading Artiolos;--
Famine Relief Work and Methods. Sir Henry Blake.
Presents.
Hongkong Opium Farm.
The International Yacht Race. Hongkong Shipbuilding Industry,
Telegrams:-
Sir Henry Blakė.
The "America" Cup.
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Reported American Paper for Hongkong. Opium sales.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, SEPT, 5, 1903.
FAMINE RELIEF WORK AND
METHODS.
(29th August.) At the close of the famine work, in Kwangsi a word about the methods employed
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號五月九英港香
-313 PER ANNUMËRË SINGLE COPY, 25 GENT
been mooted against the monopoly be granted to Messu. Tas Joo Chin and Se Eng Kiat through their failure to acce pany the tender with the deposit rece of the amount placed with the Colon bona fides of the off Treasurer as
the gentleman .... BECO Learning that in the list of tenderers, given in" columns yesterday, was to contest the gal of the grant to the present farmera, th
will not be out of place. There are three ways tickets. To do this the foreigner secures Santry College; entered the Royal Irish amounting in the aggregate to several mil. † înstructed Messrs, Deacon and Hastings
in which the rice may be distributed; upon
the first almost all are agreed, but upon the second and third there are some differences of opinion. First-There is what is called the "General Distribution " method. This is usitally employed at the beginning of the famine when it is generally conceded that all are in need of help. The work of the committee then consists in giving out in discriminately two or ten calties of rice to all who have secured tickets at the door.
was no tea to offer the visitor. A Chinese draws 5,000 yearly, of which £800 is an align influence of the telegraph wires. It appeared that technical objections. home which cannot afford tea is certainly entertainment allowance. Sir Henry Blake's There being no good substitute for this pro poor indeed. Many apologies were made career is thus briefly recorded in Menduct in the sandy soil which is common for not, having tea, and rice water was set and Women of the Time. He is the eldest there, the loss is rather a serious one. out instead.. By "House to House Visitason of Peter Blake, Esq., County Inspector Referring to shipping, Mr. Little says that tion" it is made possible not only to sift of Irish Constabulary, second son of Peter practically the whole of the carrying trade cut the suffering families of a village, but Blake, Esq., of Corbally Castle, Co. was divided between the French and also to determine which sections of the dis- Galway, and Jane, daughter of john Lane, German flags, the former securing about trict will need further help. Again, by this: Esq., of Lanespark, Co. Tipperary (Capt. two-thirds of it and in view of the fact method the distribution of rice can be carried 17th Light Drageons). He was educated that nearly all the trade of Pakhoi and Hoi- on simultaneously with the giving out of at Dr. St. John's, Academy, Kilkenny, and how, and a great deal of that of Haiphong, Constabulary Feb.,, 1859; Resident Magis trate, 1876; was one of the five Special Resident Magistrates (now Divisional Com- missioners) selected in Jan., 1882, to concert and carry out measures for the pacification of treland; had executive charge of the fol- lowing counties-Kildare Co., Queen's Co., Meath, Carlow, Galway East and Galway West; was Governor of Bahama 1884 to 1887; Governor of Newfoundland 1877 to 1888, in which year he was appointed Governor of Queensland, but resigned his commission on return to England. He was
same reliable Christian Chinese, whom he coaches up on the Arabic numerals, to weigh out the rice as the people call for it with their tickets. As the people usually went at once upon receipt of their tickets to the centre of distribution for the rice, large crowds were avoided. The tickets, made of a good quality of coloured and white foreign 'card- board, were about 3 inches long by 3/4 of an inch wide. They always contained the number of cattics of rice stated in figures and words. The attempts to raise the figures were unsuccessful. With the use of a card
lions sterling, is carried on with Hongkong, watch their interests at the meeting of it is to be regretted that British companies Executive Council held yesterday in do not think it worth competing for. GOVERNMENT SERVANTS AND THE ACCEPTANCE. or PRESENTS.
event of Counsel for the other party bel allowed to appear. We are informed that Hon. H. E. Pollock, x.c., was retained behalf of Mr. Ho Kom Tong, and that application was made to the Colonial Sec We understand that a departmental cir-tary that the tenderer be heard throu cular has been issued from the Colonial Counsel who might be allowed to arg Secretary's office directing the attention of the case before the Executive Coun further informed that ref Government servants to the rules and regula. We were lions in force regarding the receiving of presents by officers and members of their
This is perhaps the easiest method for the foreigner
but it is always accompanied by great crowds which sonictimes become Pakhoi: A Decaying Treaty Port. Government Servants and the Acceptance of riotous, unruly, and dangerous to themselves, board that could not be obtained in the disappointed Captain-General and Governor-in-families during the continuance of their Loafers and other unworthy fellows get in,tricts and the foreign, characters it was very chief of Jamaica, Jan. 1889, where he pre-service in the Colony.. The subject has been difficult for the Chinese to produce counter-sided over the Legislative Council till Feb. feits. These fraudulent means of getting 1893, when Dr. Philipps was appointed in rice were all detected. A third point in his place.. Governor of Hongkong, 1898. favour of this method is that a larger number He has contributed from time to time of villages can be reached. The foreigner articles in The Westminster Review, The who is doing the visitation work need not Nineteenth Century, The Fortnightly. The return to the city at the close of his day's St. James's Gazette, &c.; and has published work, but may stop for the night wherever "Pictures from Ireland," by Terence He married, 1st, in 1862, Jane, 'darkness or fatigue overtake him. Thus be M'Grath. does not have to cover the same ground the eldest daughter of Andrew Irwin, Esq next morning in getting out into the country. Ballymore, Co. Roscommon; she died in He continues his work, further and further. 1866; and, 1874, Edith, eldest daughter of away from the centre of distribution. A Ralph Bernal Osborne, Esq., of Newton fourth point is that the local gentry do not Anner, Co. Tipperary. like it, and in some cases have taken active
culated the report that the foreigners were measures against it. In one case they cir-
not giving full weight. They advised the
Legal Intelligence :---
A Chinese Compradore Case.
Correspondence:~-
The Domestic Servant Question. Miscellaneous Articles and Reports:-
Society for the 'revention of Cruelly to Ani
bal ch
mals.
Treatment of Plague Cases. Shanghai an Infected Port. Alleged Attempted Murder. Determined Highway Robberies in Hong
kong.
Alleged Theft from Flongkong Post Office. Bongkong Opium Farm.
Carriage of Dangerous Goods."
Fatal Picnic Panty.
ence by Government to the hon. Attorney General clicited the advice fr the law officer of the Crown that, the d berations of this Council being strictly vate, Counsel could not appear. For t reason it has not been possible for us ascertain upon what grounds Messts. 1 and Seah's claim was upheld." They w at one time (1898-99) connected with Straits Settlements Farm, and on their fail to work in agreement with their old partn on the new lease of the Straits farm th proceeded to. Hongkong and succeeded obtaining the privilege they now hold.
and, like all other, such men in a crowd, are ready for some fun. They push, jam, and crush the weak and starving who are in jured and sometimes killed. Women are as much to blame as nien. In the recent Famine Relief, Monday, July 13th, was "Woman's Day" at Kwai Peng. It is estimated that 40,000 came in with their babies and children for rice. The crowd. could not be controlled and in the jam 23 were killed, of whom 5 were babies crushed to death on the backs of their mothers When the immediate has been cared for, the second or third method is employed. Second -This is a general distribution through "the Gentry." In this case the object is to reach the village elders who are either seen in their own villages or called in to the distribut-people to bring in their rice to be re-weighed. ing centre. They furnish the committee 'The ruse worked and the elders took one foreign trade by the Chiefoo Convention their families. It is not intended to apply to 100, which was first won by the "Ameri all the needy in the village. The names are/cally out of every ten for their trouble. It twenty-seven years ago, is on the down grade, dered, and paid for with the consent of the Gov- Regatta, August 22, 1851, in a match rớt
Hongkong Cotton Spinning, Weaving and with a list of names which they say includes
Dyeing Company Limited.
Hongkong Hotel Co., Ld.
Crown Land Sales,
Inspectors of Nuisances.
•Disturbance at Causeway Bay,
Aquatic Entertainment at the V. K. C. Robbery at the London Mission, America's Cup History.
Abard: The Philippine Staple Industry. A French Convent for Macao.
Canton Notes.
The Big Robbery at Canton,
Affairs in Kwangsi.
Swalow Trade.
Manslaughter tt Swalow,
Cholera at Shanghai.
The Messing of Coasters.
Empress Collision.
The Wreck of the Sø I.
Chinese Engineering and Mining Co. Mining Enterprise in China.
The English Language in China.
had received a generous measure, pressed was fortunate for the poor people that they tight, shaken down, and running over."
SIR HENRY BLAKĖ.
(1st September.)
THE INTERNATIONAL FACH)
RACE.
prominently before the public during the past few weeks by reason of the allegations made against public servants charged with receiving bribes, and the circular, which has just been issued, is evidently an outcome of those investigations. Chapter XVII of the Rules, and Regulations for His Majesty's Colonial Service, which deals with the question of presents, is as follows: all other servants of the Crown in a (olony, 421. Governors, Lieutenant Governors, and are prohibited during the continuance of their service in the Colony, from receiving presents, pecuniary or valuable (other than the ordinary gifts of personal friends), which may be offered for their acceptance by the inhabitants of the Colony or any class of them, or by Kings, PAKUOI: A DECAYING TREATY Chiefs, or other members of the native popula: tion-in or neighbouring to the Colony, and from giving such presents.
This rule applies not only to the officers themselves, but also to their families, and officers are responsible for its observance by
cases of remuneration for special service ren- an American yacht, of 171 tons, at Co crament. The rule may be relaxed, with the special permission of the Secretary of State. upon an Officer's fioul departure from the ser- vice of the Colony,
PORT.
(2nd September) The treaty port of Pakhoi, opened to
Money which has been subscribed with a view of marking public appr bation of an Officer's conduct, may be dedicated to objects of general utility and connected with the name of the person who has merited such a proof of the general esteem.
422. When presents from Kings, Chiels, or other members of the native population in or neighbouring to the Colony, carinnt he absu
to be delivered up to the Government. To
counted and a certain number of catties, say
no prospect of recovery. In his report from and, according to Mr. Consul Little, there is ten, is allowed each person. The elders are
that port for 1902, he says the trade of then given a ticket for the total amount
Pakhoi presents but few features of practi- which they arrange to take delivery of upon
cal interest to the British merchant. As a the next day of distribution or upon the
place of foreign commerce it has been de- same day if rice is being distributed. There
In a special Extra issued this morning weclining in importance for some years and are several serious objections to this method, (a.) The crowds are about the same as in the gave the news, as telegraphed to us by our there appears little or no prospect of a "General Distribution", and consequently London correspondent last night, that Sir recovery in the future. The occupation by accompanied with fatalities which should be Henry Arthur Blake, G.C.M.G, our present the French of Kwanchouwan and its estab-ely refused without wing offence, they are avoided if possible (.) It has been found Governor, had been appointed to the gover-lishment as a free port indicates the pro- this rule there can re no exception, unless with upon investigation that the elders frequently norship of Ceylon in succession to Sir Westbability that Pakhoi will be deprived of its "squeeze" a certain amount of the rice from Ridgeway who' is expected to leave Colombo trade in a large portion of the hinterland the poor villagers. (c.) The elders usually some time next month. The announcement which has hitherto been considered as draw clan lines very closely. In a case that will have been received with considerable naturally forming its trade district. Pakhoi, was brought to light they had included their disappointment by our Chinese fellow-citi indeed, is not very well situated for a treaty relatives only, and the most needy people in zens who were at great pains in their en- port, and never had any prospect of becom the village had not received a grain of rice. deavour to secure for Sir Henry an exten- ing of much importance except through an (d) Fictitious names, as well as names from sion of his term of office in the adminis-artificial obstruction of the natural channels lie to the north and other villages, are often included in the lists.tration of the Government of this Colony. of trade which
Its decline, therefore, does Thus they are again able to make a On the other hand, we recall the opposition west of it. "squeeze". (e.) Many people are thus kept which was raised against the Chinese peli- not seem to be a matter for much regret. from starving to death, but we fear that the tion to the Secretary of State praying for the Some twelve years ago it reached the height majority of the famine sufferers are not Governor's retention in office for a renewed of its prosperity when the value of the im reached. Third." House to House Visit- term when their action became known ports and exports rose to over £1,000,000, Japan and Russia: the French Point of View. ation". By this method many of the object through the medium of the local Press. It but when Mengtzu, the West River and The Arms Question..
ions to the distribution through the will be remembered that we joined issue Kwangchouwan were opened up and began Gentry" are met. It is the hardest work, with both our contemporaries in the strong to be developed the trade of the port com. but gives the most satisfactory results. An indictment they made against the Chinese menced falling below its average level and old missioner in China, who has eaten more petition, although with regard to the manner now signs are not wanting that it will drop
English Consulate at Wuchow.
A Thunderbolt at Sea.
Big Fire at Cheloo.
"Out of the Ruins of the Old."
Tientsin.
The Transiberian Route and Commerce. Viceroy Alexiell.
China and the Powers.
Notes from Saigon.
French Indo-China.
The Allen Case in Manila,
S.S. Ninghe on the Rocks.
"Alhambra " Tobacco Co Ld. .
The Formosa Sugar Ciop.
Sian's Paper Currency.
Towing Burges for Bangkok.
Russian Stowaway Fined.
Sandakan Notes.
The Export Trade of India.
The Administration of Ceylon.
The Silk Religion.
Cable Absorbs Interest.
Death of Mr. Q'one Tart.
Pearl Harbour Works.
A Canadian Pacific China Coast Service, -Sugar Convention Hill
Beri-Beri.
Coming Russian Reinfor: ements.
The Manchurian Question.
New Pacific Mail Steamer Launche
Commercial:-
Chinese and Mexico.
Chinese Immigration.
Punjom Mining Co., Ld.
Weekly Share Reports.
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the express sanction of the Secretary of State, which will be granted only on public in not on personal grounds.
When presents are exchanged between Gov. ernors or other officers acting on behalf of the Colonial Goverment in ceremonial inter courses with native K ngs, Chiefs, or others, the presents received must be credited to the Government, and such return presents as may be sanctioned by the Secretary of State will be given at the Government expense.
423. Governors are not, without special per mission, to forward any articles. for presenta tion to His Majesty,
HONGKONG OPIUM FARM........
(4th Septeniber.) We gave yesterday the particulars relating to the tenders for the new Hongkong Opium Farm, which we were then able to gather from an unofficial source and from the letter, which we print below, it will be seen that our
firmed. The communication, by the way, we reproduce by kind permission of the success- ful tenderers, Messrs. Tan Joo Chin and Seah Eng Kiat, of 36, Bonham Strand West, The letter is as follows:-
As announced in a special extra to Hongkong Telegraph, at nine o'clock t morning, the American yacht, Reliance, successfully defended the Royal Yacht Sq dron's International Queen's Cup, va
the Isle of Wight, and afterwards' present to the New York Yacht Club as a trophy an international race. The eyes of yao lovers the world over has been turnett ward the spot on the American Atlantic s board where Shamrock III, emblematic Sir Thomas Lipton's Irish sporting plu has struggled for the blue ribbon of ocean with the representative of the St and Stripes in which millions of Americ have placed so much reliance'. Desc tions of the challenger and defend with comparative tabulations of their portions, lines and sailing qualificatio estimates of their speeds in rough weat and on a calm sea, detailed narratives of habits and manners of those who were man them during the cup contests--all h been poured forth upon an eagerly listen public from the sanctums of a hund publications. It will, however, be interest to note that Shamrock 1/1 embodies in novelties of type and design than any boat built in Great Britain for America cúpmàtċi the most characteristic, and, in so respects, the most daring, departure be in the fact that the length of the fin shortened to an extraordinary extent, providing decreased friction and quic turning. Nickel steel was chosen as
salt fish and rice and has talked less about it in which they proceeded to obtain the signa- considerably lower before it touches bottom port of last evening is now officially coninetal for the plating instead of mangất
than some others, recently remarked upon his return from several weeks' work in the famine districts, that in pursuance of this method he had found his hardest work yet in China. This visitation work consists in hunting out every needy family in a village, asking a few general questions Mexico Favours Adoption of Gold Standard about their condition, taking nothing for granted, and then instituting a search, if help is asked for, beir homes. This search is executed withas much thoroughness as if the almoner were an officer with a war- rant; boxes, jars, pots, cooking utensils, and whatever suspected of. containing food stuffs are examined. Yet in spite of all vigi lance deception is sometimes successful. The distributors have been met on the road by people who kowtowed at their feet and On the 27th August, at Portsman Mansions; begged for help, claiming that they had London, the w fe of H. J. CRAIG, of a daughter nothing to cat, and yet upon following them On the 29th August, at 31, Sinza Road,home and examining their houses it was Shanghai, the wife of P. HORKOWSKY, of a son. found that they had harvested their rice and
On the jist August, at Hongkong Hotel, the wife of Mr. H. HAYNEs, of a daughter.
MARRIAGE.
Fortnightly Maske. Report.
Yarn Market Report.
Freight.
Shanghai Share Report.*** Farnham koyds. Local and General
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BIRTHS.
On the 14th July, 1903, at the Roman Catho- lic Chapel. New Market, County Cork, Ireland, by Rev. Father Norris, NICHOLAS, GEORGE NOLAN, Interpreter at the Magistracy at Hong kong, to MARY GEORGINA HENNESSY, el est daughter of Mr G. Hennessy, formerly Inspec for of the Hongkong Police.
DEATHS.
On the 28th ult at Shanghai, FRANCIS KINGÉMILL, aged 18 years. Brands. On the 30th August, at 3, Haskeit Read,
Shanghai, the residence of her son-in-law Wm Fraser, MARGARET GIBSON, widow of the late Captain Alex. Maclean, Aberdeen, N.B. -
ased on a bang bus at saltwws2 BU
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"Gentlemen,
"Colonial Secretary's Office,
4th September, 1903.
"With reference to your tender, dated the 31st ultimo, offering the sum of $185,000 per mensem, as rent for the privileges known as the Opium Farm for three years This from the 1st March, 1904, inclusive, I am directed to inform you that His Excellency the Governor in Council has been pleased to accept your tender.
tures to that petition we had no words of The imports during 1902 were valued at commendation for those who elected to £245,300, a decline of £67,700, which adopt the course they did. It is perhaps to would have been much greater but for the be regretted that Mr. Chamberlain could large quantity of rice imported to meet the not see his way to recommend to His deficiency in the local supply resulting from Majesty that Sir Henry be retained in a bad harvest. All the chief items declined, Hongkong for a further term of five years. especially cottons, which dropped from His Excellency has instituted experiments £134.900 to £72,900. Exports were valued and investigations into the causation and at £183,500, a decrease of some 40 per spread of plague which it may have been cent, compared with igor, which, however, well if he had been left to see the results of was a record year, with a value much higher those experiments by closer observation and than on any previous occasion. the personal directions which he took upon decline is mainly accounted for by the diver himself to issue. It is not our purpose in sien of sugar, the failure of the indigo crop, this short notice to review Sir Henry's and a great reduction in aniseed oil, pro- administration in Hongkong beyond noticing bably due in part to the disturbed state of 1 am to invite your attention to the the fact of his promotion to Ceylon- re the chief producing district in Kwangsi either ward of long and meritorious service for stopping production or preventing transport, which congratulations are offered to His and in part to a diversion to the route Excellency. Sir West Ridgeway, whom Sir through Tonkin. It is consoling to reflect Henry succeeds, is said, in his ready; that, while the trade of the port as a whole almost thoughtless, concessions to Ceylonese has been falling off for a number of years, provision had been made for the months in various directions to have given his suc- the exports have not only held their ground preceding the next harvest. Sometimes ju cessor a peculiarly difficult and thankless task: but, in 1900 and igor, showed signs of a the search tobacco was found that had been Acquainted as we are with the fair-minded. healthy expansion, and that in spite of the purchased with money that should have ness of Sir Henry in regard to native races successive diversion to other routes of several gone for food, Although they were severely we anticipate in his new office the achieve articles which formerly made up the bulk of criticised for this it may have helped them ment of the same degree of popularity which the trade and the gradual disappearance of as it did the poor student, who finding him His Excellency has earned from the Chinese one of the chief products of the district, self in need of food wrote to some one for population in Hongkong. Pecuniarily, the groundnuts, which, with its product oil, assistance. His benefactor enclosed a transference to Ceylon brings Sir Henry a figured in the list a few years ago for be
penny in a letter advising bim to buy some tobacco which he should smoke and ther in find contentment. It is a remarkable that in all these famine-stricken homes there
MUKUDIEN MAN-jou-se bem
small advantage over bis Present position.tween £20,000 and £30,000. It seems that, The salary attaching to the governorship of although the plant grows well enough, there the island of dusky leaves" is Rs 10,000 is no yield of nuts, a phenomenon which the per annum while the Governor of Hongkong farmers can only explain by alleging the
4th paragraph of the Conditions of Tendering which requires you to deposit with the Colonial Treasurer, before the 1st January next, approved security, either money or title deeds, to the value of three months rent of the Farm for the due performance of the conditions on which the privilege is granted and of the stipula- tions or agreement in respect thereof.
"3. I am further to request you to be good enough to attend at the Crown Solicitor's office with a view to the necessary deed of grant being executed,
"I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
F. H. MAY, Colonial Secretary, "Messrs. Tan Joo Chin and Seah Eng Kiat, of 36, Bonham Strand Went "A
bronze, and this was manufactured wit
view to securing the minimum of we with the maximum of tensile strength trustworthiness. Her general dimensi being practically dictated by the co tions of the contest, are in a great de similar to those of her immediate predo sors; but in the moulding of the boat wi those limits Mr. William Fife, the deal of Shamrock I, displayed a consider amount of originality, reverting to the cutter type, widely differing from the new fender, built on the "skimining dish" pat The Reliance is a decided departure on part of Herreshoff from his other cup fenders, and is an excellent sample of American ripe flat floored, fin keeled b Her lines are very easy, with few hard pl and a graceful, sweeping curve from bilges into the garboards. Her stern is fat so, that she leaves but little
her bow, although not quite so b and flat as that of the Independence, is very much different from the bow of e the Constitution) or the Columbia." At time of launching it was believed that strongest points of sailing would be started sheets in a comparatively smooth while her weakest point would be on the and flattened sheets, a point on "Shamrock III: was said to be vervices
conditions upon which the recen
to be decided were:The best live races, the course to start. Hook Lightship. The first race
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