BIG FIRE AT CHEFOO.
THE C. E. AND M. CO.'S PREMISES DESTROVAL.
The C. E. & M. Co.'s premises at Chefon were burnt down in the wee small hours of the 17th ult The Chelon Express says:-The cause of the fire is uncertain. The C. E. & M Co-are to be condoled with for the-heavy-loss sustained but congratulated upon the pre- vention of what might have been! The build- ing stood in an enclosed compound with the sea within a few feet of two sides of it, and in spite of the united efforts of all the fire engines of Chefon and assistance from the harbour the fire had to gut out the building before it could be subdued. This shows only too plainly that the means available for the suppression of fires are quite ina lequate to the demand in the case of a large fire breaking out. Luckily there were no women or children upon. the premises; if there had been it is probable that the event would have been attended with several casualties, as no ladders were obtain- able to effect an entrance into the app storent This regrettable occurence should prompt the G.P.C. to action means for the better protection of life and property from the devas- tating element of fire. At present a walk around the settlement would convince anybody thai in the event of a large fire breaking out, the saving of life, and the salvage of valuable property would be largely dependent upon the assistance of volunteers, prompted by the emergency,
"OUT OF THE RUINS OF THE OLD."
The Hankow correspondent of the Shanghai Mercury, writing on 18th it, says:
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1903.
COMMERCE.
{'Consulate' is really the Civil Administration | THE TRANSIBERIAN ROUTE AND
office, and there was a deep significance in the international participation in what is virtually the beginning of Russia's 'more permanent control at Newchwang.
August 19th,
Sir Ernest Satow arrived here to-day and is staying the night at the Consulate General before going on to Peking to-morrow. He narrowly escaped a nasty accident when driving from the station, the horse becoming unmanagable and bolting. It was, with some difficulty restrained, however, but again became restive on reaching the Consulate, and the Minister and Consul had to leave the carriage hurriedly just as the horse turned sharp round and dashed among the cargo on the Bund, smashing the carriage and cutting itself a ther badly. Both gentlemen were somewhat shaken and alarmed, but not burt.
The arrival at the station was a brief and not very imposing function, a guard of honour be- ing drawn up which presented arms, then the Minister got out and shook hands cordially with everyone. The great heat and his own fatigue after the long railway journey led him to waste but little time however, and everyone soon dispersed. Dr. Morrison who returned North yesterday was among the civilians who grected Sir Ernest at the station. He has been, I believe, to Corea,, He seems in better health than he was, het still not looking himself..
The cerem ny which you recently witnessed in Hongkong of the distribution of S. African medals to the Sherwoods was repeated here to- day when General Ventris presented the medals to the Detachment here, referring to the complimentary remarks made by Major General Gascoigne of the Regiment, all of which he said he could thoroughly endorse om personal experience of the men's brilliant record since his first connection with them in 1876.
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This evening the officers and inen are giving rather a good open air concert, several amateurs kindly assisting.
The anti-reform movement is having a steady and widespread effect among funky Chinese, and one prominent Director of the University noted for his long and friendly intercourse with foreigners and his fluent knowledge of English, and foreign ways, has just resigned his educational connection obviously because he fears being identified with progressive thought.
In Peking every one is very unhappy except those who are boldly working their way into
Mr. Dering in his annual report on the trade of Tientsin observes that the connection
CHINA AND THE POWERS.
JAPAN AND RUSSIA: THE "FRENCH POINT OF VIEW.
But
of 14.850 tons, of the Fuji and Pashima of 12,500 tons, of those fine cruisers the sana, and Tokiwa of 9,750 tons, juid of many another staunch Japanese vessel, the products instly of our great English shipyards. But they set. out to frighten the Japanese; this, in the opinion of any one who knows them well, is not an easy task. The Moniteur had really better try this game on somebody else; it is not likely to succeed in the Land of the Rising
unlikely to su
RUSSIAN STOWAWAY FINED.
ult., a Russian was charged by Captain Fey, of At the Singapore Marine Court on the 26th
the ss. Arratonu Apcar with being a stownway on the vessel on the voyage from Ilongkang to Singapore.
day after leaving Hongkong he found the The purser of the steamer deposed that the accused hiding in the wheelhouse. Accused offered him $6 for the passage, but this sum was insufficient. The steamer was not allowed to carry deck passengers, and the sum offered was not enough for any other accommodation. allowed to carry deck passengers, owing to Capt. Fey corroborated; and said he was not quarantine restrictions.
CABLE ABSORES INTERE
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SOME LINKS OF THE TRANS PACIFIC
FOR: THE FIRST MESSAGE,
There are some highly interesting fas nected with the opening of the Pacific cable, from San Francisco on July 4, which, notwithstandin amount of matter already publis either escaped attention altogether. been passed with a merè mention. The are some important bits of electrical infør. |tion with which the public is not familiar which.
absorbingly interesting, ta had a bearing on the occurrence and which are
The fact that, the electrical currentar und the world consisted in part of two wires of the New York and New Jersey: Telephone Came pany between the telephone:building in : New - York City and that at Oyster Bay, where them President was staying at the time, seems to have escaped general attention, l: A part of the. length of these wires, from New York to Jamaica, is underground, and in this portion of the circuit it was equipped with 'the' Pupin." chased at a high price by the American Bell coils, the right to which were recently pur
Telephone Company. These coils are no- engineer. He went to Hongkong from Amoy points determined by a scientific fw between The accused stated he was an electrical thing more or less than connections" at in an American ship. On arival at Hongkong the wires constituting a cable, and their pur he met three Russian jews who told him he could get to Singapore for, the sum they
pose is so to diffuse the fugitive currents which
wire constantly gathers from all sorts of had paid from Singapore to Hongkong. They sources that they will not disturb the equili advised him 10 go on band a Singapore bound brium necessary for easy communication be- steamer and purchase a ticket. He boarded tween distint points. A cable equipped with the Arrateon pour, but did not meet any one Pupin coils is said by electrical engineers to be from whom to purchase a ticket, He slept in loaded," and the efficiency of a wire so load the wheelhouse and when discovered wased is much greater than that of an ordinary willing to work his passage.
If we accept it as an axion that we are un able to see ourselves as othe's see us, we may by rail with the Trasibetian Railway has 20 still regard others from the standpoint of a third far had no appreciable effects on the commerparty. In the guard ports of the more" it looks cial situation at Tientsin; it has of course saincwhat as if the Bear was preparing to make brought the quicker and cheaper roue of travel a meal of the Chrysanthemum, but if he at to Europe into popular favour, and it has tempts to assimilate this unaccustomed fare he atrendy resulted in a quicker mail service, will find it most remarkably hard of digestion. which is, however, still limited and uncertain.
Blagovestchenk and Kishineff were well enough Just when people begin in earnest to send as there was nobody there to hit back, but in the letters over Biberia, the roule was closed to all mail starting west of Russia until such time as game, who have played the game, and are most.
Land of the Rising Sun are men who know the an adequate postal staff and transport facilities decidedly prepares to play it again, and this can be organised. Letters from Tientsin for time for all that it is worth. But evidently Europe, however, are still accepted, and the
Russia's European ally is extremely nervous Chinese Imperial Post Office has arranged to about the situation, and the afoniteur de la take over the work of registering mail, writing Flotte has set itself to prove that all is for Russian addresses on it, and affixing Russian the best in the best of all possible Far stamps, for all correspondents who are willing East. "If we were to believe certain reports to risk the route. A trifling leakage in the which have recently appeared in the news- revenue has no doubt resulted from the free papers," says the ingenuous Moniteur, "it entry of foreign goods over the railway: would appear as if Japan were actually While ikin and Transit business are guarded contemplating a war with Russia in the at the principal stations, no provision has yet near future, and was preparing for it. been made for the levying of Import or Export these rumours are most decidedly contradicted Duties on goods crossing the boundary by rail. by the cordial reception recently accorded by On.account of the high freight which must the Mikado to General Kuropatkine, the necessarily be charged for such an immense Russian Minister of War. But the prophets stretch of land transportation, only goods re-
of war are not the least embarrassed by such presenting big value in small bulk pred he
a little thing as this; they maintain, that the expected to come from Europe to China via friendly attitude of the Japanese Sovereign Siberis.
covered lurk and sinister designs on the part of the nation he represents." It is well to have, an open mind, and it is distinctly, charitable to believe no evil of one's neighbour; and one checks the rising sob as one reads that “ we do not believe a word of it, but, on the contrary, attitude on the part of Japan Having thus are of opinion that everything points to a pacific given the potential enemy of Russla credit for the noblest sentiments the writer now adopts quite a different attitude, and apparently wishes to prove that she could not fight if she wanted to do so, "We must agree," he goes on, “that the augmentation of the Japanese Fleer has only been carried out by Parliament with the the financial situation of Japan, and if we admit, Excellency the Governor, Sir Henry Blake, very greatest difficulty, and if we inquire into
In view of the approach'ng departure of His as we are bound to do, that money is the sinews of war in the Far East as elsewhere, ment in Ceylon, it may not be amiss to lay
from Hangkong to take up his new appoint let us see if the Japanese exchequer is equal to the strain which it will be called upon to bear, before our readers a few facts and figures To say that the development of Japan is one
gleaned from a brief statement of his adminis. of the wonders of the world is merely to
tration made recently by the retiring Governar, agree with Moniteur, as Japanese exports called "Shining Island by the Hindus dur Council and of the progress made by the so- which barely touched five millions one. hundred thousand pounds sterling in 1873 rose
ing his six years' regimé.
The revenue has increased every year and to the immense sum of nearly fifty-one millions in 1992, and in the same period the imports
every year there has been a surplus and despite rose from two millions to twenty-five millions, a large supplementary provision of nearly 181
lakhs made in 1900-190! One may search the annals of commerce in vain for a parallel case. This immense ad. 200942 in that year The expenditure has interrupted in the least if we had been vance in commerce had as its coratiaty a simi- also grown, but the largest increase was under talking over the same wires all the while be tween Oyster Bay and New York. In fact, the the lead of Railways and can, therefore, be lar micrease in railways, and in her mercantile
wires might have been carrying duplex, triplex classed as remunerative. The island has been marine; in 1872 there were but thirty kilome
and quadruplex lelegraphic messages, and have fortunate is being exempt from plague and tres of railroad, in'rgar there were 5,900. In the
famine and from the heavy burden of expendi-been used for the transmission of speech at the year 1891 Japan possessed 386 steamers, of an
same time without the slightest disturbance of ture appertaining to these direful scourges, and aggregate tonnage of 145,962 tons. In 1893 thus the abundant resources was wholly any of the three, four or five lines of communi she possessed 7a2 sating vessels and 745 stea
cation over them," devoted to the benefit of the community geuer- mers, of a gross tonnage of 212,925 tons.nally. Trade, continues Sir Ridgeway, has 1899 she had 1,914 sailing vessels and 3 advanced, with rapid strides during This sicamers, of a gross tonnage of 648,324' tons.
halcyon period," as he is pleased to describe Thus it will be seen that in eight years the total
lis term of office. In 1900-190t the total value of her mercantile marine had increased by 345
reached 2,105 lakhs the highest figure ever per cent, the tonnage of steamers by 409 per
reached-As against 1.624 lakh when he took cent. At the same time her internal industries
RUSSIA'S "RIGHTS" ON THE yalu,
Peking, August 20th.-The Government have decided to take up a strong attitude in regard to foreign affairs. This is an aulcome of the recent conference of high officials held in the presence of their Majesties. The Government now refuse to recognise any agreement entered into between Russia and the Moukden General, since the Russian occupation of Manchuria, and to punish the later if it is found that he has overstepped his authority. The Govern- ment have also decided to comply with Russia's demand to a certain extent as none of the powers really assist China to reject the Russian demands in their entirety. The Go- vernment will open Maukden and Tatungko-to foreign trade after the Russian evacuation of Manchuria. On the other hand Russin will secure most of the privileges given her by the and mining rights at the Yala. No formal agreement covering these points has yet been signed but there is no doubt that a provisional understanding has been come to by Russia and China on the affair,
Confirmation has been received of the news that Russia recently removed troops from the
him $25, or in default two weeks hard labour. The Cour: convicted the accused and fined The fine was paid.
THE ADMINISTRATION OF CEYLON:
wire, with a current of such low tension that it
leling it to carry theirs. is constantly trying to help other wires paral
A similar device in the overhead part of the same line consists simply in crossing the courses of parallel wires, both vertically and horizontally at stated distances, the wires, of course, being kept apart of the crossing points,
rid of the influences of induction. as at all others This, it is said, effectively alternates the positives and negatives and gets
this part of the circuit was also disclosed by. Another interesting fact in connection with James M. Bigler, the line foreman of the telephone company, who was in charge of the switchboard at the Oyster Bay exchange, where
Mr. Bigler said: with the special wires to the Presidential offices.
to know that the runners and other prisoners Tartır General and will maintain her forestry repeat a platitude." So far we can cordially Sir J. West Ridgeway, before the Legislative the telephone wires were plugged into circuit.
By the courtesy of Mr. A. K. Craddock, I was yesterday permitted to inspect the contents of the bottle taken from the foundation-site of the Church of St. John, the demolition of which formed the subject of some paragraphs emanating from my pen some time since. Having been a numismatist for years and numbering in my collection coins which were in circulation before, the Christian era as well more recent date which have as those charms for the curious, I was naturally eager to examine the coins which I felt certain would be disgorged when the bottle had yielded up the treasures it had so jealously concealed during many years. Upon inspection, however, I found that none of the unearthed coins was
favour over the ruins of other lives. In the really ancient. There was a British half-
Board of Punishment Yamen it is satisfactory penny of 1863 with the profile of Queen Vic toria, together with two Hongkong coins of 2 are all being frightfully scared by unearthly cents and 5 cents respectively, a sixpence and shrieks and cries coming every night from the a bronze cash; not an invaluable" treasure, room where poor Shen was murdered. Mar- albeit interesting. With the coins were ten shal Sub who is confined close by has also copies of the Hankow Times of 1865 in an heard the cries and hart incense burned in the excellent state of preservation, and full of room to calm the troubled spirit, but it is ques- interesting reading. It is a matter for regret tionable whether this will answer. The that the paper we have been expecting to start | phenomena is probably caused by some friend in Hankow has not yet appeared, as the repro. of Shen's who is avenging his cruel death by duction of some of the literary contents of the working on the consciences of his torturers. exhumed Hankow Times would certainly be
The Chinese Government are sticking to it an attraction its pages. In addition to the
that they have not signed Russia's demands foregoing, I noticed on a separate sheet a list
unconscious that by this assertion they are of the Hankaw Hangs extant in 1960, and of damnably blackening Russia's case, these the only survivor is the reputable busi telegrams are st 11 being dispatched to Shang- ness establishment trading as Jardine, Mathe-hai that the demands are not signed, but Russin son & Co. I am informed that it is the intention. had her case fixed up in black and white before of those in authority to re-inter the objects she took the definite steps she has taken, and named when the foundation-stone of the new
you may accept it without question that any thing and everything Russia wanted signed she
edifice destined to rise upon the ruins of the old shall be "well and truly laid,”
TIENISIN.
northern part of Manchuria to places in the south and substituted for them 100,001 men who have recently arrived from Siberia. There are two divisions of troops at Port Arthur at present besides about jo battalions of Infantry, 30 companies of Artillery and adequate Cavalry and Engineers at all important centres.- I see
Nelihi Nick.
NOTES FROM SAIGON.
A SUGAR REFINERY.
had risen to
has had signed. Our eyes need no longer rest. Beau was about to authorize the installation have progressed in a not less astonishing office. The most salient feature has been the
It was bruited some time ago in Tonkin that
of a sugar refinery in Hanoi (with the inevitable refineries had, for yens past, successfully op monopoly), in spite of the fact that the home
with curiosity on Manchuria and Newchwang, events of interest are going to take place; but we need to watch Corea. That is where unless indeed a stil: larger order in the way of posed the founding of a similar local industry abroad. 'All this our Moniteur freely admits, previous twelve months. The heavy increase Tientsin itself attempled.
22nd August.
{From Our Own Correspondent.)
August 16th. A veritable reign of terror has commenced Sir Ernest was unfortunate in his brief stay in Peking and foreign educated Chinese are in Tientsin inasmuch as it poured in torrents more nervously unhappy now than they were throughout the day, and this probably hindered before the siege. Not only has the horrible
many from seeing him who might otherwise death of the journalist She left a painful im- have called. He did, however, meet a few who pression all round, but the more recent offers have large interests at sta e in Tientsin, but of promotion and teward have aroused feelings there was no pretence at any official or re- of apprehension which it will be difficult to presented intercourse, and he returned to Pek. allay. The alarming news has reached Tient; ing quietly yesté day morning and is by this sin that Ching Kwan, the monster who had time beginning to take up the tangled threads Shen arrested and beaten to death under preof the Pekine situation again. There is a great text that he was Kang Yu-wei, is about to inclination towards unstinting confidence in visit Tientsin to investigate whether there are the Minister, but an increasing desire on the any 'reformers' here.
There is accordingly part of those who have invested largely in the corstemation among all the foreign educated North to receive some guarantee that the Chinese and I have been appealed to make the Home Government appreciates the extent and situation known in England so that the Consul importance of the British interests here. So may be authorised to afford protection. It is far we have had no such guarantee, but on the extremely probable that Ching Kwan will find
other hand sundry and various informal re- some means of arresting at least four more minders that it is the Yangtze and not the suspected plotters against the Thrane, as five North for which any stand will be made. such arrests will give him a claim to some high Whether Sir Ernest has any such assurance to office. Any pretext serves when the mind of give us do not yet know, but his policy and Peking is in its present groove. A too high general tactics are being closely watched in band as collar to the coat, the pattern the hope of gathering some clue. of the shoes worn, anything can be converted Tinto evidence either of proforeign tendency or membership of some secret society. Well- Informed Chinese declare the position is more serious now than even before the Boxer out-
break, and analogous in nore ways than one, Bven to the appointment to good posts of men who were made Boxer leaders by Imperial command in 1900. Some suggest that the whole situation is being inspired by Russia in the hope that trouble will ensue which will afford her one of these opportunities which she knows so well how to utilize. Mentioning Russia, I learn from private sources that the Eunuch Li is one of the principal shareholders of the Peking-Kalgan line, and that he obtained the money by means of a Russian loam, which is precisely what I previously stated,
Trang Chiach, who was formerly & Boxer official appointed by the Court, has now been appointed one of the principal examiners for the provincial examination in Shansi. Many of the native papers are urging the Powers to take up the question of these promoted Boxer offi- cials as an offset to the black list against the reformers,
A letter just received from Newchwang says that the Russians give frequent expression to the opinion that they will be forced to fight Japan this autumn. They are not apparently happy in the prospect, but say her continued aggression leaves then no alternative. It has been suggested that a winter warfare would suit Japan best. I am a little doubtful on that point. The correspondent continues: The 4th August will always remain a red-letter day in the anuals of Newchwang history, as the anniversary of the Boxer attack on the forsiga settlement, and occupation of the port by the Russians which will never be forgotten by those who were present. This year it was celebrated by house warming in the now Russian consulate where Mr. and Madam Grosse entertained their numerous friends. The ceremony of consecrating the new build ing was very interesting, after which all the guests were requested to sign their names in a visitors book as they passed to the diping-hall, where a substantial lunch was served. After the usual national toasts were drunk, our host, in a most humorous speech, proposed the health of the ladies. The party was photograph- Ped on the balcony, thus terminating a very "pleasant function. Mr. and Madam Grosse made an excellent höst and hostees, they were unremitting in their endeavours to make their guests comfortable, and are to be congratulated of the popularity they have achieved during their short residence in this portal
It is worthy of note, however, though my correspondent does not mention it, that the
Lady Susan Townley has presented the me- dals to the Sherwoods in Pekine and this ends, I believe, all the presentations. One gets a little tired of them, as the very name of medal is associated with so much wild talk and heart-
burning in Tientsin. All those bestowed were not as worthily won as the Sherwoods' were, while many a breast which should have been decorated goes overlooked an unadorned. But it is always so.
We have had torrential rains for the past few days, and traffic between here and Shanhai
kwan is all at sixes and sevens. Trains are
It is
the country being regarded by them as -E inarket reserved for the sole benefit of their own produce. They have once more carried the day, and the Minister for the Colonies has sent, an official note to the Colonial-press to
manner, particularly in the direction of fac torics for the manufacture of articles which hi- therto had exclusively been imported from but when it comes to expenditure he proceeds to prove that Japan can by no possibility afford in go to war, "This extraordinary progress," le goes on to say, is due very largely to the protection and succour of the State. The re
the effect that he is uncompromisingly hostile is that the finances of Japan are in any poly, and that he would entertain no proposals, military and naval expenditure has risen con- to any concession whatever of such a monothing but a fleurishing condition, inasmuch as from whatever quarterthey may be forthcoming siderably: during the p-riod 1893-1900 military
expenditure has reached a total of sixty mil THE ALLEN CASE IN BIANILA. tions of pounds sterling; the budget of the army has trip'ed, that of the navy has quadrupled In consequence of this taxation has risen by 175 per cent. On the day of the declaration of war Japan could not raise more than twenty four millions sterling for the purpose of sustain ing her forces upon a war footing, 'et cela en faisant flêche de tout bois. Even to do this
ever-increasing quantity of tea exports which reached a total of 149 million pounds, or an increase of 20 millions of pounds over the coming simultaneously with excessive ship- ments from India has been far from remunera tive to the planters and the industry has been for some time decidedly depressed. The Governor con-ilers, however, that at the present time a prospect is " by no means unf.vourable to the Ceylon planters."
Owing to the fail in the plumbago markut necessitating the closing of a large number of mines and other similar cross currents the items of impors do not show any very satis factory progress and only a small increase of few lakhs in spirits and cordials, &c., &c., is recorded. The cultivation of a number of ainor products such as rubber, camphor, to- bacco, vanilla, pepper, &c. is extending. The experiment undertaken by Government on an
estate acquired for the turpose his had a bene- she must use five millions already allocated toficial effect and with the expansion of the her Naval Reserve, and musi draw out all disirtigation operations, the labour difficulty has posable funds from banks and savings banks. These millions ance disposed of she must fall back upon her ally, England, who would not fail to demand a heavy mortgage.". So much for the financial side of the question but it does not seem to occurto the arifeur that even bankrupt States have put up a very fine fight
been overcome by the importation of Indian coolies. The supply of coolies is very satis factory and it has been found necessary to double the area of the depot on the South Indian Railway near Tuticorin. Since 1899, 202,443 coolies landed on the island; the arrivals exceeding the depanure by 86,775,
"These two wires have been kept absolutely clear for the Oyster Bay-San Francisco,circuit, but the sending of the messages around the
world would not have been retarded-or
In fact, within ten minutes after the last cable message was sent from Oyster Bay, the news forwarding their accounts of the opening of the paper men were using these same wires for
cable to their offices by telephone.
One of the most interesting portions of the land line through which the messages around the world passed wia a case of relics of former. great steps in electrical progress and develop; inent which was in the operating room of the Postal Telegraph and Cable Coippany, New York City. This case contained, connected by a slender copper wire, which was a part of the Oyster Bay San Francisco circuit, a section of the wire over which Professor S.. F.-B. Morse sent the first message by Morse tele graph. This relic was presented to William Hammer, consulting electrical engineer, who owns the care and its contents, by son of Alfred Vailj. Mr. Morse's partner in 1893. The second relic was a section. of the wire over which Professor Alexander,
Graham Bell and T. A. Watson, his assistant, experimented in the transmission of audible Boston, 1f was presented to Mr. Hammer on speech frein 1875 to 1877 at No. 5. Exeter Place, un February 22, 1894:
The third relic is a section of the Atlantic cable over which the first message under the ocean was sent. It was given Mr. Hammer in 1880 by Cyrus W. Field.
In the centre, of the case is an electric safety
1882, to connect the first incandescent lamp plug or fuse, used in London on January 12, ever lit from an electric lighting central station. It was the invention of Thomas A. Edison, and was used at the installation of the Holbom Vinduct three thousand light station.
Anent the decision of Collector Shuster,'in the Allen case, despatches from Hongkong and London, to the United States, say that such interpretation of the immigration law menaces all the foreign business houses and banks in the Philippines. That these firms, which are chiefly British, construe the decision as an at- tempi to drive them from the islands and give Americans a monopoly of the trade,
Such drivel scattered! ! cast cannot help but result in a prejudice againt the administra. tion of the Philippines in the minds of many circumstances who know nothing of the of the case. We feel confident that even those affected adversely by the decision construction of the law was directed toward in question never had the idea that the
British subjects more than others who are not citizens of the United States, and further that Americans against British employees. While there was not the remotest thought of securing
we deplore the law that requires such a con- struction, and have condemned it freely, to say that any ulterior motive prevailed in such get," it continues. that Russia has achieved tion and discipline, arises" in which the savage position at Chicago on May 1893, and were adjudication will appear as an absolute absur dity to every right thinking person in this archipelago.
money never stopped any one from going to ere this, neither does it remember that want of
war who wished to do so. Having raised a terrible monetary bogey, duly equipped it with
The prevalence of vinient crimes, particularly assaults with the knife, is the great problem ofthe Criminal Administration of Ceylon and a blo
The fifth relic is a bit of the first trolley cft- cuit which was erected at Richmond; Vai, In 1888. It was presented to Mr. Hammer by
Frank Sprague
Two insulated wires twisted together con state the sixth relic. They were a port of the. circuit used by President Cleveland in starting the machinery of the World's Columbian Ex
was in charge of the signalling apparatus. given to Mr. Hammer by Lock Etheridge, who The seventh relic was a' section of the circuit
Moore to light vacuum tubes in the lecture room of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. This was the first. Il'umination of any room solely with vacuum tubes,
The eighth relic, a large piece of insulated cable, is a section through which the first cur- rent of electricity from the Niagara Falls
16, 1895.
The correspondent, who indited and sent that account from Hongkong, evidently belongs to the jingo class. Any ruling adverse to a coun- tryman, he likes to parade as an official dis crimination gainst bis country. There are plenty of Americans who will invariably do the same, but they are not the broad-minded kind and when such information is traced to its source, as a rule, the originator will stand as its all, and the Afoniteur evidently means to make particular, continues to increase and although Electric Power Plant 'was transmitted on April
best denial.
on its "halcyon period" Vigorous measures and a white sheet and lighted the lantern inside its severity of punishment may bring about a lem turnip head, the Moniteur once more returnerary diminution, but it must be confessed that there can be no radical improvement until a to the charge, this time with a full-fledged military spectre. "The Mikado must not for
new genera ion, under the influence of educa- the compirtion of its Trans-Siberian Railway instincts of revenge and retaliation have not Or rather," in a burst of candour, "very nearly. the completo mastery of reason and humanity." Considered as a whole Sir Ridgeway's op- purposes," Burely a somewhat unnecessary Also that this railway can be used for military timism is justified by the present position of used on April 23, 1896, by D. MacFarlan doubtless getting through at odd intervals, as
piece of information! He (the Mikado) must Ceylon. There may be, he admits, a check in we have not had any of the passengers who
the remarkable good fortune of the last few not forget that the garrisons of Fort Arthur and went to Peitaiho yesterday returned on our hands yet, but information is somewhat scant.
Manchuria are already very numerous, and years, and that one day the revenue will reach can be easily reinforced." Pece the Moniteur,its culminating point. That day, however, is The damage done is probably not very great
one expects that the Mikado knows just a little not yet in sight and the Governor oberves, this side of Peitaiko, and delay is chiefly due to
me on this subject than his would-be-in-there is every sign that the prosperity of the the line being awash with three or four fect of
structor.
But now comes the greatest coup of Colony, the wealth of the native population in water, and the consequent inability of the driver to know whether his track is safe for
the Mikado's flesh creep this time, "Let him occasionally a cross current may interfere with
Carefully mounted on the top of the case, is rush through or not, Beyond Peitaiho, however, The statement, that such a decision will jeo- not forget that the Russian fleet in the Far
our progress, the tide of our affairs is, I believe,
a short section of the deep sen portion of the there is some talk of the bridges heing shaky. pardize the interests of British trade in the East, actually numbers fifty-three
still at flood. armed
new American Pacific cable, and through It With the rains, one somehow feels more Philippines, must be amusing to those most vessels, shortly to be reinforced by eleven
the messages around the world also passed. comfortable in Tientsin. If the weather directly affected in Manila. If there is a de- torpedo-boat destroyers, which are on the
An Indian paper just to hand says that the
The cut end, or cross section, of the new holds up however, I am contemplating a mand for English clerical assistance in the eve of quitting Cronstadt.
Governor of Ceylon and Lady West Ridgeway cable is an interesting study, as it discloses In a very Philippines, is it not probable that it will be short time Russia will have in the im
leave Colombo on the ryth or 18th of Novem the method of construction. In the entre is first visit to this resort next week. rather shocking to have worked here for seven
here to supply the deficiency? It certainly medi te neighbourhood of Japan nine battle ber by the Bibby liner Shropshire, alter making the principal conductor, a copper wise, about would appear to be simple enough to make ships, eleven first-class cruisers, eight second- years without visiting either Peitaiho or Pek
an extensive tour through the island. Nothing one-eighth of an inch in diameter, Surround- ing, and people seem to think I am not quite the contract after the arrival of the employee class cruisers, three gunboats, liventy-eight des has yet transpired as to H. E's successor, or the ing this centre is a tier of much smaller copper
In fact all Mr. Allen will have to do will be to playing the game by my aloofness. If I go
troyers, and twenty-two torpedo boats is date of his arrival. It is highly desirable, says a wires, lying lengthwise of the conductor and in you will probably receive a somewhat detailed
tear up his old contrart, go over to Hongkong difficult to discover whether the last paragraph Ceylon contemporary, that there should be no perfect contact with it. This contact and the and return on the next steamer, make a new account of the health resort concerning which accounts have been as yet slightly scrappy.
continuity of the smaller wires would maintain contract and go to work. It would appear to not, as it runs thus: "These are peremptory
of this remarkable article is writ sarkallic" or interregnum. The happiest arrangement we
can remember was Sir Arthur Havelock's the circuit, even if the main conductor were Trade is dull and residents duller here. Rebe perfec ly fair to fight a technicality with arguments in favour of an essentially peaceful reception by Sir Arthur Gordon, who sailed a broken, The 'whole filament of Copper wires tail business what with so many away and another technicality. The business of British policy which lapan would do well to carefully few Hours later, We hope that the new
is enclared in a mass of half vulcanized guita trade so bad, is almost at a standstill and the houses will not be crippled by the decision consider. Neverthless, we do not believe in Governor will arrive hot later than the outward whe her they want to employ Americans or those warlike rumours to which alarmists are stores complain they never had a worse season,
mail following Sir West's departure. If this perclin, which fasulates them. The core, wires, fouregatta percha and copper Yet they are expanding, building additions to not-Mantia Times,
leading themselves.". A more remarkable arrangement, or something like it, is contoms covered with juze - yarn - to- serve as a their premises and increasing their staffs. But
article than, this it would be hard to imagine, plated, the successor's name should transpire cashion between the core and the armour, it partakes of the spirit of speculation and
alterately warming and bullying the Japanese. within a month of the present date.
The core, however, between the armour luxury pervading the ports and is prompted
The Russians have fifty-three vessels of war
cushion. and the gutta, percha, is surround. rather by the desire to shout each other down
The British steamer Wingpe, while on a trip in "Textreme Orient," their good friends and A RUMOUR was given considerable circulation,ed by a belt of thin brass sheathing, to rather than justified by business prospects,
from Hongkong to Cebu, struck a large rock allies, the French, have twenty-four; as it is posin Manila, to the effect that frauds, had been protect insulation from the teredo and other Tientsin is passing through a critical period, projecting from the Island of Hermana Manor sible that the Afoniteur foreshadows, that per discovered in connection with the Government marine borës. It is a brass tape wound round and an artificial and unwholesome semblance
on Friday night, says the Coolenews of the ist baps the Russian may wish his ally to come to purchase of carabao in Shanghal. The report and round the insulation: The armour consists of prosperity makes the quidounes shake their inst, The Ningpo is commanded by Captain his aid to smash this upstart among the said that the death rate among the animals in of a tier of iron and steel wires, lying length. bends. The Russo-Chinese and German Banks Parker, and the crew, sumbering eight, who tions who actually hasa will and a policy which the immunizing camps was being padded and wise of the cable; almost in confact with cach after vainly trying to induce the other banks reached here yesterday declare that little hops does not square with that of the bureaucracy the immunized carabao were being re-entered other, the only separation between them being to follow suit, have, I believe, decided to is entertained for saving the steamer, of St. Petersbura? Very inconvenient will as newly purchased, Rock. It was further the preservative tape with which they raise their rate from 7% to 9 % on overdraft
A treacherous current of great force is always Japan prove should it end in war and this the stated that the Government had cognizance of wound-Outside the whole is a thick winding of and loans, which will have as unfavourable encountered nearthe thores of Hermana Menon Manifes knows right wall; hence the assump the fact that frauds were being perpetrated and the line preferentive material; the object of effect in some quarters. 1 do not know yet and it is believed that the pilot miscalculated ton of disbelief, the veiled threats and general that, an Investigation had been began, A which is to prevent corros on of the armour, whatber this applies to present, or only new, his ground and neglected to avoid passing sense of uneasiness which prevades the tone of representative of the Cablenews called on The diameter of the deep sex portions of the loans. M
through the turbulent channel, the paper. They might, had they had 2 n p Commissioner Smith and inquired concerning cable is a little more than three-fourths of an The ruined vessel was consigned to Messrs.minded, bave compiled a list of Japaneswar the matter. Commissioner Smith adinch: The shore sections are much stronger mith, Bell & Co., and little of value was left ships for the study of their allies, and spokenThere is nothing in the report. The Goreld." and heavier to resist the force fof the breakerg on board because of the imprab-bility of sucs of the dfikass and Araks, of 15,203 ton of ment bas had les representative on the ground and currents and the strain and wear on rocky cessfully floating ben
| the Intruse, of 11,000 tons) of the Shikicking "| all the time,"
and coral reef
The Chamber of Commerce appear to have. done nothing as yet in regard to the currency matter. Soms delay has occurred and the matter has lapsed for the time being.
S.S."NINGPO ON THE ROCKS.
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