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THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT AND THE MACKAY TREATY.
The Chinese Government and the Mackay protests, when they are heard at all, are
Treaty.
Hongkong's Rival.
The Crimea and Manchuria. Kamrahu and Honkohe Bays Kussia's Internal Affairs. Magao-Canton Railway Convention. Mcoting
Praya Eist Reclamation Shelved. Legal Intelligence
Cómpradore's Bankruptcy.
A Major's Debts.
Police,
Licensing Session.
Charge that Failed.
Armed Robbery,
Correspondence-
A Suggestion.
The Coming Struggle.
Miscellaneous Artioles and Reporté :
The Baltic Fleet.
A Year's Work in the Courts.
The Rider Main System.
Naval Notes.
To Salve the Sully.
Shipping Jetsam,
New Depot Ship.
Deputare of the Dußeryjį
S. Wo Kwi
e seiz re of the Nigrekt.
ision in the Harbour,
Motor-Bont.
ink-Pilot's Care,
Hongkong Gymkhanx Club, Hospital Accommodation. Hories for Hongkong. Hongkong and Shanghai lank. Cheap Water Supply. Kire at St. Joseph's College," Fat Kowloon. Another Fire.
HONGKONG'S RIVAL.
(8th May.)
(9th May.)
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RUSIA'S INTERNAL APPAIRS.
negotiations might be restarted for the con clusion of more sailsfactory conditions under a new Convention. For the second time, then, at great expense to his (overnment, Senhor Castello Branco embarked on his mission to China, and he succeeded in draft. ing another Convention with the Chinese Government. So satisfied with the terms of the new agreement Were the Chinese officials that they must have chuckled In their long sleeves, at the simplicity of the guileless, and unsophisticated Portuguese Minister. This was not the descendant of those old-time heroes, who wrested kingdoms from all parts of the world by force of the sword or by their agilly of brain. one's own heart, who saw no spote Here was a Minister after
on the sun and understood diplomacy to mean something like the conferring of benefits on the other party without hope or wish of a quid pro quo.""" It was an importans task which had been assigned to Seahor Castello Branco, but he finished it.blithely, and it was only when some ill-mannered out- siders reviled him and his work, called him an imbecile, incompetent and fatuous, that his pleasant dream of being, recognised as a sort of saviour of his country, and of Macao in particular, was shattered, or at least shaken;
register and origin, attending the Russini warships as transports or colliers. It was the river front has been initiated, it is in a Those whose knowledge of modern history recognised in official quarters that the cap far greater measure due to the enterprise of has not grown rusty by long association with ture or sinking of any of these British ships private individuals and firms than to the everyday commercial affairs may have re might raise very delicate questions, notwith outcome of any desire on the part of the marked the many obvious points of resem standing, of course, that such ships by Imperial Chinese Government to carry out blance between the genesis of the great engaging themselves to the Russians, might their obligations under the Treaty. To go struggle of half a century ago and that of have placed themselves out of British juris into details regarding the non-observance, of which Russia and Japan is in the midst to-day. diction. It may be assumed, however, that the stipulations imposed on the Chinese If such be the case they will likewise not vessels engaged in, this trade after dis Government, and the efforts made by Sir have failed to notice the strong general like charging their cargoes will clear out James Mackay to place his compatriots on a ness in the conditions of the conflict. The to neutral ports as in the case of a better footing, would greatly exceed the scope campaign in the Crimea inflicted the mini-couple of colliers arriving here yesterday, as it (May 6th.)
of a single article. There is sufficient evid- mum of disturbance upon mankind, while may be taken for granted that nine-tenths of Hongkong might well emulate the exam.ence to indicate, however, that in the South, as the present strife between the Western them would be unable to offer any resistance ple set by the public-spirited mercantile in the North, the Chinese Government have and the Eastern Powers, however desperate to the Japanese who would capture rather than community of Shanghai in strenuously striv-treated the subjects of Great Britain in this it has been and however prolonged it sink them. When once the transports have ing for their rights and rigorously setting part of the world with that inconsiderate may prove, in interfering as little as discharged their cargoes and left the forth their claims to justice when inatters of ness and levity which has marked the attitude might be expected with the progress and dangerous vicinity of the Russian fleet and public moment are concerned. To take of that Goverment ever since the days of happiness of the world at large. The entered a neutral port such as Hongkong, the two most recent examples of this grgu. S James Macartney, when our Ambassador harm which the belligerents can do one to the difficulty of again getting off with a con ment, which has characterised the mer- was held up to the Eastern world as a tribute the other is practically confined to their traband cargo will be found to be more real, only to recall the action taken by the chants of the northern port, we have bearer to the Son of Heaven. -'
fighting men, for it is impossible for either side than apparent,. to strike at the heart of the other. Whatever shareholders of Farnham, Boyd and Com
success may attend the advent of the armada pany, in issuing a circular setting forth thdir demands, and the protest, addressed
in the Chinn Sea it does not seem likely that the troops of the Taar will ever be in the to Lord Lansdowne, by the leading firms of
(12th May.) vicinity of Tokio, and it is equally improba- Shanghai, on the subject of the evasion of the
Elaborate accounts of the recent fights in ble that the Mikado's armies will sweep a Baku, and in Russian Poland, continue to rms of the Mackay Treaty by the Imperial
cross to the Russian capital. The war is one Chinese Government. Here in Hongkong,
fill the home papers, and it is evident from columns the fact that the authorities in the the most important factor in the termination exceedingly bad way. It is hardly to be complacency of the gallant Senhor or his Quite recently we announced in our of endurance with financial staying power these that Russia's internal affairs are in an no one could hope to demolish the self confined to desultory, discussions at the Philippine Islands are using their best endea of the struggle, and in this respect it believed that a tithe of the true condition of hypnotised supporters. It was two years ago Club, or conversations between aggrieved yours with a view of fostering the shipping appears to have been generally assumed that things is allowed to filter through, even if when the Minister canie out to China, and individuals; but when it is proposed to trade of the port of the capital of the islands. Kussia must outlast Japan. But when one there were foreign residents on the spot to about the end of last year the texts of the formulate these protests in concrete shape in order to make Manila the distributing realises that, although the revenues of the give an unbiassed report of what was hap-Treaty andofthe Railway Convention were re the promoter of the movement meets with centre of the trade of the Orient. As former are vastly greater than those of the pening; but in all conscience, what we are produced verbatim from the Shanghai papers but indifferent support, and often receives was then stated a committee had been but scanty thanks for the energy and loss of appointed to investigate the harbour regula that conclusion can scarcely be said to be are told that in Ilaku the Armenians and our local Portuguese contemporary. As the Jatter, her expenses are proportionally greater allowed to hear is bad enough. When we in the press of this Colony, not excepting. time he has given in the interests of those tions and the restrictions which hamper sound. It was the constant drain on her Musselmans took to fighting without warn question of the Macao-Canton railway affect who, with him, recognise that their griey. American and foreign trade, and to pro resources that brought Russia down in 1854, ing, without rhyine or reason indeed, that ed-or was considered to influence--in na ances need redress. It is seldom that in mulgate a plan for their improvement. It was when England was just beginning to feel Hongkong a combined representation is also to inquire into the working of the harbour strong enough to do some real damage the combined exhortations of the chief Ar this Colony, provided the enterprise was 2,000 were killed in two days, and that only small measure the commercial interests of made when matters of public importance regulations, and to consider the question of in the field, and would have done it menian and the Mussalman pastore secured brought to a successful issue, we gave to it Idemand the action of a combination of the lowering the port and harbour dues, so that if France, for reasons of her own, had not a cessation of the internecie conflict, we are different bodies in order that weight may be Manila may come the distributing centre been so anxious for peace. Then as now afforded a strange sidelight on Russia's affairs, would otherwise have attached to a mission more than the usual prominence which given to those representations. The Cham from Singapore Manchuria, The gieat the Russians departed from their usual fivery other day there are revolutionary so little creditable to the official in charge ber of Commerce is regarded, on the whole, est reliance isced on the character npractice and landed themselves in trouble outbreaks in Poland, although for the most of its success, and to the European element as the chief body in which is rested the the new decks to attract shipping. It is from not being able to believe that their part the Poles show their resentment to in general. As we have submitted be power of conserving the interests of the pointed out that large steamers are unable opponents could be in earnest. Indeed the Russian rule by continuous strikes, and an fore, there can be no question that the Con- mercantile community of Hongkong. No to approach within fifteen or twenty miles analogy between fifty years ago and to-day occasional outburst against the Russian vention proposed to reduce the citizens of one will gainsay the fact that the functions of Shanghai; while at Hongkong and Singa is remarkable as can be further illustrated officials. It is held that the Poles would the Portuguese Colony--whose interests of the Chamber have at all times been dis- pore ships must lie out in the roads, on by quoting the words in which Hamley rite in revolution to-morrow if it were not charged with the utmost precision in the account of the lack of docking accommoda- sums up the results of the Crimean cam that they fear Germany would flood the pronioteto a hiind subserviency, subject Senhor Branco was supposed to protect and protection of the interests which come within tigo. By using the new, docks, now under paign. their sphere of influence; but there are times construction in Manila, vessels can load or
"For a whole generation," he says, country with troops (with the acquiescence to the beck and call of the Chinese Govern- the world continued to have the benefit of of the Tsar), ostensibly to prevent a when even that cosmopolitan body may not unload with the same ease and facility the war in the enforced quiescence of Rus recrudescence of the ferment in German king, one flag" the Portuguese interested in ment. In other words, instead of "one exercise the power which a combination of as they can in New York or Liverpool, sia. Her wounds were too deep to permit Poland. personal representations would have, in Following upon the programme comprising ber during that time to attempt measures of always liable to the blind fury of the peasan Convention; have become nominal Chinese In the interior, landowners are the railway, would under this extraordinary dependent of the action of the Committee the scope of the Committee's, inquiry we aggression, or to indulge a desire to disturb try, and sonie few isolated cases where subjects living, however, under the protection the Chamber, Shanghai lost no time learn, from the latest Manila exchanges, that the peace of the world. And this result mansions have been burned, cattle mutilated, and rule of King Carles. A more anomalous invoking the aid of the Chamber the Commission has adopted a resolution proved that the point of attack upon her and the landowner and his family put to and absurd proposition was never suggested, of Commerce when Mr. Edward S. Little authorizing the engineer in charge of the had been rightly and fortunately select death, manage to find their way into the yet Senhor Branco calmly agreed, apparent. pointed out in the columns of our senior improvements of the of Manila to ad. ed. The small proportion of coast line foreign press; but it may be assumed thatly, with the Chinese representatives that he morning contemporary in the Settlement vertise for bids for thic that the Chinese Government had seriously wharves, both of concrete steel, one 7ovader, the inmense distances from the ex- outside world hundreds of tragedies occur would be futile now, after having previously ction of two she exposes to the descent of an in- for all that are brought to the notice of the saw nothing ridiculous or top-sided in it. It and persistently evaded its obligations and feet wide and 600 feet long, and the other tremities to the heart of the Empire, the which are never heard of Finland is still in commented on the sublime faculty which responsibilities under the Treaty concluded to feet wide and 650 feet long. The ap scarcity of roads, the rigours of the climate, asinouldering anger that their constitution acquiesced in the arrangement whereby by Sir James Mackay on behalf of Great ropriation for the payment of these wharves all rendered the attack of the Western should have been superseded by Russian everything was in favour of the Chinese Britain in 1902. It may be said that the is to be made when necessary from the pre Powers upon Russla, a nearly insoluble autocracy. In the great towns, assassina Government and nothing left for the con larger interests affected in the North de sent or future public improvement bond issue. problem. But, on the other hand, when tions are of daily occurrence. The question cessionaries of the Portuguese Colony even mand greater promptitude' of action, but It is the opinion of the responsible authori- once she had resolved to bring all her reis-where will it all end? nevertheless our own interests in the South ties for the greater commercial development sources and all her might to hear on the clear that, taking Russia as a whole, the Articles serialim. Chinese diplomacy had if the railway was laid down, to go into the It is quite have to be safe guarded, and it is not greatly of the port that the resolution settles the defence of Sebastopol, these conditions turn people are still in the barbaric stage, and if outwitted and hoodwinked the simple to the credit of the mercantile community very important question as to whether the ed against her and rendered her course ab that is not due to the lack of provision for Minister Branzo, and there, was nothing of Hongkong that the articles of the Treaty Insular Government is to own and control solutely ruinous... Her troops were obliged education among the common people, to the left for him but to consider himself affecting the commercial interests of this the wharves connected with the harbour im- to traverse enormous spaces to reach the autocratic and high-handed dealings, of the an exceedingly smart fellow, and pre- port should have been allowed to remain in provements, or whether private concerns are point of conflict, the length and bad condi- big landowners, to the fierce denunciation of sent the draft Agreement to the Cortes, abeyance for so long a time, with only to construct and manage them. Evidently tion of the lines of communication rendered all things Russian by the Nihilists, then who where, no doubt, he would be feted periodical protests on the part of the Press the Commission has thought it wise to retain the supply of the Army difficult and extra is to blame? It has been said that. Leo and feasted. We have pointed out, how- against the apathy of the Imperial Govern the power in its own hands. This may, or vagantly costly, the winter brought untold Tolstoi is the only free nian in Russia, main ever, how derogatory to his Government and ment of China in carrying out the under- may not, be considered a wise step, but fol- losses to the columns moving through mud by because his mystical dreams and his to his compatriots were the terms of the Robbery at the tongkong tunt Shanghai takings, solemnly entered into under the lowing cur own example, commercial interests and snow and exposed to piercing winds. socialisar never come true. Bat Russia is Convention, and we urged, that the Porte- Mackay Treaty. The question of the in undertakings of the kind just decided upon The requisitions for supplies and transport gradually reaching a stage when her leaders guese Chamber of Deputies would do well A War Correspondent on the Japanese Army, keenly as it does Shanghai. The provisions carried out and more economically controlled is husbandry
national coinage of China affects us quite as by the Manita Government could better he disorganised Southern Russia and ruined are bound to recognise the dangers which if they rejected the Convention absolutely of Article 2 have, so far, been allowed to fall by private enterprise rather than as a State the part of the Allies, every gleam much to hope that one of the direct results denunciation of an Agreement so idiotic in Every failure on threaten the country from within. Is it too and utterly. Nor were we alone in our into despetude and our monetary system venture. In our own Colonies it has been of hope which induced Russia to send of the war with Japan will lead to such a its conception on the part of the Portuguese remains wedded to that of China with all accepted as an axiom that Government fresh reinforcements to the Crimea only searching of heart, that the political leaders official. Our focal contemporaries, had some its uncertainties and anomalies. Dissatis-interference in what pertains to the sphere served to prolong the terrible stress which of the Empire, whose people are centuries trenchant criticisms on the subject. So faction is briund to exist where business is of the commercial individual, is to be was exhausting her." carried on with a currency which has no avoided. The recent expropriation of the written concerning the war of just over fifty action, may be roused to a sense of their the local Portuguese organ, O Porbir had Such words were behind the civilised world in thought and also, had one of the Shanghai papers; while stability in relation to gold-the currency of Singapore Docks is so exceptional in its years ago, and if applied to the operations duty to the mastes, so that European Russia several scathing and biting articles, which the countries whence we obtain our imports character, that the taking over The likin question-continues in the un- the property to be "run" by a Trust, the conflict with Japan adequately express menace to the progress of civilisation ?
of in Manchuria since the commencement of may not remain a disgrace to Europe and a all bore out the correctness of the attitude. we bad assumed in respect of the Conven- satisfactory position it has occupied for is justified on grounds of public necessity, the condition of affairs which have existed years. No attempt has as yet been made to In addition to the two wharves contemn there for months post.
tion. It would appear that every number give effe to the provisions of Article 4,-plated by the resolution of the Philippine
MACAO-GANTON RAILWAY
of the Hongkong telegraph dealing with this which has reference to the relative position Commission the Military has a reserva
question was forwarded to Lisbon, carefully of Chinese and British, shareholders in tion next to Engineer Island where
collated, and translated. By the Isst mail from home we received a batch of Portu- British joint stock companies, It is a sore it will also erect warehouses and build
On various occasions we have jeferred to guese papers in which the articles from the grievance that in cases where Chinese sub-wharves. It is to be presumed that, During the past few months there has the amazing Convention signed by Senior English press of Hongkong were reproduced jects become shareholders of public com- later longer wharves will be built, 650 feet been a great shifting of the balance of Castello Branco, acting on behalf of the in the columns of the Portuguese Republi panies registered under the English Acts no being considered scarcely long enough to power in Europe, owing, first, to the war Portuguese Government, and the Chinese can journal, the Vanguard, and in thirteen redress can be obtained through the Courts accommodate the big ocean liners. It is between Fasia and Japan, and, secondly, Goverment on the subject of the construc open letters to that paper by Mr. F. Mar in compliance with the articles of a largish project that Major Towsend, to the tente cordiale between England tion of a railway from Macao to Canton; and ques Pereira (who, by the way, holds a high association of British companies. For some the engineer in charge of the harbour im- and France. Everyone must have noticed that now that the Portuguese Parliamentis sitting position in the Department of Marine and time past, notifications by the Imperial Mari-provements, has in contemplation. At the the Dual Alliance between France and Russia and the question is before the country, it the Colonies), the Portuguese Minister's lime Customs have appeared in the local south west corner of the reclaimed land he has been growing weaker day by day, and may not be out of place to consider some mission to China was made the subject of Press calling for tenders for the removal of proposes to build a structure of stone or con although much has been made out of the al- new aspects of the Convention which have unfavourable and unsparing criticism The the artificial obstructions to navigation in crete to be filled in the middle and made leged breach ofneutrality on the part of France appeared as the result of a virulent news Macao-Canton Agreement received special On April 24th, at Kobs, HERMANN HEN. the Canton river. As is well known, these a solid wall which will serve the double in permitting the Baltic Fleet to remain for paper controversy in Lisbon over the notice, and the trenchant comments of that of Cheioulpe, to ANITA, daughter of obstructions are a serious hindrance to the purpose of preventing the mud from flowing so long in territorial waters al ng the Annam (alleged) Convention, and into which the able and erudite writer expresses public E. Dos Remedios, of Koba.
shipping which enter at and clear from the into the dredged portion of the harbour dur Coast, the reassuring statements from the Hongkong Telegraph has been dragged. In feeling in the Portuguese metropolis as re- On the 27th April, at Singapore, BERTIxport of Canton. By the Shanghai I reaty of ing the monsoon season, and of a wharf Government of Indo-China should go for the first place, it should be borne in mind gards the result of the mission, which waS CIL MARSH, to FLORENCE MARY WIL 5th September, 1902, the Chinese Govern Between this wall and the two wharves which towards minimising the danger of inter that this Convention now before the Cortes so miserably carried out by the representa AMS ROBERTSON, niece and adopted daughnient undertook to remove those obstruc have just been provided for, five or national complications, which at one time is not the first of its kind, Shortly after the tive of the Portuguese King and his coun er of Colonel Robertson, of Melbourne, tions within two years of the signing of six more wharves will he constructed looked so threatening. It is but natural that Boxer trouble Senhor Castello Branco was trymen.This writers communication on Australia.
At the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the letter of the compact these obstructions outlay will be spent in providing the port of the coaling of the Baltic, Fleet, in such Government the terms of the delimitation of Agreement came at a mast opportune mo the treaty," and in strict accordance with Sn that, in the aggregate, a considerable the Japanese Government should regard appointed to arrange with the Chinese the subject of the Macao Canton Railway Hongkawi on the 3rd May, 1905, by the Rev. should have been removed before the close Manila with all the conveniences that should waters as a serious breach of neutrality, Macao; and to secure a concession for the ment. The Cortes was on the eve of re-as Father Savary, & J. Miss FRANCISCA X of 19g04. Yet they exist to the present day; be called into existence for a really first-claix and in the earlier stages of the squadron's building of a railway to connect Macao withsembling on the 6th ult, and it was essen- ROZARIO, youngest daugher of Mr. and Mrs
Rezario, to Mr. A. M. GUTERRES, eldest and the slow progress of the work must be entrepôt of trade. But while Government long journey to the Far East undoubtedly Canton. The idea was so commendable tial that the Deputies, as well as the people Ow of Mr. A. P. GUTERRES, of Hongkong put down to the apathy of the Government, efforts tend to extraordinary energy without communicated with the several European and seemed so simple that nobody considered generally, should understand the question at No cards
who regard with so much, indifference the the aid of enterprise on the part of the cli governments in this sense. These com- there would be the slightest difficulty in issue, That Mt. Marques Pereira has suc LA DEATHS.
solemnity of the undertaking they enter zens of the island, the authorities best efforts munications were viewed in the nature of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion; but that ceeded in giving effect to the protests ed into disregarding the letter as well as will meet with but indifferent success in the formal protest, and the Governments only showed how they had failed to realise against the ratification of the Conven- the spirit of the compact By Clause 1 of end. It is moreover, the firm conviction addressed have certainly been given to under the brilliant incapacity of Senhor Castello tion, there cannot be the slightest doubt; Article 5, the Chinese Government also of those who are best able to form a correct stand that, in the, now improbable, event of Branco. When the Minter returned from for, if public opinion can be taken as agreed to improve the accommodation for Judgment that trade could hardly be fostered the fleet doing damage to Japanese com China, and presented his wonderful Treaty to any criterion, Minister Branco is the shipping in the harbour of Canton and to unless the Tariff and Immigration Laws merce claims for compensation, would be the Portuguese Government, it bristled with subject of popular ridicule. The ludi take the necessary steps to maintain this im undergo radical changes in favour of the lodged against the Powers concerned by the so many blatant absurdities that it was crous position of the whole affair is at rovement, such work to be carried out by falands. Until the necessary amendments Mikado's Government. Meanwhile, the unanimously cast out, and the Government tained when the defence of Senhor Cas the Imperial Maritime Customs and the are effected the idea is but an utopian one British Admiralty have not lost sight of refused to ratify it at any cost. That did tello Branco's pet Agreement is taken up by Cost therent to be defrayed by a tax on goods seeking to render the southern portile mart the possibilities of complications arising and not affect the great and only Senhor Castello the Progressist journal, O Popular. In that landed and shipped by British and Chinese par excellence of European and American long since caused Inquiries to be made, Branco, nor does it seem to have affected lively print, there is a violent tirade directed alike according to a scale to be arranged trade with the Oricat.
with the view of ascertaining the particulars his admirers for His Excellency was again I against all those who have dared to criticise,
Kowloon Seamen's Institute, Interest on Accounts,
Financial Returns The Po Leung Kuk. Burglary at West Point. Cricket League, Craigengower Cricket Club. The Harbour of Canton. Canton River Barriers,
The MacKay Treaty.
Opium in-the Orient.
Russian Warships at Chefon.
Bank.
Count Okuma on the Situation.
The Advance In Prices.
Fussian war vessels in China Ports.
To menace to Shipping.
Great Britain's Position at Wei-hai-wei.
Movements of the U.S. Fleet.
Singapore Docks.
Homeward Bound. Fighting the Plague.
Coston as Contraband of War.
Bird-Nesting in Borneo. Saigon and Hongkong. The Pacific Mail SS. Co. sommerds1:-
Weekly Share Report, Fr.ight.
The Fortnightly Repost.
British Marth Homeo,
Exchange.
Opium.
Local and General,
BIRTHS..
On the agth April, at Singapore, the wife of A. LR, VANRENESSE, of a daughter..
On the 3rd May, at Shanghai, the wife of HERZDERO of a son.
MARRIAGES.
Op the 23rd April, at Liaoyang, Manchuria, STEEL MARGARET COOMBS, wife of Dr. A Macdonald Westwater, begge
the 28th April, at Koala Lumpur, MAR RET ANNABEL, wife of Logan Tod. At Singapore, on the 29th April, EDWARD ALFRED KLYNE, aged 33 years. BEN
On his 17th birthday, at 35 Croydon Grove, ydon, on the 4th inst, KENNETH, GEORGE PTHERLAND, eldest son of Angus Sutherland, of the Gort, Survey Dept, Singapore and
bang
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