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THE ANTI-AMERICAN · BOYCOTT.
IMPORTANT VIEWS.
OF SECRETARY WH, H. TAFT.
BUGGESTIONS FROM HONGKONG CHINESE.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 1905.
FINE IN DES VŒUX ROAD.
$30,000 INSURANCE INVOLVED,
EUROPEAN'S NARROW' ESCAPE,
oth inst.
SERIOUS ABBAIR
IN THE BARBOUR..
11th inst But for the providential presence of Police pinnace No. 4 in the vicinity of Stone- cutters' filand last night, there might have which so recently sent three young Euro been committed a repetition of the crime
facts of the case, as testified to by L. S. peaes to the gallows in this Colony. The
WATER RETURN.
1905
Level and Storage of Water.in Reservoirs on the 1st September.
LEVEL. ∙1904,
* above? da above overflow. overflow
overflow 2 81 above) 1 above
Overflow
Tytam...
Hyewash Pokfulam..
(1' na′′ above) Overlow
'0" level
201
The SingapURB DOCKS.
PROBABLE COST OF ARBITRATION.
In a recent issue the Stralis Times deals" with the above subject in an editorial as follows:-
Sir Michael Hicks each, according to Reuter's telegram, latt New York for Van- couver on the 16th ult, an route to Singapore. From this it is'to be inferred that Sir Michael, who is travelling with Lady Hicks-Beach and his two daughters, intenda making a tour. Wong-nai- 111 above 9 of below through Japan before coming to the Straits!
cheong.... { overflow
overflow
because there is no probability of the Arbilms STORAGE GALLONŲ; · · •
tion Committee, of which he is umpire and 1904
1905. head, convening here before the middle of Oc- Fytam...................... 407,000,000 386,240,000 tober. The news of his depanure, however, Pokfulam
26,301,000 22,497,000 affords fresh food for reflection in respect of the Vong-nal-cheong 13,138,000
70,320,000 66,000,000 Tanjong Pagar Dock proposition. It brings 19.564,000 home to the taxpayer the fact that though the Government was doubtless wise in its determi- nation to expropriate the concern for the bene- fit of the community, nevertheless its actions 'since the step was taken have been marked by la conspicuous absence of such business'saga- city as might be expected from the prime mo-
Tetal....... 536,659,000 494,301,000 and Hill District during the month of August. Consumption of Water in the City of Victoria
1904.
1905.
Consumption...139,010,000 137,177,000 gallons Estimated po-1 pulation ..... Consumption)
| trado. The ovit of the boycott is that it attempts to deprive the United States of trade by intimidation arid duress of those who would otherwise be willing traders with the United States. The citizens of :' e 'vnited States un- der the treaties betweɛn the United States and China shall have the right to insist that the police authorities of China shall suppress such intimidation and allow the trade which was
A fire broke outsin No. 19, Des Voeux Road guaranteed to be unrestricted by the Govern inent to continue narestricted, I need not say This morning at 2.40 o'clock, which, but for the prompt measures adopted by the Fire Brigade to you, as I have raid in the United States,
under Chief Inspector Baker, might have obert Wills, were that about 7.40 p.m. he We have been courteously furnished, for that I think it greatly better that one hundred publication, with the following memorandum of | Chinamed during the year shall evade the law, resulted in a very serious conflagration, and
was in the police pinnice, near Stonecutters a conversation held in the presence of Sir though coolies, than that intelligent Chinere might have sent at least the block from the faland, when be beard cries and shouts on Matthew Nathar, Governor of Hongkong, be gentleman, merchants and students, who wish Mutual Stores to the Silver Grill up in flamesa sampan sear by, and he immediately want tween Mr. Taft, Secretary of War of the United visit the United States, or to do business The first news of the outbreak received by the alongside the sampan and there he found two States, and the following Chinese gondèmen hero, should be harrassed in their attempt to fire-fighters' was through the continuous blow. residing in Hongkong: Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, C. G., ratar the United States by measures subjecting ing of police whistles, followed by the fire belt, Eva Hore and Thomas Morgan, Hamenyewash......
of the sailing ship evador, struggling with Hon. Mr. Wei Yük, Measta, Fung “Wĩ Chữn, hem to discomfort, inconvenience, contumely announcing a fire in the central district. The two women and one man who formed the Lau Chi Pak, Ku Fai Shan Lod Leung Pui Chi...nd insuli; and I do not hesitate to my that the
Fire Brigade immediately repaired to the spot crew, and apparently endeavouring to throw Mr. Taft said:--Gentlemen,-1 am very glad fluence of President Roosevelt's adminis
with all necessary appliances, there to find them into the sea: Sergeant Willathen board- to see you. His Excellency, Sir Matthew ration will be thrown towards protection of the furniture shop of the Cheung Lee firmed the sampan and found Hare holding the Nathan, has been good enough to ask you to the rights of these classes. Of course, the best ablate, the fire having got considerable fast steerswantan by the throat and clothing and come here in order that I may discuss with place to determine what a man's status is, hold before the alarm was given, and im struggling with her, and Morgan doing the you the situation with respect to United States whether he is coolle, merchant or a student, imediately every effort was directed to prevent same with the man in the bows. He seized stade in the province of Canton and generally at his own home, and the disposition and ten the spread of the flames to the adjoining pre- Hord and was putting him in the pinnace when In China in view of the threatened boycott of dancy of the President is to make the cartifi.
mises on either alde, and in this the firemen he turned round and struck the sergeant on the were fortunate in, having a good force of water neck and chest, Unlied States manufactures. I am advised rate of the American consul in Chins the
Sergeant Wills then knocked at command. So, while some of the men poured him down, and told him if he attempted any. that the trouble has grisen out of a feeling of a strongest and most conclusive evidence upon
volumes on to the roofs of the adjoining.build thing of that abry he would get more than he sense of injustice on the part of Chinamens subject unless fraud or forgery appear. generally with respect to the enforcement of
ings from front and rear, the rest endeavoured expected: Meantime Morgan seized Sergeant to reach the roof of the burning building itself Wills, who was then placing Hore in the pin hy means of the fire escape and ladders. But nace, and tried to throttle him, so that he in this they were frustrated, as the telegraph had to knock him down and put him in and telephone wires being in close to the building, and the projecting iron bars for iron, after he had threatened to murder the sergeant if he stirred, ying he would take hanging out the signboards being in the charge of the pinnace and steer it where he way, they were unable to adjust the liked. Bergeant Wills then took the men ladder which bad in be discarded. Fot.
ashore to the station and charged them. sunately, the force of the water being *D strong, they were enabled to pour streams of roof, four storeys high, but so much headway water into the burning building through the had the flames made, that it required nearly three hours' steady work before the fire was at
heat all around was terrific, while the glare the scene of their strenuous labours. The from the huge tongues of flame made the reens all around as bright as day. But inside there was another story to be told, for the dense volumes of black smoke made the place of a trepid firemen had to make their way with the ciminerían darkness, and through this the in-
hoses The origin of the fire has so far not been ascertainable, beyond the fact that it broke out on the first floor and rapidly spread in mage to the ground floor in which a quantity to the Coors above, doing, however, but Bile
The exclusion laws in the United States.
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The attitude of the United States toward
China in political or international matters, I A sure I need pot resterale. It is that of fendliness and sympathy and an earnesi de- si e to aid China in her effort to become more sicily a nation and to aid her toward the à velopment of her immense resources,
ought to say that those exclusion laws are directed solely against the introduction into the United Staten of the coolie or strictly labour class, and that neither by treaty nor by law was it intended to exclude merchants or students, nor was it intended to subject them to contume
HON. DR, HO KAI'S SUGGESTIONS. `- ly or insult in the formalities attending their
To this the senior Chinese member of the admission to the territory of the United States. Lislative Council, Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, res The Bateau of Commerce and Labour, though pnded, that he and his colleagues con- for some time nominally under the Treasury Decurred with Mr. Taft in his description of partment, acted really independently of the head of that Department, who trusted wholly the ad-din vil tendencies of the boycott, but they
I did not in any way by that statement mean
ministration of affairs to the Chief of the to express a lack of sympathy with the length sot under, and the firemen able to leave quiet until they had passed all the shipping
Bureau. The Chief of the Bureau was actuat feeling on the part of Chinamen which had ed with a desire to prevent the violation of the given rise to the boycott. They felt that the law, and made rulings with respect to its con exclusion laws had been administered with struction which were formally concurred in. by much 100 great rigour and with greatly more the Secretary of the Treasury and which were in a number of cases probably too narrow and severity than was consistent with the rights of the merchant and the student class, and they severe. Not until the last year has the atted- tion of the President and the Cabinet been they thought the treaty and the laws might very ventured to point out fur respects in which seriously called to complaints with reference to the unjust operation of the law against mer-well be modified and secure from Chinamen chants and Chinese students who have attempt. generally an approval of the changes. ed to come into the country in accordance with their treaty rights, and then before even the boycou was threatened, the President directed the most searching investigation into the methods of the Bureau and announced his de- termination to put a stop to the abuses com- plained of. In public speeches in the United States, with the full consent of the President, I alluded to this subject and spoke as follows: "Some allusion has been made to some re- marks that I have made on the Chinese ques- tion. If had not been interviewed so many times in so many of your papers and made to take so many different positions, I should not think it important to re-state my position upon that question, because I know that you have a definite view, but my view generally is that we have reached a point in the life of our nation, whore we are to be treated by other nations as an adult male; where we are to expect from other nations the same measure of courtesy and politeness and justice as we mete cut to them. Now, then, understand that all the
States.
labourer" ought to be more clearly defined. In the first face. they thought that the term To this Mr. Taft answered. He said that the rui
of furniture was stored. Here the chief damage ing of the Bureau of Commerce and Labour are not in his judgment always just, and that it was done was through the falling burning debris far better if possible, that, he thought, it was, from the floors above, and from the tons of to make a division which would leave no do. btwater wishing down, and it is believed that a either in the mind of the official enforcing the considerable quantity of the furniture there will law, or of the Chinaman leaving his own country to apply for admission to the L'oited
be got out but little the worse for the outbreak.. The upper floors were gutted. The only per to the master of the shop, Lau Sul Wan, who sonal injury that occurred, so far report d, was
awakened, by the games and smoke penetrating was sleeping in the third storey, and on being to his room, he got up and endeavoured to save some ofhis properly, in the efort to do which he got his hands and arms somewhat severely burned so that he had to be removed to the Go- vernment Civil Hospital to havel·ls woundstrent- building, a piece goods and millinery shop, was ed. The shop of Hoosan Ali, next to the burning
through the floors and soaked a considerable considerably damaged by water which leaked
Hon. Dr. lie Kai then resumed by saying, that there was a custom an ng Chinese mer haute, for the purpose of continuing a firm beyond their own lives, to take with them into the United States such a part of the personnel of their business, assistants, or and salesmen in the business of a mer. persons who would correspond to clerks
chant of the United States, who were taken out with the iden of subsequently, after having experience enough, enirrier the fum and becoming partners. Such men he said, were not coolies and did not belong to the of their duties there was some manual labour to pealarm, is that of showing koods, of putting
nations of the world recognize that we are labourclass, although of course in the discharge quantity of goods, the extent of the damage,
under no obligation to make this continent the dumping ground for their beggars and robbers and bad people generally, and therefore that we may pass properly, and still look them in. the face, alien exclusion laws, which shall prevent this fair land of ours from being loaded down with people who do it no good, I also understand wh... we have arrived at an agree ment with the Chinese nation, by which because their coolie class when they come here as labourers, do not amalgamate and be. come citizens and not promine" to become a
ihem back on the shelves, etc. Mr. Taft said
lowever, being at present unascertainable, Fussan Alí having closed his shop for the pur.
pose of inquiring into the extent of his lote.
that he thought there was a clear distinction between a labourer and a clerk or salesman in a merchant's store, and that he personally saw no objection to an exclusion of such a class from the definition of tabestrer; that he woulding on the wall near his head woke him, and bring this matter to the attention of the Presi- dent
occupied as a private residence by Mr. K. The fourth floor of the burning building is
Gaskell, proprietar of the Owl Grill, and he was in bed and fast asleep until a loud knock-
bursting through the floor into his roorn. He only just in time, for even then the fames were barely bad time to seize his clothes and such other light articles as were handy, and make a bolt for the staircase, which so far had remain. ed untouched by the all-devouring Rames, and
Second.--Hen. Dr. Ho Kai said that he thought the certificate of the Consul ought to be final except in case of fraud or forgery. Mr. view and that the proclamation of the Presi-sonal effects. In the next house lived Mr. Taft Bald that personally he concurred, in this dant tended strongly in that direction; that of course the corruption which had heretofore ex- isted had been an obsin le in the way of giving the certificate of the consuls the weight that ought really to attach to them; but in view of the steps already referred to, he thought that the tendency of Congress and the President would be toward giving much more weight than
American consular officers in China.
part of this country, that we may exclude them that has been conceded by the Chinese nation and recognized by uit but, on the other hand, we have recognized that there are in Chies merchants, students and other people whom it would be an advantage to this country to have come here. Now we occupy toward the Chinese nation-by reason of the fact that the Chinese nation' believes that we are not land grabbling in the Orient, and believes that we desire to do jus ice-we occupy a posi tion which will give to us our interest in the trade which is awaiting development. Now I had heretofore attached to the certificate of the safety, only to find there was no cause for alarm
then, these are the premises, Ought we then to pursue a policy with respect to these mer- chants and students that have a right to come here which will inflict on them contumely and
nected with the exclusion law
Third, Hon. Dr. Ho Kai called attention to the fact that there were quite a number of merchants and students who were subjects of feat Britain, in Hongkong Colony and in the Straits Settlements that there were others who
ment.
The matter of the sampan then stated that ot about 7 pm. yesterday the two men engaged, This sumpan to iske them to a ship at the kero- sene anchorage near Stonecuiteri, island, They got in a Wanchai stops, and remained
and were nearing Stonecutters' Island, when the woman at the tiller, and tried to throw her they sprang up and the first defendant seized overboard, while the second defendant strug gled with witness, trying to get him niso over. the police pinnace canit up and the sergeant board. They called out "save life," and then,
came on board. The two defendants then set upon the sergeant, one seizing him by the throat and the other by the arms from the back. The sergant knocked them down and took them away in the place. put the second defendunt in irons, and then
Sergeant Wills, recalled, said the men were not drunk, but had been drinking. they did not remember assaulting anybody. Both defendants denied the charges, saying Mr. F. A. Hezeland, before whom the case was tried, found them both guilty on the evidence labour each, without the option of a fine. It was a fortunate chance that the police pinnace
usual beat of the water police patrol, and but was in the vicinity at the time, as the locality where the occurrence took place was of the
for its presence Hongkong might once again crime in the harbour. have been thrilled with the news of a grave
and sentenced them in one month' hard
`EXESS PASSENGENS.
LAUNCH FIRED AT.
324,900
10.0
129,700
́vers in so vast a reme. The costs of this Arbitration arrange ent will have to be added per head per
to whatever price the Committed may decide 22.1 gallons day............
as being properly due to the shareholders... during the month of August,
Consumption of Water in Kowloon Peninsula million dollars. The Arbitration, by all
Tanjong Pagar is capitalised at less than appearances, is going to cost another million, Consumption....16,645,000 15,571,000 gallons This is an enormous price to pay for the tor at the Jowost estimate-ione 5750,000. Estimated po
1904.
►
69,250
7.7
1903.
74,500
pulation.....! Consumption) per head per
6.7
gallons day........... The Government Analyst reports that the water is of excellent quality.
W. CHATHAM,
Water Authority.
THE SHANGHAI TYPHOON.
privilege of having such distinguished visitors on the Board, and such distinguished Home experts to assist them. It is a price that seems liable to exceed any difference of estimated values that would have cropped up were local arbitrator engaged for the settlement: None of the gentlemen whore services have been secur- ed are lending those service for nothing, There may be a man hero, or a man there, on the Board who might waive his proper claim to a vast fee in favour of, let us say, a K.C.M.G, One never knows how such matters are arranged nowadays-especially on the portible eve of a Yenerday (Monday) morning, an article general election. But if such an economy. appeared in a contemporary, says the Shanghai creating contingency be overlooked, there is no by the typhoon, in which it was stated that the will amount to a ponderous sum. Sir Michard Timer of 5th inst, anent the mischief wrought doubt but that the fees to the arbitrators alone variour wharves on the Footung side had suflet Hicks-Beach is approaching the tale of years ed enormous damage. It cannot be denied that that is Scripturally allotted to man. He was born Shanghai merchants will be called upon to bear in 1837, and since then he has achieved high somewhat heavy loss, but too much value fame and great distinction in some of the high- should not be paid to the pessimistic reports est offices that it is within the power of the that have been circulated. As the result of an nation to bestow. He owns four thousand ay interview one of our representatives had this cres. It is hardly likely that he would be up morning with the manager of the China Mer-proached and requested to go on a business trip to relieve the fears aroused amongst the holders in the tropics like an ordinary Civil Service chants Steam Navigation Company, we are able to Singapore at his time of life-to perspire of cargo stored in the various gedowns of this Cadet for any fee much under £15,000) ster)- ing. Then his travelling expensei, etc., have to company.
Things look mach brighter than was hoped be considered-we understand that Govern- possible last Saturday morning, and the mana
inent has secured a splendid residence bere ger, who has paid a personal visit to the for his especial accommodation-and such ex- C.M.S.N. Co.'s wharves states that the damage penses mount up Mr. Mathews, now head of caused to cargo has been generallyexaggerated. the firm of Goode Sans and Mathews, we know The total number of packages more or less from Budget Estimates etc., to be a-well paid damaged at their Kinlee-yuen Wharf numbers expert. Of course he may be coming out here some 15,417, which include 8,540 bags of sugar to kill two birds with one stone, to to speak, and to bales of silk. This total also includes and may have another look into that unhappy 200 bales of piece goods which will hit the harbour scheme while he is on the spot ; but it foreigner.
is not likely that he will accept any fee for his services in connection with the Tanjong Pagar Arbitration much below £5,000 or £7,500, plus all expense. Next we come to Mr. J. C. Inglis, the Ganeral Manager of the Great Western Railway. He certainly would not leave his vast home interests for a three or four months business trip to an uncongenial clime for any sum less than would be due to Mr. Matthews for a similar service. Indeed one might safely figure him at 10,000 and Lord Robert Cecil, KC, with his social and legal standing, and exalted family connections; could scarcely be expected to take a brief in this "Corner of Asia" with an endorsement that
It was reported that the damage and des traction was worse at the Easter harf than on this side, but, fortunately, this is not the case. Only two or three godowne belonging to the Eastern Wharf have heen 21h inst.
flooded, the number of packages damaged Inspector Kerr charged the master of the amounting to 11,000 bales and cases of piece steam launch Che Loy, which plies as a pasardi and 703 packages of general merchan- senger ferry between Hongkong and Deep dise. This was owing to the fact that the floors Water Bay, with refusing to stop when called of these godowns are rinsed well above the upon to do so.
level of the surrounding land. The cargo in these godowns have been damaged very little in comparison with the large number of pack wharves have received considerable damage, ages stored. The jetties approaching the but this tnss devolves on the C. M. S. N. Co. alone.
The inspector said that 1.30 p.m. on the 8th inst. he was on duty to the west of Capsuimun steaming from the west side of f antso Island, Pass when he saw the defendant's launch-
and he signalled to him to stop, as he appeared to be carrying excess passangers, and witness wished to count them. Defendant took no notice of witness's signals, but kept on full by whistling to the launch to stop, but finding so got away with his life, but losing his perspeed, and witness followed and again signalled
*G. G. Burnett, First Clerk in the General Post no notice taken of the second signal witness Office, and he got the scare of his life when his fired two shots with a Winchester repeater boy woke him up and told him the next house across the bows of the Che Loy, which only had three o'clock in the morning, is sufficient to Hongkong. Witness followerf him to the Yau was in dames. Such information, at nearly the effect of making her put on all speed for daunt the stoutest heart, but Mr. Burnett waited mati wharf on the Hongkong side and there to secure all his valuables, and after grabbing arrested hint. Witness was about 6:0 yards sme extra clothing, he then sought a place of away when he firs" signaled to the Che Loy to stop, the distance decreasing between them all as fit ar be and his property were concernd, as the time as he signalled the second time and under control and confining them to the scene he firemen were even then keeping the flames fired the shots. Witness had stopped all the ferry launches plying about the harbour and of the outbreak. At one time it did seem as if islands adjacent, and they knew the signal to stop, but this was the first case of the kind to come before the Counts. When witness foally got alongside the Che Zoy at the wharf he was unable to count the passengers, as some of them had already jumped ashore on the Yau- mati Wharf, but he was convinced that they were in excess of the number provided for by
their efforts would prove futile as the wind was blowing the great sparks in showers in alf directions, but, as it appeared, by a merciful dropped, and the fire fighters' efforts were po dispensation of Providence, the wind suddenly
longer handicapped by that disturbing ele- ment. But there is one thing that this outbreak sould draw attention 1e, and that is the entire absence of any form of fire escapes in this cinss
of houts, and of the faultiness of a law which
row step staircases on which it is next to im possible for two people, even of ordinary pro- portions, to pass, as the only means of hasty exit from the upper floors in case of emergency. learn, as follows:
The Cheong Lee premises are insured, we
L'Union. Fire Insurance Co. The Meiji (apanese) The North German
do do
$ 5,000 $10,000
$ 5,000
The Liverpool, London and Globe
Fire Insurance Co... The Western insurance Co...
$10,000
$10,000
Total $50,000
A MEAN THIEF
his licence and it was on that account the master of the launch would not stop.
Defendast said he did not hear the signals to stop, but had no explanation of the sudden access of speed he adopted when chated. Mr. G. N. Orme, who tried the case, was satisfied of the man's guilt and fined him Sys with the alternative of six weeks' hard labour. The fine was paid.
MINE-DESTROYING BY
H.M. SHIPS,
A COSTLY EXPERIMENT
AT WEIHAWEI.
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Weihaiwsi, 19th August, 1905.
thus destroy the position we have by reason of our position towards China in international
were citizens of the Republic of France in affairs. I say no and the State of California. will say no, too, if the state of California know others who were citizens of the kingdom of Tonkin and Saigon, and that there were still her own interest and the interests not only of Holland in the Dutch East Indies; be said the wealthy men who carry on her enterprises, that these were gentlemen of wealth and but of her labouring men. The labouring mon education, who did not visit America because make up the sinew of the country, and every time we increase our trade by one hundred they would not accept the humiliation of being millions, it means that seventy-five millions subjected to the necessity of producing a certi are going to labour. How is it possible, in the ficate, but he thought that all the security allows rows of houses to be built with little nar- Interest of labour, to throw an insulting message would be given to the United States that it in the face of China merely for the purpose of ought to require by a passport describing their suiting a few persons who must look at this status as merchants or students and as subjects matter from a superficial standpoint. Now by the proper American consul; that this would or citizens of their respective Government, vised hope I have made 'plain my view on the affect a very few persons would be entirely Chinese question. I am not criticising the safe, so far as the United States was concerned, enforcement of the law, but what I am saying because the United States might depend im is that if either by treaty or law it is necessary plicitly on the hosesty of the Covernment that that insult should follow, then the laws officials vised by the proper American consul and the treaties ought to be repealed because It is not the policy of the Govern ent to allowed to come in under a passport would be and yet the change by which they should be exclude their class. When you are doing a most gratifying to their feelings, and, though a favour it is just as well to do it politely"
alight change, would accomplish a great The above was spoken in San Francisco change in their view of the law. Mr. Taft where there has been more of a prejudice on the subject of exclusion laws than any otherald that he hoped some such provision might be introduced into the law, which part of the country, One of the troubles con- shop 4 reinova their sense of humiliation and Hon existing in the consular system by which tention of the President and the State Depart was corrupthat would be glad to bring this to the at
A costly but interesing experiment was carried out to day outside the barbour. Three in many cases the certificate of the consul
mines were placed about a mile out from the war wholly unreliable because procured
The fourth suggestion made by the Hon. Dr.
shore which represented a channel mixed to through fraud. The President has taken de Ho Kal was that the law of the treaty should
prevent ships passing through it. The object cided steps upon that subject, has removed the provide for an improvement in the detention
of the experiment was to blow up or destroy officials conniving at this corruption and looss iheds in which. Chwamen destined for other
these mines so as to make the channel navig- practice, and has restored by bis proclamation countries were housed in the United States
able. Permission was granted to men of the proper ovidential weight to the certificates of awaiting transhipment. Mr. Talt said that he
fleel who wished to witness the explosion, and The consu!.
I can speak with certainty and confidence of had no knowledge of the details of this matter, from the box-seat of ricktha No. 1og, in several hundreds availed themselves of the the Przeldent's earnest desire that the clauses of the President and he thought that every ba-
which he was riding last evening, but that he would also bring it to the attention
opportunity, this being the first time that a Young Tsai, ricksha coolle in charge of feel has undertaken mining operations on ruch of Chloamen," the merchaniar, students and mane regulation would be put in force to pre-
rickiha No. Lagi, said that last night defendant a large scale. The men were marched to the others; who have the right to enter the country, shall not be in say way bindered in their free vent either humilation or injury to the parsons engaged his ricksha to go to Wanchai, and top of Centurion Hill, as the best view could be obtained from there and where also the coming and going between China and the subjected, to confinement under the circum ricksha shifted, and saw the defendant place greater part of the European inhabitants bad
while going along he felt the weight in the
his feet hard against the foot-board and his also assembled, so as to be able to get a view back against the cushion, thus lifting his body of this most fateresting experiment." off the seat which he raised up. On ar Punctually to time, st.11.30. 2.m., the two THE following telegraphic information, dated riving at Wanchal defendant paid him to boats, which were to do the countermining, the and last, has been received from the cents, and when he lifted the box of his steamed out to the scene of action and dropped Sumatra Director and Maneger of the Maat-ricksha to put the money is his parse, he found their mines. At a given signal the whole field schappij tot Mijn-Bosch en Landbouwexploita the purse gone. He then asked defendant to of mines blew up simultaneously, throwing up tie in Langkat, Ld
return it, and as be refused be followed him the water to a height of from two to thực hun- from Wanchai back to the Central district, dred feet. Some idea may be formed of the and gave him in charge of the first constable force of the explosion when it is said that each he met an Indian. Upon being arrested the boat contained nine mines, each mins being defendant dropped the purse which fell at the charged with soo lbs, of guecatton. The force consable's feet. Upon opening the purse the of the explosion could be distinctly felt on the money was gone, but a begging letter, written top of the hill; it much resembled a violent in English, was found in lis place. Its be-earthquake shock. lieved that defendant' is'a deserier from some vessel which has siready left the harbour, 54,000 | - The Magistrate sont him to three weeks' 98,000 hard labour,
stances.
Hongkong, September 5, 1905,
,,
Gallons.
United States. It may, be necessary in order to accomplish this that there be some change In the law of 'treaty, and if so the President will certainly take pleasure in effecting and recommending the Congress such reasonable changes. The method of securing this by boycotting is not a fortunate one. The illegal ity of the boycott and its violation of our treaty ** rights, 1 need hardly explain. The United
States does not claim that the individual Daily aggregate out-put of crede Chingmen is bound under the treaty to
petroleum...
89,oco „trado" with any of its citizens; it does not | Crude Petroleumi in tanks at date....... 84,000
claim that a number of Chinames may
Cries. not agree to withhold their trade from the Keroseng made since the date of the United States, but it does insist that associs. preceding half-monthly telegram. 84,000 tions shall not be permitted to be formed which Kerosene shipped since the date of "shell nie means of intimidation and threats to Dreven: Chinese merchants who wish to trade With the United States from continuing that
the preceding half-month 'tela.
Kerouane in stock at refinery at date.,
WELL PUNISHED..
12th ins
William Johnstone, an unemployed seaman, was charged before Mr. G. N. Örme this morn. ing with stealing a purse containing 82 cents,
The feet proceeds to-morrow for a cruise in the vicinity.
H.M.S. Andromeda will leave the feet on Saturday and proceed to Kobe,
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nearly so bad as was anticipated and very little The daniage at the Yang-ka-du Wharf is not damage occurred at the Central Wharf.
As a matter of fact, and quite in contradic tion to what has been published, the fame & which has taken place is far greater at the Lower Hongkew Wharf than at the Eastern or about zz,pro packages of piece goods and mer. Yang-ka-du Wharves, comprising as it does of chandise.
Every effort is being made to restore and dunnage the cargo and to separate the good from the bad, and the management is sanguins that the loss will not be nearly to large as has been idly stated.
Damages in the Nativa City are very large owing to the ground floor of buildings being so much below those in the Foreign Settlement and it is estimated that the native merchant In the City have lost over one million and a half tacia
THE $,5, "DAKOTA'S" TAIL-SHAFT,
Maine Superintendent C. C. Lacey, of the Great or her Steamship Company, has se far been unable to determine the exact extent of the injuries to the Dukota's tail-shaft, says a recent issue of the Vancouver World, but it is planned to remove the shaft that an oppor. unity may be had for a thorough inspection of
both shaft and sleeve,
Mr. Lacey stated that the cracks found in the Dakela's sters frame ware not of a serious nature, and that this damage can be repaired easily, leaving the damaged parts of the ship stronger than before. It is the opinion of the officers of the company that the cracking of the stern frame of both the Dagg and Minnesota was caused by brinkage.id casting such large piece of steal there are liable to be in equalities and in such cases the thinner por tion very often crack,
New mere frames are now being cast for both seamships and will, when received at Seattle, he seedaboard, so that the next time either ship liplicedgh a dry dock they can be ex changed for the damaged ones.
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did not reach at least five figures in guiness. The same may safely be estimated of Sir Edward Boyla, K.C, and also of Meek-the eminent consulting engineer who Mr. Balfour Brown, K.C. As Mr. P. W.
comes out as an offset to Mr. Matthews-İAS no other fish to fry locally, he may also be put down at another £10,000, and finally there is Mr. Moulsdale who came out here only the other day, and who certainly did not do so for total to over £70,000 but if we cut it down nothing. These simpla figures alone bring the
fifth, will still have £15,000, and more to hear from. The accountants have to be considered as well as the engineering experts, and the big London accountants command less as heavy those of any other experta. The Govern- ment has secured the services of Mesiri, Deloitte, Dever, Griffiths & Co., while the Dock Company have engaged Mesars Price, Water- house & Co. Thess ste the two greatest firms of chartered accountants in London, and they ate entitledte large fees. Already Messrs. Smith and Parise, of Deloitte Dever Griffiths & Co. have been working here for a month, while Mr. Maltby, a partner in the same firm, is expected | 10 arrive here with Mrs. Maltby on this week's mail. Mr. Spencer, of Price, Waterhouse & Co, is also now working here, and the pro- fessional services of these gentlemen cost money. The two firms, it may be assumed, are not getting much less than 10,000 or £15,000 between them, which brings back the total to over $700,000, without allowing a penny for the steamship fares, and the hotel and maintenance expenses of the principals, and also not allowing a dollar for the army of stens graphers, typewriter, assistant accountants, printed reports, etc, the cost of which will have to be figured upon, Presuming these detalls be compressed into another £20,000, the total will be 90 000; and when one then calculates upon the cost of local work-export and clerical-the sum chargeable to the taxpayer for the privilege of buying Tanjong Pagar on the present plan amounts to a round million of dollars. For the extra million, the Colony will have nothing to show but stamped receipts. 14 it worth it? The matter is worth grave consideration.
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RELEASE OF PRISONERS OF WAR.
NON-COMBATANTS LIBERATED AT
YOKOHAMA,
it in now expected that a Dakota will spend ten days in the drylock,' and if she does the expense to the Great Northern Steamship company will approximate $16,000- for docking privileges alone. At the regular On Monday moming, reports the Japan charge made by the Government for docking Garetti of gist'ult, 180 Russians from Sagba- ships, the expense to the Dakota in $4,043,60 | tien, mostly non-combatanta and including a for docking and $1,235.90 a day while she large number of children, were brought before mates there. The estimate is based on' a mile | Governor Suka, who released them front of 10 cents a gross ton, and the Dakota's custody and handed them over to the care of gross tonnage is 20,718. The charge per day the French Consul General The Russians le so canta for the first 4,400 tons, and 5 cents wore a most miserable and poverty stricken a ton for the balance.
looking crowd, and their evident sufferinge Mechanics in charge of the work are express-evoked much sympathy for them throughout- ing amazement at the peculiar character of the their journey to Yokohama. Thosailors of the accident which belell the Dakota. When the steamer which brought them from Saghalien casing enclosing the tail shaft was removed io Aomori were so touched that they made was found that the brass bushing was so close collection among themselves and realised ly frien to the shaft that it had revolved with V100, which was distributed among the pri... ... | the shaft instead of remaining stationary and soners. At Yakobima's great deal was done allowing the shaft to revolve wiibin it, as should | for their comfort and welfare. The Yokobema be the case.
Branch of the Ladies' Patriotic Association gave cakes and toys to the children." "The Yokohama Shobelgikai gave ten dosen Euro. pean towels, and the ladies of the same society gave separately eight dozen lead pencils. “Mr. Otani Kabei presented 105 Japineda iowals, Mrs. Watanabe gave caker, and Mre Maioada Maxuzo gave a large quantity of biscuits. The recipients seamed very grateful for the kinde passos shown them/2
This bushing is badly cracked, but although the workmen have not yet got the tail shaft itself clear, the men in charga of the job are of the opinion that the shaft is not ipluried in the least. The heat developed by the turning of the bushing in its casing caused it to expand to such an extent as to maintain its proper diameter, and it is believed that the fact obviar ed muy unwetial strain on the ebaft
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