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cies that may ants de sómetimes happens | LILUTENANT H. D. Belgrave, and Royal Welt OUR MINERAL RESOURCES. that contributors and unmarried officers Kent Regiment, arrived per 1.1. Churan da the suffer by the operation of the present enact
31st instant, from India, on completion of muskelry course. ment." "A provident fund framed on the HONGKONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1905.lines of those provided in most of the banks and other leading and large mercantile firms In the Colony for their officer has much to commend itself for adoption by Governangut. It removes all the objectionable devices of the Widows and Orphans Pension Fund while it meets in its citirety the purposes for which that Fund was called into existence
THE PENSION PROPOSAL.
Within the narrow compass of a single article it was impossible in our last evening's issue to deal fully and satisfactorily with the comprehensive speeches delivered at the Legislative Council meeting on Thursday. We have covered such grounds as scém, to call for comment and while dealing with another subject to-day there is no implication that, in taking it after those dealt with yester day, it is of minor importance and hence | merits less consideration. It is of equal im PORTERportance with those that have already been
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A BLANK plague return was issued today, ANOTHER volunteer concert will be held on Saturday, the 30th inst.
DURING July 709 deaths were registered, in the Colony, 27 of which were in the European and foreign community.
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The Band of the and.' Blatt,, (“The Queen's Own" Royal West Kent Regt) will perform on the New Parade. Ground on Monday paxt from 4.30 p.m. 10 6 p.m... baik-
LEAVE of absence on private affairs, 10 the neighbouring countries has been granted to Lieutenant H. F. Daukes, Royal Engineers, from 27th inst, to 27th November.
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PROSPECTIVE DEVELOPMENT. CEYLON papers state that Sir John Keane,
Close upon twenty-five years ago a party of Barty, frivate Secretary to Sir Henry Blake,
on the has decided not to return to the island when Chinese went over to
"with them a little His Excellency the Governor. returns in Decisland of Lautan, taki ember. Mach regret is expressed at his lors.
powder to blast away the surface of soite rock. They soon satisfied themselves that there was FIY's seamen from the French Cruiser Guiche ore hidden beneath the hills, and having found were charged before Mr. F. A. Hazeland with the owners of the island arranged to lease this behaving in a riotous and disorderly manner in portion at a rent of $2,000 a year. Permission the public street. Two of them were further to work a mine was obtained from the provincial charged with refusing to pay legal ricksha bire, government of Canton, and on the advice of The case was put back for a time while a Professor Milne, who pointed out that they had French interpreter was sought and one the advantage of water there and could work a having been found later the case was resumed, mine vary economically, and that if the feds when the men all pleaded guilty to the charges.was continuous it would be a paying concem An officer from the Guicken anid that the men they determined to float a company, and bore. very good characters, and had not beeu soon had one started with a capital of $10,000. nahore for a very long time. His Worship said This was the first step towards the erection of he would take those facts into consideration, and smelting works, at Tai Yu-shan, the ruins of deal teniently with them. Each would pay a which can be seen to day by those who go fine of Sa, and the two men who did not pay the over to Lantao and anchor in rickshas would pay an additional 20 cents each His Worship thanked the interpreter, “Mis. Oliver, for her services, and told the clerk to hand her herfee, but she said she would rather it went into the Poor Box His Worship: That is a very good of you; good morning!
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SILVER MINE BAY, The mine, which is on the face of whill not quite a mile from the sea, is approached through a beautiful valley running away from sandy shore now transformed into a western seaside, resort for visitors and pleasure-seeking picnic parties. Those who have ventured into the dark and damp levels and disturbed the haunt of thousands of bats flitting noiselessly beneath a dripping tool, can-form some idea of the working of the powerful arm of industry which some two decades ago transformed this beautiful spot into a hive of bustling activity. The mining industry in China, worked under European supervision and with machinery, was then in its infancy, and these were many diffi- culties to contend with. At this particular mine there was a good deal of sickness” kod ̧at times things were at a very low ebb in copse quence of the workmen refusing to go to their work and the Europeans engaged being un- able to do so in cocsequence of ill-health. But progress was made and the smelting works. got into thorough working order. The extent of the operations can be gathered from the following description:
brought under notice, and deseryes carnest consideration by those whose duty it is to. deal with the subject. We will revert to the question of the Widows and. Orphans' Pension Fund which, on a former occasion, we dealt with so exhaustively. We apprehend that the Hon. Mr. Gershom Stewart's ap preciation of the subject is based on some what misconceived premises when he asserted that the taxpayers would be taking upon themselves the responsibility of a life insur ance company in the transference of the H. E. THE Governor has accepted the resign administrative funds, under the Board ofation by Lieutenant G, H. Pouts of his commis- Directors as at present constituted, to the sion in the Hongkong Volunteer Corps in view
of this officer's departure from the Colony: Treasury of the Colony, as we are led to believe will be proposed under the provisions of the new law. If anyone is to gain by the transference we contend that it will ultimately be the Colony, at the individual and col fective sacrifice of that body of wage-corners coming under the general category of the Civil Servants of Hongkong. The Hon. Mr. Shewan hit the right mail on the head which he advanced the statement that the money, it is proposed to appropriate belongs to the government servants from whose salaries-it-has-been-deducted.—It-is-as-he aspts.£3.00 says, in the nature of a trust fund, and should be treated accordingly. In law the adminis- splits 52.40 tration of all monies under trust is justly
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ACCORDING to Manila exchanges Felizardo, who is described as the most daring and per sistent of the Filipino bandita, and who had murdered and robbed for years past was driven killed. over a cliff, 300 feet high, in Batangas, and
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A WIRE in the A. Č. D. News says that the Chinese Government has made up its mind to bay, back the Chinese Eastern Railway from Japas, and U. E. Chu Uung-chi is actively making arrangements
s to raise a loan in France for that purpose.
Ir is notified in the general orders issued from Headquarter House that the rate of the dullar
MR. Brodrick, speaking at Godalming, on the 14th ult said he had observed the strictest ac curacy in answering the questions in Partia ment on the subject of Lord Curzon's resigns tion. When he was appointed to the India Ofice, he said, he had no wish more, earnest than to further Lord Curzon's work, whose re- signation he deeply regretted. The Secretary for India was, he said, the mouth-plece of the Cabinet in the more important questions like the recent discussions. He was unanimously | supported in Indian Army Reform not only by the Gabinet and Council of Indis, but by a strong Committee appointed for the purpose. He paid a high tribute to Lord Curzon's ser- vices, and earnestly desired his speedy restora- tion to health. He felt sure Lord into would renew the great memory of his ancestor and discharge the duties connected with the Prince of Wales' tour in India with similar success to the Canadian trip..
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE SMELTING WORKS.
From the mines to the shore - where the works were located the ore was taken -in-buckets running on an endless wire rope, while the crushing process was carried out in a
for the quarter commencing 1st October, 1905, We do not necessarily eulore the apinions expressed. by large building the roof and wails of which were
will be at is. Itd. for all payments fixed in.
which no departure can be taken, and we and on the China Station
A. S. WATSON & CO., cannot agree with His Excellency the
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Governor when, to justify the appropriation to the general revenue of the Colony the sum now standing to the credit of the Widows and Orphans' Pension Fund, he advanced the argument that the principle of the proposal was accepted by the Govern- ment in Council and by the Directors of
Tux s.s. Catherine Park, which arrived yester. day from Durban, brought 345 Chinese coolies from the Kand. These are mostly time-expired men, with a few invalided home." They will be cucamped in the old camp at Lai chi-koke, until the vessel is ready to take them north to their ports at first departure, which will be in aboot ten days.
A REPORT has been received from Cebu to the
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FOR THE STRAITS.
TO THE INTOR of the "Rongkorna Telegraph." * NIR,The recent offer of the Chinese Consul at Penang to present a Pasteur Institute for the Straits Settlements and neighbouring regions, though undoubtedly prompted by the best motives, is very greatly to be deplored, both on account of the serious peril it would be to the human population and of the enormous upon dogs, and probably on other poor animals amount of terrible suffering it would inflict
also.
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AMERICAN STEAMER CAPTURED
"AT BAGHALIEN.
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Shanghai 23rd
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The American steamer Barracouta 18 reported us having been captured at Snghalien..
Lloyd's Register is steel, screw *The only vessel of this name traceable in {rtkamer:bi 2152 ions register, built by esan Thomson, of Glasgow, in 1889, for the Pacific Mail S: NeCo. The agasts of this
when seen by a representative of kong Telegraph, stated that their v Barracouts, is and has been für masy yosed gaged in the South American LD. HX.T] **
VANJONG PAGA
SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH
IN AUDIENCE WITH THE NIKADO
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Shanghai, 28rd September, 12.25 pm
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, accom- panied by Lord Hugh Cecil, M.P. for Greenwich, have arrived in Tokio, where they were received in audience with the Mikado to-day,
[Sir Michael Hicks Beach is on his way to Singapore, via Japan,, in connection with the Tanjong Pagar Dockarbitration ED, HK.T]
BARON KOMURA CON. VALESCENTI.
[From
BINING TO JAPAN:
Our Own Correspondent] Shanghai, 23rd September,
12.25 p.m.
Baron Komura, the Japanese Peace Plenipotentiary, is now convalescent and is returning to Japan on nesday.
SHIPPING JETSAM
The British steamer Fallodan Hall,” which
left Colombo on the 4th of july with 450 tons of copra, arrived at Odessa on the gth instant with her cargo on fire...... 1851 bags copës mark. troyed by fire; 854 bags were saved, while 3,828 ed "M. Kerrow" has been almost entirely des bage, consigncos unknown, were sits barat,
a stone-breaker, three pairs of crushing rollers, aight jiggersandtwo buddles, being placed on the top floor; while la the lower part of the works were a thirty-horse power boiler which set in motion aiwelve-borse power engine driving four fruevanners, a six-borse power engine working a lift to the top of the mill, a 3,000 feet long wire rope tramway to the mices, and another. six-horse power engine for driving the blasts a t of the furnaces, In the furnace house ware nected by flues and a condenser to a chim- right furnaces of various types, all cons
effect that a case of babonic plague has been discovered on board the Pacific and Oriental
noy sixty-fest high, standing on the hillside The 'generous philanthropist who made this about a hundred feet above their level. A freighter Banco, at present lying in that harbour offer presumably does not realise that by build hydraulic motor was driven by water from a proceeding from Hongkong, She is taking on a ing the suggested Institute he would be creat twelve-inch main of iron pipes 2,000 feet up ship load of hemp. The plague case was dis-ing an "inferno" where dogs would be sub the mountain side where a dam for collecting covered in one of the crew, a lascar, and thejected to torture of the most awful and appalling the water had been constructed. These were Cablenews says it is expected that the disease description. And probably neither he nor those the works which a visitor to Tai Yu-aban must have been contracted in Hongkong. who bail him as a benefactor are aware that would have found at Silver Mine bay some Every precaution has been taken to destroy the Pasteurian anti-rabic treatment, far from fifteen years ago. The soft hand of Nature has infection.
being a cure for hydrophobia, either gives | now laid her cloak of green around the the very disease it professes to cure or has no remains, the walls bave long since crumbled effect at all. The death-roll of its human away, and only the cemented floor is victims is a mighty one. I have before observed near the beach where it serves the me a list containing names of nearly 2,000 peasants, from the dwellings close by, as a dry sound. The whisky was being landed and the person to bave died from the ing ground for rice and fish. On the neigh-weather was favourable for operation effects of the Pasteur inoculations; and, no | bouring, hillside stands, the chimney, com doubt, as many mere have similarly died manding an excellent view of the entrance to of the horrible and deadly, poison put into the mine, with tons of excavated earth banked their blood, of whom no record la to hand, up from the running stream some fifty feet This holocaust bears no resemblance to a suc below. cessful remedy!
PROPOSED REOPENING
the Fund several years ago. We had heard previously from the lips of the hon. member for the Chamber of Commerce that the money "belongs to the Government ser vants," and he could not understand how the Government can propose to appro- priate this large amount of $210,000 without even saying 'by your leave' to the men to whom it belongs." The decision of the Directors of the Fund if it had been given on the principle of the transference is, we must hold, irregular, TxEE women were charged with kidnapping even though empowered under the law a girl and bringing her into the Colony for the by which they were nominated. As a purpose of selling ber. The first was fined trust fund each and everyone of the contri-So, the second sentenced the twelve months' butories should, we imagine, be consulted hard labour, as being evidently the prime and it must be taken for granted that unless over and instigator in the affair, His Worship a very large majority voted for the transfer.emarking that be was sorry he could not give her a term in the stocks, but that her sex pre- ince we do not see how the appropriation cluded him from dolog. There was a doubt could be forced on them against their will. about the share the third defendant took in the It is fair to assume that the Government business, and she would be given the benefit of took the legal advice of the law officers of that doubt and discharged. the Crown before bringing forward the pro-
From Capetown comes the intelligence that the forepart to centre of No, a hatch of the a.*. Clan Mource, has disappeared and the follow ing goods have been salved :—350 cases collodia cotton; 20 cases detonators, wet and damage condition; 47 hogabeads Younger's beer intse 860 chests explosives forwarded to:
This intest addition to the fitet of the Hansa
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Line, the st. Rheinfils sailed from the Tyas on the 8th instant after a very trip. The vessel is intended Company's Eastern trado, and: 8,000 tons dead weight on a ligh On the following day the ched. This second vesse
by 51 ft. gins, beam. She will also
posal ander discussion, and it is not to be MR. W. H. Taft and party arrived at Yoko are entered as "cured," although a vast number on has been brought, forward, and we have with a set of four crank gundry
and this, we understand is about to be dani
engines..
Station, will be pleased to hea
The statistics of the Pasteur Institutes are
BY HONGKONG-CAPITALISTS. ; entirely misleading, for they include all those
And now, after the lapse of many years, persons who, not having died under treatment,
the question of recommencing mining opera hama on 16th ins. There were no formal of them have, as I have showe, succumbed good authority for stating that a number of in- entertainments, but there was a reception at to the very disease they dreaded after being fucatial business gentlemen, in Hongkong the US. Consulate General that forenoos fol- turned out as "cured," and a very large pro contemplate associating with this object in ALL his friends up and down towed by a luncheon at Mr. Consul-General portion who have been "cured" of a disease view. As most of the shafts are flooded it Miller's residence. In the course of an inter-which they never bad at all, having suffered will be necessary for powerful pumping fatis Wilkinson R.M., who view Mr. Taft said that the disturbances in simply from unfounded and silly scare. Japan had been exaggerated in America, and Pasteur Intitules are exceedingly lucrative gear to be taken "across to Tai Yuban, home a short time ago after they could he satisfactorily explained by the speculations, and are, therefore, advocated by by those interested in the enterprise. Thats commission, bas just special circumstances. Mr. Taft added that those interested and pushed by means of rables is no doubt, of course, that the mineral resources. Admiralty to the comm Miss Roosevelt hoped to revisit Japan to em scares and their influence upon the ignorant, of Southern China are inexhaustible, sed with ship the London, lata) bark on the P.M. S. Siberia.-N. C. D. News. panic-stricken and credulous public; but, capital, patience and good management could Tillerd. Capt. Witkie he worked easily and made to pay bandsome to get a first-class cruis though serotherapy is the fashionable care ofly, owing to the fact that most of the ones ar A CHINAMAN, aged about so years, has pro. the day in medical circles, yet Pasteurism is to be seen cropping out at the surface, and as to that, owing lo bably lost his life through his own folly, Walk now, with many another obsolete quackery, a more especially as labour is cheap and can be from rheumat ing along Fraya East, yesterday afternoon, and discredited system, condemned by a large and got on the spot. The levels and wictes at Tai ticalary please chose the moment when car No. 20 was almost useless, unscientific and extremely dangerous enable sinking operations to be carried falilled, when just in front of the hotel of that name, be increasing number of eminent medical men ai Yui Shan were driven in over 2,000 feet and pumps were fixed by the old company to Immediately behind bins to cross the line, It There is a perely harmless and safe cure below, water levals: According to the mining S. F.F was too late for the motor man, whose bell was for hydrophobia in the Buisson bath treatment, engineer who superintended the former mining kept going, to stop the car in time, and the which is really a cure and involves no danger operations there is a large quantity of ore. brass bandle-bar caught him on the head and to man and no cruelty to animals. It is to be found, and although when work was first commenced Chinese officials placed knocked him down. He was picked up in as the invention of a Frenchs doctor, while M. many obstacles in the way of success—such as unconscious conditios, and removed to the | Pasteur was merely a chemist. · Buissonism is the payment of a'tax of ten per cent on the: Government-Civil Hospital, where al latest like the water of Jordan, too simple to find out-put and the placing of Jgnorant men, to advices ho lies in a precarious condition. favour with those scientists who scorn every advise them the inducement offered in the opening up of the district were considered most favourabla." -All around the minsa thein is" wide expanse of fenile country under. cultivation, and villages and hamlets are t covered nestling at the foot of well-wooded monatafna and on the banks waterways, and those should whole district is intersected to the promoters of think? recognised that sanja taking, and is not
expected that any dissenting contributor will lodge a protest in Court against the ap- propriation, but were this likely and an action be brought for decision by the Court, we are not quite squeertain that the attitude of the Government could be upheld. We recall the effect of the absorption, some thiry years ago, into the general revenue of the Colony, of a fund similar to the present Widows' and Orphans' Pension Fund, and then known as the Superannuation Fund. We do not re collect the exact details of the transference of the money standing to the credit of that Fund in the Treasury of the Colony, but of SANDEMAN, BUCK this we are certain: that as the contributors died, or as the necessity, for further pay ments into the Fund ceased, the entire amount lapsed to the Treasury, and no more has been heard of it to this day. What has become of the capital amount, or to what extent the beneficiaries and others who have been entitled, have profited by the fund raised by the contributions from WILLIAM Martin, an unemployed engineer, salaries of the public servants should furnish was charged this morning at the Magistracy with being a vagrant in that, he was found matter for interesting information by the wandering about the streets without any visible Government to the public and especially means of subsistence. He was remanded to the past Civil Servants who might have had the House of Detention. Defendant said that an interest in the old Superannuation Fund. his case was very well known in the East. He Primarily, as we can remember, the Widows became insane and lost, his memory, and, he went to Japan and there, broke his leg, and, all and Orphans' Pension Fund was called into his property and papers were stolen from him. existence to meet the objections under, which so when he returned to Hongkong he was, de former "compensation allowances" were stitute, and the Rey, Mr. France had bean pay OLDEST FAVOURITES granted to widows and orphans of deceased ing for his board and lodging at the Baldiers
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remedy that does not entail "research into the maimed and mutilated, quivering and agonised living bodies of our fellow-creatures the animals j; but Pasteurism, is the cruel and shameful torturing of dogs, and is therefore wrong and absolutely unjustifiable, and wher ever Pasteur institutes am there hydrophobia pavaili and spreads, while Buissonism is humane and safe, and is therefore advisable |・und right,
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