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marked, learned"and, Inwardly digested the Fable, orderly but engor throng anxious to be THE Hon. Mr. C. W. Dickson, residing at 44. "correspondence relative to painting the connected with the railway scheme. With Mount Gough, Peak, proceeded against a wood work and ironwork of the Steam Laun in a week of the issue of the lists, the pro-coolie, at the Police Court this morning, for 17th instant. The defendant admitted the day on Kowloon Inland Lot 1157 in lieu of moters were seriously considering the ad-stealing seven brass rings from his house on the limewashing." It is also of importance to visability of declaring them closed. Canton charge, and was sentenced by Mr. F. A. Baze know their opinion on the modification of alone applied for so million dollars worth land to three weeks' hard labour and six hours' some sections of the Public Health and of shares and up to the 14th inst. over stocks Buildings Ordinance for the benefit of $1,648,700 had been collected on account of
the first call From outside sources applica- AT the instance of Inspector Wm. Cameron, house in Wa Lane and other houses in Connaught Road Central,, and Des Voeux tions had been received for shares to the value ten coolies were charged before Mr. C. A. D. with keeping a common gaming house, and Road. Will the Board grant an honest of 6 million dollars, and in fact, instead of Melbourne, at the Magistracy this morning, dealer permission to have a pork stall at having to beat the drums, sound the cym gambling at No. 134 ShaL! Un, Kowloon City, Yaumati? If so, they must also seriously bals and charm the populace with the on the 18th insisut. The first and second de consider the claims of applicants who wish bonicd speech of orators in order to draw fendants were fined Sag each. The remainder to sell fish and vegetables at Quarry Bay, money as if it were blood, the promoters 53 apiece.
Shigle Copie, Dally, ton cents: Wookly, twenty-The limewashing returns for the fortnight have stood stock-still, while the money
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The Hongkong Celegraph
Kevongtung, was charged at the Police Count BIANI PABLO (25), waichman on board' 1.5, this morning with stealing 46 eggs from the said ship, on the night of the 18th instant. It was alleged that the eggs were the property of the stevedore.. The defendant pleaded guilty, and Mr. Hazeland sentenced him to fourteen days' hard labour.
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ANTI-CHRISHAN RIOYS. CHINESE INCENDIARIES AT WORK.
SEVERAL BUILDINGS DESTROYED.
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Shanghai, 19th March,
11.45 a.m.
According to reports from Chinese sources, a serious anti-Christian riot
occurred at Siaokung, in the province. of Clickiang, on Friday, 16th inet.
Several buildings were burnt by the Chinese rioters.
should furnish food for thought; while the flowed in with the velocity of Niagara and the amplitude of the Amazon. "Money BIRTH.
speaks," says the monosyllabic American, At the Government Civil Hospital, this rat returns are certain to be productive" of morning, the wife of N. G. NOLAN, of a wild hilarity. And that is the list of extraor
and that is perfectly true. The supporters daughter.
(368 dinary and urgent affairs upon which the mem.
of the Canton-Hankow railway were now in bers of the Sanitary Board are invited to excr-
a position to snap their fingers at all who cise their noble and erudite minds. Ofcourse, dared to oppose them. They could afford it is possible that the President may deliver
to taunt the Viceroy, to flout his proclama. an introductory address, which will contain tions, and to chasten his underlings. all the explanations deemed desirable in the Happily, they had at their head wise men interest of the public; but will the members of the Board be permitted to discuss the real of the world, who realised that violence would undo everything. Continuing their questions which not merely interest but level course, which in 'face of the prevail. Magistracy this morning the following was closely affect the real heart of the Colony?ing excitement, was both politic and praise-Tang Un is still too drunk to give particulars Railway Collision in the United
HONGKONG, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1906.
FOR UNOFFICIAL MEMBERS,
Although there has been no lack of ques tions immediately affecting the public in
The probability is that should aventuresome terest and under the cognizance of the member spring a question at the meeting, he Sanitary Board during the past fortnight, it will be informed that, no notice having been is evident that the Board is determined to given, the subject cannot be considered on pursue the even tenour of its way without that occasion. And that will be in strict reference to public opinion, and supremely accord with the laws laid down in May's regardless of the general interests of the Parliamentary Practice. The conclusion is Colony. The statutory meeting of the Board that the Hongkong public must remain in takes place to-morrow afternoon, and when ignorance of the methods being pursued by we received a copy of what is termed the the Banitary Department. The methods | "Orders of the day" we naturally expected may be right or wrong, wise or fatuous; to find there some item or items dealing they may be dictated by sound reason with the subjects which have lately engaged and long experience, but so long as they the attention of our readers. The past are hidebound and tied with the red fortnight has been particularly prolific of Lape of official secrecy they must be events which have coine within the juris-open to suspicion and inward questioning. diction of the Sanitary Board-or, at least, It is by no means a satisfactory state of the Sanitary Department, which is controlled affairs, and if the unofficial representatives by the Board-but no mention is made of at the Board are all they declared themselves such a vital question as the protection of to be when elected they will make it their formalities were observed; there was no Hongkong against small-pox imported from endeavour to obtain light where darkness Singapore, where, as our correspondent tele-reigns at present, and bring pressure to bear on the Government so that the people may graphed, there has been been a serious out.
learn the true facts of the situation. break of that disease; causing the utmost uneasiness among the inhabitants of that
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AT 445 o'clock this morning, a Chinaman named Ng Tang Un was arrested at West Point for behaving in a disorderly menner while drunk in Queen's Road West. At the attached to the charge-sheet: "Prisoner Ng and cannot attend Court to-day."
A HAWKER residing at St. Stephen's College, West Point, prosecuted his brother at the Magistracy this morning for stealing a clock. It transpired that defendant went to visit his brother and, as the latter was out, he picked up a clock, and took it to a pawnshop. The brother was arrested, and this morning sen
tenced to three weeks' hard. fabour and six
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worthy, they held another meeting, and framed certain resolutions, a translation of which we had the pleasure of presenting to our readers on Saturday evening. A perusal of these resolutions will show the moderate, calm, and business-like spirit which animated the assembly. Nobody could take the slightest objection to their tenour. They resolved that the money subscribed should be deposited with certain specified banks in Canton, pending the cutting of the first sad of the new line. Then they decided to The members of St. Patrick's Club, in celebra- petition the Shangpu, or Board of Com-tion of their Patron Saint's day, gave a most merce at Peking; to memorialise the Throne enjoyable typical Irish concert in the Club to give effect to the resolutions adopted, rooms, on Saturday evening, in the presence of and to declare that
the undertaking a very large and appreciative audience. It was a purely patriotic function, no item in the pro- should be carried out solely by the mer chants and gentry, and that the completed gramme being other than distinctively Irish, line should rest in their control. All the den little Shamrock" (or an Oriental counter.
feit presentment thereof), as did a large number of the audience. indecorous haste; and the result is that un- less the Throne is acting the role of the estrich the memorial will be graciously granted, and the loyal and faithful subjects in Canton praised and magnified for the | dutiful spirit they have manifested through- out the initial proceedings. But there is more in all this than meets the eye. Here Those who have followed, with any degree we see a people, reputedly poor, or at least, of interest, the remarkable events which have not wealthy, raising a sum of so million occurred of late in connection with the Candollars without turning a hair. Two million ton-Hankow railway scheme must have been struck by the results achieved by a move ment which, originating in a desire on the part of the commercial and gentry classes to retain the right of constructing the
THE CANTON-HANKOW RAILWAY
AND PUBLIC OPINION.
and each performier wore a small sprig of "the
PROGRAMME of music to be performed by the Band of the and Royal West Kent Regiment on the New Parada Ground this afternoon from 5 to 6.30 p.m.
.......Soura
March... El Capitan Overtures ...."Ruy Blas"........Mendelssohn Selection...
„“Tannbauser“ Wagner,
Vatie.
......................... Min Cara". Bucalomel Incidental Music la.., Manitur Beaucaire
Rose & Bucalossi Selection fee........" Patience"... Croma Stillvan God Save the King.
No further particulars are yet to hand.
[Renter's.]
States.
London, 16th March.
A collision between the North-bound and
the South-bound expresses, on the Denver Rio Grand Railway bas occurred near Port- land, by which 150. perished.
1
Most of the victims were roasted in the burning cars.
Later. Only forty were killed in the recent sc cident, including 15 burned.
Austria-Hungary.
17th March. The Budapest Government has dissolved the executive committee of the coalition. parties, on the ground that it was inciting sedition.
The Government and South Africa.
Mr. Winston Churchill's speech in the House of Commons, especially the portion referring to an Imperial veto, has aroused indignation in South Africa.
Daring robbery in
HONGKONG. ·
BASKETFUL OF DOLLARS STOLEN.
There was some commotion in Queen's Road Central at 9.30 o'clock yesterday morning when a Chinaman was seen with a small basket under his arm, bolting westwards, while a heap of dollars could be heard rattling in the basket, Two Chinamen, who had not been in the Colony twenty-four hours, went to the Lau Shing rooney-changer's shop, No. 118,
in Hongkong had been hoping that one, at least, of the popular. representatives of the people at the Board, that is to say, a non-official member, would consider it his imperative duty to obtain
pounds sterling is easily obtained in London 134 from the President an authoritative state
when a loan is floated, but there the circum ment as to the powers conferred on the
stances are entirely different. The under-
THE semi-final football match that was played officials of the Department, with regard to
writers have an extraordinarily strong law
on the Hongkong Football ground, between the cleaning and renovation of dwelling
behind them; the money is deposited in the Club and the Y.M.C.A., on Saturday after- houses in the city. The opinions of our railway as against the Government, was banks whose standing is undoubted; the noon, was a well-contested one. Leckie opened Queen's Road Central, and from a medicine correspondent "Property Owner," whose carried forward by the force of public securities offered for the loan are as good as scoring for the Club, which was quickly follow. shop, which rented part of the house, they
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Lau Shing was busy, one of the two men in a penalty awarded the V.M.C.A., through the shop went to the cupboard, picked up a Humphreys committing a foul in goalmouth basket containing 5355 in silver and made u At half-time the score was two all. Vory even dash for the door. The meney-changer im. play opened the second half, and later the mediately seized the second man who was still Y.M.C.A. seemed to have collapsed. A good in the shop, while his folds went after the man run down resulted in Leckie pulting in an easy with the basket. In Jubilee Street he was shot that completely baffled Chunyat. Final: arrested by a lukeng, and the money recovered. Club 3: Y.M.C.A. *. ̧
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The charge was proved, and Mr. F. A. Haze- land sentenced the defendants to three weeks hard labour each and six hours' stocks,
CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
FORGERY OF PASSENGER TICKETS 10 BANGKOK.
The March. Criminal Sessions opened this morning at the Supreme Court, Sir Francis Piggott, Chief Justice, presiding, when Chan Ya Mut, who styles himself a bank clerk, was indicted on the charge (1) of lorging a passago ticket with the intention of obtaining passage to Bangkok per as. Zool, on the 22nd ult, and (2) with uttering the said ticket with the
intention of defrauding the master of the said
steamer.
The Hon. the Attorney-General, Sir Henry Berkeley, instructed by Mr. C. E. Monel, of Messrs. Dennys and Bowley, Crown solicitors, prosecuted.
Prisoner pleaded not guilty.
ago, were certainly entitled to some measure the success of the scheme has become a however, the conditions are vastly different. of official recognition, for this reason certainty. In this movement there has been The Chinese subscribers have no law behind if for no other, that they are en- a spontaneity of feeling in favour of the them; instead, they are not certain that they dorsed by all who are not absolutely de popular management of the railway and its have not aroused the animosity of the Im pendent upon the Board. But not a line construction which almost seemed incoin-perial Government and its high officials by appears on the agenda paper with reference patible with Chinese character. It is quite their independence and self-assertion; the to this question, which lias been the subject evident from all that has happened, that money is deposited in banks whose standing of discussion in all quarters of the city, from Chinese thought and character, the Chinese is surmised rather than declared; the the landed proprietor to the humble tenant power of combination and Chinese public security offered in return is nil; the returns COMMENTING on the fixity of the dollar in the who suffers from the insensate demands of opinion have been sadly misunderstood and are conjectural. Surely it is the acme of Straits Seulements, the Glasgow Herald re- marks that there is one point in connection successive Sanitary inspectors, armed with under-estimated. The boycott of American courage and devotion which has induced the with the Straits Government currency reform plenary powers to enforce their will. And goods in retaliation for the non-repeal of hardest-headed business men and merchants which is worth a word of comment. Discussing above all, it was surely reasonable to antici- certain objectionable clauses in the Exclu in the world to part with their ready, actual the matter with an Indian banker the question straw which showed cash under such circumstances. Yet be- was raised whether the Government had taken pate that the Director of Public Works sion Law was would have been called upon or even how the wind blew, but this latest cause they believed it to be a national as well sufficient precautions to provide for an adequate voluntarily offered to deliver a
state-example of Chinese tenacity of purpose and as a personal duty to maintain their rights supply of silver. The Eastern banks in the Straits Settlements will, of course, readily take ment of the subject of the water supply determined opposition to the Imperial will by an exhibition of their capitalistic power notes, and they want nothing else, but the as represented by the Viceroy, is of much they have guaranteed the success of the Chinaman and the native dealer are wedded in Hongkong. Considering that the limita-
more importance. For in the latter case Canton-Hankow railway construction scheme. to silver. Have the Goverement sufficiently tion of the daily supply of water is a matter affecting all and sundry, imposing much the people, that is, the merchants and gentry They have shown to the world that China, fanified themselves to be in a position to ment inconvenience, even in those households the educated classes, in fact, and those and Southern China in particular, is a power all the demands that may be made upon them which have a plenitude of water-taps, and best capable of assimilating western' iders-
to be reckoned with, a dragon who is not for new silver dollars? have made no effort to enter into open re real hardship on the lower classes who find
not taken the rabble into their confi- regeneration of China is not merely an airy FROM U. FAZZINI, FLORENCE. themselves mulcted in additional expendi-bellion against the Government. They have asleep but only dozing. At this rate the ture by having to engage coulies to procure dence, nor have they violated the prin possibility; but a fact. China for the Chi- water for them, it was naturally to be excipies of good government. Rather have nese may yet become a motio which will
The following jurymen were impanvelled: pected that the agenda would bear ample they strengthened their case by proceeding have far-reaching consequences. In the story testimony to the Board's anxiety to conserve on purely legitimate lines, demanding of the Canton-Hankow railway we see his-
Messrs. Charles Manger Getting Domia (Foreman), William Eric Craig, John Buchan, the existing water supply and, at the same nothing beyond that to which they could tory in the making; and who knows that we
Benjamin James Spittles, Archibald Om Lang, time, place as few difficulties as possible in justly lay claim and grounding their claims are not now at the parting of the ways?
Hereward Haines, and George Lister Hales. the way of those requiring an adequate supon the bases of equity and justice. They
The Hon. the Attorney General addressing ply of water. Not a word appears. In the were resolved that neither foreigners nor the
the jury, said that a Chinaman, who wanted to "Orders of the day" on the subject. The Government of Chios should have a hund community is allowed. to take it for granted in the construction of the new railway. No THE Board of Examiners for Hongkong pilots
procure some passage tickets for, Bangkok, that the action of the Public Works Depart doubt the Viceroy was chagrined at the dis. will hold a sitting to-morrow forenoon when
went to the Yuen Fat shop, in Queen's Road ment was entirely warranted by the state of comfiture of his plans, for the credit of one European and four or five Chinese candi.that a surplus of just over 2,000,000 to pa of West. They could not supply him with the dates will present themselves for examination cargo rice is available for export from Burma. tickets. When the Chinaman was about to the reservoir. We do not suggest that the building the fine to Hankow would be a
This is equivalent to 35,000,000 cut. of cleaned leave the Yeon Fat shop, the, defendant was for pilots' certificates.
alleged to have approached the native and to rice, Government officials failed in any. re feather in the cap of an official even of
bavo said that be could get him tickets," Next spect to consider the requirements of the Viceroy Shum's reputation.. But the mer. THE second engineer of the 8.8. Ginogle people when they decided to restrict the chants and gentry stood firm, and we may having gone home on leave, has been replaced THE small-pox epidemic in Rangoon is, judg. morning defendant called at the Chinaman's - ing by the daily returns, progressing, according shop and handed bim eighteen passage tickets, supply. But we submit that ratepayers and take it that, as a matter of course, they will by Mr. Creanel. Mr. Hogan is promoted to
he fourth engineer vice Mr. Burgess retired, to the Rangoon Timer. It is of a virulent and said that he would call in a few days for others are entitled to an explanation why prevail against all the powers of viceregal while Mr. Seymour has joined as fifth engineer, type, and is attacking both Europeans and the money, which was at the rate of fit per this step should be considered necessary.officialdom. It was decided by, those in
WE are advised by the f, and O. Steam native. In view of the tendency which the dis- ticket. The usual price of a ticket to Siam is $13. Accused was arrested. In the prisoner's room So far as the agenda paper is concerned, terested in this scheme that a capital ́of 20 the Sanitary Board would seem to have million dollars in $5 shares should be sub Navigation Company that the steamer Banga ease has of spreading as the hot weather ap- nothing whatever to do with the prescribed towards the construction of the new for Singapore and Bombay will leave Hongkong proaches, it is well to advise the public to take was found a book containing Es tickets exactly to-morrow; the Poona, will leave for Yoke the necessary precaution of getting vaccinated, similar to the 18 he produced to the complain. servation of the health of the city, the railway, payable in three. Instalments. The hama wa Shanghal, Meji and Kobe, on the From what can be judged of similar outbreaks ant. Yau Wal Tip gave evidence as to the pro- inspection of private dwelling houses, or prospective shareholders, in meeting asset and inst, and the Arcadia will leave for in Calcutta and Madras, the epidemic appears duction to him by the prisoner of the 18 tickets, to be due to climatic causes. Several European and identified them as those produced in Court, the supervision of the water supply of the bled, framed the prospectus and deter Shanghai on the sand.
and Eurasian families bave been attacked, and and said he bought them at Sisèdch, the usual Colony. Then, it may be asked, what is it mined the character of the directorato, the
The evidence for the prosecution being con- that specially commends itself, or is com-qualifications of the shareholders, and
fatal results have followed within a short time, price being $13 each. due to the dangerous forms of the malady. mended, to the attention of the members of various minor points. When the lists were
The Municipal Health Department are doing cluded, the prisoner made a simple denial of the Board? The "Orders of the day" gives opened, there was such a rush on the part
all in their power to combat the disease, but the charges, His Honour having briefly sum the answer. A new market at Mong Kok of those who wished to subscribe that, a
owing to the fordequacy of their staff, their med up, the jury returned a verdict of guilty,
imprisonment with bard labour," Taui is of superlative importance, while it is our Canton correspondent informed us,
efforts are unavailing in effecting an apprect and the prisoner was sentenced to five years. [36 to be hoped that all the member have read, whole streets were blocked with a respect
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LOCAL AND GENERAL,
THE well-known and popular chief officer of the is. Glenogle, Mr. B. C. Marsh, has left that vessel to take command of another steamer. In consequence of this promotion, Mt. L. Darke, late of the 0. T. P. Company's service, has joined the Glenogle as second officer, in the place of Mr. Paddle, who is pro- moted chief officer,
THE rice crop in Lower Burms is estimated to produce 58 million hundred-weights, which Rangeon Times. This year 6,600,000 acres are about three million less than last year, says the under cultivation-300,000 less than fast year. The estimated yield this year is 930,000 cwis. more than the last five years' average, and 6,000,000 cwls, more than the average for the past ten years. It is an interesting item that, of the 45,000,000 cwt, of husked and unhusked rice exported to foreign countries from the whole of India, Burma contributes no less than 34,003,000 cwis. At present we estimate
able check,