Intimations.
"ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.
:
LIMITED.
NOTHER
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY MAY
FOREIGN CAPTAL IN JAPAN.
The Japanese papers are seriously discus.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
All communications intended for publication In 1 HONGKONG TELEGRAPH" should be ndihemed to The Rilor, 1, Ien House Itond, and
MR. Robert Brough, the well-known actor, Rhould be accompanied by the Writer's Nune and sing the action of the Government in seck.died in a private hospital in Sydney on the zoth Ordinary busintres commonfcntions should be addressing to restrict the introduction of foreign April. The immediate cause ofdeath was heart
Andrear.
to The Manager.
24
1906.
QUEENSLAND TO THE BAST.
GLOWING TRADE PROSPECTS.
INTARESTING INTERVIEW;
The Haltor will not nudertake to be risponible for capital into that county. Since the conclu- failure, although Mr. Brough had been ailing matters pertaining to the trade of the world,
world is 80 casita por quarter.
live conte
any rejected MS., nor to return any Contribution,sion of the war, many private firms have been in negotiation with foreign financiers SUBSCRIPTION RATES (IN ADVANCE). Dattv-130 per karna,
with the object of securing fresh capital to WEEKLY-1s per aunum. A. S. WATSON & CO., The rates per quartor al por mensein, proportional, enable them to extend their operations. It
The daily a
delivered free when dis addrem in is the belief that Japan is on the eve of grent accesible to monger. On coplo sent by print wi additional $1.80 per gaartor is charged for poringe. commercial developments, and money is The portage on the weekly inue to any part of the necessary if the new era of prosperity is to Single Cople, Dally, teu ceista: Weekly, twenty.be caught at the flood. But the Govern ment is decidedly averse to the wholesale borrowing which is necessary if the required increase in capital is to be obtained. The Government has ordered it to be made known that if capital is wanted the Nippon Kogyo Ginko, a semi-oficial institution, is prepared to grant loans at low rates of in- terest. According to the Mainichi of Osaka the Government learnt that the Hokkaido Colliery Railway Co. had negotiated a Bri- tish loan of £1,000,000 at 5 per cent, in-
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
SCOTCH
WHISKIES.
GREAT REDUCTION
1.N
PRICES.
From this date the prices of our popular brands of SCOTCH WHISKIES will be as under :-
Per Case of idea. $11.00
A. TÜORNES BLEND B. GLENORCHY BLEND . (A
Fine Soda Whisky) C. ABERLOUR-GLENIIVET(A Fine Peaty Flavoured Winsky) D. H.K.D. BLEND of the Finest Old Malt Scotch Whiskies
E, BLEND.
The popular Whisky in the Far East........
The above prices
are strictly af
Che Houghong Celegraph
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1906.
SINGAPORES BARBOUR
SCHEME,
On the rath of April, the contract tender ed by Sir John Jackson, Lid, for the con- struction of the harbour improvements at
terest, the amount receivable being Lyat
per roo, less commission and fees.
4
In these days of keen competition in all and the never-censing search for new markets for aconsiderable time. DunING the twenty-four hours ending at six for superduous home products, the arrival of clock this morning the police at West Point Mr. Frederic Jones, Commissioner of Trade picked up no fewer than four dead bodies that for Queensland, who has come out personally markets in the Far East for the excess food were dumped in the street. They were all said to see for himself the prospects of finding new products of his State, is one of more than or to have died from plague. SHORTLY before eight o'clock lasi,evening the didary interest. Mr. Jones is a man of wider fire brigade were called out, by the alarm, to n expericace in all matters pertaining to Colonial fire supposed to have occurred in Wellington trade and agriculture, and for that reason was Street. When they arrived on the scene they appointed Commissioner of Trade, by the were told that their services were not required Han. Mr. Deakin, Prime Minister of the Com- and the engines were returned. It appears monwealth. That being so, and learning of his that fire broke out in a chimney of a house, arrival in the Colony, a representative of the there and the alarm was sounded. The police-Hongkong Telegraph arranged for an interview mae on that best, with the assistance of the with Mr. Jones, and it took place this morning, inmates of the flat, extinguished the blaze the conversation of the gentleman interviewed before it had got to any serious proportions. being replete with most interesting and instruc The damage done is trifling.
THE Bangkok Times understands that the Siamese Government is makingarrangements
coins will not interfere with the exchange vajuc
within the next twelve months.
*
The thus replacing silver as the sole metal currency, Singapore was formally accepted by the
for the intende silver as a gold coinage shortly. Crown Agents, in behalf of the Government of the Straits Settlements. The terms and transaction was generally regarded in Japan. The pieces to be issued will be of twenty and as a satisfactory olie, but the Government ten ticals value respectively. The issue of gold conditions were finally arrived at on that date after correspondence, and in the letter ac questioned the wisdom of the Company's of the silver which will remani legal tender to cepting the offer of Sir John Jackson, Lad., action, urging that the cost of the loan was any antount as heretofore The advantages of involving a matter of sumie £1,250,000; the too high and making various other objeca gold coin are obvious, as doing away with the Crown Agents wrote: The matter being tions. Later on, the Kansai Railway obtain bulk of silver, ami representing value in itself now settled we are giving instructions for theed a foreign lean of £1,000,000 on still bet whereas the note represents value held by the preparation of the necessary contract inter terms, the interest being 49 and the Treasury. The exact date of the issue has not which the terms arrived at in correspondence amount receivable £92 per £100. The been decided upon, but it will probably be will be embodied. In the meantime, the Government, however, again showed dissatis- work should proceed and we propose to con- faction; and it took means to make its dis11 is reported from Wychang that Viceroy sider to-day as the date of our acceptance of pleasure known to the Company. Event-Chang Chib-tung, with his well-known interest in educational matters, lias decided on the your tender." "The celerity with which the ually the Government advised the latter to preliminary negotiations have been hurried deposit half the amount of the loan with the establishment of a Government College of an Kogyo Ginko, and with this suggestion the especially high atanlard. His object to afford to students who have been selected to go 12.50 through is the more remarkalite when we
abroad to acquire a professional or technical consider the interminable delays which oc- Company complied. Thereupon, accord- curred in the past. Scheines innumering to the stainichi's information, the education as comp ele a knowledge of Western able have been formulated; everybody in Bank utilised the Y5,000,000 thus ab learning as possible beforehand, and to this the Southern Settlement has had a say tained in purchasing Exchequer Dills, end, is taking the steps abovementioned. He bus ordered the Department of Education at in the matter; and when other subjects The Railway Company, however, only com.
Wuchang to request the officials and teachers 15.00 | fatied it was always easy to raise a squabble plied with the Government's proposal in a of the existing higher schools to submit suitable The by dilating on the proposed barbour im half-hearted way, for I immediately began to proposals as to the best plan how to equip and
11.40
11.00
discount of live per cent. previously allowed | provements. Every other man in the Colony withdraw its deposit until now a very small run such a college.-Shinghai Times. •
on our Whiskies ceases from this date.
had a cut-and-dried scheme in his pocket, which he was prepared to discuss, at a mo. ment's notice. The question shattered whist parties, and parted friends of long standing.
A. S. WATSON & CO., only those who refused, to be tempted into
LIMITED,
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS. flongkong, 1711 May, 1906,
GREGOR & CO.,
portion of the amount handed over to the Kogyo Ginko remains in the hands of that institution. The fact seems to be that the Government of japan have failed to convince
ATTEMPIED SUICIDE BY A
CHINESH PASSENGER..
the lists, and saw beneficial features in every private enterprises that it is better to secure yesterday to the effect that a Chinaman-
The report, which was circulated in the city one of the crew of the C. P. K. Company's steamer Empress of China-lind committed suicide on board that vessel yesterday after noon, was to some extent highly exaggerated. On inquiries being made this morning we
learn that a Chinaman attempted suicide on
tive facts.
INCREASE OF EASTERN BUSINESS,
Upon the subject of trade conditions in the East, Mr. Jones said: I have just left
returns for 1985 (for the Philippines. Ordinatý Manila, and am well satisfied with the trade mercantile business from Australia exceeds two and a quarter million Mex, which is an in. crease of 25% over the returns lar 1904. This amount, you must know, does not include sup- pics for the Army or Navy, or for the insular Governments to whom we sent 154,000 tons of col, and fresh meat exceeding one million
dollars Mex., in addition to various contracts. for food-stuffs, details of which are not at pie sent available. It is thus self-evident that a least in this market we can beat America her self, even iu dour, Our very large increase in the flour trade in the Philippines is not due to the Chinese boycott, but simply to the ques tion of price and quality,
QUEENSLAND'S PROSPERITY.
Dever
Queensland at the present time is enjoying all the benefits and advantages of general all-round prosperity. the country was in a better condition and, thus the policy of the present Government, now in existence just three years, has been amply justified. You must remember that we have had to fight, and are fighting wow, the 'Did Party which laid down the dicium that we had Do sight to even make any attempt to do mora than send home our raw manufactured article, Further than that, as far as Queensland was concerned, agriculture and manufactures were being continually cold-shouldered and the country laid out in a sheep-walk, with cattle runs, etc.
All that is altered now; and we are making enormous agricultural developments, with the result that the value of every acre of land in the settled districts has been doubled.,
SUBSIDY FOR TONSAGE. Queensland itself is now paying subsidy of over a quarter of a million, Mex., per annum for the regular calling of the Orient steamers to take
It
our butter alone to London. is anticipated that the Commonwealth will shortly give heavy subsidies for cheap freights, and I om naturally anxious that the Orient shipping shall receive its proportionate
share.
POPULATION.
You ask me what we are doing, or going to do about obtaining more population, whether do not think it will be impossible to settle northern territory develop our vast. without the introduction of coolie labour, for talk politics, but i can assure you that it is the the purpose?--Well, in the first place I cannot firm, fixed, and unalterable decision of the people, noi alone at Queensland, but of Aus- tralia as a whole to continue the present policy
of non-admittance of the coole.
As to the white man not being able to work am of opinion that he most certainly can. The and develop the resources of the far north population question is a most serious one, and our best men are, taking hold of it most
Assistance was earnestl
loans in the country to the exclusion of scheme framed by amateur engineers were able to weather, the storm of angry debate. foreign money. Thwarted in their efforts to At length an official scheme was produced direct trade in the direction of the Bank, the and that scheme is now accepted. It is Government have been considering other safe to say that few in Singapore agree that methods to prevent the contracting of outside It is the best scheme that could have been debts, without success however. It is sugboard that vessel yesterday, but that he was not a member of the crew. The Chinaman, whose framed. It is certainly a costly affair; that gested that the authorities have instituted a
name is Chu Muk Lung, was formerly a haw it will prove as valuable to the port, as its kind of fisting inquiry in various parts of the originators believe is very problematical. country in order to ascertain any intentioner in Vancouver, and when he vessel left that 'to negotiate for foreign capital which may be port for the Far East, he boarded her as a Years must clapse before its advantages be-
well until near Japan when come apparent, but at least the question is obtained. Finally, it is now asserted that steerage passenger, homeward bound. Every # most settled for the moment. The correspond-the Government has taken the more overt thing went
it was found that the hawker was ence which ensued over the tender submit action of instructing the Prefectural Gover- quarrelsome passenger, trying to make frouble ners to exert their influence to send seekers whenever he had a chance, and his actions ted by Sir Julm Jackson, Ltd., was unusu
after foreign capital, to the Kogyo Bank. on the vessel were very peculiar. The doctor ally brief, considering the immense sum at
The Government may be actuated by sound of the Empires of China had the hawker 19, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. stake. There was a short account of the
conditions under which the Telok Ayer motives in attempting to keep monetary summoned, after he had been informed of some transactions within the country, but inter of his tricks, and examined the man. It is said quay wall should be built, a reference to
that as a result of the examination the man was the composition of the west and inner south ference with private concerns is seldom pronounced insane. He was promptly placed or advisable, If the terms under lock and key, and guard kept over him moles, and certain requirements as to the desirable deposit of surety money, The time for the of the Hank supported officially are suffi to see that nothing rash was done. On the cient to induce business then it may arrival of the steamer in Hongkong the man construction of the improvements was ex- tended from five and a half to six years. be assumed that merchants and companies was released, and went to the steerage part of The contractors, stipulated that while they will not look farther afield, but competition the ship, with the intention of packing his gear, The master at arms-James Gardiner-who was were to be bound to carry out the east and is the breath of business life, and if foreign'
on duty near by, ruddenly heard a noise and on south moles if ordered within two years, the capitalists can and do offer better conditions, investigaling saw Chu Muk Lung allempting
no Government, not even an autocracy, can to cut his throat with a vaŻDE Crown Agents would be bound to give the Company the option of carrying out this influence the situation. The Kobe Herald,called, the man was overpowered, and, when work at the quoted rates, should it be de- referring to this question, says that: "It is the police arrived, he was given in custody The alleged ins.ne man did not succeed in cided to proceed with it at any date before more than doubtful if the creation of a
cutting his throat deep enough to necessitate the completion of the first contract, and in monopoly in favour of a privileged institu- his transportation to hospital, so he is now the event of the cost of labour in the tion would be a satisfactory way of exercis in a cell at the Tsim-tsa-isui Police Station, interval between two years of this dateing the necessary supervision. It must be with a guard near at hand, and he will be and such date of order having advanced confessed that the intentions with which the placed before a Magistrate to-morrow morning then at such reasonably increased rates Government is credited, when taken in con- as way be agreed upon with the enjuction with the nationalisation of the rail. COLLISION IN THE HARBOUR ginters appointed by the Crown Agents. ways and various similar projects, indicate a The contractors offered to deposit 20,000 tendency to interfere with the rights and ac- in Consols or equally good securities, which tivities of private enterprise which is cal I would remain in the hands of the Departculated to give rise to serious apprehen- ment until ten per cent. of the work had sions." Undoubtedly, such touting on the been performed. A question arose as to the part of the Government is not dignified nor terms on which the securities should be useful. It would not be tolerated by budima, lost her life. At the present moment returned. The contractors held that in the ness men of the United Kingdom or America | event of the works being suspended by causes and however patriotic the Japanese may be
beyond their control the securities should be
it is not likely to be acquiesced in by them. handed back to them. The Crown Agents replied "We agree to the remainder of your For, after all, business is not conducted on proposals as to the security, except that we philanthropic lines. The country which cannot bind the Government to so indefinite seeks to retain all its interests within its own an undertaking as the return of the securities bounds is liable to find that the foreign should the works be suspended by causes beyond your control. Should the works be markels can also play the same game, RHEIMS-CHAMPAGNE.Suspended through the act of God or the Japanese firms, however, are too shrewd to King's enemies we have no doubt that be guided, by the molly-coddling polley of
from application
you would be That
the Government, which has enough to do in considered by the Government." was not entirely satisfactory to Sir John rejuvenating the country after her late trials Jackson, Ltd., who desired a specific under. without interfering with private enterprise. taking by the Crown Agents, and finally the latter agreed to release the securities if
CHAMPAGNES
PERINET
AND
FILS.
MODERATE IN PRICE, AND
ABSOLUTELY
GRAND VINS.
Hongkong, 27th July, 1905,
An
SAMPAN WOMAN BROWSED,
A serious collision occurred in the harbour at half-past ten o'clock last night between Dock launch No. 7 and a sampan, No. 3877, as a result of which an occupant of the sampan, a
"GEN." BOOTH NOT WANTED. But if we in Queensland turn our 500,000 into 5,cap,0.0, which i hope to see done, myself, it will not be by recruits supplied by "Gen." Booth from the scum and refuse and dregs of London and other slums, but from a strong liberal land policy, which will settle the people in groups as soon as they are brought to our shores,
TO WATCH THE NORTHERN MARKET. It is my intention to make my headquarters
|
Han States to settle in Queensland. This, of course, I do not want to sae, 1t la vicious to depleto, one State for the advantage. of another, and take away from a sister State some of her best people
. INDUCEMENTS FOR IMMIGRANTS. There is every inducement for the British, German and Scandinavian agricultural labourer and farmer to come to us; he is a made man in fivo years if he does so, and he will be a citizen of the finest and most democratic coun- try on earth.
CHINESE IN QUEENSLAND. In the whole of Australia In 19as there were 30,000 Chinese, of which 3,000 were in Queens land, and I may tell you that since I hava been officially connected with the East I have strenuously advocaled granting the Chinese any privileges granted to any other Asiatic race.
PRIVILEGES TO CHINESE.
I am pleased to tell you that the Hon. Alfred Deakin, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, has agreed to grat cxemption certificates to the Chinese official, student and merchani who desires in visit Australin. I can give all parti calars regarding this exemption to all inquirers interested.
the
NO TROUBLE WITH CHINESE. No, we have had no trouble in Australia with ation, because of our exclusion laws. Once a Chinaman is in Australia and has paid his there is little inclination, save on the part of $1,000 potl-tax, the law faily protects him, but school boys, to molest him in any way and he is a hardworking, industrious individual and undoubtedly makes money fast. He lives there exactly as he does when in his own
Luinese, no boycott, nor threattoned retal.
country,
FRUITS AND WINES.
We are doing remarkably wel with our con signments of fresh fruits to Manila, and it will be one of iny first works to fix up a connection for the same with China. Our summer, as you know, is your winter, so that when we are ready in ship your market will be depleted, and should be ready to receive all we can send. We might lose a little on the first, second, and even third shipment, which, however, would be but a fraction as compared with establishing a market in a new place. We have citrons, Traits, apples, pears and grapes, all of the best variety. Wines, however, must still be se cured from the southern States.
COLLISION IN WESTERN
FAIRWAY.....
LAUNCH RUNS INTO A TOW,
Another collision occurred at West Point at about nine o'clock last night, near the Western Fairway, but, fortunately, if any damage was done, it was very slight, although as a result of the collision Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. are, probably, the losers. At the time men- tioned the steam launch Cheung Sing, which plies between Yau-ma-ti and Hongkong, across tha was making her usual rUR barbour. At the same time the steam launch wong, Vit, with a low of teakwood behind her, belonging to Messrs Jardine, Matheson. and Company, was crossing the harbour from cast to west. The report says that they met not far away, and the Cheung Sing, not seeing the Kroong Vik's tow, parted her beim enough to allow the Awong Yik to past. She then went ahead and soon came into collision with the loge of teakwood that were floating behind the other launch. The tow line was snapped and thirty-eight pieces of teak drifted away and at present have not been recovered. the launches, after ascertaining what damage was done, continued their journey.
THE SHANGHAI-YAP CABLE
The following interesting paruculars con- cerning the laying of the new Shanghai-Yap cable, just completed, are given in a repost by the U.S.. Consul at Frieburg, Germany:--
The newly laid cable frein Shanghai to Yap. continuous line of cable has been laid around the whole earth which is not English. is especially remarkable for the reason that a
From Europe to East Asia and to the Chin- ese coast there are the land telegraphs and pea cables of the Danish Great Norac Telegraph Company. The Atlantic cean is traversed not only by the English telegraph lines, but
also by the American, French and German cables. These are, through the various service western coast of America, and from the lines of the United States, combined with
extends vid Guam to the Philippines. In San Francisco. the American Pacific cable Guam, however, the German-Netherlands cable systems branches off 10 Yap, from which place the new cable has made a new, bond of union with the German and Danish lines on the Chi- nese coast. The cable from Shanghai to Yap assures to Germany henceforth a telegraphic union with the Ladrone and Caroline Islands independent of English influence, and these sides also the union with the Great Sunda islands are German colonial possessions, be islands and the important Dutch colonial, possessions in farther India, which are so im- portant also for the German commerce.
The Shanghai-Yap cable line has been laid depits any cable. Shanglial, and work the surrounding country in great gands ago there was no cable in a from there. I shall thus be able to give reli greater ocean depth than 16,404 feet. The able and specific information to my Govern-American cable in the Pacific Ocean was in incat, concerning each market, with the trade, 1993 laid in depths to 20,469 feet. The cable 1905 by the German cable steamer Stephan, conditions and facilities for commerce. Having enade Yap-Guam, which was laid in the year surpassed this record, inasmuch as it was only just arrived I cannot give you any detailed
necessary to lay the cable in depths of 22,056 particulars concerning the actual trade with China and Japan, but when I left Australia feet. In the case of the cable from Shanghai cargo space with every company trading to the to Yap, which was also the work of the cable steamer Stephan, it was necessary in the Orient had already then bees taken up for the vicinity of Linkiu islands to reach depths of next three months to come and additional lines 16,246 feet, which is one of the deepest places were being projected.
to be found anywhere in the oceans. The cable was manufactured in Germany in the North German Sea Cable Works in Nordenham,
.
FAITI IN CHINA.
As I said before, my faith is in China, and 1
the particulars in connection with the collision are vague, but we are given to understand that at the time mentioned the sampan, with two women on board, as the crew, was returning to the shore after conveying a pas- senger on board the French steamer Hué. The crew of the sampan, which consisted of have told the people in Australia continually for only two women, were rowing hard, and the last four months that this market itself will were off the Kowloon Docks, when sud-absorb all our surplus food products for many st uck years to come, il wa intelligently watch our denty, as it is alleged, they were
the sampan capsized, customers, and give them what they want.
COLD STORAGE, amidships, and throwing both women into the then fair- ly rough sex. One of the females was rescued, we are informed by the palice, the body has but the other sank immediately, and as yet, not been recovered. The rescued woman was
Cold storage? Oh, yes, us regards that I ed here as at Singapore-half the capital being: would suggest that a similar company be form subscribed locally, and the balance by these interested in the concern in Queensland. I and I feel sure it wou'd be a good paying pro position, in addition to its being a decided boon to the residents of the Colony,
at the mouth of the Weser.
SHIPPING AND MAILS.
MAILS DUE,
American (Mongolia) 26th inst. French (Oceanien) 28th inst, American (China) 3rd prox. Indian (Kutsang) 4th prox. German (Prine Waldemar),5ib prox.
The "Ben" Line s.a. Denavon, from Antwerp
and London, left Singapore on radial for
CAPTAIN Alexander Simpson, of the Aberdeen put on board the launch and, on arrival at Police Biation. The sampan was, of course, other day homeward bound to London from or the King's enemies, or in consequence of Sydney and the Cape, is on his seventy-first smashed. We understand that an inquiry will be held into the circumstances of the accident an order to suspend the works issued by the voyage out and home from Sydney, a record Colonial Government. The work will ac that is believed to be without parallel in the cordingly proceed forthwith. The subject, history of the British mercantile marine. He at an early dale, therefore, enters the sphere of practical life, has been doing the voyage for over forty years, and Singaporeans have the doubtful pleasure
the works are suspended by the act of God liner Moravian, which called at Plymouth the Hungbom, the matter was reported at the am quite prepared to submit any such proposal""|"this port M. S. 5. Co's 5.8. Mongolia will
of having their gloomy prognosilcations fulfilled or otherwise. At any rate, they will no longer be arguing in the dark, for theory [36-18 will give place to ocular demonstration,
and has covered altogether about 2,000,000 At a meeting of the North Norfolk Beekeepers
of
SETTLERS IN QUEENSLAND,
As regards sealers in Queensland? Well, as a matter of factibe keen intelligent allen-
miles without mishap. For the last eighteen Association, one member said he made 40 ation paid by the highly systemised Depart aient of Agriculture, combined with most years he has been experimenting with regard year on the average from his honey "farm," 19 the set of ocean currents, and hundreds bottles placed in the sea by him have beenHe kept from twenty-three to twenty-six bives, liberal landlords is at present inducing large returned from all parts of the world.
and the yearly erop ranged from 44st, 10 vodst. | numbers of farmers from the Southern Austra
The P.
dua at this port on 26th inst. sail from Shanghai on 24th inst., and will be
The C. R. Co.'i na. Empress of India laft Vancouver p.m., oo ist inst, for Hong- kong via the usual Ports of Call.
The 1. C. S. N. Co/s 1.1. Kutiang lekt Cal-, and may be expected here on 4th prox. cutta for this port via the Straits on 19th inst, The H. A. L. 1.1. Ambria fiom Hamburg left Singapore for this port, on aid inst, a. and may be expected here on agih inst.,