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CONTENTS.
Births, Marriages and Deaths. Loading Articles-
Corea and the Coreans,
Trade. in two Treaty Parts.
Japan's New Scheme.
An Assertion and its Refataticu,
Manufacturing Criminals in Hongkong.
"Ars We Disheartened?
The Cleric in Kube,
Another Clenc.
Telegrams:-
Shanghai Friction.
Chinese Refurm. Corean Pirates.
The Vindivostok Riots.
The Dowey Dock.
The Shanghai,Riot,
Morphin for China,
Meetings:-
Legislative Council.
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce. Sanitary Buan
Legal Intelligenco:-
Money-lender in Court.
Executor and his Rent,
Hank. Bank.
"Settled, my Lord." Hongkong Appeal Case. Police.
Assaulting his Master.
Alleged Kidnapping.
A Grudge against à Bank.
Peak Coolies.
Kowloon City Armed Robbery, Correspondence:
Nuisance in Queen's Road East. Miscellaneous Artioles and Reports !---
Queensland Commissioner.
Property Sale.
For Chinese Reformers.
Gymkhana Notes.
Our Water Supply.
San Francisco Earthquake.
P&O. Company's Prosperity.
Bell's Asbestos Eastern Agency, Limited.
Fatal Accident in Hongkong.
Daring Daylight Robbery.
A Guide to Canton and Macan,
Fus on the Tramcir.
The Unlucky Thiel.
Hongkong Volunteer Reserve Association, Prize Fight,
Chinese Actors for Manila,
The Plague loss in Amoy.
Converts and Lawsuits.
-Funeral of Mr. Cawen.
The Price of Coal.
The Kobe and Osaka Harbour Schemes
The Corean Rising.
Exciting Scenes in Singapore.
An Unfortunate Coolie.
The Late Mr. 11. M. Bevis,
The P. & O. Intermediate Service. Seamen's "Missions.
Commercial:
Yarn Market.
Indo-Chinas.
Hongkong Telegraph
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thefint things she did was to foster and Statuations of sterling exchange have been a stable government secous to have been maintained that it behoved the authorities protested that he had no friends at hand encourge the visits of foreigners to Dai confined within narrower limits and marked established at. Seoul, the Japanese are bend of our repairing yard to remove the stigma and no more money. He was on the point Nippon The people, charmed the casupt a higher level than in the previous yearing their energies to the regeneration of the attaching to the Company. He added of being led, through the prison gates tourist who afterwards discanted upon the with the result that the position of imimmensely fertile tracts of Southern Man "If the unenviable notoriety given to our when a kind-hearted bystander came for beauties of the country, the charm of the porters of Manchester goods and other chutia which is now under their direction. dock establishments of their high charges is ward and tendering a $5 nolu accepted the scenery, the politeness of the people and all inaterials, based on sterling valuations has The new Premier of Japan, Marquis Saionji, baseless, it equally behoves the Company's subsidiary coinage in return. The man was the rest of it. There was nothing like Japai, been improved, in spite of a very consider has just returned from a tour of Inspection directors to exercise their energy to set before then liberated. But surely it is an extra in Manchuria and has submitted-certain the American Naval Authorities a correct ap. ordinary state of affairs when a resident in and it would one day be a great country. able drop in the value of Indian opium im- All these verbal praises and magazine ported, and, consequently, the total imports proposals to the Elder Statesmen for the preciation of the facts that the local esti- Hongkong, daily accustomed to consider articles did more to bring Japan into of foreign origin show an advance on any pre- development of the country which are emi-mates are framed within reason and the that ten 50-cent pieces bearing the head of. notice than half-a-dozen baginen, could.vious year, In the shipping retums it is note-cently worthy of consideration. The scheme, charges are governed by current rates ruling our sovereign lord the King is equal to $5, have achieved in double the time. One worthy that of the total import of £1,938,480 we are told, has been approved by the State in the markets of the East," Considering should be liable to be incarcerated as a of the features which struck the foreigner no less than a value of £2,814,908 was Council Briefly, it is proposed that a com- that the American Navy had been amongst common felon simply because some jacka. in Japan WAS the cleanliness of the carried in British bottoms, which is highlypaily should be formed by the Government the best constituents of the Company napes has laid down an absurd rule. The man.had the money to pay his fine-nobody. It would satisfactory from the British point of view. and private capitalists jointly for working the declaration that their charges were people and their love of order. seem that the people of the Hermit Kingdom The export trade of Swatow also shows im- and developing the railways, mines and excessive was of serious import not merely can deny that, but because it was not the to the shareholders but also to the Colony, exact type of money-although it is the are now desirous of curbing the increasing provement, although there has been a pro- forests, etc., in Manchuria. The Govern power of their protectors by endeavouring|gressive decline in the production of local ment will contribute the railways, mines, and whose interests are to a large extent bound money in currency all, over Hongkong- to indice Westerners to visit the country, and sugar, the northern markels evincing a other property-owned in Manchuria, as iteup in the prosperity of the Company. It which the Magistracy desires, he stood the with this object modern hotels are rising, in decided preference for the Java sugar turned shate m the company, and the value of these was a most damaging allegation and should chance of being branded as a criminal of the Now, the. Me-deepest dye, and, what is more, of finding, Seoul, while the distrast of the people in the out by the Hongkong refineries, Of the ex- properties, as they now stand, is estimated be refuted immediately. foreigner's good faith is rapidly vanishing, ports, about 45 per cent, goes to foreign at about 70,000,000 yen. As a working Lellan was not an ocean marvel in priame after serving his period of imprisonment, But while Corea is no doubt coming forward countries, mainly Hongkong, Siam, and the fund would be required, the total capital of condition. She had been laid up in New that his business had gone to rack and ruin as a visitors' paradise, it seems that the quick Straits. The emigration tables (says the the company could not be less than York out of commission for three years. in his absence. It is all very well to say time excursionist is apt to be painfully im- Consul) show a slight falling off in emigrants00,000,000.yen. In addition, an enormous When it was decided to send her to Manila that the Post Office will have nothing but pressed by the squator of the surroundings to Siam, the Straits Settlements and Sumatra, lund is necessary for the improvement of the with troops $25,000 (gold) was spent upon Hongkong money, but those who go to post in which the Coreans exist, the dirty habits The Swatow coolie is, however, by far the railway system and the mines, and it is pro- her in order to fit her for sea, and most of letters have time to hunt for that rara avis a of the people, the barrenness of the fields most important local export, and there is no posed to raise a loan of 100,000,000 yen that money was expended on the boilers and Hongkong accent piece. And it may be and the general air of neglect presented by doubt that the earnings remitted by the Chi- on the security of the company's pro- machinery. From the moment she left New admitted that the Post Office has a right to the country.
Moreover, the, natives are nese abroad affect most materially the pur.perty. There is no indication whether the York she was in constant difficulties; she guard itself against loss. But a convicted said to be not always so gracious as the chasing power of the district." It is observ working capital would be open to foreign broke down repeatedly and caused the ut person and this was a trivial case whose stranger coming from Japan would naturallyed that the Norddeutscher Lloyd possess investors, and in view of sundry statements post anxiety; she was repaired at every port offer of notes and subsidiary coin is reject- expect. On the other hand the missionaries the monopoly of the Bangkok trade, but which have lately been made by Japanese touched at en ute; the boilers were never ed, stands in a different position. It is and others who have lived in Corea for years before the next report appears we may ex statesmen and the general policy of the to be depended upon for a single moment, rank injustice to send a man to prison under How she ever got to Manila at all is a marvel such circumstances. It is against all the see none of these things. They are strongly pect to find a decided change in the figures, Government it is obvious that every en pro-Cerean, and protest with vigour against now that the Osaka Shosen Kaisha have endeavour will be made to raise the capital in to every one who had anything to do with tchets of British rule. It brings British law the adverse criticisms of the tourist; so thattered the field with a line of steamers run Japan to the exclusion of foreign, investors. her. She was costing money at every stage, into contempt, and it demoralises the allens, we have the spectacle of one side being ning regularly between Hongkong, Bangkok That may be deemed a selfish policy, but although she had been overhauled in New the Chinese that is to say, wito have been in rhapsodies
The loan to York, and this was the vessel which could accustomed to look upon British money while the other baris and Swatow. According to the emigration it is certainly a patriotic one. denunciations. The Korra taily News returns for 1905, 71,419 coolies arrived at be raised is put at a hundred million yen, not be repaired in Hongkong on account of stamped with the head of King. Edward of ""Shareholder ". | Queen Victoria as beyond reproach. It is takes up the budgets in favour of Swatow from Hongkong as against 61,986 but clearly the value of the property is the excessive dock charges. the Kingdom, and offers a reasonable in the previous year; the departures from immensely greater than that amount; it is called upon the directors and staff to make, to be hoped that this absurd rule will be solution of the difficulty. One of the features Swatow to this port were 13,245 last year as gulosal. The railways are only in their an effort to secure the work of repairing the repealed at once for the sake of the Colony's of Corca, the writer remarks, is the unhappy compared with 13,738 in 1904. That means, infancy; the extent of the mineral deposits vessel if only to prove that the garrulity of reputation, and we trust that His Excellency the Governor will see fit to reform out of an irresponsible officer was utterly un faculty of the people, the cities and the of course, that in leaving Swatow the runlies is unknown-the pick has only scratched
The Singapore Free Press, fol existence this pettifogging principle, which landscape to present themselves in the worst go by steamers direct to the Straits, Siam. the surface as yel. The. State Council also warranted.
must have been born in the back yard of possible light to newcomers and transient and Saigon and return by steamers which formulated two principles which should lowing our lead, warmly contested the state.
ment that the McClellan could not have hide-bound, tape-ridden officialdom. We visitors. New arrivals receive the impression touch at Hongkong. The total number of guide. Japanese operations in Manchuria.
been docked there and repaired at a reason have plenty of criminals in Hongkong that the Coreans are an idle, invertebrate, arrivals was 91,660 while 107,456 icit for They run: thriftless and helpless lot. But, all this, we new fields of labour. Turning now to the
able cost. There is now good reason to already without manufacturing them within are told, is largely on the surface. It is report on the trade of Hankow for the period
believe that, despite the remarks of the the precincts of the Magistracy. true that an amazing number of men at under review, we find a vastly different state
officer referred to, the work of repairing the coul appunt, to spend their time in of things. The figures of the gross trade show
innsport will be given to Hongkong. The Cablenews of the oth inst. says:-"It is aimlessly lolling and strolling about the a great diminution as compared with former
very probable that the repairs to the trans streets, but they really form a very small years. The state of the money market has
port McClellan, which is now anchored in portion of the population, and the average interfered with the demand for foreign goods,
Manila Bay, will be made in Hongkong,
A somewhat disquieting report, which Corean working man, in the opinion and "for British trade especially the year
provided that Manila contractors are unwill be hailed with glee by Tariff Reformers of the writer, is equal to the Japanese, cannot be considered favourable." Mr..
able to do the work." The last clause and Protectionists alike, har been issued by coolie in intelligence and, industry, and Consul-General Fraser makes it very clear
would seem to indicate that Manila con-
the Board of Trade with reference to the superior to him in manners. It is alleged that the Chinese in the Hankow district have that the people are dirty. Well, says a very pronounced objection to foreign trade" our contemporary, it must be admitted an objection which has been strengthened that the clothes of the people are in the by the recent outery for the recovery of majority of cases very dirty, but then, it is China's sovereign rights. The feeling. is pleaded. it must be remembered that, as that foreigners have taken advantage of they are generally white or of some very China's inexperience to obtain undue ad light colour, they show all the dirt. Colour-vantages to enrich themselves, and the re- ed clothes get quite as dirty but do not show. As a matter of fact, the journal quoted asserts, there is probably not a coun try in the world where clothes are washed so often. So that question is disposed of; the people's clothes are dirty, but then they are always at the wash, and probably the idea is that the average tourist only sees the
coolies just when the clean garments are
sult, is that all treaties, agreements, etc., must be construed against the foreigner with the atmost strictness. Japan, however, is on camrade, and Japanese hawkers are found everywhere. In shipping Britain re- tained her position, both in the foreign and const trade, while Japan and Norway gained at the expense of China and Germany. In
Hankow as well as in Swalow there is an
That the sovereignty of China in Manchuria should be respected, giving equal opportunity to all the Powers, and joint enterprises of Japanese and Chinese should be encouraged for the development of Manchuria.
That the principle of military supremacy simuld be avoided, so that the natives might the convinced of the sincerity of Japan's inten- toss towards China.
"ARE WE DISHEARTENEDI
(14th June.)
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being expected back-betwixt the dusk and increasing demand for Hongkong refior Boycott of American goods, Japan's pur-furnaces of sufficient capacity in the Orient, competition need not, case dismay-for
the dawn, so to speak. With regard to the sugar, and a curious reason is given by the squalid houses, we are told that, with curious Consul-General for the decrease in the sup perversity, the houses are designed to pre-ply from Swalow. "It is also asserted," sent their worst features to the street. Pri he says, "that the Swatow farmers find the vacy for himself and his women-folk being growing of vegetables for their countrymen the principal desideratum with a well-to-do in the Straits Settlements a more profitable Coreau, his dwelling is placed as far from employment of their land." But why go to the street as possible, while between his the Strain when Hongkong is ravenous for house and the street are the servants' quar-cheap vegetables? It would be thought ters, the meanest of them being next to the that "Swalow could land vegetables at a stred. Of course, that is unfortunate for cheaper ate in Hongkong than in Singa Corca, because first impressions are general-pore, but apparently such is not the case. ly lasting, and the visitor is seldoor likely to Probably the reason is that vessels go from At Hankow, on 2nd June, to the Rev. and have an opportunity of exploring the in Hongkong to the Straits via Swatow which Mrs. LOUIS BYRDE, Church Missionary Society,lerior of the house of a Corean gentlemanniakes all the difference in the world. Yungchow, Hunan, a 'daughter,
Raub Gold Mine..
Exchange. Opium.
Local and General.
BIRTHS.
Un June 13th, at Meirion," The Peak, Mrs. houses. The country is declared to be rich
E. JONES HUGHES, a daughter.
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MARRIAGES.
On the 30th May, at Wuhu HARRY BER TRAM EMERSON to ELSIE RESTARICK, cidest daughter Capt. Jahas, Indo-China Steam Navigation Co,
Oa gth Juse, at Cheloo JoHN HOWARD STOOKE to ALICE MARY BALLUR
At Shanghai, on the 7th inst., COLIN CAMP- DELL STEVENSON 10 ALICE LOUISE BENNETT. DEATHS.
On and May, in London, LUCIE, the wife of the Rev. W. Nelson Bitton of the London Mission, Shanghai.
At Shangbai, KARL ERNST LUDWIG, only son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Fink. Aged ro,
At Ramsgate, op 5th June, Sipsey DILLON SHALLARD, late Commander F. & O. Co.'s Service, Aged 75.;
JAPAN'S NEW SCHEME.
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AN ASSERTION AND FIS REPUTATION,
Surely, that is the height of shrewdness, foreach a declared policy disarms criticism, It would be tilting at a windmill to suggest that Japan was swallowing the plums of vic-tractors do not fancy the job, because trade of Great Britain, with China as con toy. The sovereignty of China in Manchuria they have not the appliances and ma- trasted with the openings secured by Ger- is respected, which is good. But the far chinery at their command. The docks in many and the United States. The report sightedness which suggested that the principle Manila are not equipped with the superb is described as a "return, thowing so far as of military supremacy should be avoided plant that lies to hand over at Kowloon can be stated, the exports to Chino, inclusive is the crowning act of diplomatic acumen. plant which is able to meet all the require of Hongkong, from the United Kingdom, ments of a British battleship, as was evid. Germany and the United States for the years The Japan Chronicle simply says that if the policy of military supremacy were adhered enced in the case of the lion last year, 1885 to 1904, and the avenge for each of when the feat of dismounting and replacing the quinquennial periods, ending 1889, 1894, to, the Powers might have misgivings as to
the heaviest guns on board in record time 1898, and 1904," with percentages. It should Japan's intentions. But by adopting this elicited the wonder and praise of our finest he stated that although the United King second rule Japan merely proclaims that the Naval engineering yards in Great Britain done has not lost ground, having, on the Empire stands in loco parentis to China so
It is said that new furnaces will have to be contrary, steadily increased her export trade fat as Manchuria is concerned. The
to China since 1885, her competitors bave Chronicle adds: "As agitations are afoot in supplied the McLellan, and says the writer: China for the recovery of autonomy and the the present time, according to the been making great efforts to capture the China market, and while the results of that statements of contractors, there are no suance of military supremacy in Manchuria would only result in benefiting a certain and it may be necessary to send to England Great Britain is well ahead of all rivals-the commercial country, and give an opportunity for them." Well, when the McLellan comes figures are the straw which shows how the to Hongkong we shall see about that. The wind blows. Without burdening the reader to two certain European Powers to cultivate better relations with China." That is some. Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company with a mass of details, it may be stated that what obscure, but we take it the writer has not failed to rise to any emergency yet during the first quinquennial period 1885-89, means Germany in the first instance, and and it will be strange if they fail now. The the average annual value of the exports France and Russia in the second. From report proceeds: The estimated cost for sent to China by the United Kingdom all this it will be seen that Japan has the the repairs is $65,000 and the military was £8,303,000; the figures for Cer authoritics have cabled to the Secretary of many were impossible to get the United whole scheme cut and dried, and will pursue War for permission to advertise for bids, States ant goods to the value of £1,911,000. it with the same undeviating energy as she
For the five years ending 1894 the average displayed in the late war, and, we should As it is impossible for the McClellan to
return to the United States in her present value of the exports despatched to China Bay, with the same success. ss the power condition, it is believed that the Secretary by the United Kingdom was £7,678,000; country whose statesmen possess the power of War will appropriate the money and Germany sent goods to the value of both to formulate and to execute.
authorize the advertising for the bids for £1,542,000; and the United States, repairs. We are perfectly confident thata,065,000. There was a slight rise during when the bids are opened it will be found the following five years, Great Britain send- that the charges of ship-repairing yards in ing goode valued at £7,964,000 to China... the Orient are not excessive, that those of Germany £2,117,000; and the Unifed (13th June.)
The Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Com States, 3.155,000. But it was during the Nothing could exceed the widespread energy of Japan in seeking to develop the
Some weeks ago, the American transport pany are lowest of all, that the work will be last five years 1900 to 1904, that the manu- new territories in the North which have McLellan, which, in company with the Kil accomplished in a manner which will earn facturers of the United Kingdom woke up come within her sphere of influence as the patrick, was conveying troops from New York the encomiums of American shipbuilding to the fact that unless they redoubled their result of her success in the late war, and to Manila, arrived at Singapore in a dis- and ship-repairing companies, and that a efforts to cater for Chinese requirements, although that energy is distributed over a abled condition. Scenting an opportunity complete refutation will be given to the and adopted more advanced methods, they great extent of country there seems to be no for testing the capabilities of the Tanjong individual who set himself up as the mouth would he left behind in the race for Chinese diffusion of force or loss of power. The Pagar docks, a newspaper representative in piece of the American Naval Authorities. patronage. Ingoo, Britain sent goods to the value of £8.339,000 to China; in 1904 that amount had advanced to £13,146,000 scheme of development which has been the Southern Settlement inquired of a Naval followed in Cores being carried on engineer officer whether it was intended to
-a truly notable increase. It was in the simultaneously in Manchuria, or, at least, in dock the McLellan at Singapore in order to
beginning of the present century that the that section of China which fell under effect the repairs which the vessel obviously
Prince of Wales, addressing a group of Japan's influence when the Russians with needed. The answer was that the Ameri
Our attention has been directed to a dis-London merchants, gave them the war cry drew to the westward. Naturally, consider can Naval Authorities would not dream of able jealousy has been aroused in certain doing so because the charges were prohibi-tinct and serious hardship which falls on "Wake up, England.". Certainly those chancelleries because Japan should have tive; and he went on to say, ne if officially Police Court offenders as the result of the manufacturers, who had a connection with proved her title conclusively fo be described inspired, that the work could be done more anomalous coinage system of Hongkong. China followed the advice given by His The average annual has to be admitted that the new insular sihle. either in Singapore-or Hongkong.criminals who deserve all the punishment value of Great Britain's exports to China. Power bas shown a capacity to take advan. That was a very serious reflection on the they get, but to those who have contravened, between 19004 was £9,923,000; Germany TRADE IN TWO TREATY PORTS, tage of opportunities and frame schemes of tariff of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock unwittingly it may be, some of the Muni£2,804,000; and the United States, development, which might well give some Company-leaving Singapore out of the cipal by-laws, and are convicted and mulcled £5,320,000. What will surprise most (11th June.)
Continental nations pause for thought. Not question for the inoment and, naturally, in a small fine. The case occurred yester people is the comparatively small advance only that, but Japan has shown that theory there was a chorus of protest against the day and may be briefly outlined. A con- made by Germany-wall in comparison and practice go together these schemes of suggestion that the Far Eastern dock com.tractor or merchant in a small way of busi with the general estimates of German: development have been and are being panies and particularly the local Companyness at Quarry Bay allowed a truck to ab trade in the Far East, while the in- pushed on with all the speed commensurate were nothing more or less than vampires, struct the roadway. He was brought before crease of American trade with China is with sound' progress. Immediately after the who fattened on the misfortunes of their the Magistrate and fined $to with the option, amazing. They had discovered a new field. war, Japan gave supreme attention to the neighbours. The idea was not merely ab-we understand, of a month's imprisonment. From puny shopkeepers they have become perfectly respectable in notable exporters. They challenged, rival- condition of affairs prevailing in Cores tard; it was preposterous, for it has been The man was And a pretty muddle. lier statesmen found the boast and the pride of the staff of the dividual, working hard to make both ends led, and surpassed Germany, in the rush for in the Hermit Kingdom. The counsellors Hongkongand Whampoa Dock Companythat meet. When removed from the Court he Chinese trade. The percentages will best of Corca had been content to remain they could turn out vessels and effect repairs stated that he would pay his fine, and ten- indicate the state of affairs during the past in the slough of inaction for centuries; itacost which would compare favourably withdered a $5 note and $5 in small money, 50 ten years. The average annual increase they desired no intercourse with the outer any yard in England or Scotland and was cent pieces heating the King's head. The during the five years ending 1904 23 com- world. Russia made little or no attempt to certainly below that of any yard in America, shroff informed him that the banknote would pared with, 1894 was-United Kingdom awaken this modern Sleepy Hollow, and where the high wages paid to artizans nulli be accepted, but behind instructions to Te 29.2; Germany, 81.8 United States, 157.6. was not until the Japanese arrived on the fed any advantage that might result from fuse any subsidiary coinage exceeding $1 That speaks volunies for the energy and scene that the Coreans came to realise the home services. A correspondent, writing in That is to say, unless the contractor, or vigour of American enterprise In Ching, To fact that their dictionary was void of several the Hongkong Telegraph under the pom de- whatever he was, could produce another 53 certain extent, however, these figures are essential words of quite moderatinvention, plume of "Shareholder, roundly denied the in bills, he would be marched off to gaol misleadingThe return shows the exports signifying "hustle" and "push" Now that asertion of the American Naval officer, and The unfortunate victim of a ridiculous rule to China from the United Kingdom, but
who wishes to hide behind a bulwark of out-
agriculturally, asthelourist maysee for himself if he will only digress from the beaten track. The Coreans have many beautiful qualities if the trouble is taken to find them out, bat, of course, the foreigner is in such a hurry to get over the ground in the least possible time that he fails to understand the signifi- cance of all he sees. We take it that the Acme in its championship of the country and the people is performing a patriotic task, but there seems to be no doubt that what is wanted in Corea is education pad cnergy, Once the people realise the value of educa- tion they will naturally betake themselves to modera, methods of industry and cast off that lethargy and coms which are the bane of national life. While the newspaper's defence on this occasion is not wholly convincing it shows that there is much hope for the coun-
MANUFACTURing criminalS IN HONGKONG,
he Hongkong Gelegraph in our inmediate future, which is all that as the Britain of the Far East, but, withat, it cheaply in an American yard then was pos. We are not referring to the case of vicious Royal Highness.
MAIL SUPPLEMENT,
ISSUED GRATIS TO SUBSCRIBERS,
Hongkong, Saturday, June 16, 1900,
COREA AND THE COREANS.
(xth June.)
one could desire.
Several consular reports dealing with the trade of various treaty ports in China have been received by the latest mail from Europe, but, from the standpoint of Hong korg readers, probably the most interesting are those which refer in particular to Swalow Bitter as is the attitude of the Coreans and Hankow. The Consul for Swatow, Mr. towards their conquerors the Japanese, and Willis, notes that the recent development of resentful as they may be at the protectorate the trade at that port has been satisfactorily which Japan, supported by Great Britain, maintained during 1905, and the table has established over their country, the more showing the gross trade for the past ten years progressive of the natives are yet alive to emphatically bears out his statement. In the value of exploiting the Kingdom. They 1896 the sterling value of Swatow's trade was may feign anger, at Japan's ways and £4,588,67a; last year the value had risen methods, but they are not above taking a to £7,386,388, so that if it continues at the leaf from the book of the islanders. As present rate of increase the next annual everybody knows, when Japan decided to report will show that the gross export and enverge from the seclusion of centuries and import trade of Swatow has doubled within take her rightful place in the world, one of decado, Mr. Willis observes that the