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YUNNAN RATLAVAY,
ALLEGED ATROCITIES ON COOLIES.
REPUTATION Y GASTON 1JÉBERT.
3rd inst,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, JULY
"SUNDAY'S EXCURSIONS.
and inst.
AN AMERICAN VISITOR,
OPTIMISTIC VIEWS ON THE PHILIPPINES.
7, 1906
EDUCATION IN THE SOUTH
OF CHINA.
[WRITTEN FOR THE "NORTH CHINA DAILY NEWS."]
are disapproving of religious tests in the sphere of education, that the. Chinese Government should impose religous testa both on teacher and scholar. The test is not as complicated as the Thirty-nine Articles, but just as effective. Every teacher and every scholar must worship "The Holy Man," by whom is meant Confucius, it is within my knowledge that Christian youths have been expelled because they have
Some remarkable allegations have appeared the crolies and the Viceroy was perfectly alone having just over two hundred first claws the climate of Manila agrees with some in, power to make its authority paramount in declined to conform to this idolatry, and others
recently in the North China Daily News con cerning the conduct of the Company which is constructing the Yunan railway towards, the coolies employed on the work. These allega
against the French company emanated in the first instance from a missionary in the
tions
coches for Yuanan. Since then the new con dition of things has been explained to him and to the principal afficials in Canton and also in Shanghai loquiries were, made by the The popularity of the Sunday excursions to Chinese mandarins under the orders of the Macno was once again exemplified yesterday, when advantage was taken of the beautiful Viceroy. They wrote that everything was altered and everything was all right now. The weather by inrge number of Hongkengite, to enjoy the day's, unog. The "excursion manager of the Company came to Canton about a year ago, saw the authorities there, steamers were all "fuil up" with both first and explained how things were organised now for second class passengers, the ss. Htungshan passengers aboard, the majurity being well. satisfied. So much so, that he issued a pro. clanintion, I think about seven or eight months known and prominent local residents. The go, explaining to the population of Canton weather was all that could be desired, and so and the Two Kwang that every precaution delightfully cool and pleasant was it on board was taken to see that the coolies were well that large numbers elected to lunch and treated and well
excellent tiffin there was no objection to fur the beat on shore An
was pro- ther drafts of conlies being sent on. 'There is vided by the Café Weismann, well served no doubt that ever since that time, nearly a and attended, white the imely arrived Band year ago now, there has not been the slightest from India kept things bright and lively both difficulty with the coolies-aut the stiglust. coming and going, and during tiffim. Al together a delightful day was spent by all, most of whom, there can be no doubt, will be looking forward to their next opporiunity of enjoying such a healthy and pleasant change from the heat of the City.
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for the same
North, who retailed the stories which had been and saying that and had all they wanted, lounge" on the versel instaur: of venturing into the Philippine Islands will yet be recognized | i would appear that a reform has been effected, I affirm. There is much that is hopeful in the
told him by some coolies who had been em- played on the railway, and a must lurid picture wak diawn of the miseries and sufferings. which the helpless coolies were compelled to endure at the hands of their taskmas ters It was sated that the coolies Welc
badly fed, if not hall-starved; that they
had to live in hoyals' when they were not compelled to sleep in the open; that two thirds of those who went to the railway never returned; that the Red River was glutted with the bodies of dead cuulies; that is Company
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"What I have spoken about refers to the troubles that occurred two years ago. I really make mut how these, al stories are coming began in the Shanghai press. There
no reason whalever why they should be revived now."
"What is your
withheld the pay of the coolics who managed News' editorial pression of the Daily
It is extranidinary. I can't make it out at all. There is not the ghost of neavon for such stories being circulated. They are with. out frundation. If they had come out two years ago one might have said there was a though ignorance on the part of those in nodicum of truth in then-things happened charge i that was soon got aver: experience
In survive, and that a host of other atrocities were being comitted. A writer in the Jicho de Chine, wrote contraverting those statements, although he admitted that mistakes had been made at the outset on account of the company's Jack of treat knowledge, but it was claimed that these had been recufted and the cooles were coming of their own free will to
Acek work on, the railway. The North-China
enme quickly," Verus, basing is remarks on the ionary's statement, declared, on the z June, that the Chinese Government must bentk. en to the angaished
med try
suffering humanity, and said that, notwithstanding the letter in the rench paper, it fesired that "a grave scandat" was taking place on the Yaman railway, and urged that this was clearly a case where "Governments in st intervene and protect or testrain their nationals." In view of the sèrious character of these allegations, a representative of the Hongkong Telegraph interviewed, 10- day, Mr. Gaston Lidbert, the Consul for France at Hongkong. Many here are interested in the construction of the Yunnan railway, and it is of vital importance that both sides of the question should be placed before the public.
THE FRENCH CONSUL INTERVIEWKO, Mr. Lidbert remarked that he was astonish- ed a newspaper of the standing of the NC. Daily News should have taken up such a pre- judiced atutude, seemg that the statementS
made were ont in consonance, with the facts.
*I have been following this question, since negotiations first began in Peking in 1901, 1 was in Peking at the tune and saw the negotia tions completed and the agreement, signed There was no feeling then on the part of, the Chinese to retain the work of constructing rail
in their own hands; but that ways since grown and now, seeing that they cange do anything to recover possession of the railway scheme, they, or at least a number them, are endeavouring to thwart the Frenc company by spreading tules which will indur coolies to believe that they will be maltreated and thereby prevent the work of recruitin labour being carried out.
feeling
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"As I said, I know everything there is to 1«. known on this subject. One of the directors the Yunnan Company was here about a mon ago. He is now in Bänoi, but I think be willi back in Hongkong in a short finic. They kep me pretty well posted on everything in conne 100 with the recruiting of coilies and the difi culties which were formerly experienced wit the Viceroy at Cantos.
CHINESE AND FOREIGN COMPANIES," "My imprada un ia that a good many Chi. nese in the provinces are opposed to the em gration of coolies, on account of what was reported to have happened in the Trans al. And there is also, as 1 have said, the feeling against the bathing of the railway by a foreign company. Some of the officials, I would not say all of them, and a certain number of the "Canton geutry have been very strongly opposed to enterprises in China. We got the contract for the railway long here that new feeling becaine
manifest against - European ente
we began building the line prises, and before the idea of excluding freigners from
in Chinese development schemes prevailed, ince then some of the Canton officials and those in the routhern provinces and in Shanghai has done all theyssibly could to hinder the work of the railway with the idea that if for some reason or other, especially if through failure in recruit coolies the work had to be stopped, then they would be in a position to buy back the railway from us..
I must acknowledge that the Viceroy of Canton has acted in a perfectly fair manner in dealing with this question.
MISTAKES WERK MADE.
*There is no dont that inistakes were made at the beginning. The company building the railway had no experience of railway work in China. They had built railways in Turkey and also in some parts of Africa, but they had no idea how the work should be conducted in Chint. When the first batch of coolies arrived the accommodation for them astegards mat sheds and supplies -- such as rice, esc.-were noi
was a lack of forethought; of course, they very soon understood what was wanted.
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THE COOLIES' STORIES
What about the coalies' stories to the Rev. D..W. Crofts of the China Toland Mission? According to hit the coolies unly recently complained that they got insuficient fund and the strange cliniate, and poisonour gases (especially in tunnels where men were driven to work by armed gnaids) ended many lives in. Agony
The taissionary has been imposed upon. Same vagabond cones have concocted wonderful tale in order to gam his sympathy and incidentally to obtain 'money. An ordinary man of the world would not have been taken in with such staff, put a missionary!!!
RECRUITING.
"And the work is proceeding without any!| difficulty being experienced to recruiting raulicy?"
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"Difficulty? Not only is there no difficúlis, but the conbes are coming of their own accord
and offering their services. They are so sals fed with the piesent conditions that notwith- standing the very bad weather in the sump- mer mouth, the rainy season, they themselves rame forward and asked the Company to go on with the work during the summer. The Company was prepared to stop the work in the Nami Valley, which is the most unhealthy section of the line, for two or three months till in sainy season was over, but the coolies said they would rather go on with the work, and it is going on."
ABSURD
"They said, according to the missionary. that diey have to build their own bots?"
"Absurd. The Company has built houses the same as those at; Yaumati for the coolics
They are well-looked after when they arrive Raphons, medically examined and provided with splendid accommodation.",
In conclusine, Mr. Liéberi said—”This agitation about the treatment of the conties on the Yunnan railway is being engineered by someb dy who has desire to see the railway in the bands of the Chinese. But the railway will be completed by the French Company. will be running in two and a half years. It will be opened well within the time allowed under the contract; you may be quite sure of that."
A DISORDERLY HOUSHBOY,
defendant.
ASSAULTS HIS MISTRESS.
2nd inst.
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H. H, J. Gompertz, Wong Tao, a househoy, At the Magistracy this morning; before Mr.
employed at 6, Mountain View, Prak, tats. charged at the instance of aspector Dymond with assaulting his cúmployer-Mrs. F. Robin. son-at her residence, on Saturday last, and fendant denied both charges. also with disobeying lawul onders. The de
Mrs Robinson sail defendant was her "bay," On Saturday morning witness pave orders to de'endant lo The same afternoon, when do certain work. she returned fame from, the city, she found that her orders were not carried out and again repeated her orders and reprimanded the In doing so, she caught his by the quene and delendant, picking up a tin can, which was standing an a table, struck witness on the mouth "Did you strike him? queried Mr. Gompertz, No, 1 did not," replied Mrs Robinson, "I sim ply eaught him by the pig-tail. Continui witness said that in the past defendant hat been a gooi worker. Defendant said there was a certain person living with his mistress. On Saturday that person dank a hotle of wine and was drunk. Accused was at work in the kitchen, and was on tip-tno getting a lin ni
somebody pull him by the queue. He became very ditzy by the pull, closed bis cyrs and collapsed, the tin of sugar striking his mistress When he became conscious his mistress asked
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.CLAIMS POR KENT,
SUMMARY OR LAND COURT?
3rd inst.
Far
In Summary Jurisdicting this morning, his Honor, Mr. A. G. Wise, Puisno Judge, pre- siding, the Sham-shupo Land Investment Co., Ld, of No, 72 Wellington Street, Hongkong, sued Wong Kwai, of the, Yuen Ke Cho, No se Upper Cross Street, Sham The point the recovery of the sum of 5929.23. tiffs' claim was for $929.20 for artears of tent due from 1st July, 190, to 31st May, 1906, at the monthly of rent $40, in respect of Lot No. 2,325, situated in the New Territory: or, in the alternative, the plaintiffs claimed from the de- fendant the sum of 5919 zo for the occupation and use of the premises aforesaid.
Mr. F. B. eaton, of Messrs. Deacon, looker and Deacon, appeared for the plaintifs, the defendant neither appearing in person nor by representation.
His Honou: There is a question whether his case, can be brought in this Court
Mr. Deacon: Yes, my Lord, that is so. His Honour: The Ordinance requires that cases relating to land in the New Territory shall not commsence in the Summary Cont
Mr. Deacon held that that only related to questions of title and not to questions of rent, and proceeded to quote forthec suthorities.
The defendant not being present, kis Hon. pur, in accepting the authorities quoted, held that the case could be heard in this Court, and said that the plaintiff had better prove his claim in the usual way.
Mr. Deacon: He is here, my Lord. His Honour: I should like to shift the onus of this on to the Land Officer, if I could.
Mr. Deacon: Quiet so, my Lord; there will probably be some khotly questions in these
cases.
Plaintiff was, called then, and produced his banks in proof of the claim, and said that no rent had been paid, and the sun of 1929.20 was still due and owing.
Judgment with costs for plaintif
ANOTHER DEFAULTING TENANT._
The claim being proved by Ching Yee: Tong on behalf of the plaintiff firm, his Honour gave judgment with costs for the plaintiff.
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PARTNERSHIP DISPUTE.
THEFT OF A BLANKET.
3rd inst,
and
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THE JINRIKSHA TRADE,
JAPANESE EXPORTS TO CHINA.
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The jinrikshas-two-wheeled, srácoth-runn- ing, and comparatively comfortable vehicles, in which a passenger may ride at a reasonable (are, says a recent United States Consular Report from China, are deservedly popular pot alone among the Chinese, but with the foreigners as well, who find them of great atility for short distances during business hours. Throughout
while
Mr. Roben B. Westcott, the Associate Edi. arrived in Hongkong from Masila, bent on a for of the well-known Far Eastern Review, has
A charge is sometimes laid against the tour through Japan, Korea, and Manchuria. Central Goverment of Chinn, that it is lacking That
Americans was apparent from the the provinces, but like a mortal whose vitality have been refused admission for patriotic
is low, it is just able to protect its life at the reason. Whether the imposition of this test is burly appearance of M, Westcont, and that it can inspire a whole-hearted appreciation of centre, and must therefore let the extremities an indication of the depth of their conviction
as to the efficacy of the worship as an educat American methods of colonisation was evidens take crite of themselves. In the past, this
future ol the charge was
was but tressed by facts, and could harding factor, or merely stands for a spirit of from his optimistic view of the f Philippines. According to thegential journalist, ly be successfully rebutted. To-day, however, antagonism to the Christian faith, we need not as the El Dorado ofthe Far East, while one might and the courte determined at Feking must be new educational system. The military spirit almost come to fancy that Manila will blossom followed in Yünnan. Perhaps no more marked that is encouraged is suggestive; the obvious into a new Elysium. It is true that Manila example of the change that has come over antagonism to Christianity in, we think," ill-
forthcoming than the advised. cannot yet boast of buildings similar to those China in this regard which adorn Hongkong, nor has it the magni-striking way in which the old educational ficent vista affered by the Peak, but it has system has gone by the board, in the storm gantens which are the haunt of youth and which raged in Manchuria between Russia beauty, and if all the world loves a lover then and Japan. No doubt that forces have been at these gardens should be the centre of the earth. werk during the last decade, which though 70
Manila it appears that the chief topic of cua-
made their influence felt, and among them the versnsion at present is the coming of the Maury apparently counteracted for the time, have dock. People are quite convinced down south edicts for which Kang Yiwei was responsible. that Hongkong is to be eclipsed, and already But this as it may, what is incontrovertible is they are confidently looking forward to the that, as if by magic, the old has gone, gone as time when Hongkong shipowners will be send suddenly and as irrevocably as uncleas cargo ing
their vessels to Manila to be repaired and in a listing ship when thrown into the seething
will' Probably that
occur overhauled.
waters. Untired as yet, but full of promise, about the period when the
New Zea the ruins Kazing, on
of St. lander is Paul's, hut meanwhile it does not appear Company need, be unduly alarmed. that the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock is interessing to learn that the Filipino is proving amenable to American methods; he is even anxious to become a city workman, and Mr. Westcott pointed out that native, labour constructed the electric trainway system, erect
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new public buildings, and performed other tasks which all go to prove, that the Fill pinn is willing to work if the inducements are sufficiently great. The Insular Government, visitor, is remarkable according to for the progress. it has made in fathoming the native mind and supplying the native seeds, Being a pro-Government man, in the sense no doubt, that he is a good Republican, Mr. West- coll sees good in all that has been done by country since McKinley's time, and even if mistakes have been made these mistake's have only led to new fields of endeavour." Mr. Westcott carries a breeky personality with him,
cumbersome Chinese jiuriksha. The body of the Japanese jariksha is covered with lacquer and should enjoy his trip to the Far North He proposes to study the conditions of the have recently visited some of these instead of paint, which produces a much neater and more attractive appearance with its glass. country now that Japan has introduced modern Huktongs, in the country districts of Kwang-like surface and its trim contour. There jin ideas into Korea, and his experiences shouldng, and chatted with those who have chargerikshas look as though they were turned out furnish valuable information.io those interested in affairs in the North.
his
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"SHANGHAI,
BABY KILLING AS A TRADE,
TERRIBLE DISCOVERIES AT OSAKA,
ALLEGED MURDER OF A HUNDRED CHILDREN.
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new ideals have arisen above the Not only the Empire the jinrikshas are found in greater
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been at least partially adopted. but the thoroughness of the transition is equal ly noteworthy. After the passing of Forster's Educational Act in England, Hoard Schools did not rise more generally, nor more rapidly, than the new type of Hoktong has risen in al- most every important country town, not to speak of walked cities, throughout the South of China. They have come into existence in hundreds and probably in thousands. The aim of the teachers in thesa Hoklongs in. as we know, to teach the scholars to "nderstand," and to my mind that is the foundation of all that is to follow. The old aim was to teach the lad to remember the sounds which were given to the characters, niten incorrectly, and in the majority of cases little further was attempted, and nothing further accomplished. Whatever therefore the books contained, was as sealed to the scholar as the roll of the Revelation which was scaled with seven seals, Immediately all this is changed and the aim of the teacher is utterly different.
the
It is, however, assumed that the
The idea at present in the ascendant seems in be a secular but moral education, which is
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regarded by ecclesiastical parties in England with so much horror. If Confucius and Mencius may be regarded as sacred books, they appear to be excluded from the Hoktongs and their stead, ate a graduated system of oral lessons suitable to the capacity of the child. Another absolutely new conception in the decrepitude of the Chinese Empire, and in the primers of history a series of facts outlined to convince the, youthful mind that
or less numbers as the traffic requires, thousands of them are in use in cities of large population,
the enormous and con- pantly increasing demand, for these vehicles. The large annual transactions in Jinriksbas may
be more fully understood when it is. realised that their life scarcely ever extends beyond three years, and then even the best of their parts are practically useless in the con- struction of a new jintikaba. At present Japan is the only competitor of the Chinese-made vehicle, and it is now freely predicted that the Japanese jinriktha will eventually dominate this market, especially in Central and Northern China. Several reasons are responsible for ibis belief, the most prominent of which being, perhaps, their popularity with the jibriksha coolies. The vehicles are lighter,
easier to
puli, and can be drawn a greater distance in a shorter time and with far less exertion than the more
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by machinery, and they probably are, for each spake is apparently identical with every other spoke in the wheel, and there is a generat appearance of uniformity in the machine which indicates that the various parts are not made by hand.
who pay a certain amount daily to the com panies or jinriksha masters operating them. This is due to its attractive and showy apprar- ance,
which is naturally, more inviting to the public, thus increasing the daily receipts of the jiniksha coolic
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jariksha market in China by American manu- In discussing a, possible invasion of the facturers, it is necessary to consider as well the unattractive add easily improved-upon features of the Japanese vehicle. Expressions are not infrequently heard in Central and Northern China that the Japanese article is built to sell because of its attractive appear- ce, lightness of construction, and other desirable qualities, but that strength, and. durability have no part in its make up. In 250 Japanese-made vehicles, and, although Shanghai alone there are now approximately
they have been in use but a comparatively short time, complaints are increasing weekly of the necessity for constant repair. lacquer-work on the Japanese machines is beautiful in appearance and showy when it is- Grstlanded at its destination in China, bat experi ence has proved that it is not at all desirable for public use. Expoted constantly to the weather, tie lacquer wil fake off, and this cannot be replaced in China, for there are no lacquer workers here. There is only one way suc
to place in the depression in the surface caus ed by the chipping-off of the lacquer a cement, the basis of which is an ash formed from the burning of joss paper. Over this is then spread a thin layer of paint, but no other part the body of the vehicle in touched, for the reason that paint in China will not adhere to Jacquer.
of the new system of education. The text-books employed ure, compared with the old régime, as different in their aim as the heavens are from the earth. Not only are the characters explained, but most of the textbooks are filico with illustrations, which, though, somewhat
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The Japanese jinrikshas were established in the entity the character represents. I handled
Shanghai as public vehicles about eighteen The Kawasaki Dockyard Company of Kabe some text-books of natural history, and found
months ago, and their introduction in various is now building at thánghai a shallow draft that each character which described the animal gunboat to the order of the Japanese Navy. was accompanied by an illustration which re-
other pots in China is being pushed with characteristic Japanese energy. The whole. The vessel it be named the Fushint, and is presented to the eye of the scholar the animal sule price for these vehicles laid down in expected to be launched by the middle of next or birds described. The "Hundred Feet" Shanghai is approximately $38 Mexican, or month. The dockyard company has purchased was indeed a centipede, and a rhinoceros was
about $19 in American. money. Occasional a lot of land, 17,000 fanée ta extent, in Shang-a
a one horned animal standing on the river's The above plaintiffs further sued the Chnybai,, where a shipbuilding yard is to be bank. Most of the text-books were illustrated sales are reported at retail in this part of China, a machine realising, when disposed of established. On the authority of Mr. Kawasaki, in the same way. Some illustrations were Hop firm, of Nu. 162 b, West Corner, Shum
in this manner, about 550 Mexican. These Vice-President of the company, who recently amusing. The text books we found did not shup, for recovery of the sum of 523.37, being the amount of arrears of rent in respect
returned from Shanghai after a long stay and isumit to inculcate moral teachings, and in the
machines are of three grades, and their retail now in Tokyo, the if observes that Shanghai short chapters teaching, what may be called,
prices here are 548, $51, and $52 Mexican. of Lot No. 2508, sittate in the New Territory.
The Japanese jinriskala manufacturers have attracts a considerable number of vessels for moral philosophy, was one that insisted on the already established agencies in Shanghai, and Mr. F. H. Deacon, al Misste. Deacon, Look, er and Leacon, appeared for the plaintiff, the docked in Shanghai, in addition to a large duty of children on rising in the morning insion with an energy which already presupposes
repair. During last year, 357 steamers were
duty of filial piety. As is well-known it is the
are carrying on their campaign of trade aggres defendant not appearing either in person or by
number wh
which were repaired while at anchar
repair to the room of their parents to inquire Tepresentation.
Chinese Government has decided to The dredge the iver at Shanthai at a cost of in China it is assumed that the elders will have.
after the health of the latter. Apparently in gratifying returns: These machines are con
structed entirely of wood, with the exception of 25,000,000 tals, and when this work is com
the springs, axles, and the few necessary metal or at least will have offsprings trimmings on the body, in the hood, and the a morning ap ́pleted, the number of steamers visiting the port who are up and doing before their elders,-1
iron tire. The Japanese vehicle commands a will grow greater. Dockyards at Shanghai are deal not generally realised in the West. inconsiderably higher rental from the coolics, in most cases conducted by joint-stock com
this case, however, according to the illustration, panies of foreigners and Chinese, with Euro
the parents were up and seated side by side, pean engineers and Chinese operatives, and whilst the children,-prodigies of filial piety- great inconvenience is experienced by steamers
bow themselves on the floor before their elders. requiring repairs in consequence of the irregu tut the curious part of the scene comes out when Two manners in a piece-goods firin at Yau-
we discover that both parents are attired à la mati fell out recently over the alleged bigharity of the Chinese workmen. Whes work is
Westerner; the father in a cutaway morning started by experienced Fapanese, success 15 handedness of one of them and from this and assured, says Mr Kawasaki, and when the coat, and the mother in a faultless morning ather matters relating to the dispute the
gown which is decked with lace and other man figured in the dock, at the Police Court Japanese dockyard is completed, all Japanese
war-ships in Chinese waters and merchant furoclows. Verily the jumble of ideas is this morning, the other being the prosecator.vessels will utilize it, instead of paying a higher peculiar The charge against him was that of stealing a blanket from his pattuer, yesterday, and trying Chantele.
price, to foreign dackyard companies.Japan lustentions will assist the chill to comprehend to "jump" the Colony. When the complainant
e subject-malter taught. misked his blanket he went on board sis. Hani bow and arrested defendant, who was still in possession of his property. At first there was the question of "spite work" in the minds of those who heard the case, but when defendant admitted that the blanket was the pro- perty of the complainant and added that he took it because he could get no other, that theory was dissipated. "I can see there has been a dispute between you and the complainis reported that on Sunday aficason some According to the Kobe Herald of 20th ult, it ant," said his Worship in giving his decision, children playing beside an old well attached to
You might have heen partners in business, but still you cannot take away his properly.
a house at Nihonbashi, 4-chame, (saka, beescape from this unhappy conclusion is im without permission. You will go in gaol for longing to a jarikisha-man named Hirooka possible, China is not an image of gold will feet of clay but an image of garnished said that his share in the piece goods firm was seven days." The complainant, in evidence, Manzo, saw something which they took to he
a dead do lying in the water. Having learnt mud. If old China in the opinion of the $to, while that of the defendant was only half of the incident, two policemen proceeded to the Chinese once was what Britishers would regard that sum. .ately the business has brep going well and removed the body, which proved to be London as being, "the hub of the universe." cessfully to repair such a condition, and that is that of a baby. The well was then searched, this point of view has been completely changed. with the result that three bass, each containing China is surrounded by pillering neighbours whose very presence within her boundaries is the dead body of a baby, were discovered.
indubitable evidence of the condition which a woman of fifty-four years of age, might be cognisant of the matter, the police at once lion, he is evidently either ill or moribund. All conducted an investigation at her house. Three this is, however, taught not to encourage babies were found on the premises, two of whom despair, not to point a moral of inability, but were dying of starvation, while the third was to rouse youthful China to activity and
Contractors in this part ol China who hava BREACH OF HARBOUR. NULES, tightly bound in a "faton" and was almost patriotism. The picture is one of shade and
on the poist of death. Thice bags similar to light. China's territorial area, her dense been handling.the Japanese jinriksha declare those in which the dead babes were wrapped population, and her hidden and insuspected lacquer and then repaint the wood of the that it is frequently necessary to strip off all the YAU-MA-TI OR CANTON?
were also discovered. The wahan confessed resources are paraded. Indeed, in this regard entire body and the shafts. Such repairs are that she had been in the habit of taking in there seems almost a tendency to forget that a Chan You Fat, master of a cargo boat, was babies on payment of from six to seven yen thousand broken cash are not, work a golden expensive, and fall on the men who buy the this morning, at the Police Court, released on each and that she made a practice of subse minted sovereign. It is certainly true that both machines, and not on the coolies who operate them; hence it is essential to give the former bail in the sum of 125 to ensure his reappear- quently killing them. It is said that it has sides are stated in a nanner not to provoke
an article that will not require a constant outlay ance at the Court at ten o'clock to-morrow already been ascertained that fifty babies have despair but effort, not to encourage indifference
in repairs, heen murdered by the woman, and that it is but patriolism. How the teacher will handle morning, when Mr. Gompertz will render his decision in the case,
The believed that the total number of babies killed these facts i cannot vouch for, but it may be riksha in Shanghai is indicated by the fact that The defendant was
necessity for the neat appearance of jin- charged by Inspector of Junks Melvor with by her is as many 1 one hundred.
safely assumed that they will not be ignored attempting to leave, the harbour on Saturday. When questioned, the woman stated that she altogether. One phase of modern educational they are upder the supervision of the mani- cipality, and that a quarterly inspection is without being in possession of a proper port threw the babies into the well at about por methods must not be overlooked, for assuredly regularly made. By this is not to be assumed when a public tap was running, it will be pregnant of results. Drilling, we know, that the vehicles are permitted to run the clearance. The defendant denied the charge, and the prosecutor said that on Saturday so that the noise was sint heard. She said, is part of the curriculum. But I found in one whole three months without being subjected to last he noticed defendant's junk all ready however, that she killed the infants before large Hoktong, built at enormous cost with to leave the port, the boarded the junk, puiting them into the well by suffocating them sums sent by patriotic Chinese in Australia an examination. If found unclean, insanitary, asked defendant for his port clearance, but in "futon."
or not in accordance with the regulations, the for it is richly carved and erected out of the fioriksha coolie is subjected to a suitable none was forthcoming. When asked where According to the lengthy accounts of this ter very best of materials—a large number of he was bound for, defendant replied Cantón, rible affair which are published in the Japanese dummy rifles made after the manner of the punishment. A Japanese Jioriksha, with its badly damaged will not be permitted lacquer leave the harbou. ? queried the Court. "No," killing as a regular business for the past ten Every day, at the hour appointed for drill, replied defendant. He asked me where my years. She was assisted by a number of old same time is given to the handling of these chia wheel cold with a bookend spoke of containing a or boat goes to and I answered Cantos. At that women, who collected babies from various dummy rifles, and though perhaps perfection body that is parted company with is paint. time I was going to Yaumatt" "He had a part of the country. They generally received of results cannot be commanded by these Under present conditions the Jinriksha yields a launch ready to tow him out," interpolated about Yio from the parents, out of which they methods, the youths will at any rate learn to serviceable revenue to the Government, for Mr. McIver. Continuing, witners said that he deducted Ya or Y3 for themselves.
distinguish the butt from the bore; besides arrested the defendant and took him to the The riksman and his wife and several this, and more important still, there will be fully 7,500 jinrikshas are licensed every.
month, Central Station. This mornings before the case women wits are believed to have been atcom-created and nurtured in heans of the youDE was called on, defendant handed him the port | plices are now in custody,
Chinese a military spirit, especially as this clearance, which he thought was taken out
goes on under the very smiles from tablets of "No, I did not steal it I took it out of the after defendant was arrested. The Court asked
their ancestors, which ríao tier above tier, from shop." What difference that made is known defendant to call the four who took out the
| which the imaginative youth will see the only to the coolie who made the statement be port clearance as to ascertain if it was true
spirits of the departed looking on to en fore Mr. H. H. J. Gomperts, at the Police Court that the paper was issued after the arrest was
courage them in their efforts to prepare on Saturday. He was charged with stealing, made. Defendant replied that the junk had
in win back their country to their altars, or, according to the Chinaman, removing the port with the fokl. A remand was then
The aim of both teacher and student is several baskets of les, from a shop at Kowloon granted to allow Mr. Melvar to preduce the
antagonistic to Western encroachment and last night. The owner of the goods said that counterfoil of the post clearance book in order
Western Influence and appears to show accused had no authority to remove the tea, that the time the port clearance was issued to
a disepproval of Christianity. "It is unfortunate, and ble Worship sentenced him to one month's defendant might be obtaingd,
we think, in our age, when most other matlens | hard labour and six hours' stocks.
exactly what they ought to have been. There sugar from the cuplinard, when suddenly he fel money. This has been going on for quite a Suspecting that the wife of the jinrikisha man obtains, for when jackals gather around the
CAUSES OF GRUMBLING.
"You must bear in private enterprise. The Yannan alway is a private Governum of lado-China has nothing to do with it Our authonies keep an eye on the line and supervise it in a way and Exeit a certain control over the company and in the early days made the Company understand that they must alter their methods of providing propermatsheds and having everything-ready un their arrival. the The Company was always ready pay wages of the coolict, but they had not the pro- per currency. They were ready to give the Chinese cheques or banknotes, but, as you know, the coalies would not look at these; they wanted copper cash. All these little details had not been understood by the Com
pany.
COOLIES SATISFIED.
"When some of the agents of the Campany came to Canton and Hongkong to go on to Tientsin to recrit cooliesahey got a good deal of advice from the different Consuls. I gave
in Canton and Shanghai. The result was that
him to gather up the sugar and Inter he was given in charged His Worship sentenced the
defendant to one month's hard labour and six hours' stacks on the first charge, and he bougr over in the sum of ŝinɔ to he of good behaviour in one year,
AN ABUSIVE CHAIR COOLIE.
WELL DESERVED PUNISHMENT.
3rd inst. Before Mr. F. A, Hartland, at the Magistincy this morning, a licensed chair bearer, from Victoria Cop coolie house, Peak, was charged by Atiss Lee, a nurse in the Victoria Hospital, Peak. with using insulting and abusive language towards her, and also with behaving rudely towards her, on 1st instant.
to rack and pin owing to the work of the' ac- cused, whu appeared to be simply there to sell the goods quietly at night, and packet the while and defendant was liable to the firms to the aniount of several tacīs. His intention was not to return to the Colony when he arrived at Cantón.
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them a lot of advice and so did my colleagues question, Miss. Leo engaged chair No. 28 at 1+1 see you admitted that you were about lopapers, the worjan has been carrying on baby. rifle at present used by the British infantry, the streets of Shanghai any more, than one
the condition of things was very quickly altered. The second and third-batches of coalies when they arrived at Haiphong and the Namti Valley found everything ready for then. Now they are.perfectly willing to work They could find nothing to find fault with, They have medical attendance, rice, food and nil they want,
"FRIGHTFUL STORIES."
"Some of the first batch of conlies who had not beep treated so well as they had expreted -not through any had-will, but through ignorance of things in China-came back to Canion or to Tientsin and told the most frightful stories, There was some founilation, but it was grossly exaggerated. The Viceroy at Canton, misled by those rumours, gave at pertala times orders to stop the recruiting of
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According to the evidence heard, it appeared that between 7 and 8 o'clock on the night in
Mountain View to return to the hospital in Harker Road. When the chair arrived at the Tramway Station the coalies threw the chair down violently and refused to proceed any for. ther, and used filthy language towards her. She spoke to the men telling them that her destination was at the other, end, and once more they picked up the chair. Bu this time their behaviour got worse, for they bumped the chair about in a violent manner, and on arriving at her destination the chair was again violently thrown down and more language used.
His Worship found defendant guilty, and imposed a fine of $5, with the option of fourteen days hard labour.
We learn that the police will look into the matter now and there is every reason to believe that the impudent coolig's licence will be cancelled,
J. DUNCAN, chief engineer, 5.6. Knutsford, took out a summons on Friday against C, Bevis, fire man, of the same ship, for assault on the high seas on 14th June. When the case was called on by Mr. F. A. Hozeland on Saturday, the prosecutor appeared and asked that the sum mons be withdrawn, saying that the matter had been amicably settled. "His Worship can- celled the summone accordingly.
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