TELEGRAMS.
· Renter's]
The Cuban Insurrection.
LONDON, 23rd August. The Cuban insurgents have captured San Louis, their first important success,
The rising is due to the desire of the in surgent leaders for office.
There is no question of a desire for In nexation to the United States, and it lieved that the latter will not intervener
Latch
British Commerce, · The liner Cumbroman has been chartered for a tour to the Colonies, Japan and South
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY AUGUST
ADEN: THE SENTINEL OF THE RED SEA
Aden, which is the paxt place of salient im portance on the Imperial irade route to the East, was the first now territory added to the Empire dang the reign of Queen Victoria, la acquisition in 1839, on a trivial excuse, being one of those opportune political strokes which have given, geographical continuity to British possessions scattered over the world.. Aden is an extinct volcano, five miles long by three miles broad, juiting out into the seh much as Gibraltar does, having a circumference of about fifteen miles, and rinnected with the mainland by a narrow isthmus of flat ground
CANTON DAY BY DAY.
VICEROY SKUM'S RÜÇCESSOR.
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Canton, 24th August,
A telegram has been "received from Mr. Wong Sum Kan, a Cantonese who is secretary to Viceroy Chau Fu, stating that Viceroy Shum will be transferred to Hupeh and Vicery Chau Fu will be his successor,
REWARDS FOR POLICE OFFICERS. Yesterday. #eivuan from the Read Police Department proceeded to the different stations for the purnere of distributing compensation to thore deemed in have performed creditable work while in the service of the Department.
at $35x the dividend ol 35/- ($15.47) paid on 20th inst. The London quotation is unchanged Nationals have been done at 547, at which rate more shares can be placed.
Marine fasurances-Cantons are quite neglected and without business at 5.30: Unious have receded to $790 but there are buyers at this price. There is no alteration to report in Northern companies.
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T. 25, 1906.
Sales during the past fortnight:-150 balos of No, tos, ¡450 bales of No. 165., and 500 baler of No: 205,; in all about 1,100 bales.
Arrivals per steamers Gregory Apenr, Lai- sang and Catherine Apear (from Calcutta) and Bonca, Stiesia and Oceana (from Bombay) of about 5,500 bales for this port and about-20,000 balen für Shangbai.
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Entimations.
THE
Shipments To Shanghai and Coast Ports ROBINSON PIANO about 1,300 bales.
Unal Stock-Estimated at about 78,000
bales.
Uucleared Stock.—Estimated at about 60,0ço bales.
Fire Insurances-Hongkong Fires have fur- ther advanced and were placed at $325. China Fires ato also firmer and lo demand at the im- proved rate of $9% after reported sales al 591). Shipping-Hongkong. Canton and Macao Steamboats continue in favour and after sales at Sz61 and S1y are now in request at 517. China and Manilns can be placed at $12 while Douglases are quiet at $47. A small but un-Japanese yarn. satisfied demand from the North still continues
America as a floating exhibition of British three quarters of a mile wide. Barren and The amount due in each man is 33 cents from and in consequence of this indo-Chinas have
goods.
Trouble in the Balkans.. Complications seem to be krising in the
Balkans,
Bulgaria has at present three quarrels on her hands, viz., with Greece, Turkey and Russia, the list of which has now ordered her Minister at Sofia to cease relations with the Government, owing to the unauthorised publication of solne secret correspondence in à Sofia newspaper. It is understood that the Bulgarian Minister to Turkey is about to resign, finding his position top difficult.
The Bulgarian Government has decided to grant £20,000 to Macedonians suffering from the depredations of Greek hands.
black, dreary and waterless, destitute of every natural gift, bat possessing the priceless ad- vantage of a magnificent harbour, the famous Arabian coast stronghold, stuated just out- side the entrance to the Red Sea, nearly midway between Port, Said (fourteen hundred and fifty miles) and Bombay (sixteen hund red miles), at the junction where the imde route through the Suez Canal begins to lifurcale-one way leading to India. other to the Pacific--has a strategical im pörtance second to that of no other place in the Empire.
the
Since its acquistion by Great Britain, Aden has suffered from the effects of administrative apathy, which is the more reprehensible be cause it is so satel found in a British depen German Naval Manœuvres. dency. The object of the authorities has been Following the example of the British | to get all they can from the place, and give as naval manuuyres, the Kaiser is planning a Latles possible in return. With unique op -great-displey-of-warships in the North Seaportunities for political and comineccial expan
in the autdain, to include & vessels, of which,16 will be battleships.
The idea seems to be to arouse patriotism
for the navy.
THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST WHISTLÆRS.
At the Marine Court this morning, before Hon. Captain I. A. W. Barnes Lawrence,, N., Marine Magouple, 1.5. Counsell, of the Water Police, charged Chan Hoi, master of the launch Lun On with unlawfully using his whistle on the 23rd instant, în Victoria baiba.z.
sion, nothing has been done during sixty-five
years
British rule to extend the benefits of civilisation and good government in the sur rounding locality. The neighbouring tribes ate subsidised to keep quit, British initiative beginning and ending with doling out, annual bribes in order to purchase pesce. A narrower, a more selfish, a more immoral p slicy it is im passible to conceive. We talk of the "blights vod - Moslem rule, but British rule ander the conditions found at Aden is as bad. According to their lights and opportunities our pre- decessos did their best for Aden; we have done our worst. The Iersians built those wonderful tanks, hewn by stupendous labour Sergeant, Counsell stated that at 6.15 am. out of the solid rock, and the Arabs made an on the 23r inst., he heard a continuous whistl-aquetuct, twenty miles long, and now in ruins, ing off Eastern Street. He returned in that
in bring water from the interior into their sea direction, and when about three lengths off fortress; the British have done nothing except the defendant's-launch, the defendant blew one, To ant guns to protect their coal-ÿards, long blast the launch still being fast to the Praya wall where a remained for several min- utes before casting off. The launch is employ ed as a passenger beat, running to Aberdeen,
Chan, Hoi, master of the Zum On, said he blew his white to nudy the Indian constable that he was ready for inspection. The con stable came after he willed. The case was adjeur ed until Monday at to 30a.m. to enable the Irdian constable in be present to give his evidence.
THE POSITION AT DALNY...
VIEWS OF AN AMERICAN CONSULAR OFFICIAL.
A representative of the fagan Adveritser has had an interview with Dr. Joner, whom aur Yokol ama contemporary describes as "the American Consular representative at Daloy" Dr. Jones, it appears, recently returned to Yokohama after a three weeks', sojourn near Port Arthur and Dalny. In the course of the conversation, Dr. Jones spoke as follows:---**
"I was very much suprised at the condition in which I found things at Ininy in view of the
statements which have been published from time to time as to the commercial activity of the Japanese in that section, While there was some business transacted necessarily, it was on
a very small scale, and I saw 10 evidence of Japanese activity in a commercial sense, The ruilroad which is being tun north is used now, almost exclusively, for the re-shipment of army strres which were sent north after the battle of Mukden in anticipation of another, big fight."
"No, I cannot prophesy as to the future of Dalny, said the docter in answer to an inter- rogation."The development of the city, com-' mercially, in my opinion, depends largely on the position Russia takes in the commercial treaty ahe, wil be asked to sign with japan for the reciprocal use of the tracks from Changtun north, connecting with Europe."
Hundreds of fine
"Dalny itself shows the effect of the war in a very striking manner, houses have been completely gutted by fire, and those which escaped the ravages of the flames are rapidly disintegrating. This is due to the inferior building material employed. This is especially so of the brick which was soft and imperfecity burned. No tourist to the Far East should overlook an opportunity to visit Port Ambur, and view the wonderful battlefields surrounding it. No pen picture can paint the wonderful work of the Japán ese stay in the capture of this seeming ly impregnable fortress. Russia must have spert millions of dollars in its construction, and it is now a mass of ruins. On 203 Metre. Hill, the capture of which will go down into history as one of the greatest achievements of an assaulting army, there is much to interesi ons. Here and there one finds a human bone ex- cavated by Chinese ghouls who are still search.
EXPANSION NEEDED.
the Bombay Presidency to the Colonial Office. "The first necessity is to transfer. Aden from
There is no more rehson why Aden should belong to Bombay th in Singapore to Madras. The Government of Bombay--itself subordinate to the Government of India-las enough to do at home without being saddled with the ad- ministration of a colony seventeen hundred miles away. What Aden wants is external development and policical expansion, and this cantly be accomplished by the strenuous five years' rule of a local governor trained in the school of Crown Colony administration, and directly responsible to the Colonial Office. Hitherto the Resident at Aden-a geñemt officer of the Bombay Army-has been chusen by the ordinary process. of military seniorily fications for civil administrative duties, a prim rather than for the possession of special quali-
asy condition of holding office being the government on bumdrum lines, to the, avoid- willingness of the se mbent in conduct the
rance of all difficulties likely to cause trouble
the rith moon of last year to the 4th moon of the present year.
THE "SAINAM" PIRATES. Military officers are busy Inoking for the pirates who were connected with the piracy of the 2.5. Sabuam.`.It is reported that the milit. ary officer of Kong Po captured the greatest number of pirates and already three of the have been sentenced to imprisonment in the Nam Hai gaol. Viceroy Shum his ordered Brigadier-General Wong to give the alleged pirates a trial, for fear that they night with hold their statements when brought into the presence of the British Consul. He has or dered all witnesiegand informers to be present the trial at the Consulate General. On the ath day of the present moon the Provincin' Judge Wu examined all these prisoners.
STREET SNATCHING,
„SNART CAPTURE BY THE POLICE
A young Chinese woman, with her child on her back, entered the charge-room of the Cen- tral Police Station yesterday afternoon and informed Juspector Ritchie that she had been rothed of a large sum of money in Hollywood Road and asked for his assistance. The woman stated that that afternoon she left Yau-ma-ti for Hongkong with a sum of money which she, wanted changed into subsidiary coins. The money which was wrapped in a handkerchief consisted of in an erican twenty-dollar gold piece, four American ten-dollar go'd pieres, and ten dollars in subs diary coins; She went to a money-changer's shop in Queen's Road, Central, changed same of the gold piecès, and the subsidiary coins she received from the shop she placed in the handkerchief. Holding the handkerchief in her band, and with her child on her back, she went to Hollywood Road to make a purchase, la Hollywood Read she felt that her baby was not pro perly secured on her back, so she put the auth, and was attending in the child, when handkerchief, containing the money in her
olie, who apparently had followed hes from the money changer's shop, rushed up Jo ber, grabbed the handkerchief from her much and bolted in the direction of Ladder Sucet The woman was so surprised that when she raised an alain the coolie was out of sight. She said she could recognise the man again, for his face was pitted with small-pox make and his trousers had a peculiar tear in the Tey. Two hours had elapsed since the man had relieved her of her money and the disratch of the detective with her to hunt for the thief, so there was little or no hope enter. rained by those at the station as to a capture bring effected. A Chinese detective went with the woman and they hanted high and low at rai-ping-shan for the scoundrel, at first with out any result. They were about to give up the hun, when on passing a second-hand shop in that locality, the woman sighted her assail
to his Hambay masters. What has been ant in the shop. The detective seized him asked for has not beco, capable administra and he was searched. In his pocket was dis.
tian but colourless rules. Quitta non movere. Yet Aden is yearly growing in, political im- portance, and in skilful hands has future pos- sidlines as remarkable as those realised at
Swettenham. Now that the Turkish frontier Singapore under the vigorous lad of Sir Frank
of influence defined, no time should be lost in has been demarcated, and the British sphere bringing the neighbouring friendly tribes
tably the Abdali, the Fadhili, and the Akrabi -under the same political subjection as are thase of the Federated States of the Malay
Peninsula.
again been placed in small lots at $74 and 575. Shell Transporte are inquired for at 171.
Refineries-During the early part of the week Chinn Sugars declined to $145 but since then shares have slightly hardened and die nos quoted at $148. Luzons can be sold at
Sari. In the Noni Perak Sugars have drop- pect to Tis 85 sellers.
Mining. Sales are reported of Raubs at $7 and $74 but towards the close shares are easier and on offer al 57.
Collon-Safer of about 230 bales were re- ported at Sa3 to $14 per picul.
No business is reported in Local as well as
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Exchange-We quote, to-day, as under:- India T. T. at R. 160 per cent.
Jemand,
1601 London T. T Bh. 2.1 11/16d=$
Demand, Shanghai...........„ Th. 72}=$100. Silvar ....... 11
Dr.
170.
11
30id, per oz.
TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE.
demand,
Selling
France-Hnik T.7. America-Bank T.T.
4 months' sight
......1 3/16
.2/2 1/16. ......2.70'
$2
ermany-Bank 'f.T.......... dia T.T...
.2.19
.165
160
......724
Dock Wharves and Godewas-A small sain of Hongkong and Whampoa Docks was reported at $144 but they have since dropped to $142 ex dividend. The sudden decline is no doubt due to the scheme discussed privately after the general meeting of shareholders held on zoth instant when the directors proposed to issue 10,000 shares at 100 per cent. premium. Shanghai Docks have been placed in the Non at Tis, too and Tls. 101. Kawloon Wharfs are steady at $106 while longkewsmiths sight-L/Er mi/3-3/45- are unchanged.
Lands, Hotels and Buildings-Hungkeng Lands continue quiel and are procurable st $110. A few Kowloon Lands and West Points changed hands at $39 and $53 respectively Hongkong Hotels have ruled very firm and are wasiod at $120.
Cotton Mills-Ewes are slightly easier and Internationals have are an offer at Tix. 79 improved with buyers at Tis. 68, Soey Chees were sold at Tis. 35. Hongkong Collons are asked for at $15. We understand that the Company will pay a dividend of ic per cent. and a further bonus ní 16 per cent.' for the year ended 31st July, 1906,
Miscellaneous-Green Islands were dis- posed of at $121 closing with buyers at 5:2. China Borneos can be obtained at $12. China Light and Powers are st !l inquired for at $10 without bringing out shares. China Prov denis have been booked at 59 closing in further demand at £9.35 Hales have taken place of Ices nt $236 at which rate more suares cag be
Strath China Morning Posts at $ig closing with placed. A small business has been done in
fither buyers at this price.
'YARN·MARKÈT,
In their report dated 2,ih'instant, Messrs. Pirorsha B. l'etit & Co. write-Our last re port was dated the roth inst. and this one is. dated, as usual, a fortnight later, but it does not in fact cover the whole of the fortnight, as will be seen, presently.
History repeats itself in all conceivable de. Partments of human activity, and that will be the verdict pronounced when events that have transpired during the fortnight have become known. it was about October, 18go, that the fatelen merchants dealing in Colon Yarn grew disgusted with the lax system, or rather no system, that was then allowed to prevail in Hongkong in the matter of clearan e`in Yarn already sold and left uncleared almost ad in- finitum The foreign merchants thereupon
Do. demand hanghai-Bank TT. singapore T.T. aran-Bank T.T. back.... Lava-Back T.T.
Buying
.81% prem.
CO, LD,
ARE SHOWING
HIGHEST CLASS
PIANOS,
THE LEADING MAKERS.
OF
THE WORLD.
...Steinway,
.1/2 5/16
5 months' sight,L/C. jo days' sight San Francisco & New York „531 I months' sight
do.
$31
10 days' sight Sydney and Melbourue .23 7/16
4 months sight France........ 3 months' sight
months' sight Germany....... Bar Silver....... Bank of England rate Sovereign..............
......
OPIUM QUOTATION!, To-day's quotatious are us follows:
*1
Malwa New
Old
Older
t
Oldest
Patna New .........
21
Old...... Benares New
11
Bechstein,
Bluthner,
Winkelmann,
.......2.74! .....7.76
..30 15/16
--3%
..9.30
Collard & Collard,'.
Per picul
............910/30
......@ 950/980
....@ 1,000)*,050 ... 1,080/1,120
Per chest
.......fo 950
@ 960
@you
885
Old Persian (Paper) ...............................................
To-day's Advertisements.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
THERE will be a MEETING OF MEM
BERS interested in Ordering Subscrip- tion. Griffins for next Races at the Office of Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. on TUESDAY next, 28th instant, at 4:30 P.M.
By Order,
T. F. HOUGH,
Clerk of the Course. Hongkong, 25th August, 1906,
[866
THE, HONGKONG' AND KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN CO,
LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,
N INTERIM DIVIDEND at the rate
envered the woman's handkerchief, but only then met together and took a concerted action of 5 per cent. (Two Dollars and a half
The
and new rules of business were adapted on the st day of November, 18gs, which have been:
$7 out of 5.00 odd, were recovered. shop was searched for the rest of the money, but it could not be found, the police beings fupinion in force to this day.
party. The cookie, who said his same was that the money was handed over to another
Fung Po, no occupation, was charged before
this morning, and was found guilty of theft. Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz at the Police Court,
His Worship sentenced him to six weeks' hard labour, to be exposed in the stocks for
six hours, and to receive twelve strokes with When this has been done the the birch The woman was also lectured by Alen hinterland can be opened up, and a hill the Court for her carelessness in carrying a stition founded and connected.by rail and wise farge sum of money in that manner. Great with the sea fortress below. The construction credit is due to the police for their smart of a light railway would be the certain incans ancient.trade of South Aralia. of developing the, interior and rest ring the
LINK WITH TE KAST.
Like Gibraltar in the Mediterranean, Aden stands sentry over the entrance to the Red Sea; but unlike the Rock fortess, it contains na dockyard where ships can refit. As long as the political situation in the Middle East remains unchanged, no other naval base is required than that of Bombay. None the less are the fortifications of Aden' neces- sary as a link in the chain of communica, tions with the East. Stationary, defences add to the mobile strengel of the Navy by freeing the fleet for offensive action. Secure coal depore must be established along the great Imperial trade routes, for use by merchant vessels in the absence of naval protection. The conditions of Imperial defence require that there should be a sufficiency, and not more than a saffciency, of these strong places; that
ing Russian graves for valuables. A short the sites should be judiciously chosen; and time before arrived there, three Chinamen that they should be sellesstained and self- were blown to piece's' while at work; they ac defensive. After. visiting Aden the writer is cidentally struck an unexploded dyna ile hand confirmed in the opinion that the place satisfies grenade and met a sudden dealt. Japanese the above conditions, and that when it has are doing all in their power to prevent this dese cration of Russian graves, and are pursuing been released from its dependent connection a most laudable work in marking with a Greek with India, raised to the dignity of a colony, cross places where Russians are buried. "No, and granted the necessary powers of expansion, Sir, I do not believe it is Japan's purpose, nor its political and commercial value will be was it ever her intention to keep Dalny a closed enormously enhanced, and its strategical port, and I am thoroughly convinced that it will be opened shortly, and that the freest hand prestige as the great place d'armer of the will be given in the practical application of the
Middle East correspondingly ́ magnified.— open door policy,"
Daily Mati.
capture.
Fr
COMMERCIALE
„TO-DAY'S INTELLIGENCÈ,
The first week of this period witnessed a somewhat similar achievement mu'atis mut
andis. This name the bill was set rolling fram the other side. Our Chinese friends had beer. so chokeful by reason of their enormous pur- chases during the last six months that they found free breathing a difficult task and their physician. They themselves hit upon a remedy system required the serious attention of the
which has been accepted and adopted as a sure cure-all. But they thought of holding a con-
sultation upon their case and they invited the nid of their foreign confreres and the latter were only fan willing to co-operate. A meeting. was accordingly held on the 16th inst, at which both Chinese and foreign merch ints and their representatives were present. The Chinese were certainly fortunate in being re- Noun.
presented by such an able spokesman as Mr. Buyers-Uniuns yo, Hongkong Fires
Wong Kam Fook of the firm of Messrs. $325, China Fires $93, 1K, C, and M. Steam boats $274, China and Manifas 5221, Shell ponent of Chinese ailments, aim and desires Koong Hing, who proved' an excellent ex- Transports 27/6, China Sugars $149, Hong-As a result of such meeting a resolution was kew Wharves Tis, 245, Hongkong Hotels $120, proposed ad, after some discussion, unani. Cottons $15, China Previdents $9.35, Tram-mously passed with aviewto relieve the Chines ways $235, China tights Stof, Watrons $13.
Chinas $75, Douglases $47, Raubs $7, Hong, Sellers-Canion Insurances 8330, 1. do keng Docks Si4z ex div., West Points $50, Humphreys Estates S, China Borneos $12, Electrics $15, Ropes S19
St, Cements Szz, Ices $156.
Sales:-China Fires 592, Humphreys Estates
Nominal:-Hongkong Banks $835, National Docks Tis. 100, Hongkong Lands $110, Dairy Banks $47, Kowloon Wharves Sicó, Shanghai
Farma S, Towells $1<
WEEKLY SHARE REPORT. Reviewing the share business for the week Messrs. E. S. Kadoorie & Co, write on the 24th inst.:-There has been a slight falling off in business during the work, but the market generally continues teady and there are few alterations to report.
Banks-Hongkong and Shanghai Banks havo maintained their position and are steady
per Share) for the six months ending 30th June, 1906, will be paid on application to those persons who are registered as Shareholders in the above Company on the 29th August, 1956.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 27th to the 29th August, both days inclusive.
EDWARD OSBORNE, Secretary.
Hongkong, 25th August, 1906.
RIENTAL
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THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL
· STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.
STEAM FOR
STRAITS, CEYLON, AUSTRALIA INDI ADAN, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS, PLYMOUTH AND LONDON (Through Bills of Lading issued for BATAVI PERSIAN GULF, ContinentaL, AMERI CAM and SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.)
MALTA,"
Captain R. A. Peters, carrying His Majesty' Malts, will be despatched from this fo BOMBAY,on SATURDAY, the 8th September, at Noon, taking Passengers and Carga for t above l'orts in connection with the Company's S.S. Macedonia, to,512 tons, from Colombo, Passengers' accommodation lo which vessel is secured before departure from, Hongkong.
dealers of their heavy and high-priced holdings.
single bata for fully ane month (up to the ryth Foreign merchants have agreed not to sell a THE Stepmśbig of September next) either in Hongkong or any other market, and the Chinese have on their part agreed to co-operate in such suspension of business, and all earnestly hope that the arrangement thus come to will be faithfully carried out by all concerned, merchants and Foreigner. But the Chinese have been grant- brokers, principals and agents, Chinese or
ed a special privilege. They have accumulated stocks on band and they must get rid of them, and to get rid of them they must sell them to their country buyers and, although all businent is suspended, they have been granted a con cession to manipulate as freely as they can their own present holdings. That is all we have to say in our to-day's report, which may well be considered a barren report.
Sales which are reported in this circular ware effected before the 15th of the current month, afterwards no sales have been done,
Silk and Valuables, all Cargo for Franes and Tea for London (under arrangement) wil
e transhipped at Colombo into the Mail steamer proceeding direct to Marseilles and London; other Cargo for London, &c., will be conveyed from Bombay by the R.M.S. Arcadia, due in London on the 21st October, 1956.
Parcels will be received at this ( ffice until P.M. the day before sailing. The Contents and Value of all Packages are required. · For further Particulars, apply to
E. A HEWETT,
Superintendent Hongkong, a5th August, 158.
Hopkinson,
Haake,
Krauss, &c,
CASH OR CREDIT,
OR ON
HIRE FROM $10 PER MONTH
INCLUSIVE.
Bungkung, 22nd August, 19e6.
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