Intimation.
LIMITED.
No. VICEROY 'SIUM DEPARTS.
RECEPTION ON THE "DEVANHA."
ESCORTED TO HONGKONG BY A FLÉET OF GUNBOATS.
This afternoon at half past three His
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17 1906. provide for a large increase in, the output?" | independence vanished as competition to and can only grin and bear it. the Board having "decided in the autumncreased, and they became as wildly importhing can be done to the economist of the of last year upon the erection of-powerful tunate as they are to-day. As all residents truth; he goes scot-free, while the police electrical pumping and lighting plants at the know, the pedestrian who happens to leave have to work overtime in order to overtake Tongshan and. Linsi, mines. Contracts a hotel and essays to walk in the middle of the duties on which they had been engaged were entered into in November and January the street is pounced on by a gang of wolves and would already have completed had it Jast for the supply of the requisite plant, arnied with pronged forks in the shape of not been for their wild-goose chase. At the A. S. WATSON & CO., which is now in course of erection, and the rickshas. At every turn he is assailed by very least, those who play fast and loose extensive buildings for the poor stations these ruffians of ricksha-men who rerile his with the police should be made to pay the are nearing completion. The contracts pro she passes and compel him by sheer force penalty, not necessarily in the shape of in vide that the justallations shall be in opera
of numbers to select a vehicle for his convey prisonment but rather in the form of a tion by the end of the present year." Thence through the city. All this time that alonetary gratuity to wipe away injured icel port of Chingwantas, as everybody knows 600 licensed rickshas stood in force. Yet their own indensate folly. There is little to regulation that there should be no more than ings and compensate, in some degree, for arose from a mere village when the company the Government cilinly ignored its own choose between the thief of time and the was in Chinese hands to what iris to-day, bidding fat to become the rival of Tientsin regulation. Twice Goo licences were issued thief of property; the one steals what be- in importance as a port and a trade centre: annually, with the consequence that thestreets longs to the community, the other sicals, as The company is vigorously proceeding with were simply littered with vagabond machines
a rula, an individual's goods, and both stand The development of Chingwantao. The re- which prowled through thestreets likewinder very much in the same category. CONFECTIONERY port informs us that the lengthening of ing sprites. Even now they hang about door the breakwater at Chingwantao as pro ways, crowd around the hotels and with ceeded satisfactorily, and advice has their, ricketty, ramshackle frames make recently been received that the exten.night hideous for those compelled to dwell Tua French mail of the 16th October was de
in the centre of the city. It will not be sur.livered in London on the 16th inst
TE
ESTABLISHED AJ. isa
WE have just unpacked our New Season's Confectionery imported from the leading
Loddon and Parisian Houses, including:-.
CHOCOLATINES, CHOCOLATES.
CARAMELS,
DANTS.
PRALINES,
FON-
LOCAL AND GENERAL
Excellency Shum, ex Viceroy of the Kwang- tung province, kft his temporary residence on board the Chinese, revenue cruiser Sum
of the P. & O. steamer Devanda. "His Hang, which steamed 'up under the quarter Excellency embarked on the Customs launch Kowloons, which landed the, ex-Viceroy and his retinue on the Kowloon Pies whence he proceeded aboard the liner, which carries him to Shanghai. His Excellency was accompanied by his staff of forty-five persons, and no less than ,$13 pack. ages of baggage, which had come down from Canton by junks.
ision uf 600 feet will be completed "during prising to hear that at present there are no INSPECTOR H. J.W. Gidley has been dis- the Governor's aide-de-camp had called
ong-and that in despite of the regulation less than 1,116 licensed tickshas in Hong mentioned. Quite recently some inquiring official unearthed the forgotters Notification of 1899 and it was decided, not before time, that the anomalous regulation should be abrogated. It was a mere matter of form, and now there may be an unlimited number
The Colony, without the permission of the Gay missed from the Government service for leaving
ernor.
Tue 15. Tuk Hing, another victim of Typhoon. Day, has been found to be so badly damaged. that the owners have decided not to attempt to
salve her, butito sell her either by auction or by private arrangement, as she lays.
The Viceroy, upon whom we understand
aboard the Bevanha dressed in a long rube earlier in the day, made his appearance ·
of purple silk and seemed to be perfect health and spirits,
in the saloor of the liner, the Commissioner
He pledged the health of Captain Hide
the present month [October making the whole length 2,300 feet.". Latterly, the company has been showing commendable enterprise in extending the scope of the shipping department, and with respect to this section we find under the head Steam ers' account" in the balance sheet before us two itens, namely, £58,851 to the credit of the account up to the end of February, 19057 and £35.968 being the balance of the FRUIT JELLIES, NOUGAT, TUR- cost of the steamship Kaiping, giving a total
KISH DELIGHT.
of 4,819, or an expenditure of, say, a million dollars in the shipping business of FASUALL'S TOFFEE and MIXED the company, "The special excursion which
was arranged a couple of months ago for the the streets and block up the thoroughfares, taken in tow by the Robert Cookelo Aberdeen. hung over their sterns. Otherwise there SWEETS.
!
CADBURY'S SUGARED ALMONDS,
BURNT ALMONDE.
WALNUTS, MILK CHOCOLATE,
NUTTONA, &c.
Packed in the daintiest boxes, or in the simplest to sent the taste.
a
and were fined $1 each.
of rickshas within the island of Hongres docks are all pretty full just now, and the kung". The dead-letter law has been re pealed, but many will consider that it might taking vessels over to the Bay to wait for tags Robert Coole and Edith are kept busy
have been beller to enforce it. There seems berths. At 2 p.m. to-day, from opposite the to be far too many rickshas in Hongkong as
new Harbour Office, the Edith towed the s.. it is. They are a perfect nuisance; they line Hongkong to Hunghom and the Arable was
purpose of enabling the journalists of Shang while the coolies jeer at those who endca. Two coalies, residing at No. 3, Wyndham hai to appreciate the vast possibilities of the vour to find a passage across the treacherous Street, were arrested last evening, by PC. Oto, company's property at Chingwantao, has arms of the vehicles. Not half of them are in Queen's Road Central, in the act of posting been the means of affording the public, ever employed at the same time. As for Belle View Hotel poster on the walls of the skrough the medium of the Shanghai Press, their condition, that is. past criticism. All Nayal Yard. The poster said Hangkongites some idea of the extensive lands, buildings, the dilapidated, broken hacked, springless had a chance of seeing the Empress Dowager. property and mines owned by the company and antediluvian machines which were used. The coolies saw Mr. F. A Hazeland instead The Kaiping, for some time pasi; has been by Noah to drag his menagerie into the Ark "a regular trader between Shanghais and the have been dumped into Hongkong, and yet more northern port, and from the accounts the licences are renewed every year as a mat- which have appeared from time to time. inter of course. A splash of varnish and our contemporaries in the Northern Settle patch on the rag of an apron suffices to ment, the steamship line operated by the satisfy the authorities. What is wanted is Chinese Engineering and Mining Company an Inspector of Hackney Carriages and appears to be well patronised and. favour-finrickshas invested with power to deal with With regard to the output all cases in which vehicles are concerned, to of the company's mines, the figures which bear.complaints, to cancel licences, to deal we have been able to reproduce" from with recalcitrant coolies, above all to week. to week of the Three mines, see that the tickshas are kept in decent now working bear evidence to a steady order, Bongkong might well take a leaf out increase in the quantities obtained. From of the book of Singapore in this respect. 1342,000 tons per week the output has. ad There they have rubber-tyred rickshas, and
vanced to 20,000 tons according to the the pullers are afraid to annoy their fares most recent report. It is satisfactory to note and all because they stand in awe of the *Tàɑ HONGKONG TELEGRAPII * shonid letant the demand is fully equal to the Inspector of finrickshas. The system works midrewnod to The Editor, 1, le Hoașe Reivil, wod should be accompanied by the Writer's Name and
admirably, and it saves the Magistrates a world of worry and expenditure of time Addrom, Elinary bununuancaraid be addresses
which might be more profitably employed. But the dead letter regulation has been ammulled, so that if there is an increase in the umber of the pestilent ticksbas in Hong kong-which heaven Torlend then none
A. "S. WATSON & CO., ably received.
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES (IN ADVANCK). DARLY-130 per kürtlen WEEKLY $3 per annoin. The rates por quarter med fur mensem, proportional. The daily laue delivered free when an addies in accesibile to integer, the coples sent by post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage, The postage on the weekly Issue any part of the
world is 30 conte per quarter. Blogia Copio, Daily, in cante: Weekly, twenty
live coal. A
The Hongkong Celegrapli
supply and the product finds a ready and profitable market. Tongshan, we may sug gest without exaggeration, is destined to become the Newcastle of the East. Its prospects are decidedly encouraging to those investors who hid the foresight to embark their capital in a concern which, under the 53ccessful management of Major Nathan.need be surprised. will have no equal in the field of mining undertakings in China.
A FORGOTTEN REGULATIÓN.
When the electric tramway system was introduced into Hongkong, and the cars were seen scaudding from end to end of Victoria, there was a general concensus of had passed. Indeed the pillers themselves opinion that the day of the ricksha-puller
were thoroughly convinced that their ser vices would no longer be required, and it was only the wholesome fear of the law that prevented them from making a determined assault on the new form of locomotion.
In.
POLICH GRIEVANCES.
of Customs- and -the P. & O. officials also
response to a request through his being, present at the informal reception, but
hut politely refused to be interviewed. French-speaking interpreter, he firmly
Some Customs launches were anchored in the neighbourhood and fired off strings of crackers from temporary spars which were
was no demonstration whatever and the passing of the Viceroy was unnoticed except by the few persons who happened to be upon the Kowloon Pier, and the passengers who were aboard the Deanha at the time. The Devanna left the pier at 430 pm. sharp flying the Imperial dragon at the fore.
inct
ep-
TELEGRAMS.
"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH"".
BERVICE.
YINKOW'S RENDITION.
CONFERENCE IN CONCLAVE.
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Shanghai, 17th November,
2.50 p.m."
The conference appointed to dia- ouss the question of the rendition of Yingkow opened yesterday.
JAPANESE DIET.
MEETS ON CHRISTMAS DAY.
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Shanghai, 17th November
2.50
p.m.
The Japanese Biet meets on Christ- mas Day..
THE FRISCO EARTHQUAKE. ALLEGED MISAPPROPRIATION OF RELIEF FUNDS.
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Shanghai, 17th November,
2.50 p.m.
It is reported; that President Roosevelt intends to prosecute Mayor Schmidt of San Francisco on a charge of having misappropriated part of the funds collected for the relief of sufferers by the earthquake and fire in April last.
A CORFULENT sampan woman, whose boat
THE VICEROY RETICENT. licence permitted her to carry twenty-four pas.
THE SCENE AT HIS DEPARTURE. sengers, was found to be carrying thirty-five
MORE SUCCESSFUL SALVAGE, when Lance-sergeant Jackson, of the Water, No doubt many in Hongkong were sceptical She told Mr. Hazeland, at the Police Court,abled exclusively to report yesterday that Police Station, boarded her boat yesterday, regarding the report which we were
"HEUNGSHAN READY FOR DOCKING. this morning, that she did not know how many Uis Excellency Shum had arrived at Hong Kowloon Bay, preparatory to going on the Another steamer has taken up a position in passengers she was allowed to carry. His kong, but to-day the Worship gave her to understand that under beyond question, His Excellency arrived; as the amount of damage she sustained on was proved docks, for the purposes of a survey to ascensin the new law she ought to know, and fined we alated, by the revenue cruiser Sum Hang, stranding on Saw-chau, on the memorable her $7.
and in the early hours of this morning the 8th September, during the disastrous typhoon, and Kung Ching, and a torpedo boat, all shan, which has been safely and speci Chinese gunboats Chang Tung, Kwong Fook This time it is the Macao steamer Heung*. - looking spic and spea and as fresh as paintfully towed off her undeniable perch, and could make them, steamed into the harbour towed to her present position, by the powerio! and anchored opposite the Harbour Office. Danish salvage steames Protector, which bas They carried on board the ex-Viceroy's practically stood by her since the timezolver stranding becoming known in the Colony, Au a result of the strenuous efforts made in hriber ball, the fieungihon was successfully floatedlast night, and towed into the harbour this morning, by the Protector, which took her over, to Kow loon Bay to await a vacant berth is the docks She passed into the harbour at 11 am.to-day, and had her quarry safely benthed in the Bay by noon. When the lungshan stranded of Lantan Island on Typhoon Day, some of. the plates in her bottom were found to be pierced by the rock on the scene of her stranding, and one sharp pisuarle penetrated through her plates. It was the position
INSPECTOR Gulay, of No. 2 Police Station, arraigned Lam Kwai, a ricksha coolie before Mr. G. A, 13. Melbourne, to-day, at the Police Court, on a charge of plying a ricksha at Eas; Point yesterday minus a licence, and also with offering a bribe of twenty cents to a policeman while on his way to the Police Court this morning with a view to obtaining his release the first count and Sio on the second. The charge was proved. He was fined S or bribe money was nidered to be drapped in the The
poor box.
entourage.
.
The revenue cruiser Sum Haug was recog- nised at once and the five war-terriers closed up together in friendly embrace. There was none of that stand-offishness about the little squad- ron which is the distinguishing feature of for- eign navies. The tiny craft simply clustered WILLIAM Benevie, a paid off seaman from the together like bees in a hive. By and by some sailing ship Arrow, now an inmate of the jonks lumbered into the harbour with the bag Sailers Home, was arraigned before Mr. F. A. Kage, no mean item in the viceregal attendance. Hazeland, this morning, at the Police Court, The retiring Viceroy remained on board the greate? part of the at the instance of sergeant Kendall, charged the cruiser for with behaving in a noisy and disorderly man day and many curious eyes were directed ner in Queen's Road West last night. Benevicwards bis temporary quarters. But His came ashore yesterday with a huge thirst and Excellency is an adept in the art pf secluding took the whole day trying to quench it tinself from the public gaze, and he managed tion; but when the sergeant passing along on practically without recognition.
to gain the Denke in the course of the after Whether he succeeded or not is another ques Queen's Road West on patrol he heard shouts which were fired (off from the Chinese vessels Had it not been for the crackers and squibs closely resembling a war whoop and saw Benevie chasing pedestrians up and down the tow would have dreamt that His Excellency unge. He admitted the charge this morning. road and amusing himself at the top of his was about to take his departure for the wintry "You had better keep away from drink or else you'll get into trouble," said his Worship here again."
You are fined $3 this time, but don't come up
;
north.
of this penetrating pinnacle that constituted one of the first difficulties the salvage party had to contend with, for it was ab solutely necessary to remove it so as la patch up the hole made, to enable the vessel when salved, to be, towed into the harbour. It was n work requiring considerable care, as it was a delicate operation to blast away the rock
from the bottom of the steaner without dama- received by Captain Hide with all ceremony by piece, and was thus a tedious job for those On board the Dean His Excellency was ging the steamer itself. It had to badona picco and conducted to his quarters. The two saloons engaged in it. But that their efforts were suck which had been specially reserved for the cessful is shown by the fact that the Hung, distinguished traveller were elaborately embelsinn is now in a place of safety, with, how. harmonious decorations of the P. & O. Coy's was no doubt, amongst shipping people, that lished, although it may be noted that there was
ever, as far as can at precent be ascertained, little need to add to the already chaste and very considerable damage to her hull. There boat.
perfectly safe, and that no anxiety need ba from the firet the fleungshan's position, was felt on her account. Thus it was not surprising
Central Station that Miss ledwig Flugge, a Ar about half-pasleight o'clock yesterday morn- ing a repart was made to the police at the governess, employed at No. 2, Victoria Lodge, had lost about $40 worth of clothing, which His Excellency expressed himself as being had been removed from ber room. Sergeant highly pleased with the preparations, which Earner, of the detective department, was put had been made for his reception and cordially on the case and a few hours Inter he had Tsang expressed his thanks for the welcome extended Cheong, a marine hawker, of No. 17. Upper to him by the captain and afficer of the Lascar Row, in a cell on a charge of theft. As Desanka, Thereupon an adjournment was soon as the report was made the sergeant paid made to the chief saloon where a select com- a visit to "Paddy's Market," as it is called, pony had met to bid His Excellency on and inund Miss Flugge's wearing apparel ex-voyage... hibited for sale. When the mariee hawker A representative of the Hongkong Telegraph was arrested he said that he purchased the lot for foily cents. He, however, admitted steal ing them later on. All but one piece of the Mr. F. A. Hazeland, at the Police Coun, to clothing have been recovered. Taken before
A curious trait which is found even in the most law-abiding people is the inclination to belittle, the work of the police. When, they grumble, because their salaries are dwindling through the vagaries of an irre sponsible collar, they areregarded as heathens HONGKONG, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1906.
acier, it is said, has at last been disclosed; in disguise. If they desert, their true cha-
THE CHINESse engineeRING
If they make errors, they are nothing, more or less than vile parasites of society. Not AND MINING COMPANY.
that the policemen are immaculate, but they We have received a copy of the Chinese
are always considered fair game by the Engineering and Mining Company's report, Singapore the ricksha coolics effectively his own, the myrmidons of the law. That man who has evaded, through no fault of which, as usual, shows a very satisfactory position of affairs with regard to a company
killed the first tranggay enterprise in that is one of the consequences of being ever whose history and future prospects clevate hy, and when the electric system was instal, before the public eye. In flongkong they it to the rank of one of the most important led several furtive attempts were made to have many grievances which they have to undertakings, where British interests are in- derail the cars and render the lives of the bottle up in their breasts, but the latest trick volved, in the Farther East. is unneces motornen a misery on earth. On many played on a long-suffering force is probably sary to recapitulate its history since its occasions they were successful, and even the most irritating of all. A person, we will, foundation as a Chinese concern pure and now there are occasion alarms, when bolts say, calls at the Central Police Station and simple that is now a matter of the past. The Government of Hongkong appears to
"afe found securely fixed between the rails. tells the inspector a cock and bull story But the reconstructed undertaking which is
about being robbed, half-killed and generally now known as the Chinese Engineering and he been of the same opinion as the rick maltreated. Of course the money did not Mining Company is of special interest to sha-pullers, for in 1899, when it was on the belong to him; some friend had con British invectors both at home and in the cards that electric tramways should be estab. missioned him to purchase certain goods Eastern colonies and settlements. With
lished in Hongkong, a regulation was passed with it, but having been "held-up" he was regard to the statement of accounts for the licences, shall be issued for more than 600 Usually, the individual is more sorry for his under which it was decreed that: "No, unfortunately unable to perform his errand, past year, the net profits amount to overickshas within the island of Hongkong." friend's loss than for the treatment le bas day, the hawker was sentenced to six weeks' His Excellency was obdurate. He smiled and £134,447, from which the substantial sum. of £30,000 has been transferred to the Considering the size of the population and suffered. Then the police start to discover reserve for depreciation account, leaving a
the
service which the electric cars would the ruffians who have despoiled the Detectives are, sent out divisible net profit of £104,447 odd. The provide it was believed that 600 rick poor sufferer. usual dividend of ro per cent., free of income shas. would be ample for the traffic and other matters concerning the police tax, is maintained and a 'surplus is carried
the side streets. But although and the public have to be postponed the regulation was passed and the pullers while they are searching for the thugs, over to thic aext working account. In con quaked in their sandais, nobody seems to Alter scouring the city they make certain tinuation of the report the secretary states that the demand for the company's coal has have given a second thought to its' enforce discoveries which convince them that they ment. The electric, system became an ac are on the wrong trail, and when the com: been fully maintained, but owing to complished fact, the cars were crowded, and plainant is cross-questioned once more, he diminution in the output, the sales during still the rickshas flourished like the prover. confesses that his whole story, was told the past year show a decrease as combial green bay tree. Morning, noon and with intent to deceive. He has gambled
falling off was, however, of a temporary char Queen's Road to the accompaniment of the proceeds, and tearfully he begs to be for rival's head. seriously he was placed before pared with the preceding year. This night processions of rickshas rolled along and lost, pawned his friend's goods and lost acter, the returns of output, sales and gross Chinese epithets and Chinese rejoinders, given. The friend is called, forgives and proceeds for the current year, since 18th and there seemed to be, no diminution in forgets, and there the mitter ends. But February last, showing a substantial in the number of the rickshas plying for hire. what about the police who have been put to -Provision is made for the facilita The only difference was that the coolies endless trouble through the romancer? They fing of the working of the mines and "to changed their demeanour; their previous are helpless, bound hand and foot,
CICase,"
hard labour.
hoped that it will be many a day before this
when it was learned that those on board the 5.8. Honam when she passed the Two Brothers at ro.16 am today to find the Frungilam afloat, and apparently being prepared for towing into the Kowloon Bay, for docking purposes The fizungshan is the last of the fleet of the #lengkong, Canion and Macao Steamboat Company, Ld., 10 be salved, and it speaks was introduced to the Viceroy and a suggestion volumes for the ingenuity of those con- made that His Excellency should give a final cemed in the salvage operations; that, while message to the people over whom he had ruled
so many stranded, not one of their steam. telligent secretary translated the remarks but repairs on the fleungshan will occupy the best
The pleasant-faced and in- for some years.
era was lost. It is apticipated that the
laughed a refusal and the journalist concealed damaged than was at first believed. It is to be past of two months, as she is more seriously his chagrin as best lie could. Two fishmongers from the Wanchai market
Then raising his glass of wine His Excellency met is a house at No, is, Swalow Lane, East bowed, and a toast was pledged, although Foint, last night. They were both courting the same lady and when both met in the house what it exactly signified few understood. But the younger man became jealous. "Don't you the Viceroy was on the best of terms with have anything to do with that man," said the himself and everybody else and the informal young spark, he is a paid no attention, but the so-called "dead
dead cartier The lady reception shortly afterwards ended.
There were more Chinese on the wharf carrier, not wishing to have any trouble, left watching the departure of the new Viceroy of the house. Later in the night the two rivals Yunnan than has been seen for, many a day. met is the street. What business have you The Devanka promptly cast off her moorings to go to that house inquired the younger of and at five o'clock left Hongkong en routs for planation to give, and that it was none of the the two. The dead carrier said he had no ex- Shanghai. younger man's business where he went. With was carrying a long Chinese pipe, laid it on his out saying another word, the young man, who
injuring him. Needless to say he was
company has to experience a recrudescence of this form of disaster.
'SHIPPING AND MAILS.'
MAILS DUE,
Canadian (Empress of Japan) 18th inst. American (Doric) 19th insi, German (Rook) zoth inst. German (Print Regent Luitpold) 21st last. • Indian (Latsang) 26th inst.
The N. Y. K. 15. Kumano Maru left Manlik for this port on 17th inst., and is expected here od 19th inst.
The N, Y. K. 1.5. Tora Maru American Line left Shanghai for this port on 15th inst, and is expected here on 18th inst
THE DEPARTURE FROM CANTON,
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Canton, 16th November, H. E. Viceroy Shum yesterday left here for is Worship fined him $15, or in default one Hongkong per the Chinese gunboat Sup Mr. F. A. Hazeland, to-day, at the Police Court. month's gaof. He was also bound over in the Hang. The Magistrates of Namboi and Punyü The C. P. R. Co's as. Empress of Japan sum of Sipo to keep the peace for a year, and and several other officials accompanied H. Harrived at Shanghai.al 1. p.m., on 15th inst, in Court he would go in the stocks,
and left again at 8 am, Friday, for Hongkong, he was warned that if he showed his face again as far as Whampoa and another officer accom-
panied him to Hongkong,
where she is due to arrive at 9 a.m., on 18th insi,