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THE FRANCHISE.
(From Our Thin Correspondent] ·
Shanghai, 22nd November : 2.30 p.m.:
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY NOVEMBER 22, 1906.
- HƠNGRONG'S POSSIBLE RIVAL.
SINGAPURE FACTION, FIGHTS,
'POLICE PATROL STREETS
We take the following detailed report from the Singapore Free Press, of the 14th inst, and following days
WHA POA AS A PORT OF TRADE.. 1ho Siralit Timardavotes a leading article on the rivalry of Whampoa as threatening Hongkong. The writer observes: -Tra
One of the most serious faction fights that mutations of trade are often incomprekan-” sible. ithout cause, apparently, a town has occurred in Singapore for some time began will decline and decay, a port will sink yesterday morning and towards the evening from first-class impulance to utter insignific-assumed "proportions, that were somewhat alarming. The direct origin of the trouble ance, yet there is always, of course, a cause however obscura, however it may be over-setm's, to have been a quarrel between two
BANKRUPTCY,
CHANG SHON Rod's AFFAIRS..
“To-day's Advertisements.
WANTED.
In Pankruptcy Jurisdiction this morning, his Hancur the Chief Justice presiding. Hon. Mr. H., Pollock, &C., instructed by Mr. J. S. Harston of Messrs. Ewens and Harston, applied Shun Koo, for leave to disclaim: a lease dated on behalf of the trustes in the matter of Chang A JAPANESE to TEACH THE LANGUAGE 17th Juss, 1925, of section B. of Marine Lo No. 7 bearing a monthly rent of $1,100.
Sir Henry Berkeley said that the matter had baan adjourned to obtain Mr. Ho Tong's con sent to the disclaimer. That consent had been" obtained and filed. His Honour: Than if you nothing for the Court to do but to allow it.
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looked by the generation living through the rival pailies of boalmes over a barth for their have the consent of Mr. Ho Tung there is Black and Tan Head Reward offered
process of gradual decline. The introduction of steam transportation by land and sea and the development of mechanical appliances are; As the result of the criticism offer-chiefly responsible for some of the greatest ed by the public on the subject of changes of the past and present centuries, and here in Singapore, one of the sidings on the the local telephone system, the sign-world's highway, we are singularly well situated ing-of-the franchise agreement has beon deferred."
MARQUIS ITU.
DEPARTURE FROM SEOUL.
[From: Our Own Correspondent.]
Shanghai, 22nd November,
2.30 p.m."
twakow at Boat Quay, early yesterday morning, Each, party claimed a certain berth, and the. tivals soon came to blows. Other coolion in the neighbourhood joined in the fight, and reinforcements came from the adjoining ge- downs.
YESTERDAY MORNING'S FIGHT.
TO REDUCE A CLAIM Regarding the motion of Mr. Ho Tung to be allowed to reduce his claim from $33,000 to
$11,000 His Honour said he could not see how that could be done now."
MANAGER CANNOT BIGN PETITIONE
7OX TERRIER BITCH, White Body,
to finder.
MANAGER, KENNEDY STANLES,
Causeway Bay. Hongkong, and Novamber, 1906.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
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Intimations.
THE
ROBINSON. PIANO
∙CO., LD.
HAVING SECURED AN INTEREST
IN A LARGE -
HE Undersigned have received instructions LONDON FACTORY
In the matter of Kwong Chuen, ex parte iha Yohn Stoke, Mr. R. Daniels, in MTHEU Johnson, and Master, applied for an adjudication order against the debtor.
•
Very soon the strife assumed formidable. dimensions and several hundred coolies were fighting for all they were worth with host poles, His Honour: On what grounds? carrying sticks, and anything they could lay
Mr. Daniels.The debtor has committed 'as their hands on. Those who found no permbu-act of bankruptcy by giving notice of his ent weapon to their hands seized hold of any. inability to pay his debts, and his intention to thing handy and used it as a missile, including boties, jars, brickbats, and stones.
The police were telephoned for and spas. detachment arrived under Inspector Gallagher Their arrival put a stop to the fight, and the police do not seem to have been resisted. But the casualty list was rather a big one, and in.
suspend payment...
His Honour: Let me see that notice? Mr Daniels: It was a verbal notice. His Hohour: Can you prove it? Mr. Daniels: Yes, I will put Chan Kam Li in the box to prove it; he is managing partner. Chan Kam Li was called, and said be was not a pour: Then he cannot sign the peti- tion. It must be signed by a partner in the Mr. Daniels: He has a power to sign for
observe the changes that are being effected on countries and calling places rescued in com- paratively recent times from their primeval Tisolation. There is not much likelihood of Port Swettenham over rivaling Singapore as port of call for the world's mercantile marine; though the recent visit of a 1', and 0. liner to that port points the possibilities of future development at coastal ports in the Malacca Straits. Too much capital might be made, for political reasons, of the steady development of Penang and its rivalry with Singapore. Never theless, there may be good reason for believe Marquis Ito, President General of that the steady growth of the railway Systems of the Malay Peninsula will bring Korea, left Scoul yesterday...
inevitable changes in the current of trade) affecting our own, port very materially. That the influence will be serious, permanently in jurious, we need have no fear. It is not necessary to use the hackneyed comparisor, 50 frequently applied to Hongkong and Colombo, of our port being a suit of Clapham Junction, upon the cause of that row by a cáse brought | jankruptcy, as it may be to suspend in six
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cluded two so badly cut about the hear that: they had to be sent to hospital. Nine of the rioters were arrested.
LATER PROCEEDINGS.
The affair of the morning appeared to be a mere squabble that had risen to a serious fight. A curious light was, however, thrown
His
firm."
the firm.
His Honour: Yes, in all matters pertaining to the business, but not matters in bankruptcy. Mt. Daniels: Then, will your Lordship adjourn the matter lill next Thursday?
to sull by
PUBLIC AUCTION, FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,
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the 24th November, 1906, at 2.30 PM, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, comer of Ice Houso Street,
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- TERMS —As Usual.
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Auctioneers,
Hongkong, 22nd November, 1906
PUBLIC AUCTION,
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The Kaiser has authorised the publication There are geographical advantages in our Hokien was charged with stealing a case of till next Thursday, when the application can be THE Undersigned have received instructions
of particulats of an interview with the Bavour of which we cannot be deprived varian poet Ganghoffer, in which the Kaiser declared himself an optimist working his hardest for the future of Germany; he would like the people to understand him and to help him in attaining, his object.
It is believed that the publication of the Interview is a reply to the recent attacks of the Press,
CATTLE DISEASE AT POK-
· FOULUM.
SANITARY BOARD MEETING,
At an extraordinary meeting of the Kinitary
unless some unusually detrimental official insists upon a policy calculated to drive trade away from Singapore. Other ports may spring up to rival us; that we need fear eclipse is ridiculous. Dingapore will always hold its own, and is more likely to grow in importance than to diminish in glory.
up in the police chart before Mr. Colman. A
tea, and he unfolded a tale of how he had been set upon and wounded by Teochews. He said that there had been bad blood, hetween the clans for a morth past, but would throw no light on what was the cause of it. But he gave, the Court to understand that there were going to be many fights.
THE SECOND FIGHT.
-19.3.
His Honour: A notice of intention to sus pend does not necessarily constitute an act of months or in one year. The matter sadjourned
renewed by a partner...
COMMERCIAL
TO-DAY'S INTELLIOKNÉE.
Noon. Buyers-National Banks $47, Hongkong Fires $332), HK., C. and M. Steamboats 527 fado-hiuas $75, Kowloon Wharves $88 Hongkong Lands $104, Cements $19, Electrics The palice were not entirely taken by sur
$15.
Sellers-Hongkong Banks $810, Unions prise therefore, when they were called to a fight in New Market-rd, close by the Chi- $770, Cantons $100, China and Manilas 523 nese Protectorale and the Central. Police Douglasen 840, Shell Transports 31, China Office. Here two mobs of 150 bad come tours 5145. Raubs 59, Hongkong Docks S5 West Points $50, Humphreys Estate St but also, which is significant, with their fight Hongkong Cot ans S13, China Borneos So ing sticks. The police attempted to disperse China Providents Sot, ices S236, Ropes $13. them, and for the first time they were resisted. China Light and Power Sto, A.S. Watsons 512]. and for a time kept back. Inspector Gallagher Powells $8. single-handed managed to keep them from doing any mischief, till moro police arrived,
and the mob then dispersed.
It then became apparent; this was about six o'clock, that there was going to be trouble, and Supt. D'Arcy Symonds made arrangements for the Sikhs to come from Sepoy Ines, and for the European police to turn out.
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CRAIG RD I OUBLE
The next message e me from Craig-rd, the report being that a policeman had been killed. Men were sent, and found that a party of Hokiens had attacked a Teqchow eating house, and had completely wrecked it hammering the inmates who did not succeed in o'caping, The solitary policeman near had come up, and the rioters, who were now armed with knives and axes, red or him, cutting his leg rather badly, so that he had to be sent to Hospital. They all got away when reinforcements arrived.
CHINATOWN ALARMED,
Quite different is the position of Hongkong -the next calling place on the ocean highway. Ar'present, that Calooy holds the proud dis- tinction of being the first of the umpire, statistically. The statistics have been called in question, but that is another story. The fact remains that from a barren rock, inhabited by a few fishermen, whe combined piracy with the gentler art, Hongkong has developed into a Colony of importance altogether out of pro. Board, which was held in the Board room, at four o'clock this afternoon, the ustial members portion with its size and population. To some being present, the following letter front the extent, it might be regarded as a trade exotic, Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, relating in a cer- carefully fostered and nurtured, brought to thin disease which has broken out among some maturity prematurely and liable to the disease and decay that so often mork out the exotic cattle at Pokfoolum, was read:-
for their own. True it is that Hongkong is at 22nd, November, 1986. Sir,I have the honour to submit the follow-present a naval base, a place d'armes," the ing report for the information of the Board-taking off place for any, British military or On Saturday, 17th instant, I got a message naval demonstration in the Far East, the focus of an inter-ocean trade without equal in the through the police to the effect that there were sick cattle at the Sanitarium of the French world. There is just one little speck on the rose leaf. Hon kong's importance as the port priests at Pokfoglum. 1 went Dut and
of South China is in danger of serious rivalry. found one sick, animal which was then moribund. I made a post-mortem, but found This was first realised in 1903 when railway no definite lesions of any particular disease, development began in the neighbourhood of There was nothing to be seen in the blood Canton. The future Tlunk Railway of China, which is to link Peking with Hankow in the microscopically...
I re-visited the place on the 18th and found beart of the Celestial. Empire and Canton in the south, might very easily be carried to a two animals with high temperatures, but no other appearances of disease. I put thein interminal port on the Canton River, within fifty miles of Hongkong. As a matter of fact, the separate shed.
paint contemplated is Whampoa, which was. nol only the great shipping port of South China' but the docking and repairing part fir some years after the acquisition of Hongkong by Britain and its conversion into a free port. Should the Chinese Government make Wham .poa the terminus of its railway-and it has a perfect right to do so if it chooses-there is a On the 20th the same condition prevailed. positive danger of the importance of Hongkong
Disturbances took place in Church-st, just Blood smears were negative and although the being seriously impaired. That it will ever rink into insignificance is unbelievable. temperatures of the sick caule varied from Whampoa is in a lackwater, while Hongkong behind the Central Police The assailer is got 104-5 to 107 F. the animals were still feeding is out on the stream of ocean travel Hong away before the police arrived, except one man and showing to the casual onlooker no kong has one great advantage, an advantage who was trying the tilt,, who was arrested. she will retain so long as Great Britian retains There was another fight in Wokien-st, in which symptoms of disease. -
Yesterday afternoon, the condition of affairser jsition among the first-class powers
here is security, under the British dag, and a few more arrests were made. . was as follows:-The two cattle first set apart unless the Chinese can hold out reasonable now showed well marked symptoms of bee prospect of equal security, Whampoa, even morrhagic opticaemia and the four cattle that should it become an open port with railway- I had put into a shed further away were also communication with the interior, can never obtain the confidence of foreign traders and shippers. There is also another point in Hong- kang's favour. It is a free port, unhampered by customs re, ulations, freer in some respects itan Singapore. Goods may be laid down there in bulk and stored until dispored of for distribution in the interior or along the coast. Unless the Chinese change their methods, therefore, llongkong will retain the favour of shippers.
The danger of rivalry in fully realised in Hongkong. Both the Government and the business community are awake to the neces- sity of connecting the Colony with the There are only sight, cattle altogether and interior, it it is to withstand the rivalry of they all come under either sub-section or Whampoa, and a railway is now being built, with feverish haste, from Kowloon to the -sub-section 2 of section 54 of Ordinance frontier, and as agreement has been made or turbances had occurred wore a deserted air..
1903. All the cattle are sick and therefore
is in course of negotiation with the Chinese half their value before they became affected authorities for the continuation of that railway Most of the shops were heavily barricaded and will be payable.
On the 19th the condition of these two animals was unchanged, but two more cattle showed a high temperature, I put them with the sick two put apart at first. Four cattle in a, shed close by I moved to a shed some dis. tance away.
sick.
I have taken, all precautions to prevent the disease spreading further.
In view of the fact that almost the whole of the dairy cows in the Calong are within easy distince there are the whole herd of the Dairy Farm Co., Fuk Lee's and Hop Lee's dairica quite near-I would recommend that the whole of the affected or in contact cattle be slaughtered under section 54 of Ordinance i of 1993.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most abedjent servant,
(Signed), Apam"Gibson,
of
The shop-keepers began to be alarmed and put up their shutters, and by eight o'clock the streets presented a very unwonted appearance.
isolated attacks on Teochow shops, which they The tactics of the rioters seemed to be to make completely wrecked, smashing lainps and bang- ing about the people who belonged to them.
POLICE ARRANGEMONTS.
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Nominal:- China Fires 595, Shanghai Docks
Tis, tod, Hoogkew Wharves Tls, 239, Hong-
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N. INTERIM DIVIDEND on acceUDÍ A of the year 1906, of Forty cents per Share, will be payable at the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Hongkong, on and after, WEDNES❘ DAY, 28th November, 1906, on Warrants to he obtained at the Company's Offices
The Dividend will also be payable at the Hong ong and Shanghai Bank, Shanghai, on
and after the same date.
The REGISTER OF SHARES will be
By hall past nine the police throughout, the town were all in readiness. Parties with rifles patrolled the streets, reserve parties were kept in the police stations, and every available man was warned for duty. The news of a disturbance
until FRIDAY, the 30th instant, both days in Kampong Glam seemed to indicate wide- CLOSED from MONDAY, the 25th instant, spread disorder; but what really seems to be the
inclusive, during which period NO TRANS Case is that the Hokiens, who outnumber the Teo,FER OF SHARES will be effected. chinus in the Town, are making more or less iso.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, lated attacks on their enemies' shop and houses.
· General Managers. Hongkong, 22nd November, 1906. fusi The danger in that the more they are able to do this, the more bold they will become, and the HONGKONG ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY. COTSMEN are invited to SUBSCRIBE the ST. ANDREW'S BALL is be held in the City Hall at 9 F.M. on FRIDAY, 30th imant.
For particulars, please apply to~~
W. ARMSTRONG, Hon. Secretary? (C/o Butterfeld & Swire).
bazaar and retail traße might be affected.
At about ten o'clock things were generally Jaily quiet. There had been a cessation of the fighting and the streets in which the dis-
10 Canton, Up to the present the Chinese, at the doors a few men were gathered prepared
adopting the policy of masterly inactivity. thai for emergencies. The rain had possibly some has proved so successful in stalling off foreign effect in dispiriting the combatants. The police aggression and peaceful penetration in the had however made ample arrangement for any past, have done nothing to facilitate the coo (resh outbreak, and it was decided to have the struction of the Kowloon fine to Canton.
Colonial Veterinary Surgeon. Viceroy Shum, who has just been replaced by river thoroughly patrolled by the water police, The Secretary, Sanitary Board.
Hon. Dr. Atkinson minuted :- have senters, and hostility to the British railway. We
Chow Fu, was credited with hostility to foreign.in boats and launches, and also on, shore. It is reported that some of the fighters have been these flies and also similar flies (biting), ob- now read that he was foiled in his scheme for Lahod, from the cattle in the Bacteriological building à railway, from Caninn so Whampoa killed, but at this hour no definte information Laboratory to Dr. Theobald, British Museum,
Before he relinquished office, the Minister of London, for identification and classification; for, Commerce at Peking telegraphed to Shura in my opinion, they may be concerned in the etiology and transmission of this disease, which,
septicemia!
was available. New Markel-rd showed, con- siderable signs of the fighting, the stones being torn up and bricks and rubble lying all over the place, The general opinion was that no more disturbances would occur during the
.Hongkong, 22nd November, 1996,
SALE OF H.M.S. "PHORNIX*
(28.
as she lies all standing at Kowloon,
In my opinion, is a variety of "hæmorrhagicine would interfera with the Kowloon-Canton night, but a possible repetition of the trouble on and aller the 17th instant on application
1
not to go on with the line; and it is stated that this action was taken by the central authorities in response to the profest.tions of Sir Jobu Jordon, the British Minister, that the proposed Railway. If this version of the matter be cor- was thought likely to occur about five o'clock The Board decided that the place where the
rect, it would indicato a' better feeling at Pek- this morning, and will be guarded against. disease broke out should be considered an inging towards Hong ang's pet project and a post.
15th inst. fected area; also that the caite should be panement of the rival Whampoa scheme for slaughtered, and the Government should be be made an open port to serve the Solrthern period. That Whampoa will an indefini
DISTURBANCES ALL over chinatown. recommended to grant compensation.as laid Provinces and that it will yet be joined 10
The Police precautions prevented the big down in the Ordinance.
Canten by rail, we folly believe; but it is at least fight that was anticipated between the Hokier satisfactory to know that both these steps and Teachlu class early yesterday morning, Nicholas Apperb, a Frenchman, started the is. may be delayed until such time as the Kow but a repetition of Tuesday afterApes's desul loon lina has got a fair start, for then it will be dustry of cloning fruit in the year 18tc. Meatless easy to divert the current of trade from tory fights took place all ever Chinatown. was fent jinned on a large scale in 1848...
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TENDERS FOR THE SALE of the above STORE OFFICER, H.M. NAVAL YARD, Heng Cosling Depot will be received by the NAVAL kong, up till Noon the 30th November. The purchaser will be required to remove and break up the vessel within a reasonable time and will
be called upon to. deliver to the Naval Yard the Ship's Boilers and Anchors.
Intending purchasers can inspect the verse during Yard working hours...
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Steel Twin Berew Coppered Sloop of 185 feet length, 3" 6" beams, Displacement 1050 toce, Elted with Vertical Triple Expansion Engines..... Funber joformation and particulars, as to said to be obtained on application to the NAVAL STORE OFFICER, HiM, Nayal Yazd, |Hongkong.
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