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TYPHOON RELIEN FUND.
and inst At a meeting of the committed of the i Typhoon Relief Fund, held at the office of the chairman, Sir Paul Chater, on the 20th instant, the following sistement was submitted by the sub-commit68 ?---
Payments already made to owners
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1906, SINGAPURE FACTION FIGHTS." | sscaping up the by-streets, but a few of the
CATTLE DISKASK AT:POK
FOOLUM
SANITARY BOARD MEETING.
and inst.
At an extraordinary meeting of the Sanitary Board which was beld in the Board room, & $53,715.00 four o'clock this aftermson, the usual members To destitute widows and orphans.... 1,107.00 beiss present, the following letter from, the Gran's agreed to, but not yet paid to
Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, relating to a car owners of 163 boats................................... 36,783.00 (in disease which hasbroken out among some In addition to the above the sum of $15,605 | castle at Pokloolam, was rendi- has been spent by the Tung Wa Hospital and
23ad, November, 1906, in relief in Europeans,
1
Sir, I have the honour to submit the follow. Applications for relief have been put forwarding report for the information of the Board by nabing boat and Junk owneis amounting
--in ail to some $33,020. It has been decided that small fishing boats will be granted asustarice from the fund calculated at $10,000.
An additional amount of $90,000 has been asked for by fishing junks, and, this matter is now under consideration by the committee.
BOAP TRADE-MARKS INFRINGED,
WHAT WILL BECOME OF TRADE?
zand inst.
On Saturday, 17th instant, I got a messa through the police to the effect that then were sick cattle at the Sanitarium of the French priest at Pokfoolum, I went out and found one sick animal which was then moribond I made a post-morim, but found no definite lesions of any particular disease There was
POLICE PATROL STREETS
We take the following detailed report from the Singapors Free Press of the 14th inst, and following days:-
ringleaders and more desparate fighters were secured,
Immediately after this fight news came that another outbreak had occurred in Hongkong- it which mostly comisios reochis shops and has occurred in singapore for some time began h
party of police hurried off to this street, The One of the most serious faction fights that app nokians who, bolted when they saw to be an attack on a Teocbiu ten yesterday morning, and towards the evening
shop by assumed proportions that the orble
but again sirests were made. alarming. The direct origin of the tremble seems to have been a quarrel, betwCUN'ING
1
off
soma.
rival parties of boatmen over a berth for their i mal police patrol Attempted to interfere the and with the increasing number of' rikishus avaldutos in the Far East, the foens
wakow at Boat Quay, early yesterday morning rivals toon came to blows. Other coolles in Each party claimed a certain berib, and the the neighbourhood jained in the fight, and reinforcements came from the adjoining go- down
VESTERDAY MORNING'S FIGHT.. Very soon the strife assumed formidable dimensions and several hundred coolies were fighting for all they wars worth with boas polas, thair bands on. Those who found no perman Iro-visited the place on the 18th and found at weapon to their hands unised hold of any two
wo animals with high temperatures, but nothing bandy and used it Ing a misslis, including other appearances of disease, I put them into bottles, fars, brickbats, and stones.
ke poli
polica were telephoned for and soos a detachment arrived under inspector Gallagher. Their arrival put a stop to the fight, and the police do not seem to have been resisted. Bat the casualty list was rather a big one, and in- cluded two so badly cut about the head that
microsconothing to be seen in the blórd carrying sticks, and' anytbin: they could lay
a separate shed.
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 shed close by I moved to a shed some dis-
At the Police Court this morning, before Mr. C. A. U. Melbourne, Mr. W. G. Humphreys, of W. G. Humphreys, and Company, proceeded against Tung We Shing, of No. 265, Queen's Road Central, for selling and exposing for sale,tance away, and being in possession of a quantity of soap to which a fabe trade-mark had been applied, on the 19th instant. The trade-mark that was alleged to have been infringed was the "Bechive" brand, the property of Messrs. W. Gostage and Company, Limited, of Widnes, Lancashire, the complainant being the local agent..
Mr. F. J. Grist, of Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist, appeared forthe prosecution, while Mr. G. C. C. Master, of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master, represented the defendant,
On the zoth the same condition prevailed Blood smears were negative and although the temperatures of the nick cattle varied from 104.5 to Foy F the animals were still feeding and showing to the casual onlooker no symptoms of disease.
condition
of
they had to be sent to hospital. Nine of the tinters were arrested,
Car
LATER PROCEEDINGS,,
The air of the morning appeared to be a fight. mese squabble that had risen to a serious curious light was, however, thrown up in the cause of that row by a case brought Yesterday afternoon the
up in the police count before Mr. Colman. was as follows-The two cattle first set apart Hokien was charged with stealing a case of now showed well marked symptoms of boten, and he unfolded a tale of how he had bean morrhagic.septicaemia and the four cattle that set upon and wounded by Teochews. He said had put into a shed farther away were", also that there had been bad blood between the clans for a mooth past, but would throw at the Court to understand that there were going to be many fights.
sick.
the
behave for the remaining five months of the statistically. The statistics have been called twelve. As it is improbable that they will find in question, but that is another story. The rely it practically means they will spend in fact remains that from a barten rock, Inhabited your la Jull for their little share in the rioting. by a fow fisherman, who combined piracy with At noon yesterday further Sghting had the gentler art, Hongkong has developed into. taken place and the be-itating rklaba coolies Colony of importance altogether out of pros began to comet at and later when one of our portion with its size and population, Pagar, Chinatown and Fachore, the Chinese carefully fostered and nurtured, brought to representatives made a journey round Tanjong extent; it might be regarded as a trade exotic, Aker keeping out of the way for half-an-houring to their work, whilst the shopkeepers were and decay that so often mark out the tactic the riters stasied the fight again right in front opening up their shops. The large crowds for their own. True it in that Hongkong 11
population were found to be genomily return maturity prematurely and liable to the disease of the Protectorate in fall force, and when a congregated at street corners had dispersed present a naval base, a place d'armes," the combatants met them with volleys of stones.
in taking
for Ray British military or shd a large number of arrests were made. Reinforcements, however, cam to the Police normal aspect again.
streats the Town was rapidly amuming li These sudden fights hed, up to noon, occur in Holland-rd. Tanglio, and Shaik Abdullah Later little affairs reported are disturbancer red. all over he town, street-fighting being reports that a gang of Teochius attacked fercast in New Market-rd, Marchant-rd, Hoog spirit shop at 21 miles on the Serangoon.rd kong-st, Teluk Ayer, bad, Anson and Tanjong Bear Hendemeer. They-hurst open the door Pagar-rd, and to be in readiness for eventu alities the order was given for the Sikh Police worth shop and looted, it carrying off $250 buck-shot, whilst armed squads were sent out
of goods, Sanitary Inspector Mayhew to be served out "with ball cartridge and
came up with two constables from the Rumah Miskin Station and arrested two men. to patrol the streets where Ggbling had taken similar occurrence is reported to have taken place and where outbreaks were likely to occur place at a shop further out on the Serangoon galo
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The peons of the Chinese Chamber of Com merce took round leaflets in Chinese to the ed out. various rikisha depots, and the men then turn.
GANG ROBBERY.
Al poop arrangements ware made to call a meeting of the Chinese Advisory Board to ob tain their opinion on the trouble.
The riotom arrested on Tuesday night and yesterday morning were brought before Mr. Colman yesterday in batches and most of them
A
me leaf. Hon kong's importance as the port of an
f an inter-ocsan trado without
#qual world. There is just one little speck on the in the
of South China is in danger of serious development began in the neighbourhood of This
I was first realised in 1993 when raft Canton. The foine Trank Railway of Chian, which is to link heart of the Cat Peking with Hankow in the
Empire and Canton Inte terminal part on the Canton River, within Ety the south, might very sarily be carried sa miles of Hongkong. As malter of fact, the not only the great shipping port of South Chips point
contemplated is Whampoa which was but the docking and repairing port for some
Hom years after the acquisition of Hongkong by Britain and its conversion into from
роп, Should the Chinese Government make Wham perfect right to do so if it choose there in poa the terminus of its railway-and it bas A Beniva danger of the importance of in-positive
Gof Hongkong
" A more serious affair occurred at Sirangoon, yesterday afternoon. It is only a sequel to the Chinese disturbances in town, one of the in:
lessness.
LAST NIGHT.
i have taken all precautions to prevent the light on what was the cause of it. But he gave | granted they were Chinese thronging the \ night, and the rikiha coolies gave an indica. | Kong's favour. It is a free port, unhampered
disease spreading further,
In view of the fact that almost the whole of the dairy cows in the Colony Are within easy- distance there are the whole herd of the Dairy Farm Co., Fuk Lee's and Hop Lee's dairies quite near-I would recommend that the whole of the affected or in contact cattle be laughtered under section 54 of Ordinanco 1 of 1903.
THE SECOND FIGHT.
extent.
There are only eight cattle altogether and but also, which is significant, with their fight, i damped the ardour of the opposing clans and Rochore, the First Magistrate. Mr. Mitchel', Hongkong. Both the Government, and the
they all come under either sub-section 4 of sub-section 2 of section 54 of Ordinance 1 of 1903. il the cattle are sick and therefore half their valus before they became affected will be payable,
Mr. Master said that be would leave it for the prosecution to prove that the trade-mark in question was a registered coe. He admilled being guilty of a technical offence. The soap was in his possession, but he was going to plead guilty under extenuating circumstances, as the soap was ordered by his clients from Japan. Whether the soap was ordered from Japanese or Chinese firm he did not know, but he knew that when the de'end ant ordered the soap he did not mist on the shippers sending him "Beehive soap. The thippers sent the soap on their own account. When it was discovered, con- -tinued Mr. Master, that they had sent "Bachive" soap, the defendant wrote to the firm in Japan-a press copy of the letter had been handed to the prosecution-telling them to stop shipping "Beehive soap, and it was stopped. Mr. Master went on to say that bis client was certainly in the wrong. When he The Secretary, Sanitary Board. got the forty cases of" Beehive" soap he should Hon. Dr. Atkinson minuted-i hava sent Dave gone to the complainant and informed him of the matter, but Chinese did things deftained from the cattle in the Bacteriological these flies, and also similar dies (biting) ob ferently. When the soup was ordered the desxboratory to Dr. theobald, British Museum would be sent. There was no intention of fraud, nor were they trying to undersell blessis, Humphreys and Company. If the prosecution, concluded Mr. Matter, allowed them to send the soap to Japan the defendant would be glad to do so.
I have the honqur, to be, Sir,
Your most obedient servant, (Signed), ADAM GIBSON,
The police were not entirely taken by sur prise therefore when they were called to a fight in New Market-rd, _close_by_the_Chi nese Protectorate and the, Central Police, Office. Here two mobs of 15o had come to ing slicks. The police attempted to disperse them, and for the first time they were resisted, and for a time kept back. Inspector Gallagher single-handed managed to keep them from doing any mischief, till mora 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 Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, for the Sikhs to come from Sepor Lines, aid
for the European police to turn out
CRAIG XD T OUBLE
doba Police produced large number the heavy fighting, sticks with which the wounds. were inflicted.
The Count was crowded with Chinese any
A gang of robbers, armed with sink into insignicance, is unbelievable lookers-partisans of the prisoners who scowl
knives crossed the river in a boat and attacked Whampoa is in a rackwater, wolle Hong Kong ad at each other, and in every case Mr. Col.
the Branch Opium Farm within a stone's is out on the stream of ocean travel. Hong man convicted, imposing sentences rang-
throw of the Police Station there. They she will retain so long as Great Britian retains kong has one great advantage, in advantage tog
from
rapsacked the place, apparently before the three
months to six months, police got to work. The constables, turned The Magistrate took the excellent step of getting the Court interpreter, to explain in
her position among the first-class powers. out with rifies and fred four shots at the rob- There is security under the British dag, and loud voice the heinousness of the crime of rioting and the penalties attached to it an
bers, but cannot say if any were hurt. At al' unless the Chinese can hold out reasonable events they seem to have got clear away and prospect of equal security, Whampoa, even all and sundry were warded that if they were
-are said to have taken a thousand dollars' wanh should it become an open port with railway arrested amongst rioters it would be taken for
of goods.
Communication with the interior, can never of the party, This seamed
obtain the confidance of foreign traders And te deeply impress
There were disquieting rumours about last shippers. There is also soother point in Hong Ceart.
The Police Court compound was crowded Tion of something by going of the streets to ♬
by customs re blations, freer in some respecte with Teochius and Hokiens anxious to knowe police had, in pite of the heavy work there in bulk and stored until disposed of for than Singapore. Goods may be laid down whal sentence had been passed on theirfriends and when they heard the punishment through of the last few days, made every arrangement
distribution in the interior or along the coast. the lock up bars they quickly dispersed, to cope with any difficulty from the lawless. Unless the Chinese change their methods, there
The heavy rain in the afternoon rather and on the rumour of a largo gathering in
fore, Hongkong will retain the favour of shippers, The danger of rivalry is fully realised is of Teochius made raids on Hokies shops in there was no serious fight, though several yang the local equivalent of the riot act, so as to went with Capt. Cuseiden, to read, if necessary, retaliation for the attacks on their clansmen's give the police the authority, if need be, to prosity of connecting the Colony with the business community are awake to the neces ceed to more rigorous measures of repression. shops the previous day. The worst raid look
interior,
it it is to withstand the rivalry of place is Church-st and bere a Hokien piece
A word about the excellent work by the
Whampoa, and a railway is now being built, goods shop was attacked and footed before the
Police will not be out of place. Every member with feverish haste, from Kowloon, to the Fulice could come to the rescue. The same
of the Forte from Mr. Cuscader, the nspector frontier, and an agreement has been made, or
is in course General, to the latest Joined constable, thing happened to an Opium-shop in New
has
of negotiation with the Chinese authorities for the continuation Market-rd. In both cases arrests were made
worked hard and without exciternent during
of that TAILWAY and doubtless the salutary punishment the trying time and the thinks of the community
to Caston. Up to the present the Chinese, Third Police Magistrate has been meting out officers worked extremely well, and have scar has proved so successful in stalling off foreign are due to the whole Force. The Eurapers adopting the policy of masterly inactivity that
had mat earlier in the day to decide what step Howards, his right hand man during the trou
be continued of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, the opening fights, but the energy of Captain struction of the Kowloon, line, to Canton Later in the afternoon the leading members cely had a couple of hours sleep since the aggression and peaceful penstration in the
past, have done nothing. to facilitate the D'Arcy Symonds, CPO., and Chief lospecto: Viceroy Shum, who has just been rapl cad by they should take toast the Police, went with quarters of the town and told the men.to be
Chow Fu, was credited with bostility to for is doubtless receive departmental reco, nition.
ere, and hostility to the British railway, w anyone who was at acked would be assisted by have in an orderly manner assuring them that
now read that he was foiled in bis scheme foy LAT, R. A Teachiu woman reports from Gaylang, fa. Before he relinquished office, the Minister of
Building a
from Canton to Whampoa the Police. This somewhat reassured some of the sbop-keepers who opened up their "kedeis," o'clock: a hand of Hokiens armed with poles not to go on with the line; and it is stated that Rochore Police Station, hat shortly after & Commerce at Peking, telegraphed to Shum bet others kept the shutters up and business in Chinatown was practically at a standstill.
this set on was taken by the central authorities' Jerdon, the British Minister, that the proposed The Chinese faction fight has had one
in response to the protest tions of Sir John unfortunate result, beyond any bodily grief the combatants may have let themasives in
kallway if this version of the matter be cor line would interfere with the Kowloon-Canton for- scarcity of rickshas, plying along the
ing towards Honghong's pet project and a pos or the smarter (if such a
pohement of the
fendant did not know that " Bachive" mack Louder, for identification and clasiiscations for. Hokiens had attacked a 'l'eochow eating house, Capt. Cuscaden round the Hovien and Teochli | blo, deserves special acknowledgment and will
Mr. Grist observed that defendant knew the soap bare a false trade-mark when he received it and therefore he had no right to put it on the market.
1
Mr. Master sold fifteen cases were sold. Mr. Grist stated that the soap was on sale,
in my opinion, they ny he concerned in the etiology and transmission of this disease, which, in my opinion, is septicemia" A variety of "hemorrhagic
report being that a policeman had been killed, The next message came from Craig-rd, the Men were sent, and found that a party of and had completely wrecked it hammering the solitary policeman neat hat come up, and the inmates who did not succeed io e caping. The The aard decided that the place where the rioters, who were now armed with knives and disease broke out should be considered an in, rned on him, cutting his leg sather fected area; also that the cattle should be badly, so that he had to be sebt ta Hospital, slaughtered, and the Government should be They all got away when reinforcements arrived. recommended to grant compensation as laid down in the Ordinance.
CHINATOWN ALARMED,
The shop-keepers began to be alarmed and put up their shutters, and by eight o'clock the streets presosted a very unwanted appearance,
'came to her house and haltered in the door. She states they had knives and threatened to kill her unless she kept quiet. They raquacked the place and c'cared
Rockore district and Victoria-at were quite different from their ordinary aspect, all the were small raids and fights, but nothing serious
'He was not vindictivéj' be did not desire to | ZHE “SHELL.” - 7 VANSPORT AND . The tactics of the rioters seemed to be to make (thuroughfares Yesterday but few of the shops being shot dud doors báfricăded. There fact, it wraald indicate a bastor-foiling′′at Jain, “
press the chargey what he wanted was a com. viction, and the soap forfeited under sub-section 2 of section 3. The prosecution had been put to good deal of trouble by the defendant putting on the market this false stuff, and they should be made to pay the costs of the prosecution, so as to satisfy them that it would not occur aga. Mr. Master said that he understood from what his learned friend had said th the was not pressing the case. His client was not a fraudulent trader caught in the art. The man bad gone and dose his best, and now he heard that Mr, Grist was asking for costs.
means,
TRADING CO.
solated attacks on Toochow shops, which they single ricksha to any of the crowd) of the had bappaned up to mịơn ght, '
completely wrecked, smashing lamps and bang. ing about the people who belonged to them. behind the Central Police. The asssila: to got Disturbances took place in Church-st, Jast
who was trying the till, who was arres'ed. away before the police arrived, except one may There was another fight in Lokien-st, in which a few more arrests were made.
term can runners were out. They were too frightened The bulk of the men out were the aged wither- ed "aight-owls," who had been out all night and gauging the position of the next morning his boy padded the neighbourhood of Kam. remained out. For over an hour the writer and pong Saigon for a rikisha and it was eloquent of the condition of things that the only one disengaged or about at all-was a double black eyes we have observed for some time. "thaw, and a runner with one of the finest And he could not wait.
- THE "TERPTн," The following rumours during the last few days give an idea of what people will say.
A policeman has been killed in Craig-id. New Market-rd. The dead bodies of coolies Several Chinese we e killed and wounded in
are lying in rows on Boat Quay,
The military have been ordered out to shoot down the rioters, European police Sergeant has been killed and the 1. G P. badly wounded with a brick. In two days the, Hokiens will have completed all arrangements to attack and set on fire all each houses and shops. · The reason of the strike in that Hokies will not pay ricksha coolies their fares.
an indefinin "Atival Whampoa scheme for
That Whampoa wi be made an open port to serve the Southern Provinces and that it will yaz be joined to Canton by rail, we folly believe; but it is at least satisfactory, to know that both these stapa loon line has got a fair start, for then it will be may be delayed until such time as the Kow, less easy to divert the current of trade from: Hongkong.
MINING RIGHTS IN SHANSI,
The N. C. D. News says:-Letters from. A late call paid last night, at the Central Police Station elicited that there had been an.
Shansi of date October 30 indicate that there; other outbreak in the vicinity of the SepoyThe Hokiens intend to go on till they have
bas been a time of considerable excitement in
larger during the later hours of the day, but to resign unless military guards are placed in An Impression has gone abroad that a monopoly the provincial capital. For some time ther Lines, but it was gut serious and was soon
has been great dissatisfaction with the Govern The Chinese Advisory Board has threatened province of Bbansi. to the Paxing Syndicate ment for having granted mining rights in the ayery police precaution was taken, and nothing all 1. hinese streets. of really grave nature had to be reported. Harmston's Circus did not show on Wednes.to this company and that avon natives will not of mining rights in the province has been given, We were informed, however, that it was not ex pected yesterday would quite see the last of day night because the management were afraid,
be permitted to work their own coal mines, but of being raided. this faction fighting.
must perforce yield their properly to
to the foreign speculator.
Transport and Trading Comp ny, Limited, for The report of the directors of the "Shell
brought forward from 1904, and after providing the year 1905 states that, including the balance for depreciation, management, and other penses, inclu ing the loss on the European business, the balance standing to the credit of the profit and loss account is £367,905, out of
POLICE ARRANGEMENTS. which the preference
pd ordinary" "dividends
By half past nine the police throughout the (ab-orbing £130,000) have been paid, leaving a
town were all in readiness. Parties with rifies Mr. Crist: I may ask for imprisonment. balance of £117,965 at disposal 1 he directors patrolled the streets, réserve parties were kept Mr. Master asked if this man was sent to recommend that out of this sum £19,109 be gaol for this offente, what would his Worship appropriated to the extinction of the outstandin Kampong Glam seemed to indicate wide- in the police stations, and every available man was warned forduly. he news of disturbance do in a more flagrant casel His client wrote ing balance of cost and expenses of the issue to Japan informing his shippers to stop sending of preference shares, and having sold at par the spread disorder, but what really seems to be the --**** Beehive" soap in August last. The summons shares in the Petroleum Producte Actiephius in the Town, ars making more or less ines ggalied. The area of the trouble became much driven all Teochius out of Singapore.
against him was taken out as the 20th of this. Gesellschaft of the nominal value of 3,000.c00ed attacks on their enemies shop and houses. Case is that the Hokiens, who outnumber the Teo month. It was not a flagrant case by any marks, they also recommand writing off 15. The danger is that the more they are able to do
Sog fram the of these shares, carrying His Worship asked Mr. Master if he could ward to the 1906 account R5,355. The result this, the more hold they will become, and tha not come to some arrangement with Mr. Grist of the trading of 1905 ware adversely affected hasaar and retail trade might be affected. about sending away the soap.
by the war in priced which prevailed in portions At about ten o'clock things were generally of the East; but conditions have since im faily quiet. There had been a cessation of proved Th directors regret that, owing to the gliting and the streets in which the dis
16th inrt. kerosens on the European the continuance of the acute competition in turbances had occurred wore a deserted air, OUTBREAKS IN THE CUATRY DISTRICTS.
Most of the shops were heavily barricaded and they, sea-
Owing of the Police being everywhere, the continuing terest in the Petroleum Producte Action had however made ample ait.agement for any rain had possibly soms effect in dispiriting
and the firmness of the Magistrates, the Town combaiants. The police Gesellschaft, and to sell four of the steamer fish outbreak, and it was decided to have the
was fairly quiet on Wednesday night, though one serious outbreak occurred, a band of Tea engaged in the business. The realisation of
chews raiding a Hokien wayang in Ken- to the Petroleum Producte Actien Gesells-is reported that some of the fighters have been and launches, and also on shore. I in boats
on the rivalry of Whampoa as threatening ing the Hokien actors a warm tên minutes. All Nothing of the sort is being done.
Grist: The case is not hoing pressed.ion of the Eastern business has necessita. Į killed, but at this hour no c'efinte information
chaft will be completed co Nov. 1.
Wednesday afternoon Mr. W. A. Cuscaden, mutations of trade are often incomprehen- Hongkong. The writer observes; The Mr. Master again proposed that the soaped the calling up by the Asiatic Petraleam was available. New Market-rd showed con-
Inspector General of Police, was busy going sible. ahould be forfeited and a fine of one dollar Company, of £300,000 additional capital, of
round the regions inhabited by the contending will decline and decay, port will sink Without cause, apparently lowr Imposed
siderable signs o the fighting, the stones being class accompanied by many leading Chinese from first-class importance to utter insignific: Mr. Grist (hatly) Whal protection will subscribed their third abars. The production thand bricks and rubble lying all over gentlemer, assuring shopkeepers and indeed
which the #Shell Transport Company have torn
place. he general opinion was that no there be for trade here if such a thing is allow the current year full uss has not been made i night, but a possible repetition of the troublethel daily business." A little reflection, added | process of gradual decline. The introduction ber of 2,000, gathered-in niets meetings and for):
ance, yet there is always, everyone that they would have Police of the Borneo Belde continues satisfactory, Par.. mo e disturbances would occur during the tion if they opened ipsis shops and carried however obscure, however it may be over: Course & CAUSE looked by the generation living through the
Mr. Master: They say they do not want to bo vindictive and yet they ask for a heavy pedalty
Mr. HumphrayaThey may be doing the same sort of busincer in Japan. feited and a nominal fine of, say, one dollar, imposed by the Court would meet the case.
mea
Mr. Master proposed that the soap be for, trade, decided to dispose of the company's in. for emergencies. ❤ere gathered prepared obvious disapproval of the clerk of the weather
ing no prospect of profish that at the doors a fam
M. Grist: Oh, no, no
the
The fight is really got up by the Loxers." And so on and so forth, and each rumour implicitly believed in by its circulatori.
HONGKUNG'S POSSIBLE RIVAL.
WHA POA AS A PORT OF TRADE,
Mr.Mauer; if this case is going to be the remainder of the company's stocks consign-iver thoroughly patrolled by the water police, Chew-st and amanbing up the place after give-Straits Timei Bevotos a leading article
'pressed the case must go on.
ed to pass? We will go on with the case.
His Worship, put a stop in the discussion, He said that since the defendant had pleaded guilty he would give his decision straight away. He would fine the accused $25, and order the soap to be confiscated.
Mr. Grist: And costs? His Worship Costs not allowed
THE "HONG VIR" ASHORE,
ed to
dog
The ex
either of the productive powers of the fields or
to
он
H
just given
In the early part of this year the students from this province now studying in Japan, appointed one of their number to saturn Chins and attempt to influence their home. Government against granting the rights sought for by the Syndicate. On the eve of his departure from Japan ibe • young man delegated this work learned by a telegram from Peking that the Foreign Office had already conceded despair of accomplishing the task assigned him the rights asked for by the foreigo Arm. In: the student, after the manner of Chen, Tien-hwa Japanese proposed restrictions on Chiness stu who drowned himself as a protest against the dents residing in Japan, cast himsell into the sea, News of this event ha ving beas received # Taiyuanfu the students in the city, to the am Was thought likely to occur about five o'clock probably to empty stomachs, strengthened of the refineries, due to a large accumulation this morning, and will be guarried against. of sincks at the beginning of the year
Argument in favour of a truco. Still few riki of steam trasportation by land and sen' and 'three days'discussed ways and means of caNY current marketing conditions. The directors
15th inst DĮ TURBANCES ALL OVER CHINATOWN..beng assaulted and the rikisha owners were
took to the streets as the coolies feared chiefly responsible for some of the greatest nit which leave the protest to emphas
one of their number of the Nederlandsch Indische Industrie en Handel Mastschappij have decided to convert
The Police precautions prevented the big reluctant to risk having their vehicles smashed. here in Singapore, one of the sidings on the
changes of the pist and present centuries, and ↑ bir life. fight that was anticipated between the Hokien. their band indebtedness into ordinary abares, and Tonchiu clans early yesterday morning, danes Wednesday night, and the officers slept
The Police anticipated further outbreaks, world's highway, we are singularly well situated ory of the aforesaid student, and his action was A great funeral ceremony was held: ມີສາ and for this and other purposes to increase the bat & repetition of Tuesday afternoon's desul: in their u iform in the Police Offices, whilst to observe the changes that are being effected so lauded as a glorious example, that it seemed capital to fl.20,000 pop. The shares au issued sory fights took place all over Chinatown. will be offered to the existing shareholders.
on countries and calling places rescued in com- at one time as if the whole 2,000 might along, large body of men was under arms all night. paratively recent times from their primeval fell stroke commit suicide The proposed arrangements for the carrying with shouts of pah, pah" the rival cisas for the fight at the wayang was the only dis
Hostilities first broke out at Boat Quay where Fonunately these precautions weretuonecessary isolation. There is not much likelihood of The Brat proposal made at the mass'musting out of the amalgamation of "Shell" Transport opened" fusi ade of rickhats and broken turbance of any magnitude that took place.
Poit Sweulenham over rivaling Singapore shareholders' interests with those of the Royal bottles on each other. Fortunately the 1 olice
18 0 was that they should declare their opposition L port
of call for the world's mercantile marine, Dutch Company (Kppinklijke Nederlandsch get immediate notice of the fight and succeeded Sherwood Foresters on a toute march, were fed
esterday morning two companies of the though the recent visit of a P. and O. liner to lion and civil war. This was, however, skalyed to the Government even to the extent of rebel. The steam-launch. Hung Yik, which trades Manstschappil tot Exploitatie van Patroleum in d sperring t. e rivers, ball-a-dozen of whom all over China Town, and the coolies made development
that port points the possibilities of fature as being between this port and Tai O, went ashore on
bronnen in Nederlandsch Indie) of the Hague were arrpated.
impracticabis. at coastal ports in the Malacca Tung Chung Island, in the vicinity of Lantas are progressing, and at the earliest possible. For some time after this the town was quiet, lai when the military approached, and the political reasons, of the steady development of homes in the various prefectures through
themselves scarce with shouts of "peng prog, Straits. Too much capital might be made, for abandon their studies and return to thels The second proposal was that all should Island, yesterday morning, but luckily no opportusily particulars will be communicated damage was sustained by the launch, as the and sanction asked for their complation. but Chin se shopkeepers anti (paiing more report rapidly went round that the gun Penang and its rivalry with Singapore. Never out the province, and there organise pak
table only partly opened their shops and soldier. were going to shoot every one foundtheless, there steady growth of the railway against the Gormnment for weakly granting place where she struck is devoid of rocks.
ichistas plyg were few in number, its to the stERCÍA, The Hane i inft Tui U early yesterday
There had been several litlping
be good reason for belley, lle meetings to, aromes popular antagonism Toochiy and Hokien coolles being ready to fly morning wit over seventy passenger. At WILLIAM Beneris, a paid off seaman from the at each other's through and the coolles of the went
scraps, but these ceased when the report systems of the Malay Panlasain will briar concession to the Syndicate alsap to collect &quirter past four o'clock, while the was wailing ship Arrow, now an inmats of the other cia s being nipaid to turi put it they be worn or that the soldiers had come, but inevitable changes in the current of trade, subscriptions and bay she company. Reaming past Tung Chung faland, the steer Sailors' Home, was arraigned before Mr. F. A lieyed they would be assaulted and their wah); angiin out came the combatants and were the influence will be serious, permanently in the mild sy had started back for affecting our own port very materially. That lng gear broke, the launch became unman Hazeland, on Baturday, at the Police Court Ces wicked. With the shae re of the tiksbar Sghting again. Gradually, however, the battle
and arged the students to return to their studies. agoable, and ran po the island. She ar at the instance of Sergasst Kendall, charged like streply worn a deserted air and in the ground abifted to the outskirts of NATUROINE | JUSIDAR, we aand have no fear. It masinad in that position for fully Ave hours, with beheving in a poisy and disorderly man fotien and Teochiu quarters the respective heva Ténchew and Hokien pgereaters rided frequently applied to Hongkong
principal of the Goverment Crivinaity to use the hackneyed comparison so expostulated with the students of that inalta during whichizime the launch crow had time to [ner in Queen's Road Wasi Jest night, Bezovia: ¿inon hung About the street corners ready to each others' pens and made off with the aquaal- † of our port being a sort of C1457959 Colombo, tion and pointed out that as they had nO GLACK) Impair the defetiva steering gear. At a quarter cime ashore yesterday with a huge thinst and raid each other's houses."
Juncilon, knowladga as past nine high tida-the launch was got took the whole day trying to quench it
Trophy Fierce fights were also reported There are geographical advantages in our concession granted to the foreign Byndicats by as to what were the terms of the The next trouble, however, occurred at Naw to be taking place at Tiong Bahru and favour of which we capast be deprived the Government, they ought not to set banliy off and conflaged her voyage to Hongkong. Whether be succeeded or not is another ques Markaterd, near the Chinese Protectorate, Ipp Sirangoon-rd, while a telephone message from unless some unusually detrimental official and risk bringing calamity on themselves Lod
tion, hat when the
Chachu by sudden shouts of "p on patrol be heard shouts
pih, pah and showen of
kang reported a battle royal thers insists upon a policy calculated to drive trade their
in the and wiser counsels resembling a
bricks of which there was a handy supply at Street, were arrested on Friday, by F.C. 610, Beasyle chaalag pedestrians up and down the the roada. The thy produced shert bard
Police, and'le all a couple of hundred more up to rival us that we need fear eclipse is
Work in the different colleges a Bello View Hotel poster on the walls of the lungs, He admited the charge this morning teads woe being cracked and rough knocks | Colmap - - continued to pls out exemplar | ; Quite different is the positian of Hongkong have been to Japan on their compatriots, is 30. in Quean's Rond Central, in the act of posting road and amusing himself at the top of his wood fighting sticks, and get to clois quarters, up in the Police Court yesterday, and Mr. own, and is more likely to grow in importance pressed excitement in the atmosphere,
prisoners were taken, The men were brought ridiculous, Singapore will always hold its on as usual, but there fe a good deal of app
now going
exchange when Captain D'Arcy Symonds punishment to them. One batch against whom
than
to diminish in glory. with a body of armed Sikhs arrived at the the evidence was very strong and who had the next calling place on the ocean highway. pernicious that the Governor has now decided
be influence of many of the students, double. At the approach of this armed force stoned the Police, were given seven months in At present, that Colony holds the proud dis-to send a large number of the studenta te Welt. the rioters scattered in all directions, many › jail and bound over in sureties of $jo aach to Election el balug the first of the Empira, torn countries insland of so. Japan,
NEAR LAN AO.
20th inst.
and o
The Governor visited the various colleges
Tha
TWO coalies, residing at No. 3; Wyndbμm ch's Road Weu Bergeant passing along i scene of the big, light on " usiday, and beger Thess rows were promptly quelled by the away from Singapore. Othat porte may spring prora
boop
Naval Yard. The poster gald Hongkongites You had better keep away from drink or el had a chance of seeing the Empress Dowager. you'll get into trouble," said his Worship The coolice sim Kir. P. A Hassland instead, You are Baad 13 this time, but don't come and wore Andð fa osaltɛ
here againy