The Hongkong Telegraph.
NEW SERIES. No. 5521
CONTENTS
Births and Deaths. Leading Articles:-
Hongkong Volunteers, The Trade of Canton, Subsidiary Coinage. Piracy in Southern-Waters. The Indian Unrest... 1 Hongkong Retrograding? Telegrama:
Mr. Chung Weng Keong. Sir Frederick Lugard. Viceroys Ser ously Ill., Meetings:-
Legislative Council. Sanitary Board.
Canton-Hankow
Railway,
Indo-China Stenm Navigation Co. Kulangan (Amoy), Municipal Council, Legal Intelligence:—
Breach of Contract
Sale of House1.
Pankruptcy
A Re cinded Contract.
Echo of the Typhoon. Claim for Partnership Accounts. Privy Council Appeal. The Building Authority Case. The Infant Mortgagor.
Pollos
Murder in Hongkong. Alleged Pirates to be Extradited. Tampering with Private Letters. Disturbance in a Bar-room.
The Other Man's Wife.
A False Charge.
Miscellaneous Articles and Reports:-
Sir Frederick Logard,
Subsidiary Coins.
Last Night's Gate.
Collision off. Kowloon.
Typhoon Warning.
Hongkong Volunteer Corps. New Typhon Signals.
Hongkong
Lecture on Sanitation. Hoogkong Docks.
Canton.
Volunteer Troops.
Fire in a Godowo.
Anti-Opiam Campaign.
Daring
Robbers at Work,
Marine Court.
New Messageries Steamer...
The Royal Hongkong Golf Club.
Hongkong Water Polo Shield Competition. Hongkong, Gymkhana Club.
Flour Milling in Manchuria
Opium
The Java-China-Japan Line.
The Blake's Farewell to Ceylon.
*Water Péturn.
Sale of 1.Aunch.
Canion Day by Day
The Aaking Murder.
*Weihai wei and China's Navy.
The Whangpon Conservancy. The Korean Impasse. Chinese Dress.
The Russo-Ch nese Bank Swindles. Warning to Tourists,
Japan and the United States, Earthquake Disaster.
The Japanese Question in America.
The Tokyo Exhibition.
The Formosap Lottery CasC.
Singapore Civil Servants,
"Importing Chandu.
Health in Hot Weather in Bangkok. Bangkok Police.
Commercial:-
Yara Market.
Exchange,
Loval and Ganoral,
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mind of the officer in charge of the Bocca the writer, founded upon a long experience with Oriental races, tire time has actually come ing the summer months. On February ed in this question that a succession of mediums of her Minister in Paking, ber-teadi-
ness to undertake the task of clearing the Tigris forts and in control of these rivers, who was lacking neither in energy murability. The rivers and creeks of Kwangtung of there peste, 6th, 1907, the Corps had the honour of difficulties has so long delayed the com-
when the Emperor of India should summon parading and lining the streets on the occa-mencement of operations. It is indeed, if China and herself unable to attend to the district has, to a great extent; been urged of sion of the arrival of H. R. H. The Duke of evan now, impossible to foretell when
master just atthe insoment, and protecting suspected and andesirable characters, and it be representatives of various triber in coun«« Connaught, Inspector General of the Forces, the construction of the main line is commerce from the ralds which are liable to has bean forcibly brought home to the windscil. In the first instance their leaders should The Troop fumished an escort. A small likely to be seriously, undertaken. Mr. be made on it at any moment under existing of the people that while piraling a Chiness meet in London just as the Colonial Prime Cadet Corps was started in May, 1906, with Mayers does not put much faith in the conditions, This report is derived from Chin- Junk may, pirating a foreign steamer will with Ministers have done. It would be a splendid boys from the Victoria British School; there possibility of Whampoa becoming a rival of die sources by the Shangkat Times. The out fail, entail serious consequences. To this outlet for expressions of loyalty to England's are now 12 members. They are instructed Hongkong. Referring to new business un-reported intention of Great Britain arises from and to the good crops in the autumn is dus rule and it would make a tremendous impres the way for more complete representation of in squad drill and semaphore signalling. dertakings started in Canton last year, the the recept piracy of the ss. Bee Chrong on the the absence of piracy during the latter part of sign on the East. It would gradumily lead
correspondent who states in his letter published sidered extinct because dormant, and it is to They attended camp and many of them writer states that among new commercial West River as fully reported by our Canton the year. Piracy, must, however, not be con- have already proved themselves very efficient enterprises, the most important is the city to-day that the British Consul General at the be hoped that the authorities will continue and the cities and tribes of India. England. signallers. It is hoped that their numbers waterworks, Water of excellent quality will Provincial Capital bar urged the local author succeed in their efforte 10 establish more should not lose sight of the fact that King: will soon increase. The new Volunteer be obtained from a creek beyond the Ar- ties to offer suitable rewards for, the capture security on the river, though it ought generally Edward, as Emperor of India is the greatest Headquarters were opened on December senal. Filter beds, with an area of 90,000 of those implicated in the recent hold-up of to be mere fully recovnised than it is Oriental potentate who has ever existed. At the British launch Every trade report relat difficult this is in cases of floods and scarcity, the present time he rules more Mosleme 15th, 1996. The building has been paid square feet, are being built. The capacity ing to this post or that part in the South every where thousands have been made homeless, than any Caliph, Sultan or Amir has ruled in the long line of Mohambicdan history, for out of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps of the pumping machinery order is 8,750,000 Consular statement describing the commerce starving, and disparate in districts where piracy Fund with the addition of a sum of $5,000 gallons in 24 hours; and the water tower, and tradal facility of the same places, con- for ages has been looked on in much the same from the Government. All the rooms have which is 110 feet high to floor of tank, has taint references to the rifeness of piracy and light in which smuggling was regarded by the What Joseph Chamberlain did for the co- been well furnished and the fficers' and a capacity of 200,000 gallons. The total the disastrous effect which it is having on the coast populations in Europe a hundred years lonies John Morley should do for India- sergeants' mess rooms and the billiard room length of the water mains will be about, trade of the affected districts The Shangal ago, and where all the inhabitants of a village weld it together as one great Power for the Times his compiled from the Yellow Books as a rule are not only friends but also relations, building up of Great Britain's world-wide have been completely fitted up out of private 55 miles. The service should commence
by the Customs the everybody-from funds at no cost to the Government. The some time during The a
archin tiding a water buffalo on the embank- building was already proved very popular capital of 11, 1997. Of company had Commissioners reports-dealing with piracy is picking catton or the verb the old woman empire.
Southern waters. Our contemporary says: -
ment-inform, help, and abet the culprits. Bu! and the Commandant personally feels very crnment has subscribed hall. The Gorern We saw in Mr. F. J. Mayers' (1.M.C.) report pleased that it should have been opened be- ment is establishing cement works in Hon the trade, of Canton for the year 1906 the because the task is extremely difficult-and this ought to be recognised-there is no reason fore the departure of Major Pritchard, who nam in anticipation of a great demand from following reference to the subject:-
why it should not be energetically tackled."
Commenting on these reports, the Times inade A great point of the necessity the Hankow Railway. A company, with a of suitable headquarters ever since his ar capital of $120,000 has imported weaving
observes in conclusion: So that there is no jack of testimony to make it clear that it is very rival in the Colony. Major Chapman is con- machinery from America for the mand vinced that this will tend to make volunteering facture of underwear and socks of foreign
necessary for someone to take in hand seriously more popular and trusts that the numbers style. Machinery is being employed by
the task of putting an end once and for all to will increase: the separate messes for of several shoemakers in the manufacture of
the piracy in the Kwangtung waters, and if China just now finds herself unequal to the ficers, sergeants, and rank and file should foreign-style boots and shoes; which are now also improve the discipline of the Corps. A largely worn. A considerable amount of
task, she would, no doubt, welcome disinterested sub-target machine was requisitioned from building has been done on the Shameen,
co operation, such as that of Great Britain," England, subject to the approval of the War where there are now very few vacant. lots. Office, but the purchase of the apparatus Altogether the report is entirely favourable has been postponed until the merits of to. the trade. of Canton and is, indeed, a similar cheaper devices now being tested tribute to the energy and business capacity fave been ascertained. The great expense of the Cantonese. of building and furnishing the Headquarters his prevented the men being supplied with winter clothing. Major Chapman considers, however, that khaki is not sufficient for them and he hopes funds will now be avail able to enable him to submit indents' for warm clothing to be taken in to wear next winter-a hope which, we feel sure, will no be met by disappointment.
- THE TRADE OF CANTON..
(22nd July). An extremely interesting report on the trade of Canton last year, appears in the latest publication issued by the Imperial Mariume Customs, under the signature of Mr. F..J. Mayers, the Acting Commissioner of Customs. The writer remarks that it is somewhat surprising, and therefore all the more gratifying. To find that in spite of unfavourable conditions-high exchange, spring floods, and disastrous autumn ty phoons-there has again been a slight in crease in the revenue, the advance over the figures for 1905 being Hk. 1. 157.79 The total nut value of the trade of the port shows an increase of nearly two millioh tacks, which, in view of the high sterling exchange ruling throughout the year, and the con sequent reduction in the silver value of foreign-imports, indicates a satisfactory development of the general trade of the port l'ut Canton might do much better still, and no doubt will do so as soon as the unfortunate dissensions which are now hindering the construction of the trunk railway line to
SUBSIDIARY COINAGH.
(23rd July.)
The official correspondence which was laid before the Legislative Council this afternoon practically brings to a finality, so far as the Government is concerned, the dis- cussion upon the question of the subsidiary coins of Hongkong. It would appear from the last two lelegrains that the notification appearing in the issue of the Gazelle Satur day week last, and which was conimented upon in the Hongkong Telegraph of that day is the outcore of a series of com-
munications which has been carried on
Several cases of piracy have, unfortunately, to be recorded the most important of them concerned the West River steamer, Sainam whose captain was severely wounded and a passenger Dr. Macdonald, of Wuchow-kill- ed, on the 13th July. The question of devising more effective measures for the suppression of river brigandage has been for some time past carefully discussed by the Chinese and foreign authorities; but so far, no definite arrangements has been arrived at The problem is by no long a satisfactory solution may be found." means an easy one, but it is hoped that before
Mr. Chas, Kliene, I., M. C in the cour.8 of his report on the trade of Klungchow, in the island if Hainan, for the year 19 6, states Pirates still lurk in the narrow They nlets of the Leichow peninsula. sometimes sally forth to plunder the unwary junks in Haiban waters; but their depredations are not at all on the same scale as those on the West River. The members of these gangs appear to be jacks of all trades; they can turn their hands to any business and make a pre- lence to belong to any calling. On the sea they are not easily distinguished from ordinary fishermen, and when they set foot on lood they assume the innocent look of harmless rustics. A few captures were made and summarily dealt
with
Again, reporting on the trade of Kowloon for
THE INDIAN UNREST.
(25th July.)
(26th July,}
In presence of the importance of the question of the valuation of property in Hongkong which assumed such promincuce before the Public Health and Buildinge Ordinance Commission, the assessment report for the year 1907-1908, which was
afternoon, is of more than ordinary in. laid before. the Legislative Council this.
terest. For a number of years the report which the. Assessor has had to present to the public has shown a con- tinuity in the progressive development not only of the city of Victoria but also of the` outlying, villages and of the important townships of Kowloon and Yau-ma-ti But the report now under notice furnishes a break in the pleasing continuity which we have been accustomed to. Taking the Colony as a whole, as compared with the preceding valuation, that for the current: year amounts to $to,654,338 against 510830,273, being a total decrease of $315,390, the whole amount being set against the city of Victoris, whereas the Hill. District and villages in Hongkong, Kowloon Point and Kowloon villages are returned
The assessed and 19,898, respectively. with increases amounting to $29,557 value of properties for rateable purposes in the Hill District and Hongkong villages. is $$17.586, and that of Kowloon Point and Kowloon villages $1,214,547. It will thur be seen that, deducting the increases assign ed as above, there is a total net decrease in the rateable value of properties in the Co- lony of $275,935 or a percentage of 2.5a an compared with the valuation for last year, New Kowloon shows a remarkable increase of 58.83 per cent, the comparativo figures for the two years being $38,930 and $61,235.. Whether the prosperity of the City of Vic toria had reached its zenith: as rome people
So many and varied have been the opinions expressed in connection with the present unrest in India, that it may serve some useful purpose to consider one or two of the possibilities which have discussed as likely. to arise in consequence of the agita- tion prompted by a small section of the natives in upper. India. It is said that there is likely to be another mutiny, but such a contingency may be dismissed as the out- come of timid minds. In the opinion of an Anglo-Indian who writes in a contemporary if there is any disturbance it will be a native army. In 1857 there was no rebel- the year 1906, M Commissioner W, R. Pair popular rebellion and not a mutiny of the "The exportation of arms and ammunition, lion among the people. The people were coastwise from the colony of Hongkong was loyal to the English. There was simply prohibited for a further period of six months from mutiny among the native soldiers. It must The 18th May. But arms smuggling from Hong be remembered that there are only about kong, Macao, and Kwangchowwan has, nol: 80,000 British troops in India to keep in withdiag been very rife for some tes check a population of 300,000,000 who are past, and it seeme Tonewhat of a retribution that the insecurity now resulting from, this very largely of warlike races, and there le a nefarious trade should affect indirectly foreign standing native army of 170,000, well drilled commerce. That His Excellency the former and well armed. If a rebellion became V ceray. Ts'en Ch'an-hauen, did much to rid general throughout the country it would be the delia of pirates, and that the present an easy matter for the natives to cast aside British rule, but fortunately for the British Viceroy, His Excellency Chow Fa is continu
interests those races which are the back. ing these efforts, is undoubled; but so long as arms are freely supplied. to these marauders,
contend and the fulcrum of future deve- so long will the best endeavours of the Chinese bone of the native army, such as the Sikhs Government be minimised, Several daring and Gurkhas, have always been loyal to acts of piracy occurred during the year, pa the British Government and upon the topment of the Colony shifted over, to ticularly that of the British steamer Sninam op loyalty of the native Princes the Govern Kowloon; or whether, as the witnesses be the West River at Taipinsha between Kumment can also count as a certainty. fore the Sanitary Commission argue, the chuck and Samshui on the 13th July. The the time of the mutiny in 1857 the enforcement of the Public Health Ordinance pirates succeeded in making good their escape.
of the natives also the defence of the forts tenement houses in Hongkong, there is with their bony, but several of the band were artillery was, for the most part, in-the-hands-had-materially reduced the value of Chinese subsequently captured by the Chinese author. ities and summarily decapitated.
throughout the country. Now all the large nothing in the bare report of Mr. Assessor forts are in the hands of English sol Chapman to lead one to a satisfactory mountain atteries the artillery is entirely mains that, so far as rents are concern nese is not stated) have depreciated manned by English soldiers, 1 here has al-ed, properties (whether European or Cbl- ways been an element of disloyally in India which has found expression in the native in value, with the consequential result newspapers, but now a large number of that in the forthcoming budget which our new Governor will have to present to the newspapers conducted by native editors,
Council in September yet another item of whether in the vernaculars of the country or
between the Hongkong Government and the Colonial Office. A perusal of the ex- tremely interesting despatches which have been exchanged between the home and the Colonial Governments forces the conviction that the attitude of the local Government in respect of the currency of the Colony has been undoubtedly a correct one, advised as the ovemment have been by the best authorities on the subject in Hongkong. it will be seen that at the outset the Governor had the bene fit of the advice of the chief manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Cor poration. When questions were put to the Governor in the Legislative Council in connec tion with the depreciation in the valac of our local tokens, the Government was not satisfied in obtaining the opinion of a single firm of banking experts, but proceeded to secure the advice of the Chartered Bank and
Another example, Mr. E. V. Brennan, Acting the counsels of our leading financial institu- of Lapps for 1936, says-Vigorous measures tion. The Government had anticipated the have been put in force by provincial authorities a'vice which was proffered, and the reply to the to check pracy, especially since the case of the 5 S. Bainam, and several important captures Hon. Mr. Osborne when he put his question of pitate chief have been made in this neigh in Council last year was based on the bourhood. opinion of three experts. In his last We may also cite Mr. G. Moule, 1. M. C., who
the subject to the Sein the course of his report on the trade of Korg despatch on
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line is completed and in operation the ade of the port may be expected to develop enormously; but as things are going now there seems little prospect of, the Hankow Railway being completed for many years. Referring to the subject in another section of his report. Mr. Mayers
during the summer and autumn months, and
Japan and the defeat of Russia by an Orienting to contemplate especially when it is vessels with valuable cargo as a rule en.
considered that the mainstay of the Colony's aged a guard of soldiers-adding largely al Power. In the event of any rebellion' it to the cost of transport; and further on: is certain that the 70,000,000 of Moham receipts, namely, the Opium Revenue, is "In a year when so much bas bern heard of medans will combine to establish Moslem threatened with extinction at any moment. pir.cy, It is satisfactory that very serious rule. An English official in Peshawar says Moreover, by a fatuous policy of the
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ECHO OF THE TYPHOON.
instant, BEATRICE TERESA KENNETT, aged 58. Hankow Railway have not progresseď satis.ay, on the 27th April, expressed the arreported, nĺso made iraders timid, especially the British in its admiration of the rise of amount. The outlook is certainly not pleas. At the Government Civil Hospital, on the zoth observes that the affairs of the Canton.cretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. moon for the year 1906, says:-"Piracy, actual in English, is full of manifest disloyalty lo revenue promises to show a reduction in
opinion that fifteeri lakhs of dollars of sub- MEUGENS-At the Government Civil Hot-factorily during the year. After much local sidiary coins would be ample for the require pital on July 24th, EMIST JOSEPI MEUGENS, agitation against the proposed official ments of the Calony's business for a period management of the line, the control was, of years, and that an issue of $100,000 per eventually entrusted, in June rood, to a annum would be quite sufficient to provide commercial Konginoon' district,
of the Colony in the Legislative Council, legraph Kwangting Commercial Railway Company, for deficiencies in the amout arising cases have occurred in the Kurges no price that in the course of conversation with one Canton-Hankow line, under the patronageable increase in the population, after the just beyond its limits, and Wangmoon-the of the military staff of the Amir of Afghanis
eastern limit pf
this district is supposed to be tan he found that this distinguished Afghan the taxpayers are mulcted for the next in A sum approximating of the nine charitable institutions and 7* currency had been put upon a proper a favourite refuge of the West River bandit: was under the impression that in the course three years guilds. The capital of the company is 40 footing. If the amount is to small as Many slight cases have been reported, in which of the present century Durrani rule would be 100,000. per annum for treble exchange million dollars, of which about one-fifth has $1,500,000 only then the redemption of the small and unarmed boats have been attacked re-established in India, just sa it was in the compensation to sterling paid officers In been paid up or promised-in subsidiary $10,000,000 of coins, which, it is estimated, and robbed. Twice during the year the days of Mahmud, of Ghazni and Nadir the Government Service. Sir Frederick coinage. In order to make the line popular.has been put into circulation, will mean an
Customs light-vessel, moored 10 miles up the Shah. Already it has been discovered that tugard succeeds his predecessor at a mo- "it was deemed advisable to limit the value
enormous total loss to the Colony, which the river, at Staunch Island, was allacked; but
on between the Moslem mosques of Colony is in anything but a roseate condi of the shares to $5 each, so that even pour taxpayers will be called upon to pay. But whether by pirates" or by Dious villagert, regular correspondence is being carried ment when the financial butlook of the who obj cled, to the "feng-shus" of the place people might participate. As such people in the circumstance it is not easily dis being disturbed by a beacon, is uncertain. On India and central Asia and the great tion, and if our new Governor should Letters have succeed in staving off extra taxation he will (zóth July.)
naturally expect a quick return for thelt cemible how Government can shirk thea Taler occasion some real pirates actually Moslem university at Cairo. Major, Chapman, Hongkong Volunteer money, the delays that have occurred have Corps, is to be complimented on the steady not tended to inspire confidence, and further responsibility for making good the amount made list their boat to the light-vessel, think been intercepted which show that the deserve well of the Colony for one of involved by process of redemption, since ing that they would be secure from attack Mohammedan mind is very much exercised the first public acts which, we venture to increase of the force under his command. delays are likely to cause the board of con- the Colosy had earned in the past consider there Information was, however, given to a
Government launch, and after a short fi, bt the at the present time. In Arabia an attempt think, will have to receive hit earliest In the report to the 31st March 1st just trol very considerable embarrassment. There able sums annually by putting into circula-
pirates were captured. With regard to the is being made to throw over the rule of the consideration. published the total strength of the Corps is has been great friction between the local lion this enormous amount of token money.
various proporals for the suppression of piracy Sultan of Turkey. In Morocco it is felt given as 290, being an addition of sixteen committee and Hongkong subscribers. The If the representations made through his
appears doubtful if even an unlimited in that Moslem rule and authority is threaten. crease of gunboats and armed launches would ed by Germany, and in Egypt, Earl Cromer members over the total for the preceding latter were not satisfied to hand the amount Majesty's Minister at Peking to the Wai
stated in an official document, there is a year. Satisfactory as this increase is, Major of their subscriptions over to the Canton wupu, which up to now remains unanswered put a stop to the evil. According to focal
"HOI PO", "STANFIELD.” Chapman is confident that, now that the committee to be disposed of as the latter by Sir John Jordan, be productive of opicion the most effective method would be a general feeling of unrest. With reference to new Headquarters have been completed, the thought fit and they therefore deposited
His Honour the Chief Justice delivered places of steamers, launches, and passenger- total will increase during the next year, par their share--some aj million dollars-in practical results, there is still hope that careful s arch of all passengers at the stopping India many remedies are suggested in order the ultimate loss to taxpayers. will be re-
baxis. Uniononately this would cause long to stem the crisis. Layal natives say the ticularly, if the new infantry company, which foreign-banks-in-Hongkong, and recom
as has been established by the Shali in Fer-Fumigating and Disinfecting Bureau. It will... authorities of the Chinese government, under might be worse than the disease. has been discussed, is started. Another mended that all the company's funds should duced-very-considerably, if the provincial detentions-of-the-vessels, and-the-remedy time has come for a native parliament such judgment in the case of Che Wo teraws the be remembered that on Typhoon Day the Official reports to the aume effect might be sia. British officials in India move in a gratifying feature of the report is that the be similarly dealt with. To this the Canton instructions from the Peking authorities,
the plaintiff Bureau, foundered. On the 26th establishment of the Mounted Troop was shareholders objected, and they attempt to raised in 'uly of last year to 43, viz., 1 offi. refuse recognition to the Hongkong sub. should curtail the output of their silver quoted almost without end, but we fancy our very narrow circle and consequently resat bulk Stanfield, used as a fumigating station by tokens to only so much as will be required by readers will find one more sufficient. It is cer, i sergeant, 1 corporal, and 40 troopers, scribers; but the present Viceroy has ruled the necessities of business in the Two Kwang, from the report of Mr. K. H. von Lindholm, any attempt to give the natives an oppor-October the steam launch of Po struck the seem to forget that not only the jury system that she had to be docked and her bows The Reserve Association is becoming in that their subscriptions shall be acerpted. The remedial measure is provided for in the Acting Commissioner, I. M. C., on the trade of tunity of expressing their feelings. They wreck and was damaged to such an extent creasingly popular with the senior residents It is exceedingly difficult to understand the Mackay Treaty of 1902, and if China were ambbi for the year 1906
to it by the daring attack on the British 1.0. the East. It has always been customary to as the time the Hel Po struck the wreck of the Colony for it had on 31st March, principles on which the Railway Company to meet her obligations in this respect the "Piracy, bas--but for the prominence given but the parliamentary system is common to practically re-built. His Honour bald that 1907, a membership of 948, an increase of directors sie working. They apparently are
Colonial finances would be saved much of Salaam on the 13th July, which drew atten- seitle matters by a "Panchayat," or jury of the light was not burning, but had been the burden which might otherwise fall upon tion généially to the insecurity on the river-five, and Eastern monarche, both before and alight, a testified to by independent witnesses, 18 during the past twelve months. The determined to conduct their business on
of contributory negligence the evidence went members have carried out a large amount of purely original lines, totally ignoring all the taxpayers, at the result of over-produc- been no there prevalent than in other after Akhbar. the Great, have, called into earlier in the evening. As regards the question
yems. The Ssinam outrage is sufficiently
on the part of the rifle practice throughout the year at the foreign precedents. The result may be pertion of subsidiary coinage. in the mints at
well known through, the press and peed their council representatives of various to show there was such King's Park Range, Kowloon, which is more fectly satisfactory in the end, but at present
not be dwelt on here, but as there have tribes. The Amit of Afghanistan has a people in the foi Po
His Honour gave judgment for the defend. exaggerated and unfounded reports council of this character at the present time, accessible than the Volunteer Range at Tai it is only possible to say that up to date a Hongs and at the Peak Range which has state of intense friction between all parties PIRACY IN SOUTHERN WATERS. lileged apaity of the authori. and the Targah," or deputation of frontier ants with costs.
Sir Henry. Berkeley: My lord, both 10 ties, and continued insecurity on the river, it tribes of which we so frequently read, is to blame, then each party surely should pay bis been recently opened, After reviewing the concerned appears to have characterised the
may not be out of place to state here in com: thing but a representative assembly. Among
own costs. work of the year as regards gun practice, situation, and no serious attempt has been
mon fairness that the local Government was the wild tribes of central Asia the "gray. musketry course; camps of instruction made to start the trunk line, As this line is
rather prompt in despatching a considerable and competitions, the Commandant re bound to bave an enormous influence on the cords the gratifying facts, that a semi- future development of the trade of Canton,
force of its available troops and suitable armed beards," or assembly of elders, rule, and not phore, signalling clam was formed dur.. it is a matter of extreme regket to all intorest
launches to the suspected districte under com any absolute individual. In the opinion of
Canton...
(24th July,)
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Public attention has lately been directed once more to the piracy, which seems to be perennial in the Southern waters of Chiba Great Britain bas announced, through the
His Honour Ob, nój L think they must Sir Henry 1 As your Lordship plasses, stand as they atd.