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Leighin by subsidised Japanese steamers to A PRACTICAL DEMONSTRA- Hongkong, Foochew, and Formos are rapidly decreasing the junk trade with these places. The decline of the sugar trade, too-referred in in the Maritime (rade, reports for 1905 and
founder through the balcase of consular blue 1995-affects the Ch'ang Tuan dues and duties,
should be emphasised that the stocks were not introduced with the object of submitting law-breakers to torture; the sole idea was that the spirit of bravado might be quenched by the rain of ridicule, and that those of
fate brought home to them. Yet the books which periodically prove from Loudon, Magistrates, absolutely iguoring the con but they seldom or never-ax·luding a few dition of a prisoner's health, and regardless billinut exceptions-seek to absorb the genius of the extreme pain ‘und danger, resulting from prolonged incarceration in the stocks of the places in which they have been appoint the prisoner being kept in an immovable ed. From the. Statistical Department of have position for hours and subjected to the rough the Imperial Maritime Customs we and, it is to be feared, occasionally brutal fast received the quinquennial Native Cu handling of an imponed Sikh policemantoms reports and returns. What adds speci- continued to impose the six hours' stocks al interest to these reports is the fact that in case after case, irrespective of the fact they cover the first quinquennial period that in many instances the punishment was since the taking over of the Native Customs far in excess of the crime, and implanted in by the Foreign Department, under the terms
case which could never be eradicated. "Time and again we have protested against the exposure of miserably clad ccolies for six consecutive hours in the middle of winter; None who has seen the poor emaciated
TION.
UTILITY OF THE FIRE FLOAT
A report of fire in the harbour was com2
for when in former days nativa sugar paying ALARM OF FIRE ON HOARD 5.5. "CATHERINE an’export duty was sent to places on the coast, now the foreign refined article, already duty. paid at the Maritime Customs, takes its place. In fact, the gradual adoption of good, of foreign musicated to the Harbour Office this mom ing about 1030 o'clock. The report located origin in preference to the native product is the outbreak on board the Calcutta liner constantly spreading to new out-of-the-way Catherine Apar, lying in the thick of the ships fields, and is responsible, to a gre it extent, for ping off the Hongkong, "Canton and Macad the small revenus returns. Again, the declineSteamboat Co.'s wharf to the west in the demand for native goods for places on the coast decreases the importation of such goods into Swatow, for this place is a great
Always alert and over ready for any emer Rency, whether, the result of a squat or to combat the davausing flames of a petroleum. laden junk, the harbour officials were at once
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MR. TAFI IN SHANGHAI,
SOLVING THE PHILIPPINE PROBLEM
THE "CHINA FOR THE CHINESE " POLİCY;"
From Our Own Correspondent.]
Shanghai, 9th October,
$12.20
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Mr. Secretary Taft important speech at
Medan
banquet
the unfortunate prisoners the seeds of dis: at the Peace Protocol, the change baving distributing centre and junction for all sorts of up and doing. Flinging aside a sheaf of which was given in his honour by
taken place on 11th November, 1911. We commerce; and although several industries have dwelt on the amount of curious learning have begun and are about to commence locally, which these reports generally display, but, for such cannot for same time visibly affect some reason or other, the Acting Cummis- the revenue. The increased preference for
ton drawers, and squatting on the flagstones, shivering with cold on a bleak day in January, |could restrain his sympathy for their fate. If that was not torture it would be difficult to define the term. But apart from that, the wholesale infliction of the stocks' was repugnant to Chinese fealing; it offended the susceptibilities of the best of the race in Hongkong; it was a source of constant irritation, and little wonder, The stocks,
when all is said and dooc, is a barbarism
almost
arrive." And 10 Swatow lingers on waiting for better. days. We have, sald and quoted enough to show the exceptionally interesting character of these quinquennial reports, which go to prove how greatly the Chinese Empire has benefited by the direction of the Customs by foreigners Some of the older generation of Chinese time servers may lament the days that are gone when they could draw their salaries without badging from their houses, but the change has "been for the edification of the masses generally
and the betterment of social conditions.
minuts, papers," or some other departmental documents, Mr. E. Jones, assiant Harbour the mombers of the American Ass6- Master, in aufiustant was away from his office
ciation last night. and at the next had boarded the Harbour Offics, launch which, in no time, was scurrying away conflagration.
In the courao of his address Mr. Taft referred to the rumoura regard Menawhile the floating fire-engine, was ing America's intentions with respect apprised of the alarm and in no time a com pany of firemen from the Central bad boarded to the Thilippine Islands, and, in a the fire-float which, also, promptly made for vigorous and emphatic outburst, un- the peir steamer, The fire-float dashed through a labyrinthian course of sampans,
hesitatingly expressed the opinion that junks, ferry-launches and steamers, to reach it would one of the grossest violations the Catherine Apcar,
of the implied obligations undertaken. by the United States Government were they to sell the Philippines to any other Power in the world.
on board H.M 3. Tamor. The agents of the
wretches, wearing nothing but a pair of cot.sioner at Canton has decided on this occasion foreign furniture has already limited the im from the pier to the scane of the supposed to be severely matter of fact; indeed, he isportation of the Cacton-made article, thereby almost as laconic as a telegraphic despatch depriving the junk trade of one of the many But the Amey Commissioner, Mr. C.cit A. V commodities fast reverting to steamer holds Bows, staunchly upholds the old traditions Large Canton junks, which formerly put in He has a "Note on early history of trade and regular appearances here, now
to cease Customs at Amoy" which is almost fascinating: When Zaitun, "the great port of Chinese trade with the West in the Middle Ages," a port which has disappeared, and that "as complete ly that a controversy has raget over the identi Bertion of the site, Amoy was only one of Marco Polo's "istes of the ocean." Mr. Bowra proceeds: "It was sparsely populated, and the prey of the native pirate and the Japanese sea-royer. Its birth as a place of commercial importance may be said to be coincident with the arrival of the foreign vessels early in the 17th century, the establishment of the Dutch trading posts in Formosa, and the consolida tion of the Koxinga power. In the throes with which the mainland was convulsed during the expiring years, of the Ming, foreign trade no- turally found that it could best be carried ou in the port governed by the strong hands of
in a British Colony-a relic of medieval punishment and therefore an egregious anachronism in the twentieth century. Be siden cruelly undermining the co stitution of the sturdiest, they render the first offender against the law callous and soured,
and convert into habitual criminals those who have made; it may bej, a momentary lapse. That the efficacy of the stocks as a deterrent to crime has not been proved seems evident from the fact that the Government have just introduced into the Antiseptic and Detergent-Whitens the Teeth Legislative Council a Bill amending the Ordinance which confers on Magistrates the and strengthens the Gums
power of sentencing prisoners to the stocks
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NATIVE AFFAIRS,
From the Harbour Office the earliest in- formation was passed on to the Commodore pear, Messrs. David Sasyson & Sons, Ld., were also informed of the report. A clerk from the shipping department of the firm was detailed with all despatch to investigate. When this gentleman had his launch brought see Mr. Jones's launch casting off fro the Catherine Apear. The fire-float had already reached the vessel only to discover that her services were not required. The firemen had evidently had a fine hoax perpetrated on them. We would not, however; be surprised to learn
alongside the steamer he was just in time to
that the alarm was raised by some sealous official to demonstrate the preparedness of the fire-float
ASSAULT ON A BRITISHER,
[Translated for the Hongkong Telegraph.”]
in the harbour and the efficiency and smartness Canton, 8th October, 1907. of the brigade to cope with a fire among the ship The Viceroy bas ordered the deputy magisping in the port. As na object lesson the alarm
the Koxinga family; the Zaitun, or Hai-ting, trates, Messrs. Chi Wang and Sit. Wing Miss this forenoon proved, beyond a doubt, the prac:
The Bill consists of a single clause but trade, which had long been waning, shifted
He expressed himself in favour of the "open-door", policy in China, and upheld the uccessity for currency re- form in the Middle Kingdom.
On the question of the “China for the Chinese" policy, Mr. Taft main- tuined that such an aim would best find legitimate expression through the medium of administrative reforms.
In conclusion, the Secretary of War eulogised the reforms which had
Service, and particularly that which hind lod to the United
Mr. establishment of the
to proceed to Ngan Hang, a place opposite | tical utility of the floating engine and the Macno, without delay in order to investigate those who can make head or tail of it are here, the easy approach and the natural ad- the case of assault by Chinese soldiers be. Promptness of the Brigade to answer any call been introduced into the Consular
ergency. It also proved that, whether in gifted with an abnormal perception. Un-vantages of the harbour soon won appreciation, longing to the Magistrate of the Heungsban reality or at practice, the shipping interests of der this Bill-for which no "objects and and here the trade has remained." It is it district on the person of Mr. 11, J. Harding, the port of Victoris are entrusted into the reasons" are given-it is laid down that 'teresting to learn that foreign trade under the who reported the circumstances to H. B. M. hands of officials who are capable of rendering- prisoners shall not be sentenced to the
an excellent account of one of the most'im,
for Ching new conditions was ushered in by the Portu- Consul-General at Canton some time ago. The stocks, when the offence is punishable by a
postant departments of Government in Hong.
strongly advocated the documents touching the case which originally kongwe allude to the Harbour Master's fine, and even when the law permits of it these soon af er their first arrival at Cas-deputies are provided with all the necessary ron in 1516, but, as indicative of the prisoner shall not be sentenced for a longer
arose over a woman, a British subject, who is Department-even if they are handicapped by erection in Shanghai of buildings
at Amoy Government propose to purchase when the
Hongkong Celegraph period in the stucks than four hours. How Chinese miticheurs were focheaded as Angy, the Chinese, Mr. flarding was attacked when the lack of the additional fire-float which the which would be in consonance with this will work out in practice it is impossible in 15a7 for the offence of trading with foreign.ha, went there to inquire into the truth Estimates have fically passed through the the dignity and importance both of
to conceive. The power of sentencing any
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1907 and every case to the stocks is withdrawn. eis. The Spaniards followed.The Portuguese,
THE STOCKS,
The
from the Magistrates, but now, so far as we can see, they will probably find themselves violating the law if they sentence to the Some few years ago, when an epidemic of stacks any prisoner except those convicted crime seemed to prevail in Hongkong, the under an extremely limited class of offences. Government, obtained the advice of the What is wanted, and what
this Bill Chinese as to the best method of dealing does not contain, is a definite list, of the with their recalcitrant compatriots:
offences the penalty for which will include suggestion was offered, and the Governmen
Exposure in the stocks. It should be laid acted thereon, that Magistrates should
down how long a prisoner may be fettered judiciously exercise the powers conferred
in public at one time, how long he should be upon them by law to sentence certain compelled to sit motionless and cramped convicted prisoners to undergo exposure on the ground. As the Bill stande, the ab. in the stocks. The real object of this intention would appear to be to punishment was, of course, not that the rogate the power of sending thieves, street prisoner should be tortured by being snatchers, tricksters of every description, leg-bound for an indefinite period, but that swindlers, shoplifters and all that kidney to * he should "lose lace" in the eyes of lis com- the stocks. If that bé so, well and good; patriots. That was an even more terrible but what are the Magistrates to understand punishment than if the prisoner had been from the terms of this Bill, introduced with sentenced to a lengthy period of imprison-quin wordofexplanation and unaccompanied ment, for any kudos which he might have
even by the formal "objects and reasons gained as the result of his clever roguery was forgotten in the bilarity created by the mit. that the class of offences we have appearance of the erstwhile bold offender enumerated, and others, such as house. as the ridiculous imitation of a trussed fowl, breaking and a host of other crimes and Undoubtedly, the introduction of the stocks misdemeanours which will occur to the reader served at the outsel as a decided de
are the very offences that should carry the terrent to the commission of those. petly penalty of the stocks-that is, if the stocks crimes, which, although of no great moment are to be retained. But if the value of the in themselves, led to wilder ventures and stor's has vanished then they should be more deliberate infractions of the law.. The abolished off the face of the Colony. The imposition of the stocks, on convicted Government seem to think that the stocks offenders was, as stated, left entirely to the have outlived their day of usefulness; then discretion of the presiding Magistrates. why, adopt this miserable subterfuge of
trading from Mini, where no less than 2,000 Chinese were Incated it was not til 1680 that Amoy Spally fell into the hands of the Manchu Government, but by that time A moy had grown from an file of the occas" to a port of considerable importance, with the re- sun that its Customs House was the most fucrative in the province. From 1737, when the interdict on foreign trade was withdrawn,,
until the opening of the Foreign Castom
of the matter. They are to fully investigate the whole case and report all the particulars to His Excellency, who will give decision as
Don as the investigation is completed.
THE ANTI-OPIUM PROPAGANDA., A meeting was held by the Anti-Opium As- sociation on the 6th inst. Resolutions adopted and remarks are appended:-
Legislative Counciį.
ALLEGED MALICIOUS ARREST.
CLAIM FOR DAMAGES.
This morning, at the Supreme Court-in Summary Jurisdiction—bis. Honour Mr. A. G Wise, acting Chief Justice, presiding, Li Chungi the managing partner of the Man Sang Loong firm, 35, Central Market, brought an action against the managing partner of the Kwong Cheung Sang firm-Ah Yeung Wong-of 25, Galman's Bazaar, to recover the suits of $250, being a claims for damages.
the Court and of the Consulats,
FOUR FARMERS AND A ROGUH.
THE "TREAT" THAT NEVER CAME OFT.
A nulky.looking individual, trading under the name of Li Yués, figured in the dock, before......
Police Court, on a charge of robbery, Last Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne, this morning, at the week four country, yokels took passage to Hongkong to see the sights. Yesterday aftor. noon, leaving the Mau Foong boarding house, they proceeded to do the town. One of the farmers, Wong Sam, had the sum of $12 in his pocket. They had seen all they had come to Mr. Otto Kong Sing was for the plaintiff, see and were on their way to a 102 shop in
(1) An abridged list of segulations for the management of and education at the Hospital for opium smokers was read (2) 11 was made known that the premises of this Hospital were kindly lent by Man Lagt Shu Yuen for tem- porary use for three months. Since its establish- House in Amoy in 1861, and the gradualment, many of the districts inland have placing of the junk traffic by foreign sailing followed and severi tens of smaller asso- ships and steamers, must have been the ciations are being formed in various places. halcyon days of the Native Customs. From The head association has a duty to perform in while Mr. R. A. Harding represented the de 1861 onwards the Foreign Customs reaped the encouraging, and uniting with all the others. fend int.
But the buildings must be returned to their Mr. Otto Kong Sing said that the plaintiff profits; the Native Customs led.a quiet hud owner at the end of the 9th moan. Reclaimed S150 damages for false imprisonment enfeebled existence, little observed' or cared solution was passed that a petition should be for by the foreigner and the commerce which
sent to the Central Police Department request- ing the right to occupy a porting of the Wab be fostered until, in 1901, much that was Lam Monastery, and members should report if mysterious and obscure was to have light they come across any convenient spot. (3) It was discussed that besides the distribution of thrown upon it by the passing of the Native anti-opium pills, songs and prema, etc, should
public. Resolution was passed that such songs, ecs, can be selected from the various native newspapers and bound into small pamphlets for distribution.
to which we had become familiar. We sub-to the control of the Foreigo Customs-be written to influence the feeling of the general
an arrangement by, which the parent in its age fell to the care of the thriving child." When the Foreign Customs took over the the staff employed in one capacity or Native another numbered 294; many were drones or pensioners, the representatives of dead in cumbents; some only. came on duty for a month at the time; others never appeared on the reene, at all except to draw their emoluments. The entire fees collected prac tically went to pay the staff. Taree months
At this stage, he said, he wanted to amend the writ, adding assault as another count.
Mr Harding-I am not prepared to deal with any other count that is not on the writ.
His Honour-That is what I want to know $250 for assault too?
4
Me. Kong Sing-No.: 'I will take beth' in conjunction-assault and false imprisonment
His Honour-What was the assault? Mt. Kong Sing→Taking the plaintiff by the queue and dragging him along the road.
Mr. Harding-1 am only prepared to deal
the question of arrest. the Honour Malice? Mr. Harding-Yes,
One member suggested that a radical policy should be adopted in order to suppress, the habit in the interior, and the b anch, assocía. tions should be invested with power to ca.with operate with the local officials, otherwise the gentry cannot be interfered with should they
continue to smoke.
Wing Lok Street at Wang's invitatins, when
something occurred that broke up the ten party, A man, approaching Wong from beblad, spat on his shoulder, Wong, believing that this was the custom among people of large cities when they had taken a liking to a fellow, quietly brushed it-off with his band, and was forgetting the lecident when he was called to his bearings by hearing his dollars fingling In his packet Turning'sharply on his beel he saw a man striding down the road for all be was worth. Wang felt his, pocket, only to discover that bis duliais had disappeared. In a second he was aker the thief. The others taw themselves losing a "treat" and they followed: Wong hot foot. District watchman No. 4 who was on duty at the junction of Wing, Lok Street and Bonham Strand, saw the procession coming full, pelt in his direction. He could not find time to look up the regulations as to what to do is such cases, so he got in the middle of the road and grabbed the first man that came past him. He was tight for once. A moment later the farmers-eachwearing
staff of 294 was reduced to 76; within twelve to be amended before a conviction can be five to the plaintiff firm. The pears were sent telling how his $12 had left his pocket without A serious charge, which will probably have fendant firm, ten to another party, and twenty and told how they had been victimised--Woog months it was down to 54 and the salary list was,
secured, was brought against a boatman- reduced by one-half. To-day the staff stands at Cheung Tai, of cargo-boat 3310-at the Police off by the ship's steward, with orders to the his knowledge, and the others how, they lost 25 persons, and the revenue has increased from. Court, to-day, I was alleged that he had boatwoman to deliver the pears to their retheir tex. The thief, who was no other thin assaulted a bostwoman-lo Ho, of sampat spective owners. The defendeat and the other Li Yuen, was taken to the Central Station. Ile 24484 Hk taels in 1915 to 67,644.735 last year, 636-causing bodily harm. There is nothing party's pears were delivered at Wing Woo was searchell, but no money was found on in spite of to enlarged duty-free lint and other evidence, it is sliced by that Street, defendant taking delivery. After this him, and it was the opinion of the police that
Ho Ho was in anyway assaulted by the boatman, the boatwoman proceeded to the praya, opposite the coin had been handed over to an accom, lice,.. Abatements. In Swalow, which is reported on but for some moons past a grudge has existed
Except the Central Market, and a messenger was sent who arcaped. His Worship found; accused by Mr. Frank Smith, the Acting Commissioner for a few words exchanged between them when to the plaintiff's shop calling upon them to take
between Cheung, Tai and ifo II. of Customs, the Native Customs were found to they chanced to meet, no violence resulted.delivery of their pears. Plaintiff sent two of guilty and sentenced him to three months be in very much the same condition as these Xesterday afternoon Cheung Tai's carga bost his fokin to take delivery. They had taken from a dose of the stocks. This, however, was imprisonment. The wet weather saved bim at Amoy. The staff totalled 117 persone, soms loading cargo Cheung, who was supervising away three baskets, when a number of the de- no satisfaction to Wong, who, no doubt, is of whom had bought their positions. By death the loading, was standing forward. Turning fendant's. fokis' appeared on the scene and
BOTTLE PLİNGING IN THÈ HARBOUR.
Mr. Otto Hong Sing then went into the par- ticulars of the case. He said that the plaintiff and the defendant were fruit dealers. On 18th September last the steamer Kizoshow arrived in port and brought with her a quantity of pears.
Unfortunately the Magistrates after a time amending the original Ordinance so that it alter the new system had baga inaugurated the FOUR-YEAR-OLD 'CHILD SERIOULY INJURED. Forty-five baskets were consigned to the de- shoea a size two big for him-came limping up
..
SIDHLIGHTS ON AMOY AND SWA- TOW CUSTOMS' AFFAIRS.
Of all the trade reports which we'receive from every conceivable source, there are few
Par was moored alongside the steamer Hälmun
seem to have exercised little or no discretion is rendered inoperative instead of taking the in the matter whatever, but sentenced all bull by the horns and settling the matter and sundry to so many weeks' imprisonment definitely once and for all,? and six hours', stocks. As a matter of fact, the habitual criminal recognised that the disgrace of exposure to the publis gaze had lost much of its stiggia, for the simple reason that the Magistrates in their craze to employ a11 antediluvian form of punishment were utterly regardless of the seriousness of the offence committed, the circumstances which had led to its commis sion, or the 'status of the offender. The consideration of how the prisoner's health would-be affected by exposure-in-the-stocke for six hours on cad never entered into the
toms at Swatow have sol flourished as they qucation at all. After a time, as the result of representations from the higher authori. the Commissioners acquire in their off moments have done at Amoy and Foochow, and Mr. ties, there was a marked reduction in theis sandwiched between the price of raw com- Smith enters into on explanation of the reasons number of cases sentenced to condemnation modities and the value of the Haikwan'tael. for' its rather unsatisfactory returns. He reits Lead in half a dozen places and severing Central Police Station. After an investigation THE Taft party of which there are 14 in all two arteries. A passing police pinnace was the plaintiff was released. That was the case will amire on Saturday morning from Shanghai hailed and the beatman was taken into custo- for the prosecution, and it was unnecessary for on the Minnesota. They leave the following dy. The child was removed to hospital for him to say anything on the question of falan day (Sunday) on the transport Me treatment. In the meantime the case stands adjourned until the 14th instant, by which time imprisonment or malicious prosecution.
· Evidence was iban called!-- it is bellerad the child will have recovered,
by public obloquy, but even now the Magis. trates seem unable to determine the exact quality of crime that should entitle the offender to exposure in the stocks. The fact
which compare in interest with those issued under the auspices of the Imperial Maritime Customs of China. These are invariably alive with quniat dissertations on out-of-the-way themes, on customs and conditions that have either pitted away or only prevail to an emas culated form. The curious knowledge which
Hop
or retirement the staff had fallen in 95 to 98ound he saw Ho Ho's sampan crosting accused plaintiff's men of "stealing, pears" wondering how his heard, bitt is going to be
bows. That some words were exchanged
paid The quartette quilted the Court looking and in that year there was a grand sweep when between, the parties in not debied. Ho Hearing of this the plaintiff went to the spot. quite seedy and it would be interesting to hear it was curtailed to 37. But the Native Ce exceptional orator. Cheung Tai could not que, saying, "You're stealing pears; come with. the report says, proved herself an On arrival, defendant seized plaintiff by the
their opinion of Hongkong, da m find words to reply at the moment and me" And with that the plaintiff, Mr. Otto Kong THE Interpont Shooting Match has been post- picking up a boule, he is alleged to have Sing said, was dragged along the road and poned to Saturday, 12th inst. hurled it at the woman. The bottle struck handed over to s lakong, who took, him to the Ho Ho's four-year-old child instead, opening
They never seem to be content unless their remarks: "Que great cause in that steam year port is what the world calla "rendaħle"; facts by year is more than taking the, place, of sail, and figures relating to the subject ja hand are and that the risk against storm, and-piracy of brightened by side reflections and, deft come junke cannot be covered by insurance, Cheep
Included in the party are Mrs. Taft and a ten year old son,