Intimation.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY APRIL 9. 1908.
sibismen never Alter at the dally press, for they ses its fine purposes and positive achievements despite its limitations, negations and imper fections, which are lodeed as universal as the human race. In refrihing contran taika usual
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CANTONIANKOW RAILWAY.
SECOND CALL TO BE MADE (From Our Own Correspondent.]
Canton, 8th April, 1908.
The board of directors of the Canton Hankow Railway Company will hold a meeting at the offices of the Company on the 11th sastapt when the following questions will be discussed
RICE FOR CANTON,
SHIPMENT FROM WOKU.
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Canton,, 8th April, 1908, overcome, the authorities of the province of After a great deal of difficully had been Kwangsi consented to remove the prohibition on the exportation d rice to Camon, Yester; day the committes of the Canton Cheap Rice Disposal Bureau wired to Kwangsi to tender their thanks for the benevolent concession."
The Japanese Boycott.
SELF-GOVERNMENT SOCIETY'S
ACTIVITY.
ANOTHER MASS MEETING CALLED."
"PROPOSED CARTOONS AND LYRICS
[From Our Own Correspondant.]
A. S. WATSON & CO., academic critic is Prof. William James, the Harvard philosopher of pragmatism, who in a current! magazine prints his address to the Association of Collegiate Alumnão, delivered at Radcliffe, in the course of which ha Warks the college-bred woman-and man-against assuming a negative, unproductive, listless attitude in the world's affairs, and says that the press, through its periodicals and newspapers, ed to jointly discuss the advisability of the ment of 33,000 bags of rice will leave that pail of all districts throughout the province to at
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social and cultural influence, owing to the superciliousness, specialization or indifference of the great educational institutions. The report is reproduced in the Philadelphia Press whose comments thereon will be endorsed by all who realize the value of the modern · Preus as an educating medium President Roosevelt has time and again taken occasion to praise
the influence of the decent newspapers and the majority come under that head-and reformers everywhere depend on the support and publicity of the press in accomplishing their objecter
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"LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE German mail of the 11th March was deli vered in London.on the 8th inst.
WE regret to hear that Messi, Carlowitz & Co. of Hongkong have decided not to take over Mr. Thies' limber concession at Banguey.-B.N.B. Berald.
$16.50 MR. MORRISH and Mr. Boardman, senior. and
D. SHERRY
SUPERIOR PALE DRY.
Per Dozen
.$10,50
A VERY FINE WINE, POPULAR
THROUGHOUT THE FAR LAST.
1.--The collection of the second call at St.go per share. The committees of the Canton Chamber of Commerce, the Nine Charitable Fostitutions and the 72 Guilds will be request the Cheap Rice Disposal Bureau that a ship On the 6th instant a Wubu telegram advised collection and to express their opinion thereon, on the roth instant for Canton and it will be
2-The formation of a 'Railway Bank" in | due bare on the 17th instant. At
Bureau has in stock some tooco present the and the distribution of rice from the four mat sheds will take place on the 12th instant to supply the people. It has been fixed that every to cante will buy two and a half cattles,
connection with the Railway Company and the payment of interest to shareholders, etc. A mass meeting will be arranged so as to ative at a decision
AERATED WATER IN COURT,
MR. HANS WEISMANN SUED, In the Supreme Court, this morning, an
action was brought against Hans Weismann, of Cafe Weismann, 74. Queen's Road Central, Manufactory, to recover the sum of Sagt,58, by Mr. P. F. Danesberg, of the Aerated Water, for aerated waters, sold and delivered by the plaintiff to the defendant.
MURDER AT YAU-MA-TI.
CHINESE WOMAN KILLED."
Particulars of another murder on, the penin of the foul deed being a Chiness woman nam sala of. Yau-gia-ti reach us to-day, the victim ed Ah Kiu. Deceased was the wife of an In- Mr. R. Atkinson, of Meara, Deacon, Looker She resided at No, 119 Temple Street, Yau-ma- dion walchman employed at Quarry Bay. and Deacon, was for the plaintiff, Mr. F. Xu, one of a block of tenement houses facing d'Almada e Castro appeared for the defendant.
vacant plot of land above Gascoigne Road:
was for $291:48, but since that writ bad been Mr. Atkinson stated that the original claim served a clerical error had been discovered in the figures. He now proposed to reduce the claim by some $17 ur $18.
Mr. Justice Gompertz-Has the account been paid?
Mr. Alkinson-No. Mr. Justice Gompertz-And what is the claim now to be?
Mr. Atkinson-$159,65, in reduction of $1.92. duction was made.
Mr. d'Almada-I don't know how the re-
The unfortunate woman lived on the first floor and an adopted child-a little girl.. of the house in company with a blind relative
What led to the murder and who the mis. creant or miscreants, if there were more than
one, are of the dastardly act which encompassed
the woman's end in such a cowardly manner have up till now not been disclosed, and it to unravel another one of the mysteries which criminal records of the peninsula that the unfortunately mark the black spots in the kecret service of the police and the detachment stationed as the mainland are now exerting their very besi-efforts,
Canton, 8th April.
Assoriation, it was decided to invite the people At a meeting, held on the 6th instant, at the headquarten of the Castor Self-Government
tend a mass meeting to be held at a date to be announced later for the purpose of discusing memorial to the Throns to pray for the early matters in connection with the proposed joint
instituțion of a parliament.
A resolution was also passed to the effect that steps should be taken for the improvement of native "manufactures. For the purpose of impressing the humiliation of the Tatsu Mari settlement on the minds of the people, the Society has determined to prepara some cartoons to be distributed to the people and to have lyric poems composed chronicling the avents connected with the case, for publication in the native papers. In these cartone' and National Disgrace, as the Chinese call it, verses the most salient theme will be the
at
ment Society the people of the Sunul district Following the example of the Self-Garèrn." Oi Hoi, will hold a National Disgrace Meet on the 9th instant, and the people of the similar meeting there on the roth instaub v
Nainhoi. district, at Sham Chun, will hold a
CART. WU REINSTATED;
Jung, the executive officer who effected the
By order of the Viceroy, Captain Wu King
arrest of the Tatsu Mary, has been again pul has neither been discharged for punished since in charge of the Chinese gunbont Po Bib, Ha the conclusies of the Tatiu faru case.
COST OF THE ARMS PAID.
sum of $21,400 to the Japanese Consul at It is reported that the Viceroy has paid a
board the Talsu Mayu. the arms and ammunition that were seized on Canton, being the amount for the purchase of
Telegrams.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
SERVICE
FLOODS IN HUPEH. ABNORMAL RISE OF THE RIVER
HEAVY CASUALTIES
By Courtesy of the
Sheung Po." Shanghai, 8th April.
Hupeh, has risen twenty-two Chinese The Tseung Yung River, above
feet.
Over seven hundred bouts of all sizes have been sunk and many lives lost.
* A PARLIAMENT FOR CHINA
MASS MEETINGS AN HONAN
[By Courtesy of Ike - Bhyung (2)
Peking 8th April.
The people in Honan Proving have held several mass meetings, which resolutions were adopted tà memorialise the Throne to establish
possible a Parliament for China asaoon
VICEROY TUAN FANG.
SEIZED WITH APOPLETIC FIT.
second clerks, respectively, to the secretary to Admiral Moore left for home by the C. P. R. Cos Empress of India this afternoon.
·A·Mação corespondent informs us that the Portuguese Government has raised the rate of postage for letters to Hongkong, Jo four cents and to Portugal, & to six cents per half-ounce A FIRE which occurred at 337, Queen's Road West, last night, in an establishment where rickshas are built, was responsible for $500 damages The building was insured (or $1,000, thèm bethg settled by the defendant from whom she observed was carrying a child in editorial on the 31st ult:-There is a curious were sent for to attend
THE replay of the semi-final tie between H.M.S. King Alfred nut Hongkong FC. will Club Ground-Referee: Lieutenant Mulbris, be played on Saturday at 4.30 pm, on the
R.M.L 1,
WATSON & CO., Talian Telegraph Co, Lid, advises that all
Northern Telegraph Co.,
that all LIMITED,
Japancia landlines beyond Kobe and Osako are interrapted by storm. Restoration is uncertain.
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS. Hongkong, 7th April, 1908.
The Hongkong Celegraph
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1968. CHINÀ AND JAPAN: The yellow preugis -now insisting upon a
Continuing, Mr. Atkinson said that plaintiff started, business, with the defendant as far back as 1902. Plaintiff took cakes from the defendant to sell, whilst the defendant was supplied with aarated waters The portion accounts between the parties went on, a
time to time, bat they were aevor entirely settled. At orcivals the accounts were sent to the defendant fox settlement, but, math- defendant, paluf went to see him in Feb. ing done. At the request, of, the ruary, 1905, and, together they want through the accounts. The defendant, after a while,
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admitted that the accounts were right, cost fessed that he was not aware that the account was so large, and stated that he was not in a position to pay. He had spent too much money, he said, when he wept home to get A STABBING affray took place in the Kennedy married. Plaintiff agreed to give him a fes Town Cattle Depot this forenoon. So far as per cent disc bunt. Mr. Atkinson observed we have learned one of the men, there were that he would produce evidence to prove two implicated in the matter, has been seriously that stabbed. The other is certain to be found conversations, admitted his indebtedness to defendant, in a Ielter and in within the next twenty-four hours.
the plaintiff. The defence, would raise the THE allowing, playing in 'colour, will repre
point that Cafe Weismann had been turned sent the Football. Clob versus the Navy at the
into a limited liability, company in 1904. This Happy Valley to-morrow alternoon at 5.15 p.m.
the, prosecution did not deny, but they were W. J. Daniel, Leib, Haldersion, F. G. Carroll,
never informed of the change,
war between China and Japan, but the Chi- Byrne, J. J. MacGregor, G. D. Mcllraith, F. C. M. Johnston, E. V.-O. Wolfe, Skrimshire
about 8. o'clock last evening, a Chinese From what has been learnt it appears that woman residing on the second floor of the same house as the deceased, while going up the'staks, met four men, coming down one of his arms. In the dark she could tot recognize
the men,
On reaching the first landing, she heard, the cry of a child, which was familier to her as Ah Kiu, the deceased. As the child continued that of the adopted daughter of the, woman to cry for some time, the women hastened
downstairs in its assistance and discovered the
Shq
SINGAPORE COMMENTS..
[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po"). On the 6th instant, Viceroy Tuan Fang was suddenly taken ill with apoplexy.
cellency
The Singapore Free Fritz has the following European and Chinese doctors parallel between the recent defiant attitude of
His Ex.
of Canton against Peking, which to-day makes California to Washington and the open revolt the subject of a striking special telegram from.
Yesterday he seemed to be slightly more impassioned fair, for the Viceroy faily Hongkong. The latter is however a much.
better.
refuses the orders of the Waiwapu; the
Chinese Foreign Office, that he should
EMBEZZLEMENT IN SHANGHAI
SUPREME COURT CLERK ARRESTED:
[From Our Gun Correspondent,}
Shanghai, 9th April,
2.45 p.m.
child lying on the pavement below. It had had descended the stairway While the woman Peking Government are now under the un- arrest the leaders of the Caston boycot! evidently been left there by the four men who against Japanese and Japanese goods. The was getting up to the second floor. picked up the gut and proceeded to the first orders or loss, face" in a fatal way. So pleasant necessity of having to enforce their "floor of the house. Ariving at the door, which dire is the predicament, that Yune. Sbi, Kai rapping, the called out to the deceased. No prevailing at Canton, would entail a sanguih- was unlocked, she began ripping at it. Rebas asked the Throng for orders to tako an. ceiving no answer, and after some louder army to Canton. This, in the bigh excitement answer was returned. This, coupled with the kry collision between the expeditionary ammy ed the woman's suspicion that something be certain to oppose it on landing. The fact that no light appeared in the room, arous from Peking and the popular levies that would H.B.M.'s Supreme Court, has been H. Moore, acting assistant clerk, bad gone amiss, Striking a match, the pushed anxiety of the Waiwupu to repress the Japanese arrested for alleged embezzlement. corroborated the story as already outlined by dead body with her hands bound and a Chi-Hongkong stating that the Japanese Minicused is supposed to have misappr Plaintiff was then called to the box, and hehe door open, and, in getting into the room, boycolt now in full Bing at Canton is perhaps The amount of money which
was horrified at the discovery of 4b Kin's ago he read in a newspaper that Mr. Weismant The woman was dead;
to be explained by a telegram from, Peking to ter al Peking bad notified the Wai wupu that printed is unknown. "Japas will hold China respossible for any call." Another telegram states that at Kobe the local Chine10 Chamber of Commerce bar.
∙ngie.show no inclination to adopts, course. Hall, R. O. Hutchison, W. B. Stanton, B. bis solicitor. He said further, that some time bese site scarf securely tied around ber deck,
which would precipitate their prepared enemy and St. John. upon them. The Chinese have taken the H.E. TAOTA WANG TBE-TSING, the depury acting followed. On many occasions he tad laspector McHardy, of the Yau-maji Polica dimination of trade on accoust.of-the-boy-
measure of JapaD. Their former contempt for
who was lately appointed by the Board of War their island neighbours thas given way to ato inspect the Kiangnan Arsenal, has completed wholesome respect for their prowess and spit work there and is now on his way preciation of the fact that the art of war must
back to Peking to report to the Board in be learned by a people before they presume to question, having left Shanghai attended by a dispute with a nation that has gone to school. the s.. inming, belonging to the China Mer numerous. suite on the 30th March on board Under the circumstances, the San Francisco chants. Chronicle believes it is safe to predict that there will be bo wat at present. What may happen later on, il Japan persists in being dictatorial, remains to be seen.
MANILA bathers have generally scoffed at repeated warnings against sharks in Manila bay. Not long ago Captain R. M. Lasala, whose residence is on Malate beach, reported a large shark seen close in the beach from hits house. The launch Nina, of the Manila Navigation and Transportation Company, has just brought to the company's offices a 1aw fish stranded on the beach at Salinas, Cavite.
to the end of is tail just fleet, and from tip to tip of its fips measures 43 feet. It would seem to behoove bathers, more especially those who are in the babit of swimming from ships in the bay, to exercise qire.
The saw fish measures Trop the end of the saw
a
was about to leave the Colony soou and this written to the defendant asking for settlement, but he got no reply. The letter was refused the café, the messenger being told that "Mr, Weisman no more here." Ripon Terrace the messenger was told that
At his bouse is
letter was written in German, and this was Mr. Weismann war at his shop. Finally, the
received, but no antwer cams.
After further evidence was heard his Lord ship reserved his judgment.
H.E. TANG SHAOI is detained in Peking by order of the Central Government for the purpose of negotiating certain matters, of importance with the British Micister, among them being the Anglo-Chinese Treaty regarding, Thibet on the West River. and the piratical attacks oo British steamers
lines on a chart can say what kind of weather THE wise men who by looking inte a tangle of
we shall have to-morrow are probably the least pessimistic of all classes on the subject of of meteorological conditions. That is to say, they exhibit the least anxiety over the question
Station, was immediately notified as to the hastly find. The police officer promptly te paired to the scene of the tragedy, for without faused the removal of the corpse to the oubt, a tragedy must have been enacted, and
the house was then carducted by the police Kowloon mortuary. A thorough examination with the object of discovering any clue leading the murder of the deceased. Beyond the
bund nothing to enlighten them, as to the ect that no money had been stolen and that fitle, if any, jewellery was missing, the police potive prompting the doing, to death of Ab tiu. The room bore evidence of having been ansacked. It is believed that robbery was not te motive of the crime; it may not at ali be, inprobable that revenge had urged the perpef tors of the murder to their dastardly work.
JAPANESE YARN TRADK.
PROPOSED COMBINK of the duration of what are graphically calleding Companies have agreed among themselves The Kategafuchi, Gado, and Setra Spin- bad spells of weather. These philosophershie of yarn for zo's produced by the Settec maintain the price of their yara at Y160 per hably they reflect that there is nothing, not so adegafuch product. The agreement is to go preserve their tranquillity so well because pro ad Godo mills, and at one yen higher for the
[Ravier's.]
Japan and the United States in Manchuria,
Japanese entered the American Consulate
London, 7th April. Advice from New York state that four
in Mukden and attacked the staff, apparently out of private spite.
and the Japanese were arrested and convey. The Consul summoned the Chinese police, ed to the Japanese Consulate, action is expected.
No apology was tendered, and diplomatic
held a meeting and passed a resolution oppos feeling at Canton has reached, pitch of pit ing the boycott. There is no doubt that public
for it is the result of a movement in which the rotic exaltation that has never found a parallel, power of enlightenment and education is playing a remarkable pari. A little over week ago the Viceroy at Canton, H.E. Chang Jen Chun, finding the position so difficult in
tion. But the Walwupu would not accept the face of an agitation with which he was
it and directed him to remain at his post. He in full sympathy, telegraphed his resign-
has done so, and has now defied the authority of the Waiwupu. The leaders of the agitation at Canton have despatched manifestos, descri bing the action and asking for support, to all the twenty-one provinces of China. Even Do Northern Army is brought down to Canton, the situation is of such a character that it might not take much more to induce the Canton Government at Poking. There is already province to bead a revolt against the Imperial
Society" at Canton, and that, owing to the Vincent ? Sir Charles Edward Howard. what is known as
Obituary.
engaged in anti-Japanese' démonstrations.
The death is announced of Howard. "Talsu Maru affair, bas been intensely Vincent);
a
* "Sell-governmen!
Russia.
The Budget Sub-Committee of the Duma is considering an application for a Vollinteer Fleet Bubildy, to establish services between Vladivostock and Shanghai, and Vladivos tock and Ramschatka.
Later.
_POWBR OF THE PRESS. It has become the fashion in some quartets to gird at journalism and journalete, to place blame on the Fourth Estate as a degenerating and vitiating influence in modern life, and to sum up the whole sneering argument in the unreasonable assertion that the product of the daily press is not "literature." A thing to which it makes no pletence. This attitude of The fact that poeumonia might be called destructive criticism is, of course, purely withply a shutting off of oxygen 'shows how academic and angemic Men who do things important this is to give the patient plenty of and man who think things realize that the air. In one large New York hospital sufferers press is a powerful for Datingal good, in veritable evgine of reform, a promoter of kept there day and, right. An attack of shall bave weather while the world standetherchants ale protesting agaiant, this combina sequence by the Viceroy, acting under orders progress. Statesmen of England and other very bad cold. The patient has a chill and and bad weather good weather, with unfailing negafuchl company to pub the sale of yare excited the population, which looked to the zoo.
patumosia begios in a manner which suggests and good weather will succeed bad weather on, as they had recently been advised by the from Peking. This disbandment has still further confidence in the Government by 340 to countries have seen is a free press one of the fever and suffers from pains in the side. A certitude, Moreover, there is just so much any price that could be realised, and they society as its organised instrument for political
The French Chamber has passed a vote of greatest influences of civilization, and, in the dough soon appears, and the breath becomes sultry weather, and so much cruel, chitting ive been selling the Satis and Godo yarn at protest and action. So far as the situation can tion by M.-Jaures, attacking the general British constitution, adequate and peremptory short and quick. The valinut battle of the weather in the seatin's mass of temperature, aput Y110 per bale. The dealers threaten to be appreciated from the outside it appears to policy of the Government, provision is made for ite inviolate preservation overworked heart is indicated by a quick puise with very slight variations from year to year. bycott the yard produced by the three above-
The vote was the result of ad interpella- of the liberty of the press. Journalism is not and flushed cheeks, Soon there are signs of Thus, say the aforesaid meteorological nager, perfect but neither are we living in the great exhaustion, with headache, sleeplessness when it is very, very cold, it is time to expect ceference prices. It is believed that fo view
med companies, if forced to sell their yarn at internal peace of China. and (sometimes) deliriu
be of a highly dangerous character to the some best again, and also the revorks.
SHIPPING AND MAILS
millennium. The daily newspaper pictures life
an it is lived day after day; it gives publicity
to
ACCORDING to a Peking message, the Peking
Government has issued instructions to the
good and bad as they occur, for the commend Chinese Minister in Tokyo to engage Mr. ation of one and the abatement of the other; it Ogawa Shigejero, a well-known authority on informs the average man, the man in the prison affairs in Japan, and Mr. Shida Kotaro, street, so that he may take a discerning and an expert in commercial matters, for the service Intelligent interest in ongoing affairs; it reco.ds of the Chinese Goverment
Current
WAILS DUR,
France.
Portugal.
This attitude the three spinning companies WADA SENTARO, Fujikawa Rietaro, Noda Serious noting has taken place in Lisbon All eventualy be compelled to give way, Umekichi, and Fonkawa Yokichi, who draw over the elections. The troops were called it is reported that Mr. Ohashi, President of the first prize of Y35,000 in the Formosan let out and 6 rioters were killed and 30 Kurashiki Spioning Company, of Ckajama tery by means of stolen ticket, and were wounded, a efecture, is of opinion that it is unwise to sentenced to one month's imprisonment and a catinus to pay large dividends, in view of the fine of Ys in the Onks Appeal Court, are to posent depression in buslaess, and suggests get of without punishment after all. They ing. The shareholders do not agree with Court, where the sentence was confirmed, and at no dividend be paid for the balf-year now appeated from the decision of the Supreme left here on irth ult, at noon, arrived at Genoa. Ohashi, the bas solved, to offer to the order to delay the execution of the sens
Indian (Gregory Affar) 12th inst. French (Australies) 13th inst., morning. American (China) 14th' inst. But
The Imperial German Mail s.s. Gaben, which
The thistory in the makings it even educates message mentions that the term of the contract by its wide range of subjects and varied dopar adviser to the Viceroy of Hu-Kwang, his ex- The Rs. Denbighshire left Singapore on 8th
of Hr. Marguchi, Japanese railway enginszer, an on 7th inst,, at 2 p.myvay depen ments, coming into contact with daily life and pired, and Viceroy Chow recommanded Mr. inst, morning, and is expected here on 14th Interests in all their complex phaion with it's Kindar, wall-known English railway Inst. afternoon. ace, humour, editorials and engineer, at bis successor Bet the Pon Omer
vlade - Departam distipd colturali
unications.
exitic
1. Amatrallin with the Iith uit, and mail from
up all theres at their face value, and yience was cancelled, Nevertheless, on the
Spio
application of the accused to the Procur çaros: the Onka Appeal Court, wh
The Political Situation In
Great Britain
All the London papan publish leading
cles on the political situation, which
as marking a diffolte break with