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ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS. -Hongkong, 7th April, 1908.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY APRIL 15 1958,
The Hougbong actegraph
HONGKONG, Wednesday, Arkal 15, 1978.
CHINESE TRAITORS.
News was published some days ago of the discovery of a conspiracy which had been formed among Chinese subordinate officials to sell national secrets to outside Powers. The parties involved were caught at their traitorous work, but whether they managed to dispose of any information of value had not been disclosed. It seems that the
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According to an 'official Investigation, the serious Japaneso shipping disasters reportad· last year show a total ‘uf 42' steamers lost or damaged, the tonnage aggregating over 50,000, Most of the diansters weld due to stranding op submerged rocks, collisiour, fires, etc., coming next,
For Slowing his whistle, contrary, to regular tinos, the master of Naval Yard stam lunch was fined Sto at the Marine Court, this morning. The Chief Constructor stated that the launch was under his coptrel and that it was necessary to blow the whistle i urder 10 call the men to work,
The Court, however, refused to accept this standpoint, and delivered judgment in the terms mentioned,
MESSRS, Jacks and Co., of Glasshouse-street, liave 'reproduced an excellent photograph of the dinner of the Hongkong and hanghai Bank, recently held at the Trocadero. Even faces at a distance from the lens came out well, and on the whole company in general there is less of that often strained look that appears as a result of the bright light under which these dashlight photographs, necessarily have to be like.
head centre of the movement was a political spy named Kan Edochia who is the son of the late territorial Taotai at Proxing. Kao Chan-kin, and also the son-it law of the retired Grand Secretary of State, Wang Wen-shao, while he himself, is an ex pectant prefect of a province. A couple of years ago Kao organized a society for selling important information to foreigners in Peking in conjunction with Tso Ying. telegraph translator to H, E. Yuan Shih-kai and Chung Hao, ope, of the deputics employed in the Ministry of the Interior, and Tao and Ku, operators in the Peking office of the Imperial Chinese Telegraph Administration. Kaq had also the assistance of the chief boy of the telegraph office in the Waiwupu, who stole slips from the Morse instruments every night for his information. The results of this leakage were 10 place China in more than one awkward position. It has been stated that Kan received 12,000 A CHINAMAN, whose Hame could not be tacis for his labours, but well-advised cor blained by the police, about fifty-six years of respondents put the figure much higher.ge, residing at 45, Centre Street, West Point, According to information published in the
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ir is repasted from Wuhu that several hundred men, who are natives of Kianas engaged in the carrying of catges of porcelain, made an attack upon the Police Station there, 'Several police officers were wounded and capused. The cause of the nairage is unknown, but it is probable that there was first a collision be tween one of the junk crews and the police, which Created bad feeling owing to the arrest of some of the crew in question, and that an effort was made to rescue them by the other crews."
met his death yesterday morning, under the most circumstances. It appears that the magic clasin the complay of Jose svi maker, was carrying a tin full of jors stick powder to the rol of the building to be dried:
When half way up the staircase he slipped and fell backwards, a distance of some twenty feet frac uring the case of his skull. Death was Itis remains were picked up by the police and removed to the Murgue for identification,
instantaneous.
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The Lato Mr. A. H. Rennie.
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-AN UNKNOWN LETTER,
LATEST PARTICULARS OF THE TRAGÉDY.
Special efforts were made by the staff of the anthong Telegraph last evening to obtain full particulars with respect to the famentable death of Mr. A. H. Repare. There is practical ly nothing to add to the strange facts, which. we published at a late hour last night. Every single word of those facts has been confinned, and as we ate in a position to know is incorporated in the police official report. As a matter of fact, the statement was made this noge to one of our representatives that the report with which we presented our readers yesterday was absolutely correct in every detail, We need not linger any longer upon such a dis ressing subject which has shocked the com munity, but we would only way that the mo- tive, which caused the impulse, has yet to be discovered.
Asak, Me. G. S. Cruickshank, Mr. and Mr. A. The Japanese Boycott.
Seth, Mr. and Mrs. H. 1, Black, Mr You Kee, and Mosara Arnhold Karbag & Co.
The following communication bas bede seat to us for publication! We are requested to state that no notice of the hour fixed for the funeral of the late Mr. A.H. Rennis having teached either Government House or the Colo- dial Secretary's Office till just before a meeting which the Governor had covered for lit con sideration of the Public Health and Buildings Bill and at which the Colenial Secretary, the Director of Public Works, the Hon. Dr. Re Kai and Mess. A. Turner, A. H. Ough and A. ca soo were present, is Excellency was un- able to postpone the meeting to attend the funeral."
CANTON DAY BY DAY,
VICEROY CHANG HONOURED.
[From Our Own Corrispondent.]
PLACARDS IN THE CHINESE QUARTERS..
DESTROYED BY THE POLICE,
The emissaries of the organization-to-boy. cott Japanese trade appear to pursue their inisius with unabated zeal and there are evidences that, the recent gentle warning to the Chinese editors as to the manner buycolt reports should be treated in the columns of their jour als has stimulated energy in other directions to punctuate native feelings in the matter of the boycoll. At an early hour this morning the l'alico on patrol duties in Queen's Road dis covered some pipcards posted up on the walls. of prominent buildings in the native quarters of the city. The placards measured soms Twenty inches by thirty. The lufunctions to the Chinese populace displayed on the sheets were in writing and not printed. An exact translation of the posters could not be obtained, but we understand their purport, briefly, was to advise the Chinese to pursue the boycoll against the japanese,
As soon as the placards were observed the police authorities had them tor. Lown and des
the Viceregal quarters. instant His Excellency hung up these scrollstroyed, one copy being retained, by the de
According to ective department for translation, custom all his subordinates have called on him to offer him congratulations on the occasion.
Canton, 13th April, 1908. H.E. Viceroy Chaog Jen Chup has received. All sorts and conditious of people in Hong from the Emperor three honorific scrolls "kong were "mazed'last evening at the fact that inscribed with the characters Fu (gil), Cheng aman, occupying the commercial position of(), Shou-one on each. On the 12th death in such an extraordinary fashion. While Mr. A. H. Rennie, should have, come by his
the news shocked people fait night, calmer thoughts prevailed to day and ende yours were made to elucidate the
inystery of the imagedy, Nothing, however, has is en dis covered which would account for the action of Mr. Repsie, and in many circles his death has caused sad remembrances
Many wondered last night what Was contain. ed within the casket which was found attached
to the deceased gestleman,
We trust we are not giving any secrets away when we state that Mr Rennie left behind him an impuriani leler which was to be delivered to one very near and dear to him,
That letter was cutrusted to noc of the most
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CHEAP RICE.
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Yesterday the four masheds in connection with the Cheap Rice 2posal Bureau were opened for the distribution of rice. The Kwangchow Prefect, accompanied by the two district magistrates of Namboi and any made an inspection of these sheds." The Rice
Bureau basued over four thousand tickets
the pourer classes of the people for admis. sion to these sheds to buy rice.
PROPOSED SHIPPING Company. The office of the Cantor Shipping Company
collected.
prominent and respected members of the com- was opened yesterday, at Foo Ship street, mercial community of ilongkong to deliver.west, far the registration of shares. About a One thing was noteworthy today that all thousand dollars of subscription money weld and sundry regretted the loss of one who
CANTON-HANKOW RAILWAY. promised to be the pioneer in what His Ex-
The directors of the Canton-Hackow Rail- cellency the Governor called The Industrial institutions of Hongkong." There is no doubt way Company ate of the opinion that the Nine. that he was a commanding personality Charitable Institutions, the Canton Chamber of merely in the commercial but in the Social Commerce and the 7 Guids Association abould life of the Colony. He was also one who, while undertake to collect the second call of subscrip he respected himself, respected others. And he ions at $1.59 a share for the Company, as they will be regretted, particularly as a man, who were the promoters of the Company, and the endeavoured to do his best for the trade inter first call was collected by them. A mass meet.. ests of the Colony.
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THE FUNERAL,.
The funeral of Ac, A. H. Regni tule place this afternuon to Happy Valley. Few believed that the ceremony would take place at stan un early date and few hur recovered from the
$16.50 Nouth, H. E. Yuan Shin-kaiwas informed of Kau's actions in February last, when several confidential officials and detectives were sent out to make friends with the chief spy. „After several weeks" hard work, these officials All the secrets of Rao and his accomplices for the information of H. Ypan, who at once proceeded to see the General, Can- mandant of the nine cities aout their arrest. The Chinese soldiers first captured. Ku
THE Wai Wo pa and the foreign Ministers in and Fan in the Imperial Chinese Telegraph Peking have been engaged lately in the dis- Office, from whom they got all the informa cussion of several highly important questions tion necessary tapirest Kao, Tso and Chung.innnection with the right of foreigners 10 VERY FINE WINE, POPULAR Among these five spies, only Tso, H.E. own land in the Settlements at the various THROUGHOUT THE FAR EAST.Yair's telegraph translator, obtained infor Treaty Ports, and it is credibly reparied that mation beforehand and succeeded in escap one of the incidental points decided acquiesces ing. In order to avoid the terrible tortures in the right of the Chineré authorities to re A. S. WATSON & CO.; of Chinese criminal courts in dealing with deem whatever land may be required for cases like this, the prisoners confessed every railways or her public undertakings in the LIMITED,
thing when they were brought before T.B.title thereto. Viceroys and Governors in all the Foreign Seitlements, and acquire a complete Shil-kai, a Tung and Liang Tun-yen rovinces have therefore been instructed by un the 20th ulume: Kao and Chung wure
the Wai Wo pu to be ir this important fact in semenced to imprisonment for life in Iliud. with hard labour, while Tao and Ku have |been sent down to Tientsin to serve they | Tip China Cedric ("Tieqisin), of 6th inst,, says;— sentence of ten years' imprisonment in the Yesterday at noon, a large number of Tientsin Criminal Industrial Institution. Tao and Ku residents, friends of Mr. and Mrg Edkins are quite young fellows of not more than utierfield and Swire) assembled on the bund to say good-bye to them and see them off by twenty years of age and they went bitterly the S.S. Keith, on board, of which steamer every day after their arrest at having been, they have left for Hoogkong, Mr. Edkins'havi misled by others for the sake of a small sum nk been (fansferred to that part, Fusilades df of money. Neither of them got more than Chinese crackers were fired as the steamer about $200 during the last few months, cast off her moorings A number of those They were chiefly employed in copying the present then went on-board-the new ug be. His Excellency the Governor lind, we are all ships of the More instruments stolen from longing, to the Taku Tug and Lighter Co, and the telegraph office. The head boy of this gave three cheers, with a tiger, as the Kunick
pissed down. Both Mr. and Mrs. Edkin office is still at largs, and the Chinese be much missed in the social life of his part authorities have offered big rewards. for his anist and that of Tso. With the object of To that slip came here about 7 o'clock preventing similar occurrences in future, last evening in the various ships in the. Prince Ching and H.E.Yuan Shih-kabour, to cite catertainments provider, it have issued instructions to their sub- the Colony, performance, at the Canton on giving & calendar Honths previous notice ordinates in the Waiwup and the Chun: wharves was certainly conducive to good the spectators who were
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THE CENTRAL STORES, LD. SHANGHAI
ISSUE OF (s. 250,000 8 PER CENT DENENTURES.
THE
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DIRECTORS:
G. 1. SHEKURY, Esq., Chairman...
A. R. Morphing Esq.
J. M.TEESDALE, Esq.
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- SECRETARY : M. J. NATHAN, ESQ.
Director of the Central Stages, Ld. are prepared to receive applications for Tie. 250,000 8 per cent debemurer terminable in len years from the 30th day of June 1908,
but redeemable by the Company in 5 years from that date or at any time after such 5 years
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(or humour
bar
ing of shareholders of the Company has been arranged by, the board of directorą, to take place on the 15th day of the 5th mỏon to dis“ cuss certain matters.
ADŅIRAL 11 CRUN.
1.E: Admiral Li Chao left here on the 11th
instant for the Roga Tigris, where Ella Facel lency took over the seal of office as Acting following day: Admiral of the province of Kwangiúng on the
NEW PROVINCIAL, EXAMINER.
excitement engendered by what had occurred. The funeral was of a strictly private character, that only a very few of the prisonal binds of So quietly were the arrangements completed
the deceased knew at whay hour the last sad ceremony was to take place, Many and The Camion Sirân Hoa Chu has received a repeated were the inquiries mide to ascertain telegram from Shanghai informing the Chu the hour fixed for the funeral; but in every case that the Canton Province Examiner-designate, the requiring friends met with the response Tseng Shen Tung, has left Peking to proceed that it would place "some time innday?" This to the Southern Capital to take up his new circumstance explains the fatt of themímalluess ("appointment. This new official is expected to in the dumber of personal vriende present, arrive at Canton about the end of this month, Had the hour of the funeral been publicly ar nounced there could be no denyingthat theseto pay their last tribute of respect ip the memory of the deceased gentleman would have been haroughly representative of the commercial community of Hongkong.
14th April, RAILWAY DIRECTORS' REMUNERATION,. The Directors of the Cantons Hankow Rail- way Company held a meeting at the Company's. offices yesterday when it was unanimously de eided that the president of the Company should' receive remuneration at the rate of taels 1,600 + cially antified, fotended to be present in person, kogamonth; the vice-president 700+ 300, and the but a inceting of the Executive Council and other director of the Company-taels goo4 200 another important meeting which followed each, At the meeting it was decided to request immediately afterwards precluded his atten M. Lo Fo Shun to take up his appointment as the There was nothine for His Excellent vice-president some time this month; he was to make other arrangements, but he was appointed to the position several months ago; presented by Cap Fleming, AD.C.but has not yet assumed the duties of the office.
Aremall number of deceased's mbyt éssimate: friends waited at the Monumen, The hearse "A quintily of arms and ammuntliga 2,000 rived at haif past four o'clock. The prin revolvers, 500 Mauser rifles and 200,00
GOVERNMENT MUNITION
in writing. These debentures are issued by chich'u that all-important telegrams, and fortunate enough to have witnessed it, cipal mourners were Sir Paul Chater, c MG cangidges-which were ordered through the
the Directors in pursuance of a resulution pass" ed by them at a Meating held at the Company's documents must be handled personally by offices on the 3rd day of April, 1908. With the Deputy Vice-Presidents and Deputy the sum raised is intended to pay off all the. existing outstanding debenmes of the Con Assistant Vice-Presidents instead of being pany of Tis. 150,00 issued in favour of the entrusted to their subordinate officials, while Hongkong. & Shanghai Banking Corporation special rules have been drawn up by the and to employ the balance in the expense of completing the building and fillings of the Yuchuanpu, for the government of clerks-in- Palace Hotel fronting the Bund, Shanghai, The present issue of "I'ts. 250,000 will rank shaige, operators and others in the various a first charge on the said property, of the telegraph offices throughout China. against Company held on
lease to the Company for the divulging of information. It is stated a term of which 48 years and 9 months are still that the Directors of the Imperial Chinese unexpired including the buildings and a floating charge on the other property and undertaking and the Waiwupu Telegraph, Cffices will the Company as carried on upos the said probably lose their posts for their grave premises and will be secured by Deed of Trust and moitgage to be hereafter executed
negligence. being a first mortgage of the said leasehold property buildings and undertaking of the Company to Messrs. Alexander McLeo and Duncan McNeil as Trustees for the Debenture
of
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
holders. The present issue of debentures will CAPTAIN H. C. Moulirie, R.G.A.: passed in be at par in sums of Tls. 1,000, Tl. 5oo and Tls. 100 as may suit the convenience of appli- colloquial Hindustani at an examination Held cants. They will bear interest at the rate of 8 in this Command on the 11th instant, per cent per annum and will rank among themselves pari passu;
The first imtaiment of interest calculated from the day of payment will be paid on the 30th day of June, 1908 and thereafter half-year ly on the 30th day of June and the 31st day of December. Applications should be filled in and seat to the Company's Bankers the Hoog kong & Shanghai Baoking Corporation accom: panied by the amount of the debentures applied for,
Applications, will be received up to the 31st day of May, scof and will be dealt with on that day and should any such dabentures remain anapplied for, subsequent allotments thereof will be made and carry interest from the date of issue. Backers receipts to the applicant Pill be issued for the amount of his debentures and exchanged for debentures. if an allotment made. Forms of application can be obtain ed at the office of the Company or at the Hong; kong & Shanghai. Banking Corporation and the Deed of Trust and form of Debenture can be seen at the office of Messrs, Stokes, Platt & Teesdale, the Company's Solicitors,
By Order of the Directors,
· · M. J. NATHAN,
Secretary.
Shanghai, 4th April, 1908,
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TIK Japanese Minister of War-has issued an instruction prohibiting, military officers in active service from attending race meetings, THB Superintendent of the Great Northern Telegraph Co., Ld, advies that, as there is only one landline restored to Tokin and Yoko. hara telegrams exchanged with those places are subject to delay. Complete restoration is
expected before 3 or 4 days,
Wang Kam, a cook on the ss. Shiu Os, came ashore from his hip and baving with him "a suspicious package was accosted by an excise officer, who deranded to know the contents of the pact age. There was a flash of arm, and in the blue glimmer of the dock's' lights the spectators saw a true exemplification of juju. The protector of the law, in the shape of Sergent Burney, and the alleged transgressor entered into a shot argu meat, however, and the latter was taken to the Central Police Station. At the Police Court, this morning, the pugilistic cook was fined £3
for his behaviour.
and Mr. H. N. Mudy.
fitm of Messrs. Arnhold Karberg & Co by-the At the graveside there were present: Canion Shan Hou Chu for the use of the Cip Flemming, X... representing HE. [ different (arcês of the province, has now arrived the Governor, Nit. Paul Chater, Mr. and the department has applied to the Viceroy Liebert, Consul for Fiance, Hon. Mr. W.
Molly. So Henry-Berkeley, pha. G. for permission to land the munitions.
NEW MAGISTRATES. Rees Davies, Ilon. Mr. Wei Yuk, Messrs. The newly-app inted Fany Magistrate, In Fook, J. C. Peter, G..CC. Master, Mr. Chou, will sake over the seat of office to W. R. Mcl. Part, D Layton A. 8:- Lowe; H: Percy Smith, Arathpon Seth, G. Hastings, Harold Seth, H. F.Churd, C.P. Lammert, W. W. Weiser, L. Berindongue, Dr. J. H. Sane ders and sever 1 Chinese gentlemen
The services were read by Rev. RE Johnson,- officiating clergyman, at the con. clusion of which the remains, enclosed in a casket of English oak, were lowered into the grave. On the plate on the coffin inscribed
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morrow, and the newly-appointed Nimhoi Maghtar, Mr. Cheung will take over the seal of office on the 28th instant,
CONTRABAND MUNITIONS.
By order of the Viceroy the two Commodores Yau and Lin hurriedly proceeded to Sha Kuk esterday. It is learnt that these two officers were despatched no a special mission to effect the seizure of some a msaad ammunition. It is supposed that an attempt will be made to smuggle the munitions into the interior by robbers.
PROVINCIAL SELF-GOVERNMENT, The Kwangchow Prefect proposed to open a schont in connection with the Canton Sell- Coverament Society and to admit 121 tedenis into the school to go through a course of studies for a term of six months with the view of the early introduction of a self-government system in the province.
His Excellency Tuan-Fang, en completing his trip on the North German Lloyd steamship Prine Regent Luitpold, from China to Europe.
Alfred Herbert Rennie, made the following entry in the guest book of the captain of the steamer."My feet have
4. Age 51 years. been. over the whole world, but my heart
Died, 14th April, 1908, knows no fear, neither of the wind nor of the
Among the many beautiful wreaths cot were waves, like Wang-Yu-Ching, of the fairy tales. We passed volcances (Vesuvius), and the Red those from Sir Paul Chate, Mr. H. N. Mady, Sea that bears its name vajustly, for the waves R. Yoneda, Mr. and Mrs. Weaser, Mr. and did not move; without motion, our vessel rolled Mr. Ho Tung, His Ho. Fook, Mr. and Mrs, over them. On board of the steamer I write Tang Lau Kok Hoa, Mr. and Mrs. Wei Yuk, this on the 28th day of the fifth month of the Mr. G. P. Lammert, Office Boy A Cheops, Mr.
"NATIONAL DIsgrace." meetiNG, year Ping-hu of the Emperor Kuang-hu, 1, the and Mrs. Li Wai Lum, Mr. Au Young Kit, Mr.
On the roth instant, there was a National undersigned, Tuan-Fang, Governor-General of Jemier, Dr. J. W. Noble, Mr. C. E. Warren, the Provinces of Fukien and Chekiang. At Mr. B. L.A. Howard, Mr. Wm. Lysaugh, Mr. Disgrace Meeting, held-in the Shum Chun Naples boarded the steamer of the North Leung Shiu Kong, Mr. S'A. Ahmed, Mr. and village, in the Namħbi-district, and on the fol. German Lloyd Prins Regant Luitpold. Her Mrs. B. Layton, Mr. Tak Cheong, Capt towing day a simile meeting was held in the captain has been very couricous to me during W., Dooner, Commodore R. H. S. Stoker neighbouring village called Kuo Sbul., There the whole trip. Even the winds and the waves Dr. Ho Nal Hep, Mr. Kwan Kai, Dr. and Mrs, were large attendances at both meetings. It he guided so that I entirely forgot the fact that... Siedman, Office Staff Hongkong Milling is reported that the people of the Weichow I was on's voyage across the great sea; there Co., Mr. Harold Seth, Capt. and Mrs. Godfrey Prefecture have also held meetings there with to be greater impostors than himself. Keitle fore, the prize belongs to the Priss Regent Wall, Hongkong Milling Co. Jonk Bay the samo object, is not a strategis, and he wasies no time in 'Luispald, of the North, German Lloyd, above Saf, Mr. and Mrs. J.-C. Peter, From the manccurring; but as an example of frontal all other ocean steamers. All the vessels of attack the campaige entered upon by the pre- the North German Lloyd have also a world seat number of the spasmodic journal is a come wide reputation, as the lobabitants of all the pleto súccess, and, without being taken tog' five continents embark upon, "tham, '1 am seriously, may be appreciated, perhaps, not moved thus to record my thanks to the captain
of this steamer." -N, D. L. Buhelin least by his victims--N. C. D. News
AFTER an absence of many months Captain Kettle appeats in "The Godown clothed in his old armour af nonsense and armed with the sharp weapons of sarcasm that he always uses semorselessly to attack all whom he considers
THE CANTON VICEROYALTY.
Bavants who say, "He was always do kind," A Peking telegram states that a rúmour is Mr. and Mrs. G. C. C. Master, Dr. and Mrs. current in the Capital to the effect that H. E. Jordan, Messrs. Coraeli Bros Mr. H. R. Yang Sze Hsiang, presep Vicemy of the pto Chard, Mr. Lan Ping Woon, Mr. G. P. vince of Chill, will be probably appolated to Lammart, Tak Cheong, Mr. and Mrs. N. be Viceroy of the Liang Kwang provinces in
Siebs, Me. Lating Shiu-kong, Mr. Sam succession to H. H. Ching Jen Chun.
JAPANESE BANK NOTES. Our first repost last week that Japanese bank notes issued by a Northern agency would, not he handled by money changers in the Colony, has now to be amplified by the report, money changers not to 'encash the poles of
the part of Chinei Japanese Banks to matter what the place of origin may be.
of the determination
CHINA IN DIPLOMACY,
Says the Seattle Post Intelligencer: Chipa, not having exactly the point of vantage in the controversy with japan over the seizure of the Talsu at Macao, bs: bulwarked, in a measure, by certain principles of conceded merit and validity," has played the game of diplomacy with consummate skill, and if Japan's face is saved in this not wholly unfriendly sparring match, it will be by a narrow, margin.
Japan's reiterated demand was categorical, was for the immediate release of the Taim, damages, and an ap logy for hauling down the Japanese fig. Primarily, the demand rested
upon the risumption that the vessel was seited
by China in Portuguese waters If this ar sumption bad been correct, the issue would not have admitted, perhaps, of parleying, or reference to arbitration, or of any of the several " other modes of procedure proposed by Chină.
Bùs, China, it seems, was shrewd enough to take a nautical reckoning at the time of the seizure, and bence, in proposing peaceful adjustment; after apology for hauling down the Japanese Bag, which was an admit ed wrong due to the excitement and possible danger of
misunderstanding at the moment, the Peking governmout was on reasonably tile ground,
This fuller statement, officially vouched by Chica, ought to open the way lor s-fair and and friendly settlement of the issue. It would be a mistake for China and Japan to go to war at this times. Some inore opportune season should be selected for selling whatever differ encer may now exist between the two govern menis War might be extremely hurtful to both China and Japan in the present state of the world,..
MURDER
KOWLOON CITY.
BRAD
UNKNOWN CHINAMAN_FOUND` DE,
• ON THE ROADSIDE.
herly after noon- yesterday, an unkonwa Chinaman, about thirty years of age, having the appearance of a coolie, was found dead, with his head crushed in, on the road between The Bam-shui-po and Kowloon City. circumstances surrounding the finding, of the body suggested to the police that Ahold up had taken place on the road, and that the unfortunate man was a victim of a band of robbers: The body was found by the Kowloon City police and re moved to the marque. The police are investi gating the matter,
OPIUM ON 8, 5, "DEVAWONGSE"
CAPT, BRUHN's appeal ‹ållOWED.
ing London telegram dated 4th April
- The Singapore Free Press prints the follow
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has allowed the appeal of Capt Brähn of the steamer Devasiongse’against the judge mant of the Supreme Court of the Strait Settlements, delivered on the 19th of December, concerning the importation of opium,
[Messrs. Drew and Napier were able to communicate this satisfactory news to Meins Behn Meyer and Coron Friday..
Capt. Braha. was convicted in July last year of importing 325 tie's if chandu from Swatow and fined $1,000. De appealed on the ground that i did not appear who placed the chandusa, board, and it was unjust to fine the master of a ship.it chandu was carried without his know, ledge. The Court of Appeal upheld the con viction, and said that the m water was liable for ady opium or chaodu found on board his abip
We pointed out at the time the danger of this decision as placing a premium on "plant ing" opium on board a ship in China, wiring down the place of concealment, and getting a Copviction with a heavy fine half-of-which may go to the informer.""
AOMORI certainly seems to get more than lii full share of fies, flood, and famins. The heavy rain which fell on the sight of the 30th ultimo, combined with the mild temperature, cauțed' the snow to thaw on the hills in the prighbourhood of that city, and all the rivers - were speedily, awelled to an alarming extent, the Iwaki River rising 16 feet above the mommal, level In Aomori city about jeo boysDE WATE flooded, 150 being immersed above the floor"," The City Office had to reader relief, supplying food to is a lorers.
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