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ARMS SMUGGLING:
THE CHUEN-CHOW SEIZURE.
courtesy of the "Sheung Po,"]
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY AUGUST 21. 1908.
rebellion, which swept the county years ago
- kad - which was finally put down by Generale: Ward and flaugavios, two Amaricana,” and "Chinese! Gordon, who came later and got all the glory. Twenty millions perished and a bandred cities were laid waste during the rebellion yet in the path of that rebellion lead Ing from Capton to Nankin have sprung up other millions who are ready to rebel against, their foreign rulers” Hence' the desire to reach them from this convenient highway through Chuen Chow. Those who planned the landing of arms this weak know China, its topogr phy its history, its bighways, and the The Trotai and the Japanese. Con-spot where smoulder the fires of discontent. It
waynot an accidental selection. gul made a joint: examination of the arme seized at Chen-Chow:"",
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Amoy, 20th August.
The Japanese Consul contended that the arms were obsoleto rifles..
The Thotai, hesitating to assimo the responsibility of deciding the case, has forwarded the rifles to Foochow, that they may be dealt with by the Viceroy.
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VENEZUELA.
HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE,
Venezuelan politica Ta, a labyrinth, a night- mare, a tanglo, ■ subterfuge- nothing. Is cue the situation requires clearness the result would be as intelligible as the Calonnie JAD quiza is to a London jehu.
To get the truth and "nothing but the truth," about Venezuela, in Venezuela, and from Verzasclann is a fascinating and, strange to sy, bewildering enterprise. The truth is a strange affair, au caknown affitt, wa might say It is like a football, nothing in
it except wind, it is the country of spectators Operating with Chuen Chow as the base the country where the spectator hopes for Khang.hi, the great emperor, annexed Fukien, ❘ the untold gold of the Montezumas. Formosa,and other southern provinces to the The country loomas latge to-day in the public Manchu empire. This was in the latter balfeye by reason of the threatened blockade by
of the seventeenth century. From this old town the sdict went forth that compelled the Conese to wear queues and long-sleeved gowns. While it is a striking coincidence that
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Holland The United States consents to the block de without military occupation. A des gription of the republic, as written by a wall- forred Washington correspondeat will be
real with interest (—
that this recent blow at the empire is `aimed" at the same vital app, it only recognize the In 1499 Alonso de Ojeda was cruising along stra eical importance of the locality, the South American shore of the Caribbean might be of interest to mention another in Sea. Entering what is now the Gulf of Mára: cident bearing on this romantic bit of coast.caibo, he saw some, Indian "villager built on
The secure of two Japanese vessels loaded States considere! the advisability of secuting lion. For some reason this suggested Venice, Prior to the Spanish-Americas war the United stakes driven into the earth outside the water with munitions of war by the Chinese at Chuen coaling station off the coast, of China. A and he called the place Venezuela-Little Chow, promises to develop into a su inter pational incident, remarks the Manila Times, point just a little north of where the Japanese Yeoice. Later on the name was applied to the As the city is near moy a representative of ships were seized was selected and commandedarger egion. Tha conquest of the natives and The Time interviewed Mr. A. Burlingame Johnson, who was for ming years stationed at Amoy ar American consul, nad secured from bim masy interesting facts about the place. Mr. Johnson said:
"Yes, I know Chuen Chow very well. It is situated about 40 miles east of Amoy pear the mouth of the East river. Three hundred years ago it was the viceregal sést of government for all the South Central provinces and retaiped ite eminence until a hundred years later. At the time of the overthrow of the Tah Ming dynasty the viceroy living at Chuen Chow was the ruling character in the re-establishment of peace and submission to the Manchu con- querers. Even Canton and the two Kwang piavinces were under this mighty viceroy, and Khang-hi, the second and greatest ruler of the present dynisty, lavished imperial favours upon this beautiful southern citr.
to Washington. The war came and with it the occupation of the country proceeded some a coiling station in the Far East. Thero ex-what slowly, and the history of Venezuela ist so bisinical records of these preliminaries | presents no such experiènce as that. of Corten nor is there any reason to dilate upon them in Mexico.or of Pizza in Peru, The explorers now. My sympathy is with China'in her, un tailed to find the gold they sought and the equal struggle. No nation was aver so im-country came to be regarded as an agricultural Pod up or so unjustly dealt by as she has been and now is, yet continued to be a
"There seems to be no reason why Japa "vessels should not be in that locality on legi-
malo trade?" was asked..
It is not na opes port,"replid Mr. Johnson,
and there is op reason for a foreign vessel calling there racopt is stress of weather. The" trade of the country above the city has greatly declined and what is left isdivered to the open 'port of Amoy. Twenty-five years ago Chen Chow was a city of a million souls. To-day the population does not exceed fixo,ora. It is estimated that 120,000 have emigrated from; this one district to Singapore and the Malay Straits. The majority of the others came to the Philippines. Seventy-five per cent of all Chinese in the Philippines are from this dit trict, Stop any Chinaman on the street and
he will tell you that he comes from the old city
or its suburbs.
nition."
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An Impérial Deerco. has been issued appointing Wa Kwok-lim, a Straits Chinaman, superintendent for the exploration and development of the mineral resources of Kiungehow (Hainan).
district. It is estimated that the population of Venezuela at the beginning of the pintisepth century was about Boro. Of these not more than per cent, were rative Spaniards." About 15 per cent, wera creoles of European descent, and the remainder were Indians, negroes, half- breeds and mulattoes.
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Company's Steamship "HAITAN,"
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A reduction of 20% on First Class Facto Foochow will be made during the Months of August and September.
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THE GOLD OF VENEZUELA during the early days. It is trus that they. found and worked a few deposits, but they did not find enough to satisfy them that it was a gold country. Just how widely they érred ran malos to be seen. There certainly gold in The great hero of South American inde- the country, and there is much to confirm the peadence, Simon Bolivar, was born in Caracas, belief that stexists in notablequzotity particular the capital of Venezuela. He was not, as many lyinthe region south of the Orlando River. The suppe, him to have beop, the instigator of output of the Callao mines hom If 71 to 189ɔ was the independence movement, although he was valued at about $25,000,00) but the gold re- the most prominent and perhaps the most imgions are difficult and in most c cases impossible portant factor in its execution. A republican of commercial access under present conditions, conspiracy was revealed in Venezuela as early Madern machinery is necessary for develop #1795, when Bolivar was a boy of 13 resment, and this cannot be igifailed on a proper
Age in 186 a Vegrzuelan named Miranda, who had fought in the French army boder Washington, wiled from New York in.com- Napoleon and in the American army onder
mind of a bind of American filibusters. In a square to Puerio Cabello there is a
these gentlemen, who were captured and shot by the Spanish authorities. Except for the difference in the time which elapsed between his expedition and the establishment of inde pendence, Micauda appears to have played in Venezuela a part very similar to that played by Narciso Lopes in Cuba about 18jo,
PUI KING-FUK'S RELEASE. Osument which bears the names of tee of
OPPOSED BY CANTONESE OFFICIALS
[By courtesy of the “Sheng Po
of
Peking, 20th August. The natives of Kwangtung Pro-. vince holding offices in Peking are It would take more spice than you could greatly surprised at tlio release give in this interview to recount the many in Pui King-fuk, ex-Namhoi Magis- teresting events which crowd the bistory of this wonderful old city. Here it
was that trafo. Marco Polo began his wonderful joumey They propose to join in a memorial through the empire which led him to the old city of King-Tse-Chew, where during the Ning urging the Throne to rescind the dynasty those remarkable old blue and while, | order for Fui's liberation.
ox blood and polychrome vases were made- an art which has been los for over 200 years.
"Sixty miles above this old capital at Autow, lived the famous astronomer and mathematician Li, who wrote complete volumes covering plana and solid geometry ard trigonometry, and that, too, at about the same time these scicaces were developed in Europe, although wholly cut off from Western communication.. I was fortunato enough to secure one of these o'd copies con- sisting of several hundred pages (rapscribed by hand. It was given to me by one of the de-
scendants of the author, still fiving at Autow, And some day I intend to give it to the Con gressional Library at Washington,
"There are few more interesting cities in China thin this old walled capital. There are two braid avenues closing the city from soit to south and from east to west, with four gates
which we closed at sundown, every evening, There are few if any finer temples in the empire than those seen here. The many civil war and Invasion that have swept over China during the past 300 years have sach is their turn missed thin city. So there are few cities which can boast of as old buildings. The invaders cise-
where destroyed buildings as well as putting
to death millions ¿fisoffrasive people. As a
result there were is years ago more of its old porcelains and samples of now lost ceramic art, and bronzes older than "e Christian era, to be found in this city than anywhere else in China. I am afraid many of them have been bought up since and atwadd to the pub'cand private collections in Europe and Ameri
"There is a good habpur at the masth of the river below the city and near there are "several islands which for bundreds' of years' have been the resort of pirates. These lands were sill the hiding place of pirater when 1 first went to Chisa sedi remember well that
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STRAITENED FINANCES.
GRAND COUNCILLORS IN A
- QUANDARÝ.
By courtesy of the “Sheung-la
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Peking, 20th August. The Board of Revenue, in going into figures, finds that there will be deficit of Tls. 20,000,000 in the exchequer
The Grand Councillers are in
a
quandary as to the best expedient, to
laut victories drove out the 'Spanish forces
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APPLICATION. FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADE MARK. scale until there is an extension of transportsNONDER, RICHARD ROBY HASSAN,
TOTIDE is hereby given that ALEX tion facilities. The country is not likely to be there is an doubt that thers in gold in its bills, 1903, applied for the Registration in Hong pf. CONNELL BROTHERS COMPANY, Manager and her California or adober. Transvaal, but Hongkong, has, on the 24th day of June, There are also silver; copper and iron, besides kong, in the Register of Trade Marks, of the
considerable assortment of other mineral following Trade Markic substances of greater or less value. While
A Corona in the centre of which is Crown and passing through the Crown is a naphalt is perhaps not stricly a mining pro band or scroll with the word "Krone." duct, it belor gs more distinctly under that head. written.thereon; than under any other. The production of this in the name of Messrs CONNELL BRO. article has been so important indurry, but iTHERS COMPANY who claim to be the has caused #rhaps more trouble than it was sole proprietors thereof..
The Trade Mark is intended to be used by worth.
The principal articles of
EXPORT COMMERCE
are coffee, hides, a superior quality of Caca cabinet words and asphalt. Because of the almost persistent political disturbance of the should be the moral value of its foreign.com. country it is quite Impossible to say what
merce. It would be only less easy to guess what its commerce might be under a peaceful and stable government. In 1895 I e porte were valued at Sat,500/00 med its importat $13,250,000. Since that time there has pro- bably been a serious falling off in both items,
the applicants in respect of FLOUR in Class 43,
A Factimile of the Trade Mark can be seen
Hongkong. at the Office of the Colonial Secretary of
Dated the 21st day of August, 1908.
WILKINSON & GRIST, on behell of. CONNELL BROTHERS.COMPANY THE TRADE MARKS ORDINANCE, 1898.
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Boliv r returned in 1813 from bis successful work in Columbia (then New Granada) by an overland roule at the head of a band of Grans dans and Venezuelans, and by a series of bril War continued until the proclimation, in 1819, of the independence pfibs United States of Columbia, in which were included the present publics of Venezuela, Columbia, and Ecuador, This combination lasted until the secession of Venezuela, under Patz in 180. Bolivar died in December of that year, convinced that the institution which he had done so much to establish was a failure, and with almost piete and confusing that it is difficult to deterPANY, LIMITED, of 110, Goswell Road,
prediction ôl is coming years of anarchy and de polism. From that time until the present
Venezuela has travelled a hard road-
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Yet there ar: few lands in which nature has
been mois lavish of her stores, and few in'
which good government would yield larger
colurns to the citizens.
VENEZELA'S SPECial trouble les in the fact that so many of her Pro ents have adopted as their administrative policy the system employed by Spain in her deslings with her colonies. They have regarded those whom they governed as special creation for the benefit of the governors An official publication shows the reported gross revenues of the country from 1833 to 1933 $:03,269,115; How much more wiscollect.
bo resorted to to relieve the straitent by indirect methods and, not officially re- ed finances of the Government.
Instructions have been issued to all the Provinces to open up mines.
If it is found that the people can- not rise enough capital to develop the wines, they are to be worked by the officials.
Alisterful
The German Universities
LONDON, 19th August, Henceforward German women will be admitted to the German universities on the same footing as men
Turkey.
The Portela negociating a loan with the they raided and cap und large steamer be-Ouomin Bank on the Tobacco Regie.. tween Hongkong and Amoy la 1896. 17 bey ofter way! idamail onivecraft. The last time. The offer of the German Orient Bank to I was in Chuon Chow the officials were slowly accommodate the Government was declined torturing to death some pirates just cap'sřed. I
APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADE MARK.
OTICE is hereby given that TAN-
bat the statistics of the country are so income NOT QUERAY GORDON AND COM-
mine with soy accuracy the trade caditions of the present time Dartrade with Venezuela during the calendar year 1995 "was 1 Imports, $7,ore,157 exports, 5;-253,864-
The railway sytem consists of a number of short lines from coast points to the in terior. The length of the foes in opera tion is a little more than 500 miles. The Orinoco River, running almost due east from the Columbias boundary, is, or could be made, commercially navigable for some saco miles, while some of its tributaties might easily be made available as waterways. But the Or inoco basis is not precisely a health resor for white men. is present population" is about ons to every four square miles.
Caracas,
THE CAPITAL CITY,
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Loudon, England, Distillers, have, on the 17th day of September, 1907, applied for the Re gistration in Hongkong, in. the Register of Trade Marks, of the following label as a Trade.
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'Mark :-
The device or the combination of devices contained in an oblong label" within which label is the device of a poar's Load surmounted in a circle ar und which are three sprigs of sloe. Across the label cutting through the lower suction of the circle is a band;
in the name of TANQUERAY GORDON AND COMPANY, LIMITED, who claim to be the sole proprietors thereof.
The Trade Mark has been used by the applicants in respect of GIN is Class 42.
A Facsimile of the Trade Mark can be seen at the Office of the Colonial Secretary of Hongkong.
Dated the 21st day of August, '1908,
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FANY, LIMITED. 'à' THE TRADE MARKS ORDINANCE”-
ported is beyond even a guess." The reported has a popolation of about go,100. It lies, at expenditures during that time are £711,647,638. an elevation of some 3,000 feet, on plafo It would sem that somewhere there should be surrounded by the peaks of the Coast.Rouge. | 775) Ea bila ce on hand of about $15,000,000, to say its paved streets run at right angles to each nathing of cha portion of the 5308,000,cno used, other; many of ŝis avenues are broad and shad- appropriated or stolen for other than publiced with the trees of the tropics; ils parks and purposes. In addition to this thing dis crepancy between revenus and expenditure the country has a debt of abut $50,00,000,
THE ARKA OF VENEZUELA V
fast life less than 603, 05 square miles, or enough to make twelve States of the sise of the-St 1 of New York. It is traversed by three on urtain ranges whose summits vary in altitude from 7,000 to 6,000 feet. Its extensive table lands and vast plains are abundantly watered by the hundreds of rivers and at which flow from the billsides, while its differ ent elevations giva a climate ranging from the intense heat of the equatorial.Jowhids to the perennial springtime of the temperate zone in the uplande lo a table of the temperature of towns and cities of the thirteen States and the Federal Drict the maximum in given av 9.14 degrees and the minimum as 45 degrees. Those who have experienced the intensity of was there the second day.” It took three days la At Belgrade the Servian Skupsichina have the coldne of the tropics at 43 degrees will complete the artistic job but waco 'twas done finally passed the commercial treaty with be disposed to question the oficial read. 'twas well done.
"It is easy to underland why an enemy of Austria, and it is expected that the Customring of the thermometer, while those who have China would choose this old highway as a feud, which has lasted for three years, will travelled in the State of Bolivar or who hava even spent a few days in La Guayra or Puerto favourable routs to smuggle aims into the in- now end.
Cabello will be equally disposed to question terior." It is isolated and it in the beginning of
any maximum reading that is below $20 the old thoroughfare which, loading up the
degrees. Heat and cold are what they are fo viver for a hundred miles, strikes off through The American Consulate General
the bai
father than what they are The mountains to the plaips beyond which ties the following telegram from the Manila"
Vabitree The local, inhabitants would be "watory at:12.57 pm,
Forvla and Austria,
TYPHUON WARNING,
1.118 10 firouz such a project but father up. 19. Oyeloma ar17@noon Mast of Balintang
stry fins the path of the old stulplar FMNW.ON;
public stares are gardens, with trees and Rowers and statues, and its public buildings are imposing and attractive to perhaps no Diber coun's of Latin America is the traveller a profoundly impressed with the idea of wasted opportunities, and idle possibilties. with wealth at his door, there is no induce. meet for the prasant to pick it up. It may be taken from him. to-morrow by a ruler or des troyed the next day by a revolution. The Ventsels of to-day is the result of the political despotism and the unbridled official greed which have overshadowed the land for decades.
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OTICE is hereby given that TAN- NOTI QUERAY CORDON AND COM- PANY, LIMITED, of 126, Goswell Road, Loudon, England, Distillers, have, on the 17th day of September, 1997, applied ster of Trade Marks, of the following label as a Trade.. Registration, in Hongkong, in the Register Mark R S
The devices or combination of devices con Iained on an oblong label within which label is the device of a boar's head str- mounted in a circle in the centre of an the oblong panel and on either side of t pacci is a sprig of sios
in the name of TANQUERAY GORDON AND COMPANY, LIMITED, who
be the sole proprietors thereof Desktop, fa
The Trade Mark has been used by the applicants in respect of GIN is Class 43.4
A facsimile of the Trade Mark can be seen at the Office of the Colonial Secretary of Hongkong
Dated the zest day of August, 1908,
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