Telegrams..
"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH"
BELVIOF
THE CHIENTAO DISPUTE JAPAN WANTS A QUID PRO QUO
[By courtesy of the " Sheung. Po.").
Peking, 5th November.' HE. Tang Storyi has advised the Central Government by telegram that the Japanese Government has agreed to yield to China's contention as to China's sovereignty over Chion tao Taland.
Japan, however, desires a quid qub in this yielding to China's contention.
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If the Central Government agree to grant certain privileges to Japan in reciprocation the Chientao dispute may be considered as at an end.
US. PRESIDENCY. WU TING-FANG'S MESSAGE.
By courtesy of the "Sheung Po"]".
Peking, 5th November.
H. E. Wu Ting-fang. Chinese Minister to Washington, has tele- graphed to the Waiwupu that the American nation has elected Mr. William H. Taft as President of the Republic
- GERMANY IN SHANTUNG.
·COLLEGE FOR CHINESE ESTABLISHED.
[By courtesy of the “Sheung Po."]
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY NOVEMBER 6, 1908.
THE PHILIPPINE CARNIVAL.
CORDIAL INVITATION. TO`HÒNGKONG
An interesting proposition has been made to the athletes of the Colony by the Philippines Carnival Association of Manila in connection in Oriental Olympia which it is proposed be held in the Philippines capital on February 2 to organize in connection with the Carnival to to 9, 1909. Basing their calculations. on the tremendous success which attended their efforts last year, the managers of the big show want to secure albletic, rifle or polo teams from Hong kong to participate in an international athletic meeting that will have for the Orient the same significance attending the Olympian games in the Occident. There are some excellent athletes in Manila in the army and civil service and it is proposed to draw on the cities of the Orient for teams of skilled athletes to compete with thote men, Valuable prizes will be offered for the" various events that will be included is
the programme.
Mr. Albert, F. Ferguson, for the last few year the Masili correspondent of the Ast sociated Press and at present in charge of the publicity bureau of the Carnival for China and Japan, arrived in Hongkong this morning on the Taming and has charge of arranging the preliminary details for the visit of such longkong teams as may participate in
the games.
The Carnival Association is making great preparations for the entertainment of its visitors and proposes to pay the expenses of the athletic teame visiting the city during the time they are there. The Carnival in Manila this year pro, mises to be a big thing.
SAVED
HOW THE MOLADIATOR? WAS RESCUED STEN FROM THE SEA. GE
MINING IN CHINA.
engthy and ezhadaliya resume, Mineral Iduitry of China," the Mining Journal has the following (-):
The Gladiator is salvaged! A sust-covered soll, barnacle-clad, from which the seaweed doats listless in the slack waters of Portsmouth tended to confirm the impression that the de The events of the past year or two have Harbour, has been rescued from the shingle velopment of mining in the Chinese Empire is beached on 25 April after that disastrous colli European boom. Such information as we have tedge off the isle of Wight upon, which it was
no likely to be attended with any immediate ion with the St. Paul. It does not seem much galbeted testifies to the widespread character of to save & wreck. With forty feet of her starboard the desire to intain control over their own min- it in side torn away by the colliding vessel, exposingers), resources which has been so manifest
Chinese engines and boilers to the destructive wares the text of recent mining regulations: the Gladiator looked such a helpless, tope experience of European financiers has certain loss wrock that many a time must the fy not been altogether a bappy one, and with Admiral; and, in salvage officials bave the example of Japan before them, and the ex gazed at a lighter labelled Explosives," isting facilities for obtaining technical instruc- moored a few hundred yards away, and have tion offered in Europe and America, they, pare thought of it at the surgeon doss of his operal haps not unnaturally, prefer to restrict the. ing-kuile, in desperate cases. But the Gladia grant of mining concessions which caenos for was an interesting case. The semedies always be invoking the extra-territorial aut which bad beso luund effective in raising thenty of foreign diplomatic agents. Not only lisers and marchantmen had to be persevered are ab increasing number of Chinese being with in stronger doses to ascertain if they were trained as mining engineers abroad, but a col- of value for lifting ships so specially, con- lege was established at Tongshan in the structed as the modern was vessel. The pro- Tientsin district in March 1907 to sence of an armoured deck sucking the length provide a course in railway engineering and of the ship, and, so to speak, creating in the mining Accommodation is provided for 160 bull a vast tank undivided by compartments, students, and the competition for admission, bas loaded the wreck with a dead weight the for which knowledge of English is required,
resistance of which could only be discovered by actual tante
TILE SHADOW OF FAILURE:
When in July all the compartments on damaged by the collision had been made water. tight, and the water was pumped out of them by four toin, pumps fitted to guaboats, it was Found that the weight of water imprisoned in the hull by the armoured deck and the weight of water and machinery in the "wound," as the
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To-day's Advertisements.
HONGKONG ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY, ST. ANDREW'S BALL goth November, 1908,
PRACTICE DANCES, WEDNESDAY, th, 18th and 25th November,
from toy PM. COTSMEN (Naval, Military, or Members
of the Civil Community) desiring to Sub acribe to the above are requested, to forward their names to the undersigned.- Practices but as a Subscriber.
No Scotsman can attend the Dance and
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Hon. Secretary.. Hangkang, 6th November, 1908 --
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"ONSIGNEES of Cargoare hereby informed |
that all Goods are being, landed at their risk into the Godowas of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, at Kowloon, whence andfor from the wharves No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain- ing undelivered after the 13th instant will be subject to rent.
All Claims against the Steamer must be pre
is very keen. The course is a four years' one, and jocludes practical work na wali au lectures. The college is supponed mainly by the im perial railways of North Chins but the Chinese Bagineering and Mising Company ales beat a partion of the exponne. Mineral surveys are being undertaken in some provinces, and we gather from conversations with Chinese en- In discussing it this merging Mr. Ferguson, who is a guest at the King Edward hotel, said
gineers that they consider that there is a great opening for their countrymen with Western "Our first Carnival, presented in the latter part of February, 1908, was successful beyondRaping hole in the starboard side is called mining and metallurgical, training, owing to delivery may be obtained the expectations of our most enthusiastic was so great that scnicely any buoyancy the general recognition of its commercial valus. 'Carnivalissas.' The Carnival Association was imparted to the wreck, despite the advebti- The language must always prove a difficulty started practically without capital, precedent Liqua aid loot by a couple of lifting camels to Europeans, quite apart from the natural de-
Each capable of raising 100 fans. or experience. It closed, after putting bo
Busive of the Chinese people to employ their own under the strain_of_the_gin_hawsers, bauled countrymen, satisfied as they are of their ability....ested to the Undersigned on or before the show which cost something more than in by winches on the shore, the ship's to hold their own with men of European one hundred thousand dollars, with à cre dit balance of nearly ten thousand dollars load moved six inches, with a-complete line of carnival material on hand and with a degree of confidence in 150 possession of ability to present future Carnivals which is ordinarily possessed only by old
"timers."
"In speaking of last year's Carnival and the ong promised for pext year we do not use the word "Carnival in any restricted scose. We
Peking, 5th November.
mtau 'ciroival' with all that the term implies, The Germans have established a Certain features common to carnivale in other college at Tsingtau, Shantung Pro-parts of the world were not employed by us, vince.
China contributes a sum of $40,000 annually as a grant-in-nid].
LEGATION GUARDS. PROPOSED PARTIAL.
WIFUDRAWAL.
[By courtesy of the "Sheung-Fo."]
Peking, 5th November.
It seemed such
a small result far so great an effort that the word "failure" was written across the attempt. But Capt. Fred. Young, the able officer of the Liverpool Salvage Company, who has conducted the operations so successfully terminated on Saturday, was not discouraged. His divers reported that the lifting "camela" were slipping on the bawsers, which, encircled lie ship like bande, and has not been full value for the compressed air pumped into their mon- ster cylinders. The lessons learned that day when I was on board be wreck watching the infinitesimal movements of the plummet sed the spirit-level, which showed, that the six or seven thousand ton's dead weight bad actualy shifted, were what Capt. Young had to work up for his next great attempt. He told me then, "If I get her upright nothing but he break-up in a storm will prevent me from get. ting her into Portsmouth."
“A GRIM STORY.
The Gladiator, like all wrecks, had grounded"
principally becaus» of the more valuable features available. All of the standard features were however; well represented; the Land parade, for instance, contained thirty-five floats repre senting the actual cost of as many thousand dollars and of such dimensions and beauty as to Cau'e formet residents-of--New Orleans, the home of American carnivals, to state that no more magnificent parade was even seen on the streets of, that city during their famous Mardi Gas. The water, parade was not less striking. The hippodrome, within the very worst position for salvage. The a third of a mile of performing track, with an
tides raced past her. So strong were there elevated stage 30 feet long and 100 feet wide curreals that divers could only work beneath and capable of seating 25,000 persons "comfor the sea for very short periods at slack water. The Japanese Government has ably, was one of the most magnificent affairs (f When I was on board there were corpses jam effected a partial reduction of the its kind ever attempted. Manila is particularly med in the wreckage, which the divers could fortunata for hippodrome purposes in the fact see-but not release-every time they weat Legation Guard in Peking,
that the Military Division Athletic Mest takes down. And I was told the grim story of how, Mr. Rockhill, the American Min-place a short time before the Carnival and the the bodies which were recovered in the early days after the wreck were carried by the rides. athletes and stock competing in such Meet áre ister, has decided also to withdraw a available for carnival purposes. Other carnival tight to their old ship, and, floating face down
wards, with arma extended, looked for all the portion of the American garrison.
The United States representative notifies that by whatever proportion the Japanese troops are withdrawn, the retirement of American soldiers will be made on a more liberal scale,
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THE AMERICAN FLEET. ADMIRAL EMERY'S INVITATION. [By courtesy of tie Sheung Po")
Amoy, 5th November.
-plan-Kings, Q-ssips, Coats, Carnival Balls,
civilisation.
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COMMERCIAL,
WEEKLY SHARE-REPORT.
Reviewing the share business for the week, Messrs. E. S. Kadoarie & Co. write on 6th feat
The dulness mentioned in our last report still continues, and the week passed without. any special feature to record.
Banks, Hongkong and Shanghai Bankı have improved to $505, at which rate sales have
£80-10}·· been effected, The London quotation is
Matins Insurances.-There are buyers of Cantor at $175, and North Chiuse at the im proved rate of Tls. 85. Unions are Steady at 5785.
Fire Insurances-Chins Fires can be sold at 58, while Hongkong Fires are on offer at $355 without business.
Shipping. Hongkong, Canton 'and. Macao Steamboats have risen to $18 at which rate they can be sold. Douglases and China and Manilas are unchanged and without business te report. Star Ferries, old, are easier at $25, while the new shares have buyers at $15.
Six weeks of further preparation, and. theRaubs are obtainable' at 57,4 water-tight compartments had been more cára.
Docks, Wharves and Godowa Kowloon fully patched, additional lifting" camals" bad: Wharfs have declined to 548, closing with
sth December, or they will not be recognized,
All broker, chaled, and damaged Goods are
to be left in the Godowas, where they will be examined on the 13th instant, at 3 PM, No-Fire-Insurance-bas-been affected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
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Maskers, Crowds and Musical Organizations, more than thirty participating including the famous Constabulary Hand, all conspired to establish the fact that Manila is a real Carnival Tows and its people know the business."
The plans for the coming Carnival include / side, the bilge real had been weighted withollers. Whampoa Docks are slightly easier at left hand door, and faced northeast, standing
been sunk her eath the submerged starboard
NEW VIEW OF THE KAISER" Refineries. There are sallers of China,
HOW HE IMPRESSED A CHINAMAN, „Sugars at $115, and Luzon's at S12. ↑ Perak
A Chinaman's impressions of the Kaiser are Sugars are cff-ring in the Nonb at Tis, go.
Micing.-Chinese, Engineerings have chang-published in the latest Pakin Gastle and have features wore carried out on the same immeas world as though they were swimming back toed bands in the Nonb at Tls. 15.35 ex tha di. been translated by an English professor of the wreck th t had once been their home vidend of 1/-6 per share paid on the 2nd inst. Chinese Ya Shih-mei, the Chipere statesman. sent to Europe on a special mission to report upon the different forms of Constitutional gov crament, was received by the Kaiser in Berlin. "The German Emperor entered by the upper $93: Ehanghai Docks have food buyers, in the North at Tls. 83, and Hongkew. What's south-east, standing in row according to rank sideways," says Yu Shih-mai. "We all faced
Tla. 154.
and saluting in accordance with precedent. Lands, Hotels and Buildings-Central.stores the German Emperor, who wore military dress ave further buyers at Sist and Hongkong and his sword, took off his hat and bowed low. "reverently handed in my credentials Hotels at $77. Humphreys Estates are firmer with buyeri at, 571, Shingbal' Lands have which the German Emperor, raising his band, took over in person, respectfully inquiring Catton Mills Ewos hive been sold at Tia. after the health of the Empress Dowager and 68 Hongkong Cottons are obtainable at Sol the Emperor i deferentially reassured biot hawn-sellers at Tia, 50 and Tie 75 respectively. practice preceeded to read my formal address, Miscellaneous-There are bayers of China which the interpreters at once zendered into Providents at 59.30 and China Borucos at $10, German, Sales of Hongkong Electrics have been effected'
four hundred rous of lead, and what locked like a steel mast had been erected on the expored port side, on which tugs were to haul to pall the great ship upright. About the middle of, September Capt. Young and his assistants had the satisfaction of seeing the Gladiator, y dint of hitting on the starboard side and tug..
what was best in last year's show and new features which experience would naturally.sog. geal. For illustration, the slight industrial effort made daring fast year's Carnival pro duced such splendid results that it has been decided to present in the coming Carnival features of this class from all parts of the tlands. The same is true of the wild tribesging on the other roll on to an almost even keel:been deall in at the increased rate of Tis, 116. "exbiblis, also-of-the-scientific exhibit-made with beṛ_masts,_in_fact,__only_about_ibreo degrees out of the perpendicular. Is the
On the 4th inst., Admiral Emery; | by the bureaus of science, mines, fisherial course of the operatios the bow of the wreck in the North, loternationals and Soy Chees as to their welfare, and then in accordance with
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Australia, China, Japın," Jadis, Federated
had been swung repad slightly shorewards, but not sufficiently to find the slack water in side the tidenay—————
All idea of temporarily repairing the half
"The German Emperor, in his reply, said-
of the battleship Louisians, invited for stry, agriculture, etc.
"It is hoped that—in addition to the local H.E. Yuk Loog and Leung Tung-in, attractions-it may be possible in the coming special Chinese Commissioners, and Carnival to present others from the outside; the Viceroy of Fukien and the Pro-Malay States ard the Dutch Settlements. We where it lay was abandoned. It was calculat at the improved rate of $181. Hongkong Ices (in general terms) that he would be very pleas vincial Treasurer, to visit the vessels realize that it is not easy to impress the od that with the support of the lifting "camels are offering at $235. Steam Laundries havead to aid where he could in the object of my in peple of these countries with the fact of the safe tow to Portsmouth might be made if the been sold at $5: There are Sellers of Langkate quiries, but that constitutional questions were of the American Fleet.
desirability of making a special effort to parti. ship's computments could be kept pumped at Tis, 69; while Sumairas can be placed at always of a very complex nature, ak On the occasion of the reception cipate in an affair of this kind outside out. It was out of the question to bave the Tia. 118.
of their own countries. We feel, however, as ftatills of gunboats steaming by her siða und · Exchange The Banks selling rate on Log- Admiral Emery expressed the hopes organization primarily interested in the pumping all the way across Solent. So the don is 16 13/16 on demand: The T/T rate on
At China might be equipped with development of industrial and commercial con. pumps were, removed from the, gunbonis and" "Shanghai is 754.
ditions in this part of the world, that we may re-erected on the deck of the wreck, around a Navy of her own in the near occasionally very properly endeavour to bring which was built a cofferdam, or, in other words,
future.
Later.
DEPARIURE OF THE FLEET, :
the peoples of these countries together upon came common basis with the hope that they may become better acquainted undedevelop these *this ga which are of mutual-benzfi: and interest, And we feel that's Carnival like ours is ideally
The American Fleet left Ampy on calculated to perform such service." the morning of the 5th inst.
The Admiral's flagship is bound for Hongkong.
Later.
RICE MILD FOR SIAM,
a sort of false bulwark, to prevent the water that was pumped out sweeping back on to the deck and into the compartments afreab.
A LESION IN SALVAGE,
·TO-DAY'S EXCHAMOR:
Salling.
London-Bank T.T. .........
Dio, demand.........gramoje araua De 4 months' sight france-Bark T.T..
· Fenerica—Bapk T.T.'...................soun
11/16
-3 18 com 414.
"The Emperor is some fifty years of age and of middle height.. He has a yellowish-red tinge, and the ends of bis moustache tuto up wards, The expression of his face is remarkbly ́alert, and bis gait is viry active. Be can undergo a great deal of hard work, and; he spends the whole year in villegiatura, bot returns to his capital for any ceremony that may call for his presence; -
The whole dominion of Garmény is about the size of ons large Chinese province-say, two small ones somewhere about the extent of one of our Viceroy's Jurisdiction ; yet it stands forth prominently as one of the great Fowers of the -130 | Five: Continents, while the German Emperor 150) | himself is especially noted in Western Europe ~75). |·for-his masculino abilities and great political
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many-Bank T.T.,76 fodia T.T.
*Do, demand...........................ORUNUNES: Shanghai Bank T.T. ojos monia Singapore-Bank T.T. per H.E, $100 Japan-Bank T.T................ Jara-Bank T.T. ............
months sight L/0.
Ar is 'described elsewhere, with pumps at work the rescued wreck was towed into Ports- mouth barbour on Si'urday evening. ↑ It may be that her anly use now will be that of a target. But the Gladiator has provided a les- son in ship salvaging which will provo very A contract big been signed for the erection valuable should a Dreadnought' or an Indomišl» of an up-to-date rice mill at Ayuthin, Siam, abis come to grief, and I know that the opera favourable sile having been acquired on land tions of Yarmouth have been carefully watched Their Excellencies Yuk Long, conveniently near the tiver and railway station. by Japanese officials, who had in mind the fact Leung Tung-in and the Viceroy of The mill is being erected by Messrs. J. D that Togo's flagship is lying beneath the waves Fukien, upon the departure of the Macanbur and Company, id, and the bulld-in Eastern seas awaiting the last word in American Fleet, left Amoy on the blended if necessary in the future, marias salvage
The "machinery which will have an output Capt. Young, who never lost faith in his ability, 30 days sight San Franclico & New York of ago picals a day, is being supplied by Mesh save the wreck, directed the operations from's months' night o 1ers Douglass and Grant, of Kirkcaldy, and all the Liverpool Salvage Company's steamer to days sight Sydney & Me! the latest improvements in milling machinayang, but the company had such a large | 1 months' right Francs me being introduced. The mill, which will be salvage staff on the spot that the agroleld war 6 months' sight
gput up to the order ship Hetelbution has been the fasting home 14 months sight Gar lit by electric light, is being
for the Bar Bilv of persons already largely loterented in a nap of Yarmouth of quite a hundred wor
same day to return to their respective posts
During the display of fireworks the reception building of the Y.M.C.A. and the Post Office, shod got ignited and wore burnt down;
cial way in Ayothis, and the result of the vens past five months Ernest W. Smith in', Barn will be watched with oswaldambid interest. | Laude
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In his capacity for undergoing toit he is like 103) | a soldier, while in his demeanour to visitors haả may be compared to an ordinary gentleman; 1/9 | he hardly put on as much pomp and ceremony as does one of our Viceroys..when moving about within his own jurisdiction; but, on the 431 other handj it is impossible quite to force com L97 parisons in the case of customs so different Lath || those of China and Enappe.
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