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Tientsin to Pukow is also under construc tion, and one from Shanghai to Hangchow. The difficulties of the Canton-Hankow Rail. way have been many. Under the contract with the American China Development Company it was found impossible to carry
cession grabted to that Company was redeemed by Chips, largely under the Icadorship of H.E. Chang Chili-tung, at that time Viceroy at Wuching. In order to redeem the line, a loan was effected from the llongkong. Government. The matter of raising capital from Chinese sources was entered into with great, spirit both by the people of Canton and Hunan Provinces. Nothing has been done in Hunan Province up to the present; and unfortunately in Can ton there has been so much discussion be- tween the Provincial authorities and the shareholders that little nas been accomplish- ¦ ed, although recently, under the leadership of Sir Cheutung Liang Cheng, better condi
LETTER BY NATIVE PRESS 800IETY.
THREATENED PROTEST AGAINST -
PORTUGUESE CONSULA
[From Our Oun Correspondent.]
Canton, 7th Januáry, This morning, the native paper Kwok Sie Po published a letter which was addressed to the Portuguese Consul at Canton by the Native Press Society, asking him to reply to it within tions as to his complaint against the native three days' time, giving satisfactory explana papers in their report regarding the Faishan
case.. It is stated in the letter that should the
Consul fail to give a reply within the limited time, the Press Society will take steps to protest against him,
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DROWNING OF A CAPTAIN,
JANUARY 8, 1909,
CANTON BAY BY DAY,
(CHINA) NAVY,
From Our Own Correspondent.)
Cauton, 7th January, Total Sbum. Yua lling, a member of the Board of War, who is now on a commission to inspect the Naval forcein the various provinces, arrived here on the 3rd instant on board the gunboat Po Pik. To start with his duty, here Tapfai Shumi will proceed to Whampoa to visit the Military establishments and test the mines there.
PROPOSED MART.
Certsia well-to-do people are of the opinion to select a suitable sits on the coast-in-the dia-" trict of Hecogahan and turn it into a following the example of the Kung Yick Mart in the Sunning district
mart
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Opium Suppression.
"A CLAP OF THUNDER AND A HIGH WIND."
POPPY CULTIVATION IN KANSU AND KIANGEL
The following is a translation of a memorial, „presented by Ta Pu, Tartar General of Ning. hsin, on the subject of the suppression of opium, The significant document appeared in the Official Gazette of December 17, 1903: 9
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CHINESE POSTAL RIGHTS.
PROPOSED RECOVERY.
[By courtesy of the " Sheung Po "|
Peking, 6ta January
The Ministry of Posts and Communica
YUAN SHIH-KAI.
REPORTED QUITE WELL.
[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."]-
Peking, 7th January..
"We have received repeated instructions that if we do not exert ourselves in the matter tions is determined to recover China's of the suppression of opium we cannot | Postal rights after China New Year. wash away the country's, shamt increase the nation's power, or guard against future calamity. The consequences involved are great and this cannot be carried on in the usual way of conducting official business, fe. !!.com. plying in the light and disobeying in the dark!” SUPPRESSION OF OPIUMISMOXING,
We formerly received the dispatch of the Com The Viceroy has appointed Toolai Hai Kok mission for the Suppression of Oplum, ordering to be Inspector of the Government Anti-Oplomas within two months to send a list of the Bureau and to set in co-operation with the officers and soldiers in the Tartar city of Ning Yesterday morning, 20th ult, itfwas learned" Taotsi of Constabulary in the suppression of hisia who were addicted to the use of opium. Now the opium smokers in the Tarlar garrison are very many more than fifty or sixty per cent,
list of those whis truly cannot break off the after making a strict investigation of the matter We ask for an extension of the time so that
opium habit may be sent io.
A TRAGEDY AT SEA,
of this line it has been almost certain that it
steamer Nicomedia, had been drowned shortly would be necessary to borrow foreign capital before the vessel entered the Straite of Shimo- in order to complete the work, for it proved noseki. Full details of the occurrence are not an impossibility for the gentry of the three yet to hand, but it appears that shortly before Provinces concerned to come to a common his disappearace the Captain was seen stand understanding. With the original loan boring by the side of the vessel below the bridge, rowed from British sources it has been only and as a high sex was running at the time,
tions bave prevailed. Since the redemption that Captain Wagetmann, of the P. & A. / opłyn-smoking in Canton,- ---
natural that the Government should turn to
the same sources for the additional funds necessary to complete the line. If the loan is finally completed, the following Chinese Railways will be in debt to British bond holders the Peking-Newchwang line; Shanghai-Nanking line; one-half of the Tientsin-Pukow line; Shanghai-Hangchow. Ningpo line; and Canton-Kowloon.line, The advantages of effecting foreign loans criticised for several years, but the present for the construction of railways was severely
policy of the Government seems to favour The policy of the former this course. Director-General of Railways, H.E. Slleng Kung Pao, was fiercely attacked both by high officials and the gentry, but time has brought about its own justification. When money can be borrowed from foreign sources at 44 or 5%, it does not seem a wise thing 10" or 12", away from such enterprises to less profitable ones. The only thing to have been feared in this connection from the cutset was political influence, and the plan followed at that time of dividing the loans between various nations was fully adequate to protect Chinese interests. Whether these interests are now being fully protected by All ormmunications intended for publication in giving such a large proportion of the new
LUMPS, MARSHMALLOW BALLS,
kc., Vkc.
it
is surmised that he fall overboard when the steamer gave a sudden roll. As soon as his
disappearance was discovered the vessel was turned round and a search made in the hope of fading him, bat without success. What renders the event alithe more sad is that Cap- tain Wagermann expected to have his wife out hare shortly, Jupin Chronicle.
JAPANESH SUGAR REFINING COMPANY.
RUMOURED ABSORPTION BY THE MITIU BISHI
MEDICAL COLLEGES FOR CANTON,
there will be two private medical colleges open In the first moon of the next Chinese year, ed in this city, one of which is to be organised under the medical praditioners. Students will be selected to enter this colleges to be trained. in medicine on Westes liocs.
TROUBLE. WITH FAWN-BROKERS. As the officials forced. the pawn-brokers in this city to use the pawn-ticket forms manu. faciured by the Government Paper Factory, the pawn-brokers are now determined to go a strike shortly, if their petition is not satisfactor
ily considered. --
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CANTON HANKOW RAILWAY.
H.E. Chang
a
We wish to act honestly without pretence, In this matter of prohibiting opium and getting rid of the oplum craving; if a suitable remedy, is not provided by which the disease may be cured, they will only regard the oider to break off opium as a clap of thunder and a high wind" and the opium smokers will merely band together to hoodwink their superiors. If this is simply to depend on the eyes and ears one or two men, there can be no proper in vestigation as to whether opium-taking has been suppressed or not.
of
"The gradual suppression of the growth of
by the official of every province will be a mat opium yearly for ten years; to be reported on
ter of official pretence.
"Yesterday we had the statistics of the Board of Revenue on the production and consumption
vince of Kausu in the 33rd year of Kuang Het of opium, for three years. In this report it is stated that the casumption of opium in the pro
A. S. WATSON & CO., to divert Chinese capital which can care says that since the latter part of last year, the However, H.E. Chang Chih Tung the other the amount during a period of ten years. But
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AN ALLEGED IMPOSTOR.
The monk who wasurested in Falsban some
time ago for creating disturbances, thereby destroying the Polica station, there, bias, been
(Mr. (juin) returned to Peking by train,
On the 5th inst., a certain foreign Minister
At the railway station he met Yuna Shih- kai and observed that His Excellency was
signs of a bad foot; going about as usual without exhibiting any
A DAMAGING MEMORIAL.
"HIGH OFFICIALS IMPEACHED.
[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po"]
Peking, 7th January.
In Kong Chua-lum's memorial denoun cing Yuan Shih-kal, he uplicated Prince Ching, Yeung Shi-chang, Hsu Shi-chang, two vice-presideau of Ministries, and a certain Governor,
YUAN SHIH-KAI
REFUSED TO RECEIVE VISITORS.
[By courtesy of the Sheung Po
Peking, 7th January." After his retirement Yuan Shih-kai refused"
MINISTRY OF POSTS. PRESIDENT CHAN DENOUNCED. [By courtesy of the “Sheang Fo,"}
Peking, 7th January.
the local officials are acting sincerely and that to receive any visitors except Prince Ching was only forty-five picula; then it is evident that
been diminishing during the three year, as both the smoking and cultivation of opium has and Prince Ching's son," nescribed in the rules for gradually reducing the officials sent by the Board of Revenue to investigate Kansu province arrived at Ninghsis in the middle of the 8th moon. At that time the oplam had been all gathered and there was no other source of information-but the statements of the local officials and the tax collectors' statistics, which are in so sense to be regarded as suficient proof. Only in the Tar ar city of Ninghsia supply of less than -206,200 oz. per year is insufficient to meet the
The¬¡ONOKONG-TELEGRAPH-hmm{d-be-loans-to-one-nation-may-be-open-to-doubt the vacancy-sa-caused by appointing Mer, tried several times at iko Nambor Magistracy demands of the smokers. Fony-five picals
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Tax French mail of the 8th December was delivered in London on the 7th-inst,'
MONSIEUR C. V. E. Bapst, Freach Minister in Peking, has been appointed to the Foreign Office in Paris,
IT is stated from Moukden that the Manchurian House Hotel, owned by Mr. H. Fuchs, bas
been completely destroyed by fre:
SILVER and copper coins bearing date of the first year of Hsuan Tung have been mialed, and these will be issued for currency, very shortly.
A RELIKE fund for the "sufferers by the Italian earthquake has been opened at the Italian Bank at Shanghai. The members of the Con sular Body have sent mesšagas of sympathy to the Italian Consul.
GO PAN and 50 Ho, two Chinese opium smokers at Masila, were on 4th lost. adjudged guilty of hitting the pipe and given six months' imprisonment each and ordered to pay a fine of Pzoo oach,
A certain censor has denounced H.E, Chan Pik, president of the Ministry of Posts and Communications, enga
WAIWUPU,
It was E. Chang Chih Tung's intention to personally proceed to the South about the trib moon to make an investigation into the pro- grass of the construction of the Canton-Hankow Railway and to seil; the differences between, the directors of the radway in Canton and the shareholders. His Excellency would not have the Dai Nippon Sugar Refining Company has death of the late Emperor Kuang He taken The Oraka Jiji temarks that the position of failed to carry out his proposal, had not the constantly elicited public comment and pro-place in the preceding moon. duced a feeling of insecurity among those con- Chih Tung is now busily engaged in State affairs cerned. This state of things is ascribed by and he will not be able to leave the Capital for the part of the directors. Dar contemporary soms shareholders to a want of proper care os some time to come to proceed to Canton to further matters in connection with the railway company has been receiving financial assist-day gave telegraphic'instructions to the Can- ance from the Misa Bishi Company, and 108 Viceroy requesting him to privately inquire the funds so advanced have now reached occasionally into matters concerning the about. Y1,600,000. The attention directed Canton-Haskow Railway on his behalf and to to the management of the company by report the results to him for his information. At the general meeting of the company held in the Mitsu Bishi has now become very marked. November, the Mitu Sishi transferred Mr. Tsunekawa, who represents its interests, from the post of auditor to that of a director, filling Sbioda, another of its representatives, as audi- tor. In this way the Mitsu Bishi bas been gradually extending its influence over the angar-refining company, and bas sow begun buying up shares. The move was begun by the purchase of 2,900 shares through Mr. Fukushima Mamiso, a broker, 709 shares being subsequently bought a the name of Mr. Kakumu, the chief accountant of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, 300 in the name of the son of Mr. Kondo, President of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, and 2,000 shares in the name of Mr. Salo, of the Mitsu Bibi Bank. When the shares purchased is the names of others are added, the total already will be not less than 10,000 It is generally believed, says the Jiji, that the Mitsa Bibi will bring the sugar refining company under its control as acon as The representative of the American Govern the question of the reimbursement of duty on crude sugar is settled. When control is obtional Opium Conference at Shanghai on the 1st
ment nominated” to be forthcoming Interza tained, sweeping reforms will be introduced, February arrived her last week and was invited Japan Chronicle.
by the committee of the Cantón Anti-Opium Association on the 6ik last, to deliver a lecture The remainder of the memorial describes a on the subject of the evil at the Associa- melhod of treatment devised by Chao-Kuo- lion's headquarters, when there was a large chin of Shantung, which the General proposes attendance. A warm reception was accorded to use in the compulsory treatment of the the American visitor by the members of the opium smokers of the Tartar-city-of-Ninghsia
He made a speech on the sub- and closes with the proposal that the cultiva of Tis. 8 per mensem, While H. E. Chang
A NAGASAKI dispatch announces the dismissal by the Nagasaki Appeal Court on the 28th instant of the protest lodged by the Russian Consul at Nagasaki, on behalf of the Russian Harbour Office at Vladivostok, agalast the sale
but at each of these trials he persisted in refus ing to give a reply to any questions put to him, and he even remainedobdurate when he receiv ed strokes with the bamboo. As there is for sufficient proof to justify punishment for the alleged offender, the Namboi Magistrate has decided to send him back to Hankow to be dealt with by the local officials there as he is,a member of the Kam lo monastery at Hankow,
WEST RIVER PATROL.
Messrs Bailey & Co. for the building of a Admiral Li Chun his placed an order with shallow draft motor-launch for a sum of $7,800; for the more effectual patrolling of the water
ways.
THE OPIUM CONFERENCE..
Association.
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would be 72,010 oz., which trifling amount would be insuficient for the one Tarar city. Who is cheated by saying that the whole prov vince consumes only this amount? If the. Board of Reverse only relics on this statement to say that the number of smokers bes de- creased, it appears evident that is a few years the deep-seated disease will be eradicated,
"But if the Court regards this talk, as tree indescribable.. at the end of the ten years the injury will be
THE PRESIDENTS APPOINTMENT,
By courtesy of the " cheung Po]
Peking, 7th January.
It was on the recommendation of Grand Councillors Chang Chih-tung and Na Tung that Liang Tun-yen, was promoted to the post of president of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
report says that the annual production is 660 ca. "Another castis Tehuahsien in Kinngti. The
Now the better class of land produces about
H. LIANG TUN-YEM. 210 ot. a mow. If the report; in correct, Bls Excellency Liing Tun-yen, who now suc, Tebuahsien has only three or four mow onder ceeds to the Important position of Acting-Pre- cultivation of opium. The merit casual trasident of the Wai Wu-pu, baa risan very rapidly and Kiangsi are treated thus, we may realize bind of Chinese students who spent several voller could not believe that, Since Kansu during the last five years. He is one of the the extent of the humbug in regard to the years in the United States under the supervla other provinces"
sion of Dr. Yung Wing. After his return to China Mr. Liang was given a subordinate poal- tion in an office where his knowledge of the English language was of service and be com menced his career in China after his sevaral Years' study abroad on the munificent, Paldry
Chib-tung was Viceroy of the Canton pro-
The Hongkong Telegraph 10 26,039.71 fons and the unles during the period he had a prior right on the steamert,
by public auction ofthe Russian steamer Amar Jact of opium which was listened to with con- tion of the poppy be absolutely prohibited | „Incés ha secured the services of Mr. Liang a | and Dnsiper, which were seired at Nagasaki | olderable interest by those present. The next year, sines the returns for the gradual is interpreter and trapalator, Mr. Liang xÖ« TAZ Chinese Engineering and Mining Com-for the settlement of a claim for coal supplied speaker was carness requested by the mem reduction of the cultivation are proved to be so mained in this service as long h pany's total output of the Company's three by the Kitagata Colliery and other Japanese:bers of the Association to appeal to his Home unreliable. mines for the week ended Dec. 9, amounted concerns, The Russian Consul claimed that Government to and doctors to China to assist the Empireia tha suppression of opium smoking, and he promised to do his best to comply with the request. On the ̈gih"instant" "ho gaya, a
Hospital. lecture on the same subject at the Americas ORDER FOR INTERIM INJUNCTION, GRANTED,
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1909.
The
_to_w3,0ft,zo'tans.
In the Police Court, this morning, Chan Shui an unemployed coolie, was charged with rob bing one Kwok Mi' Yung and Fan Chun of money, goods and chattels at No. 17, Bulkeley Street, Haaghom, yesterday. The case was remanded.
RAILWAYS IN OHINA, "
Attention is now being paid to the North to the progress of the railway enterprise, which is going to link up the provinces of THE Poak murder trial was concluded of the Chia and eventually may afford a direct Criminal Sessions late yesterday afternoon. route through Asia and Europe.
About five o'clock the jury retired to consider their verdict, reiuraing into Court fourteen Shanghai Times, dealing with this subject, minutes afterwards. They found the first pri- remarks that negotiations which are goingsoner not guilty, and the second and third on in Peking at present, concerning the loan guilty of manslaughter. for the construction of the Canton-Hankow Railway, call attention to the great import- ance which is now being attached by the Chinese Government to the connecting of the scattered parts of the Empire by means of Railways. Much has already been done on this line. A good trunk lige connects the two important commercial centres of Tionisio--and-Hankowy from thir-line-t branch goca put to Tal-yuen-fu, the capital of Bhanai. Province, and another to Kal- fongfu, the capital of Honan Province, If the present plans are carried into operation, this line will also have a
THE Mishima-mart, a new steamer built at the Kawasaki Dockyard to the order of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, made an official trial trip on the 26th altims between Aksahi,and Osaka The result was satisfactory, the vassel developing an average speed of 16.56 knots ar hour, against a contracted speed of das koots
THE 18 Afonso sailed from Daley on Decom her as with nestly 10,000 tons of Manchurian bener, Insurance on which is covered by the London underwritem." "At zburder of the
·JAPAN'S TRADE FOR 1908,
A HEAVY DECLINE, Į
AN ALLEGED LIBKE,
lency Chang Chih-tung was in Ca lowed him when he was trans Viceroy at Wachang. Here, -years and-böcams-wüliknown-
of the Consular •stals of varie well as to the foreign residen He continued his Chinese
Rav. E. W. Thing' lecture. Mr. Thwing is Chief Justice (Sir Francis Piggott) presiding, gently and becams proficis
[Our correspondent evidently refers to the In the Supreme Court, this morning, the incorrectly spoken of the "American repre- Sir Henry Berkeley, KC, instructed by Mr. HB. Chang Chibu sentative" to the Contracé.-Ed, H.K.T} - O. D. Thomsos, moved, on behalf of Chan and H. E. Tono Yang
Wachang Mr Liang Kung Yui and Chan Yu Shi for the granting of an interim injunction pending an action for 10 go to Paking for Impar alleged libel to restraiá Lam Kok Sang, his since that time his prome agents or servatis from printing, publishing or rapid. He filled the position selling a book call Chan Fong Po, a tal at Tientsin, was sent to Kang Yui was a married mas. The cause hater appointed Pro
Sir Henry Birkeloy, staled that Mr. Chaq after the Nanchang Missionary
for the motion to grant the order was and has been all certain publication in the Colony which pub the Board of fished the names, accomplishments, etc., of Vice-Pr book, Counsel stated, further remained por.sident of this impor Chinese womes of doubtful character. The of his former chi traits of the payons mentioned in the latter poslan he press. A portrait of the plaintiff's wife was to sidene be found among one of these. A more terri.. Grand ble or grosser libal, Sir Henry emphatically porta declared, it would be impossible to conceive fancy laan polling the woman in 182h 15
Gysin has been successful in arranging for a THE Japan Clironicle laaran that M, Adolphe fetther sum of Y1,900,000 to be advanced to the Kanegafuchi Cotton Spinning Co, from the same bank and on the same terms as the last loan, Moreover, a syndicate has been at the same time formed in Paris for dealing in, the' shares-of-tho-Kanegafuchi, and as soon as the documents of the new loam are signed the yadicate will begin by purchasing 3,000 of the POW shares. The fact that a new loan for a million you has been arranged so soon after the first is evidence of renewed confidence in the in a brief review of the foreign rade of the pasition of the company on the part of the Empire for the year just closed, the Osska French financiers concerned.
Mainichi says that owing to the financial depression prevailing throughout the world, Spada to atate stiat next week, the Catholic decrease more or less. The Gnancial crisis and We are requested by the Rev. Father G, M. the foreign trade of all countries bas shown a Bishops of South China-the Rt. Rev. F. Masot the Presidential election in the United States, of Foochow, J: Clements of Amoy, Lavest of the boycott of Japanin goods in South Chins, Kwangal, J. Maret of Canton and D. D, Pessoni and the death of the Emperor and Empress of Hongkong with theirrespective theologians, Dowager of China has seriously affected the will meet at the Mission House, Calse Road, to foreign trade of Japan The value the “hold”"synod to disentan entzBIE pertinent to trade for the fast ten days the administrations of their missions. Monsig" known, but assuming it nor Lavest, being indisposed, will be represente" the figures for the ed by his delegate the Very Rev. Father G. L. valed of exporte Havand. The formal opening of the ryund will Y§62,454,851 and rio, khowing, a solemo Pontifical Mass will be calibrated at pans over expe the Catholle Cathedit by one of the Bishop
wich function
leados from Sinrang to a branchAgents of Lloyds, Mesure, Holme, Ringer and take place on Sunday next ar 5 o'clock, white s
to the far weston Pro Co, Capt. Matsuo, of the Marine Baronu, made
the required inspection and signed the
vince of Szechuan, and another running Cat Chia of surrey, Mention may also ba ma From this place through the northern part of a próbábla further expert of bes
Bomuniburn now in the port.
Ashwel Provizos t
the exports showed a dic
fimporta of Yói)
an almanac of the, prostitutes of the Colo
Counsel was aware of the fact that the
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tted to thi