Canton River Holocaust.
BURNING OF THE FLOWER-BOATS.
HUNDREDS BURNT AND DROWNED.
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Canton, Ist February. Shortly after to o'clock on the evening of the 30th ultimo great excitement prevailed among the boat population, in Canton harbour at Tai- sha-tau, a pleasure resort, sear the Tunk Kwan theatre, on the opposite side of the Canton Government Gament Works, over an outhrank of fire in a flower bost named "Tavi Kee" through the caroless use of kerosine oil...
This being the time immediately after the Chinese New Year, there were large numbers of people visiting this quarter to spend their
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HE TWELFTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS ID the Company will be held at the OFFICES of the Company, St. George's Building, No.6,Qon- naught Road, on SATURDAY, 6th February, 1909, at 11.30 AM, for the purpose of receiving. a Statement of Accounts and this Report of the General Manager for the year ending 31st December, 1903, declaring a Dividend and electing a Consulting Committee and Auditora,
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those possibilities now will result in curtailing | excursions into bigh Chinese politics, Al them hereafter. If the railway is ever to be this distance from the capital we labour operated as part of a great trunk lion and a under great disadvantages in making them. large local traffic is to run simultaneously, a Even in Peking there is appamutly some double track in the immediate vicinity of difficulty in obtaining safe news. And there is "Canton will become a necessity, and thers manifestly far greater difficulty in forming The annual general meeting of the Hoogwill be presstag seed for more room at views which are not liable to be upset. Again kong Branch of the China Association was held the terminus. It will be well for the future occurs the commonplace doubt, prevalent in the Cay Hall, the femora. Mr. Murray of the enterprise it thare things are realis alter the Boxer rising, as to whether any Stewart, chairman of the committee, presided, ed and acted upon promptly. The price of foreigner has ever yet succeeded in under- and there were also present:-Mr. H.. E. both land and labour will rise as the ipanding the workings of the Chinese mind. Tomkins, Mr. G. H. Ross, Mr. J. W. C. fluence of increased facilities of communicaTo this doubt is mainly due the circumstance Bonnar, Mr. W. G. Humphreys, "Mr. E. G. tlon makes itself felt. The directors should that the events which three months ago sikatled Bartolt, Mr. H. RB. Hancock, (Committee), look ahead. They have the history of the the world led to no pronouncements from here.
HOTEL MANAGER. Mr. A. $ D. Cousland (hon, secretary), Hon. shortsightedness of any number of other The death of the late Emperor and of the Em- M. W. J. Gresson, Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock plonour directors, similarly situated in other press Dowager-the peaceful transference of BRITISHER married, with Ensters and Colonial Experience, seeks position as K.C., Messrs E. Shellim, J. R. M, Smith, J. C. countries, to guide them. The criticism thus the reins of power the subsequent fall of MANAGER. Highest Referencet. At liary, 1909, both days inclusive. Pater, C. S. Gubbay, Į, Armstiong, W. S
•laborated is made in no carping spirit. It in Yuan and his exit from the Peking stage-of ||berty in May, ... Bailey, . K. Moss, D. Macdonald, G. Morion made in a friendly spirit. It is not made be all these dramatic incidents no word was said. Smith, I. D. Auld, E. F. Mackay, A, Forbes, cause this Association has in" former years If anything required to be said it was clearly J. Cochrane, and E. A. G. May.
committed itself to the opinion that the Chi- the more difficult business of our colleagues in pese would be wise to entrust the building of the North to say it. We have kept stridly to our own business down South. Our task bas the whole fine from Hankow to Canton to A foreign contractor. We may hold to that been light because with very few exceptions opinion and yet, realistng the uselessness of such incidents as have arisen to threaten THE Undersigned have received instructions
to sell by putting it forward at the present time, accept the good relations with the Canton authorities,
PUBLIC AUCTION, position that the people of Kwangtung prefer to have been successfully dealt with through build their own railways and wish them suc the ordinary official channels, and comment 'cess. But our interest in the progress of the from us was thus rendered needless. How line justifies criticism of the methods employ-light our task has been is made manifest bý ed in its construction. When the Hongkong the modest proportions of the report, the Government lent the money for its redemption adoption of which, together with the accounts," the understanding was that the life was to bo how formally more. (Loud applause), built; the project was bot to be hung up or merely played with. For some time it looked as if the Chinese were merely playing with it That was the impression which I received some two years ago when I paid a visit to railhead. year's annual meeting, after a year's absence I was still under that impression when at last in England and speaking with the greater free dom of an ordinary member, I made a remark which was held unduly to disparage the pro- gress made,
At the outbreak of the fire there was a stiff north wind blowing. In a short space of time, the boat on which he fire originated was com- pletely burnt to the water's edge, and in a few The Chairman said-Tha notice calling minutes the-flames spread over to other boats this meeting and the annual report hay, in the vicinity, permitting of ne time to neighing been together in your hands,, for bouring crafts to make good their escape, be some days presume that the formality of cavao of the difficulty of moving these cum-
reading them may be dispensed with, and bitious vessels and, moraver, they were lying accordingly I propose to proceed at once with along an unbroken line made fast by iron our first businese,the consideration of the chains."
report, In moving its adoption, I should per hapa explain its form. Its form differs from that of most of those which have preceded it. Mot of these have contained an appendix in which has appeared much of the year's corres The dower bonis, moored in the way describ-pondence. This time no letters have been ed, lent themselves to an extensive conflagra printed in full. The reason for that is twofold. tion if any one of them caught fire. So that. For one thing the proportion of correspondence when the Tool Kee took fire all the others requiring to be treated as confidential was last were duomed to the same late. As the boat in
year larger than usual. This is not in any which the fire originated was lying close to degree due to a desire on the part of your the bund, the prople, in the other buais beyond committee to shroud their doings in mystery. her, out in the harbour, had no means of Confidential treatment of correspondence has reaching the shore. Seeing their imminent in all cases been imposed upon us, we merely peuil and rather thin risking being burnt alive keep faith in thus dealing with it. I mention they preferred to take to the water with the this because I have seen it suggested that your hope of being rescued or flat to where they Committer is absurdly enamoured of secre tive methods, "The notion is a mistaken
leisure hours.
might reach a place of safety.
"
one.
I'desire now in miake what amends I can by
giving equal publicity to an opinion récently expressed by an expert witness, a highly quali: Our corespondence is, at alt time fied railway engineer, thin, jugged on the lines open to the inspection of members, but which have been adopted by the management, all of it is not necessarily therefore progress may be regarded as not unsatisfactory. Suitable for publication. As regards corres: (Applause). This does not disprove the con- posdence not requiring to be treated contention that the Chinese, by themselves, can dentially, the reason why it does not appear is simply that it seemed on re-perusal to be enterprise, because of course they are employ
no: yet successfully undertake serious railway insufficiently interesting for reproduction ining foreign engineers of varions nationalities detail. Asam mainly responsible for The tunneling difficulties which lie in wait, this I feel free to state the fact. By way, somewhere about the soventieth mile, and the through these two formidable bundles of the North River, will test the efficiency of their of doing pensoce I volunteered to wide heavy bridge work entailed by the crossing of stale stuff which you see on the table, pick staff methods in due time, but in the meantime ing out the least uninteresting passages, and the point I want to mate is that, in expert stringing them together in a brief relation of opinion, the work done, as far as it goes--for the year's work, thus enabling you rapidly to scan it, nod to see at a glance what we have been doing. My object was--10-save-your patience. Some of the patience thus saved
ballasted; some not-some bridges permanent, the 45 miles of track at presset laid-some olliers temporary-and for 35 miles of embank meat reported as being nearly complete beyond
Hon. Mr. Pollock addressed a few remarks pertinent to the chirms's address and con- cluded by seconding the mution which was unanimously carried.
.
On the motion of Mr. Forbes seconded by
pointed the Committee for the current year. Mr. Bhellim a number of gentlemen were ap-
A TRAMCAR INCIDENT.
COMMANDER HASIL TAYLOR-FINED SL.
An interesting case was heard before Mr. J. H. Kemp at the Police Court, this morning, when the Hon. Commander Basil Taylor, R., Harbour Master, proceeded against Ho Kwong, a motorman is the employ of the Tramway Company, for alleged assault. mons was brought by the latter for obstruction, A cross-rum.
It appears that on the afternoon of the 25th
car (No. 18) and handed a dollar bill to the inst.. Commander Taylor stepped into a tram-
conductor for his face. He got back eighty cents in Chinese money and A Hong kong tea-cent piece as change. This was either to be given Hongkong currency or the reused by the complainant, who asked rature of the dollar. On arrival at bin des- tination, the Harbour Master got out of the car and, according to the evidence, stood
On the alarm being given some crafts in the vicinity,, managed to raise their anchors, but, unfortunately, when the crew Exerted their utmost to row away as quickly as they could, they found, the tide unfavou able and too strong to contend against, and so were unable to move. They were accordingly carried back among the burning crafts and nitimately were themselves burnt. The heat of the flames was so intense that it was impossible for any rescuing vessels or launches to get, near to render assistance to helpless victims whose lives were being sacrificed to the merciless devouring dames. As soon as the boats were ablaze the people On board hurjedly Jumped into the water in lige numbers, Roughly it is estimated that over a thousand betook themselves to the river, and only about Shree or four hundred of them were picked up by launches or sampana. Of the total number will I hope be available for supplementary-the work done dues receive guarded com-defendant sixfted the car, the complainant still of casualities, about ninely per cent were reference to the topics touched upon. drowced, and only those who could ont leave
mendation. But that is no reason why we should The first is for the moment thread bate. We efrain from criticising, on general lives, the where they were, an account of the smoke, besymunthise with-the-desire of the iconalice Twa pontider is encre of Admiral Li Chun happened to be in the cityulty of Testsin to maintain a British Fost improvement. Hence the comment to the re
Office. We.cest in hope. There is nothing port, on that evening. On learning of the acciden, eise to be done in the meantime. The same H.E.hastened to the scene, and directed his men
remark applies to the lottery ticket question, in rendering assistance on board the gunboat while the adage "least said soonest mended" Jung Seung Admiral Lisucceeded in rescuing precisely meets the present case of the boycott. over a hundred persons. Members of the differ Concerning the problem of the protection of ent charitable institutions and the Red Cross Trade Marks its vital importance to the pros Society and others also lost no time in proceed pects of British commerce to the Far Enst need ing to be trene to render assistance.
use enlarged upon. Diplomatic conventions can do something towards solving it; but its complete solution "depends more upon the advent of a worldwide spirit of fair play. For that we have still to pray.
came victims of the holocaust.
It is learnt that, some twenty flower-boats, five or six. Ratingestaurants, few.cargo boat and sampans to the number of some forty to all were completely burnt.
Early yesterday morning, launches and native dredging boats and sampacs were 'engaged in scavenging "duties-and-rewards. of S1 each were #ffered by the officials and the institutions for the recovery of dead bodies. Up to 4 pin.. yesterday afternnon searly four bundred corpses were picked up and photographed. It is believed thai ‘a few bundred more remain to be recovered.
Concerning the remaining subjects with which it deals I have little to add ; not because, there is little to say, but because there is so much.
of it. Ila was repeatedly asked 10 sign, bir The defendant then sounded his goog, but arme, which the complainant refused to do.
this even did not have any effect. After this,
holding on to the cor.
thought i
The charge was dismissed, as-His-Worship benght the complainant had, no sight to stop otherwise have been an assault, was_in_thik. case no assault'at ́úil
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The second charge (that of obstruction by the Harbour Master) was then heard. Mr..J.
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Gray Scolt, maoager of the Tramway Com· [THE poly Edition of the RACE BOOK The subsidiary coin problem we have always pay, gave evidence, and after lengthy explan. Tad PROGRAMMES authorized by the with us and shall have as long as the solutionations were listened to, a fine of St was im. Stewards of the Jockey Club are those printed indicated in the report is delayed. That sala posed. tion involves the greater problem presented by
I do not propose to launch out on the subject of opium. To, daal adequately with that would perhaps require a his. torical survey. reaching back through misty
THE OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA,'
MR. NAKABASHI ON SHIPPING DEPRESSION,
The half-yearly general meeting of the Osaka 3hosen Kaisha held on Saturday approved the
report and accoubis recommending a dividend
the state of Chiba's currency. If things, at their worst, are bound to mend, the state of Chisa's currency may be optimistically regarded. It is in A state of indescribable chaos. With the increas Railway matters call for more detailed ing popularity of the idea of issuing unsecured Comment. The day when it will be pas-nates in unlimited quantities all the forces of
al the rate of 5 per cent, per annum, reports sie intake, a ticket from Kowloon in confusion seem now to be at work. Scores of dif- Calais seems stilt provokingly remote. Offerent sorts of thels, dozens of doubtful kinds of the Japan Chronicle-of-16th-uli—¡t-would- giant slides towards the realisation of this dailus, an infinite variety of subsidiary coins, seem that the result of the company's work- dream I wish, we could hear more: As a be- brass cash, copper cash, cash on strings or by ng for the period under review was not very ginning I wish we could even see good reason the cartload; dellar notes, notes representing intisfactory, due in large part to the ges to believe that it will soon be possible to take sub coin, myriads of notes representing cash psal depression of trade and the Chinese a ticket from Kowines to Canton, I wish pieces, antives' orders, chops, and heaven knows boycott of Japanese goods, which serious The corpses that were recovered, were all
there were good grounds for hoping that the
what else all mixed up with the exchange pro-ly affected trade with China. The Vladi placed in the vicinity of tite water police stailon Chinese section of the line thither, will be
blems that arise between every town and village vostok and Korean lines also suffered Dear the harbour limit, at the eastern section, completed as soon as the British section. throughout the Empire, combine, to create a
from the trade depression. The number for identification. The collection presented a
I wish we could ascertals that the acquisition gigantic conundrum, Native press telegrams of vessels employed by the company during gruesome sight. The few hundred corpses lay of the requisite land was being pushed forward state that the new Tael coin which was to have the period was 114, with an aggregate losnaga exposed awelting to be claimed by their icin vigorously. Unfortunately we know that it is made all these crookednesses straight has 0.118,4. They carried 935,637 passengers tives,
Work is still being carried on by the chari. nct. For some reason there is delay. Money already reached melting point. It is melting and 14,253,930 packages of cargo, receipts from table organisations in recovering dead bodies for the purpose has been banded over in into this air-vanishing in the glistening vision these two sources amounting to 74,671,319, various instalments to the official respon of a gold standard. This resuscitated dream which with sundry receipts made up a total of to-day. It is said that some of them must havexible, but still the business hangs fire, represents a great idea, to he worked towards Y5,861,321, Compared with the preceding floated for down the river by the strong currenti Among the casualities one was. Taotai Li Yick The difficulties of acquiring land for the Yuck gradually, the first step an undoubted Imperial period the number of passengers carried show. Han Railway have been overcome with com dollar. But even that would leave untoucheded a falling off of 133043 and the cargo a Che, who was deputed to Canton from Kwang. al: to receive a consignment of arms and am.
parative care. What is it that makes the diffi. Much of be general weiter. Somus we, decrease of 937,512 packages, the total jeveaus being lean by Vr45,965, but a saving in ex. munition for the use of the Imperial troops; chillies on the Chinese section of the Kowloon another was Weiyuan Chan Kai Tsang belong-line so much more formidable? No wonder if
penses of Y357,198 was effected, and the pront ing to the Shan Hou Chu department; a third in this Colony we ask the question with some
amounted to Y1,505,367. was Taolai Yik belonging to a Government impatience. departinant, and several officials and sons of As regards the reference in the report centuries to the time when Chinese junks officials, and some twenty bankers of the Holothe work of construction on the Kwang-traded as far west as the Persian Gulf, I con-depression in the carrying trade had been so tung section of the Chaton-Hankow railway fine myself to raising a point which seems some. Pan street.
a word of explanation is necessary, The how to have received scant attention. It is this. rapid progress recently made was noted with How can the apologists of China reconcile her satisfaction, The particulars are public proclaim to be protected from the Indian export NOXIOUS SHARKS' FINS,
perty. Forty-four miles of track are open with the fact that China herself exports the to traffic. Two truies run daily over the drug? One would have thought that the first The following letter over the signatare of whole distance. Each way the journey takes thing, for Chias to have done would have several residents complaining of the offensive three hours. This does not exactly indicate been to desist from the practice she so smell from sharks fios stored in a godown in the top speed of the train. In the 44 miles are loudly complains of in others. It may be Observation Place, Wanchai, was considered 12 stoppages. Additional trains run regularly unid that the amount is small, but in a matter at the meeting of the Sanitary Board this after-te a halfway station soms zo odd miles out from of conscience there can be no dimensions, Canton. Already the stimulating effect is ap- If, as is said, it is iniquitous that the indian parent. It is not only that villagers throng Government should debaugh the Chinese the train. That fact is patent to any casual in China, is it not equally wrong of the Chinese observer. A fact not so readily realised is that Government to debauch, its subjects in the Dr. Pearce, Sanitary Department.
there is also the beginning of a local freight Straits and in Indo-Chine, by conniving at the Dear Sir,-We shall be obliged by you cattle and vegetables coming into Cas-export thisber of the home-grown article? May bringing this petition before the Sanitary Board, to have the storage of sharks' fins removed ton from the country-ish going out to Inland we not reasonably ask as a preliminary that from the godown in Observation Place, Wen villages. As a local line the success of the China should practice what she preaches? But Referring to the opening of the company's undertaking is already assured. Precisely in all matters relating to opium the Conference American service, Mr. Nakabashi said that the chal, the odour from some being very offensive. because of that there is danger. There is dan holds the field. The China Association may completion of the American railway with which The Registrar-General minated:-The smell ger-test the management should sen no further as well hold tho, breath). No words will be it was arranged the company's steamers should ir certainly offensive.
than that. The directors are drawn chiefly listened to until the results of the Shanghai ran in connection would, it was thought, be from the local gentry and merchants.. It is sympėsium are made koowD,
delayed by about two months, in consequence, TUK Gariile sunounces that Mr. W. T. Lay, probable that few of them have travelled wide. These aro all the subjects upon which the the time for completing the steamers ordered Commissioner of Chinese Customs, and Mr. ly. It is possible that some of them have repart touches. A final word of explanation is by the company from the Mits Bishi and E. V, Brense, Deputy Commissioncr.in the never travelled at all. It is therefore open needful concerning the many interesting aub. Kawaiski fards, had been extended, exception same service, have received permission to to doubt whether they realish_to_the full Jects upon which it does not (auch. The sum being made, in the case of the Tasems, which accept and to wear the Chinese Order of the the possibilities opening out of the little ber of these is perhaps the most remarkable, was expected to be launched on the 4th of next Double Dragon, Aras, clays, third division,. station: yard at Wongsha. - Failure to realise thing about in There are exciting, mouth at the Mitqu Bishi yard at Nagapil
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American (Nippon Maru) 6th lost. American (Siberia) 6th'inst; Indian (Zaizang) 8th inst. German (Printers Alive), rath ́inst..
The Ben Line as. Dinglos, from Antwerp and London, left Singapore to-day; for this The N, G. 1. 1.4, Zichta test Singapore for this port yesterday, and may be expected here on
"In his address to the shareholders, ‹ Mr. Nakabashi, president of the company, said the
bad during the last period that steainers to a total tonnage of 50,000 (owned by private individuals) were Isid up idle towards the end of last year. Adding the tonnage of sipamen which were laid up ostensibly for repair and other reasons, the total tonnage of seamers port. unemployed reached 100,000. Such being the condition of the shipping business during the period, the company's revenue fell off to below the figures for the preceding period, but as economy of over Y300,000 having been effected in working expenses the result for the last hati- year was somewhat better than for the preced- ing period. Mr. Nakabashi thought that the depression in the shipping trade had now reached a tarping poist and a revival of ac. tivity might be expected in the second half of the present year.
8th inst...
The H. A. L.ss. Constantia left Manila on"
and inst, am, and may be expected here on 5th insty &.in. '
The N. Y. K.as, Wakamiya Haru, Bombay Line, lelt Mejl for this port on 30th ult, and is expected here on 5th inst.
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The Imperial German Mall as: Prinx Kits Friedrich, which left here on 27th ult, at noon, arrived at Singapore on 31st ult, at 8 a.m.
The silk shipments by the O. & O. 8, S. Co.'s 1.1. China, which sailed from this port December 12th, was delivered in New York on 16th ult.
The Imperial Genmag Mail as. Prinsess 'Alice carrying the Garman Mails with dates last Colombo YIE from Berlin of the 13th it, terday, P,m, and may be expected here on rah
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