The Hongkong Telegraph.
NEW SERIES No. 6052
CONTENTS.
Births, Marriages and Deaths
聖職大十月二周年元銃室
DAIRE DEATHE
On April 5, 190g, at Shanghai, HARRY HENDERSON OWLER, of Panick, Dear Glas gow, aged 35 years! "Electrician with the Shanghai Deck & Engineering Co., Ltd, the On April entgeg, at Shanghai, HILDA, BER The Importance of the Compradore System. TRAM, aged 21 months, daily beloved daughter
of Captain and Mis; F. Boyde
Leading Articles:-
Chinesa Railways and Finances
Chiasso Compradores.
More Class Legislation in Hongkong,
China's Capabilities.
Telegrams:-
Rússia and China.
H.E. Tang Shao-yi.,
Japan and China,
Foreign Negotiations 93
Railway Disbursements,
The Postal Depar:ment,
Naval Reorganization.
Na Tung.
Viceroy of Yunnan.
The Pratas Islands.
Tibet.
Hankow-Ichang Railway.
Hagoe Conference.
Railway,
Shanghai Settlement Extension, H.E. Sik Liang, Cantun-Hankow Imperial Palace. Caston Macao Railway. -Extraterritorialty. Plague in Peking.
Minister to Berlin,
Showing the Flag. Eunuchs...
Yunnan Viceroyalty. Assault by Junkmen.
· Azú ̈Opiúlí Campaign,
China Merchants S. N. Co.
Wen Tsung-yao. Prince Chi g
England and Siam. Foreigners in Mongolia, Emperor Kwang-su's Funeral, Chinese Consulates.
Moatings:-
The China Flour Mill Co., Ltd.
Ext the T. P. D. Co.
The Toyo Kiten Kaisha,
Kulangau (Amby) Municipal Council,
Legal Intelligence:~~~
A Question of Identity.
A Manager's, Salary.
A Business Proposition.
Frills and Flounces,
Club Member Sued.
"Hit with a Brick."
Folios:-
Chinese Woman and a Fortune-teller. Contraband in Victoria Gaōl. Jealousy Cure of Crime:
Stabbing Affray at Kowloon, City Larcenles.
Miscellaneous Articles and Report-
Dr. Wilder Banquetted.
Joss Sticks in the Colonial Cemetery, Danté the Magiclið.
The Governor's Trip to Canton,
"Lady, Lugard's Departure.
The
Late Mr. O, D. Thomson.
Victoria Recreation Club,
Sanitary Board Secretaryship. The Delimitation of Macao, The Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd. Dog Nuisance at Wanchini. Lusitano-Recreation Club. Limewashing Houses, Attempted Suicide.. Civil Service Cricket Club,
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rights and privileges in connectle and to declare that no esetio munity shall be excludively prejudice of the many. But what the Sanitary Board and those who ported the resolution are seeking to They would exclude the Chinese from the right of burial in the public cemetery, even although the Chinese are partecily will to abide in the strictest scare by each ind all of the regulations framed by a benefcent and paternal Government for the "vance of the proprieties at such pla
créed that in" life the Chinese®
Whether the representatives of Great Bri-tract the attention of gullible investors unless some unforeseen cataclysm of nature question of principle with regard to the rights death the Chinese are not deemed tilting!
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE
COMPRADORE SYSTEM.
Thequestion whether European merchants, trading in China can succeed in doing business without the interposition of the compradore is once more agitating a section of the foreigners in Tientsin, with the usual result. It is contended that it every European assistant were required to possess a fluent colloquial understanding of the Chinese language the time would speedily
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of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway are not arrivo when the services of the comprador remain unaltered or until the banking and Burke or a Pitt such language is all very: / Caprice of some insignificant official in #},
achieve the
requisita security for the large loan that land who must learn to speak the Chinese foreign merchant in these days to be success public have a perfect right t required. The true policy, of course, sayr language" and againe **It is absolutely cerful must have at least a smattering knowledges the London Globe, of March 4, is to place tain that an up-country buyer, because of his of the Chinese and their country, and it is in the contract for building the line with Kuro ignorance of any foreign language, is com, the process of gaining, this knowledge that peau engineers, in which case the work peiled to do business through the compradore he has to come to the conclusion that the would be done more cheaply, more efficient which means that it must be done on that present-day compradore is a degenerated ly and without any financial difficulty. So gentleman's terms or not at all The mer product, But, although his knowledge is far our contemporaries. From the Hongkong chant is no longer a merchant but simply correct, the conclusion he draws is wrong. reader's standpoint all these things have been the agent for the compradors, the latter do. The latter-day compradore is not a degene said before and will in all likelihood be re-ing all the work-finding customers, selling rate. He is one of the same old brand peated in the near future. But if China's ability to them, and guaranteeing the accounts. The only difference is that the present day to offer the necessary security to those abic This position has gradually grown out of the foreign trader has been getting onto him and willing to land loans for constructional easy-going habits" of "the merchants and as the Americans aay purposes in so inadequate why all this fuss through their inability to speak Chinese." over the question whether Germany or Great All that bundle of platitudes makes a veryMORE CLASS LEGISLATION IV public cemeteries. The fact
that this sort of petty mu - HONGKONG...] «^-^^ar Britain be allowed to undertake the work? line showing, but it does not prove that if a
∙lation is all of a piece with the The fact seems to be that the home and British, seller were to operate without the foreign press is being manipulated by finan-assistance of a Chinese compradore he ___ (15th April.)******* Government in reiarving/spec cial speculators who are well aware that would be any the more successful. The
At the last meeting of the Sanitary Hoard the bon ton of the Colony, Fire China is in a position to offer all the security fact is hat the compratore an institution an important resolution involving a disdoct live in the vicinity of the Peak and now required and who are only seeking to de baja Chinn and kiljanllyne vil remain so
of the Chinese 'community in Hongkong was tain through the British Minister at Peking from the real issues at stake. Great Britain eradicates his existence. One comes introduced by Mr. Shelton Hooper, second occupants of lair to the public cemetery. with reference to the proposed German loan has a perfect right to demand that Chica pondent who ridicules the assertion thated by Dr. Fitzwilliams and passed by six The whole thing is so supremely ridiculous for the purpose of constructing a section of should observe to the letter her treaty the compradore can be abolished remarks votes to three, the minority including the that it would be farcical if the subject did 'abs the Canton-Hankow line will bear fruit is obligations but beyond that she cannot go, I would like to emphasise the point that President of the Board and the two Chinese preclude one from dealing in such a manner still open to question, but there is reason to just as she is unable to compel China to unless a man has a formal and proper intro representatives. On the face of it the reso with a subject serious in itself and in the Helieve that British Investors In-Chinese Accept proferred capital even if it is at a duction to Chinese merchants it is consider lution was of a most innocnous character, principle underlying the motive which up. railway stocks are becoming.chary of entrust lower rate and more favourable than that ed absolute rudeness and a breach of etf being merely to the effect That as the new pears to have given rise to the motion." "Af
The wholequette to attempt, dealing direct for which ing their money unless the Chinese Imperial offered by other Powers.
cemetery bye-laws prohibit, the burning of Mr. Lau Chu Pak in denouncing this inta diplo you are sure to be snubbed and treated with joss sticks and firing of crackers in the Colo. example of class legislation" "remarked Government is firepared to give ample subject resolves itself
seems hardly contumely. This in a view which is not security in return." This feeling of doubt matic tangle which it
lonial cemetery were chiefly the British ment to select a new site and authorise a with regard to the capability of the Chinese possible to unravel at the moment, and sufficiently realised hy those who condemn qial Cemetery it is desirable for the Govern-Those Chinese who made, use of the Co Government to carry the responsibilities she the probability is that we shall bear of the system. China, Chinese customs and cemetery for the interment of bodies of per born, the British naturalised, the Christian bas. underteken in this direction is em negotiations taking place over the question Chinese business methods must be consi
sons of the Buddhist and other non-Christian converted and the Eurasian Chiness, and phasised by the Peking correspondent of the for years to come. Meanwhile China has dered when dealing in China, and if you Faiths, and for whom no special cemeteries recently Japanese bad also made use of it. London Times who recently scht a some no difficulty in getting the money she re- don't know or understand them my opinion have been provided-where it way be lawful As these people had already been admitted. what alarmist report to his paper regarding quires for the construction of new railways is stick to you compradore always or you for the practice of any rites and ceremonies into the European paradise on earth, he the Shanghai-Hangchow-Vingpo railway in the Middle Kingdom, and that, after all will be landed in an unfathomable abyss pertaining to the religion of the deceased thought it was scarcely fair to debar them
The attempt at direct
In speaking to the motion thus set forth, from using the passage to the European It must not be forgotton that Dr. Morrison is the main issue from the point of view of of claims, etc. is spt to indulge in gloomy prognostications those concerned with the real-insetons of dealing, going up country with your Mr. Hooper, who had evidently been well paradise in heaven. The better class of when things are dull and equally inclined to the Empire, and its prosperity and advance own picce goods, etc., has been tried of primed on the subject, delving tot rusty Chinese who had made Hongkong their per and on for years by Britons speaking Chi tomes and recalling byegone days, quite-mauent-home had not a decent censtery in Indulge in optimistic reviews when the mood ment in the path of progress.
nese; it has never proved successful, You clearly showed that he anticipated opposition had no control in what were called Chinese which to bury their dead, and the Chinese lg upon him. As the result of an inspec-
take cargo 300 or 1,500 miles from Shang from the representatives of the Chinese rate cemeteries. Those cemeteries were simply tion of the line in question Dr. Morrison
bai and the Chinese dealers of those district payers who, after all, are no insignificant presented serious charges of incompetence
will leave you alone, a derelict, virtually section of the population of this Colony tracts of barren land set apart by the Govern against the constructors and suggested that.
without business or occupation and the the capital supplied by British lovestors, was
class. The Government reserved to. Itself scure the real point at issue being squandered. Then there was a state
question remains how long can any one wait and went out of his way to ob- ment for the burial of Chinese dead of any ment issued by the Board of Communica-
unless he is a Chinaman? Again there isferred to the Bag" which is always a cer. the right of resuming the land, and or tions giving the results of the working of the
money in any of these districts and you tain attraction and a source of mental dering the remains to be exhumed and must therefore accept native bank orders myopia, the protection afforded all our fel. buried anywhere else as the Government: principal lines, shown a profit on the work
and you must be a Chinaman to know low subjects, the justice meted out, under might from time to time be pleased to direct. ing of most of the northern lines but a con-
whether the bank is sound or that some un
the British constitution to all and sundry, Fancy the outery there would be among the siderable lass on others, more especially the
dercurrent is not at work: To sum up then he even hinted at the glorious traditions elite if the remains of their predecessors Shanghai-Nanking Railway There have also been reports that the different sections
whole matter it is madness for traders to go of the past. If we assume the speaker to be were subject to removal at the whim and- up country whilst the financial conditions making equally satisfactory progress, and could be dispensed, with and foreign trader
cemeteries we cannot pretend to understand should constitute a plea for the Chinese tately the Associate Director of that railway would be in a position to deal direct with currency are put on a satisfactory basis. It is he and large but what it has to do with Goverment Department. That in feelf was in Shanghal en route to Pukow to make the Chinese buyer. To those who have losing the substance in a vain attempt to Incidentally, Mr. Hooper spoke of the desire that they have a right of interment in the Colonial cemetery. As Mr. Ho Kom Tong impossible" There we
of those profetiing the Buddhist religion_to an inspection of the Southern section of the given a modicum of study to this question may allow the matter to rest, con.
have a cemetery of their own where they very properly pointed out from bin in, line, while the statement was made a few the great fallacy underlying all such prefident that filia, leading bank shipping might practise the rites and ceremonies acquiries, instances of cracker firing in the Co- days ago that the Viceroy has appointed an positions is apparent. It seems to companies and industrial undertakings cording to their burial service, but he ad- lonial cemetery had been for and far between able British engineer to make an inspection assumed that immediately a foreign hong is of the Shanghai-Tangchow Ningpo Railway, staffed by assistants of linguistic ability thend advantageous to retain the services duced no particulars to show that he had Exon granting, for the sake of argument, that of a compradore and his staff a drastic mea been given a mandate to plead for the fol- it was a general practice, there wan" already | with a view to ascertaining whether or not ordinary Chinese dealer would be com Dr. Morrison's criticisms are well-founded.teat to conduct all his trade operations ure such as that implied in the assevera lowers of that or any other religion, What in existence the necessary legal machinery to tions-of-thiose who know little or nothing of As a Northern contemporary points out through the European staff, and that the the actual conditions is wholly out of the he did do was to envelop the question in regulate it, in order to reduce to a minimum there is reason to believe that all this unfortunate compradors would be relega-
suck a misty baze of history, which was the so-called objectionable observances, LO activity is due to the operations of rival syn-ted to outer darkness. It seems to be which would probably result in the general obfuscate, the vision of those members longing to the Buddhist persuasion." There
merely visionary project neither applicable nor interesting, as to cording to the orthodox musts of those bo dicates and that, in consequence, the reports forgotten that the Chinese people are are not always to he implicitly trusted. A becoming more and more averse to the decay of foreign trade with the Chinese of the Board who failed to realise it the whole matter in a nutshell. More writer in the Mercury of Shanghai holds that idea of granting foreigners greater facilities
that they were bartering away the unques-over, it was stated by the senior representa the heavy loss reported in the working of the of business Intercourse than they already
tionable and firefragible rights of the Chintive of the Chinese that the majority of Shanghai-Nanking Railway during the past possess. In many cases it is extremely pro
ese born and bred in this Colony of Hong Chinese and other citizens belonged to no year proves that the fact that a line has beenbable that the compradore's department is
kong Ball further to avoid the issue, re- particular religious denomination so that splendidly constructed and supplied with irre- the real bulwark of a foreign firm engaged
ference was made to the origin of the word: they could not likely injure the sentiment- al ideas of those who did profess a certain proachable rolling stock is not sufficient to in Chinese trade, and that were it not for a reference to our leading article on "colonial" as applied to the public cemetery faith while they remained amongst the ensure its being run on a paying basis. It his attachement to the firm with which he Saturday on the subject of the compradores if a display of recondite knowledge bad must be well managed, which no doubt the may be associated and his general integrity, system, it is interesting to note what a con anything to do with the matter, while Mr. living. As have already uld the Shanghai-Nanking line is, and besides be and comparative disinterestedness the trade tributor to the Shanghai China Gazette, who Hewett dwelt on the desire of the Goethe public cemetery is on a par with the able to recurs profitable-traffic, which appa-dealings-of-many-for-ign-houses would signs himself "Cosmos," has to say. He meat or somebody else to provide all de rently the Shanghai Nanking line cannot do,fanguish and finally disappear. The Chin writes Referring to the subject of com- nominations with special cemeteriet, and notwithstanding the fact that it traverses exe are no longer to be regarded as nonen. pradores generally, and to the decline, or twitted both Mr. Lau Chu Pak and Mr. Ho one of the richest districts of China. The tities, incapable of looking after their own so-called declipe, of the Chinese commercial Kom Tong with speaking "a little bit off the Chinese Covernment, however, seems to be interests. They are as alive to the possi community as a class, reference to which line" whereas, to our way of thicking, they awakening to the fact that all is not well hilities of trade as any foreign firm, whether has on recent occasions been made in the were the only persons who were exactly on with the railway, as it is announced in it he conducted by British, German, Ameris columns of the China waselle. I beg to say the line: To begin with, it should be un A native telegram from Peking that the can or Japanese merchants and the climina that while I agree in the main with the derstond that this cannot be viewed as a Board of Communications intends to tion of the compradore would only induce sentiments expressed in recent leaders to party, racial or sectarino questiɔn; it in a send high official to investigate, along Chinese syndicates to spring into being and the effect that the present-day compradores matter which affects most of us but little in with the Governor of Kiangsu, into the absorb the trade which is now handled by and merchants are not the soul of honour, I thirlife and for that reason we can approach it Causes of the heavy loss incurred in European houses through the medium of am not altogether inclined to agree with you, without bias or feeling. It is not even a question the year's working of the line, and mention the compradore and his staff. Moreover, that they are in this respect very much of cemeteries so much as it is one of general is made of revising the freight. regulations. the compradoro has the business of foreign worse than their progenitors,ff course, I principle. We can come to view it from a
Some writer in the Shanghai Mercury has To this connection the Peking, and Jientsin morkelset -his-fingers ends; he has.must admit that I know very little about the old purely disinterested point of view, although Times has recently published a suggestive painfully and laboriously acquired the most time compradore whose word was as good it, is apparent that Dr. Fitzwilliams entirely been doing his utmost to malign the Chinese article dealing with the financial position of intimate knowledge of and acquaintance as his bond,' ag bis class, if they ever exist, failed to realise its import when he seconded character and their ability. His troubla ier Chinese railways, with special reference to the with the methods of Furopean middlemen, were before my time, but I have had the plea the adoption of the motion. The Colonial about the regeneration of a decadent race. Canton Hankow section of the grand trunk and that knowledge would fummediately be sure of the acquaintance of roman the retired or Protestant or whatever fancy-name any It is astonishing in these circumstances to line. It is well understood, says our conplaced at the disposal of his compatriots foreign merchants of thore days, and while body may wish to call it the public comes find that the Powers do not consider China temporary, that China is at present negotiat when it was not utilised by himself-were they have been able to set by a good store of tery of Hongkong is maintained out of the either a backward country or one given to ing a loan of some four millions sterling, in the dismissed at an unnecessary incubus. this world's goods, in spite of a surprisingly rates and taxes provided by the residents in such foolish transactions as distinguish the order to finance the construction of Tour Who that live in the Far East believes for colossal ignorance of things Ontaese, I do the Colony. It is no more-a-private-Insti principality of Bulgaria The hundred miles of the railway between Han-s moment that he would be content to be not, simply going by that as a criterion, take tution than the public gardens-only it is question is, most serious when he kow and Canton-Her-chances of success snuffed-out-as-a-burden-and-a-nuisance-overything they say for gorpel truth. Really, governed by rules and regulations consonant "The task is the task which China | Has set bowever, can hardly be rated very high-without making pay effort at retaliation? I must laugh sometimes when I hear them with decency and respect for the dead. herself: the means are Chinese means ow ly, for several reasons must militate Who can claim that foreign trade in China say how they owe their fortune to the ipte Even the Protestants cannot claim it for people have ever stopped to consider the against her in the judgment of British is not, on the whole, admirably served by the grity and honesty of the compradore they em- their very own it is the public burial place magnitude of the work which Ching must financiers The Chinese Government has compradores, with their myriad interests and played: What they say is of course true, in of Hongkong maintained by the public, accomplish before she can attaid the object no reputation for efficiency in constructional wide sympathy with those of their fellow-this respect, at least. Living as strangers in or rather by the Government, which she has at heart, and of these few we very undertakings of this kind. The Imperial subjects with whom they have commercial a strange land, without attempting to learn comes to the same thing, out of general much doubt if there is exco one who cau Chinese Revenue is very inelastic under connection? Not the great business firms anything about it seldom, if ever going be revenue. No sect or body has a right claim either Chincke or Manchu descent present conditions, and its figures demon established in China apparently, otherwise yond the limits of the Foreign Settle to say that has, any particular claim on The task has been begun and its bundans sirate, how utterly inadequate that Revenue why this apathy when the question of doing ments, they were quite content, so long as the domain,, but so far as we can make out assumed with no clear understanding of the On Febranty 14, 1909, at Cha 30 do Montis as security for a loan. The present away with the compradore system is mooted their, transactions brought them, a profit; all have an equal right to interment Immensity of the labour, the complexity of D'Opel, Cenza, Dordogne France, the wife of foreign debt of China amounts to rast is all very well for a Blackburn Chamber of and making good profits was an easy matter there. If the Roman Catholics and the the scheme, or the world-wide knowledge Loals Rocher (Commissioner of Customs, ra- tired), of a soo➡IRAN, SAN
000,000, which has been almost entirely Commerce to say that young. Englishmen in thore days. Not, however, because the Zoroastrians prefer to have cemeteries of required for its successful achievement. On March 7, 2009, at Doomow, Essex, wife contracted within the last thirteen years who have an inclination to engage as assistants compradores and native merchants were their own which they maintain themselves Let there be light, is the nativo
question of ET BOND, formerly of Canton, daughter. To pay the interest on that debt a sum of in British houses in Chips should learn the honest; far from it. It was simply the lack under the laws of the Colony and subject to fat, but it is altogether anoth
BELIZIOS-On April 8th, at Green Park seven and a half millions is required, of Chinese language. No doubt that is so of competition. If their compradore had the supervision of the Government, then, whether the concluding House, 134 Piccadilly, London, the wife of Mr, which it is estimated that productive worke and such a knowledge in addition to their been honest they would have reaped ten that is their own business. They interfere sentence will ready and RE. BILILIOS, of a son. (By Wire),
supply about a million. The charge on the stock in trade would do them good to help times the profit that they did. The other with nobody, ask nothing from the public light." Of course, it may PODATEKROSS MARRIAGES,
Imperial Revenue is, therefore, six-and-a to modify that ineffable conceit which is the nine-tenths went to the compradore, and he purse, and seek only to act according to the for granted that the Da April 3, 1999 at Shaoghal, HERMANN half millions sterling, to provide which hallmark of the great majority of foreignstrip kept up his bluff about his word and bis tenets of their particular, religion. That is an clusionit none other than a dis ARLT) eldest son, of Carl" Arti, of Brasso, to
the revenue of the Imperial Maritime ngawhenthey come into contact with Chinese bond so beautifully, that the old timey it should be, but when it comes to individual-perhaps, we only suggest VAIDUP MARGARETE, daughter of the late Pro Customs and part of the Frovincial re- dealers. But who, with any appreciation of foreigner was not able to detect it which question of the public cemetery the scene is reminiscence, a missionary fessor Peter Bobpjcsov of Budapesta lang yonuer-are- bypolliocated and there to the situation, will go farther and my that it will; 1-not surprising is he was generally unchanged, so to speak. – If a number of in. told, has to tackle two of three subjects, t
Da April 5, 1909, at Shanghai, CLAUDE JG., mainu but a balance of some six mil- result in the relations between foreign traders obtuse sort of a gentleman, and besides he dividuals have a certain brand of religion first of which in law. The fox no and son of the Ista-John Hill, of Manchester, lions sterling to meet the purposes of the and Chinese dealers being improved to such' was getting a good profit, so he had no and wish to practise last rites in God's Acre cited is referred to, but the unw to MARION ETHEL, 3rd daughter of the late ordinary expenditure. That sum is obvions an extent that the compradore will become reason to be suspicious. But things are in their own particular fashion, and it the came not from the visitors but Richard Forster, of Datham, and Mrs. Forsterly Insufficient even to meet executive ex-| a virtual curiosity? The Blackburn Chamber | different now,
herself. Even the America Newcastle-on-Trae,
penser, and it la notorious that additional of Commerce said: "Speaking
that An, the writ On-the-With-April at St Andrew Church money has to be shaped together each year foreign merchant sunja
| going (2), merchant Kowloon by the Rey, CR. Thompson. In order to make good the deficit. Nor do more in the future than they are "MAUD” WILHELMINA, daughter of the = leta
lichail, Thomson of Hob kong to does it appear that the revenue can be ex present, they will have to
tances. It is facturere at home ought to sen Kwong of the thig Willim" Ley had banded, and in these chro
very doubtful whelfer, China can give the who Usoroughly understand th
"Empress Liner. Canton-Hankow Railway. Painful Experience, Cricket:
Gunboat-for Macao, no
Ladies' Rifle Association.
Robbery at a Refinery.
Army Estimates for the Far Exit. Race Ponies Sold,
Water Return,
..
Canton Day by Day
The Cinton-Hankow 1,nau,
The Maras Boundary. Canton-Macao Pallway. The Closing of Vladivostok. Aborigines of Yunnao The Stringency at Tientsin, Compradores and Trade. Shanghai Gaol Bresk. China's Naval Schemes. Shanghai Opium flouses. The Less of the 5.5. Adato. Pratas Island Dispute. The Osaka Sho1en Kaisks. Daring Outrage in Kobe. Charge against an Ex-Barrister. Japan Sugar Company. Notable Wireless Foil,
Great Fire in Tokyo.
Dr. Koch in Japan. Destructive Gale in Kobe;"
Sugar in Japan
Interpan Cricket,
The Founding of Singapore,
Sabang's Rival.
Camraoh as Naval Base.
Chino-Siamese Navigation Co., Lid,
A Roscoe at Sea,"
Big Fire in Bangkok.
A Trip through Sesal.
Commeraf -
•Weekly Bhare Reports.
Yarn Market."
Exchange
Local and General.
BIRTHS: Gaeta,
....
question and
dealers,
CHINESB COMPRADORES.
wouldlabe
(13th April.)
Plums don't these
from same time are prepared to pay for the pri the vilege, well, there is nothing more to be said erit Kaltlu a frea, or, at leant,
dox
almost mar
free Colony and every resident that with the increase of his opinions so long as the
tope of the with law and order.. But where the
resolution to excluda. Chinese from
Peak Reservation scheme, and we can only add that we are astonished that Mr. Hopper should have been the one to father such. unworthy progeny or that Dr. Fitzwilliams should have been found to act the part of the benigo godparent, We trust, however, that the Governor-in-Council will veto the plan and accord our Chinese fellow subjects the undoubted rights to which they are plainly
entitled.
CHINA'S CAPABILITIES: