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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY MAY 17
West River Floods.
RELIEF PARTY'S REPORT.
FITIABLE PLIGHT OF INHABITANTS.
[From Our Own Corrispondenti}],
ROB GOLD MINE
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY OF QUARTZ IN-
ANDERSON SILAYT
It had been anticipated for some time a good discovery might be made in the Anderson shaft of the Raub gold mine, and it is now announced that the expected, lode has beṣu struck, and thal, at the date of writing, Mr. Martin was able to state that it was sixty inches wide and worth to cut. to the ton From the fact that Mr. Martin also states that a new head gear is in courts of con |struction at this shaft, and that a considerable amount of work has been, and is being, affected' in and around this particular spot the inference is that the present disc very ni valuable gold-bearing quartz may be the pres cursor of other discoveries, and that the output of Raab may be accordingly increased at a bot
believed that the chief importance of the dis very far distant date, ludend, it is generally covery in the Andersns abaf: is that it confirm a theory formed as to the directing taken by other important gold-bearing seams, for which reason shareholders and others will no doubt await the manager's next report with more that
THE CHIEF JUSTICA'S JUDGMENT
Canton, 15th May, The first party of relief merabars, that was despatched on the Inb instant on board the team launch Tai Woo with foodstuff, guany, bags, and other articles of necessity to the flooded districts to assist the sufferers, returned to Craton yesterday with a report to the effect that on the morning of the ith instant they left Canton on board the Tai Woe and arrived at about 9 pm. at Las Shek where the embankments of the Ting On Wal had given way and the foods appeared to bave gained nearly the same height as an aggregate income of £121,000,000-half lower. On the following morning (bo party that of last year, or, to be exact, one foot and a Of course the fact that the majority if not all arrived at Lo lao, in Samsoti, and there loned the members of the House of Commons, the dykes of the Wing Fung Wai considerably particularly those in the opposition, are in damaged. The villagers in large crowds to the receipt of large incomes may lead to much number of several thousand earnestly solicited heart-burning when this portion of the Bud- for rice. Many others were seen to gather co get comes up for discussion but the member the neighbouring bills to seek refuge in a most the usual amount of interest.—Straits Tin-en. with a cool £5,000 a year is not likely to pitiable condition. To each of these unfor make much noise about his personal objecice. Those in charge of the expedition tunate the party distributed ten callies of tions and the ordinary working man with his consulted with the local gentry for the a week will be in a position to under-best possible method of carrying out their stand who are his friends just as those in work, and as a result handed over 3,000 catties. receipt of old age per tons understand now of rice to the gentry with which to boil conges the great difference between unfulfilled pro- for distribution and also erected a number of mises and adopted measures, The Budget large matsheds on the hills to provide accom is exceptionally democratic in its principles modation for the destitute. The Tsun Hou Wal was broken in three different places, m. 4- and it is just possible that the Government of Hongkong may take the cue from certain
suring about five hundred feet, and here about a dozen lives were lost sad several houses col of the new proposals submitted.
lapsed. The dykes of the Fung Kong Wai were also washed away to the extent of 450 feet. On the morning of the 13th instant, the members of the party proceeded to Ha Wei K, where the embankments were found to be damaged over an area of some three hundred feet and the people were obliged to seek shel to the sufferers in the latter place, the party ter on the high roads. After distributing rice proceeded to Ching Yuco distric', where they met the local magistrate and with his aid gave way the remaining supplies to the sufferers
distributing port, ⠀ One of the recen! tion ever foresaw the uses to which it would ↑ Viceroys did not hesitate to affirm that it be put in the report of Sir Charles Dilke's was his supreme object to reconstitute Can Committee there are given two series of cal- ton as the teal Southern capital of China in culations by Sir Henry Primrose of the appar trade affairs and, as a matter of fact, he had eat yield of two alternative rates of progres- Inaugurated a policy of administrative rosivo supertax on net incomer of over £5,000 A. S. WATSON & CO., forma which had this cad in view. That he a year. The rald was jd, in the pound on was unable to carry his principles into effect net incomes frois £5,000 to £10,000, In ad- LIMITED.
was due to ulterior causes, which we have dition to the existing Income Tax, rising by recited on previous occasions, and to the Gd. and gd. to 1/- supertax on.incomes over changes in Imperial Government officer £40,000. The alternative scheme was one which led to his own departure from Cantos of a supertax rising from 6d. to af- additional But the danger of Canton ousting Hongkong|to the existing tax. The apparent yield was with regard to the major portion of the ex estimated in round figures at £3,250,000 ports and imports from and into South China year on, the lower scale and £6,500,000 on must be steadily faced and any legislation the higher By means of calculations based which would have a retaliatory or a restrict ou the house duty" maximum figure BY APPOINTMENT to His Excellency THE ive effect on the shipping of the port would was obtained of about 12,000 persons be open to severe condemnation., Hong having over £5,000 a year income,, with Governor AND, HOUSEHOLD.
kong has largely won her proud position in the shipping world by the excellent facilities afforded for trans-shipment of cargo, the absence of oppressive shipping dues and the free admission of goods on which it is usual to place a duty. In other words the fact that there is no Customs House in Hongkong has given an immense impetus to its commerical importance So that when the day arrives--and at be far distant--that the Govern ment deems it essential to Impose fresh burdens on those who live in the Colony it is permitted to anticipate that whatever fresh taxation is required will come out of the pockets of the general public and that there will be no attempt to hamper or dislocate the trade of the port by the levying of dues on imported goods. That policy is, of subject to certain exceptions, as in the case of liquors, tobacco, etc., but, broad Fly, the general assumption may, be allowed. Now then we come to the proposals of the British Government which have been sub milled with the object of meeting the deficit of sixteen millions, sterling and providing for the financial requirements of the casuing year. It is proposed to increase the tax on tobacco to the extent of a halfpenny an ounce, while those in receipt of unearned. incomes are to be still further mulcled. a Shanghai contemporary suggests the first may be intended in a measure to pay part of the nine millions required for old age pensions, while the second may be con- sidered a delicate method, of making those who clamour for more: Dreadnoughts pay the piper. As the Mercury says, however, "Tobacco already brings in wearly fourteen millions sterling, and income and property taxes, over thirty millions. These sources would not seem capable of sustaining much further demand upon them. For some of the proposals we have been prepared for some time. The increased liquor. taxes and licences were expected, and those concerned | May have insured themselves against them; and it was more or less läken for granted that an [25 attack would be made on the sinking fund,
policy which Lord Cromer, in a recent speech at Leeds, foreshadowed and was prepared to
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H.R. H. Prince Fushimi left Mukden by the evening train on joth inst. for Kwangchengize. THE Government intends to send Prince Tsai Chéo to Japan to express thanks for Prince Fushimi's attendance at the funeral,
The students of the Tokio Higher Commercial School held a grand meeting on subinst and un- animously decided to leave the schoul en manie,
SAPPER William Ascolt charged a ricksha coolie in the Police Coon to-day, with refusing to, complete a journey, while under engage- ment. The coolie was fined $4.
THE Ministry of War has brought' nineteen Krupp guns from Germany, which have been transported on the Siberian Railway to Kwang cheogize and are being taken to Peking,
We are informed by the Agents (Messageries Maritimes) that the cargo of silk shipped on board the Caledmion which lelt this porl'as the 13th April was delivered in Lyons on the 15th
The Chinese Government has toisgraphed orders to the provincial authorities to ascertain the number of foreigners who occupy brasch inorance offices and dispensaries in non- treaty ports.
Two cooles, who appear to have just arrived from Canton, were charged in the Police Court, to day, with theft. They were accused of
All evemantations intended for publication to justify to the extent of £4,000,000, The MR. Nathan Blumenthal, manager of the addressed to The Edlier, 1. Ire llouse Bead, and Chancellor of the Exchequer is satisfying Astor House Hotel, prosecuted three coolies in should be accompanied by the Writer's Named himself with £1,000,000. The taxes on the Police Court, to-day, for being in the ser Ordinary busines commentatiorasonic beadère a motor cars and on petrol are simply an ex-vants' quarters of the hostel without permission. The Ralior will not puiderace to te reonsible for tension of the same principle as that on A fine of $7 each was imposed.
any rejected MS...nor to retum any Contribution, which carriages used for pleasure are taxed." No doubt exceptions will be inade where motor-driven vehicles are used for purely business and professional purpose, but with the tax as a whole there will be few who can offer serious objection to its im position. It is certain that the man who can afford to buy and run motor cars costing's Iris reported that the number of coolies going thousand pounds or more, can well afford the io Vladivostok has dwindled down to less than taxation to be placed on them, much more one-fourth of what it was last year, largely be
shillings a year.can afford to pay duty on so than the working man with a thousand cause of the poll-tax of Rs: 16. which has been imposed on sach incoming coolle since the re- tea and sugar necessary for the maintenance cut closing of the port to free trade.
The rales per quarter and terms, proportin
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stealing from the counter af:s shopkeeper of arc, Queen's Road Central Sto in subsidiary coins. The case was remanded.
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of his wife and family. We have SCRO THE Hen, Treasurer of the Alice Memorial
and later returned to Canton,
HIP ON'S APPEAL CABE.
Supreme Court, to-day, before the Full Court, Further argument was continued in the comprising the Chief Justice (Sir Francis Piggott) and Mr. Justice Gompertz, in the sp peal case brought by the Hip On Exchange and Loan Company, Lid., appellants, and Li Po Yung, the respondent.
The appellante moved to reverse the jodg ment of the Chief Justice in an original action is an far as it directed: (1) That the sale by the appellants to Kwok Yik Ting of certain pro party, the subject of a counter-claim, be set aside, and that the consequent entries be made in the Land Office Register; and (3) that the appellant's claims, as plaintiffs in the action, Yang with costs; and (3) that the appellavis be dismissed as against the respondent Li Fo.
and Kwok Yik Ting (the defendant to the counter-claim) pay to Li Po Yung his costa of the counter-claim. Thedefondant to the counter- claim, Kwok Yik Ting asked that the judg ment, whereby it was directed that the sale of the properties from the Hip On Insurance Co., Ltd, to the appellants be not aride, be reversed in so far as it declared such vale to be'invalid. Li Po Yung appealed on the ground that the SUBSCRIPTION LIST STARTED,
release of Li Po Kam from liability under the The Canton vernacular journal Kok See Po mortgage alto released him, hasstarted a subscription list inviting donations The Hip On and Yuea Shing "Companies towards the funds for the relict of the sufferers.ware represented by Mr. 1, K. Palinck, K.C., Telegrams have also been sai to Chiusie re-instructed by Mr. 8. L. Dennys (of Messrs. siding abroad soliciting subscriptions to aid of Dennys and Bowley); i Po Yung was repre Acuted by Messrs. M. W. Slade and E. Potter, who were instructed by Mr. F. Paget Hett (of
MORE HELP.
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The Central Relief Committee; has again seat out another emissary with a further 3,600 allies of rice to the fl oded districts for distribution among the sufferers.
the unfortunate people.
APPEAL FOR HELP. A letter has been received from the Kwong Messrs Brusion and Heti) Ning district informing the Central Relief Mr. Slade addressed the Count at length on Committee that the embankments in that dis-the question of law, and the case was further trict have given way in various places and that adjourned... foodstuffs are urgently needed for the relief of the people.
A HOPEFUL QUTLOOK.;
The present flood has not, according to report, caused such an extensive damage us that of last year, but it covers nearly the same 'areas în the riverine districts. Excellent weather ba
been prevailing during the last three days and it is expected that the floods will soon entirely
subilda,
THE SIAM DIRECTORY"
A NEW BANGKOK PUBLICATION,
prave of value and commercial importance to Among the publications which are bound to the marchant may be counted the Siam Direc tory, the first issue of which has just been issued through the enterprise of the Stam Ob- servir. Anyone who has had anything to do with the compilation of a directory, even the simplest, will realise the difficulties that occur at the catset in ensuring accuracy and simplicity, and at the same time the necessity of pre- sening the information in a convenient
here is added to that the special know- form has not to be overlooked, but when,
cemed with a foreign country such as Siam where all the customs and nomenclature arO opposed to Westers notions and training, these difficulties are increased a hundredfold, The new Siam Directory red,unds to the credit of perience of the country mirably fitted him the Editor, Mr. H. G. Gough, whose long ex for the work in question and it is now possible to find at a moment's notice the name of any firm doing business to Bacgkok and that of any foreign resident or Siamese dolability. Some
CANTON DAY BY DAY.
OUTBREAK OF FIRE,
[From Our Own Correspondent }
Canton, 5th May.
out in Tong Mun Street, when three buildings In the early hours of this morning, fire broka
were burnt down.
HOUSE COLLAPSE. ·
Sherdy bier noou on the 14th instant, a build
jog in Yau Lan Moon, rear the new bund, sud-
denly collapsed without previous warning Fourteen persons were injured as a result of the accident.
ROFERR'S ARREST. Wong Frok, a rubber who had taken part id the piracy of the steam-launc'; Kwing Wat in the West River a sbort time age, was arrested in Lung Wai on the 13th instant. The colprit
has now been banded over to Admiral Li Chun to be dealt with. ·
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HIT WITH A BRICK.
ACTION FOR DAMAGEJ SETTLED.
We are given to understand, that the action
Telegrams.
"HONGKONG TELEGRA
SERVICE
EXPLOSION
IN SHANGHA
MATCH FACTORY RUIN.
́EMPLOYEES' KIlled and wouNDED,
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Shanghai, 17th May,
9 pm. There has been a terrific explo sion in the Match Factory to-day.
Nine persons employed in the factory were killed and four others wounded.
The factory is ruined.
The cause of the explosion believed to bo the careless handling of phosphorus.
MAGAO DELIMITATION QUESTION.
COMMISSIONER'S SEAL
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[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."}
Peking, 16th May. The Waiwupu has deputed an official with instructions to deliver the Seal for the Special Commis Bioner to settle the question of the boundaries of Macao.
CANTON-HÀNKOW RAILWAY.
THE FOREIGN LOANS.
[By, courtesy of the " Sherung Po"]
Paking, 16th May." Yielding to the pressure by the British Minister, Chang Chih-tung has agreed to accept a loan from the British Syndicate for the construc- tion of the Canton-Hankow Rail way, and another from Germany for the Hankow Chengtu line.
SHANGHAINANKING RAILWAY.
PROPOSED REDEMPTION.
[By courtesy of the "Shịung Po.”]
Peking, 18th May:
The Ministry of Posts and Com- munications is dissatisfied with the working of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway and proposes to redeem. in order to place it under the man- agement of the Ministry.
THE EMPRESS DOWAGER.
ASKED TO ADMINISTER STATE.
AFFAIRS.
[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po"]
Poking, 16th May.
It is reported that several high
Honghang Celegraph sympathy with the cry of poverty comanating and Affiliated Hospitals begs to acknowledge ledge required in collating the facts' con- brought by C. Sequeira, a ticket collector, in officials have bribed many of the
.HONGKONG, MONDAY, MAY 17, 1909.
THE BRITISH BUDG&T;
Li Kam Chuen. Kwok Ching Chan
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the employ of the "star" Ferry Company Censors and they have accordingly
Limited, against the contractor, Lam Woo, for
damages, alleged to have been caused by the presented a memorial praying the negligence of those employed by the con tractor, has been settled. The claim, it will Empress Dowager to administer the report goes $500 have been paid over to be remembered, was for $1,700, and as far as State affairs....
the claimant. Lam Woo har the contract for
incomes ranging between and with thanks the following donations to the and three thousand pounds, and still leu funds of the hospitals:- with those over that sum. The addition of an extra twopence to their income tax is merely a sign of the times, and if in any way it lends to reduce extravagant living Quire a number of wireless telegraphy records The fact that in the near future the it will be a national blessing." With have been made on the Pacific lately. The Government of Hongkong will be under the regard to the proposal to tax land valuce United States transport Sheridan, which arrived
erecting a building in Pedder Street, and it is secessity of raising additional revenue in we arrive at a matter which though, long at Honolulu on April 6th; was never out of
stated that ose Sunday morning a month ago
PRATAS ISLAND, order to meet the financial, requirements of discussed has never come before the public wireless communication from the time Manila the Colony and to provide for the loss aus in the tangible form in which Mr. Lloyd was left until Honolulu was reached.
while plaintiff and some lady friends were pass-
EARLY SETTLEMENT:DESIBABLE: tained by the drastic policy contemplated in George presents it
of the pames of the latter, would form an iög the building a loose brick became dis- "The state will heace-
[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po!!] connection with the opium trade lende forth take one-fifth of the unearned incres, in spite of the strict interdict enforced excellent exercise for a spelling." B," and like lodged and fell, striking plaintiff on the head. peculiar interest to the Budget proposals ment of the value of urban land." That is against the importation of morphis, it has been the chairmen at company meetings we will Mr. P. W. Goldring (of Meners Goldring, Bar- which have been submitted this year by the the statement, and, though the amount ex the Empire for improper use, the Walwupu tas wonder how his familiars' address the Royal defendant is represented by Mr. Atkinson (of
take them as road. Still we are inclined to found that this drug is still being smuggled inta
low and Monell) appears for the plaintiff The
Poking, 16th May. Chancellor of the Exchequer to the House perted from it is only expected to be some issued orders to reprave the lexity of the Cus
Prince who rejoices in the cognomen of Messrs. Descon, Looker and Deacon),
Viceroy Chang Jen-chun has re- of Commons. While the conditions pre£350,000, it is the lasertion of the thin end toms and has also requested the Diplomatic The Directory contains a brief history of DUKE TE Tre, President of the Ministry of
Bsapubandhawongen Voradej Bkumarzogsi? valling in the United Kingdom ara catirely of a wedge which in time will result in the }. Corps, to.bid their nationals in strict terms to Siam, a description of the capital, anFinance, intends to adopt the suggestions/ ment of the Pratas Island dispute,
peatedly urged for an early sett different to those in Hongkong it is probable rending apart of a great and consolidated cease violating the prohibitibu, that the general principles laid down will be injustice, or injustice it is when betterment,
epitome of several of the more impur.ant contained to Commissioner Tang Shaoyi's as in the present excited condition followed in the Crown Colonies, where they built up by the combined effort of a great
Á SHANTUNG dispatch to Shanghai vernacular treaties, a short description of the Customs memorandum on Financial re-organization on of the minds of the Cantonese further do not affect the question of the "open community, is all appropriated by a mi- papers states that with regard to the College tarif, etc. Special sections are set apart for account of their practicabilly, port" policy. Most people will agree that croscopic minority. There is also to be opened in Shantung, by the Germans, it is the employer, while there is a comprehensive of Kobe has been favoured by the Japanese which, it has been proposed, should be
the foreign business houses lo Bangkok and As already mentioned, the Kawasaki Dockyard delay may give rise to disturbances. to adopt the war-cry of the tariff reformden tax of a half-penny in the on the value of decided to give most attention to law and alphabetical list of foreign residents. Altogether Naval Deparment with an order for the con and establish what is called "protection" undeveloped urban land, which is expected political sciences, as these are most beaded, the Siam Directory is a comprehensive.com struction of a second-class cruiser of 5,000 tous. in Hongkong would be attended with fatal to realise another £350,000. We are told by for no political or law schools are allowed to pendiam for the desk of the commercial tents The Mitsu Bibi Yard at Nagasaki has received results so far as the prosperity of the port in the contemporary, already quoted that with be opened by private persons under the
the shipping goat and the business man gene- | a similar cider. The Japan Chronicle nam concerned. More and more it is becoming regard to the proposed increase to the in Educational Regulations enforced by the rally. It is printed at the office of the Slam Isaras that the cruiser ordered from the Milau evident that Chinese statesmen, are straining come tax, the scheme is based on the report Ministry of Education. Mining and Navigar and costs the reasonable sum of five Bishi Yard is to be laid down about the end of every effort to retain Chinese trade in Chi of a Select Committee which met in 1906 tion will also be taught in the institațion
this year and completed in 1912. This verse! nese hande.” The swing of the pendulum and was presided over by Sir Charles Dilke, and only students who bave graduated from an
will be fitted with 'a Pamons forbian, while the shows how at Canton it is the desire and It may of course now be taken that the in elementary school will be admitted. Towards of visitors to the City Hall Library cruiser to be built at the Kawasaki Yard will. It is proposed by the Grand Rim of the Provincial Government to come-tax is a permanent source of revenue the cost of building, which is euismated at And Museum for the wack ending the to be fitted with a Cantis turbine, The advantages Council to have a Governor
build up
that centre of industry and though it was originally proposed as a feul commerce as an exporting and Imporary expedient and dispensed with when porting | entrepot of trade and so re the need was over, but none 10 Crac thece the importance of Hongkong any part either in its creation -
$10,000. It will also contribute $10,000 for $170,000 the Chinute Government contributes angst expenses, which are about $37,000 "Operations have been begun for the building of the College
sical.
May, 1909
Non-Chinesa, Chinese
of two styles of turblon can thus be fully tested..
CANTON.
GOVERNORSHIP PROPOSED
[Dy courtesy of the "Sheung Po."],"
Peking, 16th May.
The ordres just given to the two yards men-pointed for Canton, so as to rella » sloned are regarded as a test of the shipbuild the Viceroy of certain of h
Museum.
2,912
log of the two firms and of the respective ade Brem
Fantages of the American and English turbinas farious duties