Telegrams.
*"* HONGKONG TELEGRAPH ”
SERVICE
NEW CANTON VICEROY.
DEPARTURE FROM NANKING.
́{By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."],
Peking, roth August.
H.E. Yuan Shu-Hsuan, Viceroy-designate of Croton, will leave Naoking for Shanghai on 22nd inst.
Later.
Viceroy Yuan will leave Shanghai by the C.M.S.N.Co.'s 6.1. Hain Ming on 28th inst.
for Canton,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY AUGUST 20, 1909.
LLOYD'S Register,
DEATH OF THE CHAIRMAN..
We are courteously informed by Mr. Joo. Lambert, Lloyd's surveyor in Hongkong, that he is in receipt of an official communication from the head office announcing the death of Mr. James Dixon, chairman of Lloyd's Regis ter, which sad event took place on the more- ing of the 18th July last.
COMMERCIAL.
WEEKLY SHARE REPORT. Reviewing the share business for the week, Messrs. E., S. Kadoorie & Co. write this after
DooD:-
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Our market has been a little quieter dur ing the week and the business transacted bas been more or less confined to a few stocks.
The Hongkong Ice Co, Ld., have declared an interim dividend of $1 per share for the He will take over the seal of office on the half year ending 30th June, 1987, payable on 4th prox.
the 25th inst. The transfer books of the Com pany closes from to-day to the 24th inst.
Banks-Hongkong and Shangbai Banks
A
NAVAL REORGÄNISATION. ruted steady and only a few small sales have
A TOUR OF INSPECTION.
[By courtery of tie" Sheung Pd."]
Peking, roth August.. Shun Pui-lap is to leave Peking on the 25th inst. on a tour of inspection of the Provinces is connection, with the naval res organisation scheme.
KIRIN-CHANGCHUN-
RAILWAY...
LOAN AGREEMENT SIGNED.
[By courtesy of the "Shoang Po"]
Peking, roth August. On the 17th ins, the representatives off China and Japan at Tientsin signed an agree ment for a loan for the construction of tire Kirin-Changchun Railway.
The latest agreement entered into between 'Chion and, Japan' with respect to the Kirin
Changchun Railway provides:-i, that the Engineer-in-Chief and Chief Accountant shall be Japanese; x, that the agreement shall hold good for twenty-five years, during which period the line shall be worked by the Chinese" and Japanese jointly; 3, that the coat of the railway, which is estimated at Tis 2,500,000, shall be entirely borrowed from the Japanese and the interest thereon shall be five per cent, per annum, computed from the day when the whole sum is paid to the Chiness and 4, that the receipts of the railway company shall be depo sited with the Yokohama Specle Bank Chiun.-Shanghat Tloses,
ANTUNG-MỤKDEN RAILWAY.
been reported at $1,030. The London rate is 295.5/ Nationals are wasted at $65.
Marine Insurances,-Cantons are still offering at S195 North Chicas-can be sold at Tir. 125, Unions are slightly easier with sellers at $837). Yangtzzen are quoted $131.in Shaughai,
been placed at $115. Hongkong Fires have Fire Loiurances-China Fires have again
improved to $350, at which price business bas
been done.
Shipping China and Manilas and Douglases coolioue neglected at quotations. Hongkong, Canton and Macau Steamboats are on offer at Sji, Indo China have suddenly come into demand once more but at present price tberare no sellers.
The London quota
tion is unchanged, vir, £3-15 for pre- Terred and 3 for deterred shares. There are buyers in Shanghai at Tis. 46. Shell Transports ara on offer at 7:/ after inles during the early part of the week at 74/- and later at 73/6. Star Ferries, old and new, are unchanged and with out business to report.
and sales have taken place at $137, $138 and Refinetics-China Sugars have ruled ürmer $140. Luzons have been sold at Siz, and more are wanted. Perak Sugars are firmer with buyers at Tis 295.
Miding.—Chinese Engineerings have sellers at Tle, 18). Raubs are obtainablo at $8.
Docks, Wharves and Godowni-Kowloon Wharis have been sold at 560. Whumpas Docks remain fairly steady and sales have been effected at $60 and $51. Shanghai Docks are a shade casier at Tls. 79. at which rate they are obtainable. Hoogkew Wharis weaken ad during the early part of the week to Tls, 144, but have since recovered and sales have taken place at Tis. 148.
FILLED BY AN EXPĻOŠION.
DISOBEYING ORDERS RESULT IN WORKMAN'S DEATH."
ali-garnestness and diligence she is acquiring it. This educational movement on the part of China far exceeds in significance and importance the raising and training of a Chinase army en a European model. The ethical aspect of the A Chinese drill man named Lo Tam, of the awakening in declared in the bold and sweeping Shatin section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway,prohibition-against-opium-smoking, which is was fatally injured in an accident the other day. now declared illegal in province after province, His death was brought about by his own careless and officials addicted to it declared incapable ness. Early on the morning of the 14th instant, of retaining office if they do not break them- LoTam and others warnengaged in drilling bolas selves of the habit within a gives period of in a rock for blasting purposes. An order had been issued to the men previously that they were cultivation of the poppy is being drastically months. Striking at the root of the evil, the
not to drill in or near a certain hole in the rock,
which contained gelatin. Le Tam, however, contrary to instructions, meddled with this dangerous spot, with the result that there was an explosion, which hurled' him' some distance
away. When he was picked up and removed to the Dispensary it was discovered that three
of his ribs and his nose were broken and in-
jured in many other parts," He was treated by days later from the effects of his wounds. The one of the railway doctors, but he expired five
deceased was twenty-five years old,'
THE AWAKËNing of CHINA,,
HER NEEDS AND A GREAT OPPORTUNITY.-
The following appeal has been published in The Times London, by the China Emergency Commitice:
forbidden in many parts. Sotially this new
birth of China is equally, if not more em phatically, signalized by decrees forbidding the binding of women's feet. The utmost that the most sanguine mishianaties have asked is that girls under sixteen should have their feet un- bound, but in the enthusiasm for the uplifting of the race, one Chinose viceroy has ordered all woman under forty to unbind their feet fines to be devoted to the support of girls within four months noder penalty of a fine, the
schools.
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These are symptoms of the awakening, which is manifesting itself in every sphere of Chinese life. How railways have spread themselves and are being built throughout the Empire is a matter which cannot be dealt with here. That which it is of supreme, paramount signi- ficance is the fact that from its long slumber It is difficult to escape the language of exag- and self-content China" is at last awake, eager geration when one contemplates the spectacle, and intent on her education in all the wisdom of China to-day, breaking away from the tradi- and science of the Westers World, whose acquire the knowledge and power of the tion-that is the keynote and intention of China tions and self-content of a thousand years to knowledge she has spurned so long. Educa- Western World which, down even to ten years to day. In literaturo, in engineering, ia medi- ago, she despised and contemptuously refused cine, in philosophy, she is waiting, and anxious For anything approaching a parallel one must to receive from the West. No account of this tura to Japan and her sudden emergence from amazing volte face of Chios from her attitude centuries of isolation to become the pupil of of contempt and exclusion no more than ten Furope and to raise herself from exclusive and years ago can omit the part which has been Asiatic (oudalism in 1869 to the world-Power she played in this awakening of the world's is in 1909, At the present moment China is in greatest nation by the work of the Chris the first stage of that movemesi out ofherimitian Churches through decade after decade, morial past, like a chrysalis preparing to emerge from its cocoon. But the development of China throws almost into lasignificance the precedent of Japan, wonderful and complete as that has been. In the case of Japan it meant the re-organization on the lines of Western kaow millions of people. In the case af China it ledge, science, and progress of a nation of 40 means the departure from the hidebound tradi. tions, customs, and sterile knowledge of a thou- sand years of a nation of 400 millions of people. This one third or at least poe-fourth of the whole human family, bomogeneous in race and language, is now setting itself to school_in_sho. knowledge, science, and methods of the West ere World. The changes which the next ten yours will effect in China can only be dimly foresees, even by those who best know the patience, industry, and powers of learning of the race,
THE EMERGENCE OF CHINA. The past. ie years ja China have been❘ Lands, Hotels_and_Buildings-Hongkong.
sufficiently full of development, though no more Loods are very scarce, and with a fair demandthau preparatory to what-is-already-on-the-way existing the price rose to Sio at which buy. China's defeat in 1894 at the hands of Westere nors prevail. Hongkong Hotels, old, are
ized Japan at once roused Chinese patriotism and ber sense of the power of Europaso know wanted at 575 and the new shares at $45 ledge. Then followed ip 1898 attempts to Humphreys Estates are easier and offering at introduce administrative reforms, which led to $1. Kowious Lands are obraleable at $30.
the Boxer Rising-China's effort to justify her Collon Mills-Hongkong Cottons can be ancient ways and means by ridding the Empire and at $8. Ewos have strengthened to Tie of all "foreign devils. The crushing of that 137), which price buyers prevail in the North movement by the combined action of the lo other Northern lili wa taka, the follow Treaty Powers definitely established in the ing changes from latest mail advices to hand. Chiucie mind the superiority of Westers know. Internationals. Tli, 95, nominal, Lau Kung ledge, or, at least, the ineffectiveness of China's Mows. Th. 108 buyers and Soychees Tis, 430 ancient methods when opposed by European science and skill. As a Chinese official recent- "Before the year 1900 every
PROSPECTIVE. SETTLEMENT.
[By courtesy of the," Sheng Po.")
Peking, 19th August. The Waiwupu is about to come to terms with Japan on the Antung-Mukden Railway difference.
N&W LICENSE DUFF..
"IMPORTANT CONCESSION TO LONDON HOVIES.
sales.
Miscellaneous.-China Light and Powers arely remarked: oo offer at $61. Chipa Providents have found Chinaman was convinced that he was superior buyers at 5.60. Green Island Cements are to Europeans; since 1900 he has been convine offering at $8.85. Hongkong Ices are woskered that he is inferior. The victory of Earo- and obtainable at Srgo. A small lot of Hong-peanized Japan over Russia accentuated that kong-Electrics-bave-baco-sold-at-$10, and conviction.and made it final. there are sellers at the close at Siş. Union From that day China has steadfastly det ber Waterboats have been dealt in at SIT, and face to the West and to the acquisition of the Watsons @ $83. Langkals have shows a fur knowledge and power of Christendom. By the ther rise on last week's quotation and according Imperial Edict of October, 1905, the old sylla Mr. Lloyd George made an important an-
to latest information there are buyers in Sbang bus in the literature and moral philosophy of nouncement about the unw Budget duties on
bai at Tls, 1,040. Sumatras have been, sold at ancient China through which the officials and public-houses to a deputation of London Liber- the alightly improved rate of Tin 1435.
mandarins were awarded their positions was at members at the House of Commons. They Rubbere The Rubber Market has been a abolished, and it was prescribed that in future asked that the new ficèuse duties in the metro. little quieter, probably due to a set back in the the candidates for official posts should be select. polis should be levied on the basis of sales, sud price of the raw material, but this has now ed from those who proved their capacity in pot on that of rateable value,
advanced again. Our last quotation of Herd modern knowledge and education. With the The deputation was introduced by Mr. Caus-fine Para is 8'34 per ib. Kuala Lumpurs abolition of that antique system of civil service too, and included Capt. Norton, Mr. Horaiman, were sold during the early part of the week at examination (dating from the time when Alfred Dr. Cooper, Mr. I fris, Mr. Stopford Brooke, Cz. 13 6 but at the close there are buyers at. the Great raled England) came the establish. Mr. Pearce, Mr. Verney, and Mr. B. S. Straus. £2, 156. Anglo Malays are wasted at £7.ment of an educational system of graded 6. Mr. Pearce printed out that of the additional Balgownies are easles and obtainable at $50 duty of £2,000,000 under the bill London would (Spore) Linggis have buyers at £1 18. 3d. and pay £666,202, or 33 per cent, whereas of the old Ledbury's at £3.5l-, - ̧à daty, amenating to £2,221,359, London paid only £195,951, or less than so per cant.
1ONDRED BY BREWERS.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in reply, sald be was very desirous of meeting the case put before him, but tba" Leodou brewers had refused to see him (the only trade which had takan that course), as apparently their politics
· were dormor to them thạg their business.
· He was prepared to keye the London licenses revalued on the basis of the actual trade in the - houses, so that the license duties in London would in effect be levied on the basis of busi- ness done, and not on the presont rateable value, and with this object in view he was stili prepared to see the Londen brewers.
THE BREWERÉ' TAX,
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ș He took siception, however, to their action in putting up the price of beer before they had had to pay the additional Nanose duties, in ordar that they might influence their customers ́against the present Government,
GROCERS' LICENSES.
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Exchange. The Banks selling rate on Lon don is rs. 8 13/16d on demand. The T/T rate où Shanghai is 74],
Dividends Payable--Hongkong and Sheng hai Banks, Interim of £z per share for account 1907 payable on the 33rd inst. Hongkong And Whampoa Docks, Interim of Sij per share for account 1909 payable on the 23rd inst. Hongkong Ices, Interim of $1 per share for accouet 1909 payable on the 25th inst.
Forward Seulements-The following dates have been fixed by the Stockbrokers Associa" tion of Hongkong for Forward Settlements:-
August Setilament 30th August, September
19th September. October |
"19th October, November
29th November. December
29th December
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There is no sect nor denomination of Chris tianity which has not shared in that mis siopary work. Through schools, colleges, hos pitals, and the poblication of English literature io Chinese translations the mission have been the first to introduce Wostera knowledge and labour and the blood of many martyrs have led ideas to China. Decades of apparently fruitless up to the present position of China, thirsting for the knowledge of the aforetime abhorred "foreign devils. Active hostility to Christianity bas gone. Both the highest official and the people at large cow recognize the fact that Christianity has come to stay-in-Chion.-Acute- and impartial observers, indeed, bave declared that successful propagation of Christianity is probably the most vital factor in determining the future history of Asia" Speaking at the Mansion House meeting of the China Emer- gency Committee held under the presidency of the Lord Mayor on March 16, Sir Robert Han, whose long work as Inspector General of the Imperial Chinese Customs has given him the profoundest knowleds of China and its people, said: "We are alarmed lest Westera knowledge, and Western science may give the Chinese people strength without pridciple, and may even bring in a crude materialism without that bigher teaching and higher guidance, which are necessary for the best welfare of any people."
CHINA'S PRESENT NEED.
It is the realization of that danger, but even more a realization of the needs of China, which have led to the formation of the Chips Emergency Appeal Committee, the representa- tive character of which may be best shown by the fact that it includes Sir Robert Hart as President, the Archbishop of Canter bury, the Bishops of London, Durham, and Ripon, Lords Alversione, Armitstead, Strath- Co, Rosy, and Kinnaird, the President and ex-Presidents of the National Free Churches Council, Rey Alexander Mclaroo, Rev. Dr. Fairbaira, Rev. Dr. J. B. Patob, the Vice- Chancellors of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Glasgow Universities, and many other dis- tinguished men representing banking, com- merce, education, medicico, and various mit Sonary societies. It is the object of this Com- mitte to utilize to the full the unexampled present opportunity of establishing in China intitutions through which the Chinese people may be trained to educate themselves in the Western knowledge and civilization which they havo set themselves to acquire.
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tions which will continue to be worked by existing societies and agencies, so that donors to the £100,000 will not be called upon for annual subscriptions. Indeed, the Medical Colleges and Teachers Training Colleges will, when once óstablished, he maintained by the feas of the students. But China needs there institutions now in order that Chinese PILSENER doctors and schoolmasters may be trained and in turn Train their follow countrymen as doctors and teachers.
ASAHI
AND
(380
SAPPORO"
to-day the imperative, urgent, and immediate
That may be expected of China within the next 15 or 20 years, but
need of China is for Europeas ́ teachers and professors. Two of three years bence the opportunity will have gone which the occasion now offers of assisting-in the words
people to advance in the right direction." In- of Sir Robert Hart, "four hundred millions of
dia to-day is an instance of the grave dangois which follow the assimilation of Westera know. ledge unaccompanied by. Weitern civilization.
ChiDa In an ever greater degree that danger faces
Coina Emergency Committee, while pri
"It is the object, therefore, of the
marily establishing educational institutions, to elevate and rarely the letter of Western learn- ing with the spirit of our Western Faith. Thesa tuturo awaits crystallization, it is for this rea. are the years of crisis in China, and her whole
son that funds are now argently sought for the LIGHT AND immediate establishment of Medical Schools and Normal Training Colleges and for the diffusion of Westera literature in China.
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A MIG SEIZURE.
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The Sydney Evening News of 23rd uit, says:-Constables Robins and Joyce were in- formed on Thursday that about 6a tins, of opium were to be delivered in the vicinity of Belmore Markets that night, and that the drug was to be brought in a suiky." The officers named were soon busy looking for vehicles of the unlky_description for a considerable time, visiting the lanes and quiet streets, with sanses stimulated to a considerable degrea. At OBTAINABLE AT fast, Barly in the evening,-they-saw-s-suiky pulled up in Albion-street, in which a "man was 'snated. Upon searching the vehicle they found in a box fixed at the rear, a carry-ali basket, containing 59 tins. These tiny, it is supposed, contain opium. They were seized, and the defendant was charged with baying
had been asked by two other man to look after them in his possession. He declared that he the hotse and trap while they were absent.
James Loo, 34, denter, was charged before" the Central Police Court this morning, with having in his possession. 59 tins of opium suit.
able for smoking.
On the application of the police, the defend- ant was remanded until Wednesday next, on bail.
THE CONSPIRACY CHARGÉ.
Frederick William Dowling Dansey, 38, Cos
Sydney Wickham, 28, police constable; toms officer; and. Thomas Edward Love, 39, Customs officer, were charged at the Central Police Court this morning with having, on July 16, conspired to import opium into the State,
The defendani wara remanded úntil Tuesday next, on bail.
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Thera-is, frst, China's crying need of medi cal education-of schools and bospitals in which schools and colleges-Lower and Higher Chinese students will be taught and practise Primary Schools, Lower and Higher Secondary medicine and surgery. Already valuable work Schools, with advanced and technical curricula, has been done by the Union Medical College throughout the Empire. Temples were seised and Hospital at Peking, whose diploma is by the authorities and turned into schools, officially recognized by the Chinese Govern while maps and blackboards superseded an- ment, Similar institutions are urgently needed; teachers were lacking. Practically every pro-lor £40,000 for their building and equipment. cestral tablets and images though ́ trained and the China Emergency Committee appeals SPECIALLY vince may be said to have a no-called "Im Not less needed is the establishment of Cal. perial University. In the schools, colleges, leges and centres for the training of Chinese and various educational institutions of the teachers for the primary and secondary schools province of Chibli, the students number which are being established everywhere 100,000, while of individual cities Nanking, the throughout this Empire of 400,000,000 inhabi provincial capital of Kian'gsi, is educating tanta, The China Emergency Committee ap 10,000.
These are merely instances which peals for £40,000 to build and equip these show how the oldest civilized race in the world training collèges, ** is setting bemelf to acquire medero Josraing, Nor is this movement limited to males, for in defiance of the ancient subservience in which women have been held in Chine, the Imperial Government has promulgated schemes for the establishment of primary and normal schools for giris. Simultaneously there has come amaz.
Thirdly, there is a demand throughout China, for translations of European books. The de mand far exceeds the supply, though it is only through literature that the Chinese gentleman will acquaint himself, with Western thought and learning. The books sell in vast numbers, but the work of translation involves heavy pre liminary expenses. For this parpose the Chioa Emergency Committen appel for £20,000, Contributions can be specifically given, if desired, for one or more of the these objects the Chinx Emergency Appeal Committee, 28, Included in the appeal and should be sent to Victoria strost, Westminster, S.W.: or to the Hon. Treasurers, Robart 1 Barclay,' Esq, 54 Lombard-streets, EC; or the Right Hon, the Lord Mayon Mansion House, E.C,
These are the "three objects for the attalu- Resolutely and puitedly Chian hai, seated | mnant of which the Chine, Emergency Com
he feet of European learnlog, and la "mittee: has been established. It must be
A SHOCKING case of wblie slave traffic basing activity in the printing and publication of Just come to light at Arabadke, and has caused translations of English and European books, the the greatest, sensation In Hungary, The sales of which are being numbered by hundreds nurses of the large Marie Valeria Hospital in of thousands, Unfortunately great business I was stated on aand ult, that the negotia-sold young female patients who were penniless, maretricious books, and it is a matter of vigent that town have for six years past systematically energy has been devoted to the supply of tiona which hava been in progress with regard and had no near relatives, after their recovery, and vast importance that adequata means to grocers' license duties have resulted in an From correspondenca found it appears that the should be forthcoming for the translation and agreement, accepted by all the partias concern nurses had a clientele throughout Hungary and publication of the best and highest in Western ed, and that Mr. Lloyd George will put down also abroad, and that they employed many iteratura. mendments to the Finance Bill accordingly, agents in their degrading enterprise, The
27 CHINA (UHAČUND. {} The basis of the arrangement has not yet been, nurses and several accomplices have been arz
/ rested by the Ambadka police'
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