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CONTENTS.
Birth and Death..
Leading Articles:-
The Delinquencies of Chair Bearers.. The Commercial Scramale in 'Chida. Russian Me hads in, Manila.
Chinese Experiments in Wine-growing.. The "Benchs" of Municipal Government. Black August in Japan.
More Light on Min-la Merbods, Between the Day and the Dasp Sen. During the Dog Days.
Telegrams:-
Chang Chih-tung...
Canton-Hanków Railway.
Cbientao.
Shipping Diaster.
Naval Base.
Students for America
New Canton Viceroy.
A Deaiak
Naval Station. Hankow-Stechuan Railway. Manchuria. Railway Fatality. Foreign Debts. Jertfield Club Raided. Disturbance in King-au The Chientió Dispute. Hunan Province.
Macao's Dolimitation, China and Japan. Naval Commissioners. Tongkan ban Minos. Chinese Legation.
KOOLITSIYA SA
Legislative Council.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corpore
Jos.
Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd. The United Asbestos Oriental Agency, Ltd Legal Intelligence:—
Divorce Damages.
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(ESTABLISHED 1881.)
SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1909.
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Hongkong, Saturday, August 28, 1909.
THE DELINQUENCIES OF
CHAIR BEAN BRS.
RUSSIAN METHODS IN MANILA,
So far no wood.
set in, with all its attributes of intrigues, politics? Let business be business and launch Bohol, of the bureau of navigation, director. The company commenced oper On August 17, 1909, at Shanghai, to Mr. and cabals and petty squabbles. Such an exhitaliter polities. Occe sute that foreign No time was lost, for as soon as the Celestials tions in 1895 under a Government charter were safely aboard the lipes were cast off and issued at the instance of the Grand Secret- Mrs 8. C. Marshall, a soD.
bition for the delectation of the Chinese must doney came to her for her advantage and cerped, that is to say the passive onlookers toon get over the foolish portion of her sumed that the prisoners were taken out to "primarily with the intention of making wine who are the subject of this international present attitude. She would see that the the steamer Yuensang, which was to have from the excellent native grape grown in large investment of British, American, German, sailed at four o'clock yesterday afternoon, quantities in the Laichow district, as well as rivalry. At the same time it is bound to fend the Chinese to put greater faith in their Abd other money within her borders would but which was delayed until last night." It elsewhere in the Chibli, Shantung and assumption that the object of the foreigner is be more for her advantage than for theirs." is seldom that such a perplexing tale Feugtien provinces." It was very sood found, not to benefit the Middle Kingdom so much the fact is that as has been said already buy comes our way, especially from the land however, that the supply was not only as it is to secure the plums which are to being and selling should be left to merchants of the free. Assuming that the story is irregular, insufficient and costly, but that the had for the picking. Not only does all this and traders, borrowing and lending to the correct in its essential features, what reason grape itself was deficient in sugar and pro- bickering tend to give the Chinese a false financiers. There is no doubt that this point could the authorities have for deporting a duced a wine of poor and this quality, impression but it also tends to lower the of view is the right be, but when you have score of respectable Chinese merchants, men Some vines were then imported from Am character of foreign nations, in other words one nation appointing commercial attaches who drive in their own carriages? We do erica and planted in the Company's own their comparative disinterestedness, in their for the development of trade and another not say that such arbitrary doings have not vineyard near Chefoo, In 1906, under Baron eyes and confirm their belief in the maxim insisting that its ministers shall be men of taken place in other countries in Hong von Babo, the Austrian expert who manages. As a general business and not diplomatists what can you kong for example, but in that case such an the business, large quantities of different of China for the Chiueso. principle there is little to be said against do but follow suit willingly or otherwise? outery was raised, such an outburst of po varieties of vines, guaranteed fres--but not the principle, but the reactionaries are apt We are afraid that the day when business palat indignation evoked, that the author immune from discase by the Austrian Gor to carry it to its extremest point and and politics were deemed essentially separats ties thought better of their action and can- ernment nurseries, were imported and plant- celled the disgraceful decree. Not only so ed. These Bourished at first, but after some demand the exclusion of all foreigners and institutions has passed for ever.
but it jibbed at the idea of going into time became infected with phylloxers, the (21st August.)
even of all foreign goods, Not that the good When a well known local resident goes to
sense of the better educated Chinese
court, when the Editor of the Sheng Po source of which was found to be the birt threatened to test the legality of the measure. vines imported from America. The com- the trouble. of bringing a couple of recal-
idea remains. In contemplating the un-
(44th August.)
But Hongkong is not Manila nor we suppose pany had then to face the prospect of the citrant chair coolies before the Police Court would support, such a proposition but the on a charge of refusing hire it may be as-
Without the semblance of a trial and with. is the preponderating mass of the population complete ruin of its enterprise or the costly of the same race. But Americans no less alternative of gradually replacing every plant sumed that he has previously suffered from seemly quarrels of the international.com-
mercial agents at Peking the Shanghai out the slightest warrant for their action so this form of contumacy. At some li ne or
far as can be ascertained at present, twenty than Britishers pride themselves upon their by graftings on imported plants of the dis been made the victim of chair coolies and the subject, severely castigating those re- Chinese merchants, owners and managers of liberty and freedom, and we cannot believe ease-resisting varieties. The first batch of another nearly everybody in Hongkong has Mercury recently had a trencbant article on ricksha pullers who have hastily beaten a sponsible for such a condition of things, in long established businesses, have beca sum that they will tamely and tacitly admit that these was imported from Austria and planted- retreat if they suspected that the destination the course of which it said that dignity was murity deported from Manila by the secret the Government through the secret service in 1902, since when the process of substitu was any exceptional distance from their thrown to the winds, and heads of states service police. That is the story, in consi. may, without word of explanation, without tion has gone on steadily, with the result that demeaned themselves by entering, or per- derable space in the Cablenews of the 21st trial or heating of any description, quietly the bulk of the plants covering the yoo mou stand. And to be known or regarded as a payer of the exact legal fare is to be practic-mitting their representatives to cater, iuto inst, and even that newspaper, pro-American ship off a score or more of the citizens of (roughly, 120 acres) now under cultivation aily ostracised by the whole tribe of "Gon-competitions for loans, concessions, contracts though it be, inveighs indignantly against Manila, especially men of substance and are immune to the pest. During all these doliers. That is so in the case of Europeans and what not, in which there was at times the high-handed and tyrannical action of the character, at a moment's notice: The idea years the vintage has been accumulating and in particular, although it is a known fact about as much decorum as there was in the authorities. It would be decidedly ridiculous is preposterous. And already we see that a daturing in huge casks in the cellars of the that rickaha pullers, as well as chair carriers, wheat pit at Chicago. And our contempor- to get into a flurry over an incident for which similar view is entertained by our contem company-the actual stock, consisting of ary continues: "The whole thing is humiliat adequate explanation may later on be forthporary, which prints an editorial on the over 20 varieties of: xd and white still are quite willing to accept without a murmur a renuced fare from their compatriots. Why ing in the extreme. Who began it? Who coming, because so far we have only heard subject under the heading: "Where are the wines, being about 3,000 hectolitres red
was the culprit who first dragged his coun
one side of the case. It may be that the Courts?" In terse and frenchant language and 1,500 white. The wines are pro- wilter Bays: The "Chloese putnounced by all who have tasted them, this should be the case it is difficult to un- derstand, especially as the coolies impudent try's honour through the mire of the haggler secret service men had good and sufficient the ly demand "cumsha" even when excess fare and the pitch of the competitive financier? ickson for taking the extraordinary step they on board ship last evening and de- including not a few connoisseurs, to be has heen paid. But when the licensed chair To him be the shame of the present posi- did; it may be that the Chinese were in the ported may have been guilty of hein excellent, and much pressure has been coolies go the length of absolutely refusing tion, and to his imitators the disgrace of wrong, for we are all liable to slips occasionous crimes. We do not know as to that: brought on the company from various quar- to accept hire; the matter becomes infinitely their degradation," That is strong language ally, but what leads us to a contrary opinion No more do the police officers who put the ters to induce it to sell. Before this is por men aboard the ship, No trial was had,sible, however, the question of casks and worse. Unfortunately it is not every one who with a vengeance, rather too strong in our and of course it it only an opinion-is the has the time or inclination to spend a day at opinion, for after all there is something to vigorous denunciation of the act by the No court passed upon the actions of the bottles, which presents considerable dificul
men deported. In the face of the certifi-ties, has to be solved. be said in favour of those who seek to foster editorial writer of the paper we have men- the Police Court in order to prosecute a pair of defaulting coolies. In the first place the trade of the country by which they are tioned. In the first place, however, let cates of residence issued by the Government suitable for Casks has been obtainable in u see how the news-gatherer deals with to these men by which they were certified eastern markets. There is a glass factory at it is not agreeable duty to appear at the accredited. What we like about our con- Police Court at all on any account, nor is it temporary, is its vindication of Great Bri- the matter. His opening paragraph reads the right to remain in these islands and to Poshao, on the railway line between Tainan. pleasant to be regarded as a vindictive tain's motives in doing business with China,As the result of a fight between Ng si have the protection of the laws of the coun fu and Weibsien, which turns out a very Did we go to China in order to make com- Deng, a member of the Chinese Chamber of try and access to its courts, they were seized superior description of glass, but up to the and taken away from their homes, their present has not been willing or able to lyrant of the oppressed. Again, it takes a smart and athletic individual to catch the mercial profits? Certainly not; we went Commerce, and his nephew Ng Kew, over chair-bearers who by refusing a fare have there to teach China how to utilise modern financial affaire, seven men of the Bau Shung places of business and their families and put undertake the supply of wine bottles, The on board a boat and sent back to China where Chang Yu Wine Company now posseSIOS contravened the terms of their licence, while methods. In fact, it was in the spirit of Tong, ten of the Gee Hock Tong, and it is equally difficult to identify the number philanthropists that Great Britain entered several other Chioamen were deported laat they will land without more than the clothes 1,000 mou of land on Cheloo hills, but ar of the chair. In the case of rickshas, these the Kingdom, and if she had to indulge in night by the secret service without a hearing on their backs. Some of these are men who periences many obstacles in adding to it, difficulties are increased tenfold, owing to a couple of wars in order to bring the Chi- in any court!! That is brief and to the have been thirty years in the island and bave Though practically worthless for farming. the puperior ability of the pullers to make-to-se-of-reason that was only an point. But it seems that the members of both bulls up large businesses and acquired pro- owners of adjacent land ask prohibitive ence show that the climate though ocer- themselves scarce: When the chance does accidental and fortuitous part of her unselfish tong absolutely deny being mixed up in anty and have wires and children in Manila. prices. The results of many years expert
One of the any fracas; whatever disturbance there was. It has been boasted many times that under the occur of identifying the coolics, it is only the conduct. We quote again: few, as we have said, who will proceed ablest men who ever served Shanghai in nas confined to thetwo persons who were quar- Stars and Stripes all men are guaranteed the sionally injuriously damp during July, and against the bearers and pullers by legal more than one capacity, a man of high learn-selling over financial matters, What makes benefit ofthe bill of rights and that none shall August-and the soil of the district are on Mr.ing, of great intelligence, well-informed, be the affair additionally discreditatile to the be condemned by executive officers unheard the whole suitable to wine growing, and that process for the reasons we have stated.
but shall have the right to a speedy trial and a vast amount of bill land, otherwise Mowbray S. Northcote was therefore render hind the scenes, and capable of comprehend authorities-always providing that the tale
to be confronted by the witnesses against unprofitable, could be made productive if ing a public service when he haled two chairing what he saw there, wrote of British policy famished to the pressmen is true-is the conlies before the Magistrate yesterday and in China souse two score and more years ago fact that several of the principal members of them and to be informed of the charges of obtainable at a reasonable price. went out of his way to see them adequately in the following memorable words British both tongs were 'requested to call on the which they stand accused and above all shall enterprising pioneers of this new industry are entitled to all the encouragement and punished. A fice of $7.50 each was by no policy in China has from the first been cos-chief of the secret service to discuss a friend- be heard fo their own defcase in open court. means harsh or Unmerited, for it is common mopolitan in its character. The most carefully question. The invitation assured them It looks as though a piece of Russian ad-support the Government can give it knowledge that these coolies are connected examination into records will prove that those that there was no danger of any kind to ministration had crept in under the Stars When it is added that the enterprise has with guilds or societies which guarantee the words were literally true, How England themselves; all the police wanted to know and Stripes. The proceeding looks to us beca prosecuted in the face of many diffi- members against loss should they have the came to be in China is a thrice-told tale. were the facts of the squabble. The mem-like an outrage of law by the law's guardians. culties with extraordinary patience and per- We shall not repeat it. But when she came,bers who received the official billet-doux It must be that orders for the action came severance at a vast outlay of capital, the. misfortune to be brought up before the Court. What, we should like to see
it was to open a door which through pre-naturally obeyed it immediately for well they from higher up or those immediately in Commissioner's remark is thoroughly justi the Magistate do is to endorse their vious milleniums had been closed. Once knew that if they did not attend voluntarily
fied. It may be explained that a hectolitrov
licences, 80
that on the second or open, she put her foot down so that it could other methods would be employed to induce
equals 22 English gallons so that the total not be closed, and holding it ajar, beckon them to grace the conference. Those for
stock of the company at the end of 1908 third conviction for a like offence they should
was 77,000 gallons. Now if it is possible to have their licences withdrawn and if the ed to the other western nations to follow bertunate individuals who had not been sum-add is that we are likely to hear more of this
achieve results which satisfy those qualifed circumstances warranted they themselves inside. Frauce came, Russia came, and all moned suspected nothing; the business was
to judge as to the character of still wines. should be deported. We believe that the the rest when and as it suited them. They pure formality and their leading lights.
and satisfy, the Commissioner of Customs- Magistrates already possess the power to take bought, they sold-they-made profits, and would be in their accustomed places in were satisfied. From the very beginning due course. It must have come as a bolt
that the promoters of the company, aro on. such action as that indicated but at the mo-
titled to the support of the Government, ment we do not recall an instance in which England set her face against territorial ag from the blue when they learned that their
surely there should be a chance for Hong- the bench has taken advantage of their au- grandisement. Hongkong was a necessity friends had scarcely put a foot inside the.
secret service office before they found them- Many experiments have been made dur. kong to follow suit had start a similar, but thority in this respect, more's the pity. So after the experience of the factories in long as the coalies know that the payment Canton. It was in no sense a spoliation. selves being unceremoniously placed on ing the régime of the present Superintendent not necessarily rival, enterprise in the New of their fines is assured and that nothing The island was the abode of a few fishermen board a launch which was waiting and taken of the Botanical and Forestry Depart Territories. The idea, at all events, is a further will happen so long will they continue and more pirates. It was nothing compared to the Fuensang as deportees. The Cablement with the object of discovering what taking and attractive one-and then there news remarks that these merchants were plants are most suitable for cultivation in is this to be said for it, the tax on the pro to pick and choose their fares, keeping an with what England might have taken with eye for the over-generous passenger who out as much as a By your leave' either to not given say notice whatsoever and it is the New Territories. These experiments duct would help to swell the revenue of the spoils the market by overpaying them. Wit Chink or the rest of the world. America has claimed that they did not even have a have been undertaken in a purely utilitarian Colony. ness the excitement there is among the chair severely followed the same course of proced change of clothing and were given no op spirit, the ides being that the farmers may hearers and ric she pullers when the Ameri-ure. From beginning to end, these two powers portunity to arrange their business'affairs, be led to extend the area of their arable THE BENEFITS" OF MUNICIPAL
GOVERNMENT.. Can fleet is in port and the sailors are allow have stood opposed to territorial aggrandise. The men of the Ban Shung Tong are all land and embark on the cultivation of new ed shore. leave. An American bluejacket ment at China's cost, and for this reason have well known business men and as far quis and remunerative products. In the last re is not allowed to be a pedestrian even if he been more careful of their purely tradeinterests known were men of good character. Among port, if we are not mistaken, it was stated. There are a goodly number of people in would, for the simple reason that the coolies and less grasping after political influence," then were Sy Chian, a baker having a place that the Department had been experiment Hongkong who are under the firm impres know they have, an open-hearted soul to Certainly there is a great deal of truth io of business on calle Santo Cristo; Chus Tia, ing with the tea plant on the mountain sion that were a municipal commision ap. Hongkong Water Polo Shield Competition, deal with who will not haggle over a ten-cent that statement, but it only recounts a con- the owner of soap factory on the same slopes, because it was certain that in days pointed to look after what may be termed the piece. One other remark we would make dition of things which has passed away. Fifty street; Sy Kin, an Australian coal dealer gone by when Chinese tea tuled the Buro-parochial work of the Colony all would be and that is therewhould be rome sort years ago, people had not absorbed the on calle Caballeros: Gan Tib, the owner pean market the shrub had been extensively well and the millenium would be at hand. of regulation to prevent ricksba pul- doctrine of hastle Japan was practically of a bag factory on calle Jaboneros, cultivated in the New Territories especially The subject is a fascinating one from man lers declaring to Pumperns whom they ferra incognita; America had not yet realised and 'Pus Kan Oh, clerk, Agapito Uy on the higher levels, the lower ground being points of view, because it hints at relief from may deem undesirable fares, that they the possibility of Chlos as an outlet for her Tongco, the president of the Ban Shung given over to paddy and cereals. What the Sanitary Board debates which frequently come to nothing and suggests the intro are already engaged. It is practically surplus products and, indeed, with the ex- Tong, was also among the number," result of that experiment has been one can- impossible to dispute the coolie's statement, ception of Great Britain, Portugal and the According to the same informant the trouble not say, but if the Department is anxious to duction of a form of self-government which unless one is prepared to wait an indefinite Netherlands the foreign nations showed arose over a question of salary. Ng Kew, malatain its reputation for zeal and enter- always appeals to the free and independent time until his patron appears and even if the little or no interest in the Great Empire, employed by Ng Si Beng, as manager of his priso it might do wome than consider the citizen. Moreover, it can be pointed out alleged fare does not arrive who is to prove which is today the focus of the commercial business demanded an advance in his re possibilities of the grape vino. Parenthe that Shanghal benefits through the labours that the puller has been toying-with-the world. Who ever heard of all the London, muneration, and high words led to a fight.sically, it must be remembered that if the of its Municipal Council while Singapors truth. Especially is this the case at certain Paris, Berlin and New York financiers clé Ng Si Bong claims that the members of new milway is to pay its way it also has its Municipal Commission which hourt when assistents are leaving their mouring and. fighting to accept a loan from the tong took the part of his manager and must depend largely on the freight procur- looks after sanitary affairs and all the odda offices. In Singapore they have an excel them either individually or in groups? And not only conspired to beat him, but did so able along the route and every scheme and ends of work which are deemed too lent system whereby a ricksha coolie may yet Chins is in the fortunate position only unmercifully. He asked police protection which contemplates the opening up of fresh trivial for presentation to the Legislative obtain a pass entitling him to declare that having to say that all she wants is a loan to and the chief of the secret service detailed a fields of agriculture will receive the support Council. To those who have lived la cities during certain hours, say from one o'clock to have all the financiers of the world flocking Filipino detective to be with him day and of those who desire to see the Kowloon where the City Council was the focus of three and from five to seven, he is not at the to respond, and prepared to fight their best night and to act as his cochero when he Canton railway a success from the beginning local opinion and where strenuous fights disposal of the public generally belag en-friends-should-they attempt-to-make-fint drove out on the street at any time. He also With regard to the grape wine, this ques have taken place over purely local questions gared by a private individual. Whether advances or appear to be specially favoured preferred charges against his manager and tion is suggested to us by the publication in it would also at first sight appear that the such a system would work in Hongkong wo by the astute Central Government ip against Agapito Uy Tiongco for theft of an unobtrusive way of a comment in the first nicipal system as practised in the home cannot tell; probably it would have to be Peking. The Mercury, puts it in this way money, but the case did not come to trial section of the Imperial Maritime Customs country could be transplanted to the Far East. greatly modified, but at least it might lead to Nowadays there seems to be no such thing The men were bailed out, their bondsmen statistical review of trade for 1908 on the And, indeed, the report of the Public Health A decrease in the raucous yells which greet as trade pure and simple. If a bale of piece giving P1,000 bail for their appearance in wine growing business in the Cheloo district. Commission led many to consider seriously The Raub Australian Gold Mining Co., Ltd- the favoured Europeans whose generosity is gooda arrives it in so much 'in the politica] Pcourt." The curious part of the matter isThe report is written by the Commissioner | the advisability of advocatingthe adoption of balance at Peking. A mining concession that the chief of the secret service denies all of Customs, Mr. F. S.. Unwin, and has, | ■ scheme of modified municipal government known or contemplated.
therefore, all the authority which official in for Hongkong. But it is to be feared that formation can give to it. In 1895, a private | those who favoured such a proposal will find concern' known as the Chang Yu Ploneer their ideas sadly shaken by recent events in Wine Company, owned mainly by that well Singapore where the Municipal Commission known capitalist, Mr. Chang Chen-haun, who is described as an absoluto fallure, so much has done so much to advance the commer so that there is a concensus of opinion that cial and Industrial Interests of Kwangtung, the appointment of Commision of loc was inaugurated, Mr. Chang Ying-tung,
tung, his late the municipal disisistation
The Yam Question.
Lost Cargo.
A Lady's Age,
Police:-
European Gentleman Attacked. Chinese Policeman Charged. Trading Jonk Attacked.
Alleged Larceny of Opium, White Woman Summoned.
Lost Boys Found Found under the Bed. An Umbrella Trick.
Gambling School Raided.
Contractor Injured, Counterfeit Dollars,
Evils of a "Long Arm."
Hiss Address.
Correspondence:—
How to Increase the Revenue. Miscellaneous Artioles and Roporta 1---
Opium Farm Tenders.
Hongkong Policemen Mardered, Self-Goverment Society.
Opium in Hongkong.
Macao's Delimitation.
Notes by the Way.
Dr. Harston and the Tung Wa Hospital. ` Liquor Licences.
Squall at Wuchow.
Antung-Mukden Railway.
Mr. Rabt. Mitchell in Hongkong.
Highway Robbery.
Demented Woman Suicide.
A Curious Accident.
Hongkong University Foods.
Concert at Kowloon.
The Philippine Carnival.
Okelstene Fannd an Hillside..
The New American Minister.
As Aquatic Adventure,
A Stage Report
Shop
Looted.
·Harbour Refuge.
Colonial Veterinary Surgeon's Report.
Sotary Departmauf,
Swimming.
Shipping Enterprise......
Lamp Lichter's Death,
Opium Trads Depressed
2- Indian Tailor Injured."
The Opiam Traffic, a
Volunteer Corps Orders. Lawn Bowls.
Capton Day by Day.
The Question of Railway Stations.
China's Naval Re-organization.
Odisha Imming.
on Firt
Earthquake in Japan.
Alleged Renewal of Chinese Boycott The Bank of Korea,"
Lowering of Bank of Japan Interest. "Japan's Sugar Industry."
Nippon Fire Insurance Co.
Meiji Fire Insurance Co.
Opina Smuggling Scandal,
Coronation Day at Raub.
A Woman's Inhumanity,
Ragalla Robber,
Chinese Brains.
Commercial:
Yarn Market, Freight Market. Weekly Bhara Report.
TAB COMMERCIAL SCRAMBLE:
IN CHINA
Those who have watched the trend of
(3rd August.) create in Chins of late years must have recognised the unwanted international scram, bly for commercial precedence, which has
weight so much a completed railways knowledge of the affair, while the chief of much more. Is it any wonder that, the police In Manila refuses to utter a word on Chinese are beginning to soe in every cold the subject. In the concluding lines it is do that enters the country political lining, in, faltely stated that “At about 3 o'clock last every lown a hidden intrigue, Yet is China night the arrested Chinese, to the number of hungering for cheap capital, as Argenting over twenty, were taken down to the Legaspi as Brazil, and other new countries has landing, bo prisoners were in charge of a hungered. Once for all why cannot the number of plain clothes men from the secret be a complete dirons bringen business addi servios bureau and were hustled aboard the
charge of the affair would not have had the temerity to have performed the act. That is the Manila writer's estimate. All we can
affair.
CHINESE EXPERIMENTS IN WINE-GROWING,
(25th August.)
belar@constituted the mazardo
Tha