The Hongkong Telegraph.
NEW SERIES No. 8079
*CONTENTS.
Births, Marriages and Deaths. Loading Articles
Amaritans in Chica Through Occidental Eyes. A Chinese Redemption Scheme. Looking Backward, wak "Telegram":"A
"The Shanghai Tröta).'
The Waiwupu.
Feking-Hankow Railway, 'Hiu Shih-chang, (*)
Sir Chen-tung Liang Cheng Hooh-Hopah Railway. Chicatao,- Tibet
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Viceroy of Chial; .”
Meetings:-
The China Light and flower Co., Ltd. Camphall, Moore & Co., Ltd. "Ewo Cottoris.`
Sandycroft Rubber Co. Miscellaneous Articles and Reports: Review of Hongkong Trade in-190
Clark's Tourists in Canton.
Police Recreation Club.
New Penang Steamer.
Police Ball
Notes by the Way The P. and ✪ SN C».. Canton Athletic Sporta. The Far East in Parliament. Beliling Public School, The Minerals of Indo-China. Gunboat Rio Liņa,
Fire at Quarry Bay,”
Cricket.
Hockey.
Raising Silver Prices.
Fire at Macao,
Rubber,
Boys' Own Club. ·:
Hongkong Juckey Club. Canton Day by Day.
The Macao Houndary Question.
The Protas Telegraph Station,
Robbing the Mailbage, The Progress of China. The Revolt of the Empreses.
Posthumous Honour.
An Interport Golf Cup.
Loss of a japanese Destroyer.
The Seoul Tragedy.
The Dutch in the Far East,
Four Great, Fires.
Japanese Cotton Yarn.
Foreign Merchants in Japan.
The Business Half-year.
Hongkong built Veisels for Manila.
Opium Smuggling.
Hongkong Lighter Adrift.
N. D. L. to Domeo.
Kitchener's Narrow Escape.
Rubber Profits in 1912.
Commercial:-
Yarn Market,
Share Market,
Bullion.
Exchange.
Local and General.
BIRTHS.
SUPPLEMENT.
(ESTABLISHED 1881.)
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1909,
At one
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SINGLE COFF 95 CENTS
WHOLESALE EXECUTIONS,
The streets of Canton provided a mouroful procession when two prisoners were taken out. from the Namhol"prison and eleven others from the Pan xu prison to the execution stround and beheaded by order of the Viceroy There criminals were all found guilty of armed reb bary.
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BOAT FATALITY.
On the zied instant a sampan with eight persons on board was capsized in Ho Nam
LADY YUAN SHU HOUN, AN Lady Yuzo, wife of the Canton Viceroy, is expected to arrive here on the asth ́instant. coming to Canton to join her busband and is the gunboat Po Pit has been sent to Hong. - kong to await Lady Yong's arrival- and to convey her up to Canton.
DENUNCIATION,
CANTON, DAY BY DAY under the new rules, have to pay anything tell. That it will be years before it begins in the neighbourhood of $6,000 or $7,000, paying its way we have not the slightest
MAGISTRATES REFRENDED. which was manifestly absurd. On recon- doubt, but as His Excellency the Governor
From Our Own Carraigondent.) sideration it was decided instead to impose an has said, let us be optimistic on that as well excise duty on liquors, a plan which aroused as on other points. One feature in con
Canton, 24th December, much opposition on account of the fact that pection with the British section of a3 miles
H.E. Viceroy Yung She Haun appears to be' It would destroy Hongkong's claim to be a or thereabouts is the magnificent staff that free port in the true sense of the word. It has to be maintained by a liberal and gener-greatly displeased with the manner the Namboi i was argued that the establishment of an ex-ous government. The new superintendent Magistrate, Cheung Tang Kai, and the Pan cisa bureau implied that the thin end of the of the line, Mr. E. S. Lindsey, who has Yu Magistrale, Chou Yu Tun, have performed wedge making provision for the introduction succeeded Mr. G. W. Bves, is in receipt their duties by their failure to take adequate.
measures to prevent frequent robberies in the districts under thair jürisdiction “and alto of a Customs service was being inserted. of the lordly salary of £2,000 per annum This view was vehemently opposed by the while those immediately under him are paid their failure to affect the arrest of the robbers, overnment and after interminable discu- proportionately. What the salary of a gen- The two magistrates have been severely re sions which led nowhere and effected no eral manager would be if the line which he primanded by the Viceroy and have had their
That controlled extended to go or zoo miles we official buttons removed from them for every«« thing the proposal was adopted: very same night the new law was put CADDot imagine. The brain reels at the idea. day wear until further orders. into force, and a considerable quantity of We should certainly say that the post of native liquor which was being brought to engineer or superintendent of the Kowloons Hongkong from Canton was seized by the Samchua line, and a single line at that, is excise officers and held until the owners had worth far more than the office of Governor paid the duty. Such promptitude on the of the Colony. It is not our province to part of the Government to take advantage deal with stocks and shares, but in recording of the powers it had obtained was severely aume of the features which have marked the condemned by many who should have known year that is dying away it is impossible to re- better, but, after all, if the law is to be en train from touching on the invasion of the forced it should be enforced at once, especial- local market by rubber stocks originally
Med but they were all rescued by the water ly an excise law which is intended to act as a floated in the Straits Settlements and in
police. The police took these persons on board their glg and when the men were trying to gat revenue raising machine.. So far no particu- London. The unprecedented boom ex- tars are forthcoming to show what the effect perienced in this stock to which Hongkong ashore, the gig was also capsized owing to its of the new duty has been on the wine and was entirely unfamiliar withdrew attention being overloaded with a larger number of pas spirit trade of the Colony, but it cannot be from the old established industrials in Hongsengers than it could carry. The boats in the gainsaid that the law has worked smoothly, kong, which from a dividend point of view neighbourhood rendered prompt assistance and which may be attributed to the tact and have maintained their sound position as re succeeded to saving seven persoas, while the
a7th December. consideration of the officers who were accci- gards both their earning power as well as others were drowned. ally appointed to see that auy attempt at their producing capability. This was notably
NEW PROVINCIAL - TREASURER. smuggling was nipped in the bud. We must the case with the sugar companies which in
The newly-appointed Cantor Provincial confess we had fears that the illimitable spite of an exceptionally good year for Transuter, Chan Kwai Lin, is expected to at
rive here to-morrow. The Government gan- powers conferred on these officers, enabling the refined article show only a
the boat Awang Pum with an official delegation them to search at their marest whim and paratively inappreciable rise over fancy the luggage of incoming passengers, of quotations in the closing week of 1908. on board has been ordered to Hongkong to entering private houses at the instigation of The disastrous depression in the stock of meat the new Treasurer. The soth day of this some evilly intended informer, of holding up the shipbuilding companies is accounted for 10000 (the 1st proximo) has been appointed as vessels and questioning visitors whenever by the ingreased capetition both in theihe day on which he will take over the seal of north and south, by the creation of Govern office as Kwangtung Provincial Treasurer from they thought proper to do so, would lead to gross injustice and violation of the spirit of ment docks and shipbuilding yards and also Shum Tsang Tung, the regulations. Happily such has not been by the smaller fieets both of the British and the car, although it can scarcely be hoped foreign navies patrolling these walers. The that all excise officers will continue to Hongkong and Shanghai Bank has retained its pre-emineet position as the leading fin be equally discriminate and discreet in the performance of their irksome and occasion-ancial institution in Chine, but by diplomatic ally unpleasant duties. As far as the re- ncgotiations on the part of other foreigo venue from the import duty on intoxicating countries ita exclusive claims upon the at- liquors is concerned, the Governor bas stated tention of the Chinese Government in the, that he expects that in igro, the collections matter of the financing of loans has been will amount to no less than seven and a half successfully challenged and it has now to lakhs of which one lakh will go towards take the position only of a participant rather the maintenance of the excise service. The than that of a monopolist as regards accom- chairman of the Chamber of Commerce,modating China. "Un the question of land,
Yu Chik Hing, a student who was edocuted however, is even more assured as to the suc. it has to be recorded that there was little
sa air-ship about is feet (Chinese) in length ce of the duty for he has declared that the general inquiry during the year. Values con- the Unlied States of America, in building amount which will be derived from the ex-sued to depreciate with certain exceptions and 5 feet in width, to be suspended on a ball cits duty next year will be not less than a and it is a safe indication of the condition of loon made of silk gauze. Ya's investion is million dollars. It is all speculation to go properly when it is mentioned that in the re-about wearing completion; tha sitahip will bais into figures and nobody will be able to apvaluation by mortgagees of properties, on ready for inspection and trial in the course of preciate the value of the duty until the off-which money has been advanced, surveyors two or three weeks. cial statistics are ready for publication. In provide a 30 per cent. depreciation in almost any case, the finances of the Colony are safe every case, notably with regard to properties We mentioned that a occupied by hongs and Chinese.firms, Re for another year. Retrenchment Commission was appointed sidential properties by reason of the fact that to flod out whether it was possible to reduce they are limited in number maintained the cost of official administration in the Co- more or less their value from the rental long. The members worked in camera, of point of view. Turning to less speculative course, and eventually produced a document matters, it is satisfactory to note that, com which was a gem in its own way. It appear- paratively speaking, no great dienster oc ed that whenever they come across an item curred in the Colony. True, there was of a few paltry dollars allowed to some Go miniature typhoon in October which did verament messenger who might have to tramp some damage, but as timely notice was given 20 miles a day it was rigorously struck out. of its arrival the Boating population were all Allowances for gas and trumpery matters of snug and comfortable when the blow caine. that sort were cut down with a ruthless hand. The Ragnar, a Norwegian' steamer, bound In one case a high official was mulcted in from Singapore to Hongkong, was caught in a typhoon off the Paracels. H.MS. Astra a very large sum for travelling expenses but
was sent to the rescue and brought the when the searcher proceeded to turn over
marooned crew, who were half dead, toung province. the pages of that particular department it was found that although he had been filched of Hongkong. There was a serious fire on board the German mail steamer Prina Lud- his ricksba fare, he had actually received an increase of salary on another ground. A wig, resulting in damages estimated at a silary counts for pension the official in ques- million dollars. The bulk of the loss fell tion is not only far better off now as the upon French underwriters who insured the result of the labours of the Retrenchment valuable cargo of silk-As-regarde-social Commission but he will experience the full events, Lord Kitchener visited the Colony' benefits of its generosity when he decides to and went away with one of the finest collec- retire from the civil service. Not to put too tions of Chinese porcelain in the Far East. floe a point on it, how could it be expected Prince Shun and Admiral Sah were twice in that the heads of the administrative depart-Hongkong and Prince Arisugaws, followed meats in the Colony would seek to discover later on by the Princess, passed through on leakages in their own offices? In the end his way to Europe. Viceroy Chang Jea- this farcical report which resembled the result of the mountain's labour was framed, scored and scored again by the Governor, and finally thrown into the nearest waste paper basket. It may be that some poor coolics were dismissed and some poor messengers have to walk where once they were allowed tram fare whereby the business of the Go.
The following officials, Totals Was Hok Ki, Li Kwang Yu, Yik Fung, Sau and Lão Sul. Lio, are reported to have been denounced by
Government on various condita... the Viceroy le a memorial to the Imperial
A CHINESE AIR-SKIP. ·
以九十月一十年元統宣
means possible to avert the evil day which at elementary education of its future citizens one time seemed to loom in the dawning If the parents with that their children should future: It is for that season we would say that enjoy the advantage of a secondary educa 19og has been the year of experiments, or the tion they must be prepared to meet the cost year iconoclastic, the year when old prin. la part if not in full according to the meatal ciples have been flung to the winds and new vigour of the student, but elementary educa- formula adopted. Who would have imagin-tion is a State function not to be neglected. ed ever two years ago that we should have Moreover, it is difficult to reconcile the ad excise service in full swing in Hongkong attitude of the Government in this respect long before the end of 1909? Who would with the provisions of the Code. Under the have dreamt, that we should have commenced Code the grant schools in Hoogkong are operations in connection with the erection precluded from rejecting any eligible ap- of Hongkong University-a building which plicant for admission to the lower standards. is to be opened within the short space of two or forms. So that the Code, would have to years, with studente attending from all parts be soterpreted la most extraordinary of China? It was only on the sth of Janu- fashion if it were beld that grant.school ary last that Mr. H. N. Mody gave practical should be open to all and sundry in the lower effect to the scheme to establish such a classes and wet their grants should be seduc centre of education la Hongkong by offering ed. (f course that would mean that the to provide the sum necessary to pay for the greater the number of pupils attending the cost of the actual structure on condition classes the greater the cost of maintenance that others furnished the equipment and and as the result of a reduction in the grant endowment funds. Vely few of us gave much the greater the financial loss to the schools. thought to what was deemed a very visionary Such a state of things could not, surely, be if desirable scheme, for what did it mean? entertained by a reasonable Government, or It meant that within a certain period which the Governor has not given the question that was extended till the 31st of December or attention which he usually directs to educa a. year altogether-subscriptions amounting tional matters. At all events we trust such to something like a million and a half dollars an absurd proposal will be promptly shelved lind to be raised. Now where was that money by any responsible body of gentlemen who to come from? The idea was ridiculous said are capable of forming and lo a position to the majority of people who gave the matter declare opinions of their own. With regard second thought, preposterous and futile. But to the, work of the Hongkong Legislative His Excellency Sir Frederick Lugard pegged Council during 1909, there will certainly be away at the subject, and dragged it before a diversity-of opinion concerning Its practical the public at all seasons, interested the lead- value. Not for years has there been such a ing Chinese in the affair till they found spate of oratory as has flooded meeting after themselves wonderingly routing out their meeting of the Council; seldom have so friends and compelling them to disgorge, many resolutions dealing with, all manner of until there arose & belief that the University subjects from the Clock Lower to the Law scheme might not be so very fantastical after Courts matsheds and from opium to liquor, all. Once that germ began to sprout the been introduced only to be withdrawn in the rest was comparatively easy, although it was end or beaten to a pulp by the official vote; uphill work right along. Only when the and it must be years since the Council Viceroy of Canton sent along a couple of passed no less than 46 original or amending lakhs of dollars and another Chinese gentle Bills In a single year. One wou'd have thought man had promised a like amount, and that amon,st all those Bills at least a quarter, Messrs. Butterfield and Swire had contri- of them would be worth recalling but as a mat- buted nearly half a million dollars and the ter of fict'not more than three or four are other big firms and corporations in the of any permanent interest. 'It would seem, Colony had contributed their moiety was indeed, as if some zealous servants of the success assured. No doubt such a result Government had spent their spare time in will not be greatly enjoyed by the noble discovering technical errors in the existing and reverend lord who proposes to establish rdinances and thereupon drafted. Bills to sectarian college at Shanghai or Haokow meet the case and so swelled the list of Or or some other place, a college where the dinances brought into being. The principal The Raub Australian Gold Mining Co., Ltd. students will be mechanically turned into Bills to which reference quay be made were sanctimonious saints and plaster divinities, the consolidation Ordinances relating to but Hongkong is not bound by the 39 Arti- liquor licens and opium, the Trade Marks cles or the wisdom of the shovel-bats. When Bill, and the Rai way Bill. It is unnecessary we remember that according to, the reckon to say that the first two Bills were connected ing of the University Committee the students with thoaising of the Colony's revenue attending the classes are expected to nug Right Through the year the bugbear of her goo to 1,000 we scarcely think there discussion has been the dwindling revenue will be very much need for the noble and consequent on the action of the Imperial reverend gentleman's college of decorum. Government in restricting the sale of But, of course, it is profitiess to prophesy opium by closing the divana unless you know, Probably, then, the time it was the firm opinion of those in realisation of the Governor's aspirations to the opium trade that the Colony was being see a university established in Hongkong is brought to the verge of bankruptcy by the about the most important event of the year. arbitrary action of the Secretary of State in There is always this about it, however, the ordering the Government to make an end of On Friday, December 17, 1909, at Chia- promoters perpetually harp on the advan; the divan system even before he had heard klang,,Dr. Miroslav Urbanek, son of the late F. Urbanek, of Prague, Austria, to Lucy Ella, ingos to be derived from the education of the Hongkong side of the case. The Goy Chinese youths drawn from the interior to ernment itself was of opinion that the eldest daughter of the Jate Thomas Shaw Hongkong in order to participate in the Colony's revenue would suffer enormously BC, and Mr. Shaw, Beward Road,hets of a university education. We are owing to the fall in the tenders for the On Tuesday, December 21, 1900, at Shang- told again and again how British prestige Opium Farm, And His Excellency the bai, Frank Oswald Reynolds to Edit Lilian, will rise up and flourish like the proverbial Governor spoke in mest lugubrious tones con second daughter of Daniel Addison Darling, green bay tree, how the Chinese M:A's or cerning ways and means, although persistently B. Sc.'s ar M.B.'s, or whatever they are to declaring himself an optimist in the highest he called, will return to their patriarchal degree Apparently the Secretary of State homes trumpetting out the virtues of the recognised that he had acted with undue British Empire and the manliness of the precipitation for not only did he modify the British people, till all Chinz shall ring again original order, but he explicitly stated that with the sound of their grateful voices. We the Imperial Government would grant the are told that China is bound to appreciate Colony "substantial compensation" for any our loving kindness, presumably by giving loss in revenue that might accrue as the result us contracts at figures which will enable us of the Colony's obedience to the will of the all to retire and live in luxury for the rest of home Government, What that "substantial our lives. Frankly we consider that view compensation "is likely to be nobody has the arrant nonsense. It may seem a beautiful slightest conception. Repeated 'questions view but it is only a mirage at the have been asked in the Legislative Council best. A graduate has tender recollections on the subject but no satisfactory answer has of his alma mater even if it is only a yet been forthcoming. All that the Govern- ragged school, and he will not willingly ment has been able to say is that the allow it to be run down, but he does. Imperial Government may be trusted to not necessarily lose his common, practical redeem its pledge. Now that the United sense in consequence. Hongkong, he will Kingdom is in the throes of a general elec-
chuo was relieved by his successor Viceroy say, is a very fine, place, a monument to tion we wonder what attention will be paid
Yuan Shu-chun, on the occasion of the British pluck in the way of overcoming-ng-for weeks 10 come to this question
former's proceeding to Nanking to occupy tural difficulties, and the University is which affects Hongkong-not so seriously
the position previously held by H.E. Tuan very good school which furnished the best now perhaps, but still prejudicially. Had it
Fang The Chino Portuguese Delimita part of my mental equipment, but when it not been for the fact that when the tenders
tion Commission sat for four months in comes to the point business is business and for the Opium Farm were opened it was
Hongkong but arrived at no conclusion and sentiment is sentiment and like Kipling'e found that the estimated decline was to
the questions at issue. stand apparently East and West "nover the twain shail meet.” a large extent a myth the question of verament has not been expedited or the where they did. His Excellency the Gor- What we should prefer to know is that the compensation would have been of much speed of messages accelerated-but that is eraor unveiled the statuen of Queen Alex- HONGKONG, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1909-poor Hongkong boy shall have a chance of greater importance to the Colony than it is about all that the Retrenchment Commission andra and the Princess of Wales on the
attending this institution, provided he has at the present moment. The deficiency es with all its diving and deiving after inofficial King's Birthday and the new naval day hald up by a gang of pirates arsha How the necessary brain power and application, timated by the Governor was put at $500,000 finitesimal economies managed to achieve. I dockyard was formally opened on the same That is our view, without any flummery or whereas the new Farm which begins opem Of the Trades Marks Bill we need y nothing date with a Daval review. But, of course, more than that it brought the law of Hang we could go on interminably at this rate, When we pause at the end of another year artificial decorations and we diffidently sug. tions on 1st March, 1910, represents an actual to consider the incidents and events wich gest that it is the view of a large number of loss of only a little over $250,000. So much kong into touch with the law of England, One feature of the year, however, which can have gone to make up the daily round of readers. While on this question of education for the Farm, but it was in the handling of while the Railway Bill laid down the rules not be omitted was the recognition, by His life's activities we are somewhat surprised to let us turn to a matter which has cropped the import and export trade that merchants and regulations necessary for the organisa. Majesty the King of the sound work of were fearful lent the effect of the Imperial tion of the line from Kowloon to Samchun the Colonial Secretary during the past discover that the first and natural impres-up in connection with the elementary schools. sion that the past twelve months, have been We refer to the proposal to curtail the ex-edicts in China and the British regulations the British section of the Kowloon Canton twenty-eight years to the civil service. As crammed with epoch-marking occurrences penditure of the Colony by dealing with the in India should stifle the market. The opium railway. It is expected that the first part of Knight Commander of the Order of will not beat scrutiny. It is possibly a com school fees and the grants-in-aid under the trade in Hongkong represents a turnover of the completed line on the British side will St, Michael and St. George, Sir Francis mon trait of the human mind to regard the Government Code. The suggestion is to fully thirty million dollars a year which is be opened by the rat of July next, while May received the congratulations of the immediate past as having a more important appoint another commission-a sort of sup. very conservative estimate, and when to that the through line should be in full running entire Colony, the distinction having been bearing on our lives than can be quite freely plementary body to that which glorified itself is added the cost of labour, storage, insurance order by the following year. As far as the included in the list of the Birthday Honours, Justised but certain it is that so far as this with the name of Retrenchment Commission and freight it will be understood that it is not Chinese section is concerned, the English And so the tale is told. The year 190g may Colony in concerned there are but few occur and retrenched nothing-which will look into traffic to be despised, Fortunately the engineer in chief, Mr. Grove, has been not have been an exciting period but it has rences of such vital importance as to warrant this atter of increasing the fees by reduc silver lining appeared when new markets were pushing forward the construction with the been oon of strenuous hard work, and we can the belief that the year 19og will forming the grants-in-aid-Were-It decided discovered and the demiss of opium is inde-greatest energy and the first 30 miles from only trust that the year to be ushered in to mental landmark for those who reside in to reduce the grants in question the burden flaitely postponed. The next item of revenue Canton should be carrying regular traffic by morrow will ring in "the eager heart, the Hongkong Yot. It has been a busy year, of providing the children with a decent and which attracted widespread attention was the middle of zero. The foundation stone kindlier hand, ring out the darkness of the busy, that is to say, in a groping, lucose sound elementary education, so far zait goes, connected with liquor licenses. The Govern of the terminal, station building at Talisha, land.".. quent, tentative way, for it has been a year of would be immediately cast on the parents, ment, after much cogitation, sleepless nights, tau was laid on 7th of April so that evidence Conjecture as to what the future would bring, many of whom And it hard enough as it is to and deep thinking produced a marvellous is dot wanting that the Chinese officials are We are informed that the Yokohama office of how the present was to be provided for, and scrape together the wherewithal to keep scheme which had for its object the taxa fully alive to the ultimate importance of the C. P. R. was yesterday morning, lo receipt how the consequences of the past were to be their boys and girls in the class room until tion of hotel and publicar's licenses, ace this lines the people of Hongkong. In of's Marconigram from the RMS, Empress of obliterated. For most of the year we have they have gained at least a working know cording to the assessed value of the pro- dood, we should not be at all surprised to find Chi (which left Vancouver on the 18th light) been living in a land of speculative musings, ledge of the rule of three. As a matter of mises. In other words where a first class that the Kowloon-Canton railway, is actu. advising that she is das at Yokobama on the fighting shadowy spectres, warding off the fact it is a well recognised principle of gov hotel was being charged 3,400 per annum, ally of more commercial value to the Chiast. At 1pm. When the message was shopy of Anancial rula and seeking by every "omment that the State is responsible for the for a license to sell spirits and winch it would, wood than to the Britian, but tims alone can despatched the teamar) was 1,400 miles frem
On December 13, 1979, at Amny, the wife of J. C. Veir, 1. M. Customs, of a daughter.
On December 21, 1909, at Shanghal, to Mr. and Mrs. Arit, a-saņ...”
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of Shanghai,
MARRIAGES,
On Tuesday. December 21, 1909, Shanghal,
Harry Ross to Ailda, only daughter of the fate Robert Brewis, of Leeds, England,
4.
At St. John's Cathedral, on the 27th Decem- ber, 1959, by the Rev. F. T. Johnson, Arthur Leslie, eldest son of W. D. Suttae, Hongkong, to Rosa Elizabeth, second daughter of the late Henry Kennett, Hongkong.
DEATHS.
On November 24, 1903, in London, suddenly, Alexander Montgomery Bruce, late of the Hong kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, eldest sou of the late Major-General A. A. Bruce.
Shanghai, aged 3 years.
On November 16, 1909, at Cheltenham, Eng land, C. C. Gram, late of the 1. M. Customs, Os December 20, 199, at Shangbai, Hugh Cochrane Mereichin (Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China), aged 28 years ·
On December 22, 1970, at Shrogbai, Sarab, the dearly beloved wife of John Sharples, aged 67 years.
hr Hongkong Celegraph
'MAIL SUPPLEMENT, ISSUED GRAtis to SUBSCRIBERS,
LOOKING BACKWARD,
RAILWAY PRESIDENTSHIP. The shareholders of the Ganton-Hankow. Railway Company have offered the post of president of the Company to Total Chin Tin Kalgan Railway Company. It is not knowA Yau, at present director general of the Peking- whether Total Chin will accept the offer or not
a8th December.
LIKIN COLLECTIONS, A
The collection of Likin dues in Canton dur
ing the first ten days of the ruth moon, as re ported by the Likin officials to the Viceroy, amounted to 37,111.7.4.4 taclo.
CHIEF OF POLICE." Total Mui Kwong H, who has been trans-
ferred from Hupeh to Canton at the request of H.E. Viceroy Yaar, arrived here yesterday, Tuotai Mui will be given the appointment as- head of the Police Force of the whole Kwang
BULPHUR AND BALTPETRE MONOPOLY, M The sulphur and salipstre monopoly of the province of Kwangtung has been let by the Viceroy to So Wing Cheung, a merchant, at an aunusi rental of £130,000.
--------DISTRICT-CENSUS, -
The Viceroy has ordered a census to be taken of the popriations of the two districts of Nam cepans of the Province, Tas two Magistraten boi and Pan Yaas a first step towards a general” of Namhoi and Pan Yo have now reported that there are 50,938 and 26,330 families, respect- tively, in the districts under their furisdiction...
19th Decembar, STAMP DUTY, DON It appears coll That the stamp duty taxation: will soon be enforced in the city of Cantor, ibe local authorities have received from Peking for distribution 7,500,000 stamps of the follow
1,700,000 of 100 cash and 1,275,000 of 1,000! g denominations 4,035,000 of 20 cash, caso. These stamps have been handed to the Provincial Treasurer for distribution. (diana 4,
A cargo-boat felly laden with 'aundry marche-
sadis coming from Fatshen, was the other
$10,000 were removed. The owner of the vassal and the goods on board to the value of orez has reported the matter to the local anthoritie
PROVINCIAL TREASUREE GURU. The Cuaton, newly-appointed Provincial"
Treasurer Chan Kwai Lin arived bare at noon yesterday on board the gunboat. Kung Fum This new official will take over the seal of qffice on the 1st January sext...
་་ ' ། BALT MONOPOLY,
It was not until yesterday that H.E. Vicer Yuan Shu Hran accepted the application of the g salt monopoly of the Liang Kwang provinces," merchants Chan Fo Shum and other for the as well as the provinces of Kwangiunge at an andusi, rental of £3,000,000 tuele in, stead of li 513,000,000 as previously reported. The mono- polists have been ordered by the Viceroy to deposit a sum of 300,000 Laols in the Imparial
an advance, neby Goverment Tal Ching-Bank-in the saturn-of- LAMINATA DRASTIC PROPOSAL
For some time past, it has been the intanilow of B. E. Viceroy Yunn to abolish tha yiimblia monopolies, inkwartung, and to make good the loss of revenue by the increased painted. the new salt monopoly. However, a talen has been received from the Ministry o lection of rental from the salt mowongly at Peking with instructions that the fa bframed Fld
of Finns