Intimation.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY JANUARY 14 1010
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stituted himself a committer of one, and no generous is the central organisation tha they will register him, grant him the privilege to wear a robniče, or carry a banser, or take leave of bis sansas, provided always that all he does is done to the interests of this marvellous Car:
Peking Central Goviramsat have been directed Morse it is vocessary to collect Thu 285 for to do the same. Futhermore the gentry and the ovary Tis: 100 seat 10. Peking, For each TIL. Chamber of Commerce in the different pro- too sont to Pekinger is locally, what he vinces will be asked to contribute for their past | eupheminially, calls an "accretion " to this purpons by voluntary payments. The 160, bringing the collected amount up to Viceroys of Chibli and Linogking have opened Tis, zoo. To this are to be added to per cent
A S. WATSON & CO., |nival, it certainly, a good thing that Taft is the subscription withthirsty to ousand inels each.
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Colonial Secretary's Office, 10th November, 1909. Sir-tam directed to forward for the cou. sideration of your committee the enclosed copy of a letter dated the 21st ultime from the man tors of cartein vessels and to inform you that it has been suggested that a signal station should be erected at Taxi Tsio Mul,
2. His Excellency the Governor inclines to the opinion that once a vessel having bets
is its best guide and that there is therefore no man-necessity to facur the expense of erecting the proposed signal-station. I am accordingly to q ice what in the view of your Committee on being strongly of opinion that such a tiationis the point,, and in the event of the Committes
necessary I am to inquire what site they con sider most initabis.—1 am, &c;
(Sgd), F. H. MAY,
Colonial Secretary.
The Secretary,
Chamber of Commerce.
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(Enclosures.)
THE GOVERNESS SUIT.
DECISION" GIVING
The case was again resumed before Mr. Justice Gomparts in the Summary Coort this morsing in which Miss Eve Ergirdow filed suit against Mrs. Lydia Prior, of Victoria View," Kowloon, to recover the sum of $318.46, as damages for silaged wrongful diskmiseni from her position as governess, Mr. F. F. Hett, of Messrs. Bratton and Hett, appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. P. S. Dixon, Irom Mr. RA. Harding's office,' represented the defendant.
The plaintiff's cross-examination by Mr. Dixon was continued. With regard to bor last letter of resignation which she wrote to Mr. Prior, plaintiff said that she letter could be considered by her unless written in the form prescribed by her, "Asked if she bad been forced to write that letter, witness said the would not have been allowed to go if. she did not write the letter. She would not claims to her passage, if she bad known the have written the latter, in which she forfeited
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keeping pretty quiet in' these strenuous times. From that it would appear at first sight as if the the intel collected amount to Tir 286, The for the critzens of Manila have no time to Chinese Government expected the well to do collection expenses of taxes io England do not think of kim. Of course if he did something classes in China to raise a magnificent subscrip amount to's per copy of the tax, so that if we phenomenally wonderful, such as laying "the||tion fund with the abject of liquidating the one allow to për cent. for that purpose we leave a big stick" on the sturdy shoulders of Col. tional burden and at the same time achieving wide margin. Thus, ont Tix. 286.000,000 Roosevelt, be might get a paragraph in the this and without encroaching on the Imperial | collected in one year there are sent to Peking pipars, but it would come a long way exchequer, But the simplicity of the TI, 100,000,000, and Tis, 10,000,000 may gen after the Carnival in general interest. If scheme is its chief and,"we are afraid, only arously be allowed for expenses, makig warned of the approach of a typhoon, bas had been told by Max. Prior that no Talt or Knox or even Mr Cross thinks merit. In the first place if the Chinese officials 110,900000, legitimately accounted for, the sought shelter in Kowloon Bay, the barometer that he is the mult of the earth in these are required to contribute 30 per cent. per anrent" "Tiu. 176,000,000 is “accretion," accret- dyys he has orly to mention the idea tonum of their official salaries-that is to say, the ing of course to the overgrown
unite to order to learn the truth. Person-salaries which they are credited with and not darinate. An honest. mandarinate would save MANUFACTURERS. ally we enjoy the game of watching other the total sum which they manage to convert Chips at per cent of the Nalana! Deb and people chasing their shadows. Being built of into income by means of that well known device the whole could be paid off in five years a constitutionally lethargic anfore, and having generally designated "aqueere"if they have Then it is pointed out that Sir Robert Hazi ex- a natural repugnance for hard work we are ver
to hand over to the Imperial Government tharinates that a properly adjusted Lnd tax would able to appreciate the exertions of others, and 30 per cent of their minimum salaries "produce at a lower rate than sow exists Tia that is why we are willing to do everything
for a period of three years that deductions has 400,000,000 per annum. Allowing 10 per cent possible to persus de perple in Hongkong that obviously to be made good by book or by crook for collection expenses and there remains 360 a fortnight devnted to visiting Manila from the Now, it is certain that the only people
are millions, which added to the 176 millions at 1st of February nex will be a fortnight well likely to make good that amount are those ready mentioned, gives 535 millions or 68 per FRUIT CHAM-spent, When you have a whole city ramping wild
immediately underthe suffering officials accord cen, of the national debt that might be paid scurrying around in furious enthus asm, talking to their rank, and when we bring it down off in a yese without fecreasing the people's ing-la tea-inch capital letters all the time, and
to a fiae point the real subscribers to this burden in the slightest." The very simplicity sying like Alexander for new wo ids to eno
voluntary redemption of debt fund will be the of the working out of the problem tokes one's quer, be the least that are cas expect is a
unfortunate peasants, the small and struggling breath away. But, ular, when we come down triumph for the purple, golden Oilent. None merchants, the hard-working traders and all to sober reality, we remember that we are of your "grandiose simplicity" there, but some those who can in any way be brought within a not dealing with Elysium but with China thing that will make the nations stand and sigh joint system of octroi aud likin duer. Can the venerable, China, the apostle. offolo io muté admiration. Very decorous is the they bear such a burden? That is where custom," China the land of the ancestral gods. the needle pricks, for while they may be The idea of liquidating the liabilities of the language of the Manila Times in its bints that there are possibly som: people who are not
able to pay what may not inaptly be de Empite at one fall swoop, ao to speak, is per- | working might and min, day and night, lo the cribed as the superlax, it is difficult to see fecily feasible but there is about as much interests of the Camival: The Carnival this how they can mest all, the other calls upon chance of the financial anthorities adopting a year bas elements that make for greater their slender resources. That is looking at the commonsense policy of revenus reform in success than in any previous effort bat to
question from the broad standpoint of patrio- order to attain this end is there is of Halley's Leblove mead's work and hard work. Thik
ism, voluntary and involuntary. But let us comet swallowing up the moon. Still it is a see how Chica stands in the matter of debts source of pleasure to juggle with figures which and the power of raising money by the ordinary work out so happily as those we have pra square and above board methods to pay off her septed. creditors. According to the "Shanghai, Mercury, whose figures we used in last referring to this subject, China's debis are of three varioties":" general loans, indemnities und railway loads., I he amount of the first outstanding at a recepti date was about £45,000,000, of the second £65,000,000, of the third £12,000,000, or a
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complish bothing. Hell was not only paved with that sort of thing but has since been partitioned, called and decorded with it. That is the way to whip up the taggards. We | abserve that several shipping companies in Hongkong ore making special preparations to rus excursions to Manila during the festival
In two or three cases the round trip will only mixed with aerated or plain waterco $50, which is cheep enough in all con. science while it is proposed to charter certain steamers for the trip and to charge an inclusive rate of $150, the excursionists having their meals and sleeping,accommodation en board. Guaranteed to be made from the That fact leads to the conclusion that the
pure juice of sound ripe fruit.
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The Hongkong Gelegraph
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JANUARY 44, 19.0.
MANILA CARNIVAL,
hotel and boarding-house accommodation in Manila is regarded as insufficient to meet the requirements of the great influx of vititors' | during Carnival weak. We do not know whe: ther such is the case at not, but in any event
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE Russian Minister in Peking, it is stated, will resign bis post.
THE P. M. S. S. Co. favour us with a neat littlo. celluloid pocket calendar.
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of 122,000,000. For the sake of easy THE death is announced of Dua Karl Then- figures and because of small retuṛon since the dore of Bavaria, the famous oculist. da colourslarence we will call it £120,000,000, THE authorities in Kirim province intend to once almost by voluntary subscription. In enterprise. China proposes to pay off this amount at allow all the mines to be worked by private
Chinese money £120,000,000 represents Tir. 800,000,000. According to a computation by Sir Robert Hart, China's fimperial, razeone is Tis. 88,000,000 per aduent. According to figures published some time ago in the Shen
The cares new torpedo boats now being, built for the Australian Commonwealth are to be
named the Parramatti, the Farrs, and the Wartago,
UNABLE to pay money borrowed from his
exbibited.
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the focal Typhoon Signals which are not visible The difficulty lies in the existing position of frim Kowloon,at all
We wish to ask you if you would use your offence in arranging with the Hongkong and for the future be hoisted at Kowloss on the Whampoa Dock Co, so that the signala may
bil behind the No: 1 Dock. This would be
she would have
was entitled to it. There was no ch'e to advise her what to do and she had been tricked inté doing it. She inserted an advertisement in one of the local papera applying for a posi tion. She did not use the word “destituta " in the advertisement. The reason why she did not call the child for her music lessons was because she had had trouble with her latterly. Boogkong, zist October, 1907. The child was in the habit of coming in very Dear Sir: With reference to the Black Crosslare and when she did come she came with which was hoisted and three bombs which were very bad grace, it was part of her discipline fired on Tuesday indicating to those who were to give the child something to think about. interested that the wind was likely to increase Mrs. Prior bad asked her to calf the child ip a attention to the fact that those who were most admitted having said " will not call her." to typhoon force, we would like to draw your way she (plaintiff) did not like. Withers interested, viz-the various masters of vessels Asked if Ms. Prior had no authority to nachored in Kowloon Bay and elsewhere, had order ber, witness said. not the slightest,ides that these signals were done anything for Mrs. Prior if she wat
asked nicely. The cause of the trouble' was"
for the child's determination not to do as asked. parily for the way she was ordered and partly
Withes never was voluntarily rude to Cal Prior. She never heard Col. Prior fay" Good- morning" and did not ignore him. Possibly, to her about the lawyers. She did not purpose. it may have been after Col. Prior had spoken
ly walk up and down the verandah in front of Col. Prior's office. She never looked into hi cffice. She remembered "being with the child in ricksbas in Nathan Road. Two ganila. men passed them in a ticksba. She did not recognise them. They exchanged a faw words with the child but did not stop their ricksbus but passed on, if Col. Prior bad spoken to her about it, she would have apolo gised directly. She meant no mult. She could not say whether Col. Prior invented. those little things. She did not know what Col *Prior was doing; sto had nothing' sgails: him. fi was in Novembar tant she saw Miss Loureira, who told her that the appointment at Macać was ready for her. At that time she had een Mrs. Prior about her pay and Mr. Prior asked her ' whether she was going to rub oway. She did not tell Mrs. Prior whether she was going hway, as nothing had been settled. She did not tell Miq. Prior: "Mrs. Prioz, you have no control over me. I'll go just and when I like," Shearid: "Mrs. Prior, you have to control over ine. I'll go, as you have given ma leare ·
greatly appreciated by shipping men, for the reason that when we most requira information we, or account of having to leave pure moor ings for shelter, ale out of range of those in the Harbour. We are, &c.,
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Reply to Government ¡——
Hongkong Chamber of Ct mimerce, 30th December, 1999, Sir, I have now the booour to reply to your letier (No, obj1y06) dated fath November, 1999, relative to a suggested signal station åt Tsat Tsxo Mui.
My committee consider that the erection of a sigant station which could be easily seen by the considerable cumber of vessels which usually seek the shelter of Kow.
wa would advise those in Hongkong who inue the annual revenue is Tis. 105,000,000 quadros, a corporal of French Hussars put loan Bay at the approach of a typhoon, to do so." She later saw Mr. Humphreys,
WORKING O01 CHINA'S
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poison into soup at the mess, and 80 man narrowly escaped death.
SOME Japanese merchants bave proposed to churin, to compete with the business of the open a cigarette factory in Antung, Man-
ritish American Tobacco Co.
a
WITH. reference to the question of adopting change of costume in Chins, it is reported by the Chung Kuo Pao that the Prince Regent bas determined to order a change of the Chinese
costume Lext year.
They are not, however, in favour of Trat Tate hill behind the No, i Dock of the Hongkong & Mui as a site for such station, and suggest the
appropriate spot and within easier view of the Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd., as being a more sheltering vessels,
tend to take advantage of the trip to Manila Let us put it at The. 100,00,000. That is to
would be useful to the masters of vessels and When the child came to call her, she re would be comparatively inexpensive to Gov-fused to go into the drawing-room. Sha to secure rooms in advance; We all know what say, China proposes to pay off at once by
tjament.
also refused Mrs. Prior. She was too sbaky boarding-house keepers are and we know how voluntary subscription the equivalent of eight
at the time and she know there would be. trail human nature is once a corner in beds has years Imperial revenue. But Chins does not
Prior come to call her, He did not ask her to another scene. She again refused when Col been established, so that if Pongkong visitors stop there. China wants a navy and says 28 reject the commonsense plan of booking their she wants it at once, and this too is to be pro
come down perfectly civilly. He shouted odt. quarters in advance they are likely to and that vided by voluntary subscription. We might
to her. He bad always behaved nicely wards her but she knew he was not acting half the pleasure of the excursion will be lost, rockup aut, proportionately to her population,
To assist Government they have approached on his own behalf. He did not give her and all through their own stupidity..
or area, or is gth of coast line, how much
the Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd, a chance after she bad flatly refused but China would need compared with some other
who will be pleased to grant a free site on the said: "Very well, you leave my house in countries, e.g. 'Japan, but such comparisons VICEROY Hai Liang of Manchuria bas obtained hill in question and also to allow a member of quarter-of-an-hour" Witness did not say "Ok, would not be very much use because China Imperial sanction to build a railway from Hai- their staff to work the signals. The siguals and that's be." She did not call ibs boy to bring is bot at present going in for what she needs cheng to Tiebling, and some German mer-accessary gear will, of course be supplied by up her boxes. Nothing had been said to ber
chants have endeavoured to obtain the conces
Government,
about her new situation and she did not put but is going in for what she fancies shesion. Their application in being considered.
With regard to the last paragraph, my composely act in an irritating manner. As místrois peeds, and when these items of paval expendi
mittee consider that it would be beller were a of the house, be supposed that Mrs. Prior had ture as set forth by one official or apolher are
a certain amount of authority. added together we have proposals that will Deed £40,000,000 for their realization. Here OLE may be very generous, neglect a few naval bases, some superfluous conisers and put the figure at £15,000,000, or Ti 170,000,000~~ twice Sir Robert Hart's estimate of China's about income. But Chion's ambition is not
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has proposed to send a delegate to the South Station Sigouls, for the Company would A CHINESE report says that the Grand Council | Government servant placed in charge of the Pacific Islands, with a view to secure contri-naturally disclaim any liability in the event of butions from the Chinese residents there for a display of wrong siguals, The Comp.ny aro the National Debt Fund. This step is, how quite agrecsb.e to such, arrangement,I am, ever, strongly disapproved by Greed Councillor &c,
(Sgd.) B. A. M. W LLI`MS,
Secretary.
Since we referred to abe proposal, made by some of the patriotic Chir ese in the North that Even at this distance from the scene of acti-China should redeem her foreign debts which vity wa cannot but stand amazed at the io amountto over £110,000,0′′n, and include sumis ordinate pleasure which the average Ameri- due in respect of loans and indempities, there can in the Philippines gets from his bustling has been a cantiqued campaign in its Chinese proclivities. For the last month or more, to judge from the Manila papers, Uncle Jonathan There is no denying the admirable spirit wi ich has been careerlag around like a ben on a hot has induced the Chinese to adopt a plan in griddle, whooping up recruits, sweeping peace-volving all the timents of self-sacrifice and dal peace-at-any-price citizens into the press disinterested patriotism, but the questing is gang, levying toll on innocent citizens-all is Can 'Chioa succeed in bringing about a } to bo sátisfied with this,, Chinx must build her five, evidence that a man was under the infiu. 1
press in favor of this national movement.
the name of the Manila Festival. And not the revolution in this old-fashioned gentam in himself, but his young ast grandchildren are apparently out on the Warpath gathering in theabekels in orderto make
Na Toog.
JUDOR Backhouse remarked, at the Darling Bon, Sir Henry May, Co., burst Sessions, that it was not always conclu
ence of intoxicants because there was an odor
smell of
owo railways. She has in view some 2,000 miles of alcohol about him. "A mao may respect, when other
that she is anxious to build at once. Her latest railway loins have been at the rate of Th. 45,000 per mile of rail proposed. Put this at Tls,
nations have recognised the fatility of such a scheme? As we said before, China has doubtless been influenced by the example
drink, and be all the belter for it," bis Honour said. "It is a common conclusion to arrive at that because a man smells of drink he must
the Carnival an robounded success. How the of Japan in consolidating her astional deb's, 40,000 and we have a trifle of Tis. 80,000,000...be dryok, whereas it is often very far from
but Japan never went the length of attempting to repay all her foreigo, creditors in one grand slump, for the simple reason that the country could't stand it. It may be contended that with all her millions China, is in ab infinitely better position than Japan when
b:ing so,"
Colocial Secretary,
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sald hat there was no dopbt in his mind that The presiding judge after hearing both sides
plaiotit was very unhappy at the time of her arrival in the Colony. His Lordship said it was the case with most persons: com. ing ost East who after a time-changed their view of life in the Colony and ba could not help thinking that waï at the bottom. of the mater. His Lordship referred to the plaintiff's little grievances and characterized them as being foolish. With regard to the plaintiff's salary which bu ose occasion was kept back by the defendant, His Lordship. thought there was no legal justification for the ABSAULT ON A WHITE WOMAN.
act, although he had no doubt that it was dozavot io good faith, Then again plaintiff's refusal to Charles Hilson and William Waterfield, come down iole the drawing-room WEL BO stokers belonging to H.M.S. Fast, were placed such as to justify her dismissal and bis Lordship in the deck before Mr. E. R. Halifax, First therefore entered judgment for the plaintiff in Police Megistrate, charged with assaulting a respect of two cut of the three items on the writ.. woman named Lepa Zain, of 18, Postinger(555 96) with costs. Street, fast right and doing damage to her. dress to the extent of 575 in Queen's Road Central fast-ulght. Another A.B. belonging 10 bebaving in a disorderly manner and assaulting the same ship, also appeared on a charge of Sergeant Cashman while in the extcution of his duty. DA
Chambers og be queation of coste,
Mr. Dixon applied for leave to appear in
The application was granted;
LAWN BOWES CHAMPIONSHIP.
ordinary merchant manages to get through his
about a year's inoume according to Sir Robert. 'day's work in those stirring, energetic, forked-
Our contemporary continues: "Here then
"GOVERNOR OF MACAO. tightning times we can.ot comprehend. For it
we have three items totalling up to Ti, seems that everybody in Manila, big and
1,040,000,000. To this ars, to be added the
VISIT TO HONGKONG TO-MORROW. small, from the hod-carrier to the Governor
immediate needs of the new industrial con His Excellency the Governor of Macao will General, has been impressed into the service of
cers of Chios and possibly heavy calls on the pay his first official visit to the Governor of Cor another of the Committees which are
it comes to levying taxes in order public generosity for lamine relief or some suite embark at Macao on board the Ponia. ongkong to-morrow. Sephar Marques and rupaing the show. It is one grand spasm of to wipa out the possibility
of foreign preventible catastrophe of that kind; but as guese gunboat Patria at 8.30 am, to-morrow, pure joy, this whole-hearted ides "of "boost-interiorence made on the presence of safe these items are uncertain we may leave them sirving in Hongkong about noen. lhe off ing" the city of Manila and the islands of guarding the ational securities,, but a litile our of account and we still have more than a
cial landing will take place at Blake Pier at
The Final and Semi-final take place of the the archipelago, So far as we can make consideration, will show that even a popula ion round thousand million of inels to find at once 12.30 p.m. where a Guard of Honour and Band The complainant stated that she left the Police and Civil Service greçus to-morrow out frous what is printed in the newspapers, the of4comillions is not invariably a sure guarantee to pay off China's debts and secure beriode ing. Capt. 1. H. M. Taylor, A.DG, will mest o'clock and met outside one of the delendsnis, bave been completed fall risk competition will receive the Portugeese Governor on land Victoria Cinematograph shortly after eleven commencing at 3 pm. After these matches people of Manila are working harder at their that a debt of £120,000,000 can be redeemed on pendence of foreign Powers. This is equivalent the Patris on arrival, while Senhor J. J. Lais, who came up in her and engaged in conversa will take place between teams representing the firm than they unally do at their regular but the spur of the moment. Before we quote to paying down ten years' revenue. Can China the Portuguese Consul, will receive His Excel tion with her An altercation curped, dus four clubs Interested. Mausze, Haxton (Kow mass. Indeed, the papers themselvas are fall certain Egures in this connection let us see do it? The reply is that redemption of debt by leacy at, Blake Pier and escort the Governor ing which the defendant struck her on the loop) and Bell (Police) play for Gral place and ing over their "fonats" and "forms" in the how the authorities at Paking view the question, voluntasy, or as it would so many cases prove of Macao to Government Houre en bis official eye and torn ber dress. She asked the delen Messrs. Bloway (Civils) and Fetrie (Kowloon) attempt to say in a single breath all that is According to a German telegram dated Peking, to becomory, contributions would do Chios call on Sir Frederick Lugard at 1245 pm. dant why he had damaged her dress, when the for third place. In the tlaks competition being done. And to ask how the Carnival is 7th January, "The Grand Council has, en a
no permisol good. Then the question arises. There will be an official lunch at i pm,
latter, ordered her to keep quiet and say no the following foams are compaùng: Sikuly to "'pan out "—that looks like sound motion of Prince Ching and Grand Secretary it be taken for granted that Colux, ought afternoon by the Patria, being thus, usable to came up and assalled her and that attempted wood, Peacock, Golmsbow 'apd'
Senhor Marquet retorns to Macao the same more about it. The other two defendants then Messrs Scott, Dinnen, Farrall. Hart rican-is to invite a hurricans, saya tidal Shi-fan, extired the Viceroy and she certo set kenglf to work to pay off at once her acepta laylation to dieser from the Port Casting sacred for the Police, Messrs Ball, Langley, Rob wave of loquacity which would swamp a dozen armors to urge all provianist officials, to celiablities and provide funds both for Eerstesa Conspl the same craping. The Ports came upon the scene and arrested the defen. Gourlay, Pitt, Grant nad Oğu
ats country fair. Where a lonounce for three years thirty par cent. of their woods and hor luxuries can she do it any other, susse Governor's visit in of the oreal: format | dants a
not iku president, secretary or allowancen, in order to pay back with thi
Pechuracier, this being the first pccasion that he with this way? Certainly, Honest administration and
His Worship sentenced, the first endant i Blake, Faut and Wheel some commities thes in prompt amount the war debts of 1891-95 and of the collection of the present taxon would exve The mistration of the government of the nsiga,
comes to Hongkong since assoming the ady, to one mouth's imprisonment
land: Kwarded the horns and con- Boxer Leuble of 1900, * The clicula of the - 176,000,000 per incum,
bearing Colpo
Messia Bond, Brest * Inch