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H.K. SAUM IN PROCESS OF
"REHABILITATION.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY JANUARY 21 1910
Prince Regent might work a ministure revolus tion in the administration of Chiness affairs directed from the capital, mecha
MANILA'S PROSPECTS,
SOLVING THE JAPANESE PUZZLE.
to bear who
Telegrams,
"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH"
BERVICE.
RAILWAY LOANS,
FORTHCOMING CONFERENCE.
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Peking, 16th January. The Waiwupu and the Ministry of Posts and Communications have notified the representatives of the four Powers interested asking them to appoint a date for holding a con- ference to discuss the abandonment of the railway loans.
KINCHOW-LAM-TO.
RAILWAY
AN AMERICAN LOAN.
【By courtesy of the " Sheng Po."] ·
MACAO'S DELIMITATION.
REFERENCE TO THE HAGUE.
[ Py courtesy of the " Shaung Po"]
Peking, 16th January. A certain Minister has again urged that the question of the deli- be referred to The Hague Tribunal. mitation of the boundaries of Macao
NATIONAL DEB18.
PUBLICATION URGED,
[By courtesy of the “Shawng Pó”]
Peking, 16th January. Throne to the effect that the amounts Censor Chiu has memorialized the
of the several national debta should be. published for the information of the people.
NATIONAL DEBTS REDEMP TION.
LARGE CONTRIBUT:ONS.
[By courtesy of the "Sheung Pa"]
| people are all living in the Guest of all mɔriu of over-taxation, for le ls obvious that if possible countries. We have an idea that the people are to mest the demands of the the callic who ventured to decry Manila in Government and respond in the bashido spirit Manila would be treated to personal they must be provided with the wherewithal. Not for some considerable time has the
introduction to Judge Lynch, and it is only to keep body and soul together and at the same pame of Teen Chua-hsuan, otherwise known as
because we are two or three days' journey time contribute to the maintenance of the State. Shum, appeared in the public 'preta and wa
from the centre of civilisation-Manila to wit Baron Sakatanlike many of his country- foal sure that His Excellency must have bass MAlthough no official statement on the subject that we venture occasionally to blat as mildly man-is fond of allegory and in setting forth eating his heart out on account of this neglect of the trade of the Philippine Islands during as possible that the inhabitants of that city ́ate
his opinions on the state of Japan to-day by an ungrateful people. There was a time, the past year hat, up to the present; been reset exactly the salt of the earth, or, to put it in the vernacular paper called Industrial Japon not many years ago, when Shum, then Acting Ceived in longkong, so far as we are aware, the differently that there are other pebbles on he likened the Empire to an invalid and cald Viceroy of Canton, was the dynamic force of the Japaness awspapers appear to have been pro the beach. But nevertheless the spring. that the weather, food, clothing and all other Ilang Kwang and whatever might be thought ridid with early information. On the 11th fasting galety of the optimistic Manilac is an external conditions of the patient are quile of his principies it was generally admitted that
the Kobe Herald published a summary of the excellent topic in these cold and muggy wailsfactory, while his temperaturo, palse, and as a reformer who had the welfare of his country results, without golog inte figures to say great days when chilly winds and thick fage other symptoms are all normal. Uwing, how- at heart there was none to excel Viceroy Shum extent or even seeking to enlarge on the details alternately try the system and the temper, ever, to the prolonged duration of the malady, It was be who, in company with the ex-Minis
Bat from the general account it would appear lo concluding its remarks on the trade of the the patient is too timid to try to stand up. Being ter of the Interior, Chaung Pat-tze, planned that trade in the Philippines in 1959 was by no Philippines our contemporary says. "That so much depressed he may not be able to re or at least gare Bin undivided support to the means brisk; in fact there was a general reduc under the free trade conditions Inaugurated gain the use of bis legaif he is left to himself. Waterworks scheme, the building of railways,
tion in the value of both imports and exports. by the new tariff of August 5, 1909, there will must be encouraged in all ways to venture fae constraction of the Bund, the adoption of to face of the optimistic reports of the go be a considerable increase in the alums upon his feet. In the first instance, the Baron measures to defeat the machinations of thieves seral conditions prevailing in the archipelago of American shipment is to be expected, continues, the Government ought to apply and footpads and various other schamas which we are somewhat surprised to flad that but to what extent the Pallippine market strong stimulus. There are many enterprises for were all intended to: secure for Cantons there has not only been no improvement will be suppiled by the United States will the public to undertake, such as water-power. premier position in the maritime trade of China-but rather a falling off-in values" at depend upon how far the tariff differential electricity works, electric tramway construclos, Vith that object he had under consideration least. It may be suggested that trade in will go toward compensating, for the higher and the like. The Government aged not givasub- the proposal to deepen the approaches to the Philippines has been disorganised by the cost of American production in competition sidies, but it must encourage the investor and not the aaciant part of Whampoa, which was to uncatialoty of the effects of the Payne law, with other countries entranched in the trade, make bim timid. As for taxation, the Baron gain something, of its pristine glories at the
but we can hardly attribute the appampt schemed to accomplish, his object was to protect rog op: no matter bow the tariff might be chan products to the zative tastes and requirements, war, taxation has increased by 250,000,000 of Hongkong. In every thing he did or depression entirely to that cause. For this and the extent to which the Americas andfac holds that it is impossible for the Government to decrosse it.. Sface the outbreak of the late surer will press his opportunity, and adapt his and advance the interests of his compat-gad it was practically certain that even in its Of the year's exports the United States took yen. Of this, it should be realised, 120,000,000 riots. This was shown in a vary subtle fashion worst shape it was bound to confer a certain paly a slightly smaller value than in 1998, or a when he attempted to circumvent the promoters number of benefis on the exporters in Manila. third of the total. The large Americae demand on the national bonds and the repayment of you is required for the payment of the interest of the Kowloon Canton railway by constructing
In this connection Manila stands for the Philip for hemp has made the United States & good principal, the remainder being used for ad a railway from Houam to Amoy. Of course plos islande, for the capital city is also the con- Tuch a fan would have diverted all the traffic tral depot to which the products of the islands limited free entry of Philippine sugar and Ceres, and Manchutia, the payment of the customer of the islands in the past, while ministrative and military purposes in Sagbaling,
Peking, 16th January. An agreement has been signed for which would otherwise have been borne by the
are sent and from which they are shipped to tobacco ander the new tariff provides military and naval pensions, the repair of war a loan of fifty million dollars from Anglo Chinese railway and would havo nullified the United States and elsewhere. The chief
a much-improved market for these staples, ships, including the prizes captured in the war, the United States for the construe- any chance of its success even before it was in items of export which it was anticipated would
and fren admission of other. cammodi, and the like, The nation, having agreed operatina. The scheme was no souzar mooted gain by the adoption of the new tariff were then the object of the wily Shum became sugar and tabacce in the form of cigars. We production: A new era of Activity and quences, and, as the then Government failed to Lam-to in Sheusi.
tles furdishes a new stimulus to their the war, must be ready to meet its connotion of a Railway from Kinchow patent to the Hongkong Government and on know that with regard to sugar.the American An increased voluma of trade is, therefore, to obtain an indemaity from Russia, a representations being made by. Sir Erneal manufacturers mado strenuous fight against be expected with the lapas, of the restraining large increase of taxation was' inevitable.” Satow to the Walwupu the power to con
the free admission of the colonial product, and clause of the Treaty of Paris and the estabilshit is hare that other nations can sympathise struct the live in question was refused or allbongh they were not entirely successfal cancelled on the ground that it violated the they managed to limit the total quantity which conditions between the two countrism."
ment of practically unrestricted commercial with Japan. Sho waged a bloody and costly wae for the benefit of the world and now that forms of the loan Agreement. But if Viceroy could be imported annually. In the case of
ponca has been seatored she is left to face the Shum köpt o jealous eye on the dologs of cigars the same tactics were employed to pre-
problem of ways and moans. Who can won foreigners and took every occasion to thwart | vent the market_ruled by the tobacco truss
der that her nationals' should seek to secure at their efforts to gain a footing in the southern belag flooded by imports from,Manila,
foast a certain measure of advantage by the Provinces, he was undoubtedly a sound ned with the result that the law declares that
occupation of Korea and the exploitation of stausch friend to China and the Chinese. But ao-shipments under 5,000 will be allowed Following the example set by most news Manchuria? We fancy that japan is about the ho was obsessed with the idea that his abilities
to sator America free of duty. The immediate papers, the Japanese press at the end of the only Power in the world which would have could only be recognised by an appointment at consequence of this absurd limitation was the Faking. If it had not bees for his vaulting creation of a number of firms which undertook the chief events which have characterised the Treaty of Portsmouth was under consideration year devotes considerable space to a review of waived the question of an indemnity when the ambition and Inordinate greed of praise and
to fulfil private orders of small proportions and previous twelve months, and, incidentally, re power he might still be a tower of sirength on
We hardly think that Great Britain, magnani- have them passed through this Customs at the
ference is made to the flaancial position of the mous and wealthy as she may be, would have the side of those who claim China for the
reduced rates. It should be understood that Empire and the outlook for the coming year. allowed the golden stream to slip thrangli her Chinese. His whole idea was to reach the although the duty on cigars when the parca! We confess to what a distinguished Lord hands. Would Germany or France or the Imperial footstool and when he did even
comains a minimum of 3,000 has been remored Chancellor used to call a sort of partiality for United States have agreed to forego ber just tually get there. bis enemies rase in their there is a variety of other expenses to be mat figures when they can be comprehended at might and ignomniously cast bim forth in the shape of permits, stamp duties and ex-lance, but in the case of Japan's finances we not. If Japan seekt some compensating claims? Perhaps, and then again perhaps luto outer darkness. That is the reason why press charges. The new business of forward- have pondered and studied tão tables and the advantages for the losses, she has sustained Teen Chun-huan, lives in retirement in bising agents appears likely to become an ex- arguments submitted in proof of the accuracy of and the burdens she has bumble way lo Shanghai at the present time, tramely lucrativa ous, and we should say it the results arrived at without being a panor the can blame her? Certainly not the predatory practically unknowo, a stranger on his own
by solved the difficulty of several go-ahead wiser. In has beenthe fashion in the past 10 cod-cations of the west. Bot. to centings with fund. It is therefore with no little interest that Americans in Manila who were on the sider the Chinesa. puzzle as the absolute limit Baron Sakatani's statement. The Baron, in we see his same mentioned in the course of a outlook for new fields of enterprise. Bat bs of mental gymnastics, but we fearlessly assert criticising the repayment of loans, says: biographical sketch of the late Chong Obib fore the exact terms of the law were under that the Chinese puzzle is a game for infants inThe repayment of the national loans should be tang. The author is a Chiness official who steel many an unfortunato American in the arms as compared with the labyrinthine mazes decreased, in order to reduce taxation. Unless gives his name ns. Ku Hung-ming, a devout States muri bave hurled anathemas at the of Japan's 6oancial condition. What maker disciple of the late Grand Councillor and ap heads of his friends in Manila, Naturally, it the difficulty so great is the fact that no two parently a man of education, although he is was taken for granted that if the duty on
papers agron as to the total national debt, or zather too aaxious to parade bis knowledge of tobacco was removed a private citizen could the revenue derivable from the various taxes Western classics and Western politics, just ex- send a box of cigars to an acquaintance in the imposed after the war. We have the Orakd actly how Shum comes into the picture we are not homeland just as a reminder of old timer.
Mainichi declaring that the national debt quite certato, but we are not so much concern- People did not take the trouble to find out amounts to something like 2,000,000,000 YED, 2 ed with his connection with Chang Chik-tung about the provisos and limitations laid down in statement which is flatly contradicted by the as we are with his standing and repute in the the Act. And the result was that the Customs Japan Chronicle which shows to its own eyes of an educated Chinaman. Mr. Ku de officials at San Francisco "promptly pounced satisfaction that it must be six hundred scribes Teen' Chun-ksuan as one bi the trita- on these stray hastages of fortune, calculated
million yen more than the Mainichi's du virale who had something to do with Chang the duty on them and demanded payment Chih-tung-who'the others were, according to
timate, in this way: "At the end of 1908 from those to whom the gifts were addressed, the cational debt stood al 2,276 millioo the writer, we have no idea. Proceeding to
What with the extra trouble incurred by the you. It was officially estimated that by the end. sketch the ex-Viceroy, the writer, whose series officials, the charges for this, that and the waxtnf 1900 a redaction would be shown, and that of articles.appeared in the Sanghat Mercury, infraction of the law, the payment of duty and the figure would stand at 2,350-million yes. Bays: "He is the oldest son of the famous the worry incident to the transaction, the people.On the 30th September fast, however, the total Late Teen Yoying, Viceroy of Yunnan,, who in the States who were intended to benefit by debt of Japan stood at V2,506,1831, was accused of being implicated in the murder the thoughtfulness of the exiles in the Philip- increase of 330 millions on the figures for be of Margary. Teen Yu-ying was a torrible man pines found that they had to pay about the 3:st December, 1908. It is improbable that who put down the Mohammedan rebels of the times as much for a gilt cigar as they were there has been much reduction on these figures Panthay rebellion in Yusman in the same stern charged for the home made article. No wonder since then." Then the Mainieki lays it down way as Cromwell put down the rebellious Irish that they pulled lugubrious faces and looked as an undisputed fact that the national expen in Ireland, Like his father, Tson Chuo-bauan the gift horse in the mouth. But that is all diture is aix hundred million yen per annum, ls also a terrible man, He is a member of what done away with pow because the tactful
bile the ex-Financial Minister of Japan, the Germans would call the Yunker party. exporter has discovered an admirable me- Baron Sakatani, considers that the total annual The family also comes from the wild, still half thod of circumventing the law and the civilised province of Kwangi, the Pomerapia toke is they make no bones about their million and we would saggest that a hundred amount of taxation is, only five hundred of China. Like Prince Bismarck, Tsen Chop- duplicity. They simply drive their carriage million yen one way or the other is not to bauen therefore is a true Chiness Pomeranian and four through the Act and smile pleasantly be despised. In this instance the balance
Yunker. Like Bismarck too in the begio- on the tobacco trust, which for once was caught on the wrong side, and wa' have not yet. Ging of his career, Tien Chus-broad was papping, and the man who guffaws loudest is an ultra royalist, plus royaliste que le roi. the intermediary who has been bounced into this six hundred millions. the unfortunate stated the worst, for besides providing for In fact Teen Chunhuan first came into pro a flourishing trade almost without looking for Japanese taxpayers baya to contributo seventy minence and attracted the notice of the late it. The modus operandi is simple-thirty million yen for prefectural tex and about ninety Empress-Dowager by his ultra royalist spirit at men, we will say, each decide to send a box of million you for city and villages taxes, whils the time ul the Boxer outbreak. When the Court find to Si-an in Shensi Tsen Chaa-hsuan intermediary pays all expenses, stamp foos, 0 cigars to Amerca—that is 3:000 in all, The
prefectural, city and villago debts amount to the rushed to the rescue of the Court as Bismarck permits and so forth, charges so much for his millions. The financial burdes of the Japanese by no means insignificant sum of eighty rushed to save the dynasty in Berlin in 1848. trouble and sends the thirty boxes to hip people per capits for the year 1909 is reckoned But bare the likeness batween the two men agent in San Francisco all in one buc casas. Bismarck was a man who gave him-die. The parcel is duly passed through under the heading of taxes and 45'36 yen poder by our vernacular contemporary at 1095 yea self infioite pains to cultivate his mind.. Tsen the Customs, the agent opens the parcel and that of national debt. Taking the two amounts Chuo-hsuan is abiolately without mental cul- the separate packages are despatched to the together, it will be sean from the above figures tore. But because he is altogether without different addresses and the transaction is at that the total burdan of each individual, which caltare, Tsen Chun-hsuan fa sincere, and oplike an and leaving everybody happy and con- the Jacobius, such as Kang Yawei with his tented. It is evident that there is scopa for
was 16.95 yen in 1899, ruen to 60,02 yen in 1908, pedantry and falso idealism, Tien Chun-huan
no increase of 43,07 yen in ten years. It will be an enormous trade in cigars and already well understood that we do not guarante la not a visionary, but intensely practical. It milkons have been exported from the Philip
these figures, becanth we have only got to Is true he has not the delicacy of the Mancha pines, but they do not seem to have affected tum up another Japanaso sewspaper to aristocmey. On the other hand he has not the Swagger and vulgarity, the valgar love of display islands at least; there is nothing to show it cally incorrect. That is why we maintais in any marked degree the export trade of the
prove, that they are absurdly and fantatti. of Yuan ühik Kel, the parvenu. Foreigners in the summary pablished in the Kobe that the Japanese financial pozzle in the who hard visited Then Chun-kson in his resipaper. The tariff difficulty is
greatest mathematical-problem we over heard dence in Shanghai can see in the modest, sim this way by our contemporary: "The of ple way this son of a great terrible Viceroy, uncertainty of panding tariff legislation to-
Let us take it, however, that Japan who himself has been a Viceroy, lives ward the close of the year affected the export position to solva in raising the money to mest has undoubtedly a most perplexing pro- that is a gentleman, that he does total to some extent in consequence of the im- her ordinary expenditure and pay off her dedis. not belong to the parvenu compradare class. portant bearing of that legislation of sugar ex hat we must consider is-what probability is In short, Tsen Chon-house iv, an'1 bave said, ports, but in the falling off of Import values there that the coming year will prove more a strong, staunch, fierce ultra-royalist. He is tariff disturbance of trade appears to have figur prosperous than the past two years have been a man who would make short work of the ed to no important degren, and the 'general Jacobins and revolutionists, But as Fredreich condition as indicated by the year's figures is
The question could be answered in numerous William aald of Bismarck in 1848 Teen Chun-
ways. It could be argued that the boom and bsuan is too strong and oncompromising a man mercial depression from which the world is just the people-the Ganaciers and speculators, the to be entrusted with power in the transition recovering. Of the reduced import value mors paried to Chins now, where constructive states than half is to be found in the item of rice, and widom. The failure, of the banks cama merchants and the manufacturers-caution and manship calling for compromises is wanted. this, taken as a measure of increased local pro as a shock to the country, but the country Goethe seeing the Marshal Vorwarts of his time duction and increased capacity on the part of has recovered from the temporary panic Bays Nothing is more terrible than activity the island to supply their staple foodstuf, cust which was the direct outcome of spacola without insight' (Nichts ist schrecklicher als be considered a favourable feature of the year's tion gone mad. Thaetigkaltohne Elouich), At the present mo-
Last year some unsavoury figures. The total value of expons for the year scandals were revealed in companies of high THE gambling crusade is being vigorously all persons in power is (or, at anged from was leathan for any facal period piece 1904, the reputation with the result that the public be sustained by the Police. At the Magiera
this terrible Viceroy worst feature in trade was the low price of Tullen and Inexorable in his test in Markham Menila hemp. The market conditions of this red tortas serious misgivings as to the this morning, seventeen P.W.D. coollen en Road in Shanghal and when his soften humpar great staple-exclusively the product of the
credit of Japanese enterprises in general, and, ployed in the Lead Surveyor's Department gats the better of him in seeing things go from bad Philippines-were characterised by heavy ship company was compelled to show. Its band in P.W.D. offices and were fined 54 sach. An of course, the end of it all was that every other appeared on a charge of gambling in the to wome`lu Chisa, he takes a trip the lakes ments and steadily declining prices throughout order to satisfy and dissipats the suspicions of other batch of pine appeared in the same of Macao. in Hangchow or to the sea shore at the Pootoo the year. Export production reached the high the shareholders. That also was a good thing Court for gambling in the new Hongkong Islands. A dims may come when this Chineas est figure since American occupation, while pri for the country and once more emphasised Hotel extensions. The two ringleaders were Achilles may be roused to don his armour and ces averaged the lowest since 1899. The share the truth of the adage that it's an ill wind each fined $53, while the rest had each to pay times urged by the Waiwupu to do The Commissioner was several go forth to battle for the Greeks. But then, a of the United States in the import trade of the that blows nobody good. The real auswer Bass ranging from $4 to 85. the ex-Viceroy himseli said to me fast the other faland was $387,717 loss than in 1908, Ameri day, when that time comes, it will be a very can goods constitued 17 per cent of the total.
to the question, however, is to be found in bad time indeed for Chias and every body."
the fact that the taxpayers knowing what is | IT is notified, in the Garelle, that by command valas of Philippine Imports, and there was a re-expected of them, bavo settled down to the
HE. Kao's report was only sub. Such is the character sketch of the ex-Viceroy latively insignificant increase over the propor hoary task of clearing off their incombrances,
of His Excellency the Governor, and pursuant mitted yesterday. by a fellow-countrymas, and even if we have to tion of the previous year. It will be sean that recognising that the sooner the burden of debt ment Ordinance, 1909, (Ordinance No. 46 to section 5 of the Liquor Licenças Amend- dig rather deep to discover exactly what he the cloud of depression, as sean by the is moved the sooner will Japan be free to of 1999), an election by the Justices of the means it is evidostitial he has a profound belief Japanese critic, hauga over the story from engage on frash fields of conquest: Evidences Pesce of three Justices of the Pesce to In the powers of Shem to work for the weal of the beginning to the end, But it should are not wasting that the depression which has serve on the Licensing Board will tako ComWednesday,
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the loans are decreased, he says, the nation's burden can not be lightened and asless it is. lightened the Empire will be in a terrible. dificulty if a new emergency arises. Taking the total annual amount of taxation to be Y400,000,000, the works put at Yio por head. This means that, putting the average earnings for a day at so son, a man has to work for the country for twenty days a year, That is cerisialy very high ai compared with some Europeau countries, but it is not as- endurable. Like Germany, Japan mast con- sent to endure a heavy burden if she wishes to; come up with the other first-class Powers in civilization and power." Another critic, the It compares the condition of the Japapeso busi- Oriental Economist, also indiges in simile ness world to that of a locomotive fully pro vided with coal and water, which only needs get into motion. someone to, sat fire to its fuel in order to The Government, how- ever, the journal contends, le preventing the fire from being lighted by relaxing to float any loans whatever and making excessive ro payments on loans. The flotation of neproduc tíva loans is, as a matter of course, bad and the railways, the monopolies, and other busi unwise, but if the Government would improve
nesies, or extend its existlog' enterprises, by means of loans, it is certain that, to continne the simile, the locomotiva.would commence 14, Economist had already bean celebrating the New move. We are afraid the writer in the
gloomy visage. And his economy will not Year for he regards the fatore with a dark and
stand the searchlight of examination for while be deprecates the system of loans in one san. wholesale in the next, forgetting that it was tha tace he would have Japan ladling out loans superabundance of loans which led to the firs cial crash two years ago, the effects of which On the whole, theo, while dark clouds stil! are still perceptible in Japan's balanca-sheet hover over Dai Nippon, the air is clearing and it only remains for the guides and counsellors of the nation to walk, warily and circumspectly in order that an era of prosperity broadbased on the people's labour and enterprise may ra* tüm to the island kingdom of the Orient..
Joko, described as a native of Portland, in the A YOUTH Damed William Peter, allas Yeung United States of Americe, appeared in the dock in the Police Court this morning charged with (1) stealing a kimono valued at Stg from No. 27, Ship Street and (3) stealing bicycle
valued at $ty from cycle-dealer's establish- ment in Ship Street. He was sentenced ons month's hard labour on each count, H.E. General Sir Joachim Machado, KCM.O Portagesse Delimitation Commissioner, and Capt. J. M. R. Norton arrived from the North lency, on Sunday afternoon, distributed the Company, Shanghal Valunteer Corps. The prizes won by the members of the Portuguese Portuguese Commissioner resumen kli journay to Lisbon by the P. & O, 8, N. Cols s3, Dované to»MBITOW,
Peking, 17th January, Viceroy Sik Liang has offered to contribute. Tis. 60,000 towards the National Debts Redemption Find,
Governor Cheng Tak-cheung, of the Thres Eastern Provinces, is willing to subscribo Tis. 30,00", THE NAVAL COMMIS- SIONERS.
· RECEIVED BY THE TSAR OF RUSSIA.
[By courtesy of the" Shaung Po."]
Peking, 18th January. Prince Shun Pui-lap, the Naval
that he had had an audience with Commissioner, has wired to the effect
H.M. the Tear who has conferred Russian Order on him.
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Prince Shun states that he will return to China before the Chinese New Year.
·GENERAL MACHADO,
ARRIVAL AT SHANGHAI.
[By courier of the "Sheung.Po"]
Shanghai, 18th January H.E. General Sir Joachim Macha- de, the Portuguess Delimitation Commissioner; arrived from Peking on the 17th inst, and is staying at the
Astor House Hotel.
MACAO BOUNDARY QUESTION.
to be explained rather by the widespread com- bubble period which followed the war taught, this morning. When at Shanghai, His Excel CHINESE COMMISSIONES REPORT
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China/It is of course unfortunate that the.not be forgotten that people in Japan bawa the overhung Japan for the last two or three years place at the Magisang 4 o'clock f
things. They have become, up inured), so bad habit of searching for the worst side of is passing away, but the Japanese have along the 26th inst dismal reports they they can scarcely conceive The cheery optimism of the Isading, men in rots at the alection are the Justices of the road to travel, before they are out of the wood the afternoon. The only permans entitled to
greatest contrast in the newspaper world is to augury, for their sanguine expectations and cordance with the rules made by the Governor the meaning of the silver lining., Probably the finance and commerce, however; la a happy, Peace. The election will be conducted in ac be found in the paper published in Japan and high spirits proceed from a dus appreciation In-Council under secilen 5 of the above usDN' those published in 24anoila. In the first cam of the difficulties, which; face; them Zand Ordinanca dated 5th January, 1910, and the Governandes 'Gaville dated' yth
[By courtesy of the "Sheung Fr."] :
SHENG KUNG PO
· EXPECTED IN PEKING.
[By courtsay of the “ Sheng Pa!)
* Poking, 19th January, Sheng Kung-po, the Treaty Revi- sion Commissioner, has telegraphed to the Central Government stating that he will arrive in Peking before the China New Year.
THE NAVAL COMMIS SIONERS.
RETURN TO PEKING.
[By courtesy of the "Shaung Po."]
Peking, 19th January. Prince Shun Fui-lap has tale graphed to Poking for an escort to meet him at Harbin,
His Highness has also asked for a supply of warm clothing to be dee patched to him:
SHANGHAI DOCK 00.
PROSPECTS OF REMUNERATIVE BUSINESS.
:
From Our Own Correspondent,]
Shanghai, 20th January, 2.80 p.m.
remune-
In view of prospects of rative business for the Shanghai Dock and Engineering Co, Ld, started buying for covering purposes. short sellers of Shanghai Docks have
There are no sellers in the market to-day.
Untraceable rumours concerning the Company should be disregarded.
THE LANGKAT CASE.
APPEAL TO PRIVY COUNCIL. [From Our Own Correspondent.]
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Shanghai, 20th January, 2.80 p.m.
B. F. MoBain leave to appeal to the In the case M. M. Tackey u. R. Privy Council has been granted on condition that £400 be deposited as security for costs.
This action was originally tried before Sir Havilland de Sausmurez with Jary on the 18th, 191b, zoth and aust of October, whan the jury found a verdict for the defendant. There were three questions left to them.
Did the defendant makes falsorapteionta».
tion, to A derson and others to the effect that no news affecting the value of the company's
· property in Samatra or otherwise had been received by tim or by the company ?·
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2. When making this statement, did the de fendeul directly intend that brokers and holders of shares in the Langkat Company should act upon such information by selling their shares on the 15th, 16th and 17th Apill? maks
3 Did the plaintiff, being a boldor of shares: The Largkat Company In fact
fact, act upon such Information, and was be damnified by doing so? They answered the first and third in the affirmative and the second in the negativa, p
On the 5th just, judgments ware delivered by the Full Court at Shanghai ous motion by the plaintiff asking for a new trial on the ground of misdirection on the second pilet or in the si- ternative that judgment should be entered for
bim for such damages as, on inquiry, he may be found entitled to
favour of the defendant, the Assistant Judge Sir Havilland de Sanemares decided in
differing.
CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERN
MENT.
WISHES OF THE PEOPLE.
{By courtesy of the “Shùng Po.”]: Paking, 20th January. The Prince Regent have inquired of the Grand Council whether it is possible to shorten the period for granting Constitutional Govern- ment.
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ed to comply with the wishes of the Evidently His Highness is inclin-
people.
SHENG KUNG-PO. WANTED IN PEKING.
[By courtesy of the "Sheung, Po."]
Peking, 20th January. The Central Government has. again telegraphed to Bhang Kung po, the Treaty Revision Commis sioner, urging him to proceed to
Peking, 18th January. H.E. Kao Erh Chion, the Impe rial Chinese Delimitation Commis- sioner, allowed several days to elapse after his return to Peking, without Peking at once. presenting his report on the subject of the delimitation of the boundaries
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SALT.
REGULATIONS TO BE FRAMED."
[By couriang of tha !! Shong Po").
Peking, 20th January Duke Teai has given instructions to all Provinces to forward to Pe king all regulations having reference to the trade in salt, so that a new met of regulations may be drawn up.”“
SALI SUPERVISION.
CONTROL TO BE EXERCISED.
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