The Hongkong Telegraph.
NEW SERIES No. 8102
CONTENTS.
Births, Harriagos and Donths. Leading Articles:-
The Cost of Living The Land of Promise. Canada's Trade with Chion, The New Order in Council Manchurian Administration Telegram:-
Constitutional Government. .Prince Shup
Tungkunsban Mines.
Sir John Jordan.
The New Comet.
National Debts Redemption.
Empress Dowager...
Railway Loan Agreement.
Macao Boundary Question
Meeting!:-
Kulangsu Municipal Council, Amoy. Hongkong General Chamber of Commerces Legal Intelligenos:-
Russo Chinese Bank Appeal Case.
The Rice Cake.
Cinematograph proprietor sued,"
A Dramaker's Claim.
The Allena-Case.
Pollen-
Another Opium Seizure.
Alleged Seduction of a Girl.
Triad Society Squabble.
Ship's Mate In Trouble.
Miscellaneous Artioles and Reports:-
Education Committee.
Sinking of Water Boat No. 7.
Volunteer Balt."
Gunbont Rio Zimr,
Notes by the Way. Industries of Hongkong:
VI. Mestrs, W. S., Bailey & Co., Ltd. VII.-Oriente Tobacco Manufactory, VIII. In Yau mati.
Government District Schools.
Hit Henry May.
The Kowloon Land and Building Co., Là,
Hangtong Rape Manufacturing Co, Ld.
Italian Opera Co,
F. M.S. Rabber Exports,
Naw Fire fat.
Anthrax at Kennedy Town.
Spani
Salon-Cinema Theatre,
Canton Day by Day.
The Moosa Caso.
China Association.
Treable on the Derwent.
The China Squadron.
Queen's College,
ward from
the people. And when prosperity began to sary 10 the every-day welfare and comfst of Backen it was difficult to bring the expendi- Chintte "Grocers" excluded from England, tukes and wants within the curtailed income and as a result the pinch was generally felt, Little comfort.is to be found in the reflections of the American press on this question. After blaming the trusts, the Government, the labour acions, the anarchists, the stock exchange and, of course, John D. Ruckfeller, the writers arrive at the lame conclusion that nothing.can be done and that the cost of living is to continue on the up-grade. One reviewer puts his con.
The Indian Witness,
The Volunteer Movement.
The Comet.
Local Contractor he'd up by bandits. Volunteers Corps Orderi
Canton Hankow. Railway.
Japan's Foreign Relations.
Balloon ascent in Hoogkong.
Anneal Bullion Letter.
The Oplum Question.
Institution of Englucers and Shipbuilders.
The Kaiping Mides.
Sports'.
Unary.
SUPPLEMENT.
(ESTABLISHED 1881.)
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1910.
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them by hand. She must be a five musician THE NEW ORDER IN COUNCIL, and have a mind stored with all the intellectual wealth of the ages, but must never get the idea that hubby hasn't the superior intellect and doesn't know it all: the mat dous in the latest..fashion, but must spend no money on same. She must be interesting, elusive gay, of a deep seligious nature, lively, modest, self-sacrificing, brilliant, fascinaling, but a lover of home and fireside, preferring the society of her husband to anything else on earth, but not worrying when she doesn't get any of it. And that is all that meat men re quire. So far as we know the bill can be filled in the next five minutes to Hongkong, while as for Kowloon, well the man who stated bis requirements in such modest fashion would be hard put to it to find standing-room;
Canada's traDE WITH CHINA.
10 speak, greater stage-craft in the American's method of advertising his objects, and a glint of the picturesque and dramatic ie invariably imported into his commercial operations. Consequently the inclination to observe how the Pacific States are seeking to enhance their interest in China, fe much more pronounced than it is in the case of Canada, which is content to
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power
on the one hand,
The Government made a serions mistake in establishing the office of Governor-General in of controlling sffairs Kwantung for the purpos
in Mancheria, and in appointing a General s Governor-General. This action bat awakan. ed suspicion on the part of China and all other Powers ns to the intentions of the Japuonge Government and the credit of the Manchuria policy of Japan has offered extensiva injary. The suspicion aroused owing to this mistake on the part of the Government must be the principal motive which, has seronted America tralise the railways in Manchuria. The Gover- 10 bring forward the present proposal to ceu. nor-General's degree, which would ng ta the misunderstanding on the part of the Powere should not be granted If it were accompanied by practical benefits, the demand would be: the Powers. But there can be nobing bang. ficial in it. If, as is reported, General Oibims, when tendering his resignation, said that if his demand were not granted it would be better to abolish the post of Governor-General, then the General himself recognises the uselessness of maintaining the office which be has filed.
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or if the company is shown to have again Company and to have everything his own way. East, West, and other directions; from blow | Canadian Northera railroad" has made ar- statistics are most complete, food products are
des, brunettes and those who could be either to ingements to begin an Atlantic service with printed, published, or offered for sale such in Manchuria. General Oshima is col going steadily higher, the average increase in
while Mr. Shirani. Director of Civil Administra« : the price of meat being 3 per cent. The city suit the taste of fashion. Mr. Farbush has a' the steamers Card and Heliopolis, which newspaper or other publication containing oured to exercise suck anthority, embarrassment of riches. His trouble is not to are being converted at the Fairfield yards, seditious matter after giving such security tion Bureau in Kwanting, is incapable of fol of Dresden has figured the question out to the
fiod a girl, but to decide which girl. Among the la pensy, and decided that the average cost of living for a working man's family has in thres hagdreda he has great difficulty in deciding on the Clyde, to take them suitable, as far the Court may make an order prohibiting lowing the example of General Kodin Ta It is a serious matter, and a man must take bis, they can be made suitable, for the trade the company from carrying on busines office of General Oshians in designated with the years increased S14.19 (gold), of which a trifle more than 54 west for meat. Weight is figured time to make up his mind. He can't afford to sud as soon as the metals are laid to the within the limits of the Order, or may make digui fi-d vame of Governor-General of Kwan- by kilogram (about two pounds) and the in make a mistake. He may have heard that Pacific coast trans-Pacific service will be such other orders as to the Court may seem tang (Kanto Totku), but the sphere of it crease per kilogram ranged in gold dollars as tender lyric of Richard Carle's: "With a mil arranged. The G. T. P. Company has not just. The Court may also declare all the operations is limited to the leased divrict, and follows: Beef, 4 cents; pork, 6.3: multan, 5.5; lles poaches 'round me, I should like to know yet arranged for its trans-Pacific service and property of the company within the limits the Governor-General is configured with the
has unlimited financial veal, 5.7: bacon, 4.9; lard 3.5; eggs, 2.9 per How I picked a lesion in the Gurden of Love, will not build steamers util the railroad is of the Order to be forfeited to His Ma. Squ'h socharine Rillway Company, which dozen, and bread, 6. There is something like Where only peaches grow.", The q estion thea
ject to any general or special directions an extensive diplomallcp war,
General the same story in France, Germany and Italy, comes to this--what does a man want in a we-completed. Then it will have a fleet of ocean i jesty, the King, and shail dispose of it, sub and on the other' with ¦ Consuls vested with of the Secretary of State, as it thinks fit." Oshima bas thus been placed between two The reasons assigned for this increase and the man? Here are eight conditions which are re-liners second to none, according to state causes to which it is attributed ara as various garded as absolutely essential and as the writerments of its officials All this is good, news at the increase is general. As a general pro- says: "They arelittle enough, goodacus knows" for Hongkong which is certain to bene. There are half a dozen different ways of powerful authorities and it would have been She must be an angel with the smile of a seraph fit by the additional steamship services getting round that section if one were difficult for bim to go the supremacy, over position, the increased cost of certain modo. polised products, such as meat, to the cost of and a great mass of magnificous hair, and all from Canada to China and the satisfac sufficiently perverse to defy both the Japao-them. In there circumstances he has had ese Government and the British Court. The cores but to relinquish, ble office. In a leading article the Jifi) arges that the which the increase seems most notable because her owa natural. She must possess a perfect tion is all the keener because it is known
Geoeral. of of the large amount consumed in England and temper and nevor raise her voice save in song.
calculated to excite tumult or disorder, or 10 | Oshims and take advantage of the pretect op America, is ascribed to the operations of the She must be a good cook and always ready`to and recognized that there is ample room for third section is as old as the hills: "Matter Government accept the rasigantion
excite enmity between, His Majesty's sub portonity to ablish the office of the Governor... trusts, which control the price at both ends, do same. She must be a splendid bousekeeper all in the China trade.
be jects and the Government of China or the General of Kwantus, thus removing that paid to the producer and that charged the and not require any servabis. She must love retailer, and to a large extent the price exacted children and be able to care for them and
subjects of any Power in amity with Hof General Ushima to take over the control of
The from the consumar. According to figures pro.
Government of Korea, or the authorities or cases of the faancial and diplomatic trouble Tokyo juroa), malátning that the demand pared by the American Department of Agricul-
(18) February.)
all diplomatic affairs and the police in Man- ture two-fifths of the expenditures of families
About two years ago, the Privy Council Majesty, being within the limits of this Order,
or between the Government of China' and | choria, and to establish a Central Baok is runlly of medium income is devoted to the purchase of food, and ibal one-third of the national
issued an Order, amending the China and its subjects or the Government of Korea intended to add to the importance of the office Korea Order,in Council, 1904, which con- and its subjects, shall be deemed to be regardless of the practical circumstances and, dietary is ment. A recent lavestigation touch.
ferred certain powers on the administrators
If the demand of the Govimor- ing the retail prices of meat alone shows that
rticle." While in the other sections it is General were granted, there would be in New York and Philadelphia the retailer
of Justice in the British Courts in China and seditious matter within the meaning of this seeds. realizos a profil of 20 per cent, over the whole
difficulties of administrativo, and A÷vance sale prices. ie Buffalo tile, profit is 28 per
Korea more especially in connection with laid down that as offence against the Article bounds to his further demands and the shall not be tried except oa charge and
for the Government would be increased, while ceat, and in Boston, 36 per cent. From this
the publication of seditious matter in news-
undesirable 'diplomatic effects might be noem. figate the profite tange upward and down.
papers owned or published by British com- by the Supreme Court, and it may be leard 2 per cent. a Cincinnati
panies. Everybody who had followed the and determined before a judge sitting with io 50 per cent, in Allentown, Pa. One of
drift of affairs knew exactly the purpose which
out a jury or assessors. It is that last pro the very difficult phases of this entire ques tion that of getting at the exact reason for
this Order in Council was intended to vision which is objectionable, but in this part of the world there is so much to be this increase lies in the variety of elements
achieve. There was, at that time certain papers published in. Korea which were, to
said for and against the jury system that enterfug into it. High labour cost in one sec
put it mildly, antipathetic to the Japanese opinion is equally divided. The jury Bystein tion, scarcity of food in another, the increased value of land in a third, that causes stock rais.
It was difficult to suppress them, yet their still prevails in Hongkong where such calce Influence was decidedly provocative of trou- are concerned-if we remember aright-and log for food purposes in he abandoned for more
*(31st January.)
bie between the Koreans and the Japanese lung may it continue, but we can quite profitable products, inc cases in freighis, excess of demand over supply-all these enter into be Amid the noise and turmoil which conti- who had then decided to administer the
understand that in Korea it may be under original cost before distribution to the summer. As a matter of fact, lo.America as else-nually beset the trade of the Western States Hermit Kingdom for the benefit of the peo-able in a small British community to ask where, the cost of livisy as followed to a large of America with China and Japan.the by-ple. We have never been able to get at the British jury to decide in cases raised extent the fortunes of the people. When plasty stander's attention is apt to be withdrawn rights and wrongs of the case for the Koreans against a compatriot. The same objection may apply to assessors. Of course the of money is being made the expenditure for from the steady efforts which Canada is mak- and the case against the Japanese. There personal cominst, clothes, housing, food, amuse-ing to establish herself on a sound business have been writers of ability on both sides, difficulty could be overcome by changing the venue to Shanghai, only the question of ment has lacreased correspondingly, until what footing in the Orient. The neglect is due and it is noteworthy that no sooner does a fifty years ago were considered luxuries of re-
in part to the fact that every good American writer espouse the cause of the Koreans than finement and leisure are now viewed as neces
ance, and perhaps in all the circumstances perhaps term, a "natural-born booster, partiality. The same applies to the Japan the determination of such cases may be
what our neighbours in Manila would he seems to lose all sense of judicial impense would then become of vital import-reasonable, despite the increased suspicion of whereas the Canadian still retains that strain ess, and so we are lost in a battle of tongues, safely left in the hands of a judge. With of dogged, silent perseverance which he which becomes the more acrimonious the regard to the second part of the new Order; There longer it is continued. The difficult task the first section starts out by declaring that inherited from the mother-country,
set the Japanese of conciliating the Koreans the powers of His Majesty's Minister in is, so
was rendered trebly arduousy the hot China to make King's tegulations under headedness of the admirers of the Korean Article 155 of the Principal, Order, or lo people, who sought by innuendo and sug join with the Ministers of any foreign Powers namity with His Majesty in making or gestion rather thau by direct assertion to non- found the suzerais Power in the eyes of the adopting municipal Regulation under Atticie world. Japan, we must suppose, finding it vain 156 of the Principal. Order shall extend to clusions in this form: "The experts may
to contend against the influence of a hostile making, or joining in making or adopting labour over this problem as long they like, and
foreign press, made certain representations regulation for the creation, maintenance, dis while they may figure out the ratio of increase to a mathematical certainty and in a few in-forge ahead without unnecessary bluster or the British Government with the result:cipline and control of a police force for boy stances be able to put their fingers on the clashing of cybals. We take it very much that the 1904 Order in Council was issued, foreiga Concession or Scitisment in Chion.” as a matter of course that the Canadian followed by an amending rder in 1907, The regulations "may provide for the dia- proximate cause, it is obviosi that the desire
missal, fine (not exceeding one month's pay), and aspirations and appetites of the people Pacific Railway is hard at work developing which had the effect of curbing the en themselves as they progress from one standard new fields of enterprise, inaugurating new thusiasm of the pro-Korean newspapers.confinement to barracks, reduction in tank, of living to another go back with very poor steamship services and providing additional We have no intention of entering into class, or seniority, suspension or removal grace, and until the people arrive at such a facilities for those engaged in working up the the merits of the action taken against the from special duty, of any member of the high state hd civilization that they can with in- stant adaptability subject themselves in their trade on the Pacific and we seldom pause to Seoul papers which refused to admit that force by the person for the time being in command thereof." The real importance babits to the varying changes of the financial consider what other companies are doing in any good could come out of Egypt, nor to
of the Article lies in the next section: thermometer, the complaint against the the same direction. There was a time when the case which was laid against a British cost of living is going to continue." That everybody was talking about the All-red Journalist, now dead, who eventually spent The Minister may also issue to such cold comfort as we have said but it Route as if it were something uncommon few days under the care of the Consul person a warrant. empowering him while in command of the force to inflict summary may help Hongkong residents to bear the ills but as a matter of fact the All red Koute bus General at Shangbai. If it had not been they have. There are others suffering from the cause which keeps us all on the threshold been a reality for years past, and it was only for the ammendleg Order in Council, how punishment upon members of the force by of the poor house, and not even the gold the patriolic character of the title which ever, there could have been no cause of imprisonment with hard labour for a period currency of European countries can relieve the brought the subject into prominence... Nor action; and the Japanese would still have not exceeding fifteen days. Such warant that one of the most blatant of London journ- been handicapped in their efforts to con. may be at any time withdrawn." In other for situation.
als has decided to take Canada under its ciliate the people and subdue the insurgents.words, the Captain Superintendent of Police THE LAND OF PROMISE. · wing, to guide her destinies and to en- Since an example was made of one courage her ambitions we shall probably newspaper the tone of the "patriotic" Among the inducements held out to young hear a great deal more about Canada in press in Seoul has been commendably women who are thinking of taking a trip to the future than we have been accustom restrained, and so far as we are aware Canada or Australia, not exactly for the benefited to in the past, but even the better the Resident-General and the of their health but to give realism to the
cably and harmoniously. The necessity for "miper's dream of home is the plethora of
papers have managed to work together ami- possible husbands. We are not aware whether the United States Government bas reversed
keeping a strict control over the recalcitrants that proposition but if all stories can be be-
in the publishing world still exists, and the lieved that country is the paradise for love
Japanese are very much alive to the danger lord swains, as a wealthy farmer found to his
of allowing. irresponsible writers in Korea cost the other day. The tafe is told in the
even the wide latitude which is permitted in Baltimore Sus, and as the Caldensers-American
settled countries, where passions are kept in has been passing on the news to its readers in- America we fail to see why the advice
subjection and the people are not likely to be inflamed to the verge of open rebellion prompted by the result of the farmer's excursion into the matrimonial market should
by the bellicose utterances of alten or native not be presented to readers in Hongkong who
journalists. The British Government has also miny stand in need of it. A series of "don'is" bas to be assimilated in the first place, is that
been led to adopt the view of the Japanese, there is nothing revolutionary in the new the subject may be approached with caution steamers to invade the North Pacific. Six and as an outcome of further consideration | Order in Council and nothing which need teen new steamer are to come for servicolaa new Order in Council, approved by His cause the law-abiding journalist and the and circumspection. It is necessary then to
British Columbia waters, and four, probably Majesty in Council on 18th October last, conscientious constable the slightest pertur- remember these things: Don't advertise, for a wife unless you mean business. Don't adver- more, new linere are to enter the trans will come into force on the 25th February next. The new Order deals, with two sub- All over the world complaints are rife regard tire unless you are prepared for a rush. Don't, Pacific trade in addition to those steamers ing the increasing cost of living. Even in unless you are cool-headed, fearless and strong of the Ouka Shosen Kaisha which are being jects-the powers of the British Court in those countries where work is plentiful and enough not to allow yourself to be kidnapped, completed to augment that Company's fine China and Korea, to deal with parties found| tradois protected by tariffs the people are
Little as you may think it, there are thousands
and the steamers brought from the Buro guilty of contravening the earlier Order by
(and February.) crying out against the excessive charges which | of ladies left in America who have never been
pean line of the Nippon Yusen Kaishi to the disseraination of seditious matter in ara made for ordinary household necessaries. married, not to mention the throng of widows
The resignation of General Oshima, Gover We read a vast amount of literature describing who never do get left and who are on the look replace the present fleet. The Weir line China and Korea and, also, the powers of the the advantages which are bound to follow the out for No. 2, No. 3 or No. 4, as the case may is to add new liners, the Ortsric and Lucric, authorities in controlling the police forces in nor-General of Kwanglung, is arousing much Introduction of Tariff Reform in the United
be. Girls are shy and widows are coy; they are which are being completed at the Russell the foreign concessions and settlements of attention among the Japanese public, reports points out that the Japanese administration in there is to be work for all and the foreigner is timid dears who ran at the male of a leaf; they will add new steamers, the first of which, the made in the principal Order are compara Manchuria is divided. Foreigo affairs and the gentry to decide. Kingdom, bow the loaf is to be cheapened, and the sought, the couried, the busted. They are the yards or, the Clyde, the Blue Funnel line Obloa. With regard to the first the alterations the Japan Chronicle, according to which the // The Waiwapu is waiting for the to pay the taxes and contribute towards the arn the ones whó elade, while the men mast Protesilaus, leaves Liverpool in January, and tively slight-more verbal changes than any police administration in the leased district of
SIR JOHN, JORDAN. building of Dreadnoughts and the payment of pursue. That is all very well; we have been
are controlled by the Governor the keel has been laid, for another vessel of thing else. The first section declares that:
Kwangtang Old Age Pensions and all the rest of fold it all our lives. But don't believe every-
BRITISH MINISTER INDISPOBED. Yet we find in America, France and Ger thing Laura Jean Libbey writer, Many a man 13,000 tons of the Blue Funnel type, to be "Every person subject to the criminal General, educational and sanitary affal in the takes charge of by the many, where the tariff system has been in fall has looked upon a face over which the mantling followed by two sister vessels. The C. PR jurisdiction of the Court who prints, pub-district belonging to the South Manchurian
[Py courty of the ! Bheung Po"] working order for years that not only is there blush flashed in roxy shyness, has seen the eye is making plans for great improvements in listies, or offer for sale any printed or written Railway G
affairs in the Japanese seulemanis outside. not work for all but the price of food-stuffs is lids droop over eyes like those of a startled faws, the trans-Pacific service. It was stated some newspaper or other publication containing South Manchurian Railway Compacy, while advancing every year. We have no intention of and before he knew what was happening hat time ago that the steamers Empress of are seditious matter shall be guilty of a grave the two districts mentioned are directed by
Peking, 80th January, antering on a discussion as to the merits of Pro- found himself standing up at the altar with the land and impress of Britain would be tans offence against the Principal Order, and may, the Consul. The functions of these various
not properly, defined; with Owing to the indisposition of Bir tection or any other political topic of the day, minister appouocing a life sentence. The dis- baleran the non-partisangsust wonder when this patches from Delmar state that John N. Fur-ferred to this ocean from the Atlantic, and in addition to, or in lieu of any other anthorities are continuous rise in the dusk of living in going to
bush, a wealthy farmer of near that place, has recently when report came from Geck of purar med bebatice it to to give arcuri the result that constant friction arise, and John Jordan all negotiations with end. The United States Government confesses advertised for a wife. As as inducement it is the absorption of the bulk of the stock of ty for good behaviour or to be deported." each strives to obtain the supremacy General that it cannot arrive at a solution of the pro-stated that be offered a wedding gift of good the Allia lines by the O. P. R., it was re- There is nothing new in that the Hoog Oakima attempted to bilog all the virious the British Legation are, for the blem which is threatening to assume abnormal real dollars to the lady of bis choice. Of course, ported that the turbiners Virginian and kong law is practically the same. for proportions. Congress, it is said, will order an
Victorian would be sent to the Pacific for the Investigation loto the subject and the Comuls they will marry for tiun love alone; but the C. P. R. It is considered, though, that this $5.0do is not to be overlookad. Mr. Farbush, Company will not alter its trans-Pacific service being a mau of standing and substance sad. good citizen, was very desirable in himself, and until 1911. The Nippon Yusen Kaisha, then there was the $5,000. Did he get any which formerly maintained a fleet of six replies? Well, ibu mail, at his postoffice in steamen in the trade from Hongkong to crossed so rapidly that it looked like the day Canada, has transferred four of its European before Christmas. Letters poured in by the liners, older vessels of the same type as raps, hundreds-letters from pretty young gists, from Pacific liners, hitherto used to perve this good housekeepers, from good-lookers, from wi- dows who just know how in conduct husbands, line, and the opposition Japanese line, the from "droams of beauty. They came from saka Shosen Kaisha, will have six steamers plgian (rom Geilorala, kom the North, South, in serios, freighters of 6,000 tons. The
Commercial-
Exchange.
Weekly Share Report. Local and General. ..
BIRTHS.
On January 11, 1910, at Shangbai, the wife of Capt. Kley, of a son
On January 22, 1910, at Shanghai, the wife of C. Gilbert Davies, of a daughter.
On January 26, 19ro, at Ningpo, to Dr. and
Mrs. John Jones, a son (John Goddard).
At Shanghai, on the 3rd inst, the wife of
GEO. HUTTON POTTS, of a son.
Os the 4th February, 1910, at No. 41, Cain Road, Hongkong, the wife of E. J.
of a daughter. FIGUEIREDO, O
[161 MARRIAGES. On January 7, 1910, at Walthamstow, George Walter Shipway, late of Chang-king, to Gertrude M. Prosser, of. Walthamstow.
On Thursday, January 27, 1910, at Shanghai, Maurice Graeme Beck, to Gladys Darling Andrew.
The Hongkong Celegraph
MAIL SUPPLEMENT, -
ISSUED GRATIS TO SUBSCRIBERS.
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1910.
THE COST OF LIVING.
(29th January.),
alon appointed will be required to suggest and apply remedy. In America the increase is alt everywhere, and particularly among the poorer people of the cities. A dollar's yur chasing power according to well authestiched Azores has decreased very greatly in the last tan years, and while during times of prosperity the people made more dollars, they spent corn for crust necessities than previously becanso of the increase in prices, which in the can of food averaged 2.4 per cent, in 1905 as compar I'd with the previous post?) in Regland, ging
is
to the woman the man is the main object,
not hide the fact that the Dominion recognition of Canadian enterprise will as already made her influence felt in the trans-Pacific trade, and occupies a firm and impregnable position in the Orient. Vast changes, however, are predicted for the coming year. According to the Daily Colonist of Victoria (B. C.) there will be a greater development in the shipping industry of British Columbia during the coming season than at any time since the Golden Hind came round the Horn and the Beaver years after ploughed her way, first of the
news.
need no longer hale members of the police farce before the Police Court for petty offences, or minor derelictions of duty. The new section has been framed, we take it, as the outcome of the discontent and unrest Indino members of the Shanghai Municipal which have recently prevailed among the Police. No good purpose is served by bring- ing members of the force before the police magistrates for such an offence as drunken- ness, for example, and as the force is founded on military lines it is only right that the Captain Superintendent of Police should have the power of dealing with his rank and file in summary fashion when the offence can be punished by the infliction of line or a few days' cells. It will be seen that
bation of mind.
MANCHURIAN ADMINISTRATION.
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MENT.
DISCUSSION BY HIGH OFFICIALS.
[By courtesy of the "Sheung Pt."]
Peking, 28th January. The Prince Regent inform d the Grand Council that the question: of shortening the period for the granting of Constitutional Govern... ment is very important and that therefore it should be discussed and decided by an assembly of high off. cials.
PRINCE SHUN.
ARRIVAL AT HARBIN.
[By cosurity of the "* Sheung, Fo."]},
Peking, 28th January Prince hun, the Naval Commis sioner, arrived at Harbin yesterday by the Siberian route.
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TUNGKUNSHAN MINES.
BRITISH MINISTER'S ATTITUDE.
[By courtery of the "Sheung Po."]
Peking, 28th January. Observing that the people are so opposed to the lungkunsban mining cor cession, the British Minister con siders it inexpedient to prolong nego tiations and has communicated with the Waiwupu informing that Minis try that he is willing to reach peaceful termination of the negotia tions.
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The departments, under his control, but the Govern second sectios is somewhat stronger, for it ment disagreed with his proposal, and now be present, temporarily suspended.
bas not unnaturally sent in his resination,
THE NEW COMET, says that "Where any printed or written Indeed, says our contemporary, timther newspaper or other publication containing surprising that he did not take his step
IMPERIAL ASTRONOMERIS BAS
OBSERVATION. LEA seditious matter is printed, published, or aliar. The resignation of the Governor- offered for sale within the limits of the Prin General is due to the absence, ef sharp cipal Order by a company registered in the lines of distinction between the power vasted
is due principally to the personal character of Lay couring of the " Shi United Kingdom gr in a British possession, the three branche of administration, but It 1 the Court may, after notice to the company, the Governor-General himself. Had General and on proof of the facts, require the comOrbime bean, possessed of the abilities and in
Peking, pady to give security to abstain from such desce of General Kodama, continues be////.. printing publhhing, or offering for sale in it would hate bean seyi lor, him to rule the The Imperial future. If the occupany fail to give security, Consuls and the Conk Manchurian salwar the appearances of a s