Intimations.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY JANUARY 24 1011
II.M.S. Suipe was lowa Shanghai for the river ports on ilio 21st.
"two ago in this column, that the
northern ports under ambority, L'aloy, | Newchwang, and others, with the Great Wall and the Imperial Railway's the Peking Government, that a The Viceroy of Canton lias reported various stations, would prove a barrier flotilla of torpedo boats lins boon forut- to the march of the disease southwarded and di-tributed in strategic pori-
tips.
A. 8. WATSON & Such has not been the case, and what | is still more unsatisfactory—if só weak |a word.canjexpress our feelings-is the fact that the preventive measures,
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stringent as they are, have as far proved ineffectual. It were worse than foolish for Hongkong to regard this visitation calmly-to-regard it as any- thing but a dire menace, a terrible
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The Shanghai, Mercury' says the negotiations for the amalgamation of the Union usumnes Society of Canton, Limited, to the North China Insurance Co., Ld., have fou been dropped.
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The Shanghai Amateur Boxing Club, arranged a series of opon champion-
OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
WHAT THEY THINK,
China Mail.
VICEROY AND BRIGANDAGE.
But the Cantonese nico the pro slamation as a
sign that their now Viceroy is in carnest and as the spring advances they confilsitly expost that ho will roleem the promise of his words by active deeds, Therefore they think that brighter days are irfstore. Lot us hope so though to one who ha
BAUREPAIRE HONOURED.
HANDSOME GIFT FROM AUSTRALIA.
It has been reported that Australia has presented Bauropaire, the young champion swiminor, with a gift of .10001 in honour of his achievements in various compétitions last season.
REMINISCENCES OF SHANGHAI.
THE PRINCE'S VISIT.
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DENT.]
Canton, Jan. 23.
It is rejected that tho probable time.
There was one dirawback to the per- fect enjoyment of the farewell dinner to Sir Polliam Warron on Saturday night, last, and that was the fact that, with of the Gorunn Crown Princo's arrival the exception of himself, there was no at Canton will bo the middle of tho He is only 19 years of age, and has speaker able to draw upon his own 2nd moon, and that the local officials had a remarkable record which, un-knowledge of old Shanghai. There was have been instructed to select a pinco fortunately, has been brought to anthus an amount of reminiscence which, for the reception of the German Im for such an occasion, was somewhat dis- perini perotingo, and to mako, pro appointing Sir Pelham himself in-paratory armngements in this coa- dulged a "little" in recollection of the action.
abrupt termination so far as this season
is concerned.
The story of his collapso the other
day was narrated by our London correspondent.
past, but not noarly enough to satisfy As soon as the Reception Commis- the dogiras his audience who urged shiners arriva in Canton, the loca
danger looming very large upon the shine for the anteurs of Sangli road, many hundreds of officin! pro. While wo rejoica in the handsome him to "Go on" when he modestly officials will join them in considering horizon of the, Colony. The dirtiest The championships' aro for all classes, clamations, especially at the opening of gift now handed him by theGovernment, suggested that he was tiring them. alt preparations without delay.
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and should prays highly interesting.!
General at Shanghai, arrived there on Mr. E. D. L.Fmser, I. M. Consul the Lath and in the gitest of Mr. II. E. ft. Hunter, Mr. Fraser was vice- Consul at Canton on Decembar 1896. to May 1897.
neir vicunyalties, there lingers at the we look forward with confidence to his Reminiscends is indeed ona thing of
one more follo added to this heap of back of the hind a four lost it be but [official wasto paper,
Daily Press.
ITINE. NOLIK BORNEO.
torosted are aware how remarkable has Fow people who are got dirvotly lus
population and city in the parth, if not in all Carlos, namely, that of Che foo, is on infected, and we may, therefore, without exaggeration con- sider the time has come for taking our own precautions. The well-organired army now fighting plague in the north has not succeeded in its first attack, and we cannot regard with equanimity. We are informed by the local agunt the greater difficulty of fighting the of the Chinese Engineering and Min- disease in such places at Chefoo, withing Company, Limited, that the total is only partially controlled junk output of the Company's threa ininus greatest danger lies. Tientsip, we rea-
It is in the jucks our for the week ending 7th, January lise with deep thankfulness, is cut offanted to 27,347.55 lots and the from us by the ice; it may spread the sales during the period to 27,940.64th plague lowards, but the sea in safe; but moy and Foochow, Shanghai and the south generally is open to the
traffic.
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pursue the tenor of their way. At approached with gravity. Considera Brave danger threatens us; it must
tuns.
The Japanese armoured cruiser "Karams" and " Tono" will bo sent to
it
the progress made in the develops met of British North Bornes since at Company. In the year 1982, when caine under the control of the Charter
with which his name has been closely speedy rotura to that branch of sport
aud so prominently associateil
A CLAIRVOYANTE'S TRICK
REVEALED.
Mrs. Aku Nagao, of Maragane, Shikoku, who professes to be gifted scientifle investigations, some profesors with clairvoyanos, has been a subject of
CANTON NEWS. [THE TELEGRAPHI" CORRESPON-
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actual experience. We ans quite sure, which men do not tire so long as what is being told is now nud a record- of
says the "Shanghai Morenry," that if
Canton, Jau 23. Sir Pallan had talked till midnight ho
About 1 pm, on the 21st inst., the would gladly have bson listonul to, sinos hottao oconpied by the family of Lonng... ho call have brought forth out of his To Wo, employed in the enquiry day. treasures things new and old. But he partment of the Yuot Han Railway is determined to pose to the sad of the Company, and sitated at No. 2 Fung the talking Consub," Dr. Wilder, on on, was broken into by six robbura chapter as a man why is "one of Yon middle district, Sai Kivan, Caa- the other land, is over ready with wel-armed with revolvors. The inanatos como oratory. There was no nod for were threatened at the point of the re- him to take sons remarks, which ap- volver, and relieved of money and or pored in this cluinn some time ago as
naments to the value of about $2,000.
□ suggestion of satiety. It will be a very remote day, we believe, when her mind, by means of which she Shanghai andiones will ery, Huld, cyn use her divining power. The latest orough!" when it is his loquenda that report, however, says that hor suf-pro-is being poural farth, and the thought fessu, power of making improsions doubtless curl to some of the glider upon photographic dry-plates through guests at the dinner on Saturday, what her mind has been proved by Mr. Ya-
a treat it would have boon if, after Sir makawa, of the Tokyo Imperial Univ- Pelham had finished, Dr. Wilder could amity, to be a trick. The doctor who have risen nud, with his own powers as
the charter was obtained the revenue of of the Tokyo and Kyoto Imperial Uni- Colony was 10,000. In 1904 iversities having go there to study was 98,00tit, and five years later (inor. Her experiments have till now
been regarded 1909) it was 243,000/
as scientific wonders, eresting the hypothesis that mys of some special character may emanate
take part in the great Naval Review Borneo may never ha mado a British be lid on the ocasion of the corona- naval base, beenuso Singapore adequate
penditure connected with the voyage of tion, and a vote of 800,000 has been ly serves that purpose in the South demanded from the Dist for the ex-but the growing commercial interests of North Bornes mast in couro of tims' requite moro adequata provision for its defence than it now receives *South Chiwa Morning Posty LATE ADMIRAL GUBLAR.
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tions of trade must enter, isto our counsels; that is inevitable; but even. if trade has to be paralysed for a period Canton, and Macis Steamboat Co. The directors of the Hongkong, is must be done, the summer PLd, will recommend at the half yourly proaches, and with summer the danger nesting of the Company to be held on February 21st a dividend of $1.25 per share be paid to shareholders, that $6814.38 bo weilten off book value of properties, wharves and lighters, and $20,000 be carried forward to New
increases a hundredfold: We can. not even now it idly with folded
hands.
Fortunately our Sanitary Authority has proved on more than one occasion its high ability; the con- fidence of the community is unshaken la Its efficiency. We hope to learts within a day or two that the ports of
Accoutit.
THE MONGOLIA SAFE.
fected, so that this prell-knowu efli- ciency of the local guardians of health was reported-in-Kobe last week; may be given full play. We do not on the strougth of a Tokio moskage to exaggerate our danger when we say the Koha Yushin Nippa, that the the quarantine regulations should in- Pacific Mail liner Mongolia, which left mediately be put it force. The San Francises for Honolulu, Japan plague has spread with the greatest and. Coins on the 9th inst., had rapidity from Harbin to Chefoo, and foundered about 761 miles from San probably by now much farther south. Francisco. The message, it was said, Let us have on our armour of proof had been received by the Yokohama Ait comsanitations intended for pullication in should it drive down upon our shores Marine Bureau..
A danger met-is half removed.
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,
Hongkong, 7th July egro.
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where was curtain-of-place at the admiralty. Germany lias not so many officers of Flag rank, pussossing in tha ate degres as Admiral Gullor the qualities of seamanship and initiative, that they can lose poo without fouling it there is no doubt that the doth will create a serious gap, among the men at the top of her active list.
CHINAMAN MURDERED AT
WEST POINT,
NO ARREATH.
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Tho robbers decamped with the booty at their ease. The outrage was report ed to the Nam Hoi Magistrate, who went to the raucked house to investi gate and who, the next morning, offerot connected with the armed robbery.
'n reward of $200 for the arrest' of those
On the 21st inst., His Excolleuoy the Viceroy of Canton called – the local gentry, the Provincial Treasurer, and
tries to his yatuan, where the question. the Total for the Promotion of Indus of specifying a time for the total sup pression of gambling in Canton was
The local gentry were in favour of on-
of the 2nd on, and entertained the for that considerable delay would bu caused, if the matter be landed avar tu the Ministry of Financo for discussion and report..
The geutry insisted on this 1st day
The goatry asked the opinion of this. Vicony, and afterwards it was, anani- mously agreed to adopt the motion of the Provincial Treasurer.
had noue doubts as to the power of speakor, have poured out the flood of Chief of the German Astatio Squadron poriment upon her on Sunday. Ale from the knowledge and experience of By the death of the Commander-iu Mra, Nagao proposed to take an ex-reminiscence which might have come friendly governmout loses the serpected that the dry plate used in the one of his predecessore in office here, vices of an officer to lum.high office experiment might be replaced in a most who has bit roountly died, Mr. George was assured. Infoed, in the week of clover way that radium might secretly F. Howard, after whom the Soward discussed, his death, Admiral Gahler was expoot-be used to inake the proposed impresRead is annad, and whose fame is writ ing to be posted to the rank of sion upon the dry-jilato from outside of Largo in settlement story. That would forcing the order for the total uradioa the north are one and all declared in- wuO STARTED THAT JAPANESE STORY time, he was to return" to Germany impression upon the dry-plate_might ceneo is the essence of history. It ad moon, but the Proinotor of In- Abuse; whilo, is a fow works the box sntaining it, that the requirol have been a treat indeed, for rominis tion of this evil on the 1st day of the have been made before the experiment Tulises the past as nothing else can.dustries suggested that the test day of was commenced, and that the dry-plate It carries us back, to use the familiar the 4th moon would be a botter date. stolen together with the paper on which things wors ilons and words were said put in the box of cardboard might bed fitting fan, to the days when the character written. Taking all possible incasures
to ho impressed was which have boon the vans of weal or wou to this generations suleeding. It to prevent these tricks, he proccded to is better than history in some points. commened the experiment. He had It always dosis with interesting people pat o dry-plate contained in a box of and interesting events.. Witness the
The Provincial Treasurer moved that Unfortunately this report also reach-
cardboard in his trunk. Ha feft his eagerness with which volume after vo- the 1st day of the Snl moon be fixed trank in a room and want to another laws of recollections finds not only for the enactment of the under to gap- ed. Hongkong, and its publication-of
moh where Mrs. Naga was sitting. publishers but buyers by the thousand.press gambling in all forms. course caused a good deal of speculation
He handed a slip of paper with a Chi-Hero in Shanghai, reminiscence is all although little credence was attached to
Lain King, a boarding house run-
nese character on it to her, asking her the more interesting from the unique 4,000 tons of coal arrived are last it by shipping neg, as no word of any year from Tsingtan, all for the Germishap had been received by the local her, was mandured at West Point at pinto-he had prepared. Then he return fact that there, aro still living many to impress that character upon the dry-conditions of the case, and from the agents.
about 0.15 p.m. inst night.
ad to the room where he had left his natives, and some foreigners who can Telegraphic advice lias inco.been re- The aftmy took place at the junction trunk containing a dry-plato. In open-within their own recollection cover the Silter paged as for a full diotis, misfortune to hes her propeller, was left Honolulu for Yokohama on the The dosessed, who was found lying in a found traces that the dry-plate had been do with a good dual mora of it.
18.8. Miguerola, which had thereived to the effect that the Mongolia of Des Voeux Rond and Hill Road,ing the trunk, to his grost surprise, he whole of our eventful period. We could | repaired up forth.
150.
pool of blood, had been'stabbed in the handle by some ono daring his absonca, Asumber of shop keepers were fined Herald, to filearer the source of the
--It would be interesting, says tho Kobe | back, and must have died'instantly.
In spite of this diseavery, ho undertook additional per quarter is charged for past ge each at the Police Court, this morn-roport said to have boon received by the is another strect myalory,
No acrest has hoon mado. The affair his expariment, but the clairvoyante could ing, for causing an obstruction in the Yokohama Marino-Bureau and publish-
not impress anything at all, Tun Dr. public streets.
Yamakawa was convinco1-that-somy el-here. Su-far-as-we-have-bon-ablu SHOOTING BIRDS IN NEW
tricks had hitherto been practised by to ascertain, the Koba. Fushia Nippo
TERRITORY. was the only Japanese newspaper to
the self-profussel clairvoyante, and ad- publish the "now"; and that fact in
A TEST CASE.
vised her to stop ner experiments, telf struck us as significant. The
J. M. C. Lopes, a clerk, was sum- probability is that the ouard was botmoned at the Magistracy this morning on foot for some stock-jobbing scheme; before Mr. E. R. Hallifax for shooting A Chinaman and an Judian were and in this connection it is worthy of wild birds, ngainst the ordinauce in charged at the Magistracy this morning mention that the Mongolia has on board New Torn.yor with behaving in a riotous manner inqpwards of 10,000 bales of ontton, 8,100
- Mr. 1.65 D'Almada appeared for the- Queen's Road Central. Both were fon-of which are do tined for this post. It defence. Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouza tenced to fourteen days' imprisonment, would be some satisfaction to discover prosecuted.
who is responsible for the mesengo
Sergeant Kerr, stated on the 22nd telephoned from Tukio to the Kobo inst., about 4.15 p., he saw Mr, journal, and published by it..
Lopes in possession of these two birds in Fanling Station,`
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THE PLAQUE.
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The telegram from our Tientsin correspondent which appears in this issue emphasises, if emphasis were needed, the seriousacas of the out- break of plague in the north. As will
HAVY.
Thi
We have courteously been informed that Tuesday, the 1st, being a public holiday, the next meeting of tho ani tary Board will be held on the 2nd February, at 3.43 pan.
A launch coxswain was chyrged at the Magistracy this morning, before Mr. H. K. Hatlibx, with collecting. money from a local lunch company by moans of a forged chop. The case was remunded.
Within a week or two Shanghai will be seen from our correspondent's achava fleet of aeroplanes. Already
be lessened by the news of the ap-
LATEST CHINESE NEWS,
(TRANSLATED PHOM Noeznies Parras.)
The National Asrently has devidal
blag rocks.
THE CUMBROUS LAW. roneION CANER WAITING BETTLEMENT.
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Canton, Jan. 38.. His Excelleney the Canton Viceroy has instructed the Magistrates of various districts regarding the numbers of diplo- matic cases tuseltled. He finds that the Namhoi and Pun U Districts are blocked up" with undecidal enace of this kind, and has now dispatched de- paties to visit, the districts and hurry the bearing of all cases in which foreign-. ord are interested.
In diplomatic cines, it is sometimes nooosmary for the local authorities to try
NEW TREATY BETWEEN
CHINA AND RUSSIA,
On the same night, the matter was
telegraphically memorialized to the Throne, and similarly communicated to the Ministry of Fineuoc, by His Ex-. delleney the Viceroy.—The next mɔṛn=" ing, the gentry tolograplied the same Lo their provincials, who are holding official positions in the Capital, also to
Ministry of Finues.
The Wai Wu-pu is usgaliating-with--the the Russian Minister in Poking for the
OPIUM SUPPRESSION, now treaty between Chins aul Russis and is said to be exercising the greatest The American Minister in Peking is care in the matter. The general basis said to have informed the Wai Wa-pu for the treaty have begi-drawn up by that his Government wishes to so Vies-President Hu Wei-te on Coun-Chins have a free hand in dealing with villor Shiu Chao-chi en 'comprise the the opium question and that if Great following questions: 1 boundaries, Britain will not agree to the cancella Customs duties, 3 missionarius, comtion of the spiun ag coment it will meros, ♫ travelling and urituralization, bring up the subject at the Hague Con 6 artesting robbers and other offenders, ferenon for devision. 7 minos and bank notes, and § matusi. protection of colonists.
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CRUSHING BRIGANDAGE.
ACTION DY, THE NEW VICEROY.
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RUBBER MARKET.
Messrs. Ellis and Ellis report sa follows on the rabber market: The weakness in the prices of this raw pro duct, so pranɔnuced during the week, when the price retslod, froin' 68. 21. per lb. to is. 114d, about the middle I the week, found its rallox on the share market, where questatiɔns have given way all round.
advantage of by investors in Singapore The depression has again bom taken
where inquiries have mat with responsa by shares going down in fiir lots from Holigkong,
Canton, Jan. 23, His Excellency the Canton Viceroy has instrusted the junior, officials in ly, with reference to the frequency and ovory part of the provinco, telegraphical- thoan with the Consuls, or to send for the foreigners connected with the cases daring character of the brigaudage
which prevails. Excellency hna doomed it fit to appoint tloris the dismissal of officials in the In the telegram Ilie Excellenay men-
London wires fino Para at 4s, 103. some officials well versed in foreign Shun Tak district who have boen nog por I., but at this rate the market is a affairs to superintend the trials of
lectful of their duty in hunting down buying one, thus giving a stealior tone various districts, in order to giva satis their jurisdiction, where robbery had faction to the foreigners, and to cause been rife, and he warns the officials, in no delay in their settlement.
Mr. Les D'Almada-My client ad- mile shooting the birds, and I will prove to your Worship that they are blue rock pigeon and not the ordinary count, the epidemic is of pneumonic, firmer have arrival in port, an- that gambling should be prohibited in At the Railway station.
game pigeon. and not bubonic plague, as at first this following, and the next few Kwangtung and Kwangsi provincos
How did you get the two birds reported, and therefore all the more days will see engineers busy erecting during the beginning of the next Chi- from a sportstaan ?Yes, when it is a And you insist on taking them away cause for anxiety exists. This will not the flying machines.
nese innucial year, and that opisu wild bird. The Viceroy of the e-kwang pro-should be totally suppressed through- pearance of the dread disease at Tien- vinces, His Excellency Jou Chang, has out the country at the end of the doves. Thoy an fall grown, and not to give evidence. For this reason, His
They were freshly killed, and are ring tsin and Chefoo. Deaths are occurring been instructed by the Throne to in-year of Ham Tung.". in both places with alarming rapidity,vestigate the charges indo against tho And some idea of the nature of the Viceroy of the Liang Kiang provinces,
Mr. D'Alinda-How long have you boon hore About 14 years. epidemic may be gathered from the 1.1. Chang Jou Chun, by the Senate,ally instructed Prines. Pa Lun, the before - Yes, I have.
The Prines Regent resently porzon-. You have never been out shoots diplomatic cases by the magistrates of the evil characters in the places under to the shoro market which alosos firm.: fact that the mortality in Manchuria, and now, unfortunately, south of the
President of the National Assembly The worst storm I have over bean during the time he was recolved in the Great Wall, his reached the terrible in" is the way doughty, little. Captain audience, to consider the difficulties of proponion of 100 per cent.
All Upto of the stemmer Chicago Mari des- the Grand Councilors and on the struck by the disease have died; eribus a typhoon which hit his vessel violence of the members of the Senato there have been no recoveries. Since when it was 1200 miles out of Yoko-
and the National Assembly. the great plague of 1894 no such hans on its way to the orient. It were all actuated by a senso of
Prince, Pa Lun replied that, they visitation, has descended on the China swept away half the bridge, stove in tisin, and that quarrels betwson Parlin- patrio- coat, and even that outbreak pales Inta insignificance before the epidemic the cabins with three feet of water, and non in forsign cotatries, and can not one of the steater's mailings, flooded ment and the Government word and now ravaging the north. We confess carried everything movable aboard into be considered as evils. we regard the situation far from calmly. the boa We had hoped, as we said, a day ce
How long-Waen I was about 17 years of figo,
I don't mean that, I mean in Hong- kong About Begon years.
lo you consider the pigeons in the Hongkong Gardens are Llus rocks?
› His Excellency has found that Mossrs. Bha Fook Mow and Sik Wing in Yes.
should produce two pigeons to com-
competent for this posts, sud has appoint- Mr. Wodehonso suggested that hood them ascantingly, para the..
it quickly as they won't keep long.
His Worship Yes, you had better do The case was remanded until Friday morning
Washington has passed an appro- priation of 95 million golú dollars for the support of the U.8. army for the next fiscal yeary
commitment of a similar offence. On every part of the province, ngalust the
- JAPAN OFFERING LOANS TO CHINA.
the receipt of this telegram, they are to has written to the Wai Wa-pu saying Tho Jupatiosa Ministor in Peking-
pay their utmost attention to the cap that in view of China's intention of tum of robbers, and to the maintenance rolooning the railways from the for- of peace in the places under their juris-ciguors and of the good relations exist. diction. If they are found to bo neg-ing betwson- tha two countries tho lootful of their duty, they will be do Japanese capitalista are willing ta graded without lentoboy,
advance the necessary funds to China,