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to twenty-one, then to ninoten, while Just yoarthoy dnly amounted to fifteen millions or little more that a fourth of the maximum. The actual figures: warn; 1905 G. $58,000,000; 1010, G. &$15,500,000. They spoll Amori
can defent in the Pacific; this must be the atriking commont of commercial history upon
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America's expansion in the Fur East which it was repliosiod was making the Pific Ocean an American lake. As Mr. McCormick points out during President Taft's candidacy for the Presidency, which was partly
HONGKONG DAY
BY DAY.
The Logislative Council meets to-morrow. ·
The members of the Victoria Lodge dine to-night at the Hong kong Hotel.
PORTUGUESE GUNBOAT
REPUBLICA
NO COAL AND NO POWDER,
out of dock at Kowloon.
SUPREME COURT.
CRIMINAL SESSIONS,
The caso against Chang Ya 1t oppoara thint a most es- traordinary state of affairs Ling, Fu. Yao, and Loo Sung exists on the Portuguese gun- charged with forcibly entering bout Republic, while in No. 67, Connaught Road Wost, about a fortnight go after and stealing therefrom monoy Mr. J. M. Wilkinson, of Mossra, undergoing very extensivo Po- und jewellery to the value of Whiteaway, Laidlaw, has visited as Republica is, of $4,500, came on again before Canton, and leaves for Sunglinio, the old Donna Amelia, fr. Justico Hazoland and jury, which name is discarded at the tomorrow on the Prinzoss Alice.
time of the revolution in Portugal..
Director O. Lego left at noon to-lay for Genoa, Horr Lago is the head of the Lloyd shipping stationed at Singapore.
this morning.
It will bo remembered that This Attorney General (instruct Donna Amelia came out hore od by the Crown Solicitor) some oighteen months ago when prosecuted, and Mr. Potter, the dolimitation dispute between (instructed by Mr. Gardiner)
R.G.A. BALL.
THE WELSH DINNER.
A company of between forty At the City Hall, the Royal and fifty will be prosent this year Garrison Artillory gave thoir
at the Welsh unniversary dinner,
half-yearly ball yesterday evening to be held in the Hongkong Hotel whon a company of no loss than 160 guests responded to the in- on Wednesday next. Mr. Owen vitation of Li-Colonel C. D. Hughes is president this year, and Mr. G. T. Lloyd vico-president; Chamior and officers of the corps. while the scoretarial duties aro The hall was beautifully decorated
Williams. The dinner-room will. for the occasion. On the athir undertaken by Mr. E A. M. case were placed groups of be prettily decorated with Wolsh tropical foliage, whilst flugs of many coloura draped the mottoes, etc. At the dinner, sho walls. On the landing was.dis national toast is to be submitted played the drop-scene from the by the Hon. Mr. W. Neos Davies, ILE, Theatre, portraying the garb and will be abknowledged by Mr. of the artillerymen drom ourliest Lloyd in the Welsh tongue. years. St. George's Hall was le- voted to dancing, and supper was
One of the oldest and, woal- decorations were very effective.
thiest Portuguese residents of the Dancing commenced shortly colony passed away this morning after nine o'clock and was kept in the person of Mr. R.F. Gutier up with great spirit to the strains of the ROY... Band till about roz, at the ripe old age of 84 years. Deceased came to the two o'clock this morning.
colony in the curly forties, and Amongst those, present were soon joined Mr. George Duddell H. E. the Governor, Sir Frederick aftor whom Dufidoll Street was Lugard, K.C.M.G., and Majored as confidential clerk, und General O. A. Anderson, CB, remained in his service until that. Officer Commanding the Garrison. gentleman had returned to tho
old land
promoted on, the basis of his lasiness in the Far East, and is the Macao authorities and tho dofondod, the third prisoner. served in St. Andrew's Hall. Tho!
statosnianship in the Orient, the dcelino in the importance, of
confirmed.
Major P. G. Eastwick, manager of the International Banking Cor poration, Manila, was among the passengers by the mail for Europo to-day.
The U.S. Consulate was closed to usiness this afternoon, - this being the birthday anniversary of Goorge Washington and a general holiday in the United States.
Mr. and Mrs. J: H. Dollar, who are down from Shanghai for the Manila Carnival, are visiting Canton to-day. They proceed to
Manila to-morrow,
European affairs to America and the appreciation of the Pacific, were
Al- aska was purchased in order that America should become the strongest Pacific
power, WHISKY Hawaii was acquiroit in order to exclude foreign control of a com- munding position in the mid- Pacific, and every ellort was made to promote the welfare of the PhilippinoTslands. The compilers of the official report, which is to say, the consuls-general and con- suls throughout' Cliina -and tho East generally, are of opinion that Sir Frederickand Lady Lugard, the fath lies in the failure of Mr. and Mrs. Hastings, and a Ameen to preparo for the post-party of friends were to visit the bolum prosperity in the Far East, foreseen by other nations after ao Russo-Japanese war. Japan, Germany and Great Britain
We are informed that at a meet have, at the worst, hold thoiring of the directors of the Hong own, and, at the best, greatly kong and Kowloon Wharf and strengthened their positions in Godown Co. held this afternoon, the roa of Far Eastorn trade it was decided to pay a dividond
of 6 cont. for the year 1910,
per by their far-sighted recognition of the changes, foreshadowed in 1905 and previously, which would take place in conditions in China. As they point out, previous to 1903 foreign goods were laid
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Oriental Brewery this afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Ehrenfels were also
to be present.
Chinoso Government was ir pro- gross. She is a very old boat, During this morning's sitting built of wood, and armed with the caso against the third obsolete gans, for voyage out prisoner was first taken up. from Portugal occupied about a Ho elected to go to the witness year, and during her stay in box himselfand was examined and these waters who has been as much in the Dock Company's cross-examined at great length, hands as out of liom. In fact, after which his two concubines the opinion generally held by gave corroborative/ovidence, t
This closed the case for the the Portuguese both in Hong- kong and in Macho was, that defence. sho should have been long ago put upon the
SCRAP HEAP.
At the time of the revolution in Portugal, the Donn Amolia was in dock. Among the repairs underwent than which, sho was the fitting of 110W. boilorg which wore specially sent out from Lisbon. When her overhaul had been completed; sho emerged from dock as the Republica, lying the republican lag. For some time she has lain up in Kowloon Bay lately. she has shifted hor hitchorage to Yannati Bay.
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The Attorney General askod louver to call the evidence of one Chow Chu to rebut the third prisoner's ovidonco,
Mr. Potter objected most stren-
nously, and called the attention of the Court to the fact that the Attornoy Gonoral had oven stated before the jury that he intended to call a witness to discredit the third prisoner's evidence.
The AttorneyGeneral contonded that the evidence was admissible, and ho was entitled to have it.
missible.
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OBITUARY.
Recensed then started in busi
REBELS STEAL REGI- MENTAL COLOURS.
HOW CHINESE BRAVES ACT.
ss himself, and by dint of hard work and strict integrity amassed" a fortuuo with which he retired A noval challengo las reached a few youre ago. Deconsed loaves Amerion from Charles Wilson, grown-up family to lament his all-round champion of Manolics- oss, Mr. Gutierrez had great faith tor, England, bidding for a in the future prosperity of Hong- match with an all-round athleto, kong, had invested all his fortune. in the United States for the in real estato, and lived to see championship of the world. Theront rising sevenfold in the contost-he proposes includos al colony. most everything in truck athletics, His Lordship ruled that the also takes in swimming, eye- evidence in question was not ad-ling, rowing and tumbling Sug- gestions for various events are as But as it turns out, thie Re-
Mr. Potior, in addressing the follows: Swimming one-half publica, so far as her ethiciency is jury on behalf of the third pri- milo, rowing one-fourth mile, concerned, is a negligible quanti-soner, said that the charge against plunging of ouo-minute duration, (THE "TELE (PH COUERSFONDENT.] ty as a war machine, for she is his client had dwindled down to running 100 yards and one mile,
Canton, Feb. 21, without goal and without powder, ono of receiving stolen goods walking one mile, 120-yard hurd-
Chan Ching, a notorious rob-" and her paymaster is without the knowing them to have been stolen. les, shot put, hammer throw, Mr. J. Kawai, travelling an- wherewithal to find the same or There had been only two Crown ruuning high jump, running ber of Shok Wan, for whose ditor of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha,ovon to pay the wages of thic witnesses who had mention-broad jump, pole vault, one for- arrest the authorities had offered In fact, sad the name of the third pri-ward spring jump, and ten $1,000,-ended his career two days returned from Canton last night ship's company. and will sail for Japan by the serious is she handicapped that soner at alt. One was named forward spring jumps without ago. It appears that he went to Tenyo Maru on Friday. He is when shifting her berth in the Chow Ching and the other was weights, three forward spring Fat Shan with two mon of his staying at the Hongkong Hotel. harbour who had to borrow the manager of the jewellery shop: jumps without weights, five back type on a passenger boat. On suflicient coal to do so from Now with regard to Chow, as his ward spring jumps with weights, arrival, he was met by a brave athuched to the local regiment, this. Excellency the Governor HMS. Cadmus, as well as pow- Lordship would doubtless indicato and cycling from five to ten who know him. The brave did
to the jury, the law was that when milos. visited the Kwong Wa Iluspit later with which to salute the
not attempt to arrest him, as ho Yamuti this afternoon. Ho in British Admiral on board the the Crown put forth a man to tall
was singlehanded, but followed pected the building and expressed flagship Minotaur
the truth and ho was obviously an'!
the robber for some distance. It. As wo announced yesterday accomplice, it was his duty to himself as very pleased with what he had seen.
two of the Republicu's ollicers and dirout their not to convict a man SOLDIERS CLUB TOURNA happened that a comrade of the
bravo was slaving if a burhor's: 50 of her ship's company wero to | on the evidence of an accomplice
shop, so he gave the signal at once. louve to-day by the German 'mail alone. Counsel submitted that
Thoy managed to grasp the for Portugal. Froni information Chow told & tissue of lies from
notorious robber, and the two se which a reprosentative of the beginning to on. But, apart
complicos bolted. Atthe trial the Tolograph" has been able to from Chow's story, the evidence
prisoner admitted having taken gather, it appears that there is a only went to show that a robbery
purtin nine cases of armed robbery. had been committed on the 10th
Needless to say, the two braves great deal of
und cortain articles of jewellery
will be rewarded for bringing this on board the ship, not only ou had been sold on the day follow-
notorious robbor to book. We have to thank Mr. T. Maccount of arrears of pay but ing to a certain jeweller. That
Some days ago, in the Ho Tong “drummer" forcing the Elliot for forwarding a copy of also because of the bad quality of being the story, the judge would
The next game was between country market of Sun Wui dis sacesible to thesenger, Fext subscribers can have sale of articles ranging from the report of the inaugural meet-cod supplied; to say nothing of no doubt direct the jury that there Brown, of the Police, and Quartor trict, the robber, Lai On, was
a neodle to an anchor. Thing of the American Ponce Society the genorul disabilities from which was no evidence to convict the
of Tapan, held at the Foreign they suffer through service on third prisoner. Becauson nattsold Minster Starting. This game was captured by the commander of the American trade aloto shows Board of Trado Rooms, Yokohama,board of a vessel which has lost jewellery on the 20th,it did not fol- of a mucli more oyen nature; the soldiers stationed there, through decline in 'goods handled by the
on 30th ultimo.
scores boing: Starling 250, "middleman." Another equally
Two other games will be played important factor in this regret- Mr. H. Lindon and family, and The object of this paper is to publish table situation is the failure of Mr. G. Vogt, of the thenish Mis
to-night, commencing at 7.30. correct information, to serve the truth the American Governmiont to sion, arrived in time to board the and print the news without fear or wisely subsidiso, its mercantile Prinz Eitol Friedrich, bound for Her position is identical with that had been tendorod to implicate played last night at the Grand carrying away, with them the re-
Genon. Both gentlemen are mis- marine. In this connection Japan sionaries and liave been working has dealt a-heavy blow to Ameri-in the Canton District for the last can prosperity by oxtonding her five years, ship subsidies, investing Imperial
The Attorney-General, Hon.
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all claims to be capable of fulfill-low that ho had stolen it on the day ing her functions as a war-ship provious.
Counsel then com- The reason for this anomalous mented on the ovidoncé at great~ state of things on board the Re-length, and concluded by submit- public is not very far to seek.fing that no evidence whatever of the Portuguese cruiser Vasco his client. da Gama, which was held up in The Attorney General then ad- Batavia after she left Hongkong dressed the jury. because of her inability to procuro the necessary coul to allow her to continue her journoy, as the
banks there declined for a time ta
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Two other games were played last night at the Soldiers Club between the Police and the R.E. A team. Both games resulted in wins for the latter. The first was that betwoon Sorgeant Cooper and Lieut. Aston. Aston won by 64 points.
Brown 243.
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A fine game of billiards was
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the information of scouts. One of the gentry who is a clansman of the prisoner, at the hend over 100 men, marched to the barracks, and released the prisoner, besides wounding my soldiers and
Hotel, when Thornhill (minus gimental colours. As the soldiers 85) mot Kedward (minus 50). were outnumbered, the caminan. The latter was a hot favourite der reported the mutter to Hig His Lordship, summing up, oc from the commencement. When Excellency the Viceroy, and beg cupied about ten minutos after Thornhill had rubbed off his back ged for instructions how to act, which the jury retired.
The jury returned after a short score of 85, Kodward was 95 to The local magistrate was ordered for Home by the ss. Manchuria' honour the drafts made for this absence, when the foreman an- the good. Thornhill then put in to conduct an inquiry, and the some splendid play and made result has confirmed the report of next month. Mr. J. Owen Hughes, purpose by the Provisional Goy-nounced a verdict of guilty breaks of 43,22 twice, 20, 18 and the commander. The gentry of of Messts: Harry Wicking and orament at Lisbon. In the case against the first and second. pri-16, which brought him level with the Lai clan were sent for, and re Co., sails on the Empress in of the Republien, slie does not on- sonor on the first count only his opponent at 122. From this quested to give up the notorious imperial aid to trado further even
March. Both goutlemen hope tocupy the same position as do the They also found the third than Germany. She has thus be Home in time to witness the gunboat Patria and the river gun-prisoner guilty, by five to two, Thornhill played a very good robber as well the man who was met the one-time menaco'
of investiture of the Prince of Wales boat Macan, both of which are at on the second count, of receiving game and eventually ran out a the ringloader of the riot. It is winnor. Kodward's best breaks reported that inany men of the American competition in in- at Carnarvon.
tached to, and paid for, by, the stolen goods. Colonial Government of Macno. fluence in Eastern Asia, and
His Lordship sentenced the first were 28 and 23. The score at Lai clan have fled for their lives.
the finish wore Thornliill 250; The Spring oxodus of home-Tho Republica, on the other hand, and second prisoners to seven At this moment when the mot it with surprising sue-ward-bounders is proving much came here on-a special mission yours' inprisonment with hard
CHINESE CHILDREN. Kodward 207.
To-night Mr. Phillips meets. Manila Carnival is, so to speak, cess. Japan is 'regarded by Mr. greater this year than usual, on and her disbursements have to be labour and to be given 12 strokes
IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. Mr. Bell. fotoing Ainerican prosperity in McCormick and other authorities account, no doubt, of the Coro-mot by the Ministry for the Navy of the birch twice, six months to
Aro the Chinese foisting some the Pacific, it in with something as having made the most formid nation festivities. There have in Portugal, so that probably the intervene between each whipping.
Oriental childron on the local The third prisoner was also
schools who are not, strictly of a shock flat we read the reports able onslaught of any date upon boen unprecedentedly heavy Hongkong banks are doing just on American trade of 1910 by the American trade in Ching in the bookings by all the steamship what the banks in Batavia did in sentenced to soven years hard
speaking, entitled to the benefits linos. By the Gorman mail, the case of the Vasco da Gama.
labour." Government at Washington. Not lines of cotton, timber, flour, and passages are now unavailable till
of the Victoria educational system? to put too fino a point upon it they kerosonc and as having practi- late in May. show that American trade in the cally dominated the carrying Pacific has been routed. This is trade. Itisnot, however, Japanese the pessimistic but carefulopinion. Conpetition that his routed Ameri-
a now Shanghai weekly paper, of Portugal have satisfied the of Mr. Frederick McCormick, then trade, in China so uch as The Chins Weekly Itecord." banking community of Hongkong Poking representative of the America's failure to make the It is well printed and replete that their drafts to meet her ex- Associated Press and one of the most of her opportunities and to with good reading mattor, select-penses and pay-bills will bo hon- best-known American journalists realise that differont conditions ed judiciously. The aim of the oured fully when presented.
"Record's" proprietors is to give in the Far East. He briefly gives uced different methods. It is to the story of the decline of Amori bo opel that the great white nowa in brief from wook to work.
The Taikoo hockey team met a oan exports to China from the your powor ou the Pacifio, muy regain A feature is to be made of ancient 1905. Thus, first, roughly amount the position which she has tom-Chinese history and discoveriesre- team from the Hongkong Hockey ing to filly-nine millions of dollars, porarily lost owing to lack of in-lating thereto. No liquor ads, are Clubin a friendly game yesterday. it declined to thirty millions initiative and a total inisconception accepted. Mr. J. L. Cowen is On the whole the Taikoo team editor and Mr. A. M. Trus had the host of it and ran out
winnera by threo goalą to one. manager 1000, then to twenty-three, then of existing facts.
We have received from the publishers the first number of
a goneral surray of the world's
At any rate, the Republica meanwhile lives ineft in the har bour of Hongkong, powerless either to sail or to work hor guns until the Provisional Government
HOCKEY.
The sessions were then ad- journed till 10 a.m. to-morrow..
RUBBER SHARES.
The following London quota tions were received this morning by Mosers, Wright and Hornby. Lumuts 201 Prem. Middle price.
do Allagars 4,0 London Ventures 4/6 do Bortams 7/6
do Val d'Ora '2/0
do London Asiatics 13/6 do
Market closed, firm, Shell Transports (Bonrors)
buyora:
Plantation Rubber 75,
OUR DIARY.
Wednesday, 22nd February. Theatre Royal, "The Follies," 0 p.m..
Bijou Scenic Theatre, 0.15 p.m.
Empiro Cinematograph, 0.15
p.n.
Thursday 23rd Føliruary, Shakespenrion Evening, Union Church.
Legislative Council Meeting. Concert, Saldiers and Sailors Home.
Saturday, 25th Feb. Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. 03/-ng Corporation Meeting, noon
Club Germania, Fancy Dress Bally
This was a question which was discussed to a slight extent at this. rogular meeting of tlie hoard of school trustees hold last month, the matter being introducid through some references to tho Fishguard street school, which is near the centre of the Chinose. district and, naturally, is attended by an exceptionally larga.number of the eastern youngsters,
Romance in commerce is by no means dead, saya a writer in the Young Man." He must Juve been reading rubber prospectuses,.
The World."