THE SZECHUAN OUTBREAK.
News from Shanghai.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, SEP
PAYMENT OF MEMBERS.
An Old Custom.
It is a matter of history tlist the Parliamentary roprosentatives in
The following is from China Press" of Sept. 13 The latest news received in Blianghai from any of the foreign
COAL REPORT
RICE SHORTAGE AT SHANGHAI,
Fall In Price.
Messrs. Hughes and Hough's Coal Report vistos that 45,900 tons of coal-are expected from Japan, 1,900 tons from Hongay, Kebno, etc., 5,500 tons from Man
The following is from the “N.U. the onrly Parliaments were paid chiuria, and 4,000 from North Daily. News" of September 12 for their services. This custom China. Small sales of spot cargo Since yesterday the only matter of was followed to at least the end of are reported, and enquiries for interest that hasoccurred in regard "residents of the province is con-
Henry WIL's reign, and a fon forward delivery, but so far no
business to-report.
to the local rice supply is the un- tained in a message, receive instances of towns roinunorating
The quotation are-Curdiff nouncement that two depois aro from Chengt on Tuesday by the their burgesson for attendance in $10.00 to $21.00 ex-godown, to be opened for the distribution Mothodist Publishing House. It Parliament are known to live nominal; Australian West
of cheap rice. Ope of this is to Wallsend $11.25 was probably delayed in trans. occurred in later time. Androminal: Moji Jung $7.76 he at the premises of the Chinese
ox-ship mission. The message reads as Marvel is commonly sail to have
to 89.50 ex-ship, steady Moji Chamber of Commerce in North follows:
been the last to have received this unscreened $0.00 to 8.00 ex-sbip: Honan load and the other at the The soldiers refuse to oboyhourable salary. The pages of story; Akuike lamp $8.00 to Chinese Band: Those will come the knight of the shire (or county $8.25 ex-ship, steady: Kaiping into operation to-morrow, and the instructions and oro trying to
Navy lump $10.00 to $10.25 ex- force the Viceroy to declare member) were four shillings a
day, and those of n Dur-abip, nominal; Kaiping Loco lower classes will be able to obtain against the government con-
lump $7.50 to $7.75 ex-ship: rico of a third or fourth rate qual- trol of railways. The schools for borough omber) Kaiping No. 6 dust $6.50lity at cheap rates. This step is number of days of service varied No. 1 dust $0.25 ex-paultations held between the offi $6.75 ex-ship; Kaiping being taken as a result of the con- according to the length of journey Fushun lump $8.25 ex-ship cials and the leading merchants to and from Wostainster. Thirty-ship; Fushun dust $6.25 ex- in the place. five or forty miles were reckoned ship Yubari lump 12.000x-
are cloned in consequence Business has been suspended Loading robels have been arrost- ed. Conditions am precarious Missionaries are being concon--
were half that
The to
Fushun unscreened $7.25 ox-
The price of rice has receded
tratou at Chungking. Four foray's journey, so the roads could slip, nominal; Milki lump $10.- blightly since Monday, and yes notave been so bad or locomotion 50 to $11:00 ex-slip, nominal.terday the best quality was selling
eign boats will protect them. Chunking is quiet and is not at present against foreigners."
A special dispatch received by the "Cliina Preas" from Now
York says Washington has been advised that American women and
children were safely cscort from Chengtu and that twenty wern killed in an attack on the yamen of the viceroy,
Petitioners Attacked.
so slow in medieval times as is, sometimes supposed.
Often these sant wages wore raised with reluctance and dif ficulty from miserable burgesses. Poverty was accepted as a legal excuse for not sending any mem
bera to Parliament. From Edward
BEAUTIES OF BREAK- FAST.
Demure and Respectable.
Every now and again lazy peo- He are scared almost out of their wits by the rumour that the early
at $11.50 por pioul. The supply is just about being maintained, as all through the day small quanti ties are dribbling in by boat and milway:
With reference to the rice riots at Changzoh an interesting piece of news has just been received.
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·RICE AT SINGAPORE.
Singapore papers whicharrived yesterday state that the price of Time of September 13 says:- rice is steadily rising. The "Straits There is every likelihood of st further appreciations froui the already abnovinal increase of beyond what they wore a nionth nearly two hundred per cent. tosix weeks ago. The best quality Siamese rice is usually quoted from $180 to $200 per coyan, equal to some 40 piculs, while the prevailing price is about $160. 1308)
demanding $480, but no business $420 and yesterday sellers were On Saturday it was at $410 to
had been done up to date in the afternoon. There is no change in the price to-day.
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SOUTH MANCHURIA
III.'s to Henry VI.'s reign the breakfast habit has been revived, Reprisals seem to have boon or- sheriffs of Lancashire, after several ways an exchange. It is now dared, and the soldiers who were returns that they had no boroughs | whispered tlust Mr. Lloyd George's within their county, though zeal is manifesting itself in the hurried to the scene took into cus According to reports the attack Wigan, Liverpool, and Preston direction of social breakfasts, and tody one man who, they alleged, that this 'roviyal of an ancient had boon concerned in the rioting.
Smart Speculation. the magistrate's yomon was were such, explained and con habit is likely at no distant date He was tied to a tree and shot by
An unusual feature of the pro brought about when representa-stantly made returns that the Lan-to be universally adopted. tives of the Railway Protection to send representatives. So im
cashire boroughs could not afford ·
This is good nowe.. For many
A firing party, but almost immesont shortage is that dealers in Singapore have beou re-exporting Society led several thousand men perfect, indeed; was the senso of years breakfast las boon under ately afterwards information rice to Bangkok to meet the de- to wait upon Viceroy Chao and citizenship that the franchise was bad. It has become fashionable came to light which made it ex-mand in Siam. This we ate tald
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of it has been secured by a very well-known and old established Chinese firm, which employing its own boat to bring down the cargo purchased by its own buyers on the spot has got well ahead of its rivals...
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THE FAR BAST & EUROPE, vis DAIREN.
SUMMER JOHEDULE.
Effective, from Vay 1, 1911.
ask him to provont the entrance long deemed by both olectors and for superficial thinkers to decry tremely improbable that hold has never been done before. The ma of H. E. Tuan Fang into the elected an intolerable grievance. Hie meal, and to look with con- und anything to do with the best paddy arriving in the Bang- SHORTEST & QUICKEST ROUTE provinco. Alarming stories lind-Whore the borough could not tempt on all who are able to trouble. It fact, his position kok market is that from the boon oirealated to the affect that persuade the sheriff to omit send-digest - "good honest, wliole- and worldly prospority would seem Petchaburi fields. The great bulk Tuan would untor the provincoating his writ to them, they set it, at some hungry breakfast. Women to have precluded him from mix the head of a body of troops elianes-by-making-return took up the pose, and declared ing in anything like such a riot, The Viceroy in answer to their Even when an election lind iken that they could eat nothing in the when lie would have had every petition, ordered them arrosted place, a burgess sometimes abso- morning. In order that none thing to lose the looting. The and in the struggle which follow-utely refused to go to Parlin-wight be able to disprove the matter has caused a sensation in ing, the loss of life is reported atment, and drove his constituents truth of this assertion they the district, and it is reported that from 20 to 40..
to make a fresh choice. The law adopted the habit of breakfasting trouble is in store for some one on
THRICE WEEKLY EXPRESS TRAIN SERVICE, ed The rovolt has now assured de-strove to ropress this neglect of in lied. Others went still farther, this account.
The same firm is sending all s'lently equipped Sleeping, Dining and let Claga Cars, is
is operated between finite alapo and some ne loontents the Parliamentary suffrage by and advocated the "no breakfast"
its rice to Singapore, despite Dairen and Changoban in connection with the Trans-Siberian Express,
Kobe Mait havo declared their movement to fings. One never hopra, however, plan, as being a cure for all the
tempting prices offered from, ad with Dairen-Shanghai. Direct Stemmer Service by the 8.8. bo for independence and say it is of any modiral Anti-Suffrage physical and mental ailments petition was subunitted by Mr. Java, Hongkong and elsewhere. and Saikio Mard" (each 2,877 tons) as follows quite part from the railway Society in the beginning and under the sun.
Tien, the Shanghai Magistrate, The French Government are re- question.
experimental stage of male
It is just in the nick of time, before the Taotai, saying that, as quiring most of the rice asually Withthesooxciting events in the Parliamentary franchise."Ann-therefore, that the Chancellor of requested by Mr. Li Chung-chouh, sent from Saigon while the posi- tat la province, the Szechuan problem chestor Guardian."
the Exchequer has come forward Director of the Shanghai Self-Gov-tion of affairs at Rougoou is no seeins to be the dominant isane in
to save the country from what ernment Bureau, the export of less disheartening. Advices from Peking öfficial circles.
would be little short of a national wheat from Shongbai should be there at the latter end of August, calamity. The disappearance of prohibited. Mr. Li reported a contain a very pessimistic ac- broakfast would mean the dis slight dealine in the price of rice, count of the prospects of the appearance of backbone.
ab if the weather becomes fine, Indian rice season. The monsoon
Last Sunday Liu the Szechuan railway representatives honded a number of students from that province and went wooping before the entrance to Prince
under strict survoillance.
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Viceroy Jai Ch’Eng of Hupoh we do not quite understand, but table on the plea that they folioap-sale, the duties and like Proprietors and the Russian Train Time is 28 minutes ahead of the B.M.B. Tige. For Jurienes.
If breakfast is a disagreeable even without daily arrivals of sup has held off and rain has been Just when the prospects of war meal (as some folks ever) then all plios, the price must recede further. scarce with the result that it is Ching's residence, praying to him with Japan were beginning to the more reason why we should le, the magistrate, begs his Hon-feared a partial fumino will be to save the situation in their pro- j seem hopeless, astrology has come get up and face it. We are be our to pray the Governor to instruct experienced in most districts. vince. On the following day a to cheer our failing spirits, says coming altoget or too soft and the Customs to prohibit such ex-Added to this, it is under- decree was ismed, ordering the the "New York Evening Post" effeminate, shrinking from ovary-port, as the flour mills will then stood timt a powerful Japan- gendarmerie and the Ministry off August 13. When California thing thats not entirely agreeable have nothing to complain of, the ese syndicate, in view of the the Interior to deport Liu in was admitted to the Union, we to us. Charles Lamb was largely embargo placed on their flour strained position of European custody and hand him over to the learn, Uranus was in Aries. responsible for bringing the alone being manifestly unfair. affairs, has bought up the whole authorities of his native place when Washington came in, morning meal into disrepute.
The Thotai has authorized the of the season's harvest for ship- Breakfast is, before all things, Self-Government Bureau to esta Saturn and eptuno: wore in con-
ment to Japan. Oue of the jonation. And, as everybody who a respectable meal. Oud. cannot blish a rice cheap-sale office in the speculators is reported to liave Roughly Treated by Guards.
knows anything about astrology, imagine a man or women, who is Merchants' Shipping Guild at cleared between four and five While those men were before is aware, these phenomena signify always down punctually to break- Nautno, to purchase rice of a
million yan. It is thought that Prince Ching's doors, it is said that both of these Siales are to be fast, being other than a highly quality and to re-sell it to the poor the corner was very cleverly that they received vory rough a somethind bttle-field of the reputable member of society. A at the cheapest price possiblo.
worked, as the Japanese must have despatched experts to Southi treatmont at the hands of the nation.** Tliese sinister fucts are dinner may be frivolous, a supper Prince's guirds, but refused to set forth to the Inst detail in a pain-may be hilarious, but a breakfast merce and the leadmen of the to keep close observation upon The Chinese Chamber of Coin-China, Sigon, Siam and Burmalı withdraw and only retired after phlet bearing the title, A Mathe-kis always staid and solonn, und rice hogs have decided to send the condition of the crops, and midnight, when prevailed upon mutical Analysis of the Astrolo- conducive to the building up of a persons to Wusiel, to buy 2,000 when it became apparent that a to do in by Vice-President Wagical Evidence of War with sound and sensible character. Chen of the Ministry of the In-Japan," and issued by a Roolies-
shil (3,000 picule) of white rice partial failure was inevitable the Women havo tried to excuse and transport it here by train for ter seer. How he fixes the date their absence from the breakfast
of the Rangoon rice mills were has denounced Viceroy Chino to we live no manner of doubt that mover look thair best in the are to be exempted by petitioning season's grop secured:
6 p.m. by the former is 6.87 pm. by the latter. the authorities.". the throne, charging him with it is as accurately reliable as any early morning hours.
Supplementary Charges on DAIREN-CHANGCHUN Serica. Inquiries respecting the pos Tuotai bru You-yi las appoint-gible effect of a continuance Exzen Extar Fax... Y8.00 SLEEPING CAR SUPPLIES 18,00 culpable negligence cou-whatsoever. The war is to come fast anyo when it manifesta ed Mr. Sun Tiao-ting, the former of the present shortage elicited obtainable at all the Agences of the International Bleeping Car & Exp
other part of his calculations beauty is superfluous at break-
*DSTICKET AGENCIES—The Company's railway, and "steamer"tickets" "^* siders the situation in the neigh-between 1911 and 1916. This is itself in the cunning, rod and Associate Magistrate of the Mixed the fact that no serious trouble Trains Co., the Nippon Yusen Kalsha Shanghai, Merah Thoe Cook de Bon, houring province to be so serious that he has ortiered troops to well. Indeed, unless it comes white of bacon, it, then slut chase of rice in Hanan, to which sent among the poorer classes. RAILWAY HOTELS YAMATO Hozzi (Tel. Add 1 Yamato 1)
Court, to superintend the pur-need, be anticipated at pro and Reisebureau der Hamburg-Amerika Linie Boon, wo shall hardly keep our-aroina of coffos, or the translucent The Diplomatic Corps i Peing at all. The most prae Our aesthetic sensibilities are not Mr. Sun has also been asked to staple food, prohibitive they will
solves from despair of its com-amber of marmalade or honey province he is just on the point There is plenty of work for them, Dairen; Port Arthur, Makden, Fushun and Changchun, all under the icon-
of accompanying his aged father. and if they find the cost of their pany's managamant. king has not received messagestical suggestion in reference to fully awako till the afternoon. from Chengtu for three days and this whole matter, however, we
SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY COMPANY- There are some who complain consult with Mr. Li, of the Self-be content to eat less. The only learned from Oliungking that the regret not to have seen made that their conversational powers Government Bureau, as to
na to tlie Occasion, when anxiety may be telegraph line to the capital had in a single newspaper or hy a ore unsatisfactory at breakfast methods to be adopted in making occasioned will be in the event of Tel Add, Mapleton been cut. It is believed in Peking single one of our clever Jingose, time. This is because they at the purchase and in sending the the situation in Bangkok be that all the foreigners have left Wlly not declare war at once and tempt too much. They try to be rice to this port before lic leaves coming so bad that the Siamess for Kailing, a city about 80 miles immolately put Admiral Togo witty. Bon Liots are not suitable Shanghai The Governor of authorities deem it expedient to south of Chengta. where he would be harmless until tor breakfast. Light and airy Soochow we apprised of this prohibit export and the supply is One Poking rumgur is that ata we had worked our will upon his persifinge should be reserved for affair to which he has given totally out off. The last time the recent Cabinet council held to helpless nation? Causes could a later hour in the day. Theol. sunction. The first batch of rice export was prohibited was on consider the Szechuan situation, easily be found later. This ogy, philosophy, metaphysics authorized will be limited to Septembe 23, 1877, and free Duke Taxi Tsq, Minister of Fi-course would provont him from and occasionally politics. provide 50,000 sbih or 75,000
Was again llowed ance, said that though he had utilizing his 'observations of our suitable material for breakfast The rios quotations ruling in
19.1878. Export and noted on the loan question, he military and naval conditions table conversation, and if people Shanghai for the last day or two prey
on prohibited on ed allresponsibility in the against us, and would be in itself adhered strictly to these subjects show a tendency to syenk
64. These and declined to son a bold stroke as would be they would find little cause to
guard the frontior.
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