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No. 9485,——Max 1898.
Tas Fire Brigade assembled on the Praya | observe that Englishmen always remember- nor the City Hall this afternoon, and oned that to his credit before they thight gaged in ladder and coupling drill under of anything else. It was nothing to them the Acting Deputy Superintendent, Mr
Mathieson.
vices for three years.
A
that once been Prime Minister of France, and often her nominee for other high functions at home and abroad. Their idea of being complimentary was to remind him of his prowess on the Thames,
I am asked to remind the wombera of.
THE
CHINA MAIL.
THE SUPPRESSION OF PIRATICAL
AA ATTACKS, A
The following correspondence on the above subject appears in the appendix to the annual report of the Hongkong Generos Chamber of Commerce —
THE JAPANESE IN AMERIDA. The San Fransisco Chronicle, which has
NEWS BY THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL
AUSTRALIAN 'DANES.”**
It is further of opinion that the results tish staster park, 1874; British steamer Tientsin 1678 (looted at Swatow when nimed at by the Scheme of The Mercantile ashore) British barque Elizabeth Childs, Marine Officers' Association can be secured for a long time been rehemently protosting 1879 British steamer Greyhound, 1886; by a watchful surrelllance exercised against the presente, of Ichn Chinaman in
Endon, April The Tiger of this British steamer Named, in 1890, and scores through the median of the existing Police the United States; sounds an alarm abent of jusks of which the Police Records con- Force, combined with the adoption and the inflax of Japaasse in the following morning says that, after making esteful inquiry, it does not believe the unfavoura umrelaxed maintenanoo of precaution article:- tairs full particulare.
The Pacifio Coast States are already ex-ble rumours that have been current regard, COLONIAL SEOHETARY'S OFFICE, Pirates were known to be on board the which are within the power of the owners Hongkong, 20th Banter her, 1892. British Steamar Kuangtung in 1878 and or agents of all vessels carrying Chinese periencing the evil effects of the unrestricting Australian banks. It says that one od admission of another Asiatis race to the chartered institution been fronly SI-I am directed by the Governor to the Folice intended to capture them out-passengers-I have, &c.,
shores of America, and the entire country is referred to, but that it bas good anthority ADAM LIND, Acting Fecretary.
threatened, from this source, with a cure for asserting that the position of this back transmit for the consideration of the Chem-side the Ly-se-man Fess, but the despara- bor of Commores a copy of lolter from does appear to have been informed of the
Q.M.G., Colania! Secretary.
the Chinese, The danger referred to is collapse neuillesa. t anderstands that Then there was the the British Mercantile Marine Officers' As-plan of campaign for they left the steamer The Honourable GT M. O'Brien, second only to that scund by the influx of is sound inngh to reader hy take all
that which exists in the alarming increase none of the Australian banke except tho. sociation subiaiting a scheme for the pre-ate the sailed. vention of piratical ontreges, togather steamer Soochow (British) on board of which
in the Japaneso population. Time was, Commercial Bank of Australian hae buon when
in the light of the greater evil of badly hit by the land boom. KERJA with a copy of a report by the Barbour 22 pirates were captured, in the harbour,
THE CHINA BORNEO COMPANY
Chinese colonization, the Japanese wera CUBENSLAND FLOODS RELIEF FUND LIMITED. Master, and to state that His Excellency but they were not punished owing to lack
tooked upea as comparatively inoffensive, London, April 7.The British fund fa will be glad to receive any observations of evidence to prove that the arms and
The following a the report for presenta. but while stops were being taken to mitigate aid of sa Ferors from the Queensland Hoode which the Chamber many desire to make on stinkpots found on board were thok pro- perty. The British steamiee Bowen when the subject-I kare, &c,
coming op from Singapore a few years ago tion to shareholders, at the fourth ordinaryono scourge another was being developed al-has been closed. Another instalment of
most unconsciously until now it is an open £1000 is about to be pont to Brisbane. Ta slso had a ging of pirates on board, taki
the Jape who are the most to be dreaded. that are sure to suit the jutellectual The Secretary, Hongkong General Cham. their designs were accidentally discovered yearly mosting to be held on Thuraday,
and, being surprised by the officers of the ship, they were prevented from doing any jeunesse dorée of this depressed Island. The
haru. small charge of 50 cents for admission (which only the depressed state of indivi dol nances could afford the luset excuse for grumbling over) will be made to curor the expense of fitting up the Gymnasioso for the occasion.
Jons Watts, the jockey retained by the late Mr. Abingdon at a very large fan, ban not had long to wait for an engagement to supply the one so tragically concluded. De the V. R. O. of the Smoking Concert to be fore the Lincoln Meeting had terminated held in the Gymnasium on Saturday night. he had accepted Sir John Blundell Misple's A all stage has been constructed for the offer of £6,90. for the first call on his soccasion, and the Electric Light Company are putting two are lights, which wil help to keep the atticephora equable and Tus German Emperor has sent his lifeless like what was experienced at the great size portrait in ʼn mégnificent Florentine Conversaziono last week. The programs frame, with autograph signature, to Pro- promista to be an attractive, one and the fessor Mox Müller, in recognition of bia gentleman who played havoc with a famous lifelong services to ancient Indian litera bank may be heard of in conjunction with ture, and as an acknowledgment for his new edition of the Rig Veda, with Sayana's commentary, lately published under the patronage of his Highness the Maharaja of
G.OLE. Vizianagram,
Sour two or three daye ago, a Tokyo paper which is quoted by the eastern World, a woman named Fusa appeared at a police station, accompanied by her servant, and asked how she could scad a for things to her husband who had been arrested on a charge of gambling. She was told she would have to write out a petition to that effect and conscquently wont to a clerk to have it The clerk, pea drawn up in proper form. in hand, nekod for her husband's name. The woman soberly replied it was Omai
"ot fi yous"
which is the way Japanese The clerk wives address their lorda). laughed and asked again. She bridled up and said that was all the name there was to
Balt
him, he had been married nine year o that a mistake was out of the question. The petition therefore could not be drawn up and she went again to the police station, naked whether her husband was still thers, she was Omai san's wife and hed a right to know. At last when it was found that her husband's name was Takujiro, and the police informed tor of the foot, she said it was really strange she had not known that her husband had another name bosides * Dutti Bau.'
SHANGHAI RACES Second Day, May 3. THE CHU-KA ZA Cur, mile.-Mr Sas-
soon's Hollyhock, 1st. lib.
of Chevalier's coster ditties--geme
In my last notes some comments were Since then 1 given on blindfold choss, have seen the following paragraph-In a letter published in La Habana Literaria Senor A. 11 Fanquez, the chess shampion of Mexico, refers to a reply to a question which was made by Mr Blackburne, and which is not generally known. After the seance sans voir which Me Blackburns gave at Havana in 1801, M. Barique Conill, the vice-president of the Harava Club, naked him for his opinion as to the maximum number of blindfold games which it was presible to play. The shampion replied as follows: It is no more difficult thsa to play four, to play forty provided that an interval of a day be arranged between each sitting of four or ve houre. For myself, moroover, I would allow a trustworthy porson to keep an eye on me, and to aauro himself that while the play was suspended. I neither analysed the positious nor set them up on a chees board." Mr Blackburno added that the Franco-German war of 1870 prevented the carrying out of an engagement which he had made with the club of Baden Baden to play 30 simullaneous games sana viz.
Simultaneous play is wore common than
THE SHAORAL Dakay, 14 mer blindfold etwas, and when a master appears
Bassoon's Barleycorn, 11st. 4lbs.
at some out-of-the-way town or village to THE LADIES' PURSE, 1 nila.-Mr John try conclusions with provincial players,
Peel's Talisman, 1let. Lib. THE RACE OLED Cor, 2 miles.Mvery peculiar often are the games that are
Trebau's Bearil, 11st. 8lbs. TER Concordia CUP, 19 mlle.-Mr Jesser'a
Firefly, 10at. 12lbs.
THE MONGOLIAN Cor, 1 allo-Me Weed's
Veau d'Or, 11at 4lbs.
played
For the occasion all who know tha moves-and it is wonderful how many know no more of these than that, though it is not at all times expedient to tell them re-ass whipped up in order to test the os- pabilities of the great man; and naturally.
THE SPRING CGF, 1 mile.-Mr Buxey's is not avero, for the greater number
Blue Beard, 1st. Glbs.
THE SHANGHAI Scakes, 1 mile.-Mr
soon's Here, list. lbs.
there are of duffers the better able is hic to Sas-aford to lose une or two games to the best players pitted against him.
I give
of twenty-one une Bolo simultaneous games played at Brighton by Gansborg. He wen 10, drew & and lost
THE TAOTAL'S CUP, 1. mile.--Mr Saamoon's
Mighty, 12 at.
THE SCURRY STAxxs, 6 forlonger
Sassoon's Blackberry, lot, Albe
rally
RECREATION NOTES.
White.
Aunsbery.
1 P-K 4
2 P-KB 4
MUZIO GAMBIT.
3 KK-B 3
4 B--B4
5 Castles
6 Q×P
;P-K5 (a)
8 Bx F ch 9 P Q4 10 B-K 3 11 Q-Q5 ch 12 Q-R & ch 13 B B P
14 K-Rag 13 B-K:& ch 10 0x1
RP
18 Qx B ch 19 Bx Kt
17 Q R
Black, Amatens.
P-K4 PxP
P-K Kt 4 -Kt5 Px Ki Q--B 3
Qx P
KxB
Qx P ch Q-B3 Q-E 3 (6) K-K 2 Q-Kt 3 ch K-Q 8Q (c) Kt-K 2 Q-K 3 (4) P-B3 K-B 2 P.-Kt 3 B-R 3 Q-KI 3
The latest home papers bring intelligence of the great football match between Eng. land and Scotland in which the former for the third year in succession won handsomely by 5 goals to 2 This season the honoura on the football field have been divided by Wales and England. Wulce, from occti. pying the lowest place in the quadrangular contest for the Rugby international blus ribbon, surprised everyous by defeating England,
Ireland and Scotland, the tom showing marked superiority at all pointe of the gate in the scrum and behind. In addition, their team aeemed to be dis- tinguished for stamina, for it was gone. towards the close of each game that they began to wear down their the winning opponerta and pilo on points. Wales and Ireland count for very little in the Association game. The con- test of the year is when England meets Scotland, and whereas a few years ago was considered hopeless to expect to win against the northern eleven England now euters the contest with much more cou- fidence.
In two successive wocka the
(a) P-Q3 generally considered stronger. marked improvement of English football Playing against an inferior player the text received ample proof. Everton and the move was justifiable followed up as it was Wolverhampton Wanderers met in the by Bx cb, the object of the itinerating final for the English Cap, the former team player in simultaneous play being to si composed of Englishmen und Soo smen, the plify position
(b) Black is already in trouble. By play latter composed entirely of Englishmun. After kaen contest, fought outing K-K2 he might have cvaded the in at Manchester in presence of 40 000 apeo panding cranb
(e) After this he is doomed. tators, the parely English team won, and on the following Saturday, at Richmond, a mixed arostour and professional teara had no grass dillealty in defeating Scotland's so-called amateur tear.
A
20 Kt-B3
31 KR-K aq
it
32 Kt-K 4
P-Kt 4
23 Q-Q 8 ch
K-X: 2
Having shown the world that Engliabazen are able to defend satisfactorily the honour of their portion of the empire, the managera of the professional football teams in England noght to be convinced that it is unneccesary to go to Wales and Scotland, particularly to Scot land, for recruits for their teams.
24 Kt-B & mato (e)
NOTES.
G. T, M. O'BRIEN,
Celosial Secretary.
ber of Comamoreé, & &c., toc.
DOFTISH MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICERS'
ASSOCIATION,
CHEANEY DESCAX, Secretary. Report by the Harbour Master. This is a poheme proposed by the Mer cartile Marins Ultisers Association on be half of their brother officers serving on the cometing and other steuniers carrying largs numbers of Chinees as passengers and who ren the risk of attacks such as those which have occurred at different times during the
ycora.
11th May
Your Directors have now to lay before you the Accounts for the year ending Stat December, 1892, which show a loss of $3,146.63 on Werking Account.:
question as to whether it is the Chiness or
Whenever the subject of restricting Jupazess immigration has heretofore been brushed there has risen a great outory o the part of religious and other eentimenta lists to the effect that the Japs were very much more dosirable, from a social stand
much more amenable to point, than the Chfaces sver old be, and
FINANCE COMPANY.
Landon, April 7-The British Australa- sinn Trust and Loan Company has declared
dividend of 28 64 per share,
a
ESCORT TO THE QUEEN
London, April 7-It has base arranged that the team of New South Wales caval rymen who aro to tako park in lo
Queen on her way to open the Imperial Islington Tournament shall egeset the Institute post mouch
HOLANDE.
to in my latter of thà 28th November; lane thirty not appear that before drawing Sawmill han besa closed and the cost of appearing Willing to become Amerionnized, Pacific, belonging to Germany, intende to
It dosa.
FRANCE AND AUSTRALIA... Londoni April 7.--The Marqule of Dut2 ferin, British ambassador at Paris, reporta that Australian produse hae since the year 1882 besu paying the maximum ter upon being imported furto France. The Froncla Government does not intend to make any change with regard to thene imports.
Prevention of Piratical Outrages.
At the last Amual Meeting (Lord'April, Hongkong, 17th September, 1892
1592), it decided to realize the Assels a he Committee of the urotection of
opportunity offered, rodusa Lisbilities and of this Association to ask
stop the working of unprofitable branches the s you to draw the attention of His Excel.
of the business. The S. 8. Sandakan civilization. As a matter of fact, it is the lenoy the
Governor to the following
has bean zöld at a loss of 84,344.52; the very assumption of the appearance of ra-
London, April 9-It is reported al liability of 235,909 on Tubacco Land Don-prestability which is the most dangerous
elamual in the Japanese question.
The Japs Washington tist Here Scheldt, Governor 1.—Thut the feeling of insecurity referred"
cension has been got rid of by giving up a facts:-
part of the Concession. The Sandakan adopt American clothing for the sake of of the Starshall Islands In the Western 1891, still provats throughout the Merchant Service, especially amongst this proposal they consulted with the getting rid of the staff arid sending theta but thare, in the great majority of cases deport the American missionaries from the these who often sail from this port
other labourers in the same felda, they varicas chipping companies, yet it is by home is responsible for the loss on Working the Americanization ends. They underbid islands. 2-That Members of the Merchant those that the inconvenient affects of the Account,
Service are convinced that the risk scheme if carried out will be felt search Mir Abrabamson entered an action against speus but little et their sarnings, and they By dint of their profession of a desire to they ron is terrible owing to the fact of the passengers will entail some delay in the Company in the Bornce Courts for finally carry beer to Japan their savings. that, practically, no system of provon the departure, of the steamer, accommode wrongful dismissal, claiming $7,000 to become educated they prey upon the senti- tion of piratical outrages of the shock tion for searching will have to be provided $3,000; the case is still before the Court.
Directors: Stokos resigned his seat meatalism of soft-hearted people, strike ing Namaa, park and Greyhound type of the wharf or in the alesmer, and they exist, although the necessity therefor only are in position for saying how far on loving the Colony Messrs Whealler better bargains than they otherwise could, is unquestionable in low of the the increased fare is advisable in the in- and Layton retire, but offer themselves for and get better opporturilise than most other labouring peoplo. This is particularly true dalardly outrages prepetrated on terests of the passenger trade or if it will re-election, board rossola (many of them British) affect it in any way.
in the line of hoges service. A great many mailing out of the waters of this Colony.
of the so-called good boys among the Japa tern out to be worthless as servants, but he- Shaw, the poolel correspondent of the during the past thirty years, as may
cause they are supposed to be fit subjects Times in Australis, appears in that journal for missionary work some families put ap on the subject of intense culture in Vic- be seen by the enclosed list, compiled from reliable sources
with their failings for conscienco sake. Ia toria. She expresses the opinion that a colony possessing such wealth in the back country, combined with the energy already shown by the people, cannot be regarded as suffering from any inextricable noticial embarrassments. The country districts are perfectly sound, and offer an outlet for English and Vistorian enterprise, The supreme need of all Austrails is not money but population.
3. That it will be to the advantage of shipowers, insurance companies, mom- bers of all branches of the Mereliant Service and the travelling public to hare a Preveritive Service established, ANTO
and well organized, in this Dolony a soon as possible, for past experience bas proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that the cura for piratical out- rages (when once a gang of the desparadoss is on board and Versel for miles out to soa) is quite an un, known quantity, whereas its prevel tion is undoubtedly, and certainly should be, possible.
The achowe of itself is a practicable one in so far that the amount realized by the proposed method of increasing the par senger fares would be sufficient for the payment of a tolerably large staff.
Taking the mean of the figures for the last three years we find that the Chinese passenger traffic from Hongkong was as follows
By Chinese Prosenger ships to Straits, British Columbia, San Franciaco, Portland Oregon,
45,026
By Coasting steamers and others
not coming undor the Emigra tion laws to Chiva sul Japan, 328,622
Auditors:-The Accounts have been Audited by Mesra Henderson and Lyall, who affor themselves for re-election.
B. LAYTON, Chairman, Hongkong, 2nd May, 1893. STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT TO DECEMBER 31x, more than one instance in San Francisco the intimacy encouraged between Japanese serrants and is children of a family has realtad vary disastrously, from the stand point of morality, and that is a result bat bas saldom, if ever, ocme to pass among the Chinese.
Capital:---
1892. Liabilities,
1,410 Shares Fully
In part payment
us par prospects
paid up allotted
paid up allotted
Lo E. E. A. &0.
Bach $100.00.8 141,000.00
140 Shares Fully
168,648
to the vendore of
At 2 cents each......8 3,871
the Sawmill in
By
part payment of
Bama each value
$100.00
t
5,568 Shares each
paid up $55......
10,435
383 Shares ach
paid up $50......
14,000,00
306.240.00
19,100.00
River Doats? To Canton 177,885
17
Macao 53,690
581,776
At 2 cents each; munten
Teiul cum from 9rd class pasION-
gets only.......
$14,000 Bengkong & Shanghai Bunk ...
Bills Payable If therefore the owners and agents of
steamers agree to adopt this acteme the Sandry Creditors. Gvernment would be in prasension of Mortgage on Barque Tarapucs funds to the amount of over $14,000 por annum for the upkeep of a Preventivo and Datcolive Service.
Assets.
The same trouble that time and time again occurred is connection with the e- ployment of Chinese on corporation work is dow being experienced with Japanese work. men. Only a recently as last Friday an accident, Barrowly averted in Oregon, wan enid to have been planned out of revenge
on
AUSTRALIA'S NEED-FOPULATION, NOT HONEY London, April 8. letter from Mide
SCOTTISH WIDOWS' ASSURANCE SOCIETY. London, April 8.-Me Tuzzball, the manager of the Scottish Widows Assurance Society, and Meters Cowan and Jamieena, directore, have sailed for Australis is the railroad company for hiring onler to osamine the colonial finances of Japaness section hauds instead of white the society. The Earl of Delkeith stated man, And there now ponding fa at the annual meeting of the society that that State an important legal Castbe deputation would be sent to Australin growing out of that system. Japanese simply as a matter of cantion, and not be labourers can be had ebeaply as Chinesa, once they were afraid of their investments. and now that the latter are not so easily The society's deposits on fixed termis, obtainable railroad contractors jurap at the chiefly in Australian banke, amounted to Jeps
and there are sure to be very serious £130,000, of which £10,000 was in the 54,074.15 complications arising therefrom. In the Commercial Bank of Australia. A cable. 1,250.00 Sandwich Islands the Japs have completely gram had been received from Australia 0,720.08
overridden the Chiness alcandy, and the same stating that it was believed the funds of United States unless measures are taken to 10,000.00 thing is more than likely to ooour in the the society were perfectly safe $552,384.23 | restrict their immigration.
480,340.00
THE COINAGE QUESTION,
London, April, 8. The Treasury antbos. As the law now stands, there is no his-hes state that the request that the Sydney drance placed in the way of unlimited Ja-and Melbourus Mints should be empowered
How far the scheme can be practica Saudakan Sawmills $78,587.64 pareno immigration any more than in the to giro fall weight for light gold coin im-
worked is another matter.
4.That the Arm Ordinanco (1891) does not convey to the Commander as Officers of vea-els any powers that can be exercised to advantage. Ofters of Vessels have no time to search hundreds of passengers and ther baggage. As a rule they are busily engaged about the loading of their vessels right up to the time the nachor is weighed, when all the officers are. called on deck. The chinf oficer is then stationed on the forecastle, the second right art, and the third has to aland by the telegraph on the bridge, near the commander. Tale order is maintained notil the vessel is wo ́l oat to sea when the watches are ret aud the officers off duty go below to rest in erdor that they may be fit to take In the case of those steamed which re- their watch on the bridgo when sum-oeive their passengers while lying alongside moned to relieve the oficer of the
a wharf, the Rirer steamers and the watch
Douglas' steamers for instance, it might 5.That a certain amount of email-arms
not be very difficult to have an individoni drill can be done on beard-and is inspection and aearch of intending pasaan. gone through--with a view to making gra and their baggage and if the steamer The officers and quarior mastera 13 left the wharf and all communication be- fait' in the use of re-arms. But the
twoen hor and the share was cut off soon Fact of vessels being armed and the
as nit ber passengers had been passed on officers on the alert during the day board a useful precautionary measure would Furniture tends to increase the danger of the have been completed, but in the cago Bhares and Laveatments situation rather than otherwise, for of Emigrant Ships which (until the Sundry Debtors.... pirates, knowing that a day attack Emigration Wharf, proposed some yours Stores, Coal, &c., Stuck of would probably result in many of their age.
ie adopted) take ago,
the passengers gang being killed and serimsly wound amounting to several hundreds in sich ship ed, will probably (in any faturs att nok
on board in the stress surrounded with of the Names of Greyhound descrip boste of all descriptions and with people tion) wait until the middle er third coming and going until the last moment watch of the night when but two er ny inspection and search of the passagers three members of the crew are on dock would be a mers waste of time, and the chances of defeat atsolutely ii. It would be impossible to atave off a well planned night attack.
R.Munnar RUMSEY. W. C. H. TINGS.
Bats. Lighters and Launches... Loud Concessions (Tebacco) Timber Concessions ............... Tug Normanhurst ....... Hongkong Sawmills
Tarapacs Barque Town. County and Suburbua
Lunds Hanse Property... Plant Account
Cast in hand..... Timber, Stack of Sawn Timbor, Stock of Uncompleted Voyage Barque
Tarap ta Balanes of Profit and Loss Ac
count
WORKING ACCOUNT. Dr.
Cr.
By Profist on Timber Sales, Hongkong Sawmills Work inx, Tarajada Working, Nor- manburat Working, Storas, Commission, House Property,
&
In view of the foregoing I am directed
Hongkong Generul Chamber
of Commerce, to ask you to suggest to Hie Excellency that a Preventivo Service (costing nothing Hongkong, 13th December, 1892
Sir,-Adverting to your letter of the To Salaries either to the State or the taxpayers) be organised in Hongkong at the earliest pou- 30th September, alrendy briefly acknow. To Canrges.... Bible moment, in order that the great ledged, inviting observations from this To Interest............ (d) The position just now is highly in-danger to lives and property shove referred Chamber on a scheme for the prevention of To Hongkong Offos Expenses.
picstical outrages submitted to His Excel To Medical Department..... teresting.
to may be promptly obviated.
ency the Governor by the British Mercan To Sandakan Sawmills..... As to how such a service should be or. (e) Pretly; an appropriata finish to such
I a game.
ganised the Committee do not preeums totilo Marine Officers' Association, I bave now To Bad Debia SPECTATOR. diolate, but I am to suggest that it might the honour to inform you that, before coca- To Auditors' Feen.
take the form of a striut ceurch of all plying with Bis Excellency's request, tog To Telegrams CORRESPONDENCE. Chinese passengers, end their baggego, Committen deemed it advisable to obtain the To Exchange......
Leaving the port. Preventive officers, wat opinions of the representatives of Shipping ELECTRIC LIGHT. VERSUS GAS. chers and mastchers (both male and fomale) Companies and firms whose intersata were being stationed on the wharves, in examina in any way affected by the proposed To the Editor of the Casa MAIL'
tion sheds and on board ships for the par-scheme. Hongkong, May S. Sta-Electricity un doubt can be pro- poss.
I am so directed to suggest that meu There cannot be the least doubt that the craza for athletics at home has been used much cheaper than gas but only un- carried too far. This is beginning to be dez exceptionally favourable conditions, bers of the secret police of Shanghai, the recognised, even by the press which,, when the machinery can be run at fall Straits and Hongkong, if allowed facilities as a general rule nowadays, follows pub load for a considerable proportion of the for travelling to and from Hongxong, the lie opinion and panders to all ite whims day. Under good average conditions the Straits, Bangkok and coast ports as passen instead of ondeavouring to lead public output of electrical machinery supplying gets might do a great deal of good in opinion as in the good old days wo outrent for electric light will not exceed detecting criminals who travel in ateamers have been taught to believe existed Away 20% of what the same machinery could solely with a view to robbing their fullow- back in the dim and dusky past. This is how supply run at full load for a similar passengers. These thieves are a vary dan a suber-minded, constrative London daily period, so that the price of a Unit of Elec-gerous and audacious class of criminals who * leaderizes on the eve of the University tricity Ims to be raised in proportion to the would (and doubtless many do) take part in The Preventive officare might well, it is boat-race-The Oxford and Cambridge lessened demand and because the standing piracies whenever opportunity offers. Race is fixed for to-morrow, and all England is breathing its annual wish that the bost
thought, form & branch of the secret Police crew may win. The petition-for it is lit
Force, and be recruited from Pinkorton's Agency in America, Soutland Yard, and The scheme in question would accomplish ile less-is not confined to this country. It
At the present price charged. for Blootris the dower of the Chinese Polios of the nothing that cannot be attained by efficient police supervision, combined with the goes the sound of the globe to our most
Of course the question of the cost of adoption of precautionary mesures such distant possessions had it is not at all current, the roajority of our consumar fud Orient.
a distinot saving over the cost of Ga improbable that, for months henco, a
Unfavourable comparisons have been such a Service is very important, and it as have for a long time been in terce boat's crow may be patting off from Pit.
no piratical attempt has taken place for cairn Island to ask, a passing man-of-war drawn between the local Electric Co. and has, I are to assure you, occupied the on the River steamer on board of which for tiers of the event. Like the old the Shanghai Oo, because the latter have thoughts of our members for mosthe past, Greeks, we are federated by our shiotic paid a dividend, (on a greatly reduced with the result that a feasible scheme has eighteen years. gumes; and we never feel so much that we capital and with plant filled to its full caps been devised. It is that a slight incrasse all of are stack as when we are waiting city), but it must be remembered that the shoud be made ia pasenger faren, namo for news of this grout race. With this, nod, Shanghai Co. have been in existence for 7ly
yours, and the quality of their street 1st class passengers (civer boats)centa pach. cricket, atid indeed every other sport we grapple Australia as with hooks of stoel, lighting would not be tolerated in Heng20d
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I may premise that the expressions at opinion elicited are without exception ad- verse to the proposal and the grounds of this opposition may be enmmatised as fol. The cases of piracy udduced in the letter low-
from the Association do not appoor By Scrip and Transfer Fees..... to furnish cuflicient grounds for the By Balance carried to Profit & establishment of a spacial, preventive | Lo83 A/C..... servico, and the infrequency of such outrages scarcely warrants the elata- mont that the members of the Mer- Cautile Marine ran terrible' risk oving to the possibility of piratical at- tuoka on board the vessels to which they may belong.
parts as in the case of the Spark which was
at
GERMANY AND HAMOA.
Loudon, April 8-The Cologne Gazette
13,192.26 Cass of any other nationality except the plies that England should undertake the 15.303 29 Chinese. The entrant labour law is oporn task of renowing the gold coinage of the The Treasury cuggests that 16.391.15 tive against them, of course, and no diacased Empire.
malter be considerad together 15,418.63 poraon is admitted, nor can any women land the 10,000.00 who is known to baro bean sported for with the question of silver coinage. parposes of prostitution, but burring three It ercently desires to frame e coinage 10,000.00
aindrances the course is a free one, and fegulation upon a principle agrosable to the 11,760.00 people have any idea of how fast the Jape colonies and equitable to the Imperial and
9,188.22 ye been coming in. During the fiscal colonial exchequera. 2,000.00 Fear ending June 30, 1892, there arrived
of San Francisco 1,892 Japaness 494.25 the port 161.00 mates and 36 femalce. In the year inme-advises Germany to aune S 10,181.63 diately preceding the number was still larger. 6,775.48 In the monta of April, 1892, there were 9 265.95 Japaness arrivals, and in May of the same 12,127.05 year the number was 392. Since that time 24,764,80 the monthly figures have not been quite so
high, but there has been a steady immigra 9,128.00 tion that keeps the total up to the danger point. in January at the present year there wore 303,613.73 forty-five arrivals from the Mikado's realm, in February there were seventy-three, and $532,384.28 last month ainety-
THE HUSING IN THE ARGENTIN K BEPUBLIC,
London, April 8-The rising at Cala- marea in the Argentino Republle ty assum. ing serious dimensions.
ATTACK ON A MISSION STATION: London, April 8.-President Cleveland bus insisted on reparation being made by Turkey in consequence of the Turks having destroyed the American mission at Meran van, in Asla Maur,
Au organized body of 3000, teetotallers
THE PANAMA CANAL. - London, April 8-It is understood that if Tho Egures above quoted, however, by no means tell the story of this growing evil. the new Panama Canal Company be formed Commissioner HoPhorson, the present bead of October, 1854, the llepublic of Colomais of the Government Immigration bureau here, will allow 10 years for the completion of 9,184.93 has been particularly diligent in the disobargo the ganal.
ENGLAND. THE LIQUOR LAWS IN 2 295.15 of his duties and bas during bis term of
London, April D.-—Serious, rioting ha 3,904.64 lice sent a good many Japs back home.
These taken place in Trafalgar aguases; - d 8,349.38
without allowing them land. 132.25 were men who came here under contract for 8,797.47 labour, those who were sick or insane, or broke up a cieeting which was being held in 1,601,47 women who were to have been utilized for opposition to the Local Veto Bill. They 350.00 immoral purposes. This summary deports-distroyed the banners dieplayed at the 34.32 tion has made the port of San Francisco en meeting. Several persons were injured in £0.68 undesirable point for Japanese immigrants the riot which followed. The palice dis- persed the riotits and arrested 10 of the to some to, and the result has beex that $ 23,700.24 great many more have reached the United ringleaders. States by way of Puget Sound and British Columbia. These new arrivals make their way all over the United States, but a great many of them come to San Francisco by ia land routes. This fact is amply attested by the figures given in the last census where the Japanche population of San Francisco was stated to be 590. The most casual obser 25.00 ver knews this to have been a ridiculously
estimate, particularly when it is known that 2,146.69 there are more than sixty Japanese prosti. tutes living in a single short street in this The immigration commissiezer, $23,709.24 city.
farthermore, has proofs that none of the recent additions to this colons of moral lepers have some through ports further
$21,537.6
PROFIT AND LOS ACCOUNT.
Dr.
Cr.
2.146.63
$502,613.73
Dorth.
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THE TRADE OF LUÐ VARIES (ETRODOSŤ," London, April 9-The exparts of the United Kingdom for the past month show derrense of £232,000, and the imports a decrease of £2,700,000 as compared with the corresponding month of last year.
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DROWNED IN THE MEDITNIRANEAN. London April 10.-Mr George Brég, a passenger by the 'B.M.S. Ophir, fell ove board to the Mediterranean, and was àdrowned.
RUSSIA AND AFGHANISTAN. Tondon, April 10.-The Edasians at urghab, in Central Asie, have penetrated into the district of Wakhen, belonging to Afghanistan, and have ordered the Afghan cocamanader. sorrender.
It is feared that fighting will take
plass on the frontier between the Itaseinas and Afghana,
In addition to the objection to the Japan To Balance of lust Account......6257,624.35 To Depreciation as por last a/c. 97,998.24 eso based upon their immorality, their menace from a labour standpoint, and thoir geusral To los vn Sale of 8.8. Ban
dakan.......................
4,844.52 andesirability as being no hecter than the
Chinese, thers arises the farther fact that ACORING to a St. Petersburg telegram la To Balance of Working Account
brought down...
their presence in the public schools crowds the Posi:che Zeitung, advices received out children of American parentage and that from Tomsk (Siberia) stala that 300 con- it voets them with an arrogance that wakes Victs, who were being conveyed in manseles them unbearable. Numerous incidenta barato que of the penal settlements, rebelled been furnished the Chronicle where the is against their warders, and a moat desperate. encounter easnod. The revolt was insti. sionary souliment among certain falsely- pbilanthropic citizens has been oraeily play. Eated by five of the prisoners, who succesă- ed upon by taceo Japanese interlopers, and ed in freeing themselves of their chaing and disarming their gaolere. A sanguinary if it is necessary for the opening of the eye combat with knives and revolvers was then of the people to the threatening danger, these will be again referred to. Meanwhite, began and it was not until many lives had mastery over their the danger exists to a very great degree, boen lost that the warters finally succeeded and those who have given the subject their in regaining the
prisoners, Eight of the former were careful attention place it a close second tiled, while of the latter forty either were that which arose from the unrestricted faux shot dava or made good their esasp
Even if adopted, it would not prevent piratical bands from embarking at Chinese By Amount carried forward to
a now Account ...............$302,613.73 on a voyage from Canton to Macao when the pirany occurred.
$502,613.63
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We have compared the Accounts with the Boobs and Vouchers at the Company's Office and found them correct.
F. HENDERSON, duditora. R. LEALL
J. WESELEY, Agent. Hongkong, April 24th, 1893.
of the Chinese.
A WLDER has been made by some citizens of
The methode indiested for searching bag- kong.
Gage would provo a source of great an we keep on brotherly terms with Amaries,
So far from any attempt at esavessing let and we even hold out a hand to France. It
norance to passengers and of serious delay to steamers, whilst, as pointed out in Cap the French papers know their business being considered infra dig, by the Hong 2nd Electrio Company. they have 3rd they will, this year, condescend to tele kong grams and to detaila. The Seins will noted every effort to promote the in- which sum should be atamped on the tickets taiu Bumtoy's observations, the examini
their system ntroduction
among at the Treasury Ofice and paid to the Go-tion would in most cases be a mers waste bo incurious about what is happening on
Any additional tax on shipping repealally the Thames, and the Marns will sortainly foreign and Chiccse renidents, and they vernment by the anners (who will charge of time. be glad of early information. Last year's engaged a special representative to canvass it to passengers), the latter receiving at triumphs of the French amateurs at Hen the Chinese shops, &, and although some annual resura of 8 per cent, from the Go on the pantooger traffic would be most un- enlightened Chinese were supplied with the varoment as interest on advance. Thus favourably received by the community. It ley have enlarged the dimensions of our sight and still contious to we it, yet many would the cost of the forvice be covered by is true that the extra charge would nominal- Olympic bond, and this year will decide
there is little doubt that in a short time it whether it is not to be wider still Out Chinese were unwilling to pay even for the those who would neither feel nor object to ly fall on each individual passenger, but
the infeitesimal impost. Beighbour too lively this time-is sending labour of putting in the wire and Bttinge.
It is not a case of competition between I respectfully appeal to you, Bir, en be- would, of necessity, rescire taulf into picked crowe, or picked soullers, to try for the ligbest honours at Henley, and wagas and Electric Light in the case of the half of the important section of the world's burden un the owners, whisk in the case of My Committee fully endorse the views House ban tric light, and there is no doubt that sents to take this matter into your crest portAL.CO. again. At the Mansion qust M. Waddington honestly conferred to keroine in the cheapest if its attendant and prompt consideration, and I anxiously the satisfaction with which he heard of his disadvantages are igoured, and those dis- wait, with confidence, the favour of a re-expressed by the shipping interests on this
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had sustained during the 'confics
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