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views "elsewhere." In a matter of such subsidiary coins, the rust of the evil is paramount importance the Legislative still untouched. The romedy which Council-should decidedly have all the appears to me to be the more promia- available evidence before it. Of course Ing of effroting a permanent cura is to
The Norwegian steamer "Selure,' the Government will ultimately adjudi-dual with Chinese subsidiary coins first, cate between the Commission and the This would need drastic measures but which ran ashore on the Mason Bank,
it would be efficacious and the British has been refloated.·· Department, a rather unfortunate con-
soins-by reason of the void created dition of affaim in the circumstances by the absence of Chinese coing- perhaps, but inevitable. At the same would soon rise to their par value," time if the Government decides to with holt from publication portion of the
evidence upon which it will base its
decision the impression loft upon the public mind will not be favourable The obviously wise course is to let the public see that the light of day is allow
Few things are more suggestiva or!
SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT SHANGHAI.
more hopeful in relation to the fature Motor Car and Hose Reel,
of China Chan the changed attitudo of
the public mind toward old time superstitions. It is not long since the most enlightened Chinese stood in
The
THE EMPEROR ILL
· (From Our Corespondent.)
PEKING; June 5.'
The Emperor of Ckins is seriously icdisposed.
SOUTH CHINA RIOTS.
ANOTHER RISING IN KWANG-
TUNG.
Walchow City Attacked.
(Chines dtail's Correspondent. )
CANTON, June 4,
Official reports have reached hero of a serious outbreuk at Waichow, which
(From Our Correspondin!)
SHANGHAI, June 5.
in being attacked by increasing gunge ed to penetrate everywhere and that none of the forces of nature.
A motor car ran into a hose real, of rioters and is in imminent danger of attempt is made to conceal or to cover known was the terrible to be feared driven by a foreignar, proceeding to a falling. Urgent demands have been up any of the facts. The Hou. Mr Os and propitiated, and ignorance of borne lúas a pertinent inquiry to make natural laws meart for multitudes life.fire yesterday evening and the coili- roado to the Authorities to send rain-
sion resulted seriously.
forcements. Houg bondage to unknown powers in regarding subsidiary coin. Here again
the form of spirits tud demoni. Wo
The motor car contained Captain [Muth local oxcitement has been created the Government has a chance to put an irrite this apropos of reports from Mangor, of the ill-fated Froari, by the news of a viol at Waidhow, which is end to the grumbling at its lethargy Kitailans and Kwangsai concerning cruiser Chanzy.
in close proximity to the Tungkan and Sun He was thrown On Districts; not far away from the Now which has been gathering rapidly in volume. If the Goverment were to intimate that it had under serious con- sideration a scheme to ameliorate the unfortunate condition in which the
commercial community has been placed through the rapacity of the Govern
certain remarkable subsidences of the on to the roadway with considerablo Territory. Locally it is reported that the ground in the vicinity of that city and
the doings of the uninstructed populace violence and his skull was, fractured. in view of what they deem calamitous His injuries are so serious that he is
After telling its readiera that not expected to survive. certain chasms tens of feet in length
omcue.
and several feet in breadth have been
caused by subsidence a antive news 3 p.m.-Auction of the Steam Launchment in the past, the public would be paper concludes, its account of the
Yiy King, on Board, Canton.
satisfied to wait patiently. Whether curious phonotzera by absorsing, the plan suggested by Mr Osborne is the best one is another question into which it is not necessary to enter now. It is to be hoped that the Government will give a satisfactory reply to the query in reference to pickshas. The condition of these vehicles is something awful and
General Memoranda.
Saturday, June 8:-
2.30 p.m.-Auction of Household Furni- turo, &c., at Alr Geo, P. Lammert's Sale Rooms,
SUNDAY, June 7-
driver of the reel were bruised.
rioters have captured a certain place near
Waidhow and are now commanding a strong
position, anal that unless reinforcements are cuning forthwith, it is feared that the sity will be rendered precarious. Our
Other occupants of the car and the correspondent wired from Canton last night at 10 p.m. confirming the reports, but so for wo have not board what the Canton authorities propose doing with The hose reel was considerably Admiral Li Chun away in Swatow, and damaged.
COLLISION OFF GREEN
ISLAND.
The "Choising" Sunk. - The "Verona" Damaged.
practically all the available forces having been divided up and sent to different places-Er., O,M.]
THE RIOT AT LIEFCHOU.
Story by a Refugec."
There are still people superstitious enough to believe the fire dragnus fighting under the ground have caused the earth to open." Those observers of phenomena are, however, now trying to collect subscriptions for n
festival, to includé paper figures of the special propitiatory procession and
-A native agent of the Church Missionary Society, who has just arrived from Pakhói, Gonds per Lightning undelivered after 2 they are a disgrace to the port. Upon dragons that caused the entastrophe.
gives the following account of the riot :---- the answers to all these questions the It is proposed to carry these figures
Just before going to press we learn of a
The country people of the district had general publio will judge the attitude through the main thoroughfares when serious collision which took place in Sul- become discontented from two causes, first. towards it of the Government. The the dragons will olnim and receive duo phur Channel near Green Tuland, buthe high price of rien, which has been held tween the German-Lloyd steer back from sale by the rich merchants,
Gurman steamer ** Verona H........ (in ward by the officials. The tazes on oxov, pigs“
and wing were increased, and an increase The collision took place in the middle was threatened upon fowls and other food. The troops had gone out from the city
p.m, on this date will be landed.
TUENDAY, June 11 :----
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WEDNESDAY, June 12-
-Goods per Bennion undelivered uftor
this data subject to rent.
THURSDAY, June 13 -
4.15 p.a-Meeting of Canton Medios?
torium, Canton.
Government has an opportunity of Lezour. Oflioials make no more toChoising" (outward bound) and the and secondly the increase of taxation
showing that although there is no immediate prospect of Hongkong po
stay these proceedings and they thus seem to agree with the populace in bound). thinking that to waggle the head of a paper dragon will not only avert of the Channel. The "Choising" sunk, disaster but bring blessings of wealth steam downwards, on the Hongkong side. people-ot for the Government. Will and children to the favoured indivi- the opportunity he embraced?
Missionary Society, at College Auditing Government of the people by Goods pex Siberia undelivered after now the people, it has Government for the
this date subject to rest.
SATURDAY, June 99:-
Noo-Meeting of the National Bank of
China, Ld., at the Bank Promises.
The China til
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1907.
LOCAL REQUIREMENTS,
leaving it outirely undefended and there
The "Verona" went rotmi to the South was no watch at the gaten. On the morn
duals who are willing to do this on harbour, anchored off the Standard Outcrowd of villagers from the districts p
of Green Island, and proceeding up the ing of the fourteenth day (May 25) n greak tacked and plundered the Collego outside Co.'s godowns,
the walls, thinking the Prefect would be The Choising" was outward bound found there. Thoy desired to take his life. for Bangkok.
Not finding him they set the building on- fire.
receipt of large fees for the survice.
LOCAL AND COAST NEWS.
They entered the town about deven o'clock. There was no one who ordered Dr Morrison, the Poking correspond the gates to be closed; there was fighting ent of the "Times," has written to the at the gates, but it was too late to close ****Times" that China seriously intends the them when the rioters were ther. They suppression of opium smoking except in attacked and plundered several schools and Hupeh, Hunan, Kuangtang and Kuangsi.two chapols-one English and ona German
—ako houses (three) of the foreign mis-
That officials and others in Peking and the provinces think of the prevail-
The old German campy at Kaomi and ing unrest, insecurity and disorder a Kinochow, Shantung, have been bought by | bringing occasion to the enemies of the Chineso Government for 380,000 China for widespread insurrection dollars. with its attendant horrors is sufficient- ly evident. Among those foes of the
M. Pokotilof, the Russian Minister to Peking, visited the Waiwapo on the 29th Empire there is perhaps, none moro
May and opened negotiations about the. feared than Sun Yat Sen. The talk Chinese Eastern Railway, and it is expect
High officials of the Sonchor Provincesionaries. in well-informed diplomatic circles ised that an agreement will soon be reached RESIDENTS will be pleased to see that
having been notified by the Central Gov- The rioters were not armed, but used concerned with certain possibilities of on this matter. the non-official members of the Legisla-the situation that may lo said to
ermusent, lave instructor Military and their knives to hack away at the beams
tive Council are awakening to a more centre around Sun. It is mooted that
Among the passengers who left here Naval authorities to make strict enquiries and loosen the tiles. I had no quetio and active scose of their duty to the he has been heard of from the Dutch today by the German mail were Mr and concerning arus and to arrest rinters in was attacked and wounded. The other
Mrs T. W. Clarke. Mr Clarke, as civil Kiaugpeh. community. We do not iusinuato that settlements bordering on the Straits engineer for the Standard Ou Cu, bas they have really ucglected their duty of Malacca and that his intention is to done excellent service in the East, and LOTION for in the past. But we believe there have unke his way into Chius at no distant leaven with the best wishes of his many the Administrative system of the Throw where they were received, so the officials A good friends with us. The Hop-po been previous instances in.which the date. Onco in the country it is expected friends. Both Mr and Mrs Clarke WOTC Eastern Provineca longolin) should be sent soldiers to guard our preaching/ball that people will flock from every direo- very popular focally and had many friends still further revised. The Government has but it was already torn down and looted. inquiring spirit which is now manifestion to his standard, and that he will to see them off on their way to Now York.
approved of the proposal,
formidable body of men. Striet orders contrary, and the reported unwillingness at St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, an attack was upon the Prefect whose life Notwithstanding the statements to the A quiet but pretty wedding took place word afterwards arrested for pillaging, The
have, it is said, been given to guard of the Inte Viceroy to return to Cauton, it May 27, when Miss Dixon, of Edinburgh, they sought, but their minds were turned. A reliable and efficacious advantage of those represented by the all approaches with a view to discover appears that he will retern. At any rate was manied to Mr D. L. Gray, of the froni thoir-purpose by love of plunder..
and arrest dangerous a rebel Chou-fu bas ordered that a guard of honour Langsuan Tiu Mining Co., Sism. Mr J. The rioters were from the country and left reriedy. Gives instant unofficial members. The series of
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The telegram which we published meet the Viceroy, and escort him back to fellow passengers by the "Malta," and shops were not looted.
After the ceremony at the mecting on Thursday auggest that tho
last night shows that the Chinese Canton. They will have with thema guard jocs) friends. public is not supplied with information authorities are convinced that the show. It does not appear that they havo Rev. F. G. Swindell, the company ad- of soldiers, and; will make a considerable Cathedral by, the Colonial Chaplain, the in which it is deeply interested. For
cintora have been suppressed in the yet started but the orders have been issued, journed to Burnbank to drink the health FRAGRANT instance, in view of the fact that for vicinity of Pukhoi. This is decidedly and they are ready to proceed at once.
of the happy couple. years past the defective condition of the encouraging, since the rabble near
De and Miss Wilbur F. Crafts, of the A Blackmailer Suicides. Bro-fighting appliances in Hongkong Swatow have also been calmed down International. Referin Birca, who are Lau Lup Lin, the notorious-black- has been over and over again referred Fr. certain quarters it was endeavoured touring the world, are now at the Con-maller who was charged with attempting to
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"Kwangtung Rebellion," but if the to-night, will bo mck in time for the Union Chinese community in Canton and ox-remain there for a fortnight. Hon. Mr Pollock to extort the opinion of the Government with regard to such genesis of a reat rebellion existed any prayer meeting on Monday and will leave tradited to Chins, has committed suicida where it was in the profectures of for Australia on the 14th it. The tour Ho left here two days ago on board a applianca at the Peakwe would have Yamchau nid Liomchou, and not the bug with addresses in the leading towns Chinese cruiser and evidently his followers The Compradore's Case.
in England. Tho Reforms Thuren has for deemed i better for him to commit suicide preferred, by the way, to seo Mr Pollock Swatow corner of the Province, its object the suppression of gambling, thu have his head out off in Canton-for points on which the Chief Juice (Sir Francis Pigguit) resorved his decision making me lile at the cherry and At Liemohou there were organisational intemperance, and Sabbath breaking. Drsue was the fate awaiting him--and 60 in the action, Chan Ki Mesore David asking the question in a muro cunt-gainst the Government and move Crafts has recently had interviews with arranged with one of the sailors on di Sassoon and Company-claiti for redemp
Marquis Ito, Count Okuma. Viscount cruiser to give Tau a quantity of opiumtion of mortgage--wore dealt with this The miler did so and Lau died, the morning. The agreement should ou general OLYLON :-W. L. SKUT & TAS. WATSON & CO., prehensive form. But the Clovernments that were, in the eyes of many, Hayashi and Yuan Shi Kal
nothing less than overt robellion. At
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