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INTIMATIONS. BROWN, JONES & CO. MONUMENTAL SCULPTORS.

AMERICAN MARBLE

TTALIAN MARBLE. HONGKONG GRANITE. Design and Prices on application. Offico, 17A QUEEN'S RD. CENTRAL, 1ST FLOOE

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10TH, 1909

[of this Colony on the Treaty ports of China.

and how anything which affects them stantly produces an effect on our trade. No guarantees of maintaining an "open door" can ever compensate to Britain and her colonies for the alienation to competing Powers of these ports. As a matter of fact, the worthlessness of these guarantees is not a rantter of doubt. A national conscience is always a very elastic thing, as has been proved time after time even in the history alone of the dealings of foreign Powers with China. In the matter of the differential tax

were reported

A Chinaman was sausing himself on Mon day by throwing stones at an Indian carpenter on the Parado Ground in Queen's Road. He we caught, and yesterday Mr. Hazeland ordered him to pay 810, or three weeks.

Sergeant Lander was on duty in the Shatin district on Monday when he came across a rather suspigious looking Chinamaa, He ao cordingly stopped and searched him, and found some papora relating to the Triad Society on him. The officer arrested him and brought him

A Census for the whole Colony of Hongkong will be held in 1901

The hockey match arranged to take place yesterday between the Hongkong Hockey Club and the Officers of the B.A. and R.E. was ban doned on acount of the weather.

Anthrax has broken out among the cattle im ported into Shanghai to be sent north to the troops, and the Sanitary Department is busy destroying them, five animals at a time being aremated.

A. S. WATSON & CO., imposed on Formosan tea shipped to Europe before Mr. Hazeland, who adjourned the case for Shanghai have disbanded. They only agreed

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or the States riz Chinese ports or Hong. kong, it is difficult indeed to see how the British Government can acquiesce in Japan's action. Paragraph 2 of Article VIII of the Treaty of 1894 between Great Britain and Japan ruus as follows:-"Inthesame manner "there shall be perfect equality of treatment "in regard to exportation, so that the same "export duties shall be paid and the same "bounties and drawbacks allowed in the "dominions and possessions of either of the High Contracting Parties on the exporta SCOTCH WHISKY."tion of any article which is or may be legally exported therefrom, whether such exportation shall take place in Japanese "or in British vessels, and whatever may be "the place of destination, whether a port of either of the Contracting Parties or of any third Power." In a letter written. on the 28th April from the Chairman of our

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PORT &

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[Including Wines bottled by the

Celebrated firm

GEO. G. SANDEMAN, SONB & Co.]

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a week..

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Two men. apparently brothers, were arrested at West Point on Saturday evening for pocket. picking, the cue being arrested 'inside and the other outside the Kooshing Theatre. There was no doubt about their guilt, but one casa was somewhat worse than the other. Conso quently the sentences differed-14 days and

three weeks. -

Twenty-four chair coclios appeared at the Magistracy yesterday charged with causing structions in Pedder Street and Wyndham Street. Not content with remaining in the side channels they blocked up the middle of the street, to the great inconvenience of the passera by. Fines were imposed which will no doubt act as a deterrent in the futura.

With the approach of the cool weather, the coolies and homeless wunderers who, during the

The American Company of Volunteers at

to serve for three months, and as the crisis is over they have set considered it necessary to retain a corporate body.

Mr. Chu, the French Mixed Court Magis

office as a result of representations of irregular rate at Shanghai, has been removed from his proceedings on his part being made to the

A fire occurred at Montreal on the morning Total by the French Consul Genorul.

of the lat ult, caused by spontaneous combus. tion, and did $60,000 damage to the contents and building of the storage department of the St. Ann's cotton mills, owned by the Dominion Cotton Co. The loes is covered by insurance.

Mr. J. Bernadi, of the well-known family of

confectioners of that name in Shanghai, who resently started a restaurant in the Broadway. committed suicide on the 3rd inst. by shooting himself. He was a member of the French Vol- nateer Corps, and having dressed himself in that ho died as a soldier, he placed the muzzle of his rifle in his mouth and blew his brains out,

Mr. Harry de Winde, the London on 27th Angust for Biberia, eta St Petersburg

The Secretary of the U.S. Navy, har seked

arniers the cost of whi will aggregate for bids for the construction of six armou

324,750,000.

The Kove Chrenule is informed that this Shanghai Cricket Club has accepted the invita- tion to visit Kobe on the occasion of the Inter

port Cricket thatch.

A special committes appointed by the War Office is now engaged in experimenting tests of the Lee-Metford, Mauser, Vetterli, Lobel, Bahr and other types of modern rifles.

As a means of exterminating the plague st Osaka, Mr. Fujitomi, a member of the local Municipal Council, has proposed that every law to keep a cat, in order to catch the rata. He household in the city shall be compelled by failed to obtain a single supporter.

After the arrivals few days ago of the French transport Matapan at Singapore, a young gun ner of the 6th Regiment of Artillery named Joseph Bidand, who was suffering from oun sumption, had to be landed and sent to the General Hospital, where he died during the night

A short time age there arrived in Bangkok several cases from Italy marked "Potted Meste," which, on being opened, were found to be only lined with potted meats, and to be stuffed with rifles. The consiguess did no, claim them, the importation of arms being prohibited in Blam

own Chamber of Commerce to H. B. M./8mer has made the public foot-potha their beds, his uniform, and written on the wall of his house They were accordingly confiscated.

Minister at Tokyo, special attention was called to this paragraph, and we do not see how any unprejudiced person can hesitate between the views of the Amoy and Hongkong Chambers and those of, the British Government.

are now prohibited from elcoping in the open, and consequently those of them who are without money are hard pressed what to do. Yesterday morning Sorgeant Ritchie found five mon sleep. ing in the door of the Pak Tai Temple at the top of Nullah Lane, Wanchai. He took them into custody. When scarched they were found to have two and a half cents among them. Yesterday Mr. Hazeland sentenced, them to 14 days' imprisonment as rogues and ragabonds,

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Owing to the prolonged droughts in the interior during the past eight months the waters of the Yangtze are anusally low. Not since the memorable low water year of 1880 has there been so little water as there is now. Last year at this date the water at Hankow was 40 foot 5 inches and this year at the same date there n'us only 19 feet, a fall of 21 foot 5 inches. Native reports from the interior show that the state of the crops is very bad indeed, and it is fered that a famine extending over a vast area will be the resalt. The water continues to fall at a mean daily rate of 10 inches,

Michael Havanagh, an A. B. on board the Castle Rock, is evidently something of a terror to his ship-mates. He was sentenced to seron days imprisonment at the Harbour Office yes- terday for assaulting the second officer (fr. Dalziel) and an A. B. named J. Wallace. Joseph Bolger (another A. B.) and Richard Channon (the cook), charged with disobeying the lawful commands of Captain Jones, excused themselves by declaring that their lives were in danger from Kavanagh. The Acting Harbour ninster (Mr. Baeil Taylor) did not consider this excuse a sufficient one and sentenced them to 14 days' imprisonment.

Our correspondent goes on to point out that there is more in this matter of the tea trade than appears on the surface, and that

For a long time past our evening contempo it is part of an attack on British shipping rary, the Hongkong Telegraph, has industrions facilitating the operations of the Japanese ly cut out our reports and paragraphs and re subsidized line, which have told so against printed them without acknowledgment. the Douglas Steamship Company bereits issue of Monday the report of the Gymkhana as the Chairman of that company stated Meeting which appeared in the Daily Press at the Annual Meeting on the 29th ult. that morning, was reproduced in full by the How successful the Japanese attack on Telegraph, with the exception of thirteen lines British shipping has been is shown by our near the beginning, in omitting which our con- be temporary neglected to join properly the pre- correspondent's figures, which can verified from trade statistics. Since the ceding and succeeding sentences. Evon editorial Japanese occupation of Formosa a million earance must have some limits, and while we dollars' worth of trade has been captured appreciate the compliment paid by the Telegraph to our reporter's accuracy, we cannot but think by Japan from this colony. The question it would be more graceful if there were an therefore is one which most intimately con occasional acknowledgment of the "borrowing" cerns us, and there can be no excuse for from our columne, apathy in the matter. Unfortunately any tendency to let things slide is increased by the knowledge that among the forces ranged against the British merchant is the dilatory,

Yesterday morning Messrs W. S. Bailey and uven if upt actually hostile, attitude of Her in Hongkong on Monday night, and was sur-Company Inanched and banded over from Majesty's representatives. Not only has prised and aggrieved whon a barly police officer their raw yard the first of two large the merchant to face the keen and un-Sergeant MaoSwayed to wit-grabbed hold lighters ordered from the firm by the Green scrupulous rivalry of other nations, but also of him and took him to the look-up. He was Island Cement Company, Limited, and ren he usually appeals in vain to his own

taken before Mr. Hazeland yesterday, and re-dered necessary by the expansion of the the speedy car 129 country's diplomatists, who should be ready manded for enquiries. He speaks a strange Company's business for

to protect his interests. There is therefore dialect, and the police can make very little riage of cement frex their Macao Factory to Hongkong for shipment Mossra Bailey. little wonder if he should look to other of him. It is believed, Lowever, that he is

cne of the men who were being sent from and Company have turned over the vessel striot- means of maintaining his income.

the Bogue Forts to Saiwan, and that he took ly to contract time, viz, four months, and with policy is a selfish one, but the blame must advantage of the opportunity to desert. He their ample space and well-equipped workshops not all be bestowed in one quarter, as would was attired in a dirty unifoera of red and

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The

When passing through a town or village in their own country Chinese soldiers do not scruple about commandeering anything which takes their faney. One of them tried this on

The Port Said Verite says that about sixty soldiers of the Foreign Legion, who wanted to oscape, throw themselves into the Blues Canal from off the French transport Champagne, which passed through the Canal on Saturday, August 25th. Two of them were drowned, and seven others were arrested and taken to the military prison in Post Said.

ng firms engaged in Canadian tude have agreed to advance ton per cent. In freight stes because of the advance in cost and other

The Progreso a few days ago gate ourtJUDY. to s rumour at Manila that Aguinaldo has died in the province of Isabela, - No credence, was,

however, placed in the statement.

The French transporta Chaleau Lafitte,

Mesageries Maritimes formerly on the Imlis Tanatate and the Petho, an old stomer of the Chine line, are on their way cutward bound for Taku

The American liner St. Paul, has made a record passage between Now York and Char bourg, having beaten the Campania by good many hours. El made the trip in dene 7 hours and 6 minutes

Now

Sir William Log Eremier of New South Wales, has vubled to the Agent General South Wales in London te Laval game Stted with curtise and also several Vickers Maxim

wore

ordered to rep

in South Afrlis.

The opened an

Indiana

by which any of ift. orphan in India and be gut

regular communication with

been adopted in this way, tégé. Already as many as 112

and ttle pro hans have

The Viper, destroyer, had a satisfactory trial. of her turbine engines at Portsmouth on the last day of August. Instead of the fall power trial at the contract speed of thirty-one knots, the Tassel ran at a higher spred to ascertain her coal consumption, and with 10,300 horse power her mean speed of six runs over the measured mile was 59.8. knots. At the conclusion of the three hours trial the barkers were scaled and the vessel returned into harbour for an addition al supply of coal, with which she went to Spit- Assam makes 17 lakiu a year out of excise head for turning and other trials. The vessel revenue, and it is estimated that the loss arising averaged close upon 94 knots, or over forty from the large amount of smuggling that miles an hour, without forcing the engines, in admittedly gres on is something like five and a fact several more miles per hour could smally half lakhs. A recont Government Resolution have been accomplished by the Figer, which affirms that "It is certain that a great deal of during one run over the measured niile, notually oplam smuggling goes on, and that the Mards within a fraction of 33 knots per hour, or wari traders who have settled in the Province are implicated in it."

the

some five knots in excel of her contract speed. This is the highest speed aver attained by any warship in the Bolent

The official report of Capt. Wilde of the battleship Oregon into the circumstances attend. ing the grounding of that vessel the Gulf of Pochili is said to confirm the ment's previously expressed con casually was not in any respect attributable to tries, and without them of the Oregon, who in fact, appear to have fault on the part of Capt. Wilde or any officer take great precautions to guard against the

accident.

The Shanghai Mercury Bays: "Mr. Fattle son, Captain Superintendent of Police, has retired, sick, but the Conuel pays him his full six months salary up to the end of his agree ment, us his time is not yet expired. It is also said the Council has given him ere thousand tuels besides. We do not know how true this may be, but if it is the Council should explain

ly Minutes" the circumstance of the grant in the next week-

a

Judging from the President Sir William Tarneddress at the British Apoda bacter play an important part in our indus

даву nufactures: could not possibly be pursued. This is probably the first time that bacteris have been

factor industrial life, says a hor

they are more commonly associated with dizeare and unpleasantness. However, there are all sorts and conditions of bacteria, and as are y the audience of the address run mind reels at the thought of the might to occasioned on change by the annual crop of some special fe

or bucillioibly Ecience may in

are an

Lacteria which may exercise an important effec apon Stock Exchange quotations bat we are not sure that they would be regul Ings by spucalators. The condi studied are quite complex snough as it is.

A correspondent writing to the Straits Times on the subject of mines and minerals refers to the Punjam Mines, and gives rather a

some 45 ounces of gold having been exported On Saturday, the 29th Eeptember, at the Frea. be just if Great Britain's representatives blao with some Chinese characters in a circle and repair of barges, tugs, and small vessels of gloomy account of their output of late, only B. Walker, MA, ALICE MAUD, youngest daughter. in China and Japan showed the care for on the breast. It is believed he came to Hong- į svory description, Ther turned out some little | during the last three months. The company is also in part owing

byterian Church, Bingapore, by the Rev. Stephan

of the late John BnocgABANK, of Liverpool, to their nationals commerce which certain kong on board a junk, Feeling hungry he time ego the steam-launch Ida for the Hong-sare the correspondent, had engaged Mr. 8. JOHN WILLIAM, uklost son of John HATTENDES, other country's Ministers and Consuls

kong Stam Laundry Company.

Bingapor

The Daily Press.

exhibit.

It ought undoubtedly to be impossible for one nation to upset the whole trade of HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VAUX ROAD Cl. Treaty purt in the way in which Japan last LONDON OFFICE: 181, FLEET STREET, EC.month disturbed the commerce of Amey.

HONGKONG, October 10th, 1900

We called attention in our issue of Satur- day to a passage in Mr. Consul MANSFIELD's report on the trade of Amoy in 1899, where in he noted the smaller percentage of value of cargo carried in British ships during that yes, owing to the competition of a subai. dised Japanese line. We also quoted his statement about the differential tax un For mosan carried by the Amoy as against

the JA

Yet the Fohkien

stopped a bread-seller in Queen's Rand, opposite

the Contral Market, and saying "I am a

B. Terry to reconstruct its damat Panggong,

the death of that gentleman et Hongk which was washed away last year, bat

several months ago, no further steps-seem have been taken in the matter

ports

to be

The general financial failure of cornity cricket

degree be put down to the this season, says a drome paper,

of the frawn tator

in BCIB but it

alence

the game as he a and if he ar- convise has neither he refuses to spend him tuš, Įm bloodless battle, so to

the pro

face to face with s now.

week to all frst-class they can afford to do, for

soldier," belonging to such and such an army. It is quite possible that the local Court of belped himself to several leaves. The bread-seller Kube will be called upon in a short time to called out, and Sorgeant MacSwayed, attracted settle a dispute between the French Legation in China and the Japan Emigration Company,

The British ship Carnedd Llewellyn, Captain by his cries, took the roi voi fato custody.

states a vernacular journal, regarding an agros- ment to apply 2,000 coolies for the French Griffith, who is woll-known among shipping troops in North China. After the signing of circles on the Chinese coast, has just had wicket the usual contract 500 were sent to Taku, and an exciting trip round the Horn, He was title 1,000 more were ready to embark on the Tuito bound from Hamburg to Honolulu, and Mara when a wire cancelling the contract was flunt members of the crew were frost-bitten received by the Company. As the latter fearol The ship was completely frozen up, sails and that the ecolies, might make a disturbance, it rigging being so fust that they could not be was arranged to pay the interpreters and over-handled, and Capt Griffith says if he had not the counties: Lars to piny se many as twenty. seers the amount of their salary for half a soon rande his way north the ship must have eight matches, leiden allowing time for various sentative games, to which county playerH months, and the coolies were discharged: Five been lost. Rudolph Wright, a saman 10 years hundred men engaged in Wakayama prefecture, eld, disappeared from the vessel on May 5th are able to be called upon to take part. ↑

ORINIS IN CHINA who were expected to arrive at Kobe shortly. It was his first trip and he is thonght to have have boon stopped by wire, and compensation committed suicide, bu

offered

The hospital

xt-cinza, fixtures is small compar:

When the Japanese, marines invaded the With reference to the special articles on native city there and drove 50,000 of the Rugby Football, advertised in another column, inhabitants in panic from their homes, trade by Mr. A. J. Gould, the first of which will was paralysed and very many hundreds of appear in next Monday's issue, the following thousands of dollars, it is computed, were criticisms ure of interest:-" Mr. A. J. Gould thereby lost to the foreign and native mer may be regarded as the greatest player we have us yet seen. His career has been a truly re- chantile ccmunity.

witnessed many shifting phases of the games officials had never remitted their care for markable ons, and though during it he has foreigners in the province, and until the he has never failed to exhibit adaptability to an astonishing degree. In the successes of Japanese landed armed men practically no interference with trade had taken place. It Welsh International tears he has been the may be said that the British also landed main factor, and it has been not only by his

Cae ns heard many soft synonyms for that But they did not do so until their own splendid qualities as a player, but by n tute. This," said Mr. MAN: men.

remarks the Bombay Gazette, Quarrelsome ladies who air their differences hard phrase "a lie," vitally affects the interests of own Concession had been thrown into con intimate study of what suited his coufvères in rehaute both in Amoy and fusion and danger by the Japanese action, the four three-quarter combination, and his

There can be no and the force landed to police the Concession Power of adopting his plan to theirs, that he in the public streets to the annoyunew-thongh and the costernonger in the London police British Governm

has placed himself in a class slone, towering sometimes auragement-of the residents are as court, who areneed a hostile withers of “carow that, should the Japanese sue was withdrawn on the earliest opportunity head and shoulders above his contemporaries. much in evidens Chim, as in the slums of leesly handling the truth," is general

to have reached the serie of polite verting the Formosa tea trade Japan has much to answer for in this Aroni 1889 up to 1898, with the exception of our big cities Yesterday two women

of Amoy, and even were one year, when he was of Barbadoes, he has made their appearate at the Central Polico tion. But the Governor of Ceylon British shipping interests disturbance affer as well as local merchants" we to admit the claim that anti-Japanese been chosen for every International malek, and Station, and laid their case before the Inspector gone one better. In denying the assertion ublish an important letter from threats were being constantly used at the with his last game against Ireland he beat in charge. The younger one said that the other the Columbo authorities are pampering deals with these subjects and time by the natives (which the European MacLagan's record. He has, too, the unique wished to take her to Canton to become a pro-Boer prisoners, lits Excellency said the necessity we are under of residents deny) the invasion of non-Japanese distinction of having played for both Newport stitute, at that she did not wish to go. The one of these statements which sometimes swan

and Richmond in their invincible years, and Inspector in charge seeing that the girl was 20 ate from people endowed with printer attention to the dangers with territory at Kulangau and of the native city season for Middlesex, when that county years of age told her that if she did not wish to utterly uncontrolled by conscientions scruples. which are threatened. Our correspon. of Amoy itself was altogether unjustifiable.

accomplished player, and one who in the four thought she was old enough to take care of her- dentrom jains of the apathy with which Had the Japanese confined themselves to their undefeated. As a great athlete, é most go to Canton she need not do so and that he

in Amoy have been regarded own Concession, little need have been said, three-quarter method has never had his equal, self. They then left the station, but anb Manchester by an exhibition and trial at the gong, and warns us that, "as Japan though trade would still have been disturbed A. 3. Gould will be added to the picture gallery sequently they resumed their wordy was at local range of a new magazine, ride which has

fring thau any IVICO Powers annex the Treaty ports in some degree. Throughout the present of distinguished past masters of the Rugby West Point, tuising their voices so high that a been proved to be capable

namely, thirty akots a

of the many differential duties against crisis in Chine these mischievous indepen-game."—Rugby Football, by Arthur Badd crowd of some 200 people collected about them

one, Lower ipping and imports and ex- dent actions of various Powers without The Football Annual also has the following A Chineze constable ordered them to clear off, but we consultation of the others have rendered “So much could be said of this well known as ther neglected to do so he tank them into cus- Hongkong," ake up to find our the task of coping with the situation in athlete that book alone could do full jastics to tedy, Several people followed them to the Police the Ashton Austr such a finitely harder than it should have been him. It is in the football world that he is most Station, including the younger woman's lover.

title as the When in Hellywood Read he sued the girl by recommendation of famous, and few will depute In the settlement which so slowly approaches

three-quarter of the sa three- the hand with the object of dragging her away agreement there must be

quarter he bood unrivalled in

day, for his and in ecusequence was taken into custody for it was perently su for

the PORT

icht will put an end to

ware marvellous attempting to rsons a prisoner. All the offen testa by Lord Charles Son of the nitkokal testimon

dard appeared before My Hazeland yesterday. partition of Chit the license Allowed to a

bon the

rest

and

18 20 doubt the annexation

dependent is the trade

oute are matters

La retäriment from

Considerable interest has been aroused In

which is Introdnesd

and Colonial milia

it to be 1

were sech fined $3, or 14 days, and the man 10 or three week

ride. The total cost of the

cent, los than the Lee-Metferd

our cricket scanon we have lese and in that time some of

Moorey

ired hore

V entertained by Tonch at Covernment House

apangas batt ship aut Terturday evening from Sing jore,

The British transport Attirer left yesterday

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