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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, APRIL 18TH, 1901

neglect of the foundations. To the unders of the Russian Empire the Russian people was a negligeable, quantity; this was natural, for the Russian people was not aware of its own existence. But the very process of making a Russian Empire was A. S. WATSON & CO., of itself sufficient to create a Russian people

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even if it had not originally existed. From the beginning there was, however, a Russian peuple, and by degrees it has been forging itself into a prominence which all the trad tional policy of the Tears has not been able to restrain.. The Emperor ALEXANDER 11 emancipated the serfs, but this did not apparently imply their complete freedom, and a sore point has been left ever since. It is easy to open the flood-gates, but diffi- gult to close them again. At all events aspirations before unknowa-have over since underlaid Russian society, which, especially amongst the student classes, in saturated

„The German ganbest Ja var luft

yesterday, and the German transport z kikilusia for Eaku.

M. Rolla Jaquemyks, the General Adviser to the King of Siam, reached Singapore in the games gunboat Muratha on the 10th, that

A Calcutta telegram says that traders are reported to be declining to take sample, borea of brick ten into Tibet, fearing punishment from the Llanas.

Daring the 24 hours ending at noon paster day there were reported four fresh cases of plague, with five deaths (Chinese). No addi- tioai were made to the small-pox Sgures.

The big new Russian craiser. Gromóboť hna

arrived at Colombo, and will remain there dur ing the Royal visit. Thereafter she sails for Australia to represent Russia at the celebrations on the opening of the Federal Parliament.

TELEGRAMS.

DAILY PRESS" SERVICE,

[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.]*

LONDON, 15th April, 3:55 pm.

THE INDEMNITY CLAIMS, The New York Herald states that Mr. Rockbill reports the indemnities claimed by the various Powers from China to be approximately as followsRussia 18,000,000, Germany £14,000,000, France £8,000,000, Japar. £6,000,000, United States £5,000,000, Great Britain £4,500,000. Belgium £1,158,000, Italy, Austria,

with revolution. The Emperor ALEXANDER Oxford and Cambridge dinner at the Galle Spain together £6,800,000.

Twenty-nine gueste were present at thi Face Hotel Colombo, on the 30th ulf, elovan from Orford and eighteen from Cambridge. Bir

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Sir Robert Hart is casting his recent writings on Chins, the Chinese, and the Chinese question into a book. It will be published under the title, Thess From the Land of Sinio. Sir Robert Hart remarks that the main object of the volume is to promunta a good understanding of How to Trest China.".

II himself was assassinated; his successor Alexander III found his throne constantly threatened and though the present occupW-Winfield Bonser was in the chair,-and-the-j ant, NICHOLAS II, has sought to alleviate Hon. C. P. Layard was vice-chairman.. the position of his people his life more then once has been in jeopardy. Russia is really governed by a powerful and closely kuitted bureaucracy, which controls and fetters the Tsay at every turn, and does not hesitate by the mere power of its inertia, if now and then by active measures, to set aside all his wishes notain [1 autocracy of the most pronounced character, the Isar has less real power than in the most limited of couštitu tional monarchies. There are apparent signs that the present Tsar is not quite content to be made the cypher that Russian bureaucracy demands, and that the struggle is becoming so intense that a apark may

It is reported that the Boxers in the South of precipitate the inevitable explosion. A Shantung have reverted to their original namo recent order of the Is.r abolished, apparent. of Ta Tao Ilune (Big Sword Society) and are Jy, banishment to Siberia as a punishment again becoming active, and that Yuan Sbih-kai for political crime; but as in the case of the has sent troops, to disperse them. Another emancipation, the thing did not fall in with rumour says that in Ping-your-baisien, Bhan

The Singapore Committes for the presents tion of addresses to H. R. H. the Duke of Cornwall and Fork have arranged to gather togather as large and representative a choir as the limited spaco in the local Town Hall will accommodate. In furtherance of this scheme, church choirs and singing societies have been invited to join in forming the chorus.

und have killed the magistrats, and the rebellion has already spread to three districts.

GENERAL NEWS:

and

• LONDON, 15th April. 8.55 p.m.

THE STATES AND THE

PHILIPPINES.

Mr. Alger, speaking to au interviewer, said that the time had now arrived for a thoroughly pacific policy in the Philippines, and 25,000 troops were quite sufficient for

the work to be done.

LONDON, 16th April, 13 p.m.

NEW STEAMSHIP LINE FOR

FAR EAST

It is announced that the Northern Pacific Bailway has chartered eight steamers

of the Far East, commencing this May.

• Delayed in transmission.

NEW PRAYA RECLAMATIO SCHEME

removal of their establish- z and Jobs drowded siben mű fowever, despair of the

of the allímite expani»

At the invitation of the Hon. C. Chr quire a large number of the owners all alat of lots on the Prays fronting the Harbour in Wanchat Distries from Arsenal Street Co Causeway Bay, met in the City Hai yesterday afternoon, to consider the proposal embodied in his recently published correspondance with the Government for a reclamation of the loce shore.

Mr. CHATER, in opening the Proveedings, said: Gentlemen, I have asked you" to meet me here opinion,

for the purpose of taking your today the owners of lots long_ha Eastern Frays, apon the project for the olamation of that portion of the ses front the city which I have, with professional fance, elaborated and submitted to ernment, and which has been provisionally approved of and accepted by those in authority, 3dy correspondence with the Colonial Biro tary on the subject has been so recently published ed in the local papers that the details of of His Excelenny and cfbr scheme must be fresh in your memories. have, therefore, only to remind you of the

of Publis and at-

the

will

3the Bful- hands

With the abstitution of Leighton and Caro-

line Hills for Marrison and Hospital Hills, the

broad outlines of it and to put before you the

reasons which, in my opinion, ought to cost of Alling in will be slightly, but very alight. influence you to accept the proposals which increased by Le ter distance of the I have the unthority of the Governor te sub former sites from these but there will be mesenamies in other mirations more than suf- mit for your condderation.

by no les

Fon and more simple and more hy do I récomident yoz work and, to accept the

I have dwelt at considerable length in my folent to compete walk the scheme, as letters on the advantages to secree to the whole will be low vantageous to the colony colony at large and to the revenue, from the end-to prosecution of this work. I have now to point ont, how you, individually, are likely to benefit by it and to what extent; and I hope to satisfy

Now gent you, as I have, I believe, enoceeded in satifying to undertake the Government, that it is a work which ought Government condition is firet, place, to be taken in hand as speedily as possible and becane your Wonchal property has never been of is very praftable description, and is becoming carried through with the least possible delay"

The idea is to reclaim from the ses a strip of daily lsm prollable because of the rapid elling land, very nearly a mile in length, extending up of the foreshore from the Arsenal to from the Arsenal to the East Point Sagar Jardine's Secondly because the extension of the Naraly Yard and Arsenal now in hand will Works and (except in front of Jardines pre-till further intensify the unfavourable character mises and the Sugar Works) not less than of your locatidia und render still more sapíe, the five hundred and twenty feet in depth from of

ilting up of the formhore in your vicinity. front to back. This will allow of the widening your present Wandal propery will soon of the present praya from 50 feet to 15 fest; of a new praya 75 feet in width, and become of less value to you than it is now, s of a main street running thrangi the conf it is to pay at all it will only be by substitu- tro of the reolaizsed laud, from West tong Chinese houses for the present erections East, also of 75 feet in width. Thirteen and by taking your godown businone elsewhere. thoroughfares, each fifty fest in width, will yet mo whether my proposal, ortortion

of this Wanchai realnel run from the present pray to the new one, dividing the reclaimed area luto convenient any general improvement in rents and blocks. There will then be left 345 feet in out there think I may felt say yes.... depth of building, land in two blocks, to be new gawall will be 6, continuation of the new divided out among the toarisa lot holders in front of the Naval Yard and Arsenal and will proportion to their respectire frontages the constructed in depth 16 or 17 bet of marine-lot holder, therefore, having a frostage water, giving okay novous be the new pays for of 50 feet, will be entitled, broadly speaking, to small tears. There will be Bulle store the largest cargo-hosts and lighters and for 345 by 50 or 17,250 square feet of land, for of siling up when the alors lze is carried

25

centa a fost by way of premium, and 200 s

6 will lead to

the views of the Bureaucracy, and the order txzg, the natives are rioting against tho offeinle to run from Tacomm to Liverpool by way which the Government propose to charge out into deep water and into the mon line of exists only on paper as a record of the futility of the Tsar. The Tsar is bitterly opposed to the spirit of encroachment which has made Russia mistress of already more territory that she can control, and in pur

auance of his desire for called

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At No. 105, D. Orchard Road, Singapore, on the 10th April, Louis RODICE, of Germany (Granie), nged 48 years.

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The body of an American luas been found on the Balla Vista beach, Macao. It is thought probable, we learn, that the deceased is a recent

visitor to Hongkong who went over to Macao. on Thursday last and stopped at the Bos Vieta

Hetal until Friday afternoon, when he das- appeared from view. He had no luggage and had not settled his bill: One idea is that he won a lot of poney at fantan and was murder-

out his host, and his Bureaucracy took care to make the Congress something more than a mere failure. These things cannot be done in a country just awakening from theed; but the theory of suicide is also supported. sheep of centuries without danger. Russia is sufficiently awake to feel the irritation of her fetters; she is not yet sufficiently awake to reason on the means for their removal; she knows indeed that ber Bureaucricy is at the bottom of her troubles, and in her ́dazed condition would strike wildly. The Bureaucracy is sufficiently awake to the fact that the first action of the patient on coming to vigourous life would be to reforia it out of existence; and that in this work the Tsar and the nation would be one,

The Italian Concession at Tientsin has now been marked out with signal, 1ags and title deads to the property included are to be in- spected. Denmark and Austria are also in- tending to take settlements on the opposite: side of the river, we presume (says the P&T. Times) also by right of conquest and because Danish and Austrian blood was spilled tirere. We have not heard of any being found lying. about, but one has to allow for a little diplo matic licence in these cases.

Territory found on the foreshers at Nam 0, a A fow days ago the police from the New

village situated within Chinese boundaries, a old man and woman. both apparently over ninety years of age, utterly destitute and star

From its very composition, though enur- Reagi as a nation has hitherto not lanmously strong collectively, it lacks an in the habit of exhibiting temper, or ap- individual head, and instinctively falls parently acting on impulse; indeed what back on a policy of vacillation, as one or has marked her advance has been its de-other strong hand takes momentarily the ing. They were lying on a tast spread out on liberate nature, and the entire absence of helm. One thing it is however convinced the beach, and beyond a little zice, had absolute- of; it cannot adopt the Tarquinian method y1nothing in the way of food. They had, boen accident. The "teatiment" of PETER THE of striking off the offending heads, because sent out from Nam O, to make the best of their GREAT may or may not exist in form, but none are prominent enough in the ripe field way to British territory and help. Temporary that the growth of Russia has been the to rise so far above their neighbours as to relief in the shape of money and food was given outcome of a plan deliberately laid, and become conspicuous; and it does not dare to the old couple by the police authorities. with all its possible strains as carefully apply-the-soythe to the whole crop. -It-has

KEUTER'S SERVICE.

LONDON, 15th April.

NEW DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN..

BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA.

It is stated in Pietersburg that rich gold roofs have been discovered at Murchistock in the Murchison Range.

THE PLAGUE AT THE CAPE. Up to the present, 302 cases of plague have courred at Capetown, and 152 deaths. THE OPERATIONS IN SOMALILAND

The Mad Mullah is collecting horsemen to

attack the British garrison at Barao, 8,000 have already joined him,

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quarter sore by way of Crown tone, and for the currents. The front blocks 225 fest in which they are prepared to grant a Crown depth, will give ampla room for godowns of the lease for years with the option of renewal Latest and best patterns. The back, blocks and for another period of 99 years at a rent to be the ground now vocupled by godowns will afford fixed by the Governor for the time being. I room for a large number of Chinese hopese en estizite the cost of reclamation, sea-wall, praya, the most approved sanitary principle, for which stres, sewers and all expenses at u Agurs hot there must be with me rapidly facressing ever inbreusing demand. The exceding 75 cents per square foot of available

effected in the Queen's building land, and, even if the cost should,

de. Ground to through any anforeseen events, run up even $1 a square foot, the land will still be worth

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In my first communication to the Govern ment I suggested a roclamation to a depth of 445 feet only, and the Government should not demand any premium for the building land acquired by the owners of lots fronting the sea. I found the Government, however, ent lightened by the results of the reclamationibu the central part of the city new nearing pletion, most unwilling to forgo the execidon of a premium in addition to the benefit to be expense and on derived to the colony st arge from the largely ly make the und increased area of building land and to the undertakers as well as Treasury from prospective rents and taxes The first proposals by Government, wore for raluation of the reclaimed land and a division

o

Com

the

Đua hino, non đặc moyensent of population the character of the thoroughfares, wide kinga must attract

Wanchai property tae to reconstruct e is the most the proposals you

her, at the lemt possible Towkion will net asgarod- king a profitable due to the to this colony before auto guide us in coming to a decision, the result of the Prays Reclamation in the Coated District, and of shall bars.

between the lot-holders and the Treasury the surplus, after payment of all expenses, it of the experience there obtaine The Colonial Secretary's letter of the 13th Precautions to be observed and the errors to be September last gives expression to the view avoided The Eastern reclamation will be a La my letter in reply of the 19th September, I much easier tak than the work done in thi combated this proposal, pointing but the widely Central district eens of the much less different character of the Wanchai district and depth of water in which the swell hu to be of the properties there, as compared with the constetted bootse 4 wall of much less 300- central district and the properties in that tion and constructed of smaller blocks will fuck fice in the sheltered position of the Wanchal neighbourhood, and the little prospect of by Prays, and they renton of the fact that the re- considerable profit. At a later date. I had in interview with His Excellency the Governor quisite barthi and stons for the work is muck by land earrings fastead of by boat, a good deal on the subject and, while I found hita nesret af hand and age be brought to the willing to reconsider and modify the terms re ferred to in the Colonial Secretary's letter of of stone from the propnfiserical being who

Se compared with the 18th September, I found him fally deter fotel met will also be very mined to secure for the Tramry some directauolloss-75 cents to 31 se and immediate benefit out of the proposed re. On the other hand the value of the land re- clamation in the shape of a premium on every chimed cannot well Creed, animproved, $4 fast of building land acquired by the lotuation icy buttock at 37 por ** square foot while unlagraged value of the pre- holder. Under these circumstances there was to see if some alteration could not be made

Last night the Brough Company repentel The Tyranny of Tears and again met with most favourable reception: indeed the house was filler than on the opening night. This reping Mr. Brough will produce, for the first time in Hongkong Heary, Arthur Jones's famens comedy The Liars, a play that has brought more money into the treasury" of a Theatre than any stage production of our time It serves to introduce the whole of the. Brough There departed by the homeward German Comedy Company, there being no fewer thaa of diverting the attention of the masses known gentlemon in the colony have sworn

played for two nights only--this and to morrow which would enable the lot-holders to while it makes its secret preparations. It vengeance. Several days ago he gave them an evenings and will be followed on Saturday and the Government to receive, the desired pre-ta đa the 29th Septe

szal invitation to attend his marriago, which he was thus that the last of the series brought said was to take place very soon. The invitation and Monday next by The Gay Lord Ques, by mium. On careful reconsideration of my sal PEPPE

some called the play of the century." by that the saine "method" does not exist, and to judgement→→ the corrupt bureaucracy was accepted by one and all, and on the ap-Arthur W. Pinero. The Manoeuvres of Jane win could only afford to pay a premium by getting

be the suceeding production.

calculated as the most elaborato scheme of therefore to fall back on the old device mail yesterday one apen whom several-wall-venteen parts in all. The Liers will be nothing to do but to reast my proposals and quare foot and now A

engineering enterprise, has long been re- cognised. Of late it is equally undeniable

which had taken possession of France in

that Russian policy is not only liable to ac-

pointed day, punctually at the hour specified,

own misconduct commenced the war with vantional wedding attice and loaded with pre-

culation it seemed to me that the lot-holders permission from the Government to take in farther land from the ses, and on salmitiing this idea to His Excellency, it proved to be an

cidents, as that of other nations,. but that the later date of NAPOLEON III, to hide ita they presented themselves, each arrayed in cou of late her statesmen have been actuated by Germany, and met its own punishment on sants, at the residence of the supposed brida hooked for every play of the season on applica acceptable solution of the dificulty, and there.

the disastrous field of Sedan.

groom, whom they found in bed. He had apparently forgotten all about the ceremony in which he was to figure so prominently-or, rather, about the hoax connected with it, and, until his mind was dissbused of the iden, was inclined to regard the presents as affectionate mementos from entirely disinterested friends. What followed may be readily imagined,

We are requested to state that seate can be

tion to the Robinson Piano Co.

SANITARY BOARD.

A meeting of the Sanitary Board will be held to-day, Thursday, 18th April, lp.,-

ORDERS OF THE DAY.

1. Beport rolative to the blockage of sewers by the garbage washed into them from hawkari stols,

The Barveyor's report for the first quat 3 Report of the analyses of the public water Draft bye-laws to be made under section 13, sab-section 16 of Ordinance 13 of 1901.

supplies, for the month of March, 1901,

AGENDA.

fore I

pointed out

the

I assented to a payment of a premium 25 cents a square foot on all building hand reclaimed, on the understanding that a further 75 feet in depth might be included in the scheme, the 75 feet to be thrown into the so- ward blocks, so that they should have a depth originally of 295 feat as against the 150 fest proposed,

is embodi This

letter to the embodied in my Colonial Secretary of the 15th November last

Since that date, another trifling alteration has been made in the design se set out in that letter. The Best proposal was that the new reclamation should terminate to the outward cont at Jardine's East Point property in Bow

mply

proposed to carry the reclamation along, the ultimat front of Jardine, Matheson's premises and in front of the Sagar Works and to give them Proper interest in the scheme to the extent of 10 feet prop

Approv in n depth of building land along their northern boundary.

This appeared

to by due to them, as the out of the reclamation involves the carrying destraction of their harbour frontage to the

something which at the first glauce looks very like caprice, and certainly is not un-

The recent disturbances in the chief cities accompanied by temper. Has Russia fallen of Russia, the preparations against which from her former eminence, and gone into point to their serious mature, coincident as the hands of the mere average craftsman they are with Count LADEDORFF's other Or is the change to be accounted for by wise incomprehensible policy at Peking, some defect in the original foundation of seem to indicate that something more than the edifice which the former borings on the the mere gain of territory is at the

To the Kobe Herald interviewer who elicited tor of 1901. bottom of the more than usually tortuous site, elaborate as they were, were not suffi- and truculent conduct, with regard to the from Dr. Ament the strong language which we ciently comprehensive to disclose? Pro- difficulty in China, which has marked his quoted yesterday, Mr. Conger, U., Minister, bably the explanation is to be sought in a tenure: The old systern of forcible represande the following statement on his way through Kobe-“There were really no note on combination of both the suggested causes.sion of the disease is becoming too dange the part of missionarios there that were not

1. Minute by the Medical Officer of Health It is not consonant with our other ex-rous; burst forth it must with redoubled cutirely justified, when the circumstances are relative to sections 11: 87, 91 and Si of Opin. anca 13 of 1901. the Standing Orders and the periences of human physiology that the violence, and .too probably in the near known. The missionaries, did not loot. The

Drainage Committee. future so near in fact to be comfortably missionaries there found 2,000 destitute men

2. Application relative to the drainage of sume character should have existed in equal viewed by the present generation of officials, and women on their hands. There was no Nos. 1 to 5, Rose Terrace,

3. L.me-washing return for the fortnight development during so many generations. Under such circumstances statesmen, other fovernment, as organised authority. There More than other countries. Russia has been thau Russian, have in all ages been found were the houses of the men who had been firing ended April 15th, 1901.

on the foreign quarter, directing the attacle. Hongkong declared a plague-infected marked by the persistence of one type of willing to distract the attention of their leaders of the Boxers, their property had been port by Rangoon

5. Sanitary regulations enforced at Bengal statesmanship, and each generation has been nationals from home mismanagement, and abandoned as a result of a state of war; and it

6. Removal of the Sanitary regulations en- carefully brought up to follow in the steps its inevitable consequences to themselves, by was taken in order to raccour hundreds of tagalast arrivals from Singapore of its predecessor-as in the case of her once foreign aggression-indifferent to the ing and destitute Chinese whose lives forced at Burma against arrivals from

Singapore,

7. Statement showing the number of plague dangers entailed on their country, provided original owners had been labouring to destroy. great neighbour, an AMURATH AMORATH Bucceeds." But, as there, the only it promised a hope of escape for them The winter was coming on, and measures of cases and deaths in Bombay City, from March original scheme had met w

selves with a whole skin. This seems the tome kind wore toperative, and the appropriate to March 18th, 1901.

8 Beport of Vital Statistics, Manila. strain showe sigus of giving out, and the only reasonable explanation of the very dis tion of the property for the ends in view was

9. Mortality Statisties for this Colony for unquestionably justified. That, briefly, was the the weeks ended March 30th and April 6th reins fall into the fingers of an ABDUz creditable intrigues in which Count

situation. I am prepared to justify the con- 1901 to HAMED. But the great cause of the settle. LaManGery has engaged himself with so dect of the American missionaries before the 10. Mortality returns from Msc for the

Iwerks ended March 31st and April 7th, 1901 mant is doubtless to be looked for in the notorious a time-server as L HUNG CHANQ sige, during the siege, and after the siege,”

an

the

I deeply regret that it has been found im practicable to carry out my original suggestion for the acquisition of Borrison Hill and of the Naval Hospital Hill sad for the removal of both these impediments to the expansion of our tion. You will have noticed in my published City eastward and to its more perfect ventila letters to the Government what a magnifest area of building land would have been placed at the disposal of the if that

colony

part of with acceptanc Unfortunately the Naval Authons fo before may proposals were momitted Government, made all arrangement for 110 cm fargement of the present Naval Hospital and for the construction on the opalterapar, of en Enddario Hospital in commention therewith, and THIS, I TREUMs unable to agent to the

ting the

créements

spot

exceeds that bear in mind that, sự the Colonial Beare

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retience

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mere for the work,

the