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Burthera Corea, which even with the barbarous style of working adopted by the Coreans result anually intoa large quantity of gold being imported from these districts into China and Japan. These gold-bearing rocks extend westerly along the Great Wall A. S. WATSON & CO., at least as far as the longitudo, of king,

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and in all the valleys descending from the Mongolian plateau are found gold-bearing deposits, which have long been clandestinely worked by the inhabitants of the border. lands. The jealousy of the Manchurian Government at Peking working on the super. stitions of the people has been successful throughout the whole of the Empire in THE LEADING MANUFACTURERS suppressing all mining industry, so that China from being a mineral exporting country has under the misgovernment of ber present rulers become dependient for ÆRATED WATERS her supplies of the metals, precious and

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 1ST, 1901 certain] It is rumoured in Tientsin that the Municipal | signed authorities are shortly about to issue books of rickaha tickets. This is a measure which many should like to see adoptat in Hongkong. It would at least provs s check upon coolis. rapacity.

Qar readers will notice in another column that there is an increase in the pricks for sement Ballo in Banki and in bag from the Greendeland Cement Co

It is stated from Shanghai that a large piece of land with river frontage and deep water or the Pooting side, bolow the docks, has been gored by the Hamburg-America Linie for the

sum of Th. 100,000.

Admiral Sir E. H. Seymour, G.C.B', is expected at Wooring in the Alacrity to-day, He will probably go straight up the river to pay a farewell visit to the Viceroys, and then call in at Shanghai on his way back.

big fire took place at Tongku on the 25th ,, and a considerable amount of damage was done to property. The German and Russian commissariat stores were completely destroyed and large quantities of military stores were lost.”

We call our readers' attention to the

Another street row is reported from Peking on the 26th ult. It appears that in Legation. Street a German marine was fired at aud wounded in the leg by an American sentry, as

the result of obstreperons behaviour on the part of the German soldier.

TELEGRAMS.

DAILY PRESS SERVICE.

FROM QUE CORRESPONDENTS.]

THE CRISIS IN CHINA.

LONDON, 30th May, 7.55 p.m.

THE INDEMNITY. The four German battleships at Woosung.

Peking telegrams announce that Li the Brandenburg, Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm, restenburg, and Wirth, received orders on Hung-chang has presented a note to the Saturday last to be prepared to leave for home representatives of the Powers, by which on the 31st ult., but later orders name by which their departure was delayed for a few days. It Chins agrees to pay 450,000,000 taels, with is understood, the M.-C. Daily News says, that 4 per cent. interest. there will shortly be a general-reduction of the foreign garrison at Shanghai,,

Secretary Long has cabled instructions from Washington to Admiral Remsy authorising

otherwise, on foreign imports. Such was not always the case, and along this very extensive tract of country there are many localities with remains of very extensive mining operations, which seem to have been notices to mariners, appeating elsewhere, him to enlist five hundred Filipinos, principally vigourously conducted even as late us the regarding the Shanghai and Tientsin districts. for service as fireman and coal-passers on the small gunboats which are now doing river and times of the later MINGS. Even more effective The first deals will the shoaling and agrrow- than the direct action of the Government ing of the clisanel over the Trungning Cross. coast service in the Philippines, Tho employ forbidding the working of the wines on ing, and the second with an alteration in the ment of natives, who are better able to with any practical scale has been ita indirect action charactor of the light on Tao-fel-tian Islands.stand the tropical climate and the increased temperature of the fire rooms, will relieve, the in setting up a huge bureaucracy whose

The pamphlet containing the reprint of American stokers who have frequently become private peculations are far more effective in

“Scrutator's" articles and correspondence will disabled and hail the invalided to the Naval repressing industry than the legal probibi-consist of thirty-six pages cuil cover. It will Hospital at Yokohama. tion, which after all is a thing that be ready early Monday morning. in China can at all times be surmounted by Orders can now bei received, and the pamphlet A PERFECT SYSTEM

a little judicions palmistry. Mining on any will be mailed to any address from this office on FILTRATION is employol, quaranteeing productive scale, however, requires the receipt of instructions and cash for book and

portage. expenditure of capital in plant and perma. ent works, and these afford too tempting a bait to the official bureaucracy to be neglected. The central government which, The Machinery used is of the latest type. since at least the Manchu occupation,

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A STAFF of ENGLISH EXPERTS attend to every detail of the Manufacture.

The Waters produced are of the highest class and excellenes; as testified to by the best English makers.

never has affected any control over its provincial satraps, is both unable and unwilling to interfere with the internal administration und leaves all details of finance and administration to the official on the spot; while the system of short tenure, coupled with the rule that no official can hold office in his own country, compels cach occupant to wake as much out of it as possible during his term of occupancy Unfortunately the development of a practi- cal, mining scheme occupies more time than the tenure of office of the individual in

A. S. WATSON & CO. office. He sees capital being daily expended

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At Malowchow Station, Lapps, on the Euth May, the wife of R. J. Wors, M.C., of a son.

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MARRIAGE.

On Saturday, 25th May, 1901, at Holy Trinity thedral, Shanghai, by the Key, H. . Hodges, MA, JOHN NIGHTINGALE, Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, Wenchow, to ELLA CORA SAT, of Pittsburg, PA, U.S.A.

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At Shanghai General Hospital, on the 27th May, 1101, CARLOS C. ENCARNACAO, of Hankow, aged 30 years.

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The Secretary of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce informed us yesterday afternoon that the Chamber was informed by the Government that a despatch has been received from H.B.M. Conful at Swatow intimating that that port has been declared by the Shanghai authorities to be infected with bubonic plague.

The consent of the Throne has been obtained by the Plenipotentiaries to changs the name of the Tenngli Yamen into "Walrupa" or Board of Foreign Affairs. The building, according to the N-C. Daily News Peking

correspondent, has been turned over to the Chinese, and it was intended to open this new Board on or about the 25th ult.

A New York despatel, dated the 27th April, says: Captain J. F. Morry, who was President of the Naval Board which went to Guam to

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select a site for a naval station, and to prepricS

plan for the improvement of the harbour and the location of a town on its abors, is on his way back to his station at Honolulu, and will

submit his report from that point. As soon as possible after his return he will enter into negotiatione with the owners of land at Paarl

recent naval appropriation law appropriated Harbour for its sale to the United States. The

$150,000 for the purchase of land.

It is gratifying to note that an unusually large number of foreign visitors have this year come to Japan, says the last number of The Toyo. Evidently the impression abroad is

that Japan is perfectly safe and fully able to take care of herself and those within her borders

despite the blustering of unfriendly neigh- bours. We believe that this manual influx of Hongkong residents will be interested to hear tourists might be very largely increased if there ware better Japanese hostelries in the larger that Lieut. Higgon, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, has been appointed Staff Captain at Weihaiwei,trading ports, and loss eagerness displayed by in succession to Lieut. Ball-Acton of the same regiment, who is roaigning that post: Capt Higgon will leave Tientsin for his new post very shortly.

The Band of the Madras Light Infantry will play at the Hongkong Hotel this trening from | 8 to 9.30 p.m. Programme:--

Serenade...... Love in Idjones. Mucheth waltz Blane Donny" Selection...... "Carmen"...... Cornat Solo "The Post in the Forrest

Faust up to date". Selection

"Iris"

-Polka

"God Save the King.

Birat

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retail merchants to make the largest amount of profit in the shortest possible period.

FRANCE'S SHARE WANTED SOON. The Gauloi says that owing to the unsatisfactary revenue returns End the unprecedented expenditure Face will show & record budget deficit unless the Chinese indemnity be collected in time to gave the situation.

THE TSAR'S CONGRATULATIONS

TO GERMANY,

JAPAN'S COLONIAL VENTURE. •

[FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.]

Auping, Formosa, 20th May. THE CHANGE IN FORMOSAN' TRADE. Japan is learning in Formoss that is is not all fun and profit to run a colony. How well the lesson may have been impressed is probably known only in the imperial councila in Tokyo. which may be regarded also as the sole reposi- tory of plans for the future. The policy of turning to Japanese account all the resources. of the island has so subverted trade conditions

previously existing that those who flourished under anob conditions naturally view the situa

tion with some bias: Camphor and opium hate been taken in hand on government account, the ten exporta ara moving toward home channels, there will be little left for the foreigners to do in sager in 6 fow yours, and suheidles to a | Japaneso staanship-line hare make rivalry in ocean business impossible. Foreign houses that could maintain branches here in an open dall cannot stand competition with a govern meat, and more than half of them have moved away. The exodus of Chinese capital has been

general, in addition to the omigration of fully. 50,000 people whose places have been tako,

estimate, of whom more than half are women. but not filled, by 20,000 Japaness at a ontside

Although never worked as it might be, Formosa under Chinese control was always a profitable possession. There has been no productive development since the Japanese got it, and the The Tsar has telegraphed to the Kaiser sal doficiency har varied from $300,000 to 8700,000. No improvement in this respect is in his hearty thanks for the German services (sight. in Chiun, and says that Count von Walderase carried out a difficult and thankless task

in Formosan enterprise. Whether or not faith with dignity and skill. The Kaiser says infance on the part of Japanese capital to embark reply that he has received acknowledgements and investment may come in time, capital sens and congratulations from many sources.

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GENERAL NEWS.

SHANGHAI, Sist May, 7.56 p.m.

LOCUSTS IN ANHWEL PROVINCE.

A plague of locusts in Anbwei Province causing much local unrest.

Lonnor, 30th May, 7.56 p.m.

OBITUARY.

Count Wilhelm Bismarck is dead,

MONEY MARKET. Consols are at £98. On the loan market weekly advances range from 3 to

Of the many stories told of the late Dr. Tanner here is one dating from last Session.3 per cent. Japanese New Loan stands Some one spoke of the Speaker being like a at £77. Baak rate is unchanged

schoolmaster and members of the House like schoolboys. To which Dr. Tanner retorted, "Faith, if he is going to apply the mace where "Sineffer other schoolmasters apply the birch, it's me who Late would like to wear some Blas-books as stuffing." Farrell

Of Blue-books he; once said that each member Then elected ought to make a contract with some grocer who needed paper to wrap up his wares, "bat the treasonable practices in the Blue-books would turn any Irish batter which had the ill-lek to be wrapped in them."

We note among the arrivals of the wook, says the P. & 7. Times, the names of the Hon, and Mrs. Stewart Lockhart of Hongkong. The Colobial Secretary, we are sorry to bear, is on a voyage of recuperation from enteric. We iro sure his many friends and admirers in the

REUTER'S SERVICE.

LONDON, 28th May,

VICE-ADMIRAL SEYMOUR

PROMOTED. Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hobart Seymour, G.C.B., has been garetted an Admital of the Floet

BELUCTANT CAPITAL. Considering all that the government would

do for its people, there is a noteworthy role-

content just now to let the government bear all the burdens of development. The railroad which is to bring the two ends of the island within reach of each other by easy travel, instead of by the tedious and precarions means so far employed, is in course of construction with money voted by the Imperial Dist. It will not be built with the sum appropriated, *28,090,009 yan, but it may cost 15,000,000 yen, or approximately £4,500,000. When complated it will make accessible 230 miles of territory most of which is not now to be visited by any expeditious means, and it will afford the largest opportunity for practical tests of the storied, fertility of Formosan soil for à great variety of products that can be well marketed,

GOVERNMENT ENCOURAGEMENT.

It will be necessary for the government to provide harbours as well as railways, if there is to be any considerable growth of commerse with the outer world. · The roadsteads in which

ships must lie that come here for trade are not only always inconvenient to land and eften hopelessly out of reach of it in the light-draught

boats which alone can go. ja; and are to be` trusted only in smooth. waters, but they are in the track of the high winds that sweep this coast almost continually and that shipping mon dread least, when they have plenty of sea- room. Harbour improvements at Fielung and Tamsui in the North and at Takow in the -South will cost as much as the railroads. Binge the naquial condition of Japan must make an end before many years of the distritation of subsidies and the extension of help to commer cial ventures, which have already drawn hearily on the Chinese indemnity and other general fuds, a bank has been organised to perform · offees which it may soon be impolitic for the government to undertake directly. It is called the Bank of Formosa, and its avowed purpose is to exploit Formons, develop trade and en- courage industry. Formoaan bonds, which cannot be placed elsewhere, get into the bank, which SEOULS to flourish so woll with that kind of security as to force the inference that the general government is behind it. The

under his eyes; but from all this he derives no benefit, while he has to meet the at all times heavy cagngements under which he was appointed. To a man under these circumstance the thought that to his successer, not himself, will come the profit is tantalising in the extreme; and this alone, were there no other canse, would suffice to make him an enemy. Now there is no doubt that for this mineral wealth lying acat to her own territory Russia in her heart of hearts is hankering; she sees the effects of the discovery of gold in the pre- sent position of Australia, and the Pacific coast of the United States, and snes visions of similar wealth pouring in on herself, could she only get a grasp over this wealthy district. Russia for the last three years bae been exploring quietly bun carefully the mineral resources of the whole of this district, and has made up her mind as to its wealth in the precious metals. This HONGKONG, 1st June, 1903

she has been charueteristically keeping in the RECENTLY L'Echo de Chine has been background, while the British government discoursing on the mineral wealth of on its side has been us carefully discourag Manchurin, and has taken occasion to call ing exploration. There is no doubt, how attention to the known extent of the gold over, that the entire district is not only fields in that country, Russia for the last rich in metals, but is likely to prove one of three years has been diligently exploring the great, if not the greatest, gold-producing, the mineral products of the region; and one districts on the face of the earth. There is of the clauses which she put into the in-really no geographical limit between these tended convention with China contained the districts and China proper. Though nomin. stipulation that Russia alont was to have ally subject to China, China during the last by his Company, but his ability seeus werty industry. They are getting control of H.M.S. Mizerra with Scotch boilers, should prepare it for consumers. The buyers had

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG OFFICE : 14, DES VEUX ROAD CA. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.

North will do everything in their power to

When the United States gets ready to con- struct the Nicamagus caus), the presence of that

reuder his first visit to these latitudes both considerable American sentiment in enjoyable and beneficial.· ́

The

Our Tientsin weekly contemporary in its farewell review of the Taylor Carrington Com- pany speaks more in surrow than in anger." notice concludes thus:The Taylor Carringtons at least showed their discretion in reserving Trilby to the lost, and if we might offer them a word of kindly advice we should say sacrifice it altogether from the repertoire and stick to fures. Mr. Taylor is good in broad farce, and is occasionally well supported of a better setting than it has at present.

the right of acquiring mining rights in that two thousand years, has been more frequently extensive province. Paralysed by the the inferior than the dominant power.

The New Press of the 27th ult. says:~A indifference and vacillation of one British Some two and half centuries during the Nanking despatel to hand states that it was Government after another, for the moment HAN, less than two hundred years during currently rumoured among the high official the British capitalist looks with suspicion the Tave, and a couple of hundred during circles there to the affect that it is the intention -on everything in China, and the state of the earlier SUNG, with, of course, the of the Powers to place Prince Chun (the brother uncertainty has recently been so aggravated commencement of the MIxo, have been the of the Emperor) upon the Throne, in the event of His Majesty the Emperor Kwang Hsu that already there is found a difficully in only periods during which China as & carrying through those undertakings already power really exercised control over the not going back to Peking within the coming negotiated. Under these circumstances it is regions. For the rest of the time she has 5th moon (June), and that they have decided not to be wondered at that the wealth of been mainly dominated by them. The to ask their Freellencies Liu Kung-yi, Cheng

SIR ALFRED MILNER'S HONOURS.

Sir Alfred Milner has been gazette Baron Milnor of St. James had Capetown.

Lord Salisbury and Baron Milner are the guests of King Edward at Windsor..

LONDON, 24th May

CASUALTIES. IN SOUTH AFRICA. The British casualties in South Africa during the past week amorint to 42 kills and 100 wound.

country will be, discovered, writes à correspon- dent in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A peaceable conquest of the republie seems to be in progress. Americans have had a woskness for meddling in the political affairs of Nicara gua a long time. And now, it appears, the industrial invasion is proceeding with notable

.... NAVAL BOILER EXPERIMENTS, results. In one district between eighty and

The Committee formed for the purpose of ninety Americans are operating coffee-plants- tiens. A large American company is working reporting upon beilors for the Navy, he the old gold mines. Elsewhere Americans are arranged that the twin cruisers H.M.S. obtaining large interests in the tobacco-growing Hyacinth fitted with Belleville boilers and

transportation facilities.

compete in a full-speed trial between England and Gibraltar, the Committee accompanying them..

bank in its capacity as a private corporation is, of course, competent to do all sorts of things. sugar-refining company, fleated with its help, has developed, through the same encouraging agency, into an owner of large tracts of sugar. lands. It will thus cultivate the cane as well a notion of paying the price that the Chinese owners asked for these lands, and the owners found so little chance of holding out on appeal,- that they took what they could get and many of them have gone away and transferred their money with thom. On the mainland to which they have removed, they are not giving the Japaness a reputation for fair dealing.

In connection with the port which we mentioned yesterday of Germany's wish to

THE PLAGUE. acquire Margarita Island, in the Caribbano Sea, as a coaling station, the following Washing- ton despate of the ad alt. is of interest :----

Yesterday there were reported 30 fresh cases Although the matter never has figured before of plague (27 Chiness, 2 other Asisties, one

THE CAMPHOR QUESTION. the State Department, the Navy Department European), with 31 deaths (30 Chinese, one

The foreign houses that controlled the Еигорави). has been closely watching the happenings hear

camphor output in other years established Mr. H. Faunch, mager, of the Frays East distilling-plants at convenient points, which Margarita Island, off the coast of Venezuels,

cosling station is to be established there. These facts have been reported to the Department by day, succumbed to the disease at 5.20 yesterday amounting to about 250,000, some of the naval officers who commanded morning. The decessed was formerly in the pretending to have a rodmeable griennes, vessels which have cruised in those waters British Navy, which he left to take up duties when the government took over the camphor recently. Last year a German warship montin H.M. Naral Yard. Afterwards he held sh industry, which would entitle them to anything ten weeks in looking into the possibilities of appointment in the Imperial Maritime Customs for the loss of the goodwill which had been a The Fraya East Hotel has baca closed for most valuable asset to them in that business, the Margarita Island, and this fact led to an

merchants felt that they had rested rights in examination on our own account, which developed thorough cleansing and fumigation.

Mr. A. Cameron, a Portuguese employee of the plants which were tangible and obvious and the presence in this important strategic point the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, ought not to be ignored. Recognition has of one of the finest harhours in South America,

Manchuria, az far as the British capitalist is Power in fact that held Mongolia or Man. / Chi Tung, and Tuo Mu to act as Imperis! which has given rise to the report that a German Hotel, who was admitted to hospital on Thur represented to them a charge on capital account

Regents. Upon hearing of this, Viceroy Liu is said to have been much apset, and as a result to have wired to the Coast at Heianfu praying the Emperor to fix a dute to depart for Peking without delay.

A'SMART TRICK.

While not

concerned, has up to this remained a sealed churia has generally dominated the rich letter. If, however, the British capitalists plains of China proper; and in succession have been cureless, or overcautious, the Turks, Kitans, Nuchens and Manchus Russian has been in the field and las bave been the rulers of North China rather acquired a very practical knowledge of the than its own original settlers. Still at times

The Rev. Timothy Eichard has arrived. land. It has long been known that the the fact that the Chinese power when it Tumen River, draining the northern had the opportunity of regenerating itself, writes a Peking correspondent of the Mercury on the 20th. ult., and is negotiating with the frontier of Cores, contains in ite sands a has been able to reassert itself is the lesso

Plenipotentiaries. "For the present he will not good deal of gold, and in a small way the we have to learn from history. There is

go to Shansi. It is possible to conduct indemity the possession of which would afford the United living at 7, Hollywood Road, has ales bontracted not yet come, altough the government is gold deposits in the islands in the adjoining no reason why a race that has the sense to negotiations with advantage in Peking. The States, or any other nation with a navy, practics! the disease, but in a mild form. He was making 150 per cent, profit on camphor which bay of Peter the Great have been worked; preserve itself from the enervating influenco common desire of the missionary boards is to control of the Panama canal from the eastern sdmitted to hospital on Thursday, and was foreign houses formerly enjoyed. but as the Russian Government has always of women and eunuchs should not continue make capful estimates, neither above ner below shore. Aside from this inland some of the best yesterday reported to be doing well.

John A. da Cruz, attached to the 2nd In view of the government's good fortune, -been-jealous of any regular private as to flourish as at the beginning. If his the actual value of the burnt property: bat the naval authorities hold that the Gulf of Carico, sociation being formed for the working of the friends, instead of fastening on him the price of building materials is much higher than on the north court of Venesuela, offers by far outer Infantry, and Portuguese named some adverse comment is heard on the way i precious metals, but little has as yet appeared yoke of the mischs and their associates, it was when the barnt houses were erected: the most advantageous site for an American Francisco Rios, residing at 42, Bridges Street, operated its contract. All the campher in on the surface. Sufficient is, however, were to assist the young Emperor in his This will necessarily tend to raise somewhat the coaling station if one is to be located in that were taken to Kennedy Town Hcapital yesterday pledged to a London banking house at a price which insures the government. a. profit of 54. known to indicate that the great mountain efforts to get rid of the degraded crow by amount of the indemnity claims. The universal part of the world, In view of the reported morning suffering from plague.

Mr. Hawkes, of the Hongkong Dispensary, you, more than £5, per pical on an emanal chain, which from Foasict Bay forme the whom he is surrounded, and permit him to feeling among the missionaries is to deal fairly German surveys in that. quarter, the navel division between Corea and Manchuria, and throw himself on the good offices of his with the Chinese Government." Mr. Richard authorities here are showing unusual interest who was amongst the first Europeans attacked, output of 40,000 picals. The Londoner might which stretches into the old Liso si, con people at large, the canse of progress and wired to Mr. J. W. Starenson, Director of the in the points available for American nas. The has been discharged from hospital, and proceeds have supposed he had is monopoly of the camphor

China Inland Mission, that the Blansi Governor State Department never has been called upon to Japan to rearnit his health.

market, sinon seven-eighths of the world's tains abundant supplies of gold. The rocks civilisation, and the integrity of the Empire has given Tls. 10,000 fer the benefit of the specifically to construs the Menros doctrine so

production comes from Formoss, had he not since learned that beneath his ground-floor of which the range is composed are mainly would be far more effectually helped than native Protestants, and that an escort has been fat as it might relate to attempts by a European Archean in structure, and from their debris by the present purposeless conduct of the provided by the Clovernor for a party to proceed Government to cursa coaling station in the

there is a basement for a by-product known se Gulf of Mexico or the Caribbean Sea,

camphor oil, not specified in the contrsek, from have come the numerous gold deposits of allies in North China.

to Bhansi.

It may be noted that in 1894, the year in which 2,679 cases of plague were recorded in Hongkong, the European cases only smoaubed to eleren, twe of the patien ta succumbing.,