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Wuchow, has not yet been opened to H.M.S. Astraca want and yesterday for a Nonning-fe, and the other waterways are cruise. still closed to foreign steamers. No vorjous Mr. Ales Marsh gava s concert at the Lyceum attempt has ever been made by the Pro-Theatre, Shanghai on the 5th inat, before a vincial Government to grapple with the very fair house, und, assisted with half-a-dozen oyil, either because they are powerless to do local amateurs, met with much mocess. Three so, or because some of the mandarins are in of Mr. Marsh's own songs were from Wagner's A. S. WATSON & CO.ay of the pirates, or because they are
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incapable of a persevering effort to put down any established abuse. In any case, banquet and uncert, which wore to have "Owing to unforeseen circumstances," the be the causes what they may, the Govern-ho held after the installation ceremony ment of the Two Kwang is hopelessly and of the Masonic Lodge St. Johu to-morrow | Incurably incompetent to suppress. brigaud- evening, will not take plado. The installation
age or to protect trade in the two provinces, ceremony will be performed as arranged.. It may be pleaded that they have no effer-
The Crown Land, registered as Rural Build- tive organisation, but ench a plex cannot being Lot No. 110, Deep Water Bay, which was entertained, because the mandarins can exposed to public sale in the offices of the nurly always succeed in making themselves Public Works Department, was bought by
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Warder Curtis, who absconded from Victoria Gaol on the 12th of last October, and left the
Sir Thomas Jackson has received a telegram intimating that his sou, Lieutenant Jackson, of the Iat King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) has been promoted to the rank of Captain. Captain Jackson, it will be remembered, want detachment and was A,D.C, to Colonel Benson, who was killed in the rearguard action near Bethel recontly.
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The Corvan Government proporre to import man-of-war from Germany.
Fangkok at the end of last month.
Several deaths from cholora are reported from
The St. Andrew's Ball at Yokohama on tho 9th ult is reported to have been quite na aticösssful as those in former years.
tarian Mission (North) was totally burnt, with Hangehow belonging to the American Presby- its contents.
On the 1st inst, the hill-top sanatorium at
It was reported in Japan that many vessels of the British feet, including the Cressy, Terrible, and Argonaut, would assemble at Yokohama during the first week of this month. northern port. The battleship doliath was already at the
The manufacture of opinn and camphor in Formosa has not been satisfactory this year. The authorities estimated the receipts from the monopoly at over nine million you. It is now reported that the actual proceeds will not exceed
one-third of the estimate.
A. Chungking despatch to Shanghai reports that the Chinese authorities of that city on the 20th ult. marked out, in conjunction with the Japanese Consal, the boundaries of the proposed Wangchintu distret. Japaness Settlement in that port, in the
also set up at the time.
Boundary-stones were
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[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.]
THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA
CANTON,
(FROM QUE CORRISPONDENT.]
Canton, 9th December. WINTER. Canton has bean suddenly overtaken by winter, and the bulk of the population is greatly increased by the wadded ccata it has assured. Being dry cold it has not been felt as severely as if the air had been dump. The night of Wednesday-Thursday was the LONDON, 9th December, 4.5 p.m. coldest, and a beggar was found in the streets
THE GOVERNMENT AND THE
CONCENTRATION POLICY; It is rumoured that the Government intends to disperse the concentration camps.
the next morning dend of cold nail exposure. No official inquest or enquiry is made in such circumstances, but the neighbours, unless a it, subscribe to buy a coffin, and the funeral is bonevolent association can be persuaded to do
performed as expeditiously HB possible.
THE SHOE STRIKE. Judgment was delivered this week by the magistrate in the case of the strike in the shoo-trade. It will be remembered that the araftsman's guild demanded sn advanoo of lie per pair, and the mastereo. ciation, not being strong enough to with stand them, appealed to the officials. Their LONDON, 9th December, 4.5 p.m. and prociafnis that any who now refuse to work. decision grants the inen a rise of 31 lie per pair,
The October mortality figures have been
delayed. The death rate is believed to have been very serious,
GENERAL NEWS.
AMERICAN COPPER WAR. The copper war in America continuea,
According to Mr. Motcuo, formerly Japanese Minister to Belgium, who turned hos- re-
Belgium has of lato considerably increased. but as the goods as imported through German Coppers. or British merchants they do not figure un the shipments. Belgian exports in the statistical returns of
REUTER'S SERVICE.
and attempt to create further agitation will at ence be arrested. A striko las lately beanTM, threatened by the makers of pens, but the Masters have granted all the men's demands, a
selves by correspondingly raising the price of pers.
MEMORIAL SERVIOR FOR LI HUNG-CHẲNG,
The state of anarchy, to which certain dis- Cokny, taking with him a sum of neris 300 tricts ant reduced cases them no incen- bolonging to his mera, was captured in town venience and gives then no concern, except yesterday morning by Detective Sorgt. Kerr and on those rare occasions when a foreign Constable Gibson, who observed him walking in Consul makes a demand for justice, pre-the street. Later in the day he was brought up sents a big claim on behalf of a countrytian, at the Magistracy and renunded, or, in sheer despair of obtaining an answer to his representations, threatens to resign as a protest against the inaction of the Govern- 3] ቢዴ! ት .
Malters have now got to mich ajass that something should be done at once to gue to South Africa with Mounted Infantry cently, tiny import of iron into. Japan from There has been a beavy fall in Amalgamated rise of 20 per cant, and have reimbursed them- vide a remedy for the evil. It is not to be foumi, ́ apparently, in representations mầ- dressed to the Viceroy through the Consulă. These are met by denials of the piracies, by
Madame Agusa Freed gave a very successful promises of intervention and the punish. concert on Friday evening last in the Club The following Blends are also recomment of the offenders, which either extend Theatre, Canton. bofuro a trowded house. Valu- In a small way de Marconi system is about only to enquiry into particular case and able amateur assistance was laut by Messre. W. to be applied to India, for the Calcults Pork mended, and re unsurpassed in quality :-
punishment of some coolies who may or und G. E. Huygen. Madame Freed got aptus for communication between the main- Lavy, F. H. Boll, R. Schween, E. Hodinger, Commissioners intoud shortly erecting an ap may not be guilty of the crimes charged splendid reception in all her appearances. She land and the Highskips at Sandheads. This against them, or only consist of vagne prosang Van der Stucken's Die Schünste Blame," fact is all the mora interesting, because it was mises merely given to quiet the foo insistent Bartlett's A Dream," Luigi Anditti's Waltz," with the idea of getting into early communios foreigner. The patrolling of the rivers by Schipherts Serenade," and "Sappo's Forgettion with ships coming to Caloutta that tho foreign ganhouts has had some effect, mt Me Not This wook Madure Froed gives first telograph line was laid in India. much less than was anticipated, owing partly-concert at Macao. | to want of knowledge of the lairs of the pirates and partly to the lacter hoodwinking the gunboats. Nevertheless, as we have | said, the appearance of these little craft has had a good moral effect on the people of the Delta, which, would be greatly enhanded if the commanders had powers to deal sum- quarily with pirates or robbers. But they A. S. WATSON & CO. are powerless unless they catch a pirate
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It is reported from Wuhu flat the extensive Today the aantal two day." Regatto pro-country to the north of that port abounds with moted by the Victoria Recreation Cind will be ingummable faming-stricken inhabitants and begun, the first race, that for light gigs, boing that, though Miss Michell, the missionary, has started at 1 o clock.
Tha entries for the established a soup kitchen there, which daily vacions events have-filed wall and the Ragutta feuls over 2,00 wamon and children, the local promises to be one of the most successful yet Chiness officials seem to remain incredibly hold. Ladies are cordially invited to the grand apathetic and would not raise a finger to relieve
hundreds a day. tant. Tas lies' Fries will bo presented to the male sufferers, who are starred to death by
the winning oraw by Miss Hutchings about 3 o'clock. By kind permission of Lient, Colonel Lost in the act of attacking a foreign-Baillie and officers, the band of the 2nd Bom steamer, and they are, we presume, unable bay Infantry will perform each day
to intervene in the case of a native craft | being attacked, even if they were so fortu, anto us to witness such a piracy. What is wanted is an organised system of Rivor Communicativas, respecting Advertisements And Police under the control of the Imperial scriptans, Frinting, Binding, shorld be addressed Maritime Customs, who should be supplied DAILY PRESS only, and special bremse uiters with a flotilla of six or eight gunboats, un- THE MANAGER.
Advertisments and Subscriptions which gre not der the command of and partly officered by intered for a fral perion will be continged until Europeans. These should be given a free Deders für extra copies of DAILY Puses should hand to extirpate pirates and restore and that hauer the supply is livitas. Only supplied for order on the waterways. Some
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existence is such a scandal do civilisation, that unless some determined effort be made
A few minutes befors 3 o'clock yesterday morning the Fire Brigade were summoned to a fire which had broken out,at 270 Queen's Rood. Contral in a three-story building occupied as a dry-gods shop and store. The Brigada promptly turned out, ander the command of soone that the flames had sacured a firm hold Me. . Komp, but found on their arrival at the of the builting. The staff had to work nuder. the disadvantage of having to pump sea water from the Praya, hat neverthelesi sucosaled ip confining the conflagration to the structure in which it had originatod, though toir was completely destroyad. The damage is osticnated at $1.700 and is covered by a policy for $2,500 in the Li Fuk Insurause Offer.
The Feuch Sisters hell their annual bazaar
yesterday in the City Hall in aid of the poor Chinde orphans of the Asila de la Suite Enfance. It was gratifying to wan the large numbers who attended the bazaar in the course of the afternosa and bought liberally of the articles exposed to sale. The net result should hea handsome contribution to the funds of this energetically assisted by numerous ladies who most doserving institution. The Sisters wore in the roles of stad-holders or ticket-vendors
thing was done in this direction, we believe, early in the seventies, in the time of the Viceroy die Tax, who put Europeans in command of Home half-a-dozen of his gunboats with instrue tions to hunt down und root out pirates, with great effect, and for years thereafter the loud bad at least comparative peace. Wecommend the idea to the Foreign Minis ters at Peking, with the sincere hope that it Ir is with greal. regret, but without the will be taken into serious consideration least surprise, we learn that there is another The evil complained of is of such magnitude, recrudescence of piracy in the Gate Detits effects are so extensively felt, and its and that life and property in that rich and spreading territory are again practically at the mercy of lawless ruftiania. Within the
to grapple with it, its continuance will were ominently successful fu loosening the past week or two there have been five serious
cast a reflection alike on the ability and visitors' purse-strings. For the pretty arrange eases of piracy, and it is an established fact the humanity of the Foreign Representa- ment of the stalls ne little praise is due to those that regular organised bands, ranging from tives in China. More particularly are the ladies responsible. The excellent quality of the half-a-score' persons to half-s-hundred, are British, French, and German Ministers noodle and fancywork of the orphans was a roving about the Canton and West Rivers interested in the repression of piracy in the general ambject of remark, reflecting as it did and their numerous branches, cutting out Canton Delta, a district wherein, under the highest cratit upon the Sistors for the steam launches and native jurke and pass-happier cingustiaces, there might reason-patient and painstaking teaching which they age-boats. This state of things has been ably be expected a large development of part to the little orphans ander their care. going on for many years, but within the trade with the increased prosperity that past three years the condition of the Delta would follow the maintenance of good order bas gone from very bad to much worse, and restoration of security. The subject despite complaints, remonstrances, and some well meant attempts by the foreign squad Sir JAMES LYLE MACKAT, the British was, we believe, brought to the notice of rous to assiet in providing a check upon the Special Commissioner seut cut to negotiate
H.E. the Governor was patron of the bizar
THE GERMAN BUDGET.
On Tuesday the memorial service ordered by the Emperor for Li Hungchang took place. The ceremony was dignified and not marred by the squalor which spoils so many Chinese solemnities. All arrangements were in the hands of the Naza Hoi and Pun Yu magistrates and the procedure was based on the worship of The place chosen was the Government Printing the Imperial tablet performed at the New Year,
Office, the reception-ball of which was decorated for the occasion, Evory offleial in the province
LONDON, 7th December.
RENEWED BOER ACTIVITY. There is a recrudescence of Bour activity under Commandant Botha in the Transvaal,
Colony. and Commandant De Wet in the Orange River
The German Budget shows a deficit of had sent a scroll with a suitable inscription, thirty-five million marks. -
such as "a great man is dead." "Chinese and foreigners alike respected him," The Bismarck- of China" etc., and these were hung rend the hall and in the passages by which it was reached, In the ball there was an altar bearing the tablet of the dead man with his posthumous name of the learned and loyal. Two red candles burned
JAPAN AND RUSSIA.
It is state in St. Petersburg that the Japanese Government has concludad negotia. tions with Russia, whereby the former will open up a regular steamship service between
suruga and Vladivostock.
LONDON, 8th. December.
The High Bancational Comcil in Japan has SOUTH AFRICA-BOTHA'S POSITION been considering several important memorials,
Commandant Botha with a force of 1,500 including the subjects of teaching German in |--- every middle aelod situated within a district Boers is at present to the North of Ermelo, where a higher school exists, compiling various South-eastern Transvaal. text-books for primary schools at the Educa tional Dopartraent applying easier idiomatic. terms in the practical textbooks to be used in the institutions under middle class schools, and procoring training ships for the morcantile
navigation school.
The
THE NEW GERMAN TARIFF. · Russia threatens to introduce a retaliatory tariff if the new German tarif is passed in its present form.
SOUTH AFRICA-BOERS ON THE
BRITISH SIDE The number of Boers taking arms against the enemy in the field is showing a notable
jucrease.
VLADIVOSTOCK NOTES.
[FROM OVE CORRESPONDENT.]
Vladivostock, 28th November.
PROPOSED JAPANESE CONSULATE,
in front of it and sacrifices were laid out. In front of the altar were mafs for the officials to, kneel on. At half-past eleven they arrived. others were there, headed by the Governor and The Vicuroy was too-il to come, but all the
sticks, and then the twelve greatest men în Tartar General These two last lighted incenso Canton prcstrated themselves thros times be fore the tablet, while a fute played softly.. An essay written by the Viceroy in praise of his burnt to convey it to the dead man's spirits. predecessor-was-next read out, and the paper Libations wore poured on, and the kowtow repeated closed the cremony. There was a large crowd of attendants, the public not being allowed in, and their behaviour wie orderly and
lesser officials, and continued until the city reverent. Prostrations were made later by the magistrates tad performed the presurib-d ritual.
The North German Lloyd Steamship Company 18.stablishing a new line of steamers to run be iwona Cabau ports at Bromerbaren, calling at one of the northern parts of Spain. This in ro- sponse to the great development of trade between
THE BANNERMEN'S REVIEW. Germany and Cuba. Retarus for the last two
Saturday and Sunday have been the gala-days of the banner force that garrisons Exaton, on years show a steady progression, resulting in
which their great review takes place. It is Germany becoming the most important seller every part of Cala, have learned what the
quinquennial, but an extra, one is held ou in the island. German agents have been sent to
the arrival of a new The For people need, and hire catered for their wants.
the last two days nearly 3,0.0 men, armed During the same period English trade shows a
withi chasse-pots, long guns managed by two light increase, the leases being sustained by ment for permission to establish a Consulate pieces, have heen maneuvering and bring Jupan has petitioned the Russian Governmen, boys and arrows, and 36 small field Spain, France, and the United States. Novembar, and one steamer a month will leave Commercial Agent does not answer the demands feat day partook of the nature of a circus. new line of steamer was to be opened in at Vladivostock, as the prosont office of blank cartridges on the parade ground-The
service will be fortnightly. Bremerhaven until February next, when the of Japanese subjects here.
Two trenches were dug across the parade ground, along which the horsus galloped, while their riders, uneli as did not tumblo off, shot off
tant--which they always missed with bows guns in the air, fired at marks three foot dis
and arrows, and illustrated swordsmanship on horseback. They then gave acrobatic exhibi- tions, lying on the horse's back, riding back- wards, standing up with the help of a sopa tiod to the saddle and turning somersaulta. It was not wall done, bat it was a surprise to find it done at all. Followed some wenstiing and some vaulting, in which for want of a wooden korsa a coal one was substituted. Two men beld the head and two the bind legs of the animal. A roview of children, the bangermen of years to
mo, finished the day's proceedings.
A LUMOURED STEAMSHIP SALE. ****
section of Nippon Yusen Kaisha shareholders Russian Volunteer Fleet, which has been
The Japan Mail sys that the discontented
It is rumoured that the ss. Habarovsk of the are not silenced, though defeated. One of their anchored here for the last 3 or 4 months, will number is said to be about to institute legal shortly be purchased by proceedings against the Company on the groundment of the Chineas Eastern Railway.
Steamship Depart that a violation of the Commercial Code was committed when an ordinary general meeting
GOLD IN MANCHUBIL.
was invited to voto kortain propositions which In the vicinity of Hus-chan (Manchuria), had not previously been submitted to an extra- not far from Vladivostook, rich gold-deposits ordinary meeting, or notified to the shareholders have been discovered. By agreement with the principal of these propositions was the appro- 15 days previous to the ordinary meeting, The Chinese authorities of that place, the gold-field priation of a sum of five hundred thousand
It woull be interesting to know in how many of the obituaries of the late Li Hung-chaug the
BAA s lansed to Russians on condition that 15 5 per In a large proportion of the notices in papers lines and improving its ships. The Mail says: local Chinese administration, the latter agreeing expression" a Chinese Bismarck has occurred,
yen as a fund for extending the Company's cout of the total output be appropriated for the contly to hand this term has been employed. Chagrin at their signal defeat in the recent to maintain 330 gnats for the protection of the The London and China Exprces, as we have general meeting sons to have inspired them
Aght. There was mock marebing and retiring
The second day was of the nature of a sham
ravages of these foes to- good order. In the commercial terms with regard to the records, combats the accuracy of the comparison, with a desire to make themselves objectionable place. A jolat stock company is being formed blowing of trumpets and conch-shells, and.
July, 1899, representations were made by the silk-merchants of Cautor on the subject, setting forth the grave interference with trade caused by the robberies and piracies which land terrorised the Delta and prevented the silk-growers from forwarding their pro-
Tariff, &c., during his visit to the Colony, and we trust therefore, it will not be losi well if the local Chamber of Commerce sight of At the same time, it might be would once again take up the question and bring it at this juncture to the notice of the
British Minister,
The Japanese commercial commissioner at.
at Vladivostock for the development and or- ploitation of the gold-field.
SABLES IN KAMCHATKA
January, 1902.
firing of very ragged volleys. The bright, uniforms made a pretty sight, and probably ovon their commanders did not take the
distance of fifty yards. The soldiers loaded manœuvres very seriously. Finally they muged up in two lines and bombarded each other as a and Bred into the air with great rapidity, and
in a quarter of an hour a very satisfactory
mount of gunpowder must have best burnt,
CANTON'S ARTILLEET TRAINING The annual artillery practice begins in two Many coolies carry out the guns from
days
and so do writers in several other papers. The in some way or other and their present course Times of the Sta alt, for instance, says is obstructiveness, pure and simple. of Li Hong-chang will be clear to those who How wide of the mark was this appreciation read the record of his life. He never really Vladivostock mentions in his report to the of the Kamchatka sable, a prohibition has been In order to prevent the total extermination accepted the postulates of civilised and pro- Government that on the completion of the issued by the authorities at St. Petersburg gressive policy, and in this respect he stood Siberian, and the Chinese Eastern Railway a out in signal contrast with the statesmen of great expansion of shipping traffic in the Far forbidding sable-hunting in Kamchatka for a H.M. S. Talbot arrived from Weilmiweto adopt all that is best in Western civilisation, general attention is now directed to this
Japan. While the Japazioso have endeavoured East will be withered. It would seem that period of 3 years, beginning from the 1st
without abandoning their national character Bubject, for since the beginning of this year a arge number of forsgn visitors have arrived. lead of Li Hung-chaug, were content to set at Vladivostock overland and by sun. The LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS, the walls phooleto weapons older than Trafalgar up a feeble imitation in which they did not Bossian authorities are very auxions that the believe themselves and which did not seriously shipping traffle in the neighbouring ses chall impose on anybody else. There are Chinten, not fall into the hands of foreigners, and are like the Yangtze Viceroys, whe take a broader earnestly, endeavouring to promote the mer view of the needs of the Empire, but La Hungcantile marine of their own country. As chang was not one of these. He sympathised stop in this direction it is proposed to place ness of Japan, or thought it well to profeks to with the Chinese abhorrence of the progressive, the two new steamers of the Chiness Eastern do so. His own ideal of progress was far more
Railway Company Manchuria and Nonton
closely akin to the traditional Chinese practice
the lips between Tadivostock and America
of manning sham forts with thamamy guns, and article that the inauguration of a direct route A Russian abwspaper comments in its leading
the result is recorded in history.
to America is urgent
ducts to Canton to enable dealers to fulfil their contrasts with the foreign firms, and were sent on to the Hongkong 'Chamber of Commerce, who thereupon addressed strong yesterday. representations on the subject to the. British Minister at Peking, to His Excel- The Hon. J. J. Beil-Irving returned from.istics, the Chinese, so far as they followed the leacy the Governor, and to the Loadon Shanghai by the Stuttgart on Monday night.
: Chamber of Commerce, urging that the Kwangtung waterways should bo patrolled by British gunboats, and pressing for the early opening of these waterways to navi- gation by foreign steamers. The outcome
The only cases of communicable disease in the Colony last week were four of enteric fever, ali Europeans in the Harbour and all imported None proved fatal,
of all this agitation was the despatch of that direct Able communication to Shanghai The Telegraph Cos notified us yesterday several small gunboats up the rivers and a le restored via Fucchow; but, at the Amoy temporary-very temporary reduction in Shanghai onble la still interrupted, there will the piracica committed. The Wes River, yet be soms delay in the traffs to Shanglii, which had been opened to trade as far as North Chinn, and Japan.
French mail, left Singapore on the 5th just
The M.M. steamer Indute, with the next at midnight for this port, end Saigon Nagasaki on the 9th inst. at 9 am, and left The OP.R. stammer Athenian arrived at again at 5.30 pmme day for Kobo, where she in due to arrive to sorrow, of 7 am
The NYK steamer Ideums Maru (Aldrica Line) left Kobe via Moji and Shanghai for this port on the 7th itat and is expected to arrive
dos volage some Ave miles away, where for
Cloud Mountains, known sa the Thin Dog toen days they bombard a spur of the White
Hill Subh guns as have not burst are then replaced, and left to rust for This was not done last year, so it was COM-
other year..
sidered that the city in the absence of the can non would not be safe. Many cooling dasamble on the hall and ings on the balls, which ther hero on the 15th inst, but make
the proceedings pra come. The silk ex the C.PR steamer Tartar arrived. I timer ett lyéned by the untimely and of one of in New York on the 9th inst..
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