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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18T, 1903

were, there was nother which momentarily brutal, murders of British missionaries attracted more attention all over the world. occurred at Chengobow, in Hunan province. We refer to King Edward's'illness and the which almost led to a diplomatic rupture postponed Coronation, which in June between Great Britain and Chiua. Con- caused all hearts to be full of apprehen-pensation has been made, but very tardily. son. Fortunately it was not very long To add to her misfortunes Chin, never before fears were relieved, His Majesty's rich in honest officials, has recently lost one constitution and courage triumphed, andgrent man in Lav Kuss-vi und another A. S. WATSON & CO., early in August the whole of the British man whom all Europeans who came in

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slight one of samil-pox. The water supply bag been deficient, and the year opened and closed with the intermittent system in free. It is proposed, as a result of the visits of An Australian telegram says :--The Shab h Messrs. SIMPSON and CHADWICK, the export

discarded sixteen hundred and forty wives. commission despatched from home which issued several reports in the first half of and South African tours got back to Melbourne The Australian cricketers after their English 1902, to attempt a thorough regeneration of at the beginning of Decoinber, Hongkong, and the means proposed is the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance to combat sovialient and extreme agrarianism; }

A party is forming inghe German Reichstag which has occupied so much of the Legisla-aa an anteswe of a speech by the Kaiser attack tive Council's attention. But it is obvious ing socialism alluded to in

ОДР * Late that the process must be slow, and that all Telegrame columns yesterday. important adjunct of good sanitation, a plentiful water supply very far off indeed. Though 1902 closed with none too hopeful anguries, however, some notable

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SHANGHAI, 31st December, 12.30 p.r

SUICIDE OF A GERMAN -

MERCHANT.

Empire was able to unite in rejoicings over

contact with him esteemed, Tio Mr, le the ceremony of crowning the King. Viceroy at Canton. Their successors will Emperor, while among the other untions be hard to find, and without upright officials hardly a single discordant voice was raised, in the important posts the Powers can

pt Though the Coronation, ne ultimately trust in China's promises. Among carried out, was not as gorgeous ne it would themselves the European nations have have been, there is no doubt that the shown an extraordinary amount of distrust sympathy for the central figure was rendered in this was og uded of practically universal by his narrow escape this,, Tantsin was not handed back until local improvements and additions bare been the Magistracy on Wednesday next at 2.15 p. committed suicide for some cause unknown. from death. Among those who evinced August; while Shanghai, in spite of the the warmest concern was His Majesty the promises given to Lau KUNG- before his German Emperor, and

made. For the first time in Hongkong's

An official enquiry into the ciroamstances tending the recent fatal building collapse in will be opened before Mr. F. A. Hastland at Wing Lok Street, near the Harbour Office,

Lord Hawke's cricket team, as its way to

Mr. H. Lehmang, of Messrs. Arnhold Karberg & Co, who returned to Shaught

found died in bed this moraing, kaving from home on the 27th December, was

Mr. Lehmann passed through Hongkong.

history, u school fer exclusively European New Zealand via the United States, mot only a little while ago on his way to Shanghal Of the Finest Quality and Vintage Live undone the effect of the anti-British evacuated. Tho intrigues of the time-the 15th January last the foundation having got them out for 125, voored-155 forised in the northern port and had been con

capture that would give boons, the worstedly delayed very considerably Naval Yard Extension. Many think that. The win, puset ock & riskede fricke

stone was aid of a great undertaking, the wickers. Bosanquet took 11 wickets for 42 mps.pouted with the firm for many years. He was

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Kaiser's courtesy and solicitude. Un-

Prince. CHING with Germany

the evacuation of Shanghai. Tonth the reworter the Naval Yard to the

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well-known thers and popular, and the nows of JULES MUMM & CO,

happily evidence is abundant that Britans the Settlement, freed of its aunecessary mainland, ou have been preferable, but scoal, December 22ud - The object of Yeragrot among the circle of his friends and/ were too deeply offended over the vile garrisons, will be aole to pay attention to all must admit the magnitude of the present youg, Vik's visit to Port Arthur is, it is acquaintances. The telegram which the The following two telegimas are dated his tragic death will be reveived with profound A Wine for Connoisseurs.calumniation of the army in South Africa the subject of commercial advance. Wei-works. On the 4th August Major-General rumoured, to negotiate for s lons (from Russie) representatives of the Arm here got apprising to forgive the traducers for the sake of niwei, Britain's latest acquisition in these GASCOIGNE, who administered the Colony's on the security of mining concessions in Hang them of the affair contained no further patti their ruler." Time, it is to be hoped, will seas, must also look to a commercial future. heal the breach, but it is plain from theftes an extraordtary record of vaciliation during H.E. the Governor's absence from entry of the Russian bluzajackets to the expital was a man of fine physique, so that his notio

government to the genem satisfaction Ken-To and Pang-an-To districts." "Tha culars than those given alere. Mr. Fal dissatisfaction at home over Auglo-German th home Government decided not to make January to September, turned the first end bas been stopped." co-operation against Venezuela that the time fortress or an efficient naval base of the of King's Park, Kowloon, which promises to

could hardly have been cocasioned by ill-health is not yet come. The Venezuelan affair, place, but to maintain it merely as a san- be a worthy memorial of the Coronation

it is thought that mental derangement which at first looked dangerous on account atorium and summer resort for the fleet year. Another memorial of 1902 is the

have been responsible, for the tragedy,, of susceptibilities in the United States, now

ED. DP.Į Yet with the Colonial Office in charge and CONNAUGHT status, soon to be followed by seems likely to reach a peaceful settlement. under the rule of Mr. J. H. STEWART two others to be erected in the neigblom It was hoped by the European Powers that LOCKHART, Hongkong'e late Colonial hood of the late Queen's statue, There President ROOSEVELT would undertake the Secretary, Weihaiwe may still have & fature

of the dispute, but it is more glori us than that of a third-rate were many changes in the apparently to go to the Hague Tribunal. watering place. Its resources are untrica That disappointment has been freely as yet expressed over the Fresident's refusal shows how highly he is esteemed. Last year wa prophesied that he would be no weak President of the United States, sud

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operations resulting in either loss or ecoaty profits In the market for piece goods semi-stagnation has ruled for the most part, a hand-to-mouth business for immediate requirements being the best that can be recorded. The tightness of money the instability of exchange the partial of the interior of both the wang failure of crops, the disturbed condition provinces, and the increase of taxation

days and hats of European shape and madifac

The Rajah of Saratak bas issued su order to the following effest:-The habit of wearing tare having become moral amongst antives of all classes. I hereby direct that any native wearing such a cap or hat shall römove it from a unel of the his head-upon entering any Govorament Offices or building, or when adresing any European

Colony last year, from varione causes. By death Hongkong saw carried off two very familiar figures, Commander W. C. H. HASTINGS und Mr. DAVID GIllies. Hon. J. H. STEWART LOUKHAET left us for The Whaiwei, being succeeded at the Colonial Secretary's Office by the Hon. F. H. MAY. Commodore POWELL departed in April, his place being filled by Commodore ROBINSON. always be associated with the story of the Colony's growth, has gone, and Mr. T. H. WHITEHEAD was called to London. Sir JOHN CARRINGTON had already left when 1902 opened, and his place is filled by Sir W. MEIGH GOODMAN, while a new Attorney. General is bere in Sir H. S. BERKELEY Many other changes might be mentioned not been devoid of trouble. Two outrages as well. Hongkong's external relations have against British subjects occurred on the

Officers.

REUTER'S SERVICE.

LONDON, 29 Decemb

MR. CHAMBERLAIN, IN SOUTH AFRICA. Mr. Chamberlain is a guest at Goverm House at Pistmaritzburg.

OBITUARY. The death of the Bishop of 9. Allans is qu noanced,

MOROCCO.

A Tokyo telogram of the 24th inst, to the the political parties Lavecommenced conferences N... Daily News gay:The Cabinet and which are not unlikely to result in a compromise on the best of the abandonment of the land tax, the funds for the proposed navel increment being derived from other sources." Japanese It is officially contitmed that the rebola

Oppsition gives way, and that a number of its ately fled to Fez, losing 2,000 in killed. opponents are very not averse to this step. Government will dissolve the Diet unless the Moorish Army of 10,0 0 men, which precipit

THE VENEZUELAN QUESTION.

rate on the Venezuela question has caused some The refusal of Pr.sident Roosevelt to arbit

delay attending formalities of the Hague disappointment in Berlin, consequent on the

The Berlin Kreuze Zeitung, discussing the recent letter of the US, Ambassador, Mr White, to Mr. Henry Seligman, of Frankfurt On-the-Main, regarding the treatment of tribunal. Hebrews in Roumania, ays that it is to be recommended that the Ambassador remove the

For Hongkong, 1902 has been one to be remembered. Commercially the year bas been eminently unsatisfactory,several causes combining to accentuate the difficul. prediction has been abundantly ties created by a fluctuating and declining The main danger is that his strength must exchange. To the merchant, the middle bring him into conflict with one of the man, and the retailer alike, it has been Bir THOMAS JACKSON, whose name must papers last to hand mention a report that the Taza, on the 23rd instant. completely routed th strongest forces in the world-that-of-year of anxiety and worry, their money, as exemplified in the great Trusts and "Combines." The struggle can but be a terrible one, demanding a man of far more than average strangib and character. Turning to the Far East, we find that 1902 has been fruitful in promises of great improvements in the state of affairs, but A. S. WATSON & CO. unfulfilled. Three very important agree. the end of the year sees these promises still ments (apart from that betweea Great Britain and Japan) were signed during the consequent on the indeannity imposed upon Cauton waterways, or on the 18th January the Americau negroes. They are not treated Connenght made a stata entry into Delhi to- the Chinese Government by the Foreign when the Nanning was fired upon and the with the same contempt, ad do not suffer day. They were mounts on superbly com- Powers have operated to restrict demand Rev CE. L. COWAN WO for all classes of "cotton.

wounded, the other Lynch law, nor a Jewill funeral processions pariped elephants, and followed by a long and goods, more especially the better makes, EVANS, constable at H.R.M. Consulate, Chicago,

woollen ga the 12th November, when Mr. in Romania mobbed in New York and gorgeous procession of Indian Princes two

abreast, all inoanted on elephants. which the decline in the value of silver hos Canton, was fatally injured by pirates. placed beyond the reach of all but the

THE HUMBERT FRAUDS. The Humberts have been imprisoned in opulut. The trade in game is been

Paris. ~~~ equally unremaunorative, so much so that two lagge mills in Bombay have closed already and more are expected to follow.

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twelve months, the Manchurian Convention, the Anglo-Chinese Commercial Treaty, and the Franco-Sinfuse Treaty. The last ained compact, which was signed on the 7th October, appeared to all but the French Colonia! party to be very favourable to France; but at least it was an honest attempt to get rid of the dangerous state of friction between France and Siam. Whether it will ratified seems doubtful, so loud in their

Piracy and brigandage having been tampant on the neighbouring mainland last year, it is perhaps rather to be won- dered at that no more foreigners were molested. The turbulence of the Chinese across the water seems to some extent to have affected their fellow-countrymer ip Hongkong, for the word strike has been in the air a good deal, and labour froubles have been threatening. Altogether, the promise of 1902 cannot be said to have been fulfilled 1 more reason, therefore, have we to wish our readers in 1903

A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR.

day ending at noon yeaterfiny, a Chinese dying Another plague case was reported during

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mate from his neighbons. The Rozmanian beam from his own eye before removing the Jews, says the paper, are etter situated than

Senator Foster of Washilgion, a member of the IB. Senatorial committee that visited

Hawaii in September, intimates that the com

admitted to Hawaii in limited nambere for a of mittee will recommend that Chinese labourere be

time in order to relfed the labour situation there. "Labour conditioneiro bad ie Hawaii,"

LONDON, 28th Dos-mber,

THE DURBAR.

The Viceroy and 'the Duke and Duchess of

100 Boers for Somaliland. THE SOMALILAND EXPEDITION. The Government has accepted the services

MOROCCO.

The Sultan has barricaded himself in his

said Bouator Foster, There is a great scarcity palace at Fez and an attack on the town is of workmen on the sugar plantations, and every industry in the islands feels the effects. Whites expected. Resistance is impossible, will not work in the cone-dels, and Japanese imparting Porto Bigans was a failure. The people tell us that Southern agrees would be are very unsatisfactory. The experiment of

LIFE-SAVING CHINA MEN.

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Yesterday morning we had the pleasure of equally as unsatisfactory, even if they could handing to Lai Yan Sing and Chenng Mau

be prevailed upon to go there. Chinese inbour the $10 note which was sent to them, ju aur

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Ordera for extra copies of DAILY PRE should be sent before 11 aillon day of publication. After that you the supply to limited. Only supplied for Cash.expressions of discontent are the advocates he decline in this important import is of an ever aggressive policy on the Indo-tinctly traceable to the depreciation of Chinese frontiers. It is yet possible that ulver, I opium there has been a fairly serious troubles may arise over the Siamese large business done, principally in Bengal question. The Manchurian Convention, drug, due, however, to exceptional causes, which was signed on the 9th April last, namely the partial failure of the poppy alone has begun to take effect. That it was crop in Yunnan and consequent dearnest very one-sided affair, our readers are well and scarcity of the native drug, and partly aware. The terms imposed on Chine were to the speculation created by an attempt-- very bar, but in return the evacuation of happily defeated by the vigorous policy of Manchuria by instalments was guaranteed. Sir ERNEST SATOW-to waise the duties ou

is the only solution of the problem in the care, by a Furses gentleman. in Canton id

correspondent at Peking has revealed. The coat. The trade in kerosene oil which is a in Wo ORGANZA What this "evacuation" means the Times foreign opium by about one hundred der

cannot say definitely what we shola recommend." opinion of the people of the islands. The com-recognition of theif bravery in saving the lives mittee has not completed its report, and I of a woman and two childron who were thrown Russian troops have retired to all the steadily growing one, was barely maintainçil

into the water by the capsizing of their sampan in Yuumati By after collision with a cargo- strategie points of the country which In 1902, the failure of crops and the tis

The demare by Tuesday's fire in Cross

boat, as reported in our issue of the 23rd they bare evacuated and dominate it as turbances in the Delta baving served dwelling-house are gutted; amounts to 32 *,000, † Valley the Hongkong Football Club "A" team who vonchod for their bona fides, Lai Yan Sing Street, Wonchai, when a pawn-shop and a

mit. The two mu were brought to this WHEN the Twentieth Century, of which the completely 28

if they had remained to check the importe into Kwangtung. and the total insurance to $35,000.

This afternoon on the Clük gefund at Happy office by Inspector Williamson, Tsimshatsui, year just over was the second, comes to be in arowed full possession. Manchuria is, In general goods the trade .bas also reviewed as a whole, we may be certain that in fast, to all intents and purposes ben

willy, H.M.8. Talbot under Rugby rules. and Cheung Mun are, as wo have already in- restricted through the constant Though the Indian watchman over whom the Kickoff at 4 pm The Club will play indicated, seaman and engineer respectively on 1903 will be considered among the more Russian province. The MACKAY Treaty variations in exchange, leading to a marker Quarry Bay fracas tirat arose or on Tuesday striped jerseys. The following will play for the Yaumati forry-lannoh Lee Ping, and both, eventful years. Much has occurred during signed on the 5th September, but still un-reduction in many classes of imports. The fined 100 by Mr. Komp at the Magistracy, wo the Clab its course which quiet help to shape the ratified, d been claimed as a great achive-

are deserving of the best recognition for saure cause has had a malig influence on

halieve that there are farther developments to Caerper, full task; Robertson Macdonald, their brave act, which undoubtedly resulted. encomiums without number. It must seem

be expected. It has erroneously been stated Campbell (Capt.), and Lemend, three-is the saving of thres lives. This is not and elsewhore.. At the present day two events seem to stand out promincatly

to us here in Hongkong, that until that being a serious matter, prejudicially affect among all others, and we think that it is Treaty, with its promises the abolition of ing business, The export of sills has been paid.

brooze weital not only Britons who will allow thit. First lekin, etc., becomes an accomplished fact, its quite up to the average, but the dollar price an importance, there was the end of the merits can only be discussed nudemically white metal. In sundry exports there has of the Macao polics, whose condnet was

life of a would-be suicide in the harbour several pari passu with the fall in the for the statement that Major Je J. Bragança, Our conteinporary Patriota is responsible

yours Laok. The story is best told in the words great Bouth African War, formally notified. Many commercial men of the highest been little change, the quantities being very freely impugned by the Portuguess papers

of this certificate, he received at the time, upd which, roads;-" This is to certify that on by the sigurture of peace on the 31st May, authority do not believe that it will come

comparatively sinal. Large shipments of a few months ago, has been transferred to the Bary, today, commencing at 10.30 Sing, fireman on board the steam launch

The following prill play for the I.K.C.C. v.

the lith day of February, 1895, Lai Yan whereby a struggle which had saged for into operation in its present form: there are the greater part of three years and had too those who do not think it would be the Wahu and Chinkmug for Canton, owing to ill-judged attack on the Portuguese Cousul in

rice have ha i to be imported from Mozambique. The same paper contains a very sharp- hampered to a most serious extent thence it is supposed to be, even if it were

C.R. S. Cooper, J. T. Dizon, W Dizon, W. from death by drowning in the harbour, Vic- Kam On, gallantly rescued & Chiness woman the failure of the southern rice crops,Hongkong, Senhor Conselheiro Romano. E. Disor, Capt. Fawcett, R.A., F Maitland, toria, Hongkong The woman was a passenger general policy of Great Britain, was brought strictly carried out by China.

8. Powell, Cept. Radcliffe. RE Lient. to a successful termination; now, as Mi imagined by some that when the Emperor Freights have ruled slow throughout the European seamen from the British Rimington, S.F., Lieut. H. W. Smith, R.A.,st full speed and passing Kowloon Foist, wheron CHAMBERLAIN just declared at Durban, tha / KWANG Hsu returned to Peking on the year, and the shipping trace generally has stemer Tonbridge were placed in the dock at and A. G. Ward. ' Dutch have accepted the paramounter of January, 1902, the way way pavedbe bad. Some of the local industrie have the Barbour Man er's office yesterday morninit,

for the regeneration of China. It only also been less prosperous than usual this five of them charged, witt: disobeying the British flag, and what can louge remained to conclude the Commercial year, and the business in refined sugar has and two with assaulting the chief sagmoer separate the two nations? And secondly Treaty and then China under a been simply disastrous. The stock market The Diva were sentenced to three days' impri there was the Anglo-Japanese Agreement, régime would start on the path of progress: has been depressed dudy the latter half sonment and to forfeit tro days pay, and tho signed on the 30th January, whereby We need hardly say that these optimists the year, and quotations have, in many cases, other two to six weeks imprisonment. Britain departed from her traditions of

were not generally accepted as trustworthy undergone a sharp decline. Altogether the isolation and allied herself with the newest prophets? How little they were able to commercial record is a most unfavourable Both these occurrences judge the future has been shown in the one, and there secus no incediate prospect were limited by Britons in the Far Est, as twelve months just now elapsing since the of any durab'e improvement setting in in the 17th year of the publication of the book, per Course No Jun at home by all clear-thinking people, with Emperor's return to the Capital. The unless successful measures are taken to expressions of deep gratification. Out here reactionaries are almost as much in power it is felt that Great Britain is able once before the fight, from Peking. H: M respects, too, 1902 he

secure a fixed basis of exchange. In other aguin, if wisely guided, to strive for her KWANO Her still a nonentity. Commerce egret. During the year there have been his left many causes for former proud position in this part of the labours under early all the old restric572 cases of plague, with 559 deaths; there world. But great as both these events tious. In August last two particularly was alsy a severe outbreak of cholera and a

history of the world, alike in the Far East ment, ad its originator has received exports, the difficulty of arrauging exchange that the watchman was sentenced to six weeks' quarters; Roberts and Hallett, has; Stroror, the first occasion on which Lai Yun Sing las

impacument; he was

was did, and the fine was raketow, and F. C. C. Bosor torony Dany arbon the Belillos bunge, rullal for saving the

of the Powers.

It was

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Mosare Kelly & Walst, Ld;, send us a copy of their very useful Imperial English and Cainese Diary cul Almanac for 1903 This

which in that paziod has made itself indispens- able to every business man in the East. The

Hongkong, and Shangbai, in which places the Diary is interleaved with blotting and contains focal information of vaine in the Stmits,

book is extensively sold. It is published at thể

very reasonable price of $1,350.

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BOYAL HONGKONG, YACHT CLUB.

The 4th Clubrace will be reboiled on Saturday, Srd January, starting at 2p, aver ciaras 8.

The 6th Club rege will be sailed on Sunday

on the steara-launch, and when the launch was,

strong current is always ruaning, she thraw har- Officers a Nagel Band will play in the her a life-buoy, and, who it was seen she made By kind permission of the Admiral and self overboard. Lai Yun Bing promptly throw attornoen.

no attempt to use it, jumped into the sex, clothed fashio way, swam to her, diveit after her as she! was sinking, and, getting hold of her, bore her to the life-busy and secured her in it nutilske annch was stopped and put back, and both were takon on board. This is farther to certify that the trustees of the Bellion Fund har

warded Lai Yuu Sing, for his bravery, a bronze) medal and $.5. Given, ander our hands af Victoria, Hongkong, this 25th day of February, `1805.—” (Sd.) E. J.. Eitel, Ph.D., Jno,,"J‚§

Francis, trustões," The present care is one that!? may very well be taken up by the Royal Humane Society as well as by the truskos In the Belilios Fund.

The 2nd Class Handicap, for all recis subse out to the 4th Club race is as follows---

Iris allows Maid Marion Dareer. Gloria, & Chanticleer Meteor... Payne & Ladybird.

582cond per mile

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