INTIMATION.
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advance, and for which, it may safely be
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 21sr, 1907.
Other two additions have been received to tha Secretary of War Taft has published reports international Botilla in Hongkong. The Italian which he has received from recruitings ofours TELEGRAMS cruizer Marco Polo merived from the North on throughout the country, which show's great lack Friday and the French orsiser Alger arrived of recruits for the United States regular army, from Baigan on Saturday,
Beoraiting officers say that horetofore they could take their pick of hundrede, while now
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The Pacific Mail stemmar City of L'anama,
which was reported to be missing, has arrived at Fort Mazatlan, in the province of Sinelos, Mexico. She encenatored a storm on the way and lost several of her boats.
they find it almost impossible to get way appli meats be made as to pensives and terms of service |cants, and they recommend that special induce.
in order to all many depleted regiments.
sesumed, most of them have no better claim. That the Lipu, as the Chiusse call the Ministry mentioned, should have ordered a stop to be put to the sale of auch privileges A. S. WATSON & CO., ed not be taken as an indication of true reform. It is obvious that the number of expectant officials has grown embarrassingly large, and it speaks volumes for the methods
Messrs. G. Fenwick & Co., Ltd, launched of Mandarindom that men can still be
In regard to the intended vizit of the train from their now yard at North Paint on Friday Found willing to part with their money on ing squadron te American porta on the Faciar, night one of two steel sternwhool steamers the chance of recouping themselves in the the Japanese authorities were giren to under-
new building for service on the inland water- remote event of their finding a place, stand that San Francisco in in a state of rain ways of French Indo-Chins. The vessel is 145 Were it possible for Mandarindom to at once and anablo therefore cordially to welooms the foot long and 25 fost beam, and is being fitted reward all those 257,400 men --with-the quadron; there is an other objection to thewithcomfortablenadcommodious sccommodation "chance" they have paid for, it
would immediately
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
WATSON'S aut hard to picture for oneself what
VERY OLD LIQUEUR
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SCOTCH
THE
BLEND
kind of busi:1085
visit,
for all classes of passengers whila freight esa also be carried on the lower decks. A boiler of the locomotive type working under forced draft will supply steam in the propelling engines which are of the compound surface condensing type. The usual auxiliary maobinory is also itted.
England has made a proposition to the United States asking that the extradition treaty now in force between the two antions be amended, [ be set in train. There have been Imperial and as the proposed amendments meet with the Dereas from time to time, some quite re-approval of President oosevelt and his Cabinet, cently, which afforded oxcuse for the hope the amended treaty will go into effect when that this sort of thing was to be ended. 11 approved by the Senate. was not long since the EMPRESS-DOWAGER particularly commanded her high Ministers hot to select any oficials "according to rontiuo," but to appoint zoch men as the Prosident Boomernit is interested as to the out- Comppuies will be dissolved-The Tan Yik
knew to have special abilities for the parti cular posts concerned. A Chinese Imperial Decree is not, as has been suggested, so permanent as the laws of is Medes atı
WHISK Y Persis." and, as we have frequently ven-
LEADING
THROUGHOUT
THE
FOR OVER
tured to remind our readers, it is no guar. antee of reform even. then it strongly
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Many of the Trusts in the State of Now York hava formed a powerful combine to fight reforms promised by Governor Hagbor.
come and has promised to nil Governor Hughes in carrying out the pledges given his supporters prior to his election.
Paliey-holders in British Insurance com pauios throughout Chile are up in arms orar the actios of the companies in repudiating all elsisë fer fee and damage to property at Valparaiso during the cooeal earthquake. The
The Registrar of t ompanim notifies that at the expiration of three months the following Companies will, unless cause is shown, to the contrary, be struck off the Register and the
Marine Fire and Life Insurance Co., Ld.: The Chinese Gonoral Construction Co., Lal.; The Tao Sung Steam Launch Navigation Co., Id. The East Sunrise Fire and Marine Insurance, Exchange Mortgage and Godown. Co., Ld.; The Hankow Daily Times Co., Lda The names of the undermentioned Companies have been struck of the Register:-The Anglo-
["DAILT PRESS" KICLUSIVE AXRVICE.]
DEATH OF ARCHDEACON BUTCHER.
LONDON, January 20th. Archdeacon Butcher, formerly of Shanghai, died at Cairo.
[The decased was Dean of Shanghai Cathedral from 1889. He was 74 years old.]
STEAMER COLLISION.
J
LONDON, January 20th,
and the The Naworth . Castle City of Dresden" collided in the English Channel during a deuso fog and sank.
THE JAMAICA DISASTER.
CANADA AND JAPAN.
LONDON, January 17th, The Ottawa House of Commons has passed a bill ratifying the Trade Convention between Canada and Japan. Bir Wilfred Laurier reminded a Columbian Momber that Japan must be treated as a civilized nation and as an ally of Great Britain.
THE BRITISH NAVY.
LONDON, January 17th.
The returns of the Battle Practice of the Navy for 1906 show an average number of points of 181, as compared with 98 for 1905, The 2nd Cruiser Squadron comes out first, with 264, the China Squadron second, with 250, and the East Indian Squadron fourth (third), with 203,
[N.-C. Daily News' Service.] MANCHURIA.
TOKYO, January 14th. Five lowns'in North Mancbaris were opened yesterday.
Rassis bas established hor Consulate-General ̈nt Harbia.
LONDON, January 20th,
The Consuls at Makdon base peremptorily The coast line of Jamaica has been refused the second demand made by the Tartar General for the imposition of a tax on foreign completely changed by the tidal wave. goods on the ground that Maiden and the It is reported that the land is sub-to bare hot boon officially operod,
long sa foreign settlements do not exist, siding. Port Royal is already under
BRAVERY RECOGNISED. Water,
Many lonters have been shot,
An
breathes reform. Another Imperial Deeree, larger American companies have already settled Japanese Locomotive and Engineering Ca, American battleship overawed the
WHISKY dated the 13th of this month, we reproduce
elsewhere in this issue, It proves conclu BAST
sively that China is still Mandarindom, or that Mandarindom is China.
20 YEARS.
PER CASE
$15.00
LIMITED,
up all claims against them, and the notion of the British companies in aerorely criticized,_.
"apport of Governor Magosu, who has for warded it to Washington.
Rince the conclusion of the Boxer enia-
paign, the number of Japavers Iasiness men at Poking and Tioutsia has been con. tinually increasing. At the present moment it is estimated that, excluding military, thors are about 3,000 Japanese in the two sitios; while before the Boxar time there sore not prob. ably more than 260. Most of these Japaness are small dealers, hawkers and retailers; vary few can be called merchants in the proper sense of the word.
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Ld.; The Usion Browery Cd., Ld. ; The Chins Carrying Co., Ld. The Eastern Flour and Provision Co., Ld.; The Wang Yip Timber
convicts.
The fires have been extinguished
Co., Ld.; The Shanghai and Hongkong Dyeing in Kingston, but earthquake shocks
and Cleaning Co., Ld.
THE ROBERT COOKE" ASHORE.
No later nows has come to haud concerning the Robert Cooke or the German stosmor Wongtes which she went to salve. The tug, perhaps the most powerful in the Far East, was chartered by the Norddeutscher lyd to pro ceed tu the' issistance of the Wongkai stranded near Cape Varell and was insured by the Company for the voyage. The Dock Company is covered against loss in that respect, though,
continue.
There have been from starvation,
many deaths
ANOTHER RAILWAY
INVESTMENT.
TORTO, January 19th.
It is reported that the Manchuria
should the vessel prove to be a total wreek thoy Railway Company has opened negotia- will be handicapped through losing her. The steamer Rajah left on Friday for Cape Varellations, through Mr. Takahashi in sad it is believed the Germen warships will go London, for a loan of eighty million from Hongkong to render assistance.
yen,
All of the most prominent bankers in Cuba. have petitioned the United States Governmont to graní a losu to Cuba, in order to wips off the The two officials theris reprimanded, entire indebtedness of the Island, and give the TAS SHAG-VI and Chane Po-nai, are said nort Coban administration a clann date to to be the most progressive, independent, and start with. The bankers in their petition ask for the detention of American troops, the loan enlightened members of Mandarindon, to be made conditional en such deletion. The They represent in their persons and posi-petition of the Caban bankers meets with the tion the firet honest step towards a much acedol reform--the reform of Mandarinde. We have already said sufficient to show the one way in which that feature can be reformed; it must to be mended be ended, The systera of dual and plural poety was being attacked by these two disciples of A. S. WATSON & CO. | Viceroy YUAN SHIR-AL, Sinecurists and incapables had already been dislodged, and in accordance with the hypocritical orders of the EMPRESA Dowager, these two had eridently, as chiefs of the Yuchampu, or Ministry of Posts and Communications, been
The school for foreign boys established by selecting subordinatos "out of turn", as Mr, H. L. Beer at Weihaiwei in so well-known
THE EARTHQUAKE IN JAMAICA. men of sufficiently up-to-date attainments to do the work expected of them. No parents who have not seen the school for them-bersihel. The effect of the toy was to wonder Mandarindom grev alarmed, and
LONDON, Jsausry 17th. snap the nickel obain by which it was suspended, se vea are aware by what they have heard of the and the matalal fell to the ground, its contents
Further particulars of the earthquake redoubled its efforts on the backstairs high standard of education and the brasing which included $40, rolling in all directions, state that the shooks occurred without any at Peking. The EXPRES-DOWAGES, Mr. Beer has, however, brought his school still
climatic sonditions under which it is imparted. The scolis at ones picked up two $10 bills warning. The people were indoors or loung hypocritically indegnant at the alleged
more prominently before the local public by and decamped. Meanwhile Mre. Nicholson ing on the Pizzes, when a sudden quiver- nepotism of two of her best Ministers, is issuing a complete and illustrated prospectus, herself the most notorious nepotist of them which gives particulars interesting to all wh employed in the hospital promptly dropped his ing shock was felt, an instant's suspense, watering eau, and set off in pursuit of the thief andthen a succession of shocks brought down An exciting chase followed, and as the gardener the tottering buildings. The population was the better sprinter he soon drew up to the rusted to the race course and the hills, where exhausted poolie and handed him over to an they remain in a sinte of panic. The work Indian policeman. On Eaturday the culprit of rescue devolves chiefly on the whites, the was brought before Mr. C. D: Melbourne at the Magistracy and sentenced to six weeks' hard terrified negros refusing to work. The birch, and to be banished. inbour, four hours' stocks, twelve strokes of the American Navy and War Departments are hurrying forward food and medical supplies
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
Hongkong, 4th January, 1907,
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NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS, ONLYcommunications relating to the news volun hould be addreued tɔTan EDITOR
Lorrasyondants must forward their name and ad arth communications addressed to the Editor not for publication but an evidence of good faith,
il letters for publication should be wrilém on nt-side of the paperToniy.
No anonymously graduations that has
already appeared in other papers will be inserted.
all. The sleepless nights" she boasts of Unders for detra coosée of ĎAILY;Pame should be cat before 11 am, on day of publication. After that may possibly have been caused by fears how the supply is limited that the day of nepotism in China is ligraphic dises: Code B... nhà Bà
Dieber:
P.O. Bo, 38, Telephone N, 12
BLETHS.
On January 9th, at Fenchow, the wife of a. SIX, E., H.G.M's Consul, of a daaghter.
[245 On January 5th, at H.R.M. Consulate-General, Scout, the wife of W. Meyrick Howlett, of a son.
On January 14th, & Shanghai, the wife of
ARTHUR RH, of a arm.
DEATHS.
On January 13tb, at Shanghai, EMILY GODDING BELBIN, on ber 1st birthday.
On January 14th at Shangoni, William Ser- MOUR WALLACE, aged 21
years.
HONGKONGOPPion: 10a, Des YEUX ROAD CI LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
The Daily Press.
HONGKOXO, January 21st, 1907,
sa institution on the China coast that moab-
kave boys of school-going age.
· EUROPEAN LADY ROBBED.
As Mrs, A. Nicholson, of Cosmopolitan Dock, was on her way to the Government Civil Hospital ou Friday afternoon to visit her son, a coolia rashod at hor and attempted to snatch
soroamed for help, and a young gardener
[EBUTER'S SERVICE.]
from Cuba and Porto Rico.
-ACTINO GOVERNOR T'AAGWATS" MEDALS.
A plesat function took plase in the Lagi- lative Council Chamber on Saturday afternoon, when H.E. the Oficer Administering the Government presented four Chiness with medals awarded under the Balilios Trust for gallantry in saving life during the typhoon of September 18th. Among those present were Hon. Mr. T. Sercombe Smith, Hon. Mr. F. J. Badeley, Hon. Mr. W. J. Gressou, Hon. Mr. E. A. Irvine, Hos. Dr, Ho Kai, Mr. J. Dysc Ball, Mr. C. H. Ross, Mr, 5. W. Tao, Rev. T. and Mrs. Pearce, Mrs. May and Men. Badeley.
Mr. Badeley, on behalf of the tenstees of the Bililica Trust, said he bad the honour to re- quest. bis Excellency to be so good as to present certain stars which had been awarded by the
trustees to certain people for saving life during the great typhoon of September 18th. There should have been five recipients, but unfortunate ly one bad gone astray.
Two lighthones
keepers at Waglan named Chu Yu-ma and Chu
Mi at great personal risk to their lives swam across a narrow neck of water and saved a Macao fisherman's life. Then polies constable 304, Clus Shne-yung, and a fishmonger from Shamsuipo xamed Wong Tau at great risk to their own lives succeeded in say- ing the orew of a waterboat at Shamsipo. Fically there was a woman from Aberdeen named Te Pat-mui who, although she did not actually rish her own life, scted very cour ageously in getting people to safely, theraby waiting an example which unfortunately was not followed by the greater portion of the popula tico. The speaker then asked Mr. May to present the prizes.
His Excellency, through the interpretation of Mr. Dyer Ball, said:-It is with peculiar pleasure that I am going to make them pre- sentations to you to-day. I believe that there is a superstition among the Chinese which detors them from saving those who Aro apparently drowning. I believe that the mper-
stition is something of this nature; Thoy
believe that the king of the spirits in the next world has decided that a drowning man abould join the spirit world and, therefore, if the person who is about to drown is saved, of course his spirit cannot enter the spirit world, and is
It is proposed to create four squadrons with their respective Naval bason for the future Navy drawing to a close. In any case, she has of the Chinese Empire, under the following turned a credulous ear to the whispers of designations(1) The Liaohei (Tellow Sea) the Provincial Treasurer of Hupeh, LIANG Squadron, with its Naval base at Chaoshan TING-FEN, & crated old Tory, whe distrusts Pechibli) squadron, with its Naval base at island in the Minotas group. (2) Poksi (Galt of
all changes, and would willingly restore the Yangcheng, in the Bay of that name, on the status of a hundred years ago, At his beatnug coast, near Weihaiwoi, (3) Chèbai
ANOTHER HIGHWAY ROBBERY. Fir James Fergusson' was instantaneously auggestion, it is op aly reported, the Waters of the Chuman Archipelago) squadros,
An Indian constable was "held up" on
killed in the collapse of the Myrtle Bank Bypress. Dowager has censured two better with Naval bass at Haangshen island, in that Friday between West Point and Pokfulam Hotel. The telegrame from the scene of is nectary that some other spirit should take men whose only offence, ac far as is known group, and (4) Yohhai (South Chins Bea) at the same spot where a hawker was some days the disaster have hitherto been undated. its place; so the risk the runner rons is that quadron, with Naval base at Pakhoi, island of previously robbed by three men. The constable, causing confusion and great discrepancies his spirit should take the plass of the spirit has been to put her own precepts into HainLY. practice. They appointed men who koew
We regret to record the death of Capt. W. attacked by three men from behind. The first in regard to the estimates of the damage of the person that he rescans. the difference between a twin-screw steamer A. Seabury, the commodore of the Pacific Mail blow sent him reeling, but he recovered and dono, Three shocks occurred within fifteen Can Mi) are evidently a man, and then, and a two-masted junk, who had learned fleet. Capt. Seabury was formerly in command that electricity and its effects are not equal of the P.M.S. Korea and was to have
LONDON, January 18th. to devils and deviltry. Presumably these commanded the PM,S. Mongolia on
A telegram from Sir James Swettenhaus, men will now be dismissed, and some of present voyage East, having been recalled from Ronsed by this to greater efforts the Indian Captain General and Governor in Chief of the 257,400 expectant" contributora to vacation to fill the vacancy caused by Captain held his belongings. The other two resumed confined to three parishes, Kingston, Port crambled to his feet and serred the man who Jamaica, studes that the earthquake was Mandarindom's coffers be appointed in their Porter's retirement from the Company's service the attack on the Indian to make him release Royal and St. Andrews, 345 burials have According to San Francisco papers, Captain their companion, but the constable made such
places.
ber
who was on patrol duty in plain clothes, was
offered a stout resistance. Eventually he was borne to the ground, and his metal watch and silver chain valued at $5. were taken from him.
navigator and many thousands of passengers bat he was remanded till Tuesday. who travelled with him will receive the new of his death with sincer regret.
According to Singapore papar, the Chinese
- SWATOW RAILWAY REPORT.
seconds.
sinking and it is feared that the city will slip into the sea. The lighthouses at Plumpoint and Port Royal have disappeared,
the king of the spirit world should devide that
You (tu
your compatriote, ara also persons who don'te.. protend to fathom the future. What the next world has in store for you, you don't know any more than I do, and you take what I think is
are best to save fellow orcatares from donth. the wisest course, of following the good instinota of your nature. In this instance your instincts You hare not had any thought of your own
wish, that you all may lead a very long and happy life; and I trust that these medals which are going to be presented to you will serve to remind you of the good actions you have done.
His Excelleney then presented the medals and 810 bills, remarking to the inkong as be
EUROP is apparently captivated by the understood that Chins and reform are set the Mongol a sailed and it is probable that deal to beat & retreat, leaving him with his capture were in hospital at ason on Thursday. A in the next world will count that to you for In such case, it can be readily Seshary met with an nocidont a few days before | good use of his thick stick that they were glad taken place in Kingston, and 500 persong lives; and I believe that whoever reigns over us idea of reforms in China, just as its further apart than ever. We suppose that resulted therefrom. The deceased had a great The rebber was brought before Mr. Hazeland few bodies are still covered by the ruins. honour. And I wish you, and I know that sympathies went
out to the Russian if His Majesty the EMPEROR had the sole repafution on the Pacific us a szilful and carofalon Eaturday on a charge of highway robbery, Correspondents state that the barbour is those who are here present will join me in the proletariat; and as it would listen to control of the Empire, unhampered by this nothing that seemed to imply that the meddlesome example of “woman's suffrage”, dypamitards were not wholly and absolutely such a Decree would not have been so lightly in the right, so it turns n deaf ear to any issued. suggestion that China is not in a fair way to reconstitution and reform. “It regarde every mention of reform in China with the complacence that certain missionaries show towards overy convert, without troubling to look underneath the surface of things. For the immediate purpose of these comments, when we use the words China and Chinese we mean ofizialdom, or, as the Chairman of the local branch of the China Association
The return of books registered under section 6 of Ordinance No. 2 of 1988 during the quarter ended December 31st, is published in the Gazette. It is notifed in the Gazette that Francis Ward, Inspector. (Third Class) in the Sanitary Department kas, by direction of the Secretary of State, been dismissed from the Government
The town has been placarded with notices and a
The report forecasta
#g
woman, To Pat-mai, he said --- This is the first
handed him bie nobly won trophy that he hoped it would not be the last he would earn. To the
of Singapore are interesting themselves greatly published. It confirme, says a correspondent of
The official report upon the railway is Mr. Henniker Heaton cables to tho Times in the relief of the famine la North Kiangsa. the NC. Daily News, the main indictment a graphic account of the earthquake: be vigoroas compaign is being carried oa. From the mad swbankment, sud sand patching and when the ground began to quake and which every van with eyes in his head has been says that he was in a moderate sized street able to bring against the work--the insufficiency the wealthier Chinese more than $13,000 bad ballast to stand the onslaughts of the been collected in three days, and in order to gire tropical rains which are common bere. In thousands of people rushed out of, and time in the history of the Colony that a woman the peores classes an opportunity of joning in some place the sleepers float in a bed of sand, jumped from the windows of the houses has earned a medal for saving the lite at = the good work a number of gentlemen have station, and to bli dio poning of three other which were falling in all directions. Five fellow creature. Then he asked through the
building of a depot in
in Swatow,
interpreter-Have you got any Bons or undertaken to place colasting boxes in the probably at its eastern extremity, on the wain minutes of absoluto darkness, caused by
daughters? temples, markets, docks and other frequented road or near it. Attention is ales drawn to the the clouds of dust and debris then ensued, Two sous," was the reply, His Majesty the King has been advised to letters, Chins's greet famine; give money to of the milway; but notices that some
places. Each box bears an inscription in blue in the construction, and now in the meat and Mr. Henniker. Heaton and a 'companion | large number of Japanese employed first of all
His Excellency-Well, I feel sure that those exercise his power of disallowance with respect save life." The Ticolis community alone has, have beon sout to Formoss to learn railway returned to the Club, which they found the best wish I can wish you is that you should finding themselves is black as negroes, sous will be proad of your action, and I suppose Orünance to amend the Widows and Orpasse likely that our wealthy Hokkiens will allow traffic is o to Ordinance No. 17 of 1906, entitled-An up to date, paid in over $10,000, and it is not and a rise to $1,000 a day as soon as the goods balt-ruined with the mutilated corpsc-of-a-
business. $5.6 10 aro given us tho daily receipts; Pension Fund Ordinance, 1900,
is opened, is
is forecasted. At present there persistent rumour that the line is being ruu of the line from Canton to Amoy,
Service.
also at a
28inable lose. I then failway
happily dubbed it in his recent speech, “Mandarindow". At present, as it has for long been, Chin is Mandarindom; the ideal China of the reformers is either a
themsetres to be beaten in a competition of thie
member stretched across the purch. Mr. body without a head, or a head without a
At Shanghai Police Courf, on Jan. 14th, nature. The Straitsbon Chinese are
Henniker-Heator met a hatless and costless F. M. Goods was committed for trial on charges working hard. body. It is admitted by the Ministry of of the embezzlement of $190, May 25th: $78.20, opened subscription lists; that of the first to will
All the larger clubs have
in progress. man and after conversing with bini for some Civil Appointments that there are in China April 25th; $158.20, April 25th; and £23, June take action-the Weekly Entertainment Club Kuishef eastward from Canton through Pole, time recognised him as the ex-Member of
the Haifeng, Heilsi and Kiebyang to-day 257,400 men who have bought 11th; and on charges of larceny of Tis. 400, already totals 3000, If Penang and the Prefectures, to Ch'sochonfu, and from there Parliament, Mr. Gerald. "titles" of expectancy, over a quarter of a August 15th; T 382.08, May 23rd; Tl. native States display half the energy which the into Fakien, and so on to Amoy Orders have through the Haiyang and Jaoping Prefectures million men who are waiting for offcial 551,32, July 6th; Tla. 606.15, Oktober 10th; and Chiness of the junior Settlement" are been issued to the different Chibhsion to protect
2901.32, May 4th. The accused reserved bis showing, relief sent to Kiangsu from the the surveying party. positions which they have paid for in defence and waived his zight to trial by jury.
"Southern Sea" will be very material indeed!
The new organ at the Wanabai Wesleyan Church was inaugurated last night.
have another ain (isnghter).
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The woman graciously thanked his Ex cellmcy, and romarked that if she exparisaved any difficulty or trouble in the futuro she hoped that bis Excellency would assist her,
Hon. Mr. Badeley, on behalf of the trustees of the Belilios Faud, thanked his Excellency for being so kind as to present the stars. The fact that they were personally presented by his Excellency would be the greatest part of the valuation always attached to them.
His Excellency's brief, reply terrainated the proceedings.
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