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INTIMATION.

The Hon. Troamrer of the Alios Memorial TELEGRAMS.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, APRIL 16rø, 1907.

of traffic by land or water were falling decay. Here are situated the loftiest into disuse and decay. Though the dis-mountains in Eastern China. Previous tiation between Chinos and Manchu has explorers have estimated the height of the loat much of its former forde, the evil higher peaks at anything up to 13,000 feet. example has reacted on the body of the Colonel Wingate reduces this to the more

and Affiliated Hospitals soknowledges with thanks the following donation to the funds of the Hospitals---Lan Chin Ling, $50.

The Universal Conetic states that Collins, i

however, to render the range a conspicuous near Tientsin a couple of months ago, has been

sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. object in the country round.

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SUPREME court.

Monday, 15th April]

IN SOMMABY JURISDICTION.

A. S. WATSON & CO., nation, and the main obstacles to advanes modest hoight of 10,000, quito sufficient, the man arrestad for being in possession of bombe PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED BEFORE ME. A. G. WISE (PORNE Jupaz).

LIMITED.

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

WATSON'S

known as the Great Forest' corers an

area of only about 100 square miles of between the anurees of the Ting Ho and the other

the north-eastern corner

At a meeting of the Japan Society last month, a paper an “Early Feudal Law in Japan" was

The return of visitors to the City Ball Library and Museum for the wook ending the 14th

April, 1907, shows that of non-Chinose there were 398 to the Library and 450 to the Museum; and of Chinese 145 to the former and 3264 to the latter. The Library was, therefore, used by 543 persons and the Museum by 3,704.

STATES.

LONDON, April 15th.

KONET LENDING TRANSACTIONS. In the action brought by Fateh Khan, watobman in the Naval Yard Extension

Hearst is the third party's candi-Worle, ogainat Taja Khan, late gunner in the diute for the presidency of the United 5th Company of the UK.-S.ARGA, but now on board 8.8. Kum Sung, for the recovery of $4, money lant, Mr. Gardiner appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. Grist fr the d Fondant.

States.

MEETING OF KINGS.

LONDON, April 15th.

Mr. Gardiner stated that the plaintiff had frequently lent sums of money to defendant, These had always been repaid. In July of Inst year defendant said he wished to assist a friend

King Edward will meet the King to go to Vancouver and asked plaintiff to advance

of Italy at Gaeta on Thursday."

BATTLESHIP LAUNCHED.

LONDON, April 15th. The armoured cruiser “Invincible”

now come from the Chinese element in the population, who base it ou the sup

As a conspicuous object in the scanery of posed teachings of their sages, especially Conracice. Visiting Jehol, Lieut. Dove-the province these mountains suffer from WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.TON romarks that the forests there will one serious defect, and that is the permanent to be read by Afr. John Carey Hall, Consul soon be a thing of the past. Not so long haziness of the atmosphere over these loess-General at Yokohama, Bir Claude M. Mac- Donald, British Ambasador at Tokyo, was to. ago the whole country between longs. 117 Covered regions, which unless under peculiar tako the chair.

conditions of the atmosphere, completely degrees and 139 degrees, and from lat 41 degrees right up to the Shiramuren (upper shuts out the view of the peaks from the Line) was dense forest. Now what is lower country. Begarding this peculiar haze, which is characteristic of North China generally, Cok WINGATE makes the curious statement that its cause is still partly, un- explained. There never was any doubt as to the cause of the phenomenon. It is the

The annoni bulgat masting of H. E. the result of the large expanse of loss all Viceroy's Council was held in Calcatta last through these regions. Loess is one of the mouth. The financial statement shows that the

country in anjoying conditions of increasing was launched at Elswick. finest of soils, its particles being in fact so tine that they only become visible under prosperity, the revenue for the past year being strong maguification The destructive ba-287 lakhs of rupees, or 2 per cent, in excess of the estimate. For the third your in saccession bits of the Chinese, who relentlessly tear off the surface of the soil every particle of cover, even in their insane dislike of grass tearing up by the roots every green blade, causes the entire surface of the land to be swept by the strong gales to which Northern China is constantly subjected, with the result that the whole surface of the locss is being rapidly wind-deguded. A moderate estimate of the loss from this cause calcu-

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small rivers hereabouts. To the west of a line drawn, 5 miles from the source of San- fao-Ho to the source of the Mena-kwei Kon, i there are no forests, and only a few tree. which the Chinese are fast cutting down," This is the complaint to be heard every where in North Chins, and which every foreign adviser without exception has told the Chinese of in sesson and out of seng. It is indicative of the present decadence of the Government that notwithtounding that there are Chinese high otheial stations who ace quite ready to acknowledge the next for reform, officially not ons word in des THE LEADING preciation of the wholesale waste going sa

SCOTCH

WHISKY

WHISKY

THROUGHOUT THE

FOR OVER

20 YEARS.

under its eyes has been spoken.

Col. WINGATE speaks of the large amount of work that has been done in North China consequent on the events of 1900, and EAST the subsequent occupation of Chibli.

$15.00

PER CASE.

LIMITED,

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

Hongkong, 16th April, 1907.

"Commercial geography and the geography of railways must also", he tells us, “for the next generation or two be given a promiseut place in speaking about Chins ; for though the Chinese are before everything alse farmers, they are none the less one and all in their spare moments travellers, and

lates the daily loss to the province of Chibli during the continuance of a dust storm, which often last from five days to a week, at 150,000,000 tons. So fine is this

these dust that

North-China dust storns are occasionally felt as far east as Yokobaron.

Contrary to RICHTHOFEN's hypothesis that the body of the loess of China is continuaily growing under the action of these dist storms, all our evidence, and it is abundant,

4 reduction in taxation has been decided upon, a further reduction of eight sumas in a maund bsing made in the salt tax,

..

The Small Arms Committee is still employed' in devising a new type of bayonet for use with the short ride. Several patterns have been made, and amongst there is one closely resembling the old flated triangular bayonet which was used with such effect in the wars of the 18th and 19th centuries. There is a good bit of

opinion in favour of the latter weapon, as it gives longth to the rifle without being top heavy.

The Hon. Lancelot Carnegie, who succeeds

844, the equivalent of 100 rupees, in order to oblige his friend. Plaintif advanced the money, but no promissory note was given in exchange because it was the custom among Mohammedans that no paper should pass between friends.

JAPANESE DOCKYARD RIOT that defendant was about to get his discharge

QUELLED.

His Honour-Yes, they have told me that, bundreds of times, but, I never believe them,

Mr. Gardiner added that plaintiff learned

and he accordingly instituted these proceedings, Plaintiff was called and bore out counsel's statement. When be applied to defendant for the money the latter said he had remitted atl his money to India and would read it to him

from there.

Tokyo, April 15th. The workers at the Uraga Dock yard who attacked the works because 100 of their number were dismissed acknowledgment from him-He knows my have been pacified.

JAPANESE BATTLESHIP

LAUNCHED.

TOKYO, April 15th,

The battleship "Aki" has been successfully launched at Kure.

REUTER'S SERVICE]

THE JENA" EXPLOSION.

LONDON, April 18th.

Sir Brooke Boothby as Councillor of the British Embassy at Vienna, is the older son of the late Earl of Southesk by his second marriage. His (mother, Susan Courtess of Southesk, is a sister of the Earl of Dunmore and of Lady Elphinstone. Mr. Carnegie goes to Vienas from Peking, where he has been Councillor of Embassy under Fir John Jordan. He was -A Senatorial Committes of enquiry on educated at Eton and Christ Chureb, and entered the Jena explosion, reports that the ex- The present Lord Soutbenk is his balf-brother.

buyers and sellers of goods". With the goes to show a very rapid disappearance the diplomatic servios just twenty years ago. plosion was due to the so called B powder.

object of learning as much as possible Col. WINGATE was instrumental in oxtending his researches not only through the province of A. S. WATSON & CO.. Chibli, but by means of his staff extended them to the upper Yellow River, and through Outer Chibli. Messrs. McANDREW. and KIRKPATRICK dropped down that river from Fao Teo to Meng Hien, distance of 880 miles, and with the exception of a few miles about the Luogmeo Fails, where the fall and the rush of water renders the river impassable, carefully charled the entire distance. It is well to know that practically the whole of this section of the Yellow River is impassable for navigation of any sort. The Lungmen Falls are not passable er en cp the down stream. The trip overhand through north Shansi brought the travellers

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BIRTHS:

Oa April 10th, at Shanghai, tỏ Mr. and Mrs. C.

·JOSEFSEN, A Sol.

On April 10th at Shanghai, the wife of t. I.

MARRIAGE.

SKERUAT, of a son

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On April 111h at Shanghai, B. Gaius Hour, representatives, Pacific Mail S.; Ca, Shanghai, to Miss JESSIE FORMAN, of Erie, Pean, U.S.A,

DEATHS.

On April 10th, st Shanghai, Tuzo. Guigrand, aged 40 years.

On April 11th, af Shanghai, TEREZA DE Jesus

Da Costa, aged 54 yeara

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historical ground in Asia, the district of Krei-hwn-cb'eng having been the head quarters of the great MOTUN, the powerta! Emperor of the Hung Nus, who nearly succeeded in destroying under the early rulers of Han the nascent Chinese Empire. So Loo Col. WrNOATE made a heroic attempt Lo take off our disgrace with regard to the province of Auhwei which, for all that it is so close to Shanghai, bas seldom been traversed by any foreigner capable of no ting its characteristics. It was, he tells us, the difficulty of learning anything about Ankwei province, ex cept along the banks of the Yangtse, that firet determined him to make a reconnaissance in that direction: a small

under eolian action. Colonel WINGATE, who acknowledges that he is to geologist makes a few fines lower down a startling admission. "The less formation," he tells us, "is not easily accounted for. I have areu vertical walls of it at an elevation of 5,000 feet above sea level, with extensive beds of water-worn boulders, stones and shingle buried in the middle. How dið they come there? RICHTBOPEN and his followers ask us to believe they were flown? A reluctance to believe in any recent geological interchange of ocean and con- tinent is at the root of the mental difficulty; which only exists in the imagination.

Twenty more cases of amalipos, all Chinese of whom 15 died, were notified last week.

On March 11th the Bedford was at Gibraltar, outward bound, and the orniser Diadem at Bues, homeward bound.

Another victim of the typhoon, the river steamer Sam Cheung, bas undergone a complete overlauf and is now ready to resume its run to

Cauton

Capt. P. Buther, R.&.A., from Instructor in Musketry andoud class. et Milford Haven, has been appointed Armament Oficer at Hongkong, from the 31st inst.

Mr. E. W. Hedgeland, formerly conuented' with the Siamese Coverament Service, has

joined the Trigonometrical Survey Department of the Federated Malay States as General Assistant to the Chief Shief Surreyer,

A number of residents in Saauglisi havo pro- posed to establish an International Fencing Club A Professor of the Fronch Military

School of Verdun, who is at present in Shanghai, will give lessons to cmateurs.

The management of the South Manchuria Railway was handed over on April ist by the military railway authorities to the South Manohurian Railway Company. The gross income per day is Y. 25,000,

map of the province accompanies the paper. It was but a few months ago that the writer, struck, as Col. WINGATE was, by our total ignorance of the southern flank of the province, and indeed of the entire country west of the T'ai Hu, mado a abort excursion into these regions. He found that his researches had been anticipated in many

Major A. A. 8, Barnes, of the Duke of respects. Already many of the results of | Ediaburyl's Wiltshire Regt. af Chefooxlost bis these journeys have Leau charted and wife twelve months ago. He has found a very published under the auspices of the British pretty "In memoriam" quotation, que tast in these saffragette days is more than usually touching. Every mother's son will think while on reading: "And there was none that gave her an ill word; for she feared. God greatly,

Honozora, Arki 16th, 1907.

LIEUTENANT COLONEL WINGATE on the 17th December last read a valuable and instructive paper before the Rival Gao- graphical Society, entitled "Nine Years' Survey and Exploration in Northern and General Chim” Perhaps one of his most valuable contributions to our knowledge of China is the discovery of how very little we really do know, and how much remains and Indian Governments, and we hope that ything of the historical geography of journey of interest little interior to the Ching the time is but short, for under the others was undertaken in a journey from

for us to learn. Yet if we desire to learn the whole will be soon available. Another

present happy-go-lucky rule the whole of Tse-li Hien in northern Hunan to Shina Northern China is undergoing a rapid Fo and War Hiep in Szechwan in search transforination; and the transformation of a practical railway route. The result at is one of deny rather than progress. This which Colonel WINGATK reluctantly arrived is the burden of all Col, WINGATE'S ob- was that hone was feasible on the right servations, whather in North Chilli or in bank of the Yangtse, an opinion in which, General China. There is, in fact, no mora also from experience, the writer is compelled destructive people on earth than the to acquiesce. Another subject of little less Chinese, and unfortunately its present interest is the district of Wo TAI-SHAN in

A message was received in town yesterday that Mr. Hugh Arthur, the representative

to the State Assembly saying that President The Governor of California bas sent a message Roosevelt has complained to him that the State Legislature's recent action in excluding Japaneer would have a most unfortunate effect on the President's efforts to secure the exclusion of Japanese labourers from the United States by friendly agreement with Japan, and that Mr. Roosevelt bes asked him to secure the

suspension of further action until he has received a latter from the President. The Governor naka the Assembly to give the matter

its most careful attention.

As many medical missionarisa are going to Shanghai to attend the Missionary Conference commencing on the 25th instant, the China Medical Missionary Association has

THE CENTRAL AMERICAN WAR.-

LONDON, April 13th. The Central American war is ended, the Honduras President Bouills having aur reptered to the Nicaragnans.

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THE RESIGNATION OF LORD CROMER.

LONDON, April 13th. The French and German papers are most sympathetic in their comments on the resignation of Lord Cromer,

THE SALVAGE OF THE "DAKOTA"

Among the passengers of the Salaric who

Cress-examin d-Why didn't you get an

parent and I know his parent. I lent him the money and asked no interesi,

You know it is usual in Hongkong to get an acknowledgment?-Yes, bat Mobaragedor do not take paper from friends.

You never doubted him till you heard be was going away!-No.

Plaintiff called four witnesses in support of his story.

Defendant denied having borrowed the money from plaintiff and said he was not uilowed to borrow. Cros8-examined-He did not know where the Nuval Yord Extension Works were and bad never boon there, although he had been in the Colony five years.

An officer from the regiment stated that defendant had a credit balance on July 1st when he was said to have borrowed the money from plaintiff,

His Honour said it was such a clear case five to one-that ba must give judgment for plaintiff with costs,

POLICE COURT. -

Monday, April 15th. BEFORE ME. F. A. HAZELAND (FIRST POLICE MAGISTRATE),

THE CONNAUGHT. HUAN MURDER,

charged with the wilful murder of a seaming Fujioka Kiehi, and Komiya Yamaguchi wore named Araki Taizo at a Japanese boarding house, No. 55, Connaught Road Central, on April 4th.

The bearing was remanded for a week.

A SERIOUS CABE.

taken advantage of this fact and made passed through Hongtong yesterday WAN - Inspector Collett placed a Chinese cook arrangements for the holding of a medical Caplain Yonus, of the Liverpool Salvage before his Worship on a charge of assaulting Lissionary conference a few days escline. The speciation, ou his way to Yokohama tunaive the another native and occasioning setual bodily fizat day will be occupied with Association cargo of the strandod steamer Dakata. Captain harts. business such as the presentation of the Reports Young left Europe at short notice. Prior to

The parties reside at 15 Tai Wo Lane, West of the Committee on Terminology and of the his departure he was engaged on the Bolton Point, where the cook occupies the ground Publication Committee of Works in Chinose, Hall, and those interested in the merine insufloor, and the complainset the first floor of the and the election of offloors. On the subsequent rance were glad to learn that the services of this house. On Sunday morning the occupant of days there will be sections on surgery, medicine. gentleman, whom reputation as a salvage officer the first floor went downstairs and asked the sanitation and special diseases. Papers will be is very high, were placed at the disposal of the cook to shut off the water and give him a chance the Dakota. It will be to got some. The cook refused and a quarrel read from all parts of Chins and there will be underwriters of an exbibition of microscopic and other speci- remembered that Lloyd's agents at Yokobama followed, in which the defondant is alleged to meus. All medical oren are beartily invited to stated that a favourable offer of which the hare stacked the compisicant with a large pair attend and take part in the discussions.

agents approved had been received to salve the of scissors and made i gash on the left temple. sarga hat that it was impossible to deal with The police were called in, and when they arrived the bull before the cargo had been solved. the injured mass was removed to hospital. There it was found that he was also suffering from a ruptured spleen.

Motor Bost Exhibition in Kiel, 1907, takes The opening of The First International

place on the 16th, Jaue, by II. R. I. Prince Hoary of Prussia. On the 2nd of July, after the close of the exhibition, there will be trial rans, under the co-operation of the Royal Navy,

THE CANTON-HONGKONG ICE AND COLD STOŁAGE CO., LD.

Az extraordinary general meeting of share. to decide which motors are the best suited to holders in this Company was held at the exhibition will be of special importance, as yesterday. Mr. Chan A-Fook presided, other the principal requirements for, moing. The Company's office, Prince's Building, at noon

boing the first in which the principel feature is elarubolders present being Admiral Li, Hessrs. not the sporting, but the practical side. Besides Sang Yut-kai, Lai Hoi-kwan, Yow Tez-ywo, Motor Fishing Basts, there will be large Motor Chak-kee, Tang Kan-shang, Kwan Tak-ken Lighters exhibited, more than 40 yards long, and J. L. Farwell (secretary). which are used for transport on cavals, Of course this does not exclude numerous pleasure boats, nad specially, racing boats, belog skowo. A French exhibitor gates that he will proceed from Toulouse to Kiel, with his mulor boat, through the various canale

LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.

The I.G.M. str. Zieten, which left bere on. Wednesday, 10th inst.. arrived at Bingapore on Monday, the intḥ inst, at 8 aim).

this port on the 14th inst, at 6 am. with the The P. & O. str. Delli, left Singapore for outward English Mails, and is dus bers on the

of Mears. Jardine, Matheson aud Co. at 18th inst., at noon Wuchow, was violently assaulted by officials whilst making investigations in connection with the fore-shore question. After struggle ho effected bis escape to the Police Stution from which he was rescued by the Consular constable.

ветере

An indignaut correspondent writes to ask what the polics are doing," as he can on San-

The SECRETARY read the notice calling the meeting:

The CHAIRMAN proposed that the Company be wound up voluntarily ander the provisions of the Companies Ordinance 1865, and that Mr. A. R. Lowe, Chartered Acconstant of long- kong, be hereby appointed Liquidator for the purpose of such winding up.

ADMIRAL LI secunded, and the motion was carried unanimously.

The case was remandad for a week.

LARCENT OF POULTRY. Last week a coolis broke into the Yaumati Market and appropriated sixteen fowis from a crate. These he took to a friend's hones, where

they were subsequently found, and the pair of poultry fanciers were charged with larceny. His Worship sentenced each to three weeks' imprisonment with hard labour.

COAL COOLIER DEMONSTRATION, Some thirty coolies engaged in one of the coal guderus at East Point failed to carry out a contract on which they wore engaged to the satisfaction of their overseer, in consequence of which, it is said, he paid them only half the amount they should have received had they done the work properly. Of course the coolies made a "bobbery," and a number of them armed themselves with hammers and other offensive weapons, evidently with the object of doing some deed of violsson. The early arrival of the police on the scene, however, prevented bloodshed and two of the armed coal beavers were arrested. Inspector Gourley placed them An informal meeting of the members of the before his Worship yesterday when they were Shanghai Sharebrokere Association was held in

The meeting then disgalved.

SHANGHAI STOCK EXCHANGE.

The Chartered J.-C.-J. Lijn str. Adary, left Macassar for this port on the 12th inst., and

the Stock Exchange on April 11th when Mr. each fined $10, the alternative being three weeks" may be expected here on or about the 21st inst. via Nagasaki and Shanghai on Sunday, the 14th sents with a silver cigar-bos.

The I.G.M. sbr. P. R. Luitpold, left Kobe C. W. Ure, the retiring Chairman, was pre-imprisonment, and they were ordered to ha ins. p.. and may be ex; ected here on or about

The Chairman, Mr. Arthur J. Anderson, in exposeil in the stocks for six hours. Tuesday, the 23rd inst

making the presentation; pointed out that

The Calvatia Branch of the The IG.M. str. Bayern, carrying the German during the past three years the Association had

National Bank of India, Ld., are in receipt of telegraphic Malls with dates from Berlin of the 28th March passed out of a state of chaos, and was now a left Colombe on Saturday, 13th inst., p.m. and properly incorporated body with a legal status advice from their Loudon Ofies that the net profits of the Bank for the year ending 31st and

Hail that this satisfactory Decainber last, including the adequate

sum brought manner by the wings." Hamaritarians of the

The C.P.R. str. Athenian, arrived Yokohama In conclusion Mr. Anderson proposed the £281,662 The Directors propose to pay a emperors of the Manchu dynasty now on peculiar development of Buddhism known

ancient way of carrying fowls by the legs, and again at noon same day for Kobe where she is drunk with three cheers.

† due at 6 p.m. ou Tuesday, the 16th inst

per aunam, to place £25,000 to credit of Reserve The cigar-box is of Japanese silver, with iris we fear the police would say the man seen on the throne desired as far as lay in their as. Lamaism.

The C.P.E. str. Empress of China, arrived pattern desige, and is inscribed Presented to Fund (in addition to £25,000 added in Septent- Like everything cise in Bunday was a very law-abiding person. Ha Nagasaki at 8.80s.m. on Monday, the 15th inst., Mr. C. W. Ure by the members of the ber), and £7,500 to credit of Officers' Pension power to isolate the people, and delibe- Northern China Lamaism is in a state of could not reasonably be expected to wheel the and left again at 5 pm. same day for Kobe Shanghai Stock Exchange in recognition of Fund, writing off Promises Account £10,000, rately looked on while the former avenues

where she is due at 3 pm, on Tuesday, 16th inst. | corvices rendered as Chairman, 1905 to 1997,”

leaving £122,165 to be carried forward to next thing in a perambulator.

the 24th inst.

Government has neither the wish, nor Eastern Shansi. This district. has been day a Chinaman "carrying a fowl in a painful may be expected here on or about Wednesday: haDED 146 age to Mr. Uro's efforts. forward from the previous year, amount fo example. As a matter of polier the early it is the chief seat out of Tibet of that hypersensitive sort bave already objected to ths at 7.30 a.m. on Monday, the 15th inst., and left health of the retiring Chairman, which was dividend for the year at the rate of 12 per cent.

perhaps the power to set a wholesome well called the Mecca of Northern China, as

account.