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INTIMATION

A. S. WATSON

LIMITED.

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841

THE WILKINSON

RAZOR

MADS TROM THE

Wise in his own conceit, had misled by Sir ROBERT HART who was in the affair simply the mouthpiece of the Palice party at Pe king, Sir James-Mo yielded the most important points at issue, only to find that Peking bad not the slightest intention of fulfilling the anauthorised promises made CO., for it by the Inspector General. It, of course

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 6TH, 1906.

and for commercial purposte most useful of institutions has fallen, that it permitted itself to be made use of to establish on the northern milways the most hateful and oppressive system of taxation ever conceived. Its latest development is in connection with the great main line from Shanghai, the great trade centre of China to Nanking, from

does not say much for Sir ROBERT HART'S whence is to start the trunk hue to the astuteness that he should have permitted capital. At first the fine was left free, but himself to have been made the mouthpiece in apparently only till the Zikin fiend had such a questionable transaction, and it is only developed his plans for strangling the fair that we should look at the affair in the traffic. The first appearance was of an light in which bo doubtless viewed it, As in-apparently unauthorised stranger in the commenced making spector General, when that office carried any receiving yard, who political influence, Sir ROBERT HART had all rather questionable rovements. On being! his life been working to enhance the Tupe ordered off the premises be sssumed an rial influence of Peking visa via the provinces. impertinent tone, whereupon the intruder One by one provincial perquisites had besu

was very properly told that if he did not go curtailed in the interests of the central willingly he would be kicked out. The rest -Government, and when after the events of heard of the affair was a demand from the 1900 it seemed to the Foreign powers wise, provincial officials to know why their Likin in order to enable it to meet the new officer had been assaulted. As half the

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{"DAILY. PRUM" EXCLUSIVE SERVIOR.]

A special masting of the Sanitary Board in summoned for this afternoon for the purpose of TELEGRAMS. seasidering (1) Letter from Government for- warding sopies of the Bill amending the Public Health and Building Ordinance 1909 with minute by Mr Lau Cần Fak. (2) Lather from Government forwarding copy of the Hansard report of the speech made by His Excellency the Governor on the Fabllo Health and Building amendment Bill and minate by Mr. Lau Chu

WRESTLING.

LONDON, April 5th,

Hackon

Pak. (3) Correspondence relative to the amend Gotch has defeated ment of the Public Health and Building schmidt, Ordina.poe.

Returns of the average amount of Bank notes in ciroslation and of specie in reserve in Hong. kong, during the month ended 31st March, -1908, mortified by the managers of the respec

tive banks,

Averaga Specis în Banks

Amount. Reserve. Chartered Bank of India, 2 $

$ Australia and China... 3,66781 2,4 0,000 Bengkong and Shanghai

Banking Corporation... 15, 64,60% 19,000,000 National Bank of China,

Limited

305,810 150,000

Total...... $19,036,995 12,550,000

INTER-UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE.

LONDON, April 5th Cambridge won from Oxford by

two and a half lengths,

This is the third win in zanosion for Cambridge.)

TELEGRAPHIC DELAY,

LONDON, April 5th. The delay on the Indian Telegraph

the signallers:

Ground and finished by patent process, and abilities imposed on it, to make provision board of directors are Chinose, nothing been received from the Conial Genova) for the lines is caused by the discontent of

thoroughly tested.

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TO

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These Hazors are Highly Papalar in the

Military and Naval Services."

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APPOINTMENTS.

The following appointments are notified in

THE NAVAL DISASTEY

[REUTER'S BORVION.)

THE TIENISIN-PAKAU RAILWAY LOAN.

LONDON, April 2nd.

A NEW STEAMER,

Not often does a steamer leave the slips of the builder and undergo its trial trip on tas Pame day, but this was tho experience of the Chantaboon" a-steamer-built-by the Hong- kong and Whampoa Dook to the order of the Norddeutscher Lloyd for Siamese river trads in the neighbourhood of Bangkok. The double event took place on Saturday and the results. were highly successful, reflecting the greatest oredit on the Dook Company. The new lighier which is the sixth the builders have sent down to Bangkok for the same owners, has a length between perpendiculars of 152 ft. 6 in; length over all 158ft,; breadth moulded 29 ft.; depth moulded 11 ft; height of bulwark 2 ft Bin

The Tientsin-Pakau Betway loan har heat largely oversubscribod, and it is worthy of note that Chinese applied for a consider-

Il je notified in the Gazette that a letter bas

Netherlande India informing the Hongkong for the collection of certain dues previously could be done, so that the Office is now classed as illegal, the collection was placed regularly, or irregularly established with Government that the Govarner General of in the hands of the Inspector-General To a right to tax ad libitum, it being one of the Netherlands-India han decreed that all ships or Sir ROBERT HART, whoc ntinued to be blind peculiar features of the system that it is veesele arriving from Hongkong or having called at this port are subject in Netherlands. to the inner working of affairs, this step above tariffs, each operation being independIndia to a quarantine of fire days from the date

LONDON, April 5th. seemed enormously to enhance the dignity est aud a subject of private bargaining of departure from this port or since the last

Thirty Give of the crew of the case of plague on board. Importation is of his office, with the result that be lost The absurdity of the system might seem to the services of bis stuff to introduce into ensure la abolition, or its being kept within femporarily prohibited of-Animal rofuse.Tigor" were drowned when the THE WILKINSON SWORD CO., L D North China the system of Likin, from bounds, but so many live on it, and such is and bristles, hides, which are untanned and torpedo boat destroyer was sunk on which it had hitherto been exempt, and all the hold it has been permitted to obtain, that which are salted or cured with arsenic, raw Friday in a collision with the

wcol and regs, bags or racks which have already" Berwick," the proceeds of the collection were paid all the resources of the Province are sure to

been used, coming from Hongkong or trans. over direct to Peking to the great antiaba engaged in its favour. Not the weakest fuction of the bangers-on of the Court. actuating cause of this tenderness is in chippod si this poet. Also is temporárily pro- bibited to import from Hongkong into Nether. Unfortunately certain dues in the southern disputably the growing opposition between lands-India tapestry and used embroideries, unless they are transported as personal baggage provinces had been allocated to meeting Peking and the provincial administrations the engagements of 1900, and officers of the when everything is done by the latter to or in consejaessa of change of residence." Maritime Customs being placed over these incommode and weaken the Contral autho- to ensure their collection, these likewise rity. We have lately shown bow effective were diverted to Peking. Before 1900 cer- this feeling is in causing disorder, and how tain shares in the Customs collections of the mach of the actuating motives of the recent port, before remittances were made to piracies on Northera rivers is to be attri- Peking, were detained by the local officialsbuted to this cause. The infliction of the in lieu of certain rights formerly surrender Like is on par. The line of railway ed. After 1900 these were rescinded, and between Smoghar-and-Chinking has to stand the competition of water carriage, the the whole remitted. In addition to this, by the arrangement, to which Sir JANES line running the whole way parallel with MACKAY agreed, the rates of duty were the Imperial grain transport canal;-and A.S. WATSON & CO.. increased fifty per cent, and the entire also the local tariff rates have bad to be fixed sent up to Peking. The result of the low to most this alternative route. The LIMITED,

imposition of an irregular túriff, such as-is diversion of all these revenues to the capital the Likin, is therefore calculated to stifle in was that the provincials saw not only what

the begining this rising traffe, the benefits seeped to them an unconstitutional strength of which entirely accrue to Peking; and has euing of the Central Power, ut a serious doubtless been deliberately planuel with danger to their own exchequers. To permit this intention. The curious point which. the one levy on trade which was still avail. without an understanding of the bidden able to them to ba-sbulished at the sole-causes-at-work, would-acem-inoxplicable, is command of Peking, without compensation, that the Peking Government has guarante and in view of the fact that Paking, co-ed to pay interest on the capital expended tempisted still further demands on the on the construction of the line, and there.

fore has a direct interest in its success. I provincial Castonis, was, more than desh

the face of this it appears as a consenting and blood could stund. Sir ROB RT HART had been made a tool of to bring about party to a scheme for actually rondering goods traffic impossible. Of course, being

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THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

Hongkong, 2nd April, 198

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS, ONLY Communications relating to the neira column Correspondents must forward their names and ad- dress with communications addressed to thi Editor, not for publication but as evidence of good faith.

All 14ttars for publication should

should be written on ene side of the paper vety.

should be addressed to Tax EniTOR.

Yo anonymsicaly signed communications that have

Lin other papers will be inserted.

already appeared s

the Gazette:

able amount.

THE BRITISH REVENUE.

LONDON, April 2nd.

The King's Erequator empowering Mr. B G. Sense to be Censul General for Peru st Hongkang has received His Majesty's signature. H. E, the Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr. C. Mol. Messer to not as Secretary. The actual surplus for 1907/1908 is about of the Sanitary Board during the absence on £5,000,000. leave of Mr. G. A. Woodoook, or antil furlber notion.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr. H. E. J. Gomperis to not as Puiene Judge, Mr, J. H. Kemp to not az First, Police Magistrato and Mr. J. R. Weed to a as Second Police Magistrato de-ing the absence

on leave of His Honour Mr. Justine Wise and Mr. F. A. Hazeland, or until farther notice.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to oppolat Mr. B. A. Irving to act sa Regis trar General dering the leave-of-the-Hon Mr. A. W. Brevin, or until further notice.

His Excellency the Governor bae, with the advice of the Executive Council, been pleased to appaint · Mr. Arthur Obapman, V.D., to be`n Director of the Widows and Orphans' Pension Fand in succession to Dr. Francis William Clark on leave.

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THE MACEDONIAN QUESTION.

LONDON, April 2nd. Reuter's learn that Great Britain and Russia are interchanging views on their respective Macedonian proposals, which may lead to Great Britain proposing on amalgamation of the two schemes in a manner to constitute an effective plan for reforms,

THE UNITED STATES AND MANCHURIA.

extreme draught 2 ft 3 in She-big- two sets of vortical triple expansion surfao... condensing engines, with a high pressure oyelinder 8 inches in diameter, intermediate pressure 194 inches, and light pressure 23, inches, in diameter, with a stroke of 15 incher." She has one oylindrics! moulded steel boller, return tubular, 11 feet in diameter and. 10. foet long; Fox's patent furnaces, with a working pressure of 170 lbs. to the square inch, "Her

8,500 plouls,

is 73 knots an hour and carrying ospacity

For the Innohing ceremony there was a staging erected at the bow of the vessel. On this were accommodated a number of ship” ng people interested and several guests, Mrs. Ven Reigen, wife of the N. D. L. superintendent engineer, performed the ceremony of naming the boat. Speaking in German she said "I am

asked by the Norddeutscher Lloyd te obristan you Chantaboda. With that abe damhed a bottle of champagne on the side of the steamer which now began to move and soon slid-down the ways, taking the water grace fully. A salvo of crackers and load shears signalised the happy event. Then Mr. Robert Mitchell, the obiof manager of the Deak Company, presented Mrs. Von Reigen with a watch bracelet as a memento' of the occasion, and the recipient expressed her thanks. After- wards the company boarded the "Chantaboon,” which led taken the water with steam up. and was guily bedecked with banting, and the Tessel proceeded on her trial trip under the command of Captain Major, « Near Aberdeen the tests were ran and satisfactory resalta obtained, Tilo was served on board, among those present being Mr Robert Mitchell, Mr Martin (chief engineer Doez Cu), Mr. and Mrs Von Reigen, Captain Hermeling (captain) superintendent N, D. L.), Mr. Nielsen (assistant engineer superintendent N. D. L., Mr and Mrs Lambert, Mr Graban, (manager of Kow- Toon Dooks), Mr H.L. Fletcher, Mrs Richardson, Mr Hand, Mr T. Neare, Mr Tully, Mr Keith, and others. After titin,

Mr MITCHELL proposed the toast. "Success. to the Chantaboon." He remarked that it was a departure from their usual custom to bave a trial trip on the same day as the But when he anuching of a new bost. was asked if it could be arranged, he said it could, because he had every confidence in the staff (applause). Their trip that day showed.

thought they would all agree that the vessel bad done very well judeed. The Inanch they had seen that day was the sixth vessel...of her class that the. Dook ompany had built for the Norddeutscher Lloyd, and be was

Vory gled to that they had another one on order. That went to show that the Norddeutscher Lloyd had every confidence in the work of the Dook Company

The toast having been honoured,

his confidenes was justified (apt lange). He

Orders for era copies of DALT. PRISH should be the new state of affairs, but as he was Chinese it sees this well enough; but Buch Colony on the 2nd instant, and resumed duty as to. Southern Manchuria. It is recognised (applause), ..

before 11 am, on day of publication. After that howr the supply is limited. Only supplied for Cash

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is the ill-feeling brought about by its recast

uues, that the officers charged with the collection of the latter take every opp - tunity to cross the Imperial Government of the Empire.

Mr. M. Johnstone returned to the Postmaster General,

on the 2nd Instant and resumed duty as Land Offcor.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleas ed, under instructions received from the Secre tary of State for the Culonies, to appoint Mr. R. C. Barlow to be an Assistant Master at Salyingpun Anglo-Chinese School.

fara

GUNS AND STORES.

£99,000 152,000

8,500

Ammunition Medical stores Torpedoes and gun cotton Furage

304,000

98.000

138,500

£859,000

LONDON, April 2nd, It is understood in Washington that the policy carried out by Mr. Fisher, the U. S. Consal in Harbin, is to be equally apple

that this is displeasing to Japan, but it is

ed in the Far East will support the United States.

GERMANY.

Loxnon, April 2nd. The German and Prussian loans (4 per cent) of £12,500,000 and £20,000,000 have been issued at 991, in addition to which a banking syndicate has taken £10,000,000 of Prussian Treasury notes. The Kaiser is at Otranto and has telegraph- ed inost warmly to Admiral von Tirpisz on the Reichstag's adoption of the new naval programme, by which the most important stage of building up the navy has been reached; and in order to mark his gratitude the Kaiser has miumored Admiral von Tirpitz to the Prussian House of Lords, CAPE COLONY ELECTIONS.

LONDON, April 3rd. At the elections for the Cape Assembly, the South African party, who are Minis terialists, have gained tez seats.

MAY

Captain HERMELINO invited these assomblod

staff. He had seen the sister ships of the one they were aboard working at Bangkok, and they were doing splendid work. The remol bod given the Norddeutscher Lloyd -overy satisfaction

Those who knew all about shit could look over the "Chantaboon" and see everywhere evidence of first class work. The Dock Company had earned a name in the East as a first-class shipbuilding firm, and it wai their staff who did the first-class work. He trusted that staff would always remain as they - were to-day (applause),

Mr. NEAVE, in replying, esid such commend- stions were pleasing to hear, and he thanked Captain Hermeling for them. He hoped the Dock Company would always retain its present

This concluded the proceedings. position (applause).

DISCOVERY OF A MAMMOTH.

longer useful, it was not necessary to redeem his promises, which had morogver bean nade without authorisation so the double attempts to hamper the provincial reve Mr. G. H, Wakeman returned to the Colony believed that the European nations interest to drink to the health of the Dook Company's purpose was accomplished of getting the whole of the datier, Lew and old, remitted to Peking, and at the same time, without formally dismissing him, of reducing the

Mash sympathy is fait, for Mr. E. V. Ratte, office to insignificance, with the intention

of the Kowloon Dock, in the loss of his youngest of abolishing the whole establishment as

son, Gadstone Butter, aged 18 years who died. soon as a pretext could be invented...

a Saturday morning HONGKONG, APRIL 6TH, 1908

Sir Robert Hart had permitted himself, on board the "Hyg

and was buried the same afternooR, WHEN the Wise Man of the East, the Indian we have seen, to be made a tool for the

introduction of the iniquitous, and us. farÀ. third man who is sileged to have been

18 THEKE A SHORTAGE IN WAR MATERIAL? Bage, Jaate Here, a to put in

as trade is concerned, the suicidal oysters of concerned in the burglary at the Treasury was

Considerable anxiety is being felt in the Navy order the inalud ministered Binances of Chi-ken into the northern provinces. The arrested on Saturday mo ning on board the ná, lie made a. büastful promise that he was time had come when his cuncil was

Maoso stester, having just returned from the and Army over the heavy decrease in expendi on guns, ammunition, torpedoes, and Portugasse colony. about to remove from the land, the curse of

munitions of war. The attention of Parliament no longer necessary, and the old ways. Likin. He was warned that the surse he might be resumed with impunity. · One

Regulations bave been made by The Governors to be drawn to the circumstances, and the Government will be asked to state what reservea. was adopting was of all others that most of the worst, if not the very worst, of in-Conseil, unter Section 5 of the Dogs for they have in hand. The following are Ordinaven, 183, (No. 5 of 1:93), on 2nd day some of the joint asval and military doorenses calculated to rivet its chains still tighter. the effects of the Likin system as ad-

of April, that a dog brought from the arranged for during 1909 :-- *This was in 1902, and it is curious to observe ministered in Chinn, is its enormous cost

Stored Strais and the Federated Malay States will to the country in 'proportion to the actual be permitted to land, in this Colony for a how completely the prophecies of thoma who from long experience of Chinn foretold the amount. obtained, the service being so period of six monthe, from the 2nd day of failure of his 'prentice band. base been inefficient that nearly the whole is absorbed April, 1918" fulfilled. With that fatal readiness to

in collection. A whole army of useless. Daring March the wettest day was the 4th confound Chinese promises with Chinese collectors amounting in each province to tena when the rainfall amounted to.4 5. The total performance which bus Leen from the

or hundreds of thousands are spread over for the minik was 0.765, which compares beginning of our intercourse the curar of the the country at every crossing of roads, each favourably with 2.86; the san for the last 25 gushing young diplomat, Sir James Mac, of whom is authorized to pray at his years. Most shine was recorded on the 12th

and 3.1, when both days had 9,9 hours. KAY, on the mere promise of SIR ROBERT discretion on trade.

As each man tolst for the month was 146,0 as against 8'4 HART, without any guarantee that he had descending order has had to pay to his the mean-for the last 25 years authority to represent the Chinese Goveru-immediate superior for the right, it can be ment, proceeded to barter away certain very readily seen that, supervision is impossible, tangible privilegon, and increase hath ex- while each man's takings, depending on bis of three men on the hillside above Shatin are still agitating for the passing of a law the Government said that the reduction of bras totally excluding Japanese, but they have been the National Debt by £30,000,000 was an port and import duties one half, Te con ability to seize what fortune offers, it will the end of last year. This

able to make little headway because the fpand with their throats Presid u is opposed to legislation at this time.

unparalelled feat." ccasions were accepted without demar by be seen that he has every temptation to victims were the authorities at Peking, but the corres

An alliance, offensive and defensive, has now

LABOUR TROUBLES IN ITALY. caact the utmost. Practically it is a system cut, their queues partly torn off their beads, and

their bodies terribly has Oas of the been formed between the Pacifle Coast members, panding reductions, which under Sir JAMES of simple pincy-that he may take who has murdered men, who was a steward on board the all of whom practically are Republicans, and the

LONDON, April 3rd. Southern members, all of whom practically are

These mammoths are believed to have lived Democrats, their common interest being pre During a labour demonstration beld before parting with the extra duties, so far the power, and he why keep who can. This "Dakote," had a wates and 350) in bla possession

shout 100,000 years ago. The remains of the judiced against the yellow and black races. from being removed, bave since increased the stem which Sir JAMES MACKAY'S and these wire stolen.

While there are very few Japanese in the yesterday in Rome, the crowd ignoring the first one discovered were in such an excellent Boath, the Southerners regard & Japanese much

of flesh, after being thawed, salted, and cooked, enormously in their incidence every where; ignorant and wrong-handed action has been and besides this have in the face of the an./effective in rivetting worse than ever on the journey last week when on the ran to Tsipe sa they do a Negro, and are heartily in favon Buminous to dispereo, were charged by the state of reservation that some of the remnanta It was one of the one morning it was discovered that fire of upholding the racial superiority of the white troops who cleared the Square, killing three were actually eaten out of curiosity by some ga ements entered into been introduced ueck of the country.

man over cleared peoples, whether they are and injuring eleven. Twenty-one of the Russian scientists. Africans Asiatics. with all their evil consequences in all the reasons that helped on the construction of apparently due to spontaneous combustion, bai Northern provinces where before they did railways, whose projectors fondly hoped broken out in her coal bankers, and was rapidly. tas Houtbora members in secaring the paming police were wounded. The situation in the How To BEAUTIFUL-Keep your com not exist. It was pointed out at the time that with the construction of railways the reading, having burnt through the deck of Japanese Exclusion Act the Pacific Coast town is disquieting; all the shops are closed, plexion, Mrs. Ellen's Crime Charmants, Lait Charmant will enable you to do it. Her farther restrictions on the Negro's exercise but this would be the logical and therefore work of the Likin gatherer would cease. It Sergt. Boulger and the ore had a kard fight | members will support the Southern members in the trams have ceased running, and the Charmant and Specfl Skin Tonle and Pondre

with the fames which they succeeded in ex-

fetime. A. B. Watson& Co., Ltd., Bole Agents ever, that a Japanese Exclusion Act can be who are distributed throughout the city. inevitable co sequence of the concessions in one of the most potent proofs of the state tinguishing after an hour's work. The launch the suffrage. It is considered doubtful how garrison has been reinforced with troops Specialities for the Skin are the study of

passed in the present neaton of Congress hat Sir JAMES MACKAY proposed to make. of dependence into which the once powerful, is now undergoing repairs.

MACKAY's instruct ons he was to secure

Tho

The Kowloon police have arrested two men where supected of participating in the murder

The polios Jamesh No 3 bad anzeiling

UNITED STATES AND JAPAN,

THE EXCLUSION AGITATION,

Washington, March 5, Members of Congress from the Pacific Coast

of

REDUCING THE BRITISH

NATIONAL DEBT. :

LONDON, April Srl. Mr. Churchill, referring to the record of

The St. Petersburg Academy of Science his jast despatched a well-equipped expedition to the valley of Santau riskh in Northern Siberis, in order to excavate the remains of the mammoth which has been discovered 300 versts from the village of Kassobi, The eranium and part of the right farsleg were exposed through the action of water, and hair-covered flesh was found s adhering to the bones. The Arctic foxes and actually began to eat it, and water has now been penred over the exposed rem sins so as to form a protective coating of ice,

The soone rf the discovery is so remote that the journey there will occupy 'the expedition two months. The remains will be transported by some fly sleighs, drawn the Bivor Lena, and the final stage of the journey-from Irkutsk by reindeer, to to St. Petersburg--will be completed by train.

Russian scientists attach the greater value. to the discinery, inamsch as the mammoth now exhibited in the elogiesl Messum at St. Petersburg Is know not to have ranched full development." It is estimated to have attained only 25 years,