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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MARCH 18T, 1909. publicly accepted rule in every Asiatic barter between Paking and the provinces: The Garette announces that His Majesty the

State, with the one exception, that of and that Peking fluding that the scheme China, China differs here toto coelo was developing more profitably than

King has been pleased to approve the re-appoint- TELEGRAMS. meat of the Hou, Mr. Wei Yak, C.M.G., to be |an unofficial member of the Legislative Council

for a further period of six years.

that her neighbours in

the it had at first calculated, increased its from responsibility of rulers has ever formed the demands on the provincials, and this was

It has been decided by Mr. J. H. Kemp, be foundation of her political creed, even if the real reason why the isne went to the

were brought at the from want of proper upkeep the traditions disastrous Lengt be that it did. Now, review.fore whom the cases

Magistracy, that the spring bagatelle tables

CO. have, from disuse, become betimes rusty. ing the situation as between Capital, and

It is therefore by no means out of order Provinces it la, to my the least of it, remark that China has boos steadily and quietly able that in all the paraded coming but none the less effectively, pressing for" reform" it is always the provinces, and such an alteration in present ways as shall the provincial governments that are to be permit of more ready intercommunication reformed, while & discreet (P) silence 18 of viewa, between rolers and ruled, and of invariably maintained as to the reform of

which have become fairly numerous in the city of late come under the definition of a lottery. Nominal fines of five dollars each were imposed on the defendants.

The Flower Show attracted a number of

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TOKYO, February 28th. Supplementary Estimates for two

as large as it would have been had the weather million yen have been introduced into

fruit this year brought out two exhibits, Mr.

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LONDON, February 27th. M. Derens Duly has been appointed Venezuelan Minister at Peking and Consul-General at Hongkong.

THE BALKANS.

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LONDON, February 27th. Servia has confidentially informed France, Russia and Italy of her

all the present abuses of the existing regime, that Augéan stable of corruption, Peking been more favourable. An attempt to introduce the Diet for participation in a proposed firm resolve to do everything to

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS the mismanagement of the finances and the

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Ho Kom Tong getting the first prize and Mr.Anglo-Japanese Exhibition to be held Dorabjes the second, Those who gave prizes or in Loudon, contributed to the prize fund were:-H.E. Sir Frederick Lugard, H.E. Major General Broad- wood, Bir Paul Chater, Mr. D, Dorabjos, Mr. 11. E. Tomkins, Mr. Choa Loop Choe, Mr. Ho

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**THE SECOND MES, TANGURRAY." and the Government of the Regency is

The Bandmann Comedy Co. opens their quite justified in directing public attention

second visit to Hongkong this season on Satur to provincial shortcomings, and suggesting

the Tower. Mr Mouses is already well known have subscribed a sum of two thou-day with Mr. Pinaro's powerful and dramatic the necessity of central control on some well understood and fixed principle, instead of profit from the misdeeds which it is so pro- for kis zealous interest both in foreign and sand dollars for the presentation of a problem play "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray."- Notwithstanding the very inclement weather, at Lichfield Theological College, and was ordained loving cup to the Japanese Navy, there was a good attendance and the inter- the irregular and empiric methods resorted minent is deprecating in public, it says not home missions. He was trained for the ministry

one word of those reforms within, without deseon in 1890 by Bishop Maalagan at Lichfeld through Admiral Togo, in appre-pretation of the play given by the Company to under momentary pressure. China of all

which its whole programas of " Reform" is (priest, 1891). After being carate of laborion, Asiatic nations is the richest and most but an empty sound. Without the con- Midland parishes, Mr Mounsey went to Austraiation of the courtesy shown to them.

met with warm appreciation. This play has been constantly before the public for só many years that an outline of it fa this notice is probably superfinous, though we believe this, in the first time it han been presented in Hongkong. For the inform- ation of those who may not have seen it, we may briefly state that the play concerns the marriage of a lady with a post. Her kasbaard, u widower, has a grown-up daughter in a Convent, a saintly girl who is on the point of taking the veil. The second Mrs. Tanqueray is extremely anxious to break completely with her past and assist her in the attainment of the happines and contentment the seek. But Society holds itself aloof. Her residence is shinned as a plague spot. To the husband's great joy his daughter resolves not to take the veil. She is intro- duced into the household, and Paula is delighted at the prospect of obtaining at last the companionship she earnestly desired of un innocent and saintly young woman. But Elleon in her relations with Paula proved an iceberg, and the distressed husband seized the first opportunitly that presented itself of letting

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quarters, cleaning out the depositories in the characteristic of Paking, as seen in lie every provinces can not be of the slightest avail. day dealings, that the Government, and This is the part of the story that the that of the Regency is here at one with that Ministers, foreign as well as native, on the of the late regime, is always ready to take up spot wilfully and persistently shut their eyes any stone to throw at the provincial admito, as too unpleasant a topic to drag into istrations. The most recent example of this the light of day; yet on its removal depends was sufficiently, characteristic: the Chinese the future of the Administration, and nearly os ingenious as the Irish in discover whether or not China is to be once more ing imaginary grievances, bave been recently thrust back to wallow in the old puddle of complaining of the implied hardship, contempt. The fountain has been poisoned that, while they turned out bank notes at the source, and the attempt to correct it quite as handsome, and as well printed by applying paliatives to the effluents must as those of the Hongkong and Shang. ever, as before, prove futile. The real want hai Bank itself, that institution and

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LONDON February 27th. The Californian Senate has passed a 50 resolution by 28 to seven in favour 50 of the exclusion of all Asiatics from 25 the United States.

The revival of the controversy has aroused great surprise.

WAR RUMOURS SUBSIDING.

LONDON, February 27th. The alarus of war in the Balkans

The Feking correspondent of The Times are dispersing. It is announced at

is keenly desirous of friendships which will

other foreign banks, taking their clue there. | admini-trations is possible, is to clarify the records that the Danish expert, M. Dresing, the same time that Russia joins the Ellean 'go to Paris with sumes friends to se from, have be.n refusing to recognise the relations towards them of the Governmont adviser to the Chinese Imperial Telegraphs, other Powers in trying to induce something of the world. Eilean returns engaged,

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paper money. Here was a clue that even Mr. REDMOND himself, with all his skill in discovering mare's neats, might well take a bint from. Well! recently the Chambers of Commerce have been making the continued isening of these banknotes without any apparent backing of reserve funds, a subject of complaint, as already beginning to injure the slability of the financial contros, already suficiently depressed; and drew the atten tion of the Ministers at Feking to the last- ing evils that have resulted from the recent over itans of copper eolus by the various governmeals, Provincial and Metropolitan. Prince Kung, on behalf of the Government of the Regency returns a sympathetic reply,

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itself, and the first stop to be taken towards this is to abolish, once and for all, all per sonal contributions from the high officials of whatever nature, and to substitute for these regular provincial payments, duly published and accounted for. Until something like this be accomplished Imperial promises of reforms, provincial or metropolitan, are of notes which, with no backing of reserve a little store as the nicely printed bank capital, en only render the financial con- dision of China more hopeless than ever.

The name of Mr. Lama Tei Fung has been added to the list of Chinese practitioners, trained in Western medical sclones, who are authorised to grant death certificates,

Saturday in Kowloon City. This makes only

of the harbour.

who also represented China at the recent inter.

national conference at Lisbon, conducted the Servia to abandon her claims negotiations that recently led to the signature territorial compensation. of the

Manchurian Telegraph agreement.

During the negotiations, early in September, while he was living in the Imperial Hotel at Tokyo, M. Dresing was the victim of a sensational

AUSTRO-TURKISH AGREEMENT.

for and in her joy affectionately embraces her

age one night. While he was asleep in bed

LONDON, February 27th. his room was entered, he was stupefied, probably with chloroform, and all his papers were stelan The Austro-Turkish agreement has agreements and other documents relating to the consisting of a large number of confidential been signed and the boycott of Aus- Chiness telegraph service. The perpetrators of trian goods has been abandoned with

the outrage were never discovered, nor have the the result that markets have-advanced documents been recovered.

THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE CONGO. :

THE DIRECTORY AND CHRONICLE FOR 1909,

mind the fact that there are constant changes

step-mother, who is manifestly delighted with this change of feeling. Then comes an infandme tion of Bleun ́s fiancée to Paula, who is horror- struck, for Ellean's prospective husband is one of the men associated with Paula's past career. Mr. Tanqueray had viewed the Engagement with great satisfaction, being unaware that Captain Hugh Ardale had been a former paramour of his wife. He had destroyed

Paula's fuil confession on the eve of her marriage without reading it. T'aula's con- science impole her to mention the fact..... to her husband who thereupon withdrew his consent. There are scenes first between the dinghter and father, and then between the two women. Ellean instinctively knew that Pauls had frustrated the match. She had observed the expessions of a guilty conscience

quickly. Ellean, in breathless haste, rushes to

tell her father to go at once to Paula's room

One, of our contemporaries in Japan has

LONDON, February 27th. remarked that the position of this work of A discussion took place in the when her flancé was introduced to Taala, and Another fatal case, of plagus was raported on reference in the Far East, and for that matter

throughout the commercial world, is too well House of Commons on the subject of she now explained that the coldness of hor in which he feelingly acknowledges their cases for the two months of the year. All of known to need any fresh words of commendation. the Congo, in the course of which Sir relations towards her had been das to instine- tive knowledge that her career before marriage weight of the evil, bat sys it was all the them, we believe, have been on the Kowloonside While we concur in this remark we bear in Edward Grey said, that a reply was had not been satisfactory. The final scenefollows fault of those Provincials, and that he was

The adherenos of the Colony of Hongkong, in the populations of the foreign centres of expected from Belgium in about a LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREST. EC preparing to issue edicts forbidding the

issue except unler stringent regulations to the commercial convention between the trade in the Far East, and it is more especially fortnight and this would be submitted

for the newcomers that we notice at any length to Parliament. If Belgium, he added, for Paula has lilled herself, and Ellean is stricken with remores for the angry alterça- Feking has not been issuing notes itself, United Kingdom and Bulgaria, signed at of the use of each according volume. None are and soil struck him that he could safely say been notified to the Bulgarian Government.

on December 9th, 1905, the Garette states has better aware than the compilers of a Directory Introduced a humane form of adminis-tion which had just taken place.

such as this of the extensive change in populatration no country would congratulate The title rôle was, of course, filled by Mine all this without exposing the Government to obliquy. Unfortunately the reason why His Excellency the Governor has given his tion which takes place every year at the varions Belgium more warmly than Britain, Florence Hamar whose remarkably realistic interpretation of the part evoked general THE very worst of the many abuses, poli. Peking has not being issing notes "payable assent, la the name and on behalf of His porta. A Directory issued last year is sadly out, but Britain could not countersigu aadmiration. Mlas Hilda Vaughan played Ellean

Majesty the King, to Ordinance No. 1 of 1909. tical and financial, which batten in Peking on demand" is the very effective one that its Ordinance: further to amend The Magis whole of the foreign colonies, porta or setite-second time the system of admini-Mr. Charles Vane that of Mr. Aubrey Tan- is the system of universal valls. A high are not. History records two or three tates Ordinance 1890 and to effect certain other officer on appointment has to present himself instances where Peking took to issuing amendments in the Criminal Law.

that the production of the book is no light un- before the Emperor to receive his foal notes payable on demand, and the nation st

Sir Ewen Cameron, K.C.M.G., formerly dertaking. There are directories and descrip-

The Daily Press.

BONGKONG, March 1st 1909,

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of date this. In a Directory which embraces the

ments in the Far East, from Vladivostock to stration which existed in the past.

Netherlands Ludia, it can readily be understood

instructions, and pay his homage: this is all Jarge has had too good reason to appreciate London manager of the Hongkong and Shang- tions of just apon fifty places in China; seven-

the promise at its full value, which was hai Banking Corporation, who died on December teen in Japan; ton in Cores; nine in French 10, left £52,755 net. He gave £50 to the India Chine; three in the Philippines; four in Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation the Straits Settlement; six in the Malay Athletic Club in London.

fair and proper, and in fact is a necessary exactly nothing; o Peking notes are formula in all properly conducted govern-effectively Taboo, as effectively us Hienfeng ments in the world. In Peking, practically hundred-cash-pieces which used to litter the alone now of all governments professing to streets of the capital, not being worth the civilisation, the entrance to the Court is trouble oven of picking up. But, as with barred, unless the appointes give a heavy the issue of the now discredited ten-cash vail to cach and every doorkeeper and aer-pieces of four years ago, Peking has really vant in the mysterious "Forbidden City" had much, if not most, to say to the issue that surrounds the person of the Emperor or of these unbacked notes. The suggestion Lis representative. No one knows the seems at all events to have come from the amount that may be expected of him till he Capital, and resioning from what occurred has to run the gauntlet, and no one in the with regard to the expensive fiasco of the palace or out of it keeps any account of the ten-cash issue, we are fairly well entitled to eums thus exacted, nor of the purposes to say that Peking has already secured pay- which they are applied. It is known in a ment in advance for shutting its eyes. general way that they are enormous, and Now one of the remarkable things about that the favourite at Court who has once the present ministry of the Regency in gained the eur of the T'ientse, or one of his Poking, is that, although it is always quite favourite wives or concubites, is able not ready to fling the stone at the provinces, the

The cook on board 8.8. Masila was brought before the Magistrate on Saturday for being in the possession of 249 toels of prepared oplung which was found by the chief officer in the cook's store room. Mr. Wool entered a con- viction, but reserved his decision-

It is announced in a Lozdos paper that a merrings has been arranged, and will take place in April at Shanghai, between W. Bruce Lock hart, elder son of William B. Lockhart, of Blackheath, and Phyllis Emelie, second. daughter of the late Allen W. H. Block.

kong which, of course, all have their place in

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queray, Mr. Thomas Sidney that of Clayley Drummle. Altogether the play was excellently staged.

To-night the play is of a different order. What Happened to Jones" is one of the most amusing of modern comedies, which keeps an sudience in roars of laughter from start to finish.

QUEEN MARGHERITA'S PROPOSED VISIT TO JAPAN.

Renter's Rome correspondent sent the follow-

LONDON, February 27th. States; even in Netherlands India; two in The Chicago prices for the May crop Eastern Siberis, and to this enumeration we of wheat have surpassed all records. have not included Bangkok, Macao and Hong. It is reported that large spot sales the book. This is the forty-seventh year that have taken place in Loudon, anding Message to London on January 28th the book has been issued from the Hongbong that high prices have been offered for Daily Frean Office. The 1909 Directory com the grain of the United States, prises nearly 2,000 pages, and the weight of the completo edition is six pounds so that in the East where the book is still sold, for 110 (the price which was paid when the equivalent of 810 was 30/-) the purchaser receives good value for his money.

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It reported that arrangements have been mide for Queen Margherita to visit Japan next August. Her Majesty, it is said will remain three months in Japan, and will take an automobile for excurious about the country, which she wishes thoroughly to explore. Queen Margherita would be the first Huropean crowned LONDON, February 27th. head to visit Japan, as the Czar wont there when he was Czarewitch. It is already known Speaking at Brighton, Mr. Haldane that the Emperor and Empress of Japan will The Chronicle portion of the book, like the said that hitherto London had been go to the station to meet Her Majesty on her descriptions and lists of residents, has been indifferent but she now led in the Major General J.C, Dalton, Inspector-Clene al brought up to date The Agreement between of Royal Garrison Artillery, was expected to Japan and the United States misle at Washing. Territorial movement. The General arrive in Singapore last week by French mail ton on November 30th last is included. An Staff was working hard and every part from Ceylon to carry out the artillery inspection other new features is a full list (on PP 256-7) of of the coast was being surveyed, so of the Singapore Garrison. Major General the Treaty Porta of Call and places open to within the Palace, but to remit outside for all, the suggestion has in the first instanne Friday.

dates when each was nominally opened by agree-fenders thoroughly prepared." bis private pelt euormons sums, such proceeded from the entourage of the Regent.

The master of the British steamer Hai Yang ment and when it was effectually opened. betimes burden heavily the resources of the Wo-know, for instance, that the suggestion

BRITISH ARMY ESTIMATES State. It is true enough that these irregular to the provinces to issue the recent copper which cover an ares of from one to two allies, mont of the Orders in Connell, also appear. reports the existence of groups of fishing logs, The new rules of HB's Supreme Courts in

China and Corea, necessitated by the amend and oppressive veils have been from time sugency came directly from Peking, and and which forma dangers to navigation, off Doild Finally we must mention the fifteen neeful maps

LONDON, February 27th. immeruorial looked upon as the privilege of was put forward as the first step in a pro- Island in lat. 34 deg. 26 min. north, and in and plans which are included in the complete the Oriental irresponsibility of ulers, the game of loancial reform. There is every longitude 118 deg. 30 mix east, and of the Edition. It only remains for us to add that only responsibility being presumed to rest reason to believe that the privilege of issn Lam Yit Islands in latitude 25 deg. 10 min

if there is an offles without a copy, it is a da foiency which should be at once repaired. with the commonality. This has been the ing the coins was made a matter of open marth, and longitude 119 deg. 32 minutes east.

arrival, which the Empress has never done before, while the Emperor has only done so once, on the arrival of Prince Arthur of Con- baught, when His Royal Highness brought the Emperor the Order of the Garter. wrote:--Nothing lins been officially settled

Japan, but I learn that Her Majesty, accord- ing to tentative arrangements, will mil from Naples on a German liner, taking with her twa automobiles, in which she hopes to make a tour

On February 1st the same correspondent

only to indulge in unseemly extravagances hint is not permitted to escape that, after, Dalton proposed to leave for Hongkong last Foreign Trade in the Far East, showing the ; that an invader would find the de, regarding the visit of Queen Margherita to

the

The Army Estimates for 1000- book is now on sale throughout the East, and 1910 amount to £27,435,000

compared with £27,439,000. “

as

from the South to the North of Japan..

Her Majesty's suite will probably include the

Villamarins, Count Griccioli, and Marquis Naval officer of high rank and the return journey, it is expected, will be made by way of the Trans-Siberian Railroad, thus giving the

Queen an opportunity of visiting China

The date of doyarture from Italy has not

I yet been ovén approximately decided upon.