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| been complained of by foreign Powers; and | government mark as a signal of its issue was one of the most fertila sources of the under imperial authority. The national difficulties that marked the early periods of government was, in fact, of all other things foreign intercourse with China. With the most to be dreaded, as dearly bought regard to the first-the Extra-territorial experience had long taught the nation. clauses in the various treaties with China," so far from their being forced on China, CO. or being the outcome of any desire on the part of England and the other European Powers to interfere with the premgatives of China, were actually introduced at the direct request of China herself, who had long experience of the futility of seeking to control the usages of foreign residents by her own customary law which had grown up -WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS noder very different conditions. The Preamble to the first Order in Couusil relating to British subjects in China shows this distinctly. It is dated December 9th, 1883, and was promulgated while Canton was the only part in China "open" to foreign rade, It proceeds :--

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Major A. A. 8. Barnos has been promoted Listenant-Colonel during his appointment es Commandant of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps. Mr. J. 8. Dobie, agent in Hongkong of the Chinese Engineering and Miding Co., Ltd., informs us that the total output of the Company's three mines for the week ending 5th June, 1909, amounted to 31,635.03 tons and the sales during the period to 22,047.97 tons.

A pleasant little gathering took place at the residence of the Japanese Consul (Mr. Fuzatan) last night when representatives of the local press and leading Japanese citizens were the "Independent News Agency" of Tokyo

invited to meet Mr. Fajimura, the manager of

In fact, for upwards of two centuries foreign merchants trading with China have been unanimous-perhaps the only thing in which they have ever been unanimous— in pressing on China the advisability in her own, no less than their, interests of issuing a regular coinage on whose purity and weight the merchants and people could dopond. It was thus that in all past ages foreign coins have found favourable accept- unce in China, and the only compulsion ever

The weekly plague retam shows that there usod was the untrustworthy nature of her week. Of the cases 13 were Chinese, 1 Indian and were 16 cases and 13 deaths in the Colony last own issue. Yet this did not proceed from ig-Japanese, Eleven of the cases were in norance. So long ago as the time of Han WU-TI, when China of her own accord opened up to trade the whole of Western Asia, the superiority of the foreign coinage of the old

districts other than the City of Victoris. The only other communicable disease notified last

week was one fatal Chinese case of smallpox.

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BRITISH WARSHIP IN COLLISION,

LONDON, June 21st. His Majesty's cruiser "Sappho" collided with a Wilson liner also named "Sappho" off Dungeness in a fog.

The cruiser was badly damaged amidships, but managed to keep afloat with the greatest difficulty, collision mats being used and the most power-

CASES AT THE MAGISTRACY

While the coulis in charge of Mr. Pepper's motor launch, which is lying in the Bowrington Canal, was away at tifin on Sunday a thief boarded the craft and departed with the flooring of the boat valued at about $40. Not coutent with this haul he returned to the vessel a second time with the object of removing a bed. The second visit proved his undoing, for he was arrested, charged before Mr. J. H. Kemp at the Magistracy yeatersing, and sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment.

Chinese are very fond of fish, and sometimes small boy who yielded to temptation on Sunday, they endeavour to obtain them illegally. A snatched a quantity from a fishmonger's stall. He was parsed, captured and given in charge, Mr. Hazeland at the Magistracy yesterday. ordered him to be detained for 48 hours, and to receive 12 strokes of the birch.

While a native was sleeping in the vicinity of the Shaukiwan theatre on Sunday two coun- trymen wont through his pockets and relieved

"Whereas the officers of the Chinese Gorern Greek Kingdoms was a subject of admira Steam Navigation Company yesterday, a repro: /ful pumps kept going while she was him of his valuables. They were arrosted

mont, resident in or near Canton in the empire

ordered, &c"

hold. When this was cleaned, and the 'tween

damage done to cargo the agents were unable to furnish us with any estimate, but as the hold was fall it is expected that a great portion of the goods have been destroyed by either fire or water,

A London correspondent writes:-I saw Mr.

James Orange in Kingsway the other day looking well; and a few minutes later met Dr. Swan in the Strand. Swan had just arrived from the West Coast of Africa for a short holiday. He declares that all the stories about the unhealthiness of the West Coast are un- undeserved. "Divil a bit of it," he said; "it's a

of China, have signified to the supracargoes of tion. Each coin, says the old historian sentative of this paper was informed that the the East India Company at Canton the desire bore on its face the imge of the reigning steamer Exisang had suffered little damage from of that Government that effectual provision should be made by law for the good order of all monarch, which was changed at his death.he recent are, which was confined to No. 3 his Majesty a subjects resorting to Canton, and The contrast between this money and the, decks painted the shippers would be ready to for the maintenance of peace and duo sub- ordination amongst them: and it is

even then, dobased moncy of China was a receive more cargo. Goods can be shipped on expedient that offect should be given to such reasonable common subject of remark. At various Wednesday morning, and the steamer will leave demands of the said Chinese Government; now therefore, in pursuance of the said set, and in

times reformers have urged on the Govern on the same afternoon. With regard to the execution of the powers thereby in his Majesty meat of Chign the strong advisability of in Council in that behalf rested, it is bereby reforming its currency, and at times China Such was the occasion of the introduction has listened and eagerly grasped the idea. of the elaborate system of jurisprudence But the end has always been the same, into China known as "Extra-territoriality. Without sufficient intelligence to grasp the or subject, the Government has from time to Nor was the system itself unknowa unpractised in China, During the great time taken in band the issue of coins; but Tang dynasty, which the Chinese the with that perversion of right that elings selves acknowledge to have been China's through the centuries to Chinese govera golden age, China was open to the trade mental measures, no sooner has a successful of the world, without any external pressure issue been made than the process of debase having been placed on her, and the nation went again sets in; until, as in the case of that took the largest share in that trade the iron cash issue of HEFONG, the Gov- was Arabia. As in later times, Arab trade ernment coins have become actually worth was centred in Canton, where we find resident less, and by an offended people have been many thousands of Mohammedan mer-thrown out in the streets, for any one to pick chants, and wo and these enjoying as in up. It cannot be pleaded that in the modern times all the benefits of extra-terri- present day affairs have in any manner toriality. The Arab accounts thus describe changed for the better, as the recent issue the position:-"SOLIMAN, the merchant, of teu sent pieces, urged by Peking s relates that at Canfu (Canton), which is the principle scale for merchants, there is a A. S. WATSON & CO.. Mohammeden appointed Judge over those

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of his religion by the authority of the Emperor of China, and that he is judge of all the Mohammedans whe resort to these parts. The merchants of Irak who trade

matter of financial reforms, goes to prove. The ill-faith of the Government has in this case so far reflected on itself, that it now perforce has to stand by while it sees its example followed by the provincial banks in the unrestricted issue of bank notes, already becoming a drug on the market

being towed to Dover where she was shortly afterwards, and on appearing before beached,

Mr. J. H. Kemp at the Magistracy yesterday wore each sonteused to six weeks' imprison- mont and three hours' stocks.

landed the crow.

The Lydd lifeboat and two steamers

No lives were lost.

AMERICA AND CHINESE RAIL-

WAY LOANS.

LONDON, June 21st. A dispatch from Washington says it is understood that Germany's reply to the representations of the United States of her wish to participate in the Szechuan railway loan is of the friend liest character. But France and Great

Mr. Hazeland disposed of quita a number of casos, in which natives were charged with being in unlawful possession of opium, at the Magis tracy yesterday. In one instance a man who was arrested with a quantity of the drug in his possession at 26, Cochrane Street, was fined $130, in default six weeks' imprisonment. Another offender who was captured at 598, tire being two months” jail, Queen's Road West was fined $23, the alterna-

Two natives appeared before Mr. J. H. Komp on a charge of matching an sarring from a Chinese woman in Queen's Road Central. When the woman felt the ornement tugged from her ear she turned in time to see a man

fine country, and I prefer it to Hongkong?" Britain protest against American in-running away, and promptly raised cries of

His description of the country does not agres with that of another Hongkong friend invalided from Accra. He describes it as the last refuge of "the darned, the dissolute and the depraved;" and no offers of higher remuneration would tempt him to go out a second time. He had spent only seven months there, and he thought it too long. Dr. Swan looks a little stouter than when I saw him last in Hongkong a few

Hongkongite I saw a few days ago was Diok years ago, and as brown as a berry. Another Hancock. He was in Regent Street with his wife, and had apparently only recently arrived from the East."

TYPHOON WARNING.

tervention.

LATER.

states

The "Washington Post" that Great Britain's reply to America with reference to the Szechuan loan suggested that the American syndicate should arrange matters with English and other foreign banks instead of reopening the matter with China and thus delaying the loan.

It is understood that Mr Knox in his reply prefers to deal directly with China.

"stop thief." A lukong appeared on the scene and the man was captured, and as the policeman secured him he throw the ring away. The thief, six months' imprisonment, six hours' atecks and who was captured redhanded, was sentenced to

two whippings of twelve strokes each. The other man was discharged.

FORTHCOMING APPEALS.

At the Supreme Court yesterday Mr. C. G. Alabaster asked that a day be fixed for the hearing of an appeal against the decision of the Chief Justice in the case of S. J. David and Co. against certain Chinese, and stated that he appeared for his friend Mr. Duncan MoNeil, of Shanghai, The hearing was to have come on

hither are 10 ways dissatisfied with bis We have not space to ge into the interesting cone, point downwards, being hoisted about SENSATIONAL DISCOVERY IN that day, but it obviously could not now. He

conduct, or his administration in the post he is invested with; because h's actions and the judgments he gives are just and equitable, and conformable to the Koran, and according to Mohammedan juris do less doubt. Foreign nations, complaine prudence." Begarding the second there is

story of how for nearly a century the Spanish pillar dollar came practically to be the cur renoy, of China. We are, however, quite justified in pointing out that the only compulsion exercised in the matter was the innate badness of the pretended currency

of

The first typhoon warning of the senson was given in Hongkong at evening, the black- half-past six, indicating a typhoon within 300 miles south of the Colony. As soon as the signal was hoisted all the small craft made for shelter at Causeway Bay.

The typhoon warning received at the American Consulate General, Hongkong, yester day at noon from the Manila Observatory readi

NEW YORK.

YOUNG AMERICAN LADY MURDERED-

BY CHINESE,

LONDON, June 21st. New York is thrilled by the dis-

China, which drove her merchants and peo-Low-pressure ares extending from China Ses No anonymously signed communications that the Chinese reporter, bave their own Tariffs. ple to adopt as their own the coinage of a to east of Balintang and Bashi Channels. A have already appeared in other papers will be Now he was exactly one of the prime foreign country; which, however, possessed circular depression may be forming in it to the Covery of a trunk in a Chinese

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HONGKONG, June 22×D 1909.

the cardinal virtue wanting with the Chinese issues of being genuine, and representing their full face value..

It is thus that China has lost the over- eiga rights" which she never was able to grasp. of her judiciary, her tariffs, her postal service, and last but not least of her

To-day is the Chinese Dragon boat Festival, A few boats have been practising for a race

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An inquiry will be held at the Magistracy shortly into the cause of deaths of a Japaneso doctor who was recently found at the font of an embankment at Samshaipo with his back broken,

N.W. of Luzon.

A RAILWAY TRAGEDY.

Before Mr. J. H. Kemp, sitting as coroner, and a jury, an inquiry was held at the Magis. tracy yesterday afternoon into the cause of death of a coolie named Yat. Fung Tin, whose

lodging house containing the body of the grand-daughter of the Civil War hero, General Franz Sigel, who had been murdered by a Chinaman, who has fled.

Two thousand love letters from

rooms.

face of the Beasoon Hill tunnel on June 11th.. of the Kowloon mortasry, deposed to making a Dr. W. W. Pearse, medical officer in charge

post-mortem examination of deceased, He was teacher in Chinatown.

Miss Sigel was a Sunday School

of opinion, from the condition of the heart and

suggested June 28th for the hearing.

Mr. Slade, who appeared for the respondents, said there was another appeal fixed for that day and he suggested that the date fixed be Jane 29th, as the other appeal would take up the beat part of one day.

The Chief Justice-How long will this appeal last P

Mr. Slade Three days or so. The Court fixed the hearing for June 28th

and postponed the hearing of the other natil

July 5th.

LIKIN ON RAILWAYS.

A correspondant, writing to the P. & T. Times of June 8, says that the Chinese Government, within the past month, has established a consid erable number of likin stations along the half of the Maritime Customs duties is collected Peking-Hankow Line, where a tarx equal to one- from passing goods. All goods, both foreign and native, must pay this unless accompanied

by a transit, duty certificate, in addition to the crdinary receipts for likin dues and the nativa Customs dues that have to be paid at the sea- ports.

lungs, the congested state of the liver, sad the THE PROPOSED NEW CANAL Government is now also collecting from all

condition of the brain, that death was due to

asphyxia.

Cheng Moon, a foreman of works," engaged

on the Beacon Hill tannet, said he was in charge

of a gang of coolies between 6 p.m. on the 10th

AT SUEZ.

LONDON, June 21st, The Daily Mail" states that the

In addition to the foregoing, the Chines passing foreign goods not protected by the transit daty certificate just mentioned, the Peking city octrol tax on goods passing Fengtai, although said.

i gooda do not go into Peking, nor within some miles of that place...

All this (it is added) is an entirely new

and 6 am. on the 11th. Decensod, who was one Canal Company has opened negotia-pratico, only eatterished this spring, dis

of the gang, was missed at eleven o'clock at

the

witness thought he had left again on that account. of the concession. night, but as he was often going away sick tious with Egypt for a prolongation

Sergeant Angus deposed to visiting the south face of the Beacon Hill tunnel on the morning It is proposed to increase of June 11th, and finding deceased's body capital and Luild a second where deceased was discovered witness found partly covered with earth. Near the embankment parallel to the existing one.

canal

serious matter to such foreigners as have

to take or send foreign goods into the interior.

The failure to secure a transit duty certificate will make it necessary to pay at least double the

and annoyance en route.

cost of such certificate, beside the probable delay

CHINA'S LOST RIGHTS.

causes of complaint, leading up finally to war. The Chinese Government had actually no tariff, and, although continually pressed, refused to make any dues were charged according to the caprice of the collector, and were always matters of bargaining, The tariff was the gift of the foreigner. The Waiwupa surely has an overshort memory currency and coinage. Bo soon as the Gov-body was found under some earth of the South American girls were found in the regarding the third-he Post Office. Aterument has taken to heart the old proverb the time of the troubles the Chinese Govern- that "honesty is the best policy," so 8000 ment had absolutely no post office of any China will discover that there is no need of sort, and merchants had to make their own foolish protests, and that without any exer- arrangements, native as well as foreign. tions on her part the "sovereign rights" SOME short time ago we pointed out the The establishment of an Imperial Post will come back of their own accord, 10. mischief being wrought, not only to Foreign Office is a thing of only five years ago, and need any pressure from the party of the Relations with China, but to China herself, was likewise a gift of the foreigner. Doubt reactionaries, by the recent agitation fomented by the less certain of the foreign Powers, by estab Ro-actionary Party regarding Chins's súp.lishing post offices in Cains alongside those posed "Lost Rights," As we pointed out, of the Chinese Government are not acting this agitation was all the more dangerous fairly, but most of these were commenced that to a certain extent it had a medicum before China recognised the advantage of of reason on its side, and so, with half-starting one of her own, informed people who saw but one side of As if to carry to the point of sublimity the question, was likely to involve Chins in the absurdity of the first three propositions, trouble all round. The real object of the with regard to not one of which had China mischievous agitators who were trying to ever exercised even the most rudimentary control, which could have been interpreted force the affair to the front was, as in the light of a national right to be taken pointed out, to check the good work being from her, the last carries to a climax the done by the progressive party and bring demands of the reactionary party in her back China to the helpless, position she

midst, According to these now-found. occupied in the bad old times of a TACKWANG

advisere, China has "Icst"

The return of visitors to the City Hall Library. the rights, which ́or a HIENFUNG;" According to the native |

as a nation properly belonged to her, of issn. and Museum for the week ending the 20th

June, 1909, shows that of non-Chinese this at Hanoi has addressed to the Governor-General nent member of the Council of the

The President of the Chamber of Commerce famous Russian jurist, and a perma-ova taris decided by themselves, but in Chiar press the Waiwapu has been reporting on "losses of rights complained of, the her own monetary currency. As a patent and of Chinese 272 to the former and 1,964 to bat. The Avenir du Tonkin

ing her own national coinage, and having re 457 to the Library and 162 to the Museum, of Indo-China a letter suggesting a steamship Ministry of Foreign Affairs, died principal of which ere reduced to four; and fact, China never at any period of her the latter. The Library was, therefore, used by the proposal is that three 16-kuot steamers of line between Haiphong, Hongkong and Shang as all four have grown up under the con-existence possessed a national currency, nor 729 persons and the Museum by 2,126.

learns that while on a journey to Livonia. ditions of the time, and mostly without any a national coinage the nearest approach

1,500 tons shall be placed on the run, the line to intention of infringing rights that lind ever to such being her issue of copper cash, authorities at Polong and the Chinese Govern pointed out, wousi gire passengers the option réceive an annual subvention of about 1,200,000 The-negotiations between the British francs. A stem hip service to Shanghai, it is been claimed or exercised by Chipa, it is thousand of which at the time when grainment concerning the installation of wireless in 24 days; (2) via Hankow and Peking, 25 days; & Co., Ltd, the General Managers, that they satisfactory to find that the Foreigner is was cheapest were required to purchase a telegraphy at the Palaus Hotel, Shanghai, appear via Dalny 22 days. Bat our contemporary have received a telegram from London to the

of three routes to Europe (1) Via Vindiwostock guiltless of any intentional disregard of picul of rice. Such a customary international amenities.

currency when

to have been astisfactorily settlod. The NC suggests that Dainy and not Shanghai Whould be The four complained of are in the order attempted to be made use of in wholesale Daily News understands that Chinese conten- the terminus, and that the postal subroution effect that the Annual General Meeting of tions have been uphold and the Government has should not be less than 1,500,000 francs. It is Shareholders in the Indo-China Steam Navign transactions at once broke down, owing to given: First, Loss of Judicial Right; Second,

now offered to take over the apparatus at cost printed out that the movement of traffic between tion Co., Ltd., will take place on the 29th current; Loss of Tariff Right Third, Loss of Postal te small intrinsic value preventing its price. In the circumstances this may be con: the great desideratau it would be inadvisable that £10,000 has been transferred from Reserve

Hongkong and Shanghai is nil, and speed carriage from one marker to another sidered a satisfactory arrangement, The sp for the steamers of the line to take in cargo or

Fund and £80,000 from Underwriting Accoun Merchants and banks had to step in, and paratus, we are told, will be installed at the discharge Shanghai cargo at Hongkong. It which will then stand at £143,891, and that would probably mean a loss of two days in the £55,358 has been written off for depreciation. similar station will be put into operation at the mails could reach Paris in 20 days, from Woosung. The service will then be thrown Haiphong to Dalny 8 days, from Dalay to of Profit and Loss Account for the year 1908, it open to the public.

A theft which borders on sacrilege was re ported to the police yesterday. Miss Store, the Superintendent of the Victoria Girls' School, sent information to police headquartere that the bell was stolen from the spire of the chapel connected with the school, sometime between the 14th and 20thinstant.

blood-stained stone. Ho was of opinion that deceased had struck this stone with his head, rolled doth the embankment, and then got

covered with

The jury found the cause of doath to ho asphyxle, following an accident.

HAIPHONG TO PARIS IN 20

DAYS.

DEATH OF A FAMOUS JURIST.

LONDON, June 21st. Mr. Frederick De Martens, the

INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION. COMPANY.

We areinformed by Messrs. Jardine, Matheson

The Waiwapa has reported to the Throne items enumerating China's lost rights which- ought to be restored gradually, of which the important ones are as follow

1-Judicial Rights. At present Consular jurisdiction is still in existence in China, and Mixed Courts are still in varions open ports and towns

2-Tariffs.-Foreign countries have their

Thus it is impossible to increase the items and only tariffs agreed with foreign powers are levied. amount of tarifs of China's own accord,

3.Postal Service. In China there are many foreign post offices in various ports, which faot is an infringement of China's rights of adminis tration of communications,

4-Monetary-In foreign countries no foreign money is allowed to be used, but in: tiun which influence China's finance a great Chius there are many foreign meneys in circula-

del

Besides these there are many others such as right of policing, the right of land ownership, right of trade in the interior, oto. The Eastern mining, transportation, on land and water, the Times.

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Right; Fourth. Loss of Coinage Rights.

With regard to all four, it is worthy of China, and that so far from being encroach. barter, came to be elevated into a quasi ed, on, their deficiency had all along avoided in this substitute curcency was any currency; but the one thing assiduously

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