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change of costume first becomes noticeable. The most notablo movement in the Foreign

Therefore it is for such articles as flat cloth Market on the London Stock Exchange last TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

caps, soit felt and straw hats, singlets and pants, socks aud shoes, that there is most likely to be a strong demand in the near futuro." Whether that future is so near as Mr. Fox, when he wrote his Report, was

justified in believing it to bn, has become a

matter of some doubt since the revolutionary outbreak-in Canton when short-cropped hende became strongly suspected of harbour ing revolutionary sentiments. From cloth ing we pass to building construction. A sum of £1,203,00% was spent by China last year on the purchase of foreign building materials, cement, timbor, furniture, window glass, &c., and Mr. Fox rightly points to this WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. asudieative of another-fur-reaching change.

ESTABLISHED 1841.

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month was a further appreciable advance in the now Chinese scrip, which was in steady demand for investment purposes; the price at one timo toashed-105 and closed on the 10th ult. 14 higher on balance at 1042.

The rotúra el visitors to the City Hall Library- and Museum for the week ending the 10th Sep. terabor, 1911, shows that of non-Chiness there were 495 to the Library and 177 to the Musoum, and of Chinese 149 to the former and 2.275 the latter. The Library wan, therefore, asel by 554 persons and the Museum by :2,452.

Several lots of gamers. appeared before the Magistrato yesterday. In one case thres mea were fuod $3 each for having boon found "gan. I bling in the street, in the geond elevon -inen' were hoed, the two keepers $75-ench and the|- remainder $4 each, and in the third cage fifteen mon were similarly dealt with, the two koopere hero being fined $75 each also.

In consequence of au accident to the Canadian Pacido Railway Company's packet Empress of China, there was no despatch of mail

which is coming over the habits of the Chinese people. The dilapidated rows of one-storied houses of lath and plaster, dark, sanitary and comfortless, which, formerly

According to a San Francisco despatch con- did duty as Government offices, schools, barracks, Sc.," he writes, "are rapidly dis-signments of tea, aggregating 50,000 calties, appearing before buildings in foreign style taken over by the T. K. K. America-mar, have of brick and stone, fitted with such up-to-boon refund entry after a long examination, or dute appliances as electric light and the ground that the tea had been coloured, con- steam heat; while in all large cities trary to the Provision Law. The stocks in Chins of such tes, and intended for export to and trading contres merchants and shop Amories, amount to 30,000,000 entting, bat it has keepers are replacing the shanties of former now last ita market. The import merchants are days with modern constructions in which expected to substituto Japanese tea, ha yanglon, or foreigą upper storey, and the plate-glass window, are usually conspicu ous. The style, as he adds, is more often WHISKY than not atrocious and the work shoddy, but id places like Shanghai and Poking, and, we may add, Canton, where the erection of business buildings and Government offices has been entrusted to foreign architecte, tho results are not unworthy of a European city. may turn to the import of machinery and milway material, which last year reached a value of £3,122,000. The great change which these figures signify an hardly be estimated. They undoubtedly denote the fact that China, after some years of hesitation, has definitely entered the world's markets as a purchaser of machinery. and when we consider that this implies that railways recognition of the are an indispensable factor in the develop ment of China natural resources, and that

BLEND OF THE FINEST PURE

MALT SCOTCH WHISKIES.

For over 30 Years WATSON's "E" has maintained the re- putation of the FINEST SCOTCH WHISKY in the FAR EAST.

Then we

fact

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HONGKONG, SEPTEMBER 12TH, 1911,

("DAILY FERS" EKOLUSIVE SERTION.

RIOTS IN SZECHUAN,

VICEROY'S YAMEN ATTACKED,

PERING, September 11th. The telegraph service between Tzechow and Chonghu has been interrupted since Friday.

Nativo advices confirm the report that au attack has been made on the Viceroy's Yamen, and a number of rioters, variously reported between 20 and 60, were killed.

The Chungking Thotai atates that the foreigners resident at Chonghu left that city for Chungking on Thursday and Friday, he himself taking precautions to ensure for them a safe journey.

THROUGH LEUTER'S AGENCY.}

LABOUR AND POLITICS.

Lowboy, September 11th.

The Trades Congress-has-closed. A re- solution was passed in favour of co-operating

unification of trade uniour and societies with the Labour Party with a view to the

connected with the Congress and the Party, though considerable opposition was mised for the ground that the introduction of palities would impair the usefulness of Congress.

AMERICAN CRUISER FOR TRIPOLI.

LONDON, September 11th. A Washington telegram reports that the

THE FLOODS IN SWATOW D'STRICT.

A MILLION PERŠONS DESTITUTE.

UNPRECEDENTED DEVASTATION.

[PROT CORRESPONDENT]

Satow, 9th September.

You might have, hoard, before this resclion

last few days haro osvorod with water handroda. of villages in the thead districts of Hai-Yoo, you, that very heavy falls of rain during the

Ting Hai, and Jan-Ping, in this Profecture of

greater part of the dike of the Whay-Sys and To Chef of the Kwong Tang Province. The Tan-Ching villages opposite to Cuso Chow For burst through the foros of water rushing down"

the monstain sides of the Hak-K» iliatrist und that element as quickly as it natural rapidity par mitted found its way into all the lands liable, by reason of their lowness, to redeite it. Uthe three districts flooded, Hai-Yoo suffers the most while Jao-Ping is afflicted in a less degros than Ting-Hui. The flood in many vilinges has

Chungking has refused to join in the cruiser Chester is being dispatched to Tripoliaison sbore the roofs of houses of the unfor. listurbances.

THROUGH REUTAR'S AGENCY.]

GERMAN ARMY MANŒUVRES.

LONDON, September 11th. Router's Berlin correspondent states that the Army Minceuvres opening to-day at Mecklenburg will be unusually interesting It is presupposed that n hostile army

from England by the route of Vancouver on the 1st of September last. Corre pondence foxcept which had landed on the North Sea and parcels) for Japan which would in the ordinaryBaltic were advancing on both sides of the course have been sent by the service was das- patched to the United States on the 30th of Elbe towards Berlin. The task of the August and the 2nd of September for onward weaker opponents is to resist the advance.

The country is hilly and wooded and is transmission by the Best opportunity,

interspersed with lakes.

A grest pallio meeting was to be held at Singapore on Tuesday last auder the auspices of the Straits Settlements Association (Singapore branch), to discuss the provisions of the Muni- cipal Bill now before the Legislative Connoil with regard to the proposed constitation of the new Municipality.

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The rospective sides are popularly christered British and Germans.

The combatants exceed 100,000, Each

The following resolution army is supplied with an airship and four was to be proposed:-"That "this mesting aeroplanes. strongly disapproves of the control of Municipal affairs of this Colony being takes out of the hands of the ratopayers.**-

MACAO NOTES.

A COMING. FETE...

September 10th.

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FRENCH NAVY READY:

for the protection of the American Archeo- logical Mission in consequence of the murder last March of Mr. Cyreme, a member of the Isission

THE SPANISH OCCUPATION OF

MELILLA

Hornos September 11th. Three thousand troops have been dis- patched to reinforce the garrison at. Melilla.

BRITISH POSTAL SERVANTS....

LONDON, September 11th. The Postmaster-General has consented to receive a doputation of postal servants to discuss their grievances.

DEAR FOOD RIOTS.

LONDON, September 11th. Order has been restored in the Pas de Calais Department; otherwise the situation has become worse. The riots were renewed at Roubaix, where the mob tore up the pavements and stoned the troops, several of whom were injured. The cavalry were unable to charge owing to the wire entangle

LONDON, September 11th. Speaking at Toulon, M. Delcasse said the French Navy was ready for any eventualityments in the streets. at any time.

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FRANCE AND GERMANY.

BUSINESS DISLOCATION IN GERMANY.

LONDON, September 11th.

demand for machinery to be used in exploit. ing the vast stores, of mineral wealth that lie dormant in the Empire, we only begin

The Chinese are at present hasily engaged in to realise the great possibilities the future making arrangements for a series of festivities, holds for the development of foreign trade with a night prosession, theatricals, public The time will come, no doubt, when the fair, gambling of all descriptions at the "Tap- bulk of China's needs in all these directions seat," etc., on the 5th October, to celebrate the will be met largely by native industrial fest anniversary of the Portuguese Republic, undertakings, just as Japan is striving to Many merchants from Canton, it is stated, sro supply her own needs, but in the meantime, coming over to take part in the fair! I under at least, the greater the prograse in China stand that the fête will last a wook, The public the greater will be the country's foreign have been requested to have their houses il- luminated. The soldiers and sailors will have trade, both import and export.

their own feast in barracks and on board of the ships. As the time is drawing near, I wou-heavy falls on the Berlin Bourse. der that the Committee has not yet published any programme for the occasion, as by au doing it might indues the public to take more interest

The German Mail of the 9th August wan delivered in London on September 8th.

The Shanghai Autome Reo mating has boen £xed for November 6th, 7th and 8th."

Sentence of two months' imprisonment was yesterday passed on a Chinese who was caught picking pockets in Des Voeux Roadi.

Captain Meyer Waldeck, of the German Navy, he been appointed Governor of Kiso chau, in the room of Admimi Trappol, who ha retired.

At the Magistracy yesterday a Chinese was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and to be exposed in the stocks for four hours for

returning from banishment.

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RETURNINO OFFICIALS,

Dr. Vidal, the Chief Justice, and Senor Mirands Gredes, Director of Public Works, are reported to be on their way back to this Colony.

SNIPE SHOOTING.

8sipe have made their appearance very early this year, and sportsmen are getting good baga in the interior.

THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LTD.

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The Yokohama Specie Bask is in receipt of telegram from the head office to the affect that

From Pars it is semi-officially stated that the German counter proposals raise ques tions of principle which require serious and minute examination.

LONDON COUNCILLORS IN VIENNA.

LONDON, September.Hth The Lord Mayor and members of the Corporation of London arrived at Vienna and were accorded an enthusiastic reception

THE RICE FAMINE QUESTION

IN HONGKONG.

tuanto inhabitants, and overtaruol'trons of the height of the guava or plantain troes. Many have hoon deiron by the water to save their lives by perching on roofs that are fortunately high ́enough for that purpose; but thousands have perished by bolug oarriet away by the terribly rapid currents of the flood. Erery ncessible spot, hill, or mount, which is boyond the reach of the deluge, swarme with human beings. In fact, they are between two dres, for drowning and starvation are glaring in their faces, by rou son of its being extremely difficult or akoost Impossible to send reliefs from Swatow, com- munication between this oud and the majority of the deluged spots being alurost completely cut- by the rapidity of the currents. What from this cause, and what from tho want of boata available in number to render immediate suc- cour, anxiety in the breasts of people here (Swatow) for the, safely of the survivor is beyond description. Haman corpses, Carcases of beasts, and wreckage of all sorts are con. tinually floating into the sea through the Swntow streams. Information has just ronched us that several boats, carrying survivors in trying to. escape to Swatow, went with a tremendous ferco caused by the rushing spend of the currents g the roofs of houses, submerged substances, and capsirad, with tha deplorabin revalt that the passongs pero all drowned and lost. Many houses bare' collapsed, with the occupants buried alive or thrown inta

or on soine

the morelos carrants and ourriel away by them.

Happily, the rain ceased four days ago, though the sky was so threatening in the evening of the next day that people at Swatow were in drand of the devastation extending. It is now beautifully shining, but it requires at leasta couple of months before the flood can completely disappear and things bear their usual appearance, provided that there be no further downpour.

Now, as the number of those expected to escape from the heartroading calamity, who are homeless and in a state of utter destitution, is estimated to be more than one million, and as the

A meeting of the directors of the Tang Wa. paddy crops of the H-Yeo district have been The war scare in Germany has caused Hospital was held yesterday afternoon to contotally destroyed by the flood, and those of the

The Lokalanzieger in an inspired article rebukes German business circles and protests against the folly of crediting the wild reports in currency. It urges the Bourse to keep its head in its own interest and in the interest of the whole country.

Both Governments are determined to reach a permanent agreement. Meanwhile the nervousness of the ignorant classes is increasing, and local authorities are issuing warnings and counselling a calm, declaring

that the scuro is the work of the frivolous

Press.

The only cases of communicable diseases noti. fied in the Colony last week wore two of enterio fever (both British) and two of small-pox (both at the half-yearly meeting of shareholders hold BURGESS AND THE MUSIC HALLS Chino).

LONDON, September 11th. The small-per cases proved fatal. at the head offes of the bank at Yokohama, on the 9th inst., it was resolved to pay a dividend The plague return was a blank.

of 12 per cent, p.a. for the last half-year ending Burgess, the swimmer who last week swam 30th June, 1911; to add to the reserve fand: 1,193,000 to the next account.

A Chinese was yesterday sentenced to two

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ider Messrs. Tse Tsan Tai and Tans Yik Kie's two other districts have to a greator or less fatter urging the coavening of a meeting to extent met the same fate, coupled with the discuss the rice famine question sud to deviso approach of winter-I am forced by a feeling of ways and means for coping with the serions compassion to write this and ask you, is th situation which bas arisen out of the flools and name of Charity, and for the sake of our fellow- failure of crops in Kwangtung, the Yangtz creatures, who are as raach the sons of the Creator as all the other wortels on earth, to exert overy provinces and Siam.

nerve to cause subscriptions to be raisedas soon as possible, if not immediately, at your end for the relief of the starring survivors.

Messrs Tam Tik Kin and Tee Tean Tai addressed the meeting, and proposed the follow. ing resolutions which were passed unanimously

1. That the Government be requested to temporarily prohibit the export of rim from the Colony, so as to enable the Colony to provide an ample store for local consumption.”

2. That the cornering of rice and unreason

able

increases in the price of rice by speculators be prohibited by the Government, and that the present stocks of rice in the Colony be sold a the wholesale purchase price, plus storage and conveyance KIDANNES,

INDIVIDUAL observation can give one, but u months' imprisonment for throwing stones at Ten-300,000, and carry forward the sun of Yen across the English Channel, has declined circumstances will permit, for the relief of the

very inadequate idea of the extent to which Western education is revolutionising the We can social life of the Chinese people. but argus from the particular to the general, but the annual returns of trade published by the Maritime Customs enable us, cui a close analysis, to get a comprehensive view of the changes which are in progress, and M. H. H. Fox, the Acting Commercial Attaché

an Indian constable in the Taiping Theatre on Saturday night during the performance.

We are informed that the police prohibited a banquet which was to have been given at West Point on Saturday night to three represents- tives from the Chinese hers who are proceed- ing to Peking to protest against the railway policy of tue Chinese Gorerament,

The coolie who was arrested at 106, Gough

LOCAL SPORT.

CRICKET.

Preparations are being made for the com- mencement of cricket. Already practice at the neta is to be noted at Kowloon and on the

Happy Valley, while last Saturday the R.A.M.C. to the British Legation in Peking, in his Hill Road last week and who was prevented and a ratch team from the Civil Service maile a beginning with a match. The Medicals won. Report on the Trade of China for1910 devotes from jumping through a window in order to Kowloon had a match between Married and many very interesting paragraphs to conscape from the excise officers was brought Single on the game-day, the latter winning

before Mr. Wood at the Magistracy yesterday The scores will be published to-morrow, ments on the statistics which afford evidence of change in many important directions. The and fined $37 or one month in prison.

LAWN BOWLS.

bances."

steady growth during the past few years in A Changsha correspondent writes: "Mors

As the match between Civil Service and the import of foreign clothing and hosiery, rumours of trouble confront us, and once more for example, is alluded to us indicating "the it is the rice question which is the base of the Taikoo has been post pensă until the 23rd inst. beginnings of that revolution in Chinese report. It is feared that the withdrawal of the the League competition cannot be decided yet. dress which must inevitably follow the bargo on the export of rice which it is report. If the Civil Service win they will have the samb adoption of Western education and modes of ed is about to be effected will cause distar number of points as the Police, and a deciding matoh will have to be played out neutral ground, life in China." With the disappearance of

probably Kowloon. It is hoped if this be so, to the queue, as he says, anust go, sooner or

Nows has been received that Mr.Wbring off the final in the open championship later, the long gown, "because even to Pontins, American Consulat Chungking, will be com etition on the same day, Chinese eyes there is something incongruous transferred to Dalny, vice Mr. A. Williamson, in the appearance of a man in a Blowing robe transferred to Antung. Mr. R. Green, Consul of silk or cotton whose close-cropped head is at nkden, is transferred to Hankow, vice Mr. Mosher, transferred to Germany. Mr. Maynard; surmounted by a foreigu cap or Panama Cougal at Vladivostock, goes to Harbin, and list, and whose feet are encased in leather Mr. C. L. L. Williams, Consul at Swatow, goes boots. As was the case in Japan a generà on loare for several months, which he will spend tion ago, it is in the headgear, underclothing at Peking with his father at the American and footwear that the tendency towards Logation.

THE BIJOU.

This bright little show-place continues to attract large audiences. There is a galaxy of new pictures, and the return of Miss Vera Ferrace, whosenew sangs are indeed new to Hongkong, adds lustre to the beat entertainment in the Colony.

Bubscriptions may be sent through the Hong- kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, Hong- kong, to Sim Kye Pang, Esquire, who has kindly

undertaken to attend to the disposal of the sam for the benefit of the sufferers, and I take the.

liberty of sending this latter on the ground of humanity for the same purpose,

CHEERED ON RELEASE.

3 That the Government bo requested to

Friends and employees, nambering fully a tolagraph to the Government of Sism to permit thousand, gathered at Glasgow Prison gates ra- shipments of rice to be made to Hongkong, ascently to welcome Mr. James Weir, son of a wealthy Glasgow engineer, on his liberation after undergoing 40 days' imprisonment. for Colony. Music Hall offers of £500 a wook.

The question of chief cice distribution will be amaiting Dr. MacEwan, son of Sir Willism MacEwan. The case created a great sensation He gives a air-bour. display at the considered at a subsequent meeting.

in Scottish society recently. Dr. MacEwan wa engaged to Mr. Weir's sister, and after Stadium, on Saturday.

the marriage had been broken off Wer THE CHINAMAN A CUSTOMER.

attacked the doctor as he was about to enter Reporting to Washington as to the state of a hospital, Dr. MacEwan being badly injured the market for knit goods." the American in the stack Weir was surrounded by his Well's Consal at Shanghal saya: "No really serions friends and employees from Mesars. effort has been made by Americans to supply works as he emerged from prison, despite the anderwear were introduced a few years ago and the prison authorities, with a view to avoiding demonstration. Elis sympathisers would not, goods of this nature, thongla certain brands of fact that his release had been made privately by selection of however, be denied, and the demonstration was ticketing, carelessness in

in packing material, sad similar details, the murket has made the more remarkable by the presence of were in good demand by natives. Through been largely lost. There is nothing so fatal in two brass bands. After Mr. Weir had been or brasal hoisted on to a white horse, a precession was The native pins his faith absolutely to shop fore-od, and, headed by the bands, escorted him China as deterioration of a chop and that to him for all time says the goods sold to his residence. ander it are identical. Once let him learn otherwise and he deserts promptly. The Chinese

MISS THURSTON'S DEATH.

LONDON, September 11th, It has transpired that Miss Katherine Thurston, who was found dead in bed last week at Cork, was to have been married to-day to a London doctor. DEAR FOOD AGITATORS IN PARIS,

LONDON, September 11th.

Dear food demonstrators-appeared in the market in Paris, but the police drove them off.

THE RUBBER EXHIBITION..

LONDON, September 11th.

The Committee of the Rubber Exhibition

in London has awarded the hundred guines

trophy offered by the India Rubber Journa!

are

particular customers, and something about. the same does not appeal to them. The manu facturer who enters this market now to eater to. the native will first have to establish his 'chop' and lire up to it."

REMEDIES FOR MOSQUITO BITES.

Clove oil is one of the bost means for keeping the insects at night, expecially if applied in the following ointment-Clove oil, 5 to 10;

off

A HEALTHY BRITISH COLONY, The Blue-book on the Falkand Islands issued by the Manial Office states that the estimated popa 2,359 at the end of last year. The

was 6.72 per 1,000 ns agsins 860 last year while the birth rate 18.92 per 1,000 1,000 was lower than any European country except France. Males were in excess of females, the proportion being as thres to two. Thestrength of the volunteer force was two officers and 112 non-commissioned officers and men, and the

the last few the ply at night. Tincture of pyrethrum roseum,

alling industry had Whaling 10, is eren more efficacions. To allay the itching grown enormously, and while seven whaling com-

irritation bites, dressings menthol

panies had lessed sites for factories on shore a of thymal useful, or the following collo-dozen companies operating in territorial waters dion may be used:-Menthol, 2; Venice turpen-employed dating factorier. Two meat canning tims, 10; castor oil, 10; collodion, 180. The factories were in course of erection, and whereas author, however, has found application of aaf- all surplus sheep had hitherto been boiled down talan better than anything else.-K. F. Hoffaly for thoir tallow the new industry would mann (J. Pharm. Chim. Append.).

sford additional employment locally.

for the best plantation Para Rubber to the lanolin, 30; glycerin of starch, to make 100. AP papitation grant earned was £94. During

Sungei Kapar Company:

ANOTHER AVIATION FATALITY.

LONDON, September 11th. An aviator flying at dusk at Esslingen collided with a post and was killed.

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