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VICTORIA

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AN EMERGENCY MEETING of the above

LODGE will be held in the FREEMASONS' HALL, Zetland Street, on SATURDAY, the zzad instant, at 8.30 for 9 p.m. precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited,

Hongkong, 8th June, 1895.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1895.

Co-day's- Advertisements.

TENDERS INVITED,

"ENDERS Invited the and

Removal of the COOKHOUSE, fase from the Barracks rccupied by the 1ST BATTA LION RIFLE BRIGADE from the 1st of Gext

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Particulars on application. Hongkong, 18th June, 1895.

NOTICE.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1895;

WATERLOO, DAY.

TO-DAY is the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. It was a reat victory and decisive, for the time being, of the fate of France and of Europe. Had it terminated otherwise than it did, It would, In all human probability, have restored the Great Emperor to his throne and France to her supremacy in Europe for many years. Ending as it did in the total destruction of the French army it sent [861 NAFOzza to dle in SAINT HELENA and reduced France for over thirty years to a secondary place in the Councils of Europe, till. another NAPOLEON came to rise her again to great eminance only to cast her once more into the furnace A MAESTY'S JUSTICES the PEACE of cru hlug defeat. It was a glorious will be held in the JUSTICES ROOM, at the termination for the English Army and MAOISTRACE, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon Its heroic commander of Afteen years of of TUESDAY, the 25th day of Jane, A.D. almost incessant fighting, but it was not 1895, for the purpose of considering an applies- the great victory for the British arms that Hon for the Transfer of the Li ence of THE

we have so long fondly belleved it to STAO HOTEL, situato at Horses Nos. 145 and be. In Wolseley's Decline and Fall of 150 Queen's Road Central, from the original Kolder ALFRED BONAPARTE CONSTANCE Napoleon, this competent critic says:- "No one can be better aware, no one DEMEE to his momines HALE CRAWFORD SHERMAN.

can be prouder than I am, of the magni- ficent courage and steadiness of the British soldier at Waterloo; bat when every allowance is made for it, the honest

SPECIAL SESSIONS of

. P. & WODEHOUSE,

Palice Magistracy.

Magistracy, Hongkong, rath June, 1896.

Entimations.

was

THE P. &+ T. Timas hints at the existence of N Continental combination against Great Billain to the Far East, and prophesies that "sha will, have to face a gigantic competfilos la Reform enterprises conducted on Hues of diplomatic

when some act had to be done by the Governär-In-Council, When it assembled the Governor had for his advisers at hand: his Colonial Secretary, a man of experiance in other colonies and who had worked up through_all_the | preferenca.?· departments and was familiar with their duties and with the routine of it; the General of the 8th last, the Paking and Officer Commanding; a man, as a rule, of | Tintiin Times rebukes the "masterly lasctl mature age and extensive experience,vity of the English governmeal, pointing out and a practising Attorney General-his that what France, Germany, and-Russia are Constituti nal·legal adviser and largely struggling for is not the present foreign trade of independent. None of these gentlemen China but the possible vast future trade, were likely to have any special feeling of brotherhood with an offending Head of a department. They had risen above his sphere, and the Colonial Secretary and the Attorney-General might any day be called on to take on themselves the actual responsibilities of government. A Governor then had fair chance of hearing indepen dent oplatons and getting experienced advice. It was not then a mere question of votes on this side of votes on the other. Buz Now !

(Special to Hongkong Telegraph.) TELEGRAM.

THE ANTI-FOREIGN OUT- RAGES IN SZECHUEN, ANOTHER BRITISH MISSION WRECKED.

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TRE ANTI-FOREIGN OUTBREAK

THE OFFICIAIS DO, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO C NTROL THE MORS.

A correspondeat, writing from Hankow on tha Trth instant, says :-----

IN SZECHUEN,

“YAST... AMOUNT_OF_FORLIGN PROPERTY DE- TROYED AND THE MISHONARIES DRIVEN FROM THEIR HOMES BY HOWLING MOBS OF FANATICAL CHINESE,

We are indebted to our Shanghal exchanges for the following interesting information relative to the recent anti-loreign outbreak in the pro- vince of Set and/or

HANKOW, June 11th. A telegram has been secofved here, stating that the Americas, English, French and Can adian Missions at Ch'engtu, Klang, Yuchen MR. W. KITE, until lately Engineer of the Some of the missionaries are misslaz. No Hires Pen-ihan and Sin-kla bave been wrecked, Shanghal Fire Department, who has resigned lost. The foreigners bave felt Ch'engtu. Sul fa bla poslitan after 24 years' continapas service in and Lu-chen are threatened. The telegram the Brigade, and who' lu going home on a well-forther says !—“Chunking ring ut” July, exámia, earned bollday, was presented with a very atlon certain. Urge mario's up." bundrome plece of plate on the raib Instant by the members of the Brigade, as a token of the respect and esteem in which he is held by them

The Impression amongst the European We may mention that it is a mistake to anticipate, residents here is that the rioting at Chengta is as the public apparently amilelpetes, that the || but the tagloning of the end, and there is doubt daty of conducting, negotiations with regard to- but what the amhorliles are mixed up in the restoration of the Liaotung Penfassin haas tiols are widespread and are contiralag. the slots and have really instigated them. been entrusted to Mr. Hayashi, and that Pekin and further serious troubles may be anticipated is to be the place of conference. The negotiations | and raplan and pillage may lead to bloodshed. will, according to the Japan Mati, be held in The places threatened are Chunklog and other Tokyo, and thele commencement will be deferred

town to the ricially, and the foreign Powers until the arrival of a Chiness Representative. It seems that the mandaries are determined should take vigorous measures immediately. China appears to be in no hurry to send a

to thwart the miialonaries as much as ponibla Minister to Tokvor not even a nomination has and the authorities here hava andoubtedly yet been made, so far ai we 'can learn.:

been folly engnisant of the rising, and have made no effort to check it. Nothing but u strong force of gunboats in the rivet will stop the feeling against foreigners that is spreading over the country and venting itself in outragen wherever possible. To-day is the first day that definite lntelligence has been restival respicting the outrages at Ch'eugtu, which fally confirms exallar rep xts.'

SHANGHAI, Jane rith. contains the following additional particulars

A letter received to-day from Chung-king On 5th of 5th moon (28th May) the mob began to attack the Canadian Protestant Mission. The Mission was icated and barat to the ground. The English Consul wired to the Viceroy (Liu Ping-chang) asking him to protect the fareign property. The Viceroy replied by wire that he could do nothing. The next days, 29th and 30th, the American Mission was attacked. Tas Chentai (General) was present with his soldiers. He had been told that the China Inland Mission was surrounded, and he consequently proceeded to the place with his tre sps, and then the mob attacked and destroyed the American Mission. I do not know say pericular about the destruction of the French Missions, but if they are destroyed the loss must

[803 historian must admit that it was the BISHOP DURAND LINGERING IN A SOME persons connected with the Grand

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splendid audacity of this Prussian move upon St. LAMBERT and the French right, due to the personal loyalty of Prince Blucher to Wellington. determined the fate of Napoleon's army at Waterloo""

that

Let us drink, then, to our Prussian Allies and to the memory of old Forwarts when we recall to-night the glories, of that day and when we wonder within ourselves four

French friends are or are not hankering after an opportunity to reverse the decrees of fate and try their fortunes again against the victors of Agincourt, Cressy, Polctiers and Waterloo.

·CROWN COLONY GOVERNMENT.

UNTIL Sir Grozor Bowen Interfered, the Executive Council of this Colony consisted of the Major-General Commanding, the Colonial Secretary and the Attorney RASPBERRYADE, &C. General, and none of the Heads of Depart

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ments were members of it. During the Governorship of that worthy Knight Grand' Cross of St. Michael and St. George, the constitution of the Council was radically cha ged, and changed very much for the worse. The heads of the principal depart ments of the Government were intro- duced into it and it was arranged that it should meet weekly. The only reason give for making the heads of departments members was to save time and useless

correspondence as, if they were not present, matters coming before the Council. would have to be referred to them for their opinion and report and the papers cfr. culated to the members, while If they were. present all needful information could be

CHINESE DUNGEON.

THE "FIREBRAND" AT ICHANG.

SHANGHAI, June 18th.

11:30a.m.

The anti-foreign riots which broke out at Chengtu, In the province of Srechuen a few days ago are spreading rapidly throughout the province.

Last night the rioters reached the city of Pauning-fu and being joined there by the rowdy element of the town attac' ed the premises of the China Inland Mission which were soon completely wrecked. The foreign members of the Mission escaped by boat and are probably making the best of their way to Chungking. *

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Secretariat at Paking through whose hands all memorials to the Emperor have to pass; have recently compiled a book contaluing the majicky of the memorials baudad in by the metropolitan and provincial officials denouncing the recent Trasty of Peace with Japan, The edition is pabilahed anonymously, but the introduction and prefaces to the work by the able pens of some of the highest literary lights of the country are ald to form a constellation of satires. This work is a breach of confidence on the part of the compliers; hence the necessity of secrecy es to the names of the authorI;

GREAT excitement prevailed in Queen's Road Central this morning, and 'for a time it looked as through there would be a riot The cause of the "rampus" was "Ben" Taylor who, it A telegram despatched from Chungking appears, had some domestic trouble and went to yesterday states that Bishop Durand and his house to take away his little child and place Monseignor Charagon have been impri- her where he considered she would be well looked soned by the Chinese officials of Pauning-fu. after. As soon as he started out with the infant a H.M.S. Firebrand has left Hankow for sumber of Chinese raised the cry of "kidnapper,” Iohang and is to act under the orders of and in very short time the thoroughfare frams the British Consul stationed at Ichang, Poltlager Street to the New Victoria Hotel was |

Her Majesty's ship Porpois, the U.S.S.literally packed with Chinese, who followed Pard and the French gunboats Comèle

Ben booting and yelling. This so aggravated the doughty warzlar they ha" let loose" and·ield and Inconstant are up the Yangtsre and

not four or five croiles to next to no time, Had should reach Hankow to-day or to-morrow It not been for the timely arrival of a European forenoon.

policeman on the scene; some wary serious trouble would no doubt have resulted. Mr. Taylor ultimately ranched the French Cɔnvent where he left

his child ACCORDING to our latest reports from Tientsin,

The dry of Paning is situated on the Kaling River, a hatery at the Yang It is 15 miles north-east of Changta

and about ye mile north-west, as the crow fim, of Chungking.]

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS,

THE CHITRAL.

LONDON, June 17th. The Times urges the retention of a British Agent at Chitral, which the Hon. G. N. Carson

supports,

GREAT BRITAIN AND JOHORE. The Minister in attendance on the late Sultan

obtained from them vind vore and assimi- lated and considered at the same meeting, Sir Grozaz BowEx forgot, apparently, that the same result could have been obtained

that they intend to treat Johore in accordance by requiring their personal attendance at with the treaty regulating the relations between the Council meeting whenever any the two countil'e. business specially affecting their several departments was before the meeting and that there was no real necessity for constituting them members solely for the purpose of avoiding of useless, carros. pondence.

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be immense.".

The following telegram was received at Shanghai on the Irth instant from Habkow ;-

"The English, French, Canadian, and American missions have been wrecked at Chengtu, Kinting, Yachon, Plagaslian, and Sia- king. Some of the missionaries are missing,. but It is not known that any lives have been lost. Sulfa and Luchou are threatened. At Chung king riot is certats. All foreigners left Chéngtu Testerday. Urgo asilatanes,

This morning, 11th the Rev. Mr. Hykes, of the American Bible So:lely, was the recipient of the following telegram, dated Chungking, from Dr. Lew's Has of the Canadian Methodist

Mission

"Hyker, Shangbal, Cable New York and Toronto, Riots at Chenta and Kisting, Property utterly destroyed. Workers exte. Lewis Hart."

This morning also the Procurator of the Mission Etrangeres received a telegram from Chungking, the substance of which is as fellows.

SHANGHAI, June 12th.. The Missions:les belonging to the American Baptish Missionary Union at Chentu and Kal- ting are all safe and are on their way down to Hankow.

says the Mercury of the 13th June, Li Hung. chang is to re-occupy the post of Viceroy of Chibli and Sheng Hong-shan has slready returned to his post as Cartomi Trotat at Tientsin. This can bave bat one meaning. The old policy of shift and intrigus is to return once more into its old grooves, sad all the lessons of the past your are to be forgotten, and gassed

Missions les ara male in the Yaman. Desirpice by as if they had never been given. It is difficult Hon spreading all over the province. Chinese to understand the frame of mind that leads up of Johore has been informed by the Government his condition, and did wa not know how deficient / authorities do not morɑ to stop such outraZOL" may be the power of reasoning even with over acute faculties of perception we could not belleve It traz. We mait, however, accept itas BYE ELECTION.

physiological fact, and it becomes as to square ircted for Invernesshire.

Mr. Ballie, the Unionist Candidate, has been our policy see rdingly. We can no longer. permit China in our own, and her own, interests to jog along in the old rats. If we do so we are only inciting & return of the catastrophe of Dast year. Japan has smelt blood, and it will be as easy for her to renew the quarrel as it was to pick one to the first instance. China, says the Mercury, certainly cannot survive snotber attack such as she has gone through,

Hall Museum for the week ended June 16th, THE returns of the number of visitors to the City | Valley. are Europeans, 1331. Chinese, 1994: Letal

RUSSIA AND FRANCE. The Czar of Russia has conferred the Order of St. Andrew on President Faure, and written him an authograph letter. -

THE ARMENIAN REFORMS. It is stated that the Porte has handed the Powers, seceding the principle of the control Embassies a freak reply to the joint Note of the of the Great Powers in the questionof Armenian reformas and proposing that such reforms extend' over three years,

In his "Recollections" Sir Gronox Bower prides himself upon the alteration thus effected in the constitution of the Executive Council of Hongkong and takes credit for it as a vast improvement, It was, however: anything butan Improvement and toit must be attributed many of the evils from which we are now suffering in matters govern mental in Hongkong. The admission into the Executive Council of the Heads of

It is affirmed to S. Petersburg that the sim Departments and the Institution of weekly of Russia la guaranteeing the Chinese loan was meetings lowered the whole tone and to secure mesas to loterfere in the affairs of temper of government in Hongkong and Chinx and that the question of the pittags of converted it from an autocracy latothe Siberien Railway through Manchuria was

not raised. bureaucracy of the very worst kind. Formerly we were under the Governor or

Our Registered Telegraphic Addreas, is | the Colonial Secretary as the one of DISPENSARY, HONGKONG." And all the other was the stronger man; now signed messages addressed this will receive

we are ruled by the constantly changing prompt attention.

opinions and views of a body of hall trained civil servants, each of whom hai

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LOCAL AND GENERAL, INSPECTOR A. Mann leaves for London on Thursday the soth inst, by the P. and O. liner Ravinna.

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An Emergency meeting of Victoria Lodge, No. 1026, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, on Saturday, the sand instant, at 8.30 for 9.m. precisely, Visiting brethren are cordially

Envited!

HM.S. Propoise. Capt. Pelly, leaves the first thing this morning for the Yangiseports as may be regalred, disturbances being threatened at Hankow and Nanking. H.M.S, Firebrand

to Ichang. has been directed to proceed

Strlet orders bave been issued by wire from Peking to the Viceroys of the Hakuang and Liangkiang provinces that no fresh anti-Chris- tfan riots are to take place in the Yangtze

Mr. Jernigan, U.S. Consul-General at Shang. hal received on the 13th instant from Mr. Lewis, of Chungking the following telegram :—

"Missions at Chéngte, Klating, Yachou, Suffa, Luchos, and many other places wrecked or abandoned. No place in the province sale. Apparently wide-spread conspiracy. Scores of missionary refugees descending Yangtze, Sema Barrow escapes, but no lives reported lost, Chung- Ar the Criminal Sessions this morning Zugedeking still kokia puts official vigilant, W. McKenna, seaman of the Nova Scotian

THE ACTION OF THE BRITISH AND FRENCH | barque Esther Roy, was Indicted

MINISTERI. menslaughter, under císcumatsocas already dully explained in these columns. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years? Imprisonment with hard labour,

PLAGUE NOTES.

We regret having to report five deaths, In the Kennedy-town plague depôt siace noon yester day.

One fresh case was discovered today in No. 10 Heung Lane.

AUREN RETURNE

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The latest oficio! returns are as follows :-- From 14th Jane uafl y pim, to-dayeuhot? No. of cases reported merensstemmeln & No. of deaths

No.

of

cases under treatment...... 44. *This does not Include the care in which the cause of depth and mot bien diagnosed when reported at the slice of the Sanitary Board.

We make the returns from the outbreak (28th April) wp to date as follows -

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Bath Consul-General at Shanghai on the 17th The following telegram was received by the instant from, Sir Nicholas O'Conor, HMS Minister at Feking t—.

Inform the China Association and the Prass that I received last night a telegram from H:M. Cousal at Chungking, dated the 8th instų, stating that no far so lives bhad been lost, bus, the situation was very grave. Tachow and Klating had been wracked and Hauchos was in danger. am insisting upon the atmost energy, and holdleg the officials responsible."

The China Gasette of the rath states that M. Gerard, the energetis French Minister at Peking, whose representations on the subject of these outrages were the first to be made to the Trungil Yamén, has produced abject terror amongst that obstructive and treacherous body, The kimaters of the Yamen are in mortal, fartoe and have lost no time to making the metal promises. They undertake to settle the entire question without | delay, and in the most complete manner possible. Our contemporary is also Infoemad, though not on the same kathewity as in the case of the fore going statements, that the Viceroy Lẫu hag bean held answerable by the Yamén for the proclama- Han issued by him and of which the Frenck Minister la cagles before the Yamin. Some of the Protestani valssionaries left Chungking on the 11th for Haukaw,

AT the Magistracy, this morning, before Mr. Each head of a department Is Interested Wodehouse, Inspector Stanton, Examiner of in and responsible for the work of his own | Weights and Measures, charged ike masters off branch of the public service. He naturally call No.'s 4, 8, 25 and 53, Now Central Maskei, thinks" "If the most important" and its with having fraudulent scales, Fines-aggre- requirements the more pressing. He legating 875 were loposed. In respect of that department and its working imediately in contact with the Raziale reports from the Yangrise; as far as public and he is personally responsible to Hankow, state that there does not appear to be the Governor for its successful working. If the slightest likelihood of any Haing at Kicking things go wrong either within the depart- beyond what may arise at any moment ont of ment or between the department and the the Kuling atfair, which, according to the Chies public, he, the Head, is liable to be called Gansits, will 'ere many days require serious to account for It. When any causes of | attrailón, complaint arise against the Gover Ar the Supreme Court, yesterday afternoon, ment of the Colony, they are complaints connected with the working of one or Mr. T. Sercome Smith, Acting Paisine Judge, other of the departments. All matters of sitting in Summmnasy Jurisdičtion, gave judgment | June this sort come before the Executive and for the plaintiff is the case of Fenwick v. Base

No more sewa has as yet come over the wires TO 'SUBSCRIBERS.

for the sum of $40 being the price of a marine the Executive Council consists, In the main,

Mr.

from the West, so wa are still in the dark as to of heads of departments; all: cadets, all boller sold by plaintiff to defendant.

the particulars of the Chingtu tragedy, but the *THE HOrdkore bound together by a common Interest, all Hssilage appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr.

opinion gains ground harm that it will prove to TUEROLIE LA TO

x-officier leagued against the public. How Gedge for the defendant.

| be one of the mort serioms of all the riots of recent years The Protestant Missions involved TELEGRAPH” ♣U# MOST RESPO

ULLY, can contested departmental questions be

Yours truly,

are the Church of England, Chian Inland, settled when the heads of the departments

ALFRED İLUT. Canadian Methodist, American Methodist MEMEDIO TEAT ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS Concerned are themselves member red

(Enclosure) Barbud

Episcopal, besides a very strong Catholic Mission. body to which the settlement referred ?

The treasurer of the Kowloon Jautists, bags The total number of foreigneru mauully resident Advertetes are reminded that the Hongkong MUIT UN PAID IN AD

ADVANOR.

Formerly the Governor seldom saw the Telegraph has by far the largest circulation at

Executive Council; it was only called he said, 'been led-old fórms, drawn up under to acknowledge with many thanks the sum of there is about fifty or sixty,

STEP (one hundred and ten dollars) being the ....... Châugtu tosif has, kikarto borne the best any Karlish newspaper published in the Far

together at long intervals when its presence the provisions of an obsolete Oidleksor, hayles, proceeds of Mt. Brady's entertainmfat on fede reputation for friendling to foreigners.* THa On 13th fast, at 8 3. Qual de France, Starghal, † was absolutely require'1, when an"oficer "bean" used for the purpose for reasons which" | | 18th in the Kowieën instienta; which rum has | the largest and wakilkien city of all the West,

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