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NOTES AND COMMENTS.
(From Japanın Papers): THE TREATY WITH SWEDEN AND" NORWAY SIGNED.
Tokio, May 316i An official telegram announces that the Revised Treaty between Japan snd Norway and Sweden was signed in the sad fast.
SENTENCES ON KOREANS.
SEOUL, May 4th. Three Koreans have been found guilty of murdering a Japanese. One bas brea sentence to penal servitude for life and to receive 100 labes cood 70 lasher and 18 months' pena! servitude; and a ihled 40 isshes,
REPORTED RECALL OF FRINCE PAK. Toxto, Mav jih. The Tokio Shimðum stains that the Govern
meat of Korea has requested. Pak, who fled to America about nine months ago, to return. The Prisco is stated to be la communication with prominent Koreans in Japan upon the subject, TROOPS FOR KOREA AND WEI-HAI-WEI.
here and at home, to which they were originally. consigned. Whatever defects there were and are in the constitution and powers of the S nitary Board, whatever were its shortcomings in the past, what- ever reforms it stood in need of—and they were many-the defects did not arise from, nor were its shortcomings the result of, the presence on the Board of an unofficial majority. They were, if anything, the consequences of the presence there of the official minority and of its determined efforts to retain in its own hands all the powers officials had previously exercised, and of the support given by the Govern We note, with a very considerablement to that minority. If the Sanitary amount of gratification, the result of the Board did good work during the Plague ballot taken on Friday and Saturday last Epidemic of 1894-and it did a great work to ascertain the opinion of the British It was due to the presence on the Board residents in the colony on the moot point of a majority of thoroughly independent In connection with the Sanitary Board, men who were the backhome of the body now under the consideration of the politic, and who inspired with their own Government, and we sincerely hope that energy and spirit of Independence the his Excellency the Governor will, with- Individual officers of the Government who cut delay, give effect to the popular worked so ably and so energetically vote and to the Instructions of the during that trying time. It does seem Secretary of State, and, in addition to very strange that none of those who were withdrawing the Bill now before the actively employed on the Plague work in Legislative Council, take steps to fill up 1891 are employed during the present vacancies on the Sanitary Board and to | crisis. It reflects no discredit on them. restore it to its pristine strength and It Involves a very serious charge against vigour. At the present moment it is the Government if no adequate explanata be received from China, mounting to neither fish, flesh, fowl, nor good red ifon is forthcoming, or against the herring. It is neither a
Government members of the organisation now posing department, nor a popular assembly. It as the Sanitary Board if the Government can neither debate with freedom nor act should, as it probably will, endeavour to with independence. It is responsible throw the blame on them. nelther to the Government nor to the community for its actions, and the sooner a change is effected the better it will be for the trade of the colony and for the health of the inhabitants.
tho-
the Supreme Court to-day at the opening The new Chief Justice took his seat in of the Criminal Sessions for this month, and the Attorney-General, on behalf of the Bar and of the members of the other "That a ballot has been taken at all we branch of the legal profession, welcomed owe to the initiative of Mr. EDE and to him to the colony and congratulated him his energy and tact. Without him it on his appointment in succession to the would not have been carried through, or, three able men who have preceded him If attempted, would not have been so care-
an the Bench and whose equal be will fully and so judiciously managed as it has undoubtedly prove to be if his past career been. But it is due to the honorable is any clue to his future. Dr. CARRINGTON member for the Chamber of Commerce that in reply spoke of the high reputation for an opportunity has been afforded the com- ability at all times possessed by the munity of voting on the question at all. If Hongkong Bar, pointed out the mutual he had not been in the Council the Bill for interdependence of Bench and Bar in the the mutilation of the Sanitary Board would successful conduct of legal, business, have passed without a word being said on and emphasized the value to the colony either side. The other unofficial members from all points of view of a of the Council had been got at, had been roughly independent Bar. The learned Induced to commit themselves to an gentleman has, so far, won golden approval of the Government proposals with opinions. He was entertained at dioner out full knowledge and without opportunity on Saturday at the Hongkong Hotel by for consideration or discussion, and it would the barristers resident in the colony, have been difficult for them to withdraw practising and non-practising, and was from the position they had so unwisely found to be as pleasant and unassuming taken up. The Bill would have been read socially as he promises to be dignified and a first, second, and third time, at one firm in the administration of the duties of sitting probably, but for the honorable his high office. A Chlef Justice here member and certainly would have passed has a very difficult position to fill, even into law without the publication of any If the actual amount of work he has to portion of the correspondence that had led get through is by no means 'so great, and to its introduction If Mr. WHITEHEAD had the colony is to be congratulated on not moved for papers and had not, in his having had such men as PHILLIPFO, reply to the address presented to him on RUSSELL, and CLARKE in the past and such his return to the colony. last year, called
a successor to such men as Dr. CARRINGTON attention, In very plain language, to the promises to be. It is to be very deeply action of the Government and to the pro-regretted that he has no seat on the bable results of the policy It was pursuing. Legislative Council. Sir FIELDING CLARKE Matters were brought to a crisis by the had no seat on It, but Sir GEORGE ALL these are selected by our London House, promptitude with which the honorable PHILLIPPO and Sir JAMES RUSSELL had,
rendered 1816 | bought direct at first hand, Imported in wood member seized upon the opportunity and they both
valuable and hottled by ourselves, thus saving all inter-afforded him by the Colonial Secretary's service to the Government and to mediate profits, and esabling us to supply the very foolish letter to the Chamber of Com- the colony in that position. Since the hest growths at MODERATE PRICES.
merce and accepted the challenge of the Attorney-General of the colony has Government to bring to the test of a become a member of the Civil Service, popular vote the very interesting question pure and simple, and has ceased to be whether he or his colleagues more correctly a practising barrister with a considerable reflect the common sense and business private income and an independent capacity of the community. We hope the position, the Government has had no one Government are satisfied with the result in the Council on its own side of the of the test. They are left in as hopeless Chamber who could on occasions act as a minority as are the followers of the peacemaker and umpire in any differences between the official and unofficial members, late discredited Government In England.
and the presence of such a person at the Council table would be very valuable at the present time.
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Instructions were tested yesterday to the Ist Battalion of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division to proceed to Koren to relieve the troops at pre- sent in the peniorula,
Rellels are also to be sent to Wel-bal-wel in the course of a few weeks.
THE SECOND INSTALMENT OF THE INDEMNITY. Half of the second instalment of the Indemnity £4112.622 101. Tid, was received at Beriln on the 7th instant by Mr.. Hayashi Gousuke, Japanera Consul at Berlin, and was deposited in the Imperial German Bank.,,
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KOREAN CABINET CHANGES,
SIOUL, May 7th. The Vice-Minister for War has been released from bis office at his own request and a succes- for has been appolated,
THE KUNRENTA! SOLDIERS, The Korean Government is reported to have decided to gradually discharge the soldiers of the Bodyguard who formerly belonged to the Kunrental, or Disciplined Army.
EPIDEMIC OF MALARIAL FEVER.
TAKAMATSU (SANUKI), May 7th, Aboat 250 fisherman in this town are suffering from metalat fever. The town amharides ure
exerting themselves to grapple with the epidemic.
SCHOOLBOY STRIKES PUNISHED.
TOYAMA (ETCHO), May 8th, Thirty-twa stadents of the Ordinary Middie Schrol have been aspended for three weeks for
■ refual to proceed with their tindies.
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A GUBERNATORIAL' CONFERENCE.
A conference of governors le to do well here for a week, commencing on the 13h inst. The enference will by addrected by the Pramlar, the Home Minister, the Financial Mlaimer, and others.
MILITARY APPOINTMENTS.
TOXIO, May roth. General Tera has been appointed commanding · officer of the Toklo Bay Defences; Llust, G÷zoral Kuroda, to be Chief of the Grene als St-al the Garrison; and M›j»-G÷ocal Sakoma, comman« der of the Body Gaurds,
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THERE were eight cases of plague yesterday.... seven in the city and one in Kowloon, To-day nine cases have been reported-five in the city,
two in the harbour, one in Kowloon, and one at Shau-ki-wan.
THE wile al Prince Mio, who is now living at Shanghal, after many years exile spent in Hongkong, recently arifved in Shanghul, whare she has jalaed her busband.
By a decree in the Manila Gavernment Gazette -al the 1st inst., the erder prohibiting the imports- tion of cattle from Hongkong is rescinded, as [the Spanish Consul here has notified that no
further danger exists.
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MR. H. B. MORSE goes to Lungchow as Com. missioner of Customs, Mr. Spipney to Mërgize, Mr. Carl to Stemto, the new port in the south- west of Yuanas, and Mr. Smollett Campbell to Amoy, Mr. H. M. Hiller, in charge at
■ Commissioner. Kowloor, has been made On Saturday ao amab to Staunton Street was reported to have died suddenly, and the cauJO of death was stated by a Government physician to have been heart disease. Last night, how ever, she was found to have a girdle ted about her week, so that a post-mortem and inquest will have to be bold.
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O Saturday afternoon, while a number of workmen were breaking up a quantity of old shells in Wanchal, one of them exploded, caus ing great consternation in the neighbourhood.. Two men were badly burned, but beyond breaking most of the windows in the vicinity this was mil the damage done.
THE Cables Companies issued the following afternoon - The Spanish "express" this Government lines between Bollano and Mana bare bron interrupted by typhoon since Sunday moroleg. Restoration is expected to-day or
to-monow. In the meantime, telegrams handed to us are being forwarded to Bolinao lo await
FROST IN THE SILK DISTRICTS.
restoration. Toxto, May 8th. The recent spell of cool weather is reported to have done considerable dem ge la some of the slk-breeding divulets, official telegrams from the governors of Gorama prefecture and Nagano profecture stating that frost has been experienced and the mulberry leaves aro lejared,
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THE PROPOSED SALE OF THE IMPERIAL MINES. The silvers, of Ikano, in which district the Imperial gold mine now offered for sile is situated, have sent a delegate to Toklo to endeavour to persuade the Government to sell the mise to the inh-hants of the district.
WE regiet to have to angoasce the death of another old resident of this colony, Mr. W. P. Moore, who hat for so many years carried on the batt-dressing business now known as Mestra Campbell, Moors & Co., Ltd. Mr. Moore bas been in the Far East for over 33 years and ban resided la Hongkong almost continuously for the last quarter of a century. A little over a year sgo be experienced a paralytic stroke, from. which he recovered in time, though slowly. Os Saturday evening about 9 o'clock, after a busy CONCESSIONS IN KOREA,
day, ha wau again stricken by the same malady, .SKOUL, May 8, and expired this morning about raja. His It is reported that Russians hava sècured
remalos were folowed to the grave this after. coal mite concession in Ham Ktang Do and Germans a gold mira concession in Plug-in Do.noon by a large number of his friends.
THE RUSSO-JAPAN CONCORDAT.
TORIO, May 8th.
It is stated that the arrangement which being negotiated between Rosals and Japan In Karen refers to the control of the telegraph and he is000s of the two Powers in the sentasnia. It also guaranteesike status of the Klog. Tae rangement is only temporary, and it is a question among Cabinet Ministers whether it need be discussed by the Privy Council and the dieloma's, England, it is thought, would be sure to intervene if the arrangement was of a 'permanent character.
MORE RUMOURS ABOUT THE ARMSTRONG COMPANY,
It is reported that the representatives of foreign shiphetiders now in Japan are much concerned
RUSSIA is taking her pay for her assistance to China in the maiter of the Linctung Panlasala, Notwithstanding the protests of the English and German Ministers, the foreshore of Messrs.
Fergasson & Co.'s premises at Cheloo has been
granted, by the Tongli Yamen and not by the Chefsa Trotal, to a Russiaalsed Amerlein, who is acting ostensibly for the Russlán Steam Navigation Company in the East, but of course i really for the Russian Government. . This ls merely the first of the results of the sale of Chice to Russia; and we doubt if the Germin Emperor quite realised what he was doing whên, đ he istaed Russia and Francofą putting pressure on Japan at the end of the late war. We may ment of a dockyard by Mesura Armstrong, add to this that it lo reported to Tientala that Mitebell & Co. A well-knowɑfféigo lady who Chias bas definitely sold Kanchan Bay va is married to a high officialls reported to have Russia for a naval station.—N. C. Dally News, Fald that Sir Andrew Nobla has come to Japan on the direct invitation of the Japanese Govern- ment made to the Armstrong firm to establish a dockyard bere. It is further said that arrange. ments have been practically settled to build the dockyard at Wada. Polat, Hyogo, and that Mr. Iwasaki, the well-known capitalist, and Sir Andrew Noble will shortly fuspect the place.. THE EMPLOYMENT OF THE INDEMNITY.
Of course the Government will question the result, and the honorable member who leads for the Government will spend his time and his energies in dissecting the list of voters as he dissected the list of signa TELEGRAM S. about the rumours with respect to the establlah- tories of the petition to Parliament, and will endeavour to show that they are all nobodies, whose oplalons, are of no Im- portance, and who possess no stake in the colony, or that they are Influenced by personal motives not far to peek. Af ready it has been urged, as an explana- tion of the vote, that only one side of the question has been put before the public, that all the local journals have been in the conspiracy against the Government, quality end of greater age than most brands and that the other side of the question in the market. The SCOTCH WHỶ has never been heard, and not only has marked “E” is universally popular, and is not been heard but has been misrepre- pronounced by the best local connoisseursented. Whose fault is that, if it be so? It to be superior to why other brand in the is quite true that the officers of the Gov- ernment may not write to the papers Hongkong market.
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(Special to Hongkong Telegraph.) SIR CLAUDE MACDONALD HAS
AUDIENCE WITH THE" -
EMPEROR,
RECEIVED IN THE WENHUA THRONĚ HALL. SHANGHAI, May 18th.
4.48 P.M. The Sintinpao publishes a telegram from Peking slating that Sir Claude MacDonald, the new British Minister, was received in audience by the Emperor, in the Wenhus Throne Hall, or the 7th fast, when he duly presented his credentials.
REUTER'S MESSAGES. THE ACQUITTAL OF CAPTAIN LOTHAIRE,
LONDON, May 15th. The British Government has formally appealed against Captain Lethaire's acquittal,
THE AUSTRALIAN CHICKET ELEVEN IN ENGLAND, The match between the Australian and Lord Sheffield's Eleven ended lava draw the latter wanting 77 runs with 6 wickets to fall.
BRITISH TREATY RIGHTS IN MADAGASCAR,
are the reports of the Government servants' on the Sanitary Board and its worktag? The Government, in a formal representation, Where are the Governor's despatches to has addressed France regarding Biltok Treaty the Secretary of State with the case eights in Madagascar. No reply has as yet against the Sanitary Board and its popu-been received. lar constitution? They have not seen the light and never will. If there has been no reply to the arguments In favour of the
Is le requested that all communications relating to Sabres Advertisements, &c., be addromed in the "Manager, Ang Letters on Editorial mattis to be set to "The Editor and Comodations Intended for publication must be carried by the same and addrws of the yelaws, non neceway for polleation; het as rides of good fritids be eran for the fair discussion by carepondents of all quand
Weds: the come of the Honghe Sanitary Board It is wholly and entirely
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From Diario de Manila.) THE CUBAN STRUGGLE.
MADRID, May 81%.. Satisfactory reports of the campaign fa Cabs contlaus to be received, giving hopes of short time,
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Advertisers ses rezuantad to forward' át potións hazbanded for insertion is that day's Bow not later them Thres of Clack of things. If the documents that have not ward the woely patlication of the paper.
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(From the North China Dally Noms.) ANTI-MISSIONARY RIOTS AT,
KIANGYIN. SAN
KIANGYIN, May 12th. 9. Pitts
The Protestant Mission promises here werd that they should remain in the obscurity attached by riotars" to-day and the property. of the pigeon holes in "skog pulfio adlows | iwwer: The
May 9th
It is reported that Viscount Watanabe, the Financial Miolster, proposes to use the part of the indemnity paid in Berlin to defray the cost of the torpeds-boats that will be contracted in Germany.
THE TREATY BETWEEN JAPAN AND DENMARK.
An official telegram has been received announcing that ralifications of the Treaty between Japan and Denmark were exchanged as the 6th inst
FURTHER PAYMENT OF INDEMNITY MONEY
A telegram from London has been received by the Government stating that the equivalent of 25 million taals (half the second fastalment of the indemulty), together with 6.350,000, interest
on the remainder, and 400,000 iela, expense of malalalaing the Japanese garrison at Wel-hal wel, was duly received by the Japanese Minister from the Chinese representative and paid into the Bank of England, *
SUSPECTED PLAGUE CASES IN.
FORMOSA
An official inlegram has been received from Mr. Kato, Chief of the Sanitary Bureau at Farmers, to the effect that a diaenso resembling. plague has broken out at Auping. Twenty-six cases, káve been already reported, of which nine. have proved fatal. The infected district has been quarantined.
A NEW COTTON-SPINNING MILLS
FOR HYOGO, DEMO The Colton-spinning company that miginally decided to build a fictory at Shanghal now pro poses toʻtransfer the enterprise to Hyogo As extraordinary meeting of ahirabolders has been called for the 21st lost, to take the proposal Ente. consklarationeurketa Des
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THE Sheal correspondent of aur. Shengkai morning contemporary wilicsthus concerning the Kansa trembles:-The rebellion is still being waged and should the Emperor entire to belleve all the lies that are being sent to P eking, the war will be prolonged until the diary
time the Imperial silver is the chief sinew of the official greed for gold be fairly satisfied. Mean
war and is being absorbed by the cart-loud for all the corrupt ends of oficialiam posing as patriois. The Japanese war. and now this campaign against the Mahommedans prove beyond all possibility of question- the fatulty of faith in the potentiality of Ching as a military power, Lord Wolseley, or any other authoritys cannot contradict the evidence of factes (x) That the Chinese army is nothing superior to sa accumulation af undisciplined mobs, out of which a competent Held forca of any consider abis sisa could not be trained for yours to come. ; (3) That the present corruption is so extensive, fatal, and firmly stated that patriotians, and so efficienty, cannot be expected under a nativa é ynasty Tow about a millennium at least,
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