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A Havas message of the 13th October conāras the cows of the Chloess Government having engaged Frenchmen to reorganise and recon- struct the Arsenal at Foochew.. L'Avenir du Toxin says the French enginners have agreed to put the arsenal in a condition which will enable the directors to have warships of 4,000 tons displacement built there.
A HUGE sensation was caused in Caicotta on
been found in the unspeakably filthy Howrah the 9th fnstant, owing to a cass of plagus having
qouter of the city. The patient, a Euralan, came from Bombay and doubtless brought the germs of the disease with him, for he unived in Calcutta on the 26th September and had been alling from that date until the time when the symptoms of plague became pronounced
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TRE RONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,
At a monthly meeting of the Committee held at the Chamber Rooms on the and instant there were present Maurs, A. McConachle J. J. Bell-Irwing, N. J. Ede, N. A. Stabs, Hon (Chairman), H. Smith (Vice-Chalymen), Hon. T. H. Whitehead, and R. C. Wilcox (Secretary),
MINUTES..
The minutes of the previous meating ware read and confirmed.
THE VACANCY ON THE COMMITTEE, The question of appolating a member to the considered, and was decided to deferaction usif! sextonthe Committe vacated by Mr. Dodwell was the return of a former member, sherly expected.
THE CHAMBER' REPRESENTATIVE ON THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
Read letter from Colonial Secretary, dated 25th September, fuformlor Chamber that HE the Governor bad appolated Ms. Whitehead, subject to Her Majesty's plessure, to be unoff. cial member of the Legislative Council.
NEW MEMBERS,
It was announced that the following new
members had been elected during the manth Mr. A. R. Marty, the Nippon Yasen Kalsha, and Mr. Paul Jordan.
way, of his information.
In his reports Bye-laws of 1894 were foolish and ought on the Philippines rebellion he has told never to have been passed by the Sanitary us absolutely nothing that we bad not Board and the Council, of whom the heard before, except as to the character Governor is one, or, if they were right and and condition, of the soldiers recently proper, they ought to have been enforced arrived from Speln, He saw these, in their entirety. The least degree of apparently. As to the imprisonment and prudence and foresight on the part of the the torture and shootings, there is nothing Rump" and Its Secretary ought to have new in it. It is the same old story told of prepared them for the probability, of a Spaniards and priests everywhere and at strike and placed them in a position to all times, on an à priori assumption of render It hurtful only to the strikers; but what such people are bound to do. Hae although they are, with one exception, Mr. DAVIDSON seen any of the sufferers Government officials, with that "special Has he seen and knowledge of the Chinese and their ways and | from this torture?
spoken to any of the victims? We feel and their requirements" that we lay certain he has not. If he had he would man, are, according to the Colonial Secre- have so stated it." "We doubt, knowing tary, so strikingly deficient in, they have Manila as well as we do, if he spoke to blundered over this simple matter, and any single Spanish inhabitant during blundered badly. True, the unreformed the whole fortnight he was there, beyond Board passed the Bye-laws, but the exchanging with one or two whom he "Rump," after full deliberation, suddenly chanced to meet the usual complimentary put them in force and struck to them until phrases and inquiries. And, strange to pressure from the higher powers fright-On Monday afternoon, at Happy Valley, the relate, on the very slender basis furnished oned them into amending them, and then Hongkong Football Club will play F Company, by its special correspondent's wholly only under feeble protest. If they had had R.B. The Clab will be in white and E Com- unauthenticated report of what he did not the courage of their opinions they would
THE INCREASE IN TELEGRAPH RATES. pany la colour. Kick-off #! 4:45 p.m. sharp. see, our morning contemporary the Daily have told the Governor that he was
• It was announced that, in pursuance of the Press has framed a leading article practi-powerless in the matter, the law giving W. Machell, goal; C. T. Kew, and J. R. Giling-report of the proceedings at the special meeting The Club team will be-constituted as follows:- decision come in at last-meatine, coples of the cally inciting the Japanese to take posses them, and not him, the discretion.
ham, backs: F. H. Kew, W. H. Prycr- of the Chamber, held on the rgià September, to sloo of the Philippines, and alleges that the outraged laws of humanity would
Browns, R.M.L.I., and A. J. R. Greene, R.A, protest against the sudden increase of their rates to Europe, America, and Shanghai' by the Justify this step! Neither individuals
halves'; P. G.Anderson, H.K.R., F, B. Deacon, | joint Telegraph Companies, were printed" nor governments are In the habit of
P. G. Davies, R.A., G. D. Campbell, H.K.R., and forwarded, with covering letters to giving public contradiction to the un-
and E. C. Rowecroft, H.K.R., forwards,
the Action Manager, Joint Telegraph Com supported statements even of special
panion; Her Majesty's Minister at Fik correspondents. Any respectable English
Ing: the Hongkong Government ; the See- retary of State for Foreign Affairs; the newspaper should be ashamed, without
Government of India, and 14 other Govern further proof than Mr. Davidson's report
ments; the London Chamber of Commerce; tha affords, to assert that the charge of Inflicting torture, and torture of very
Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, and 123 other Chambers in various parts of the world 1-tha brutal character, is too clear to admit of
China Association, Shanghal Branch; the China China Association, Hongkong Branch the ALL there are selected by our London House, contradiction, and, on a mere supposition,
Association, London; the Straits Settlements to charge the government of a civilized
Cousal (eleven) In Hongkong, for distribution. priests, with conduct it qualifies as abomin- preparations. able, with grossly outraging the laws of humanity. But leading columns must, we suppose, be filled, and the susceptibilities of the community be duly pandered to. It Is a pity. We condemn and abbor needless crusity and torture, as much as any one.
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LONDON, October aznd. Irades have been laeved at Constantinople imposing a poll-tax of five plastica on all Mussalmans, and increasing the sheep thes and other imposts. The increases will yield
ANOTHER MURDER! Last night the naked body of a Chinaman was found amongst the rocks near the west fort at Stonecutter's Island. The raiber alim, and 5 feet 4 inches in height, and it body was that of a man about 40 years of age, had been in the water about 36 hours. There the bead, arms, and legs show many deep gashers and from information the police have received it I thought that the crime was committed at Aberdean..
Captain Douglas, will be despatched for the bought direct at first band, fmsported in wood Power and Its officers, to say nothing of | £1,250,000, which will be used for military can be no doubt that the man was murdered, as | Association, Singapore ; the Straite Settlements.
above Ports on TUESDAY, the 27th instant, at, and bottled by ourselves, thus saving all inter- Daylight.
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
We agree that it is a thing that ought not is reported that Wa. Ting-fan has been Comdr. R. Murray Rumney, R.N., Harbour
appointed Consol at Kobo, Japan.
to be tolerated by any civilized government elther in the case of a Chinese prisoner in the Hongkong Gaol or of a native rebel in a Spanish colony; but we like to see a charge proved and brought home before we convict and condemn, and we do not Ilke to see the most monstrous charges accepted as undeniably true on the faith of mere public rumour and report. Will our contemporary accept the rumours and reports universally current in Chinese 10-
above Ports on WEDNESDAY, ihezßth Instant, CLARET.—Out, Clarets, including the lowest ciety in the interior as sufficient to sustain
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Priced, are guaranteed to be the genuine product of the Juice of the grape and are not artificially made from raízios and currants, an is generally the case with Cheap Wines, BRANDY. All our Brandy is guaranteed to be pure COGNAC, the difference in price being merely a question of age and vintage.
WHISKEY—All our Whiskey Is of excellent quality and of greater age than most brands In the market. The SCOTCH WHOKEY marked "E" is universally popular, and is pronounced by the best local connoisseurs to be superior to any other brand in the Hongkong market.
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Coast Ports.
Ar the Marine Court this morning, before
Master, J. Malo, boatswain of the steamer Shaftesbury, we charged by P. Rer and J. Russia, fallowing the lead of Italy, has signed Merriz, able seamen, with assault on the 23rd Inst. The seamen proved their caio and defen- a convention with France renouncing her claims in Tunis.
dant was fined $5. just to make him remember that he has no right to take the law into his own handa while his ship is lying in a British port and the Water Police available at almost a moment's notice.
A CHILDREN'S service will be held at the Feak Church to-morrow at 4.30 p.m.” Hymns-Nos 330, 334, 291, and 346.
the charges made against European mis- AT the Criminal Sessions to-day one of the slonaries in China, and against Europeans matoos charged with murder at Causeway Bay generally? We think not, Then, if not, was sentenced to death, itsshould not judge others on rumours and no wise better reports which are lo founded.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
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"THE NAVY LEAGUE."
It is a pity the Navy League do not let the public generally know from time to time what they are doing. It was quite a surprise to the few members present, and even to one or two members of the Com- mittee Itself, to learn at the annual meeting yesterday so many subjects had been dealt with by the Hongkong Branch during the first year of its existence. The function of the League is to educate the people in regard to mattera naval-our requirements, our deficiencies, our meana
General Bichor, Commander-in-Chief of the troops In Tonkin, arrived at Saigon a few days ago and will take over the supreme command at
the end of this month,
THE Misston steam-launch Day Spring will call alongside any vessel hoisting the answering pennant, between 9 and 10.30 a.m. on Sunday, to convey men nahore to the 1x o'clock service, returning about 12.30.p.m.
We hear that a reward of $300 has been offered byths manager of one of the branches of the Oplum Farm to any one who will give Information re- specting the whereabouts, of Kat-herg, who did the "Vanishing Act" on the one Cheng and inst, with over $4.000 which he was given to
deliver to the manager of the Optum Farm. 1
of defence and of attack. The members are that the vanisher was reni esi at noon of the Committee appear to have thought with the money, and as he did not turn up at that they had only themselves to educate 6 p.m. It was then known that he must have
skipped with the merry Mexicans. was better left in darkness. Why Is not all the valuable correspondence embodied
A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. and that the rest of the world in Hongkong
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
Hinnukang, 15th September. #896.
The Hongkong Telegraph
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In and published with the report? It ought Two drunkensallos belonging to the Pique to have been. Unpublished, it is useless. I fell into the water near the Hongking Club's new building*last night. P.C. Wright (80) was ANOTHER SANITARY BOARD HUDDLE.
Informed of the accident and be took a sampaa from Pedder's Wharf, where he was on duty,
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Read letter from Acting Manager, Jolat Telegraph Companies, dated 7th October, mak log farther reference to the question of half-rate telegrams in the Chinese character, & formal" acknowledgment had been sent on day of receipt. It was decided to publish the letter. Also read letter from Singapore Chamber, dated 30th September, making farther reference to Cham- ber's letters of 19th and 18th idem,, and stating that the Cammiues, having considered the matter, had addressed * letter to the Landes Chamber urging that the question of the revlalan of the tariff strates for telegrams between the East and Europe be again taken up. Copy ofsald letter enclosed. Resolved to publish correspondence.
THE PROPOSED INCREATE OF CHINESE IMPORT DUTIES,
A letter having been addreseed, on the 1st October, to the Shanghai Chamber, in conse quence of the communication from the Shaughaf branch of the Thing Association handed by the Hon. Secretary of the local Branch to this
THE Singapore Free Press 'anys jim The chers' tered trussport Cephalonia (Aucher Line), which Chamber, gizing assurance of the readiness of brings out the fat Battalion 5th Fusiliers to the Commlitre to act fa harmony with Shanghai Gibraltar and then the West Yorkshire Regia the question of the proposed revision of the Chinese tarlit a reply from the Acting Secretary ment from Gibraltar for Hongkong, will pass of that Chamber was read, in which the Com | through Singapore on November 4th. She will mittee of the Shanghal Chamber expresred call hern gain on the return journey, with the sailsfaction at finding the Hongkong Chamber Rifle Brigade on board, probably about Novem-In accord with them on the subject. ber 24th, and will take tha gth Fusillers away a day or two'-later, for. Gibraltai, where four handred men will be dropped for the 1st Batta lon, the headquarters golog on to Portland.
THE OPENING OF THE WEST RIVER.
Read letter from Foreign Ofice, dated 8th September, acknowledging receipt by Lond Sallsbury of Chamber's letter of the 4th August asking to be informed what progress had been made in the negotiations for the opening of the West River, and mying bir Lordship is well aware of the importance of the matter, which will be daly kept in view,
In bis Wukly Share Listisnued at noon to-day Mr. Erich Georg writer:-Business during the week under review has been frather slack, and wlih faw exceptions, víz, Indo-Chinas and Rope | referred to in the minuter;— shares, which have improved, the tendency of the market has been towards lower rates. Ri Copy. Shipping affairs he says —In the early part of the weak Hongkong, Canton, and Macaos sold depressed the market since, together with at $31k and $331, but settlement shares have
CORRESPONDENCE. The following is a portion ofthe correspondence
rumour of threstening opposition the river, and shares dropped to $33 with sales and further sellers.
THE WEST RIVER.
Foreign Office, September 8th, 1895. Sir,-I am directed by the Marquis of Salls bury to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of
tung to foreign trade and steam navigation, the 4th mito, on the question of opening the West River and other inland waterways of Kwang-
I am to inform you thei Lord Salisbury le fally aware of the importance of the matter, and that in the negotiations now going on it will be daly kept in view,
I ara, Sir,
YESTERDAY afternoon about one hundred girls of the English divizion of the Belition Pubila | The School were entertained by the Hon, E. R, and
and Mru. Belllion at their Pork residence. A sumptuous luncheon,**followed by numerous amusements and refreshment provided in the
and delight till darkness set in. At the close
Your most abedlent kumble servant,
FRANCIS BERTÍK, Chairman, Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, Hongkong.
TELEGRAPH RATES. The Eastern Extension The Great Northern Australian & Chinn Telegraph Company Telegraph Company, of Copenhagen.
"Hongkong Station, 7th October, 1895. R.'Chatterton Wilcox, Esq.
Ltd.
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We note, with very considerable amuse- Hongkong Celegraph|ment, the proceedings of the Sanitary and after a good deal of trouble succeeded in
Board on Thursday last in respect to the night-soll coolles and the Bye-laws made rescuing both men, whom he locked up. They for their regulation. Byelaws, ten in I were charged this morning at the Police Cour Mrs. Belillas the thanks of the School in a few Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce,
Hongkong, SATURDAY, ÖCTOBER 14, 1896.
Edens, kept the children in a round of scrtsey of the festivities, one of the girls expressed to
timorous yet fealing words and this was followed by singing cheers for the generous host and
by presenting each of their Itile visitors with parting gift in the form of a valuable souvenis,
The thanks of parents, teachers, and children are due, not only to Mr. and Mrs. Bills who gave the the yongsters so many koors of unalloyed enjoyment, but also to the Directors of the Tretway Company for the gratuitous: conveyance of the large party,
Mr. Wylle, who took great pains in en well to the Superintending Engineer, suring the safety and comfort of the children during the trip up and down the mountain-side.
Becretary
question of ball rate telegrams in the Chinese „Dear Si,—With forther reference to the
Agure code and to the correspondence published will be convenient to again point out that
1st-Such telegrams are only permitted as
far as the Chinese Telegraph system extends, the authorised Vocabularies, which prod ten thousand characters only, avaliable ke crausmission.
2nd-That they should be complied from
4th-Thai the use of thesa Vocabularies is
number, were made by the Sanitary Board with being drunk and disorderly and each was under date the 18th October, 1894, when fined $r. The Magistrate complimented the MR. DAVIDSON'S ALLEGATIONS the tali roll of members required by The constable on his pluck, perseverance, and promp hostess, who crowned the happiness of the party in the Shangbai papers of zot instant, I think i
Public Bealth Ordinance was still in atten- titude. SARSAPARILLA
dance. These Bye-laws were sanctioned Mr. JAS. W. DAVIDSON left Hongkong and approved by the Legislative Council RASPBERRYADE, &c. for Manila on the 28th September laat in of the colony on the 6th of December, 1894, Health Officer of Calcutta is to be congra- the Zafire. He could not well have got and thereby acquired the force of laws tulated on the energy and ability he has shown there before the 30th ultimo at the earliest. as if originally made by the Council. After a organizing measures to prevent the plague He may have been quarantined on his taking the best part of two years to make getting a firm footing in that city," He reams, by arrival there, for all we know at the up their minds to apply these Bye-laws, the telegrams published in Rangoon papers, to moment. Anyhow, he left there in the the "Rump" put them in force last month, have done all la hist power to, metaphorically Fumsang on the 13th instant, so that if he with the result that the nightmen struck speaking, put his house in order, and on she 6th was in Mantis a fortnight it is the utmost work and only tmely, concessions, all in instant very sensibly wired to Dr. Yersin for possible. Nevertheless, he professes to violation of the law, saved the colony from particulars of his remedy. This is all very well give us in the columna of the Dally Prar as very serious crisis in the management of in the way, but why did the municipality of full, true, and particular account of the its sanitary affairs. The coolles were Calcutta fallow the city to get into such origin and progress of the rebellion in the induced to resume work and they there abominably filthy state as the papers say it was Philippines and of the incidents accom- upon petliloned, not the Saaltary Board, in until the plague scare set in? Why did they panying it, without giving us, at the same but the Governor, who has absolutely no time, any means of forming an opinion authority in the matter. The Colonial not taka warning from the bitter experiences of for ourselves as to the rellabitity of Secretary Investigates their complaint, and Hongkong in 1894 ? his report.
He neither tells us, where on his recommendations, apparently, and he was during that fortnight, nor what after correspondence, His Excellency THE following are the final returns of the places he visited, either in or out of Maalla decision-note the word is conveyed to the damage caused by the selimic wave on June nor whom be interviewed or conversed petitioners, and to the Board. The with. That Mr. DAVIDSON will accurately Governor authorisn the Board--the 5th last in Iwata and neighbouring prefectures, report what he has seen and what he has matter is entirely beyond his authority made by the Home Department -- heard we have no doubt, and that he and solely, by Ordinance, in the power
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by the pana and added of the writes, not scamarly to Is shrewd enough to form tolerably sound of the Board-to repeal clauses 8 and Whist the columns of the Henghong Telegraph will wings opinions as to the causes and consequences 9 of the Bye-laws of 1894, and he be open for the falz discussion by our poids of all qof what he sees and learns we know. He is directs them to set aside the pattern bucket Kifacting public Intereats, it must be diesiacly, under that level-headed and painstaking, but we they took nearly two years to select, and should like to know what he saw have spent a lot of money over, for the old with his own eyes, and, If not the pattern with a cover, and he disolves the names of the Individuals he was in Committee of Twelve. Accordingly clauses communication with, at least to what 8 and 9) are repealed, but before that. nationalities and to what classes they appeal can be effective the sanction of the belonged and what were their means of Legislative Council is required, and the knowledge. In his letters from Formosa "Rump” have apparently forgotten that, The Hongkong Tilgraph has the largest direniation of he afforded his readers the means of Here, agalo, the Government and the Ezialak newspaper peached to the partner, and is that the farming some opinion of their own as to Sanitary Board are beaten by the bu mačkem kui formidans, Tacna can be lament to applithe correctness of his statements. He Chinese, and by Chinese of the very The Highong Tringa ba at the half told them where he had been, what he | lowest class, not exceeding in number
i had seen, and the sources, In a general two three-hundred.
Advertsses as exqpwpad to forward ali sotions Edad for Insertion in that day's not fate than Three of Clock
Advertisements and Bubscriptions which are so ordered for
not to retard the early publication of the paper.
Eandi parlad will be continued katli countemanded.
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No. of people killed ........................ $452) Ko, of people wounded ................................ 1,341 Houses totally demolished......... 356 Housen washed away ................................. $123
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No, of people killed No, of people wounded Houses totally demolished Houses washed away......anima 4,801 AGMORS,
3rd That these Vocabularies are intended to be used for plain Isoguage only, and open to all senders, irrespective of nationality.
I am, dear Sir,
Yours faithfully,
J. M. BECK Acting Manager. LETTER TO THE SHANGHAI AND 139 OTHER ENQUIRER"The "rice-birds" costatuly do
CHAMBERS Hongkong Gederal Chamber of Commerce, migrate and do not breed here but in Siberia,
Hongkong, 3rd October, 1896. where they arrive about the middle of May and
Dear Sir, I beg to forward herewith copy of begin to build early in Jann.. Dr. Dybowski the Report of the species in Eastern Alberta, particularly on plains action of the Eastern Extension and Great found this bird to be one of the commonest meeting of the proceedings at a special general
of thi The nest is made on the ground and con- Northern Telegraph Companies, in having, im
Chamber, hald as the roth September, to profast against the
structed of dry roots lined with korschalt. The mediately on the ratification of a Convention eggs are drab tinged with greenish in ground-between them and the Chinese Telegripk colour, and wiresked with black and dark purple. Administration, raised their rates to Europe 372 per cant, to America 43 per cent, and between Its range extends from Russia to the Facific and colony and Shanghal zoo per cent wlikont it has been, cset with no far west sa Hellgoland, notice to their constituents. It is known to oralihologists as Emberiza My Commites hope that your Chamber will areola, of the yellow-breasted bunting, and take up the question of telegraphic rates and belongs to the same gentric family as the far end all the acsistance in your power to say scheme for laying a cable across the Pactic famed ortolan, for which fabulous prices were either from some point in Canada or the Dalted. sometinies paid by splouses of the' last century, States, vid Henolulu, and Japan, to China and Our tamo naturalist can find no mention of Its this colony, in order that the cost of means of spending part of its lila as a wương fish, but foam communication may, by the fadaence of a healthy competition, be reduced to a polus that the yarn may have arisen from an overdose of will promete trade between Europe and America the birds themselves, N.B-When making and the Far East instead of its being restricted, enquieles, sa (to the names and habits of game | as at present, by needlessly high rates.
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birds, will our readers please send a few, dozas
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No, of people killed·...............”, #97 No. of people wonisded unna Houses totally donsallahédu............ Moness washed anyjusticia” don
I am, dear Sir,
Veurs fallafally,
R. CHATENKTON WILCON,
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