THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1900.
To-day's 'Advertisements.
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a thing is to admit that one's mind was 6,000. Boers are still reported to be THE return of cases of communicable disease. made up as to the verrcity of certain allega approaching Bethulie. tions before going through and carefully weighing all the evidence that might be. available. To pre-judge a case is generally
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MOXCKONG, THURSDAY, AČNJU. 19, 1900.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
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The first volent of the Report of the Schurman Philippine Commission transmitted for the United States Congress 1m 2011 February. It is a volume of 26 pages, including the appendix, and is signed
6th inst.
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MAFEKING.
LATER.
RELIEVING FORCE NEARING WEPENER.
Commandant Syınan resumed the accused, and yet here we have the admission bombardment of Mafeking on the that the Filipino Leaders who were then- being held up to the whole world as ámbitious adventurers preying upon the ignorance of the masses solely for selfish as opposed to be guilty of such despirable conduct It is a sorry confession of these Commissioners,
Reuter's correspondent at Maseru but it is nevertheless as valuable as it is discreditable, for it-throws light on the 16th inst. says that Boer Scouts main cause of the First Commission's utter report the approach of the 'relieving Failure to accomplish the important duty assigned to it by the Chief Magistrate of a feree for Wepener from Reddersburg, great Republic, who never tires of asserting and Rouxville, and state that the that it is his purpose (in vain endeavours to majority of the Booy force was in whip the natives into cotiplete submission) to, confer on all the inhabitants of the favour of raising the siege but Con- archipelago the blessings of a just and undant Olivier was reluctant to upright government and of doing this "in a way that will satisfy the well-founded move while there was a chance of demands and highest sentiments and aspira-capturing Col. Dalgety, who was tions of the Philippine people. It is to be determined to hold the position. TROOPS FOR RHODESIA. Three teamsports landed. Bushmen
reported as occurring in the Colony during the week ended 14th inst, shows:-Bubonic Plague, 20 cases, 19 deaths; Enteric Fever, two fatal cases, both imported from Samshut (Europeans); smallpox, une fatal case The concert given at the Kowloon Institute- last night, in aid of the funds of that very deserving institution, was a great success and has, we understand, produced a nice littlo sum in cash. Everything went off without a hitch, and the audience thoroughly enjoyed them | selves! It is pity that these entertainments
do not occur more often in Kowlcon. TuE compiler of the notes for our anniversaries blundered, we are sorry to say, on the fatli, in
the following manner :***.
Ele entered, a
shaald have read." George Hubbard found "1897. Sulcitle of George Hubbard. This drowned." Our readers will recollect that Mr. Hubbard was found drowned; but no inquesta was held. We apologise for the error.
LEGAL INTELLIGENCE.
SUPREME COURT:
CRIMINAL SESSIONS... (Before Sir John Carrington, R., C.M.G., Chief Justica
April 19th.
זד..
THE KOWLOON MURDER CASE: The Attorney General (the Hon. W..Meigh Goodman) asked that the case of Cheba Khan, the private in the Hongkong Regiment who is charged with the murder of a Lance-Sergeant in the Regiment, should be taken on Monday, as the prisoner, for whom his friend Mr. Slade
The application was agreed to. appeared, had asked for a special jury.
· ABSCONDED. -.- Wong Sing, who was indicted for offering a influencing his contluct, did not respond and bribe of $5 to a public servant with a view to called, and the bail ($500) was escheated and
bench warrant issued."
Andahe Grates Seanations of the age? by Professor Jacob Gorth' SCHERMAN,, however, it is charged, as is generally at Beira on the 14th instand twenty might be some prospect of the new premises 10 General it appeared that for nine monilis up
The Manellous Meteors!
Direct from an Unjaedented. Success at the Alhambra, London.
The Originators and only Performers of the most Daring, and Thrilling Mid-an Evolutions on a lahe ant Wire ever witnessed anywhere.
GALA MATINEE
Admiral Cronik Dawiy, Cotonel CHARLES
hoped that the new Commission, of which Judge TAFT is the presiding officer, and will. arrive in Manila in the near future, will approach its task in a very differem spirit. believed, with the task of establishing cell, Government with the aut of bajonets and two transports are expected during Maxims, it is to be feared that its success the month. will not be commensurate with the expense incurred by the Administration, nor will its sojourn in the islands add much in the! hand-won laurels possessed by the dis tinguished jurist who is credited with being selected for the office of Governon General ! 27th inst.
Desur (ex-United States Minister to China), and Professor DEAN C WORCESTER. The Report does not hear the signature of Majur Genend Ew. S.Ors who was also member of the Commission. The docus ment is a remarkable production and fully beats out our comments on the subject at the time the Commission issued the proof the Philippines.
lanation to the people, of the, Philippines,
There are many points in the Report that which had only the effect of adding fuel to the fire. The article referred to was publishelight be touched upon could any useful jour 1495) in the Telegraph on the 11th April last and pose be thereby served, but there is only onc
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"On the outbreak of hostilities Aguinaldo assured General 911s that the rupture was not of his seeking, and asked that a cessation of hostilities might be agreed upon, in order that
THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO IRELAND,
The Queen leaves Dublin on fle
WEATHER REPOET,
The Observatory report says:- On the 19th at 11.55 am.hurometric changes are slight. The depression is probably still lying in the neighbourhood of W. Japan, Pres sure is highest over N.E. China. Gradients variable winds; fine. -
be erected being forthcoming. The manner in which our P. O. officials are crapped for room (la scandalous,"
THEPT OF CLOTHING, BY A WOMAN, We note that the Post Office Building has. A woman nained Ng'lin was charged with itself come to the conclusion that it is not stealing a quantity of clothing, the property of a equal to the strain on the Department, and has woman named Leung Wo, of 189, Queen's road
west. She pleaded not guilty, had to be propped up in the rear, while several
The jury was composed of Messrs. C. C. H. anteater beanis are renewed, Could not the Schroter, A, F. de Jesus Soares, E. L. Jackson, A. B. Smith, W. F. Ford, C. Pemberton, and Government hire some suitable building for
Partington. ten years or so? for at the ond of that time theres alte atoment made by the Attorney
to the 20th August, the prisoner occupied a cubicle in the prosecutrix house with '& man," fer cubicle being next to that occupied by the prosecutrix. On the 20th August the prosecutrix went to her work, leaving a box containing a considerable quantity of clothing on her bed. When she returned at night she found that her cubicle had been entered and the box andclothing stolen. As the prisoner did not retum in the evening, she was suspected. of having taken the property, and a report was made to the police. On the second of April the prosecutrix-saw the prisoner and took herto the Police Station at West Paint. On a constable going to where she was living he of the stolen properly upon her found some bed.
THE HONGKONG FOOTBALL
CHALLENGE SHIELD.
A meeting of the Committee of the above competition was held yesterday to consider the case of the right full back of HCO R. W., who was sent off the field in the Final Tic for the Shield. It appeared from the Referee's report that the man deliberately attempted to kick one of the opposing tearn who was lying on the ground.
The Referee was unable to state if the other man was actually kicked or not.
The Committee were of opinion that the fact important a match was, considering all the circumstances of the case, a sufficient punish- ment, and decided to take no further steps in respect of it's
The evidence was then proceeded with, and on its conclusion a verdict of guilty was return- ed by the jury, the prisoner being sentenced to
the situation might be discussed. If, as the This allegation is in strict conformity Kentle in the China coast FORECAST:-Light of the man being ordered off the field in so eight months' hard labour.
proclamation of the Commissioners Sets forth, the Philippines have been acquired by the United States solely with the object of bene- fitting the Philipini people, of gaming them the blessings n'a just and upright government, and of thing this in a way that will satisfy the well-founded demands and the highest senti (45 mens and aspirations of the Filippine people, why cannot a bice now be arranged and negotiations catered intn? We believe that such a course of nethon would ge mich farther towards convincing the Filipins of the dis- interestedness of the Americans than the present
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
other matter that calls for comment at this juncture. It is the conclusion arrived atthat There being na Philippine nation, lastly a collection of different peoples, there is no general public opinion in the archipelago. “ the Administration's semi-official atteraires and its policy of minimising the importance. of the struggle in the islands. It asseted from the first-and this Report cling to the allegation, like a drowning mat o E English mail of 17th March was delivered straw that it is only a revolt of one tibe, in London on the 14th inst. namely, the Tagalogs, and that the SH.M.S. Framar-beg pardon, we mean Saud Government is engaged in repressing the revolt of this one trible which has rebateder-left for the West, River at one o'clock against its purchased authority. As a mater
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of hel it is engaged in a war With the stole Tür. Hoa. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial
WARREN'S CIRCUS,
Once again this popular show scored a programme took place last night. It is hardly decided success when the first change of necessary to say that there was a large audience, for crowded houses have been the rule from the start. Merry Little Benbam elicited roars fittle Fire Pony" was much appreciated, while the whole affair went with a fine swing and without a single hitch. Our readers will do well to avail themselves of the opportunity of seeing a really good show.
MUD-FLAT NORTH.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
method of striving to instil this belief with the Filipino nation It is trop enough that the and. Nethersole Hospitals keys to acknowledge of laughter.and.the performance of the clever doubtful. I believe that it would be difficult if
bayonet. Everyone is well aware of the power of the United States, and we do not think by adopting the are humane course, and thus saving hundreds of the lives of the people at they profess to have come to elevate and civilize, that the least loss of prestige could accrue to them. The blessings of civilization
will not be of much acromit to an extinct *Face"
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TIENTSIN, April 9th. Since I last wrote, the Brisk and Hermione have arrived at Taku, and within the past few Wheeling. It is satisfactory to have these days have been joined by the U.S. gunboat vessels here, though the "man in the street" observes, not without some justification, that the practical utilitly of their location is slightly
word Filipinos has often been used na
not impossible for any of them to get over the Bar; certainly the Hermione could not, 25 yang sense by the Press of the States. The
flood tide only only gives us :3 feet now, I word Filiprank is a teria which compises!
think, in case of any trouble, the landing of troops from where they are, could be prevented the whole of the tribes, or clans, of the
by the Taku Forts, which are out of range for a Philippine Archipelago. It is not to be
FRERE is such tremendous activity in the coal
return salute. Shanhaikwan, or miher Ching- assumed that only the Tagalos or the in-
wantao would have seemned a more advan- habitants of Luzon only are Filipinos. It and iron trades at home that prices are ruling
tageous anchorage therefore. However there would be just as erratic to say that very high and it would pay to ship India coal
is no doubl a strong moral influence in their Welshman Or a Scotchman or Canadian to England-if the Suez Canal dues were not is not a Briton. Presumably Professor so heavy. As it is a big demand has sprung up.
The following was issued in the form of a presence, and things have been very quiet lately, though there is no reason whatever to mails, axles, wheels, scrap iron, etc, Gazette Extraordinary yesterday misnomer, an new of the opposition asked wheturn of India wire been
believe the Boxers have any intention of dis- met with in all parts of Luzon and more restock for shipment home. Aannse their
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION 0, 179.' '
persing. On the contrary, they are practicing highly productive province of Visaya. cently in the populous and until recently is valuable, as it can be worked up ga H. B. M's Gonsul at Honolulu relative to the ing fresh recruits from all I hear, the unattached
The following letter, with its enclosure, from their arts as industriously a sever, and are enroll rails in particular can be re-rolled, and, ifinition of the importation of certain food relatives of our domestic servants, and numbers there were Government rolling mills in India is publ Hongkong into the Hawaiian Islands of soldiers joining their ranks. I hear to-day this process could be adopted out here. The East Indian Railway have rolling mills at well as all the apparatus Jamalpur, as
MORE QUARANTINE RESTRICTIONS,
eneral information.
F. H. MAY, By Command lonial Secretary, Col. Sec. Office, Hongkong,
While there is much that may be con sidered open to question in the Report it at beast contains two statements which few will ravil at. One is the insistence, as a sine que - of success, that any Government set up
Her Majesty's Consulate, 1900. in the islands must be adapted to the For working up old material, and their example might be followed elsewhere. The demand for
Honolulu, March 22nd, 1900. lipinos," the other that "the majority of the iron and steel both in Europe and America is
Your Excellency I have the honour to habitants of the Philippines are possessed likely to continue unabated for several years, transmit herewith enclosed, a copy of a Pro of a considerable degree of civilization." It owing to the big naval and ship building clamation by the President of the Republic of the popsuited to their needs and to inention the requirements for arnay purposes. introduction into the Hawatian Islands from all is because the people are civilized that they programmes that have to be carried out, not Hawaii dated the 21st instant, prohibiting the are, apparently, prepared to contend for a More railways are being built in every part of foreign ports and places infected with Bubogic indefinite period for the right of being their the world, and these will take up thousands of Plague, and more particularly from the port of tons annually in the shape of rails, axles, Hongkong, of certain foodstuffs therein specified own judges of what is best suited to them sleepers, girders and bridge materials gener-such prohibition to continue as to each of selves. Had the Filipinos, as was undoubtedly ally The boom in coal and iron is growing, said ports or places until after the expiration of originally intended, been given a fair chance greater every day we only hope that it will not sixty days from the time the pingue shall cease to govern themselves they would-being, as be checked again by labour and wages disputes to exist in such part or place. this Commission admits, civilized people in Bombay Gazette.
I have the honour to be,
Your Excellency's ** Most obedient humble servant,
W. R. HOARE, H. B. M. Consul.
But is this the fact ? Did the Commission approach the great task allotted to it with a single eye to a, speedy, honouralde and beneficent settlement of the many vexed questions then af issue? The Report now under notice does not lend support to the supposition that deure pure and simple and not gometues, was the sole object in view, us was once generally supposed. The docu-all probability have done as well if not better ment begins with the souschat starting than the Japanese: and the United States, assertion at The Commission was not while holding a controlling voice in all the appointed as a · Peace Commission, as it foreign affairs of the main and a useful has been often called. It was appointed as
footing on the threshold of Asia, would have a civil Commission to accomplish the objects been spared the enormous cost, in lives and set forth in its instructions, one of which treasure, of a war of conquest upon a people whose only offence, if such it way be styled, was to assist in the peaceful extension of is a perfectly natural desire to obtain for American authority &c., &c." Now. it was well known to the whole world, and to the themselves the same rights as were obtained American governatent in particular, that the for our cousins' by the immortal GEORGE
WASHINGTON over 100 years ago. Filipinos, through their special envoy in Paris and in Washington, Sr. Don FELPE Arasenin, strongly protested against the purchase and assertion of sovereign rights by the American Government. One would be inclined to think, therefore, that to such
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SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. RUSSIA AND KOREA.
.
Ir appears from the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon's Report for 1899, that Hongkong
cattle dealers have suffered much loss from
that the British, French, German and American Minister have sent in an ultimatum giving the Chinese Government two months in which to put down the Boxers, with the alternative of it being done for them. I think this is probably correct, as the guard here is to be retained for
least two months longer. I do not think Boxers that the ultimatum concerns only the in the Govre are a few other matters involved standing. The way a little de Milestones altitude which tent's present anti-progressive yhich our Minister has dealt with the Brocks whole satisfactory. The der case is on the
practical part of the sentence is that which eff of four villages and the villag the headmen places. The former had ac0 elders of two delivered in Mr. Campbell's pred each, latter have had to pay Tis. 500 for a if, and tablet on the scene of the murder. Theorial also had to pay TIs. 500 for a meno chapel and supply six mew of land, and Th. 1,500 for a memorial in Cauterbury College. All this is wholesome discipline as far as it left undone, that is the degradation and punishment of the late Governor Yü,, Sir Claude has protested against his appointment to Shausi, but far more vigorous action should outrages until Viceroys and Governors shiver have been taken. Nothing will stop these
in their shoes with the certain knowledge that any act of violence within their durisdiction
piracy on the West and North Rivers. In His Excellency Sir H. A. Blake, G.C.M.G., goes. But the most important thing has been
many cases whole junk loads of cattle have been carried off by pirates, with no chance of compensation to the unfortunate owners. The trade in cattle from Linchew, one of the best sources of supply, has been recently stopped entirely, for this reason. The following is from the saine Report, and we think decidedly
deserves attention-
Governor of Hongkong.
PROCLAMATION.
Hy the President of the Republic of Hawaii.
Whereas, it hath been shown to my satisfac tion, that, by reason of the existence of an infectious or contagious disease known and designated as Plague, in certain foreign countries, there is serious and continuing danger of the introduction of the same into the Hawkers-Consequent upon the crowded Hawaiian Islands, and that, notwithstanding state of the markets, and the increased demand, the quarantine defence, this danger is so in has been largely augmented, especially during from such countries, that a suspension of the the number of so-called hawkers of vegetables creased by the introduction of certain foodstuffs. the past ten years, so much so that many of the right to introduce the same is demanded in the completely by them.
Now,. Therefore, By virtue of me vested by law, I do hereby Prohibit the introduction into the Hawaiian Islands from all foreign ports and places infected with. bubonic plague, and more particularly from the port of Hongkong, China, all or any of the following described foodstuffs, to wit
bring down prompt and heavy retribution wretched.coolies they may succeed in palming pon themselves, and not only upon any off as the offenders.
The Empress Dowager Accompanied by the Emperor And Heir Apparent has gone to
Some
intelligent gentlemen as composed the Com-RUSSIA RENEWS AND EXTENDS bye-streets of the City are often blocked up interest. of the public health, the power in in sealed memorials begging her not to But
mission, the task they set out to perform was, Ja forlorn hope from the very outset that they were vinually in the position of the bull-fighter whose every art in the arena is purposely offensive to the object of his delicate attentions. To induce, by seductive argument or otherwise, the Filipinos to accept American authority against which they were fighting, while active hostilities were in full swing was obviously to attempt the impossible, and yet we read that although the delegate sent by. General Aguinaklo to confer with the Commission orged the Commissioners to use their in- “Undoubtedly, thề? host Beor that has yet fluence to bring about an armistice, he was
been brewed in America."
AND
HEALTHGIVING.
-PRICE-
Per Case of 6 dozen PINTS......$13.60 net.
4
11
QUARTS...813.50 net.
I told that they could do nothing of the kind, that the appeal for cessation of hostilities inust be made to General Enwell. S. Oris, and to that officer only. Now, seeing General Oris-was a Member of the Com mission does not this excuse of Mt. Schure MAN and his colleague indicate that there
HER DEMANDS:
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) YOKOHAMA. April 10th. Russia has renewed and extended her demands upon Korea. She now asks for concessions of land at both Mokpo and Masampo, her former demand having been confined to the latter place.
Received at II m. Sent out at 12.30 p.m.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. THE WAR.
WEPENER.
was no real desire to end the war at that time; that the Commission was a mere stop gap manoeuvre intended more for effect at home then beneficence towards the Filipinos? Agents for Hongkong and South On the face of it the Report lends colour to such a supposition for we find the remark- China:
able and almost appalling statement made WATSON & CO., LIMITED, on page 3 of the opering chapter, that the Commission carly became convinced that the Tagalog rebellion was due to the ambitions of a few and the misunderstanding of the ing Wepener are in full retreat, the many" To "early become convinced" of majority having retired North, but
ESTABLISHED A.D, 1841.
These people, who are not hawkers in any sense of the word, simply take up a fixed posi tion where they are least likely to be interfered with by the Police and remain in the same spot until they have sold off all their wares, dispos ing of the refuse therefrom by stuffing it down the nearest drain, and returning next day to re peat the process.
health.
matter gases arise which may become, under From the decomposition of this vegetable certain conditions, highly injurious to public These men never have hawked, and never will hawk, their goods in the accepted term of the word, and in my opinion not one of them should be licensed for this purpose in the City
of Victoria.
So long as the present state of things exists, were the staffs of the Director of Public Works and the Medical Officer of Health doubled or trebled they could not deal with the subject effertually, or prevent the emanation of foul gases which arise from the sewers all over the City, and which are often put down by many as being due to an inefficient drainage system, when all the time much of it is caused by this decaying vegetable matter which has been thrust down the drain in the manner above described;
BOERS RETIRING NORTH,
LONDON, April 17th. -
I have no hesitation whatever in saying that The "Standard's" correspondent such refuse in conjunction with ordinary sewage which gets stopped by it on its course to the at-Bloemfontein says that the Boor-sea, forms a midus-of-breeding ground for all- commandos which have been invest-kinds of noxious germs, and may be the causé in a great measure of the frequei.. 'cases of typhoid fever, which have become so common
of late years, the bacillus both of typhoid and
plague multiplying rapidly in such media.
of
to
the Ho Park for recreation.. of the Censors and grand Secretaries. strongly objected to her going, and sent the old Lady politely sent them to Jericho and had her own way
excited with his anxious endeavours to start an Prince Tuan is said to be getting quite arsenal in Peking to supply his." Invincible vinced of the value of fire arms if of no other Tigers" with fire arins. He is thoroughly con.. foreign thing.
Catile fish and other dried fish, lily flower, oranges, dates, lichees, nuts, fungus, ducks, cabbage, oliver, birds' nests, eggs, hizo (cooked Indian Famine Funed, and ayer $2,800 has pork, sausage, dried meats, dried vegetables Tientsin has coninbuted its quota to the rice and beans), sea weed, mushrooms, been collected On Friday last some of the Said prohibition to continue as to each of ladies headed by the Consul's wife got up an said ports or places until after the expiration at Home $1. entrance which should have Sixty (60) days from the time said disease brought in at least $500 or $600; but only some known and designated us Plague shall cease
exist in said port or place. 55 persons turned up. The Consul's wife This Proclamation to take effect from and ive, or at least arranging it with a very select made the singular mistake of making it excla. after the date hereof;few, and that is not the way to reach the Given under my hand and the seal of the pockets of the many. The result was that Republic this 21st day of March, [Seal in the many who are accustomed to exercise a great. year of Our Lord, one thousand, nine hundred. deal of influence, give largely, or throw in a considerable amount of energy into public "movements, had no clear notion what the even- ing involved and preferred to stay away. There were some excellent and popular ladies on the committee, but their efforts were be numb.. ed by the tactless inidation of the whole affair. The simple and proper method would of course. have been a meeting of all British women here, who would, have probably voted the very same commitee, and then done their very best. to make the thing a financial success.
(Signed)_ _SANDFörd B. Dolz-
(Signed) ALEX YOUNG, Minister of Interior
By the President, ***
THE PLAGUE,
Casei reported to 18th-instant-
Do. do during past 24 hours,/
Deaths reported to 18th instant
Do. ́ ́ do, during paaf 24 hours...
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