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vantage to himself, and with benefit to all con- cerned. (Applause.) Hongkong's industries are prospering and earning --

-GOOD DIVIDENDS,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MAY 12, 1902.

Such in the British argument, acccording to our Chinese contemporary's report [Sheng Kungpao's organ, which seems a strong" one but not strong enough to deter both Sheng though no doubt they have suffered in some and Lu Hai-huang vigorously protesting extent from the inconvenience of our inade against the proposals on the following grounds.; quate water supply. This avil however can bo 1. British merchants are not under the averted in the future by the timely expenditure control of Chinese officials and if they are to of the necessary meney which the Colony can be allowed to live in the interior they will not very well afford. (Hear, hent. One other obey the Chinese authorities. The distance to difficulty now to contend against is our the place where British Consuls are located gigantic Inheritance of insanitation, but the being far from the cities and towns in the inter same must be grappled with. The City matur of China, il any dispute arises it will be very be put into a thoroughly: sanitary condition inconvenient. Though guarantees may be issu- (hear, hear) and it is imperative that lighted by the British Consul as to the standing of as well as air should be at into all human. the British merchants many points must arise habitations Irrespective of the cost, though the which are viewed quite differently by British sanic may run into millions of dollars. The and Chinese, and the customs and manners of Sanitary Board is not to blame for the insuni- the two people differing so widely it is feared tary, condition of the town. The system of there will be many disputes between the Bri

Crown Cotony Government is alone responsible, The unstable and uncertain measure of value in which trade here is carried on entails great disadvantages on merchants as well as on banks. With the exception of Chipo-almost every other country in the world has legislated against silver and in favour of gold. In con- sequence the gold price of the dollar recently fell to under 1/8 or to the lowest pomt on record.

CHINA'S FOREIGN INDEBTEDNESS has all been contracted in gold, white import and export duties and other revende continue

tish merchants in the interior of China and the na: ves. Again when we (Chinese) send such cases to the British Consuls in the nearest treaty parts or cities or towns it will be very diMcult to send the necessary witnesses Also, and altogether there are likely to be many proceedings which will prove very trouble. some. Then again. when natives sue British

merchants such suits must be before the British Consul by whom alone they can be decided. When the British inerchants are wrong they will simply be fined or punished, but the natives will suffer very much

these cases.

Hotels.

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For Terms, &c., apply to the

Hongkong, and July, 1900.

B

MANAGER.

GO TO THE

KOWLOON

J. H. DOWNS,

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Proprietor.

Manager." KOWLOON. JW. OSBORNE, HOTEL

CENTRAL,

No. 179, Settlement, Yokohama,

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NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA

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-' STEAMERS.

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THE most centrally situated Hotel in Yokohama within five minutes of, Hatoba (Landing

French Cuisine. Airy and Spacious Bedrooms. Electric Light throughout. All steamers met on arrival. Tariff inclusive of board from 3 yen a day. French Spoken. English and French Billiards. Best qualities of Wines and Liquors.

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27th March, 1902.

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SAILING DATES

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SUNDAY, 18th May, at

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FRIDAY, 23rd May, at

Daylight

(BOMBAY, VIA SINGAPORE and FRIDAY, 23rd May, at

Noon.

NAGASAKI, KOBE and YOKO-2 FRIDAY, 30th May, at

KOBE and YOKOHAMA,

W. Thompson~~

M. Yagi

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HITACHI MARU

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THE CONNAUGHT HOUSE,

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to be collected in silver. Every declined For instance, foreign missionaries are allowed The most comfortable family Hotel in Hongkong.

in the gold price.

of silver increases China's

to live in the interior of China and though foreign indebtedness and is not attended by any they are men of good standing even they com compensating advantage. Her last indemnity mit wrong and it is very difficult to get such of 450 million laels was arranged in May, 1951, wrongs righted. There are already too many on a gold basis, but since then, solely owing to missionary questions in the interior of China the fall in the golf price of silver, the said in- and through then disturbances are constantly demnity now stands increased to about caused. If we allow British merchants to live million taels, an increase of not less than 100 in the interior of China there will be more only million taels in twelve months. If after his well-trouble and from small causes there may be earned holiday, Sir Thomas Jackson will serious- great disturbances which will disrupt the ly consider and help towards a solution of the friendship of the British and Chinese Govern- great currency problem he will place China and ments. This is not the way to foster the com- his numerous friends in the Far East under far-mercial interests of the two countries. ther obligation and add to the many important services he has already rendered to commerce. (Applause), The financial difficulties ahead of the Chinese Gaverument are liy no means in- surmountable. In the honest collection and administration of China's reven.e. lies the

COUNTRY'S FINANCIAL SALVATION. The abolition of all internal taxation trade in China is practicable and can be made effective as has been demonstrated for many years in the case of lekin on opium. Efective fiscal reform would ensure an enormous expansion. in China's exports and imports, and everything. that is possible should now be done to bring this about. With the hearty co-operation of our enterprising and industrious Chinese and other friends, continued local progress is assured and I firmly believe that the pros. perity of Hougkong is still in its infancy. (Applause,)

This concluded the toast list, and the com- pany dispersed to the strains of the National

Anthem.

FOREIGN RESIDENCE IN THE

INTERIOR OF CHINA.

2. There is a wide difference between what is stipulated in the Shimonoseki treaty and what is now proposed and we fear the latter if granted will be prolific of trouble.

3. As to the establishment of manufacturing industries in the interior of China the natives in

the

EXCELLENT CUISINE, LOFTY ROOMS, CENTRALLY SITUATED, CIVILITY AND ATTENTION.

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075)

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J. LACOCK.

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interior are not civilized enough and they (HOTEL SANITARIUM OF SOUTH CHINA),

may say such a step would cause damage to the agricultural interests of the people, or displace the native made goods, and thus disturbance would be caused.

-4. To protect British merchants against in- ternat disturbance China would have to des- patch many soldiers inland, the expenses whereof would not be at all small, and it might be that for one or two British merchants only in the interior the Chinese Government would be obliged to maintain many troops at certain points at much expense, a demand that must

be considered unfair,

(5) There no such clause in the French text of Anticle VI of Franco-Chinese treaty of 1860 (10th year of Hsien-feng) allowing missionaries to lease or buy rice fields and to build as they please &c. The stipulation was put in the Chinese text and it was put in by the translator text is the authoritative text. What the Chinese without authority and, moreover, the French

Governnient, has accepted on that treaty was simply that missionaries are allowed to buy land, to build churches or cathedrals.. In the 4th year of Tungchi (1864) a regulation was maile tion with such properties, and not to mention in" to record. the names of missions in connec-

Sir James Mackay has, proposed, according to the Sia Wan-pno, to the Chinese. Commis- sioners that any British merchant who likes should be allowed to reside in the inland cities of China (non-treaty ports) provided he gets a guarantee from a British Consul that he is a man of good standing and on condition that if the said merchant acts contrary to this underdividual misionaries or converts, by name standing that he can be punished. Sir James urges that the rights of British merchants are "set forth under the following three heads,

(1)According to section 3 of Article VI of the Shimonoseki Treaty, between China and Japan, of 1895 "Japanese subjects purchasing goods or produce in the interior of China or transporting imported merchandise into the interior of China, shall have the right tempor- arily to rent or hire warehouses for the storage of the articles so purchased or transported, without the payment of any taxes or exactions whatever." British merchants should therefore Be allowed to purchase goods and to build ware-houses in the interior of China in a similar manner,

(2) According to section 4 of Article VI, of the same treaty "Japanese subjects shall be free to engage in all kinds of manufacturing industries in all the open cities, towns, and

and such land was made the common property of in-se converts. Thus those properties have never been transferted to foreigners. Now if we allow British merchants to own land and to different matter. e gage in business in the interior it is quite a

merchants are willing to come under the con- (6) As we have said at the begining, if British trol of the Chinese Authorities, we may allow the proposal, but so long as they do not like to

come under the control of Chinese officials the matter is an utter impossibility,

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18, Bank Buildings, Wyndham Street. FOUNDED in 1891, by Dr. CANTLÍE,

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and conducted for several years by

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£879, 0, 0.—

17.11.

$9,561.926 9.745

whereas with the other exchange books

$9.571.671

process would be as follows:

$8,702.550 761.473 97.994 9.247

£800. o. 0.=

70.0.0.

9. 0, 0.

17, 0. II.

0.497

$0,571.67!

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ALSO

PORTS OF BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE. MONDAY, the 19th May, 1902, at ON

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and Marseilles.

Cargo and Specie will be registerad for Lon- don as well as for Marseilles, and accepted in transit through Marseilles for the principal places of Europe.

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ORIENTAL

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COMPY

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STEAM FOR STRAITS, CEYLON, AUSTRALIA, INDIA, ADEN, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS, PLYMOUTH AND LONDON. (Through Bills of Lading issued for BATAVIA, PERSIAN GULF, CONTINENTAL and AMERICAN PORTS). Steamship

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Shipping Orders will be granted till Noon, Cargo will be received on board until 4 PM, Silk and Valuables, all Cargo for France, Specie and Parcels until 3 P.M., on the 18th and Ten for London (under arrangement) will instant. (Parcels are not to be sent on board; be transhipped at Colombo into a steamer they must be left at the Agency's Office.) Con-proceeding direct to Marseilles and London: tents and Value of Packages are required. other Cargo for London, &c, will be conveyed

For further Particulars, apply at the Com-vid Bombay with Transhipment. pany's Office.

G. DE CHAMPEAUX, Agent. Hongkong, 8th May, 1902.

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NORTHERN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG,

VIA

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:

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F. BLACKHEAD & CO.,

SHIP-CHANDLERS, SAILMAKEKS, COAL AND PROVISION MER-

or to reconvert the dollars into sterling at the CHANTS, NAVAL CONTRACTORS

AND, GENERAL COMMISSION

same rate of exchange-

$9,000.000= £827, 6,10. &

$71.000-

.671

52. 9. 9.11 .1.2.13

879.17.11.00

but by o'lier banks it would be

$9,000.coom 827. 6.10, 8

500,000

45.39. 3 4

20.000

6 8. 8. 6

1.10. I

.600-

70

·

1,000

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879.17.11.00

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pors of China, and shall be at liberty to import Some Paris journals have recently sought to into China all kinds of machinery, paying only create a belief that the Anglo-Japanese Alliance the stipulated import duties thereon": British bodes ill for French influence in Siam. Some merchants should therefore be allowed to en details of the atrocious plot are furnished by gage in all kinds of manufacturing, industries in the mare imaginative organs of the Colonial the interior of China

Ser party. We learn, for instance, that while Japan (3) According Article VI of the Treaty be undertakes to establish a steamship line to the tween France and China, it is stipulated that Siamese capital, Great Britian has in hand a French missionaries have the right to buy and railway from Bangkok, through Korat, to the lease lands, rice fields and build at their dis-Burmese frontier. This project is supposed to cretion in the interior of China, and this right have for its main purpose the provision of a the British Commissioner demands shall be direct commercial route, under the control of extended to British merchants. Hence it the Allies, from Europe to the Far East, -should-be stipulated that British merchants are as a competitor with the Russian Trans-by two separate persons and any little 'errors

allowed to live in the interior of China per manently and engage in business. A

Moreover, Sir James proposed that according to British procedure in case a certain individual bays land and engagesia business, the right of possession of said land ceases whenever that individual transfers the land and business to some other individual, or when the individual is dead, but in case of a Christian Mission the right does not terminato in the dame way, but continues without reference to the person who first obtained the right of living and engaging in mission work. So long as the mission exists, right remains, and as China has already reed to missionaries exercising this right of in the islenor and possessing land and there is no reason why China not allow British merchants to have

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We would politely suggest a study of large scale maps" to these alarmist papers. It so happens, for one thing, the Korat does not lie between Bangkok and the Burmese boundary, but rans almost dead east towards the French frontier. Equally inaccu rate is the assertion that England proposes to construct a railway from the capital to Karat. There is no need for that, the line having been finished and opened by King Chulalonkorn last year the whole of the capital being fur- nished out of the Royal Treasury. The direct route from Bangkok to Burmah rang due north up the Monami Valley, and highly advanta genus as its construction, would be for the industrial development of Siam, there is very small likelihood of either England. or Japan officially participating in the venture. The

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