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SIR HA BLAKE, G.0,M.O.

TO RETURN TO HONGKONG AFTER THE CORONATION

Notwithstanding that a rumour has been published to the effect that HE the Governor, Sir Henry A. Blake, O.C.M. G. does not intend to return to Hongkong, we are in a position to state, and have the news on most excellant authority, that the Governor of Hongkong and Lady Blake will return to the Colony by the Empress boat fimmediately after the Coronation celebrations in June. Sir Henry Blake and Lady Blake are at present staying with the Duchess of St. Albans at 49, Cadogan Gardens, Londoo

HONGKONG SHARE MARKET. Messrs. Benjamin, Kelly and Potts, in their weekly share report state

EONGKONG, Friday, May 16th Dullness continues to prevail in our share market, and the business put through during the week has been very limited in volume.

The Star Ferry Company, Limited, has advertised its Fourth Ordinary Annual Meeting for the 21st May. The transfer books are closed from the 12th to 21st instant, both days inclusive.

The China Light and Power Company, Limited, has given notice of its First Ordinary Annual Meeting for the 24th May. The Transfer books, will closed from the 20th to 24th instant, both days inclusive.

Banks-Hongkong and Shanghai Banks have been negotiated at $590, and there are further buyers at this price. The London quotation remains unchanged at £63. Nationals continue in demand at $37, but are without business...

Marine Insurances. -Unions have ruled firm, and shares are still wanted at $390, China 'I'raders have found buyers at $57. Yangiszes and Canton are steady at quotations.

Fire Insurances.-Hongkong Fires have not been dealt in during the week, but keep firin at $330 China Fires have changed hands at $80, and more shares are offering,

Shipping Hongkong, Canton and Macan Steamboats are asked for at $38, but holders will not part under $38 Indo-Chinas have further strengthened their positon, and shares can be placed a $133 Douglas-Steam- ships are quoted at 431. China and M.nilas have receded to $35, but at this rate buyers rule the market. Star Ferries uld issue, can be procured at Szz: the new shares are obtainable at St. Shell Transports have been Axed at £1.io and £1.12/ closing in demand at 1.12/6.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1902.

course, the shops will not betray the firms from whom they bay, but an example ought to be

minimum........... It may not yield-it is devoutly to be hoped it will not, and it is certain that the assumption that a surrender has alreadymade. been made on the question of amnesty to rebels, is premature but it is no longer a sub- ject absolutely outside the pale of any dis cussion or the most remote compromise as was the case not very long ago. With regard to the Taal, I believe we shall consent to Its retention on an equal focting with English in the Parliaments law-courts and schools of S. Africa a blunder of unequalled magnitude in all our past waverings.

PERMISSION TO RETAIN ARMS

is tacitly conceded and the decision as to the permanent banishment of the leaders may go either way I fancy as the Boers desire-al- though on this point Mr. Chamberlain remains strongly in favour of maintaining the proclam- nition of last September, and the great British public cries right heartily-"More power to him

The Fro-Boer Press is clamouring according to its amiable nature-for the con- cession of immediate and complete autonomy, with the franchise for all Boes including the prisoners to be forthwith returned. from St. Helenn, Ceylon, India and other places. Grant ed this very large majority of votes it does not require any great prescience to foretell the course of events in S. Africa from the moment when the bulk of the British troops is withdrawn.. Mr. Lloyd-George and his following still stand by the simple formula, which has from the first embodied their pol cy-complete indepen dence-but the number of Radienis who admit this conclusion of the strife to be possible is growing less-for to retain at least the appear ance of cominan sense is an English pre- judice, and it acts as a check on the fall expression of views opposed to every dictate of

reason.

THE TERRIBLE ACCIDENT

Auction.

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THE WHOLE OF HIS VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE,

Comprising

on board. II. M. S. Afars by which eleven lives THE were lost, and a larger number of men wounded, created a most painful sensation on Tuesday evening. During a gunnery practice, the breech of a large gun blew out and every one of the group gathered in the barbette was either killed at Smith Villa, East Magazine Gap, (the resi or hurt. The officer in charge at the time was, with one of the seamen, blown into the sea and neither body was recovered. The other nine coffins were conveyed to Queensland during Wednesday, after the funeral service had been read over them by the Chaplain in the presence of the whole ship's company. So far as the evidence goes at present it appears that no one wds to blame, but a strict enquiry will be held Two officers were killed on the spot, and a young mishipman lies in a critical condition. Miller were officers of great proficiency and Both Lieutenant Bourne, and Sub.-Lieutenant special promise.

THE

WANGSI OF REBELTION.

A correspondent writing to a home paper says:-

All that the Chinese Government, allows Europe to know of the circumstances attendant upon the rebellion in South Chian goes to 'prové that it is a far more serious affair than it was at the outset expected to become. As Ping-Yuen is a town in Kweichau province, a long way to the north of the Nau-Ling range of mountains, whilst Pin-Chau, King-Yaen-fu, and Heng- Chau lie to the southward thereof, it follows

named, are also in possession of the passes in that the insurgents, who hold all the four towns

that range. The places indicated are a con- 500 miles front Pin-Shau, and this affords a fair re-siderable distance apart. Ping-Yuen is nearly idea of the widely-extended character of the rising, which is, to all appearances, directed more against lie existing Manchu Government than against foreigners.

mains in the balance Lo.d Milner, is calmly While the question of peace or war still developing his scheme for the settlement and

OPENING UP OF THE COUNTRY, when the day arrives-which cannot be very long distant, whatever the outcome of the pre- sent" negotiations "when the Boers shall cry The reformer, Kang Yu-Wei, who figured.so "Enough." These proposals include:-- prominently in affairs at Pekinin 1898, and bas Fixed tenure of land. Network of light.since visited London, and who for many railways to connect farms with markets. months was obliged to hide himself from the Establishment of an Agricultural Bureau, wrath of the Empress Dowager in Singapore, Irrigation arrangements planned by Go is gain very active, this time in Kwang-Si and vernment engineers. Allotments to new Kwa Tung, the two adjoining provinces of Free conveyance of New Colonists by trans-ing large proportions. settlers. Equal rights to all holders, and

the south in which the insurrection is assum- ports to the Cape. It is a fine scheme, worthy of a nation-builder-worthy of our race,— and it will succeed, but it will cost a consider- able sum of British money to carry into effect, and at the moment under the depressing in. the income tax, the minds of citizans do not Buence of that extra penny on cheques and on

seem quite able to rise to enthusiasm over anything which will make further demands upon their purses.

Refineries, China Sugars remain weak, and are on offer at$ 118, Luzons are still to be had at $25.

Mining. Punjoms, are wanted at 551. Raubs have been disposed of 10 small quantities at $9.10, and the market closes steady at the rate. Jelebus are out of favour at $3.

Docks, Wharis and Godowns-Hongkongpost. He tells me that the rumour of and Whampoa Docks have been done and are still obtainable at $240 Farnhams are un changed with buyers in Shanghai at Tis. 2573 Kowloon Wharfs have seitess at $89. Sales of Shanghai and Hobgkew Wharfs are reported at the improved rate of Tis. 275.

very interesting interview with a distinguished Speaking of military affairs, reminds me of a general officer, holding an important home

Lands, Hotels and Buildings.-Hongkong Lands have further declined, and a small lot has changed hands at $1773. Shanghai Lands bave se to Tls. 110, after sales at Tls. 109 West Points and Kowloon Lands are unaltered Hongkeng Hotels have been fixed at -39. Humphrey's Estate have been dealt in at Siz, and sales of China Providents at $y have been effected.

Cotton Mills. There are buyers of Hong- kong Cottons at $163. Ewes have been placed at Tis. 45 Internationals are in the market at Tis, 40. Laou-Kung-Mows have reacted, and have sellers at fls. 46.

Cigar Companies-Nothing doing, Miscellaneous-Green Island Cements are quiet but steady at Szz. A. S. Watsons are in request at $15, after sales at the rate. Electrics are still offering at quotations. Geo. Fenwicks can be sold at $45, and there are buyers of China Light and Power shares at Sis. Langkats have dropped to Tls. 280, at which figure shares are wanted.

OUR LONDON LETTER.

(From

'LORD ROBERTS' APPROACHING RESIGNATION letters in undoubtedly correct, save as to the to which reference has been made in previous question of time. As a Commander-in-Chief "Bubs" has not proved at all a succèss, Coronation, the veteran will retire, and the Should he be able to find an occasion after the vacant post is likely to be offered to the Duke of Connaught, notwithstanding that the ex- creme Radical party will probably raise an outcry, My informant a personal friend and admirer of Lord Roberts, mentioned the rea- sons why the great soldier bad failed in the administrative position-reasons partly inhe- rent in the Earl's character, partly due to domestic circumstances, largely, perhaps also to advancing years-but it is unnecessary to consider the points here, I think it may be taken as certain that Lord Roberts will not remain in office for his full tenure ; and as pro bable, that his successor will be His Majesty's brother.

The conclusion of

THE MANCHURIAN TREATY

passed with little notice in this country, but Mr. Alfred Stead, in a brief letter to the Times, was at pains to put before home folk the true aspect of that convention over which there has been so much backpatting. In common with many of those who know the East, I think, however, that Mr. Stead has a little over-ctated his case. After all, the Anglo- Japanese treaty did score a diploinatic success, and when dealing with the Chinese, it is a mistake to urge that that goes for little in practical Celestial politics.

Chinese Eastern Railway means to Manchuria Mr. Stead argues that the right to guard the much what the right to guard the nik means to Eypt. These Russian railway troops he estimates ut 24,000 men which number may be indennitely increased" and, that "it there- fore follows that any idea that Russia is eva- cuating the country is misleading at least from the general idea of what is meant by an evacuation" Finally, Mr. Stead observes that

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THE ORGANISERS.

Kang Yu-Wei has, an able colleague in Dr. Sua Yat-Sen, of Portland-place renown, and together they have an influential following. They are both of them competent organisers, rebels to an appreciable extent with repeating and they seem to have contrived to arm the

rifles. The fact that these weapons are being procured from the const is palpably using the Peking Government no little uneasiness.

insurgents finds its way to them through In part the war material furnished to the Kwang-Chan-Wan, which is the French naval depot acquired in 1898, in Kwang-Fung pro ́ Vince, a little to the westward of Hongkong. San Francisco merchants have been shipping arins likewise, but at the urgent request of the Chinese Minister at Washington a check has Precisely why recourse now been put upon the export from California had to a French port Europe, in preference to Canton or Hongkong, of which little but the name is known in

as a base from which to obtain military supplies, hypothesis may be advanced that as Kang Yu; cannot be determined off-hand, but perhaps the wei is well known to British officials, his object and ship guns or rifles through the Customs of would be frustrated were he to seek to purchase

rebels seem to be able to able to obtain all English port or settlement. At all events the

enterprise without coming into collision with that. They need for the prosecution of their

the British colonial authorities.

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PROBLEMS THAT MAY ARISE.

So long as the operations of the rebels are confined to Kwang-Si and adjacent provinces of Kwang Tung und Kwei-Chau, however, there may be no international complications to who sit in the Wai-Wu-Pa. But in the instant vex the souls of the Chinese officials at Pekin, that it becomes known that a violation of the Tonquin boundary has taken place and the prospect of such a thing occurring is by no means, remote-the troubles of the Pekin Foreign Office will begin.

France, under her bargain with the Powers will consider that her interference is distinctly called for, and once Southern China becomes the scene of a French invasion, no matter upon what pretext, the signatories to the Anglo- some coriously knotty problems. Japanese Agreement will be confronted by

EVACUATION TIENTSIN.

Sir C. Dilke asked the Under-Secretary for On the 17th ult, in the House of Commons,

Foreign Affairs whether conditions with regard to the handing, back of territory at Tentsin

our own Correspondent.)

LONDON, April 7th. PRACE PROSPECTS, We are all very busy. In fict it is quite a revelation to discover what a nation of states- men and diplomatists this little England has become. There is not a solitary journalist in the whole country who has received private communications from the Boer leaders as to the substance of the conversation which, during the past few days, has been progressing in the tent at Klerksdorp and elsewhere; and further there is not an individual, in or ous of the schoolroom, who feels incompetent to express an opinion on (4) the terms offered by the bank, Russia possesses a still more valuable

in the growth and power of the Russo-Chinese had been agreed on by the Allied Commanders, Boers (6) the demands formulated by the Briever than railway because the "Chinese esteern

one of the conditions being that Chinese troops lish Government (c) the conditions which would the merchant and the banker far more highly

were not to approach within 30 kilomètres have been required by botli parties respectively than the soldier."

either of the Native City or of the railway, and had the circumstances been something entirely The letter is a good and interesting addition regard to the hills west of Peking and Chinese the conditions also containing stipulations with different to what they are Your correspondent

to newspaper comment on Far Eastern affairs warships at Taku; and, if so, whether the British Minister in Peking had been consulted ditions. on and had given his consent to any such con-

Viscount Cranborne: We have not yet re-

la, however, regretfully compaled to admit a-but it goes a little far in pessimism. shameful ignorance of the tenour of those remarks, which it is ficçly asserted, Mr. Schalk must look better after the reputation of their

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whisper in Lord Kitcheher's ear when thegood. many retail vendors are offering "China/ceived information as to the details of the re- teas, pure and del cate blend at 2/-per lb of commendations which have been made by the which, the blend is quite obvious, the military commanders to the diplomatic body at China", is conspicious by its abovice One Peking, but it was expected that these would such mixture was by no means bad to taste, have been submitted about 14th inst., and a

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