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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1902.

Intimations.

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SOLE AGENTS:

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Hongkong, 18th June, 1902,

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$5.50 Cask of 375 lbs. Net ex Factory. $3.50 Bag of ago bbs.

:

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type.

BIRTH

years to come, but were it converted into a | THE RELIEF OF PEKING At Shanghai, on the 15th of June, the wife fixed amount in gold, and, consequently, an 'Emperor has been pleased to confér of Major R. SOUTHEY, 30th Baluchis, of a, son.

unknown quantity in silver, the strain would Lieutenant-Colonel Jobastone, C. Royal ANMARRIAGE, ASA On the 14th of June, at .. G. M's Con-made much heavier. It is, therefore, to be Royal Cmwn Order, in recognition of his be great increased and the burden Marines, the Second Class of the Cross of the sulate, Shanghai and afterwards at the German hoped that the whole of the Powers interested services in connection with the operations in Church, PAUL WESTENDORFF, IG ANITA will follow the course pursued by the Gov China Colonel Johnstone, with his men, was Couns, both of Hongkong

ernment of the United States, and thus relieve all concerned in the trade of the closely associated with the German contingent Far East from considerable annual fluctua in Admiral Seymour's expedition for the reliti tions in the gold value of silver.

of Peking in June, igaz

FRONT DEATHS

At 5, Tiendong Road, Shanghai, on the roth of June, WILLIAM R. WILLIAMS, late of Cald. beck, Macgregor, & Co., aged 22 years. Deeply regretted, b

At Chefoo, on the 13th of June, ELLEN, the beloved wife of James F. Broumtion, of the China Inland Mission, Shanghai.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1903.

THE CHINESE INDEMNITY

AND SILVER.

|

LOCAL AND GENERAL,

A RESURRECTION-Earl Spencer presided on 15th ult. at a great Anti-Corn Law demon. stration, convened by the Cobden Clubs and INWARD PARCELS by sa Bengal are held in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester. The now ready for delivery.

from Marseilles to

will sliortly alter Mediterrancon in a navigable

of their

own invention, similar in form to the Santos Dupont. No. 54

RELIEFS-The regiments proceeding to the relief of the forces in- China are the toth Jat Infantry, the 33rd Burma Infantry, the 31st. Punjabis, the soth Punjabis, and the 10th Bombay Infantry is also to go if six regiments are required. - The regiments are to proceed at field tervice strength with the peace comple-

principal apeaker was Mr. Asquith, who saidment of officers, THE JAPANESE MINISTER has left Lon the proposal of the Government was a deliberate don for Huntingdon on a shon visit.

attack upon the very foundation of our fiscal system, it was a resurrection of the Corn Laws which were killed by Cobden and buried by Peel.

NINE FATAL CASES OF. PLAGUE were noilfied during the twenty-four hours ended at noon to-day.

THE FRENCH COMIC OPERA COM PANY, from Saigon, will give a concert at the Peak Hotel 10-night.|||

THE FOLLOWING APPOINTMENT has

THE DEATH IS ANNOUNCED, at Shangbai, of the Consul for Spain, Senor E. de Aparicio, who succumbed to an attack of chulera on the 16th unst

AFTER THE RACES-After witnessing the races at Newmarket on 15th tl the King, ac- companied by Mr. Reuben Sassoon, travelled to London by special train. LIEUT-COLONEL. F. W. B. KOE, who

MACAO-Mr. Weir Is very persistent and continues to worry the officials in the House. On May 16th he asked the Under Secretary, for Foreign Affairs whether he had any con- firmation of the report in some newspapers that the French had nequired certain telitory: within balf-an-hour's steaming of Macao. Vis- count Cranborne replied: No, we have no such information,

BIG GUN FIRING-On the 22nd ull damage to propeny was caused by the expert mental firing of the new 9.3 guns on the western heights of Dover. Firing practice was made at the marine targets. The vibration OCCURRENCES IN THE FAR EAST was so great that the houses in the neighbour | l'he Germau Colonial Society to urging the Go- bood of Shakespeare's Cliff sustained consider: | vernment, in view of the important occurrences. able damage. Windows were broken and in the Far East and the development, taking! ceilings brought down, while pictures and place out there, to establish: A German Consular ornaments were shaven off the walls.

representation in the Yungisze district, hy Society, by this action, has again shown it knows how to reorganise in time every meusure which is of use for strengthening German in- terests abroad.

THE FRANCO-JAPANESE SOCIETY OF PARIS has entertained M. Matano, the new Japanese Alinistar in Paris, to lunch. The

gathering was well attended, and the Minister's

health was cordially drunk on the proposal of M. Berton, director of Naval Construction, who presided. The excellent French in which M. Motono rep.icd was much appreciated. The Franco-Japanese Society is now organisa has recently gone home from Hongkong, bastion which owes its origin to M. Felix Regame been appointed to take over the command of

SIR CHIH CHEN LOFENGLUHThe District.

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THE MISHAP TO THE BLUE

· FUNNEL STEAMER.

Messrs, Butterfield and Swire kindly informs. us thus the Ocean Steamship Company's steamer Afas bound to Shanghai and Yoko- hama which recently touched on a feef off

The special, telegram from our Shanghai correspondent, stating that the American Government has decided to receive payment of their portion of the indemnity in silver been made at the Admiralty:-Sub-Lieutenant taels, will be read with great satisfaction by | -A. R. Edgell to the Brilamari, to date all those who desire the fluctuations in the May THE WATER used is THE PUB-gold value of the white metal to be as small as possible, and relieved from the sudden and spasmodic changes to which it has been subject, especially during the last few months, As the payment of the instalments of this indemnity has been considered one of the principal facts in the late fall of the gold valve of silver, it may be presumed that this decision, on the part of the United States Government, is the cause of the improved condition of silver during the current week. There can be little doubt that when the amount of the indemnity was fixed at 450,000,000 inels, it was understood by the Chinese plenipotentiaries to be taels, pure and simple, and that it was an after the Army Service Corps in the North-Western Timer understand that Sir Chih Chen Loft: Jeddals in the Red Sea, and was beached, is thought, on the part of the foreign powers, that the payment should be made in gold, at certain fixed rates of exchange, with lowing letter of H.E. YUAN, Taptai of Shanghai, to the foreign bankers in that port, who have been authorised to receive the indemnity instalments, appears clear and convincing, and it is only natural to believe, unless altered by special agreement, that the fact of the indemnity being fixed at 450,000,000 taels, divided into instalments, payable during a certain number years, is a clear proof that the payment was of to be in so many taels, neither more nor less, in silver coin or metal of certain fine- | A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION -

THE BEST AND MOST EXPEN-

expected to arrive in Suez to-morrow, er shipped at Suez, but Messrs, Butterfield and outward cargo will in all probability be stand-

ISIVE INCREDIENTS only are used each of the contracting parties. The fol- Gordon has had the honour of receiving from of Peking, about the person of the Emperor Swire expect to hear definitely in a few days if

GUARANTEEING

ABSOLUTE

PURITY.

ENGLISH EXPERTS Manage our Factories and their

WING to the insufficiency of accommoda- practical knowledge and constant

tion in the present building and the in-

creasing demand for admission, it has been

found necessary to extend the wings of the supervision enables us to produce main building and to enlarge the Chinese de-

partment by an additional storey with two

wings. The estimated cost will amount to over waters of unrivalled excellence and

$15,000. To cover these expenses we Appeal

to the liberality of all friends of Education. purity."

The establishment has been in existence for the

last 15 years and is open to all classes. Much

of the clerical work of the city is carried on by

its past pupils. As this is the first time we have

applied for assistance we expect a generous A. S. WATSON & Co.,

response. The names of our most liberal Benefactors will be inscribed upon marble tablets, as a lasting testimony of their generosity,

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ness.

THE RISING SUN:-Mr. H. Panmure his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Japan, through his Excellency Baron Hayashi, the Order of the Rising Sun.

BUSINESS-TAX FORGOTTEN:- More than 500 out of 2,7ce residents in Nagasaki, who have failed to pay their business-tax due on the 31st May, are to be proceeded against by the Municipal authorities.

H.E. Yuan Taolal of this part has ordered the

district Magistrate of Shanghai to take out 3,000 piculs of rice from the District Granary of Shanghai and sell to the people at cost price.

ORDER OF THE KED EAGLE-The German Emperor has conferred the Order of the Red Eagle, with swords of the Second Class, on Captain E. H. Bayley, C.B., late commanding the Aurora, cruiser, for his services in China during the Boxer outbreak.

THE HON. TREASURER of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following dona- tion to the funds of the Hospitals:---

Wan Tün Mo

510 3

THE

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gluh, the outgoing Chinese Minister to Great Britain, has received a high office at the Court The position is one that usually leads to sub- stantive administrative appointments of the highest rank. Sir Balliday Macartney," the secretary to the Chinese Legation in London, has received from the Emperor the First Class Order of the Double Dragon,

AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY has been made in the German part of New Guinea, butanist, named Schlechter, in February last undertook an expedition into the interior to explore the flora of the territory. When the expedition had reached a height of 400m, on the Bismarck range of mountains, to his great

'satisfaction the botanist, found whole forests of gutta-percha" trees, of the species which in Latin is called "guita merah.", Real caoutchouc also has been discovered.

THE MONUMENT lately erected at Kiel in memory of those members of the first battalion of German naval infantry and the pioneer

field in the late Chinese trouble, is composed company, who found their death on the battle-

of a gigantic pedestal built up with rough blocks, on the summit of which a sitting cagle spreads its wings. Below the eagle, embedded in the stone, is a tablet with the names Our victims of the war, those who fell on the field and those who died from sickness and exhaus- tion. At the foot of the pedestal a captured Chinese gun has been placed.

The letter is to the following effect: "According to the letter you addressed to me yesterday you say that the foreign Powers insist upon China paying the Indemnity for the late war in gold and that their action is guided by the sixth article of the Peace Protocol. I am very much surprised at hear PROGRAMMES OF THE CELEBRA ing such a statement and in reply I am to TIONS at Hongkong in honour of the Corona- tell you that, though China has to repay her tien have been published. For neatness and foreign loans in gold because she received) such loans in gold, she has been in the habit general appearance they would be difficult to of paying her war indemnities in silver and beat. They contain full details of the arrange- has never been required to pay them in gold.ments and should be secured by everyone, The reason is obvious, War indemnities are different from foreign loans in the respect that they are not money previously received by China from foreign countries, but are money demanded from China by the for- eign countries; and as China is only a silver-using country, it is but reasonable and just that she should pay her indem nities in silver. I see no reason why the payment of the new Indemnity, should be made an exception to this rule. Further more, when our Plenipotentiaries concluded the Peace Protocol with the foreign Repre sentatives in Peking they were told by the Jalter in their repealed correspondence that we had to pay four hundred and fifty million taels and everybody in our country, from the Emperor down to the humblest subject only kuaw that in regard to the war Indemnity we had to pay the sum of four hundred and fifty million taels and knew nothing else. Therefore we are determined to make the payments in silver and not in gold.” . But apart from the wording of Article VI of the Peace Protocol, in which certain rates of exchange are mentioned as the rates at which the foreign.powers value the tael in their own currency at the time the amount of the indemnity was fixed, we believe that if the representatives of these foreign powers had changed the mode of payment and insisted on receiving annually a certain sum of gold in their own currency, they would have committed a mistake, which they would have been compelled to correct at once, or see the trade of TRIUMPHAL ARCHES:-To-day we see the Far East paralysed by their

that a triumphal arch is being constructed at own short-sighted policy. It is already seen

the corner of Pottinger Street in Queen's Road. that the attempt to get the instalments paid There is another, in a more advanced stage, in gold has made the price of silver fluctuate being erected near the Stag Hotel in Queen's to such an extent as to considerably cramp Road. We hear that others are to be placed in curtail, and, in some cases, even to suspend business in certain lines, with the Far East. the same thoroughfare at regular intervals. Should those rates be insisted upon, and THE BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP OF the indemnity transformed from a silver to THE WORLD:-Jeffries and Fitzsimmons a gold payment, there is no knowing what have agreed to sign an agreement for a fight disastrous results might follow. The pay ment of so large a sum at stated periods for the heavyweight boxing championship of C would be sure to cause unhealthy specula- the world, to be held under the auspices of the tion in exchange, and although it might in San Francisco Athletic Club. The date has, one way benefit a few speculators and not yet been fixed, but it is believed that the brokers, it would cause a far greater loss to contest will take place un July 4. commercial houses and business men, and consequently, to the working classes of every A ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH PLUN gold using country trading with the East. DERED It is reported fram Canton that, Silver is a metal whose gold value declines on the night of the ist instant, a Roman as civilisation advances and which, at no Catholic (hurch situated in Taochin Kang, a distant date, may not be classed as one of village about fificen li distant from the city of the precious metals, but be used only for Canton was attacked and plundered by a band subsidiary coins. So long as it is the currency

A CURIOUS INDUSTRY in China is the manufacture of mock money for offerings to the dead. The pieces are only half the size of the real coins, but the dead are supposed not to know the difference. The dummy cajas are made out of tin, hammered to the thinness of paper, and stamped out to the size required.

this is so

THE KWANG-SI REBELLION.

Reports from Canton state that there has been a great inrush ofbels to the Kaschou and Linchou districts. The Prefects of these places are quite unable to quell the disturbance and have applied to Canton for help. The high officials of that City have dispatched a regiment of artillery by gunboats,

IN THE DOOK.

AT THE MAGISTRACY.

June zoth.

•STILL PLAYING. Six gamblers in the public streets lost $18 t the Exchequer,

NAUGHTY BOYS,

Hospital Wellington Barracks were charged by Thirteen ward boys employed at the Station

Lieut and Quarter Master J. McCloy with refusing to obey the lawful and reasonable orders of their employers and leaving their employ without giving notice on the 19th inst On the suggestion of Mr. Hazeland, the com- plainant willdrew the charges against them on the understanding that they would retain to. their work immediately. They signified their, willingness to do so, and the bays were disse charged and returned to work.

UNDER HIS COAT."

ALLEGED ILL TREATMENT-We learn on good authority that a late fireman of the stentner Nanshan was admitted at the Tupg FOREIGN FURNITURE FOR

Wah Hospital yesterday afternoon and died an

A Seaman of the Naval Yard Steam launch, THRONE- In compliance with instruc-hour afterwards. The cause of the man's death tions received from the Emperor and Empress it is alleged, was due to ill-treatment received was charged by an Indian policeman with Dowager, Yuun Taotsi of Shanghai bas recently aboard, and two of the crew were detainer by stealing 2 brass Cog Wheels value-Siz the pro- Purchased 30 tables and chairs in foreign style the Water Police at Tsim-Tsa-Tsol pending perty of the Admiralty on the 19th inst. It and deputed a pelty: officer to take them to

investigation. Investigation shows that the appears that yesterday at 7.40 p.m: the cons- Peking,

body of the fireman was removed to the table saw the defendant walking along the mortuary for a post mortem examination, and Naval Yard premises. He stopped the man though there were marks on it the doctor and found the two wheels under his jacket. attributed the man's death to pneumonia. The defendant was sentenced-10: 6 weeks hard AWKWARD MISTAKE The attempts of

labour. the Filippinos to learn English are attended with many amusing blunders observes aStraus paper,

ALLEGED CHEAT

The following incident is said actually to have Mr. Hazeland with travelling on

A Filippino þarber was charged bef

.occurred during a church service held in honour ferry boat Northern Star on:

of some of the American

nerican soldiers. The interior with a second clans coupon, on the of the church had been bedecked by the natives the 18th inst. Mr. Goldring in red, white, and blus, the masterpiece of behalf of the Star Terry Company decoration being a painted eagle on a shield prosecution After heating the evide hung above the image of one of the saints. On the ticket collectos, and two other wit the banner which streamed from the eagle's Mazeland adjourned the case. Sitte die bill was this legend: The Old Reliable painted the eagle had copied it, inscrip.ion and A Master of a trading junk was charged with Condensed Milk," It seems that the artist who all, from the label on an old milk can, believing unlawfully failing to report to the Harb that the banner bore the American inolto.

of the largest Empire in the Far East, and of about fifty robbers, and that the matter has used by Europeans in all the treaty ports it been reported to Viceroy Tao Mu already. should be protected, as far ne possible, from KIND PERMISSION of Lieut. Col.

Let's go and there qow", „Winton,

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severe fluctuations; so that trade and com- merce in this part of the world may lie and Officers, the Band of the zand not be unnecessarily bampered. Conse Bonbay Infantry will play at the longkong quently, the action of the United States Hotel to-morrow (Saturday) evening, from 8 to Government, in being the first country to 30p.m. consent to accept payment of the indemnity March. la silver taels, will be appreciated by the greater part of the commercial com-

munity in the Far East, and will go a lóng. way towards inducing the other powers con- cerned to accept similar payment. Of course

1,000:

The Messenger Boy".

Selectlog

The Primrose The Callon

Erftlander.

the payment of so large a cum as 450,00 strain on the Chinese Government for some COTTAMI

taela in silver will be a very o

COFFOR SUN HAT9;

Master the

namely 97 Binance 263

NO REPORT:

ing of

character of his car

petre, contrary.

on the 19thyins Victória Harbour. He was fined $75,-- month.

MR. STEWART LOCKHART has arrived and has lost no time in taking up his duties says a Weishal-wei correspondent to the Shanghai Mercury He comes to us full of

thing else of Weihalwe than a mere summer energy and we hope that he will made some

resort, although it will take some time for him to cradiate the evils done by Assistant missioner Hare, whose departure took place

Com •by none too soon. During out short existence here we have had more than for share of Com-working missioners, good-bad indifferent and we can only hope that Mi

iny. Hereidfire our Com always resided on the Island (all Naval or Military, men ME however, to reside on the mai inay reasonably hope hat be done for this long. think it prematurè 10: of Mr. Stewart Locki

Lockhart' may

using

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