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TIENTSIN DAY BY DAY.

(From Our Own Cór pondent:).

TIENTSIN September 17th. Things have been going

VERY SLOW here the past week and every one is comment- ing upon the stagnation of the hour, Trade appears to be getting worse as regards exports, The only thing which stimulates hope at the moment is the constant arrival at the Bund of steamers The Lienshing, was at the wharf for the third time the other evening. The Sheng king lying close at her stern and one of the China merchants boats a little lower down, while a fourth vessel was due at daylight. Such a sight has not been seen in Tientsin ́ for the last seven years, and is encouraging to the River Conservancy Board anyway.

A TIP.

The tip from Chinese sources is that Yuan's alleged shortness of money is due to the feverish increase in his military and police forces which still goes on, and we are completely hemmed in on all sides. This he pledged himself to the Empress Dowager to do, and he has done it. The people naturally are kept unsettled by these measures, and it is this which probably in some degree aflects the restoration of trade.

-THE NEW TREATY AND LEKIN ABOLITION

Wang Pei-Yu, Vice-Director of the Imperial Clan Board, who before the trouble openly avowed himself a Boxer, memorialized, the throne the other day on the subject of the new treaty and lekin abolition, in terms which amount almost to a threat He refers to the Edict issued abolishing. İkin and congratulates the E. D. on her far-sightedness, and then proceeds to show she has not been far-sighted enough. "Likia was first introduced as a temporary measure to help the military expenditure during the Taiping Rebellion. But the system has been handed down by the officials until it has become permanent. The officials have found the likin offices very useful to appoint expectant officials to, which keeps them. quiet, and it has become regular" and "valued custom to appoint these men to them. If the likin stations are abolished what will the Viceroys and Governors do? The likin offices are sald

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1902.

and dissatisfied, and it would not take much to make them rise. Your Majesty's Edict shaws kindly anxiety for the people; but though likin offices are bad, they only affect the merchant class: but if you touch the people, they may become more, İthan I dare say (Rebels) If only the form of squeezing be done away with and not the squeeze itself, something will take their place, I beg therefore that your Majesty will inform the people that no other expedients will be resorted to, and that any infringement of rules will be heavily punished."

In

STRONG OPPOSITION

answer to the above came out the second Edict threatening to punish any offender against it caught collecting likin, and ordering: the date of abolition to be postponed until the date of the treaty coming into force should be decided. But it appears quite evident that any attempt to abolish likin would meet with strong opposition in official quarters, and that the futility of the measure would be abundantly illustrated by some device to collect the money in some way.

Yuan. Shi-kal has probably not improved the situation by a bold attempt to show up official squeezes.

He has memorialised the Throne to insist upon the whole of the official collections in cach province being sent up to the Treasury, and an allowance made to each official. This is probably because his own area for squeezing is circumscribed. Any way the effect will be to make him many enemies and start official ingenuity on a

NEW CAMPAIGN OF DISCOVERY as to how to otherwise raise funds. He has made the attempt himself to allowance all officials in his province, but has adopted a scale which will obviously foster corruption rather than check it, although he may personally benefit by enhanced receipts. He has fixed the alluw. ances for the Taotai at Ta Shing-Kwang at Tis. 1,000 a month; Taotai of Ching-ho Tls. 900; Ting Yung Tls. 700; Tientsin Ts. 600; Kopis Tis. 500; Pao Chuang Tls. 350 the prefects of Paoting, Hochien, Hoting each Tl. 600; the Prefects of Tientsin, Ching- tung, Chunle, Taming, Kwangping, Shuahua each Tis. 500; sub prefects Tang Lu Tis, 140, Nan-lie Tis. 130, Peilo Tls, 110 etc etc and in each instance the staff has to be up kept with the amount

THE RAILWAY.

The

The latest news, about the railway is that French and Russian objections have again thrown the restoration negotiations out. Russian Generals have come down from Peking looking very pleased with themselves and there the matter will presumably stop for some time.

A quantity of machinery has arrived for the Peking Syndicate and is being forwarded by Wm. Forbes & Co., the local agents."

but I do not. think the abuse will cease be- cayse the offices are abolished. By increasing he duty and abolishing the, likin offices you change the form of the evil but not the evil itself. Forty or fifty years before likin was organized, the officials agreed that it was better to tax merchants because in order to get their goods through they would pay, and in order to recoup themselves they woul charge a little more. In this way the people allyshared in the taxation but, indirectly and without knowing it.~The system has lasted al-Taku-Tug and-Lighter Company to rival the these years given no trouble in spite of the likin squeezes, flad the people been taxed direct this would not have been the case. Now In order to raise money for the indemnity the- people are being taxed direct, and in the Governments name the

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PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MUCH OPPRESSED. which will be still further increased if likin is removed as extortion in some other office wit take place. This will lead to trouble. The people. are willing to help the Goverment, and to nil contribute something, but when it passes through the bands of officials and only a portion goes to the Emperor it makes the people angry. The people are still unsettled, AG. Girault

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SINGER

SEWING

Schemes are again under weigh for another

old, and competition will have a wholesome effect perhaps on frieghts.

THE WEATHER.

The following report is from Mr. F. G. Fig Acting Director of the Hongkong Obser- vatory →→→

On the 30th at 11:40 am. The barometer has risen quickly in Japan, the typhoon having moved NNE. over the Sea of Japan and pass ed into the Pacific.

Pressure remains high over S China, and gradients continue slight with light variable winds along the coast, and moderate N.E. - monsonn over the N, part of the China Sea,

Forecast-light or moderate NE. winds; fing.

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LATE TELEGRAMS.

Boer Appeal Falling Flat.

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use them, iron and gold must first be got out of the ore. The same principle applies to cod liver oil. Its virtues are not in its fatty matters; much less in its sickening taste and sniell. No consumptive, or sufferer from any LONDON, September 26th.

other wasting disease, was ever greatly bene- Indications point to the early collapse fited by the so called "plain cod liver oil, of the scheme of the Baer Generals to The shock it gives to the nerves, the repulsion raise the funds they wish. for home relief and disgust it excites in the stomach, the Correspondents of the leading papers agree outrages it commits upon the senses of smell that in Berlin, where the most generous and taste, are enough to spoil any medicinal returns were expected, the appeal has had an potency that may be in it for the majority of opposite effect from that intended. The New people. This-to say nothing about its being York correspondent of the Standard reports indigestible. Yet there has always been similar feeling there. He says that no one reason to believe that, among the elements is likely to follow the example of the individual which form cod liver oil, there existed curative donor whose large gift has been reported, and properties of the highest value. But it was that while the aggregate of small gifts may necessary to separate them from the nauseating run into fair proportions nothing like a popular waste material with which they were com subscription may be expected. From all ac. bised. This was successfully accomplished counts it seems that a simple appeal on the in ground of need and distress would have been,

WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION sympathetically received and have been richly and in this effective remedy, made palatable productive; but the sneer at the parsimony of as honey, we have the very heart and soul of Great Britain is constructed to threaten ili-Pure Cod Liver Oil, combined with the Comp tempered agitation of a subject that had better Syrup of Hypophosphites and the Extracts of IDZUMI MARU

Malt and Wild Cherry. These constitute a tissue-builder, a blood purifier, a health Roosevelt and the Solid South.

renewer beyond comparison. Disease yields to it with a completeness and rapidity which NEW YORK. Sept. 26.

astonishes medical men quite as much as it -President Roosevelt has found on his reture delights their patients, In all wasting con to Washington urgent invitations from the ditions, Scrofula and Blood Disorders, La South to visit that section. He is specially in

Bronchitis, Pulmonary Grippe, Chronic demand in the mining and new manufacturing Affections, etc, it never fails to relieve and centers of Alabama and Georgia. The invita

Dr. Louis W. Bishop says: "I take tions declare that a visit at this time will break pleasure in saying I have found it a most the South from its adherence to the Democra- efficient preparation, embodying all of the tic party. The President has sent out replies medicinal properties of a pure cod liver oil in that he hopes to visit the South but that bisa most palatable form." It stands in the front duties at present must keep him in Washing-rank in the march of medicine. No slow or

stay buried.

ton.

THE WORD OF HONOUR,

The men who do as they say; the things that prove to be what they were said to be,-bow cheering it is to come upon them. We all hate to be deceived; especially when the decep- Bion is intentional. But all men are not liars, even if David did say so in his haste. If they were society would be impossibile. Everybody knows that business is based on credit, on faith. Millions are bought daily on nothing more solid than the pledged promises of men, -not written, merely verbal. The Stock Ex- changes are often called nests of gamblers, ye! nowhere is a promise held in greater honour. Therefore when we say that the tried and effective modern remedy called "Wampole's Preparation "never deceives any who resort to it in hope of benest and cure, we may expect to be believed. Fer this assurance is given on what it has done in the past in countless Cases. its record. It is only recom. mended to accomplish what it was made to accomplish. Its action in Chlorosis, Anemia, Ia Grippe, General Debility, Throat and Lung: Troubles, Blood Impurities, etc. is convincing, It is palatable as honey and contains the nutri- live and curative properties of Fure Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh cod livers, combined with the Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites and the Fxtracts of Malt and Wild Cherry. Dr. Austin D. Irvine, of Canada, says: "I have used it in cases where cod liver oil was indicated but could not be taken by the patient, and the results following were very gratifying." It is effective from sensitive and nervous stomachs. It cannot deceive or dis- appoint you, and comes to the rescue of those who have received no benefit from any other treatment. It stands for the medical triumphs of the age. Sold by all chemists here,

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SOLD ON INSTALMENTS AND FOR CASH.

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DESTINATIONS.

(MARSEILLES, LONDON & ANT-).

SAILING DATES.,

Daylight

WERP, VIA Singapore, PENANG, SATURDAY, 4th Oct

COLOMBO and PORT SAID ...................

(SYDNEY and MELBOURNE, VIA) SATURDAY, 4th Oct,

THURSDAY ISLAND

| MOJI, KOBE and YOKOHAMA... VICTORIA, B.C., and SEATTLE,

U S.A., VIA SHANGHAI, MOJI, KOBE and YOKOHAMA ..... KOBE and YOKOHAMA

(SINGAPORE,

Noon

TUESDAY, 7th Oct.,

Noon.

MONDAY, 8th Oct, at

4 P.M.

FRIDAY, 10th Oct., at

"Daylight.

COLOMBO and FRIDAY,, toth Oct, at

BOMBAY SINGAPORE and BOMBAY........

Noon.

FRIDAY, 17th October, at

Noon. SATURDAY. 18th Octy at

Daylight.

MARSEILLES. LONDON & ANT- WERP, VIA SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO and PORT SAID........ VICTORIA, B.C., and SEATTLE, U.S.A, VIA SHANGHAI,MOJI, KOBE and YOKOHAMA .................... KOBE and YOKOHAMA NAGASAKI, KOBE and YOKO-FRIDAY, 24th Ochs

HAMA...

Noon.

MONDAY, 20th Oct.,

4 P.M. FRIDAY, 24th Oct,

Daylight.

* Through Passenger Tickets and Bills of Lading issued for the Principal Cities in the

Atlantic Steamers.

ted States, Canada and Europe, in connection with the GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY and For further information as to Freight, Passage, Sailings, &c., apply at the Company's Local Branch Office at Prince's Building, 1st Floor, Chufer Road.

COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

FAQUEBOTS-POSTE FRANCAIS.

NOTICE.

STEAM FOR

SAIGON, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, COLOMBO, BOMBAY, ADEN, EGYPT, MARSEILLES, MEDITERRÁNEAN AND BLACK SEA PORTS, LONDON, HAVRE, BORDEAÚX; ALEO PORTS OF BRÁZIL AND RIVER PLATE.

N MONDAY, the 6th October, 1903,

O, the Company's Steamship

"OCEANIEN," Captain Rimes, with Mails, Passengers, Specie and Cargo, will leave this Port for MÄRSEILLES, við BOMBAY,

This Steamer connects at COLOMBO with the s.s. Armand Béhic, which vessel takes on her Passengers and Mails leaving that Pert

and Marseilles.

A. S. MIHARA,

GRIENTAL

Manager.

STE

COMPY

THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,

STEAM FOR STRAITS, CEYLON, AUSTRALIA, INDIA, ADEN, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS, PLYMOUTH AND

LONDON..

Through Hills of Lading issued for Batavia,

PERSIAN GULF, CONTINENTAL and

• AMERICAY PORTS.) Stanship

on the 18th October Direct to Suez,, Port SailTHE

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

Shipping Orders will be granted till Noos, Cargo will be received on board until 4 P.M., Specie and Parcels until 3 PM, on the 5th October. (Parcels are not to be sent on board; they must be left at the Agency's Office.) Cor tents and Value of Packages are requirerl.

For further Particulars, apply at the Com pany's Office.

G. DE CHAMPEAUX, Agent. Hoogkong, 23rd September, 1902, [100

NORTHERN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

BOSTON STEAMSHIP COMPANY. BOSTON TOW-BOAT COMPANY.

PROPOSED SAILINGS from Hongkong, VIA

SHANGHAI, INLAND SEA OF JAPAN, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA, FOR VICTORIA, B.C.. AND TACOMA, IN CONNECTION WITH NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY,

Steamers.

1902.

Captains. Tons.

Pleiades* W. H. Smith... 3753 Oct. :0 Victoria`......J. Panton ... 3502 Oct. 18 Olympia J. Truebridge... 2837 Oct. 24 Shawmut...

9605 Oct. 29

Steamers marked (*) have no passenger: accommodation.

The attention of passengers, is directed to

"VALETTA," Captain W. B. Paimer, carrying His Majesty's Mails, will be despatched from this for BOMBAY, on SATURDAY, the rith October, at Noon, taking Passengers and Cargo for the above Parts.

Silk and--Valuables, pli Cargo for France, and Tea for Loudon (under arrangement) will be transhipped at Colombo into a steamer- proceeding direct to Marseille and London; other Cargo for Loudon, &c., Will be conveyed vid Bombay with Transhipment.

Parcels will be received at this Office until P.M. the day before sailing. The Contenta and Value of all Packages are required.

Shippers are particularly requested to note the terms and condinots of the Company's Bill of Lading.

For further Particulars, apply to

EA HEWETT,

Superintendent,

fern, Pony, 27th September, 1902,

Masonic.

ZETLAND

No. 525, E.C.

LODGE

REGULAR MEETING of the above

MASONS HALL, Zetland Street, TO-MOR ROW, the rstOctober,at 8.30 for 9p.m. precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited to attend. Hongkong, 25th September, 100z. fogod

ARLODGE will be held at the FREE

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OUSES in CLIFTON GARDENS, CON-

the very cheap rates offered by this line to the HOUSES IR CLI

Pacific Coast and to the Interior and Eastern Cities of the United States and to Europe.

Special rates allowed to members of Govém ment Services.

Through Bills of Lading issued to Pacific Coast Points and to the Principal Cities in the United States and Canada.

SPEEDY. Passage, apply to

WE deal directly with the people, through our own employees all over the world, selling 1,000,000 Machines

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YOU got an up-to-date Machine, built on honour, to wear a life-time. YOU get it for the Lowest Price at which such a machine can be furnished. YOU will receive careful instruction from a competent teacher at your home. YOU can obtain necessary accessories direct from the Company's offices.

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