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Entimations.

ESTABLISHED A.N. 1841

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1902.

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SUSERIDNAPPING -For kidnapping a native On the 7th September at Shanghai the boy of eleven years, a Chinaman was sent 10 wife of G. A. F. SCHNEIDER, I. . Customs, prison for fourteen days.

of a son.

DEATH,

On the 26th September, at her residence, No. 1,368, Webster Street Oakland, California, ISABELLE, relict of the late HAMILTON MONTELL of Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.,. and mother of A. M. "MONTELL of Shanghai.

A. S. WATSON Hongkong Celegraph

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HONGKONG, MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1902.

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TRANSVAAL EXPORTS--The value of the exports from the Transvaal during the first half of the year amounted to £3,790,090.- Reuter.

THE COLONIAL TROOPS, it has been decided that the cost of messing soldiers of colonial regiments provided for in London barracks shall be a charge on public funds. OSBORNE SHOOTING RIGHTS: The King has presented the shooting rights of the Osborne estate, Isle of Wight, to Princess Henry of Battenbere, for, the benefit of her sons. Prince Alexander frequently shoots over the covells.

NO MORE GAMBLING AT OSTEND. Notwithstanding the hopes to the contrary, King Leopold has finally signed the bill

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for second engineer has been awarded to 1,8a, J. C. Matheson Yuill during the past week.

A CHINESE COOLIE, in the employ of Messrs. Ritchie and Co,, was this morning sent to prison for fourteen days, for stealing one- box of cigars from the store,

THE OBINA ASSOCIATION

HONGKONG BRANCH.

At a general meeting of members of the Hongkong branch of the China Association now being held at the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce, the following report of the Committee for the year ending September last was presented :-

Owing to the unexpected and lamented death of your late Chairman, Mr. 1. J. Francis, EC, in the autumn of 19 1, un repon was issued by

existing Trenica, an urgent telègraphic, cám. munication to the China Association, London, was hiade on the 11th july last, and the Con- mittee are glad to say that His Excellency the Viceroy has since, doubilats under instructions from Peking, receded from that position, and has issued a fresh proclamation on the subject, conceding the point,

GAMBLERS¬--Thirteen-Chinnmen-were--thus-Hinnch of the Association_for_that_year,-have-been-protected-and-pruinoted-by-His-

charged by Inspector Withers with gambling, The two keepers were fined $100, and the others were mulcted in $3 each,

THIEVES ON THE KOREA :-Two Chinese Mess boys, of the 5.S. Korea, were charged by the chief steward for stealing soaps, linens, et, the property of the" "Korea," "They" will not join the ship on her next yoyage. Six weeks ashore may prove useful.

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but members were able to see the correspon- dence cared on, as it was published in the -Report of the London Association, copies of which were distributed in the spring. The Committee intear therefore to confine this review to the past twelve months.

THE NEW COMMERCIAL, TREATY

WITH CHINA.

in the autumn of 1got the Foreign Office made a rather unusual but commendable departure in the appointment of a well known COMMUNICABLE DISEASES:-The commercial man, Sir James Lyle Mackay return of the number of communicable dis-K.C.S., as Special Commissioner to negotiate the new Commercial Treaty with China, and eases which have been notified as occurring in

although some adverse criticism was indulged

the Colony during the week ended 4th inst, shows:-Bubonic plague, sil: Cholera, z fatal cases; diphtheria, two cases.

FRUIT AND GAME:-Consignments of pears, grapes, and other fruits are arriving from the North. In a few weeks we may expect their place to be largely taken by pheasants, bare, quail and other game. Of course, a little later sti i we shall see numerous baskets of Christmas turkeys.

| PROGRAMME OF MUSIC to be played by the Band of the 33rd Madras Infinity, on the New Parade Ground on Tuesday next, the 7th instant, from 4.30 p.m. to 6 pm.

PROGRAMME.

1. March....

........Zara ............. Manuel Klien 2. Overture.....‚” Enbernian Gin”......................................... Ralir. Salec.ion.. Ler Cloches de Carreville ".. Planyactie. ⚫. Gavotte .. The first Kiw". ........Schubert. 5. Selection. Stephen Adam Songs “Art, by Henley, ... Wall..............." Valse Kone"....... . Alfred Margis. "God save the King."

MACAO HARBOUR :-It is reported from Macan that the local Governmert has received sanction to negotiate for the purchase of a powerful dredger in connection with the harbour improvement scheme. Is the Canton

A DESERTER-M. Shield, a private in the River in the market?

Royal Engineers, was charged before Mr HONGKONG APPOINTMENTS -The Hazeland this morning with desc..ing from the Gazette notifies that the King has been pleased British Army. He pleaded guilty. The de to approve of the Cavaliere Eugenio Zanoni- fendant deser.ed on the 15th March and Volpicelli as Consul-General of Italy at Hong. obtained employment on 2 sailing ship. Ow kong, for the Island of Hongkong; and Doning to his bad behaving he was discharged, Alberto Rivera Labarca as Consul of Chile at and, spending his scanty earnings joined a gang Hongkong.

of beachcomers. As this incans of livelihood

RETURN OF VISITORS to the City Hall

was not very remunerative, he gave himself up to the police yesterday. Mr. Hazeland ordered

in and complaints made, that an Indian ex perience was not a necessary qualification for such a post, yet the Committee think that the general consensus of opigion would now adınit that he was amply qualified for the position, assisted us he was by one of the ablest of the Shanghai mercantile body and a most capable Member of the Consular staff. Sir James Mackay speedily discovered that firmness combined with infinite patience formed the most important requisite in the conduct of negotiations with Chinese officials. The Com- missioner came to China with an open mind, and at once set himself diligently to work to learn facts, find out commercial wants, and take the rpinions of those on the spot most competent to express them. Having collected a mass of information and thoroughly posted himself on the various questions affecting trade, he set to work to formulate a treaty which would free foreign trade from the re- strictions that now humper it, and, by yielding a larger revenue from an increased duty, also prove acceptable to the Chinese. After much consideration, he accordingly proposed the

abolition of lekin and all other inland taxation

on foreign goods with certain modifications in the taxation of native goods; the Imperial Maritime Customs to be allowed to collect in lieu thereof a surtax of one and a half times the impos, duty, making an estimated import duty 01 32 per cent, instead of the 5 per cent, hitherto imposed. Out of the surtax

THE LATE CHAIRMAN,

The Committee have to deplore the sudden: and unexpected decease of their late Chair- man, Mr. J. J. Francis, K.C, while on a trip to Japan in 1901. Mr. Francis, who bad presided over this Branch for several years, did excel tent service during that period; his long ex- perience of affairs in the Far East, his legal acumen, and his ready pen enabling him to handle the questions coming before the Association with the utmost facility and with marked success.

THE AMOY F(85

DAMAGE EXCEEDS 55,000,000

From inquiries made at all the Chinesa". firma having direct dealings with Amoy, we are informed that the fire, reported Saturday's columns, was ov hard struggle with the that the total amg lost will amou

ipated

fire deny

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on and Company

A MERITED ACKNOWLEDGMENT, The Committee have been much impressed with and have great pleasure in fiere recording their high appreciation of the able and energetic manner in which British interests at Canton)

Majesty's present Representative at that port, Consul General James Scott. Ms. Scott has, undoubtedly, by his vigilance, promptitude | Oge telegrama, ived last light reads as fol and firmness, effectively championed British laws Fire slopped to pm. All safe in house interests.

boats.it is feared that many local insurance companies are heavily involved. So far we have been unable to obtain an account from an eye-witness as the latest arrival from Amoy is the Anping Maru, which left on. the and inst., the day before the out- break commenced. We learn from Messrs. Douglas Laprask and Company, Limited that one of their large sheds escaped the flames, and this no doubt is due to strenuous efforts an the part of many persons assisting in fighting the flames. The sled is situated on the opposite side of the building to the premises of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Company: and was only separated from the demolished larger structure by a lane some six or eight feet wide. We are also able to confirm our supp sition of Saturday that the premises of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Company are, for the greater part, destroyed News has now been received in the Colony to the effect that the premises of Messrs. Geooge I. Macy and Company, of the firm of Messrs. Carter May and Company, tea merchants, New York, bave also severely suf.. fered. We explained the situation of these premises in our. Saturday's issue. Messrs. Butterfield and Swire received information on Saturday that a man in their employ named Fife had been killed by a fall of masonary. It is assumed that this is Captain Fife of the Wenchow, who was probably assisting with many other Europeans belonging to the locality and shipping, in battling with the flames. It is reported that he met his death by the side of one of the burning houses, which collapsed without warning. In spite of reports to the contrary a wire was received yesterday that the fire was still burning, but there is little room for doubt that at that time the conflagration was well under control.

THE COMMITTEE. The Committee, after various changes, now consists of the following Members-Hon. Geo. W .F. Playfair (Chairman), Hon. C. S; Sharp, Hon. R. Shewan, Messrs. R. C. Wilcox, G.H. Medhurst, H. E. Tomkins, W. Poate, and C. Pemberton (Hon. Secretary),

THE ACCOUNTS, The accounts of the Hon. Secretary are annexed.

(HERE FOLLOW THE ACCOUNTS.) The Chairman, Mr. G. W. F. Playfair, said :-- Gentlemen, Before reading the Report I may be permitted to preface it with a few remarks,

Although this Branch of the Association has not been much in evidence to the general | public and may thereby have given rise in some quarters to doubts as to its effectiveness or of its being of any service to British interests out hers, I can assure you that it has, neverthe less, been constantly on the look-out (a S ference to the appendix will prove this) and has been doing not a little work which can be more effectively and more expeditiously done than if goae about in the full glare of publicity, No opportunity has been allowed to pass of intervening in favour of Eritish interests when ever representations seemed likely to be of any avail. The Committee therefore feel that although they have not been much before the

Library and Museum for the week ending the prisoner to be handed over to the military the provincial Governments are to receive Public, this Branch of the Association has been

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TO PUNISH LOOTERS:-A dispatch from

Kenhardt announces that it has been decided to send an expedition against a party of about 60 natives, who have for some time been lool- ing in the extreme north-west of that district near the German border. The German authorities, it is believed, will co-operate.

SZECHUEN DISTURBANCES DISBE- LIEVED The Universal Gazette learns from Hupeh that the authorities there do not lay much stress on the disturbances in the Suburbs of Chengtu as, so far, they have not received news that is really alarming. Inform ation from Foreign sources is therefore looked upon as exaggerated.

STATE SECRETS STOLEN:-The Rester Lloyd learns that information has reached

Vienna of a theft from the secret archives of FURNITURE the Romanian General Staff. Important fortress plans and documents, among which is the general plan of mobilisation, are said to have been spirited away by Bulgarian agents acting in the interests of the Russian General Staff. The matter is said to have caused a sensation in Bucharest, and a telegram in cipher was at once despatched to King Carol

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of Roumania at Gastein.

LATER NEWS OF CHENCHOW RIOT -

The Universal Gazette is again informed that the Chenchou riot case is about to be settled The Governor has appointed Taotais Tsai and

have already been decapitated.

authorities.

HONGKONG COMPOSER:-We have re ceived a copy of the grand military quick step, Marching to Pretoria, which many Hoogkon musicians will be interested to learn was, by Mr. M. D. Silas, quite, a young composer in the Colony. In fact, it is the first work he has published and the

piece will doubtless be remembered as having beco played last year by the band of the Royal Welch Fusiliers in connection with the inter-port cricket festivities. It is a very tuneful march in 6/8 time, and although the young composer has aspired to four flats the pece presents no difficulties and should be quickly learned. In addition to being a spirited march the piece is well adapted to dancing and ought to gaio popularity in the coming season. No the least noteworthy feature of the publication

compensation for the loss of lekin, the collec tion of which has always been costly and wasteful. If this arrangement be adhered to the provincial administrations will certainly. profit largely, and it is hoped that, in considera- tion of the faci, an attempt will be made to revive lekin under another name. It will, of

course, be the duty of His Majesty's Consuls to

jealously watch the course of affairs when the provisions of the Treaty come into force and to see that no attempt is made to nullify the abolition of this ancient exaction.

RELATIONS WITH THE LONDON OFFICE. During the past year a great deal of cor- respondence has been received and despatched, part of which is appended to this Report Much of it, however, is more or less con- fidential, and cannot therefore be published, but the file is open for the inspection of individual members. The Committee have

actively and continuously at work and has, with some amount of success, striven to fill the place which such an Association, with great interests, ought to take up.

'In this connection I might read you the following extract from a letter received only this morning from the Secretary of the As- sociation in London i he says

EXORBITANT RENTS IN

KOWLOON.

TENANTS SOLVE (THE- DIFFICULTY."

A syndicate of gentlemen has been formed at Kowloop who, have, we learn, purchased from Mr, Jobn, Lemm, architect, for the sum of $70,000 that piece of vacant ground situated beside Lyeemoon villas, and ai pre forwarded to the Foreign Ofice, but we have Club We believe that the gentlemen con "Not only have your protest been promptly sent occupied by the Ladies' Coronation Tennis evidence that they have been acted upon cerned are a number of the older residents of the It, no doubt, has occurred to some of you Peninsula, whose house rents have increased in to wonder why a meeting of the Association most, if not all, cases to more than double was not convened in March/April to consider what they originally were. Only the other Sir James Mackay's proposals, but, in the first week they received notice from landlords place, owing probably to a change in the intimating a further increase, and this tended Secretaryship in London, we were not com to fan into flame a general desire, which has municated with at the same time the Shanghai smouldered for some time, to become Branch was, and when we were communicated their own landlords and with we had such a lesson before us in the themselves from the worry of absence of anything like unanimity in the Norquently recurring impositions. The site thar

free fre

is the cover, which is a tiated representation not hesitated to urge, both by wire and by thern Port that your Committee in the exercise has been obtained is one of the best in the

of Lord Roberts entering Pretoria at the

head of a body of infantry and cavalry. The publication can be had for $1 from Messrs. Lane, Crawford and Company, of Queen's Road, Central.

letter, upon the London Office of the Associa tion the importance of making strong repre- sentations to the Foreign Office on various points, and they have reason to think that such representations have proved more or less successful. In any case it seems to the Committee that the Foreign Office have paid attention to malters urged by them through the Association in London.

TRANSFER OF COLLECTORATE OF NATIVE

A BRIGHT YOUTH AT HONGKONG- John Wielley an Eurasian, of some 18 years of age, has several aliases and is a great favourite with the police. He was this morning charged as five different counts with obtaining money by false pretences, and with stealing

a silver

TO FOREIGN CUSTOMS. watch. About a year ago he was charged As will be seen by reference to the appendix, with a similar offence. The Magistrate, how your Committee found it necessary to telegraph a strong protest against the delay of Hoppo (or ever, took pity on him and only bound him over to keep the peace. About a fol.night Superintendent of the Native Customs) at later he was again arrested and charged Canton in transferring the collectorate of these with the same sort of offence. This time Mr. | 4ustoms dues to the Imperial Maritime Yo to settle it at Blankow with the British

Hazeland sent him to the Reformatory, from Customs. The transfer has been effected since ROCHESTER LAMPS,

Consul, who demands (a) that China pays an WHITE TURKISH TOWELS. indemnity of forty thousand i els, (b) that a

where, after giving a deal of trouble, he escaped with excellent results, the differential duties COUNTERPANES.

memorial arch be erected on the main street He row re-appears before the public, after formerly accorded to junks having now ceased, of Chenchou, (c) that the two military officers visiting houses at Wanchai, where he posed and cargo which had been divered from as a Sanitary Inspector. He examined pipes, foreign steamers on the river now finding its be beheaded. The Chinese strenuously object to the third demand as the principal rioters and, in several instances, charged the houseway into normal channels,

occupants $2.50. In one house he fiued a ATTEMPTED INCREASE IN TAXES ON OPIUM. meter, for which he charged $500. The receipt In April fast, the attempt by the Canton given to No. 183 Queen's Road East was authorities to impose an additional tax on Dictation Station. White Bicdos G. G and foreign opium, amounting practically to an Company. No. 183 $500. Signed Woollen increase of 100 per cent., which was come into Singlet." Several others of this descripting operation in May, received the attention of the found in the prisoner's possession. Committee, who addressed a strong protest by The receipt for No. 141 Queen's Road East | wire on the subject to the London Association read: "The chief. I am be stany and I will The result of this and other representations do up them. (Sd.) J. Gow." Whatever was by the Chamber of Commerce and the meant by them we do not know. He may Opium longs led to the introduction of have been. 'hard-up, but for the next month

the proposed tax being postponed until July. he will be at honest hand labour on each count.

A further message was despatched to Lon- don by the Committee in August, and the question is still under consideration. Mean time some shipments of opium have been re- turned to Hongkong from Canton and Swatow pending settlement of this important question. The action of the native authorities at these two ports being a glaring violation of Treaty stipulations, brought about for the time being a stoppage of the imports there of foreign opium. This serious infraction of Treaty fights is a matter calling for the most energetic action on the park of II. M. Government...

BISHOP HOARE'S WANTS:-The London PHOTOGRAPHIC and Chini Express say that Bishop Hoare has

DEPARTMENT.

two special wants which he desires made known. He writes:-"(1) An assistant chaplain for the DEVELOPING and PRINTING

Hongkong Cathedral. His work would be UNDERTAKEN for AMATEURS. parochial work amongst the English population,

GOOD WORK.

some 4,000, of Hongkong. He should be musical enough to be able to intone a service. PROMPT RETURN." Hongkong, 8th July, 1902.

(728d want a good, earnest-minded man with a message. No knowledge of Chinese would be GEO. PATTON & CO. required for this post. (2) A missionary to help in the training of Chinese Christian agents in Have for Sale a large Consignment of

St. Paul's College, Hongkong." H. W. JOHNS & CO.S

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The Reformatory refuses to take him in.

8.8. "HONGKONG" ASHORE.

THE FATHER OF SINGAPORE: Mr W. H. Read, C.M.G., who may be considered

FEARED LOSS OF LIFE. the present Father of Singapore, bas had to relinquish has desire to visit the old place The river steamer Hongkong, plying between again, which he had contemplated doing this Bangkok and Pachim, has been ashore winter. Dr. Rowell, his medical attendant, has at Han Heea Noi, on the east coast of pronounced against it, and he has had to-sub-the-Gulf,-and-capsized. At the time she was mit. That marvellous nonagenarian Sir Henry carrying over sixty native passengers, of which STEAM PACKING, GASKETS and Keppel starts, however, again for the Straits number about fatty were rescred by fishing FIRE PROOFING MATERIALS.

next month to tide over the English winter, boats. It is feared that of the remainder sonic Though Mr. Read is not allowed to proceed, have been drowned. the L. & C. Express is glad to say he is in his usual bealth, and as he himself expresses it "pretty well for an old "un."

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THE LEKIN FREE AREA IN CANTON.

•In consequence of the denial by the Viceroy) of the Two Kwang of the privilege of a lekin free area in Canton as provided for in the "SK fotASAHI JAPANESE, BEER-

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of what they deemed a wise discretion refrained from adding to the general confusion, as, by that time, it was pretty plain to them that Sir James Mackay's ideas in one form or another held the field and that no better proposals had been or were likely to be brought forward.

But,

the experience of the past has shown us, it will always be necessary for the British Government and British Government Officials to see that Treaties are fulfilled in the spirit as well as apparently in the letter.

Colony, facing the Kowloon esplanade and commanding an uninterrupted view of the

yeemoon entrance to the harbour, and, at the same time far removed from evil-smelling and noisy Chinese tenements. We understand that

the houses to be erected are fouiteen in damber,

They are to be inexpensive but commodious and convenient, and suitable in every way for family use, it is also the intention of the syndicate to erect the house on the semi-

detached principle with small plots of ground

"one"

dollar per foot, and it is reckoned that

I think a special word of thanks is due to attached to each building. The price paid, is Sir James Mackay, who brought to hear a rich, store of commercial intelligence and acumen the speculation will in time amply repay the on the necessarily difficult task of reconciling enterprise that brought it into existence, as It is deplorable, of course, that the conflicting interests.

acquisition of the ground should deprive the members of

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In the report you will find a well merited acknowledgment of the services of His Majesty's Representative in Canton, Consul-General James Scott: it is satisfactory to record n wel tome change in affairs. If British interests in China had always been served by men of his type we would not have bad so many a coach and four driven through our Treaties until our diplomacy had become a byword and British stand that the vendor only a Merchants in China had almost sunk into the-chased this same site for apathy of despair of ever seeing British facials land will further stand up for Treaty rights and obligations, for it is in cl While the Consolar .fficials may be termed Point which, w the official, watch dogs. of British interests in China, this Association may be termed the terminus of hu unofficial watch dog to: spund the alarm in case the official watch dogs have been asleep. heard in London. or have not made, their warnings sufficiently

f the Ladies' Coronation, Tennis

Club of a privilege they have enjoyed for only

very short time, but it is to be hoped that long the Club will find a new and biore manent location for its pleasant

As showing how land has value in Kowloon, in, tecent

The fact is public opinion has to keep stirring. the Powers that be in order to get things pat through and some help afforded to British trade against Chinese obstructiveness and exaction. The British merchant simply wants a fair field and no favour and that the British Govern- ment should stand by and see that he gets fair play.,

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MAILS THE American (fonghing more) 10th English (Churan plith inst Tacóma (Olýmáin) 14th ing." American (China) 17th insta Australian (Auştralian)aist inst American (orič)'ath inst, vers

The 0.5-5. Co's steamer Laerter left Singa port on the 4th inst, and is due here on the zoth

st

While on this subject we would like to ex- press our pleasure at seeing the increasing number of M.P.'s who are making China and Chinese affairs a study and coming out here to see and hear for themselves so that they will the House of Commons and prevent British left Motor be able to turn their knowledge to account in The Russ

For interests being neglected as they so often have been in the past. It only by unceasing

vigilance and prompting that even tho best Governments are kept up to the seri

Mr. F. Maitland seconded the Carried The Committee were

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