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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1902.

MACAO: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.

The authentic copy of an official telegram received at Macão from the Portuguese Minister at Peking "which we were enabled to reproduce in these columns last.evening, confirms beyond a doubt the conclusion of a treaty between the Governments of China and Portugal. The telegram is necessarily WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS: brief and states simply that H.E., Senhor José d'Azevedo Castello e Branco had attached his signature and seal, presumably with those of the High Chinese Plenipoten- tiaries to a treaty the terms of which would be advantageous to the commerce and pros. perity of the Portuguese Colony. The

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trade the City Hall on November 4th.

FATAL FALL: Yesterday afternoon the corpse of a man was found in Mosque Siriet On making inquiries the police ascertained the man had fallen from the top of a house close by and frattured his skull.

will be iven to in the riverine ports that must inevitably conduce to the prosperity of the port.. From the water borne traffic, far more than from trade overland by means of railway, must the immediate benefit to Macao be looked for. And that the former is capable of affording a most lucrative business all those familiar with the nature of the country and the ir dustry of its people cannot fail to realise One hopeful sign is the introduction of foreign capital into the Colony which is employed in permanent estates by the Chinese. Let this be encouraged by the reduction of the preposterous assignment fees of ten per cent. as a first step in the direction of fiscal reform, and the abolition of the most obnoxious forms of farms then Macau may yet hope to raise itself from the Slough of Despond into which she has sunk

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wu«p}{_as_ing LLC. for their opinion with reference to the coming Tientsin of dolluts of the value of one tacl for commercini purpoids, and that other, provinces might have their cons unde in Fienisin so as to have a uniform cu.rency. It is said that most of the ministers concurred in Viceroy Tuen's proposal, ns there was hope of accomplish ent, but nothing was said of the large capital required for carrying, but such an object.

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Kau, masterof the Sui We, who was charged on two. viz. bu r8th Jane, 1952, he did cases of Chinese fire crackers, the property of the P&0. Company; and that on the same. day, he did attempt to remove ico cases of fire crackers, which he knew were not his property,

After the charge was read once to the pri sonit, he pleaded not guilty and the following jury was impannelleil - Messro, M. R. Robans,

R. Mikin, A. G. Roberts, F. T. Dunje, E-J.- Judah, P. Cottam, and F. A. C. flahu,

e. Attorney General, prosecuted on behalf of the Crown, and the prisoner was undefended, Cross-examined by the Attorney General, the-prise er stated that he was the master of the junk, Aug Sui Wo, and was employed by a firm in Canton to bring down hom Canton 70 cases of fire-crackers to be delivered on board the J. and 0.8. Formosa. He brought them down in his junk, went alonside the steaner, and had the goods transferred. He subsequently returned and had a receipt

CASE TO BE RECONSIDERED D. C. Wolfe, who committed for trial the China- man charged with manslaughter in connection with the male ry case, has decided to

MOVING MOUNTAI Thas Altas, consider the case on Monday morning. MASONIC-1 is understood that the new dangerous mountain in the Bernese Oberland, Scotch Lodge at Kow con will be consecrated avoided by Alpinists on account of iis frequent and the W.M. installed with full Masonic avalanches, threatens to split into two parts honours on Saturday, 25th instant. The and overwhelm the valley of ile some name. Ten years ago a huge mass of this mountin became detached and swept into the valley, Lodge will be housed in Chater's Bungalow. CHARGE OF THE CHAIR BRIGADE-destroying a number of chalets in its course Chair canlies were charged by a German lady and killing many persons and hundreds of with rushing just her witte site was wa kingattle, A new landslip on a huge scale is up the Battery Bath and thus damaging her expected any day on the part of the mountain

$3 compensation.

in the vicinity have been warned and baye left the neighbourhood.

* Si Yuen stated that he was a dealer in THE MANCHURIAN RAILWAY Aboutcrackers in Canton. He remembered shipping 700 officials, accompanied by their families. 740 cases of crackers on 28th July, consigned are on the point of leaving St Petersburg by to the P. and O. s.s. Fermosa, He saw them rail for Charbin, where they will be appointed packed, and also saw that labels were on hem. to various posts. on the Manchurian Railway Afterwards he had them put in board the junk,

Portuguese Minister further added that by the short-sighted policy by misguided umbrella. Fined $6 each and ordered to pay called the Deldenhong, and all the villagers.given him. He than went to Canton to get the

·LOCAL AND GENERAL.

NAVAL STORES-The licence fee for dealer in matine stores or old, metal is $30 per

the President of the local Senate might tender his congratulations to The people of Macao at such a satisfactory issue. Coning as the telegraphic message does at a time when all hopes had been given up in the neighbouring colony of the success of the latest Portuguese mission to China, the news must certainly have been BILLS OF

mensein.

INDIAN CORONATION HONOURS:- is understood that a large number of awards and promotions in the Orders of the Star of India and the Indian Empire wi l'be made in connection with the Coronation this winter.. CHINA SAVINGS-Five and a quarter lakhs

money for the freight of the goods,

HEALTH will in future be | South Africa ravings for the provision of lyd. residing in the St. Petersburg military district He got a receipt from the Kwong Sui Wa 'for,

of Rupec, have been set apart from China and The authorities have proposed to the surgeons Kong Sui We for conveyance to Hongkong

delivered on a fon bearing an impressed stamp of $6.

TE ITALIAN C NSUL:-The King's Exequatur empowering Cavaliere Zanoni Volpicelli to act as Consul-General of Haly at Hongkong, has received His Majesty's signature.

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BLEND hailed with pleasure, by the Portuguese in the East. The history of nations like that of individuals is marked by periods of vicissitudes of fortumes, and in that of Macao --especially in its past-it has furnished incidents of ups and downs which mark it as no exception to the general rule. As the gift of a grateful nation to a band THE CHOLERA SITUATION IN THE

CHILIPPINES is said to be greatly im of benefactors in ridding the southern coast of China from the ravages of a terrorizing proving. The daily provincial report for the pitatical horde, Macao was founded as the 24 hours up to 8 am, on the 11th inst., was 326 cases and 635 deaths; mortality of 64 per first European settlement in China. Thither

Kent. The repon for the City of Manila for the was attracted the pioneer merchants and

same 24 hours was a cases and I death. traders of the ocident in their pursuit of

THE SALE OF BONDS:-We read in the the wealth of the Orient. For successive generations and until the dawn of British Chino Shimbun that the bonds recently sold to the Hungkong and Shanghai Bank are- te influence in the East, Macao held its posi-cary three months' interest. That fact would $10.80tion and did day as the rest-house for the slightly modify the calculation made in our commercial and political agents of Europe | leading co umns on the 6th instant, for pur- to China. At one time Chinese emigration poses of comparison, but the differente is gave an mordinate impetus to its trade; but that impetus was short-lived, and when the tide of emigration turned from Macao to Hongkong the doom for the former as a maritime port was practically seal ed. What

little remained to her of her coasting trade did not justify her A. S. WATSON & Co., retaining her ancient title of an entrepôt of foreign trade. That coasting trade gradually dwindled until it has sunk to that condition of decadence when it became advisable to the Portuguese administrators to emulate the example of Hongkong and declare Macao a free port. This action was synchronous with the opening of the West River to foreign trade, from which so much had been expected, but Fate ruled other wise. A gradually silting harbour, which official apathy permitted to become worse and worse with the march of time, had much to do with keeping out a great deal of the trade that at one time it would put have been difficult to retain for Mação. The taking of Kwang-chau-wan by the French -was not an unmixed blessing, for the port now claims a share of the distributing trade which erstwhile went through its Portuguese neighbour. To what extent benefits will accrue to the commerce of Macao by the Treaty just concluded, we have yet to learn. With the publication of is 1, which is awaited for with interest, we shall be in possession of the exact nature of the con- Cessions which the Portuguese Minister pro- phesies will redound to the advantage and promote the prosperity of the Portuguese Colony. It is given to us to surmise that, among the grants obtained, is the construction of a railway to connect.our next-door neigh bour, with the populous capital of Kwangtung. To depend upon Portuguese capital alone to finance the undertaking may be to regulate

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THE OFFICIAL EXECUTIONER of Tokio died recently. His death was extraordinary, He was crossing a railway track near Tokio when he was run down by a fast express. The body was found by the track with the head as neatly decapitated as any which had been cut off by the official executioner himself. Other- wise there was not a mark on the body. LICENCES:-The following fees will now be charged for the issue of the undermentioned licences in substitution for these autorised by the schedule to the Licensing Consolidation Ordinance, 1887, vi. -Auctioneer, $600; public billiard table, skittle ground, nine-pin or bowling alley, $,00; Chinese money changer, $to; and Chinese undertaker, $10, INTERNATIONAL STAMPS-The Danish Post-office has invited the postal authorities of other countries to consider the desirability of introducing a world's reply stamp. Often when one desires to send a foreign correspondent stamps for reply one cannot do se, not having the tamps of the other correspondent's coun. try. It is proposed, therefore, to design stamps for international use, one indicating the coun- try from which it is sent and another marked "réponse," which can be used in all countries..

dite filled common shell and fuzes for big coast quarter lakhs will be provided in the Home estimates for 1903-04 for armour piercing sheil. INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH. CON- FERENCE:We have been informed by the Manager in Chinn of the joint Telegraph Companies that they have received advices from the, laternational Telegraph Bureau at Beme that the postponed Iternational Telegraph Conference will be held in London on the 26th of May next.

Pefence guns and a further sum of three and a

A. CHINESE PRISONER, undergoing sentence of two months, managed to escape from the Penang Prison on the evening of the 2nd in tant and has not been arrested as yet. It is uver six years since a prisoner has escaped, for the chances of getting over the prison walls are extremely rare. No clue could be found as to how the man managed to get rul

SHOT DURING AMOY FIRE: It is al rendy known that a good many Chinese, both women and men perished in the Amoy fire some from inability to get away, others from being too venturesome in searching among the debris of their buses. Several men who tried to rob were also, quite rightly, shot when in the act of plying their nefarious work. A BIG RAID-Forty-five natives in the employ of the Taku Sugar works were arrested by Sergeant Murrison of the detective staff for gambling at No. 5 Quarry Bay Road All were brought before Mr. F.-A. Hazeland at the Police Court this morning, and four of their charged with keeping a common gambling house, were fined 5:00 each, while the others got off with a fine of $3 a peice.

THE NEW CHINESE MINISTER in London has entered upon his duties and will be given an early opportunity to present his credentials to be King. His Excellency is already known in diplomatic circles there, for he acted as attaché, and subsequently as first secretary, to the late Marquis Tseng. One of his first acts was to confirm the appointment Sir Halliday Macartney has held for many years of con cillor and English secretary to the Legation.

court against the new Lord Mayor of London and two others, on the plea that a sum of 15566 yen is due to the plaintiff on account of services rendered by him in securing for the defendants the opium monopoly in Torniosa.. The venue would seem to lie in London, but as Messrs. Samuel and Company have an office in Kobe, proceedings have been instituted there.

that they shall accept positions along the Manchurian Railway as a yearly salary of 400, and with an allowance of 32 to pay no dearth of surgeons in Russia, and in view the cost of going out to the Far East. There is of the salary the supply of them would be found to exceed the demand; there was no reason to limit the openings to surgeons in one particular military district.

cases of crackers..

the goods shipped. On 19th eptember he west on board the P and steamier Ceylon, and found t

to have been shipped on 20th June. He knew. le recognised them as some of those supposed them by the labels, and he afterwards saw them in the compound of the Police-tours....

The next witness called: was Mr. R. V. D. Parr, the shipping clerk of the P. and 0.-Com-

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pearance of the loo cases of crackers, and pany. He gave evidence relating to the disap stated to the Court that the Company was in formed of the shortage by telegram from Eng- land. He subsequently saw the IDO cases in a Chinese shop in Des Voeux Road West,

THE "SOUL OF GOODNESS" There is light of a blessing, and that is, says the W. CD only one way of looking at the Amoy fire in the News, if it will only have burnt up the germs of the plague that have filled Amoy for some years past. One remembers how the Great Plague of London was followed a few years later by the great fire, and how seldom plague has visited our shores since So if the fire will give us an immunity from this fell visitant injunk, Kwong Sut Wo. coming years, it will be more of a blessing than a curse after all,.

THE CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

· OPENED THIS MORNING, AND

With ten prisoners for trial and serious charges figuring against their names, the Crim- inal Sessions were opened with the usual formalities at the Supreme Court this morning before the Chief Justice, His Honcur WM Goodman. The Court was as usual crowded with impatient jurors and inquisitive natives, and, judging by appearances, they may expect a lengthy sitting.

Sergeant Sullivan No. 27 and P.C. Li Ping of the goods in No. 426 Des Voeux Road, and 350 also gave evidence relating to the finding the subsequent arrest of the prisoner on the

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In summing up, the Chief Justice said, that it was a clear case of la ceny, and that on a large scale. He would impress upon the jury that thefts of stea nature especially in such bulk, were serious detriment to the trade of the Colony, and also that the punishment was far greater than if it were only for larceny on a small scale. It was their duty, however, to decide whether prisoner was guilty or not, and also whether there was any mistake on the pars of the shippers or the prisoner or a premeditated action on the part of the prisoner.

The Jury retained a verdict of guilty on both counts, and prisoner was sent to prison for eighteen months with hard labour.

The Court was then ajourned till Monday

20th, ai, 1ɔ a.m

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INFLUENCE OP-PASSION AND DRINK The first case called upon did not necessitate the impannelling of a jury as the prisoner. pleaded guilty and was at once dealt with. His name is Leung Yeung, and he stood in the

One of the vessels recently turned out from duck to answer a charge of wounding with he well-known Yard el W. S. Bailey & Co, at intent to murder, and a further count of wound-Kowloon Bay, is the tug boat Ilongay, which ing with intent to do grevious bodily harm. left to lay for Haiphong in charge of Capt. He pleaded not guilty to the more serious George Parker. She is 75 between perpandi offence, but, acknowledging his guilt on the culars X 14' beam x 73′′ moulded depth, ned second count, asked to be dealt with leniently is fitted with a pair of Compound Surface Con- as at the time of the offence he was under the densing Engines, 10 and 20" to Her influence of liquor.

speedis10-1/2 knots. The Hangy was construct- ed under the superintenderce of Mr. E. Johann sen, Consulting Enginter→→The new Batley, which has been ip service these two months, is one of the speediest launches now plying in the Harbour. She is 67 feet long and has a speed of 10-3/4 knots,

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The Attorney General (Hon. Sir H. Spencer Berkeley, K.B.) intimated his willingness to accept the plea and replying the Chief Justice, said he understood that pri soner had been employed in the Dart Loong shop where he appeared to have had a quarrel with the complainant, and made use of such threats that the man had to retret tog a mnom. Prisoner, however, brcke open the dage and hacked him with a chopper causing serious

New York, Sunday, 14th September.. wounds on his head and body. It appeared

The atincks on the smart ser of AmericaT that at the time the prisoner was more under

Watierson ashoird the influence of passion that of drink, and the society by Mr flen

ule 1 h a caustic Allorney General thought it was a case which Louisville editor const

darraignment of immorality, ostentatious dis did not require to be leniently dealt with

play, and worship of money as to allract The Chief Justice,, in sentencing the man national attention, tags an exchange sta MILLIONAIRE SHOT DEAD-A Newtwo years imprisonment with hard bour,in a second article published to day. Mr. York correspondent says: -Mr. Charles Simylie, observed that he was taking into cons deration Watterson replies to his critics. The following

Are Sume of his sayings- a millionaire liquor. manufacturer, who saw

the statement that was made in the charge room long as the average New Yorker lad service in Cuba as a Major during the Spanish to the effect that he was under the influence of to work for his living and göt riches by ilia War and escaped unscathed, was shot dead in drink at the i me, and to prevented from sweat of his brew, mager bad both character mistake for a deer in the Adirondack Mountains having that full command of himself which he and value it is a fact that even in the belter lealins luxury and wealth there is a by Judge Storrs his closest friend. By the dim would otherwise have had. In such a condition.

growing talentiom of the unclegne Licentinus- light of a lantern Judge Storrs saw what hit a man became violent and dangerous, and that net, like revolution, never goes backward. — thought was a red deer, and his guide insisted was all the more reason why he could avoid The one unpardonable sin is conviction

arreet, is to be excited in be pl-in- that Be was right. After argue the matter becoming intoxicated In the evidence it was ther and see ng a pair of eyes gleaming through the stated that prisoner had said, I will chop you and to do personal is to be lost

spoken To be inspired by persona molites, darkness, Judge Storrs took careful aim for to death," so he must have had some notion ol

Jong shall it be before our public men between the shining points His aim was

the dime of committing shall come butt a race of Medicean. Princes wilfront the learning of the arts of Florence, and the Presidential chair itself a simple com modity to be knocked down to the hillest hier bidd r

AN ACTION AT LAW-Japanese journals MR. HOOLEY AS LIBERAL CANDI-state that Mr. Robert Hughest of Kube has DATE-The Manchester Daily Dispatch instituted proceedings in the japanese local ventures to predict that before long Mr. Ernest Terah looley will be considerably before the public again, and before this eventuality it is likely that the payment of 205, in the will be an accomplished fact. Should this prophecy come true our next forecast will be the appear ance of Mr. Hooley as a Parliamentary candi dated-on the Liberal side. The last occasion that he sat in Parliament was in 1898 when he took his seat as a Unionist.-Ed., H.K”, T, | KOWLOON CITY AND SUBURBS-The following order is published in the Government Garelle: The Governor in Council hereby direcs that a valuation, under the Rating Ordinances, No. &of tgot and No. 28 of 1932, of the rateable tenements in Kowloon City and it suburbs and Sham Shui Po, for the year commencing 18 t y 190, shall be made on or before the sole day of April, 1903, but that as regards rateable tenements situated else where in the Colony, the existing valuation shall be adopted as that for the said year. COUnt caught cheaTING will be remembered that the Hongkong Teleg aph ecently published a special from its London correspondent stating that a sensation was recently caused in aristocratic circles in St Petersburg, when the notoriously lucky gamblet, Count Kitowski, was detected in the act of

accurate and Mr. Smylie was instantly killed. Judge Storis grief was, pathetic. There are scores of Langedies of this kind every autumn. Several states have prescribed the wearing of clothes of certain colours to prevent a repetition of these deadly mistakes.

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THE WEST POINT COL With reference to the chan against Cheung Hong, cont with the collapse of a West Point, the-

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A STATE OF ANARCHY:-Chengtu is. Previous to your lordsh crowded. Sxteen thousand students, and wish,; with your per cheating by two club members, who seized a

twenty housand attendants of friends, make case to you, which 1-s card h dden in his sleeve, while the gambler the business, streets almost impassable. On presently against Cheung, was in full car en It appears that the Counth September they enter the Examination with manslaughter was kicked out. He brought an action against Halls, and the finals, are over, about the 16th jury in that the members, but lost his case!

The intervening space of time will be an notice to the Hegistrar. LIGHTHOUSES IN THE RED SEA-The anxious one. The country to the north and Committee of the Bengal Chamber of Comcast reaching within 20 li of the capital's in a merce has been informed by the Governm at state of anarchy, says the N.C.D. News. The of Bengal that information has been received, Boxers club together, make a raid upon a through the India Office, that the Commande village or some rich farmers, and by the time of one of the lianburg-America Steamship the soldiers arrive their red head cloths aic up Company's vessels, which lately passed in their sleeves, and with sickle in hand they are proximity to the lighthouses building in the reaping the harvest of innocent farmers. Some Red Sea, reports that according to outward victims must pay the penalty, whether guilly ap, carance, the lighthouses on the Jebel Teir or innocent, hence a number of captives, pro- bably barrow men, are brought back to thecity;) and beheaded. A new circle of Peters, "whid cry aloud for revenge is thus forted,

GEO. PATTON & CO. sanction had been obtained from the Lisbon Government for the purchase of a dredger to give a start to the harbour improvement scheme. Taken in conjunction with the report of advantageous concessions having been secured for Macao, the news must be regarded as of a nature to inspire hope in the revival of a trade which, may yet restore Macao to a position of comparative im portance in China. Occupying as she does a - STEAM PACKING, GASKETS and fine geographical position to reach the West River ports at the shortest interval of time FIRE PROOFING MATERIALS.

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