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committalation intendel for publisition in The HONGKONG TELEGRAPH should be sinust be sexmipied by the Writer's Name and adrered to the litor, Ice House Ronal and Onlinary busins communications should be addressed

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Any sujoged 15, ted to return any Contribution.

Are 34 an artist? Le Munyon can furnish | Squadron for the encouragement of gunnery you supp) es at rea onable pilens, All goods in the ships on the Chins Statio, leaving him

many friends of Commander, Seymour E. interfering with the discipline of the service, sold strictly reliable. 'Phone 390 -Advi

perfect freedom in the disposal thereof so that ap objection could be raised on the score of Fiskine, RN, of H.M.S. Alacrity, will learn The offer was declined with thanks, after with pleasure that he has been promoted to the being submited to the Admiralty, rank of Captain. He was appointed Commian.

follow, Jwever, tim because it has been Islands, he observes, cannot be taken without thought best or because it is wise to exclude considering the dependent condition of the law would be wise or helpful in any particular of the labour was then forced and there the Chinese from the United States, similar Filipino labourers in Spanish times. Much in conditions so different as those which was not a single circumstance that gave obtain in the Philippines. We might expect dignity to it, The transition from such toget suggestions regarding wise legislation on condition to one where the only motive that subject, he says, rather from the experis gain must necessarily be altended der in May 1897. iences of other countries similarly situated, with difficulty but when the labourer than from the experience of the people on our shall come to appreciate his indepen-THE French, composite cuiser Kersaint Terrible, who was at the time of his Pacific Coast.. He urges that the principle dence, when he shall know that his arrived from the North this afternoon. The deal, the best shot in the Navy. Photo- alitional $1,86 per quarter is charged for postage. should be borne in mind when dealing with slavery, when American influences.shall rort and the flag of Admiral Gessler, the bave been sent home, and the Navy League of suiting legislation to local conditions labour is not to be a badge of peonage and al sanes were fired which included the aphs of his resing place in the Ilappy Valley

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five Cents.

BIRTHS

On the 9th January, at 29, Szecheen Road. Shanghai, the wife of G. V. Tarix MaRSHALL, of a daughter.

On the 9 January at 33. Muirhead Road, Shanghai, the wi'e of JOHN BLECHYNDEN Of

DEATHS.

.LOCAL AND GENERAL..

The Committee egret to have to chronicla he death of Pety Of er Walter Grounds, of

propose to place a tablet in his Parish Church.

A wreath was placed on the Nelson Coluna" on Trafalgar Day on behalf of this branch,

The Committee have had very friendly com SHORTLY after noon to-day, we were kindly his letter on the China Provident Loan and Bristol Branch, of the Navy League, who favoured by Mr. J. R. Michael with a copy ofmunications from the splendidly-inanaged

Mortgage Co., Ltd, for publication in these desire to became better acquainted with the columns. It is an exact transcript of that possessions across the sea, by means of pea appearing in our morning contemporary's issue and ink sketches, which they will be glad to of to-day.

receive from any of the members who can con- tri ute them.

The postage on the weekly in to, any part of the

Gem Admiral. She leaves for Cinton warid is 2) cents per quarter,

a country remote from their own and with a make-Irim understand the dignity and im to-morro Stigle Copies Daily, ten cents; Weekly, twenty civilization entirely different. Indeed, the portance attaching to labour under a free- fact that the conditions in the Philippines government, we njay expect a great change for are so diverse from those in the United States the better in the supply and character of should, speaking generally, lead Congress to labour.. continue the plan of making few positive regulations for the Government there, and to pass laws only along general fines, leaving the power of filling in the Some of the Oriental countries are

the Philippine Commission.,

densely populated with their native peoples

labour. Others, however, which are less densely populated and whose resources their.

a son.

On the 9th January, at the General Hospital, details to Shanghai, FRIEDRICH-LANGERMAN, Magister of Pharmacy, aged 55 years.

On the roth January at Shanghai, of typhoid Forbes & Co, aged 3 years.

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Don't fail to get some views of picturesque Hongkong. Le Muyu has them any style you want. Adel,

REAR ADMIRAL Grenfell, C. M. G., will preside at a meeting to be held, under the auspices of the United Service Institution of Hongkang, on Tuc Directors of the China Flour Mill Co. will read a paper or, "Loog range fring.” the 16th inst. Lieutenant. V. M tene, R. N.

cent, making zo per cet t for the year.

Hongkong branch of the Navy League.

We desire to call attention to the handsome onuibution of the British Columbia Branch of the Navy League to the relatives of those who lost their lives in H.M.S. Condor.

Some of our communications with the lead.

skilfully Filtered on the most scientify lever, Arthur RicharD MILLER, late of that there is practically no demand for foreign Ld., will declare a final dividend of 14 per This will be of interest members of the office were on the following subjects:-

principles.

THE MACHINERY employed is of the latest design and most approved type.

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Jongkong Celegraph overnments have been eager to develop 1.M.S. Algerine is due from Canton on or

through the introduction of capital have thought it wise to secure labour from other HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1993. | countries. In the tea-growing regions of Ceylon and Assam, in the rice mills, paddy THE BEST INGREDIENTS only OPENING UP THE PHILIPPINES. fields and forests of Burina, in the tin mines and on the tobacco and sugar plantations of Sumatra the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States, there is a dearth of düigent, willing labourers to develop the

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ENGLISH EXPERTS Manage our Factories, and their practical knowledge and constant supervision enable us to produce waters of unrivalled excellence and purity.

After so much" bandying of opinions re- garding Chinese immigration in the opening up of the Philippines it is not strange to

countries are imported by the thousands, even by

the hundreds of thousands. The native Singalese in Ceylon and the natives of Burma have no desire to engage in the regular work of mills or plantations. They much prefer, speaking generally, to

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about thu th inst. 1.1.5. Phæniv ichi Pakhoi yesterday for Hongkong, and the Ge man gunboat is arrived from Canton. To-MORROW afternoon on the Happy Valley in the first toond for the Hongkong Football Challenge Shi, the-R.E will play Ordnance F.C. The kic -off will be at four o'clock. MT Triggs will offic ate as referee.

In the early part of the China New Year, of purely native produce and manufacture will be held at Peking, official notice of wich will be sent to the Governors of each province. It is hoped that inland trade will profit as a result of the cau bitión.

All o ders for developing and printing will "eive prompt attention at Le Munyon's

Advt.

In accordance with the desires of the Singapore Merchant Service Guild the following have agreed to pay chief officers £17101, per month anil second officers £3 per month, the ex daily in the Harbour Master's Office: The change to be calculated at the rare posted Straits Steamship Co., Messts. Mansfield & Ch Wee Bin & Co., Tan Kim Tian and Ek Leung Chan.

You will find that Le Munyon is the only up-to-date Photo Supply Dealer in the Orient.

Adu,

A Nav, a method of obtaining inouey appealed to the pocket of a Celestial, who has been

doing business in the e macity of excise officer. The results of his investigat ons have not, effected an arrest' it was his custom to however, benefitted the Crown, for whed he

liberate the prisoner and on payment el

amateur excise investigates. money. That money he pocketed. Twenty five dollars or six weeks was the result of his

learn that the United States Congress will industries,named, and coolies from other writes our Canton correspondent, an exhib tion Everything in stock strictly new. 'Phone 390. shortly remove the restrictions at present imposed on Chinese entering the Islands, Most of the Manila papers' seem to agree that such a course is desirable, and, in his repost on the Philippine Islands, Governor Taft considers that were the doors opened and the Chinese allowed to go in freely, it would tend towards a much development of the country than appears more rapid commercial and industrial

likely under existing conditions. This would undoubtedly be the case, and while the present generation would benefit to a A. S. WATSON & Co., great extent those that follow will be better

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able to appreciate the great adfantages bestowed upon the Islands in the early days of American occupation. But Mr. Taft

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would be disappointed in the trend which affairs would take if such a course adopted, and we now await the result of the removal of the restrictions, and watch whether his remarks arc justified. It has not been possible in Borneo, he says, to introduce the Chinaman into the fields: he has declined to become a farmer or a farm labourer in that island, and as the conditions are very similar to those which prevail here, they may expect the same result in the Philippines. In this opinion we must join issue with Governor Taft. No proper analogy can be established between the malarious swamps of Borneo and the productive soil of the archipelago. In spite of every inducement held out to free immigration into Burnen, the Chinaman has been found chary to settle in that ter- ritory in any number. This is not, however, FURNITURE the case with the American possession.

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JULES Ferry, the Franch Minister who took the most prominent part in the annexation of Tonquin, was driven from office when war between France and China resulted there from. He was given the nickname of the Tonquinese." Jules Ferry died years ago, and time has done him so much justice that a munient to his memory was to be unveiled on the 12th inst, at laphong,

1. The national training of Seamen

The Navy League Map and educational hauers in the Far East,

3. Steps to be taken to increase our membership,

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ommunication by fast mail steamers with The Atlantic Steamship Combine, our

Canada

5. Matters regarding Wei-Hai-Wei. 6. Gunnery in the China Squadron. 7. Coaling efficiency on the China Station. 8. Naval History in Schools.

9. Piracy in the West River delta. 10. Our Local Defences.

Relations with the Head Office continue to be of the most cordial nature, and the warmest thanks of this rinch are due to the able

Ceretary, Commander W. Caius Crutchley, R.N.R., for encoura, ement; unfailing courtesy preciated sympathy for its efforts. and attention to all its wants, and much ap

The Committee once more venture to ask for the valued support of the members, and trusilni they will approve of what has so far been done. fs hoped all members will do their best to induce their friends to join the Navy League, THE Wai Wu-Pa ha received telegraphic because the Navy is, and must continue to be, information from the Governor Chon Fu, of the main and ultimate safeguard of our homes, Shantung, saying that a certain French mini gand for sur Commerce, and by our Navy, we engineer at Chining-fu in that province has located a valuable mine and has asked for a concession to open the same. The Governor plaintively adds that he is strenuously en- deavouring to 'reject this claim, doubtless in

must stand or fall.'

G. C. ANDERSON, Hin. Secretary.

take their simple food-bananas, cocoanuts, ice--almost as a free gift from the land of dreaming. In general, he says, the native nature, atid ló spend their time, in idly

Burman, Ceylonese or Malay is more intel figent than the average low caste Indian who is imported to do the heavy manual labour, but while he is a much more pleas ing character, he lacks the diligence or faithfulness in work of the Chinaman or even of the Indian coolic. He proceeds to point out that since the American occupation of the Philippines the great demand for labour has doubled or in many cases trebled wages "Where an ordinary house servant, under the Spanish regime, received $6 or $8 a month and boarded himself one now receives from $15 to $25 or $30 a month. In some cases even these wages are now paid in gold disaster. the other hand mining e appanies by such examples for i bas been adulterating and the others present were; Sir C. P. Chater,

REVIEWING the state of the Singapore market view of the very insistent claims of the during the past year, the Straits Times says: German to own everything in Shantung The Tenelang and Je'ebu Tin Mining Com-whether they can work it or not. paries had a bas time. The Raub Pustralia | Gold Mining by nd cate had to detrench and remode! i wk ng arrange to ward off

in Joh re had a good time. The Straits Trad ing Company continued to do well, as also did the Shaits Steamship Co. The Malay States Sant Manufacturing Co. did badly. -

guaranteed.

American soldiers, and prey only upon theirown

ALTHOUGH surrounded by those who are suffering for their misdoings the compradore to the Victoria Gaol is evidently not impressed

the milk at the prison, and, being detected was this morning brought before magistrates and charged with the crime. thể

A sample of milk analysed was found to be

water. For twelve years he was the trusted adultera ed by the add tion of nine pats of

compradore at the gaol. A fine of $25 met the case

THE NAVY LEAGUE..

HONGKONG BRANCH.

Enceling of the flongkong branch of the Navy The report to be presented at the annual League is as follows

The year that has passed may be considered pal points to which the attention of your Com- milice, have been directed, were that of helping to educate the people as to nati nal require ment, and keeping the Head Quarter Office informed of the course of events in the Für

Easi,

Your Committee niade the offer of substantial

prizes for papers on Navy League Subjects, to the schools in the Colony in which English is taught, but the offer, was not entertained by

the Education Depa tment, which threw cold water on the idea, probably because, only a

Pongkung, 8th January, 1903.

CHINA-BORNEO CO, LIMITED,

WINDING-UP CONFIRMED.

China Borneo Company, Limited, was held.at› An extraordinary general meeting of the

tie Company's offices, 4, Queen's Buildings, at run to-day. The Hon. C. S. Sharp presided

CM C, and Mr. E. sborne, (con.ulting com.. Bittee), and Messrs. A. G. Wood, }. Wheeley, J. Jupp, W. H. Wickham, Leunghui Lun- E Baptista, and G. C. C. Master (solicitor),

The Chairman read the notice conve ing the meeting and also the following resolution. to be passed-Thal for the purpose of cary.. ing into effect the special resolution duly passed and confimed at extraordinary general incetings of the Company held on the tith nd 27th days of October, 1902, the Company

and that, the Honourable Charles Stewart te wound up voluntarily under the provisions. of the Companies Ordinances 1865 to 1899 Sharp, Alexander George Wood, and John Thomas Martin Wheeley be appoisted

powers of the joint-liquidators and that for for each of them solely to exere the, the like purpose the liquidators be and they. are hereby authorised to consert to the pre patation of the memorandum and articles af

association of and to the registration of a new company to be incorporalod under the Companies Ordinances of Hongkong under the name of The China Boraco Company Limited or some similar title. He afterwards

explained as to lie object of the necting. If

said-Gentlemen, it has already been cleaily

no shareholder has anything to say I propose bat-the resolution be confirmed. A

Mr.J. A. Jupp seconded, and it was agreed to The Chairman iben stated that the recessary

No one who has not experienced serious embarrassment from lack of service can realize the difficulties under which employers are working in the Philippines to-day. It is not uncommon for people at noon on a hot, IT is propused to construct a line of railway tropical day to be compelled to walk for half from liangkok to Tachin, on the west side of a mile or a mile to their lodging because of the Menam river and about 24 miles fund the the impossibility of securing cabs or carriages capital. The public are hvited to subscribe or transportation of any kind. The supply 220 shares of too ticals each. Dibentures of vehicles is so limited that all of them are offered to the public at a later date. The shares. bearing interest of 8% per annum may be practically engaged either by the day or for are payable-on application 5ticals per hours ahead. Moreover, Filipino drivers in share; on allotment zo ticals per share; and many cases, if the day's work has been the balance in instaluconis of 25 ticals per share litirly busy, are so indulent and careless to be called up by the directors when required, Stringent laws are in operation to their that they prefer to go to their homes in the 'with at least two months' intervals and one to have been a clearing up one; and the princi-liquidators of the sail company with liberty exclusion, and equally stringent measures evening, and will refuse, contrary to the city month's notice. The whole of the capital is are adopted for the carrying ont thereof, ordinances, to take passengers, however Yet the Chinese are found to employ every urgent the demand may be. When some Get out with your Kodak and make some means which they alone can devise to break months ago a company was organized to pictures. Or if you haven't a Kodak you c.n through the barriers of exclusion in order to bring 1,000 jinrikshas into the city to be get one at Le Munyon's.--Advi, - gain admission into a field whose prospects | drawn by either Filipinos or preferably by appear as an El Dorado to the trading as Chinaman, the Filipino labouters, especially The insurrection is over, says Governor Taf well as the labouring class. It is said that the drivers of the carromatas and carriages, in his report on the Philippines. Its true although there may be 150,000 Chinamen in made such an outery and threatened so that the stones, though they live on nothing the Islands, but very few are engaged either vigorously to run the jinriksbas down, that but catte and rice stealing and never attack in farming or in labouring upon farmis, the it was practically impossible for the com- people do masqueraite as incurri clos; but theyparatively small number of British chi'dren attention of the Chinaman being given eitherpany to put them on the streets. Another to coolie labour or skilled labour in cities or difficulty of a different nature came from theistics other than those of handiuf. On the are educated in the Colony.

ecgnize no authority and bave no character to the lending of stores and to commercial fact that the Filipinos had sa little mechanical whole, there is before us a year of the hardes It is certainly rather difficult to educate the business. This may be so. But it is the skill that it was extremely difficult to get the kind of work relieving the people from the young idea on the wants and aims of the very dearth of the coolie labour and the jinrikshas set up after they had been received hardship and suffering that are likely to followish Navy in Cosmopoliten Schools such as skilled artisan that should operate as a check in Manila in parts, and men had to be brought the failure of the rice crop, and in suppressing the of Hongkong. It may P. This be pos- to the rapid progress of shipping and other over from Hongkong. for that purpose. ladronistir and other disturbances due to something in the shape of free lectures to sible, with the help of the m gic lantern, 10 du businesses which constitute the life blood of Such facts as these surely justify the

British youths America's possession in the East. Professor action which, we learn, is to be taken THE-Netherlands India Government is taking intern pictures to be used to illustrate J. W. Jenks, who was recently sent by the shortly by the States; but, furning to a leaf out of the book of the Government of Navy Le gue, Lectures, which they hore United States Government as a special Governor Tafl's report, we find that indin in respect of its coolle traffic. A young commissioner to inquire into the conditions he does not think it would be just to officer, deputed by the Administration of will prove beneficial from an educational in the British, Dutch and French colonies the Filipinos, or a proper course for America Ne herlands India, is now in Calcutta sindying oint of view. So far only one school has [728d helpful suggestions in the preparation of more than to extend to the Commission the details concocted with the heath and comfort arrival of Mr. H. F. Wyatt carly in the spring, view to making in the development of the country, to do the coolie Zero's and generally mastering the accepted the affer of the Committee. This branch is looking forward to welcome the legislation for the Philippines, believes power to admit, upon, reasonable restric. of coolics in transit by sea and oherwise. Itho is an envoy of the Navy League making that the admission of Chinese contract tions, a certain limited number of skilled appears that there are coolies in Java who, the a tour of the great Colonies as-a-L.cturer labour would benefit the industries of Chinese labourers, who may contribute overnment consider, could advantale is at prescut in Canada, where it-nne of the islands, indure capitalists to invest to the construction

geously be shipped for Inbour in Surinam Jus addresses to the Ifoard of Tide of the City of buildings and The attempts hitherto made to Iransport.them of Montreal the members with one accord money there, and would aid the Filipinos the making of other improvements, and have, however, proved so unsatisfactory, that it loped the Navy League. Mr. Wyatt gives by the general diffusion of prosperity. He who at the same time by their labour has been thought worth while to send a repres sevices gratulously, and the desire is to points out that the white man cannot per may communicate to Filipino apprentices sentative to India to find not the best method reduce the expenses of the trip as much as fre left Kobe via Nagasaki and Shanghai an form manual labour in the Islands; and the the skill which the Filipinosso easily acquire. of going to work. Su inam at present takes a possible. In this connection our best acknow Sundry, p.m., the 11th inst., And may be ex-

The Imperial German Mail steamer Pringes": native will not, so the introduction of the Such skilled labourers might be admitted cenain number of coolies from India, billeggements are due to Messrs. Butterfield and pected here on or about Tuesday, the zoth Ins Chinaman 'is the only solution of the pro- under bond of their employers that t they labour is alre dy so starce in the latter country Swire, and Messrs Gibb, Livingston and The Imperial German Mail steamer Stai blem. At the same time, however, Professor shall be returned to China at the end of that it would be a gainirather than otherwise Company, for their generosity in granting a from Berlin of the 23rd alte, has left Colombo

gar carrying the German Mails with dates; Jenks would keep the Chinese pedlers and three or five years, the hond containing a pro

were the supply discontinued

passage by their steamers from Japan toon Monday, a.m., the rath inst, and may be exs. merchants under strict surveillance, to restrain vision also that for every Chinaman imported The results of one's own labor is more apps through Mr. Wyatt will lecture here and The Canadian Pacific Railway Co R.S

Australia,, to Mr. Wyatt,

past. When passing pected here on or about Sunday, the 25th inst them from swindling and bargaining the na- and employed a Filipino apprentice should tive out of all their money and into a hope

at Canton, on way to Australia, of which on Tuesday, the 13th ins, and left again at

Empress of Fedia arrived at Kobe at 5 go p.m... less condition of debt. But in spite of these

duc notice will be given by advertisement Can Wednesday, pa Nagasaki.for's assertions, he tells us that it does not

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in the Orient with a

economic distress.”

be employed. Further, then this, he says,more clearly demonstrated than with

ciated jhan any other, and no where is the fact.

it seems to me that it would be unwise to go. Get your camera and supplies at La Munyo

just view of the future of labour in these

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This was all the business,

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