journey. The effect that this will have upon business correspondence will be immediaty and emphatic, and the only marine competitor" that has any chance of success is the Pacific route, which, however, will have to guarantee train and steamship connections to become a ́serious rival of the Russian route.
TRADE WITHIN THE EMPIRE.
The assertion that the political situation created by Mr
Chamberlin's and Mr. Balfour's frank announcement of their conver. sion to the policy of closer fr cal relationship between the varirus pans of the Empire is analogous to that produced by Mr. Glad- stone's Hoine Rule scli-me is" a obvious
TE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1903.
NEW STEAMÈRS.
INDO CHINA, The steamer Wai-sh.ng, which has been built by Wighan Richardson and Co. (Limited) for the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company (Limited) has recently had her trint trip. This steamer is 275 ft. in length by 40 ft. beam, and is fitted with accommodation for a limited number of European and Chinese passengers. The engines supplied by the builders are of the triple-expansion type, and worked on the trial. without the slightest hitch, giving satisfaction to all concerned. The owners were represented by their superintendent engineer, Mr. T. P. Mordech, under whose supervision the ste imer has been built.
P. AND O.
The Palermo, a new cargo steamer of 10.000 tons, was en 27th May successfully launched at itinch, Glasgow, for the P. and O. Con pany. She is the first of three vessels of the same class included in the company's current shipbuilding programme.
U. S. CURRENCY COMMISSION.
exaggeration. Mr. Gladstone's marvelimusiy sudden recognition of the justice of Irish Nationalists' claims was a complete reversal of policy, as unexpected by his colleagues as by his political opponents. Now those who have observed the under-currents of political opinion at home have remarked, for a decade at least, z growing disinclina ion to blindly acquiesce in the advantage of Free Trade against a com-
The American commission on international mercial world esconced behind turifts which
exchange, which is to visit the different Govern- each year grow more obstructive, and an
ments of Furope with the view of discussing increasing impatience of the teachings of monetary matters, arrived in England on 25th economists who regarded Cobden's opinions May. The members, Messrs. Hanna, Conant, at sacrosanct. Even he soberest Reviews have and Jenks are at the Hotel Cecil. The commis- reflected the tendency to seriously challenge sion expects to stay in London a few weeks, the accuracy of a doctrine that for nearly half and from there will go to the Continent. a century it wasto rankest herway to criticise. Mr. Henry White, secretary of the American And Mr. Chamberlain has frequently avowed Embassy, entertained the members of the com- his opinion that Free Trade within the Empire mission at luncheon. Among the guests were or preferential duties was the surest road to Im-the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the perial Federation. 30 froin this confession Exchequer. of faith coming with the demoralising abrupt- ness of Mr. Gladstore's surrenderto Mr. Parnell, it might have been seen that the Colonial Secretary would ultimately take the opinion of the country upon his per scheme His hand has undoubtedly been forced by the action of Germany who his penalised Canadian Imports to an almost prohibitive degree, because the Government of the Dominion discriminate in favour of British producis-a procceding which has caused intense iritation in Canada. This premature declaration is the source of the cun'usion which appens to exist amongst the rank and file of the Party; but the man who failed to recognize that sooner or later he would have to make his mind upon the ques- tion of Free Trade against some form of Customs Union remained lamentably ignoran! of the signs of the times.
The wisest word that has been said in the present state of the controversy is the opinion of the Daily Telegraph that "when the evidence is accumulated and weighed, it will be The hour of judg. ment." At present we have only the briefest summaries of speeches in which neither Mr. Balfour nor Mr. Chamberlain expressed his views very definitely. The policy of the Cabinet will probably be more clearly outlined during the debate upon the second reading of
the Finance Bill, and until we can see how far and in what direction the Government are prepared to go, we must preserve an open mind. For even the most,rionvine d adherent to the cause of Imprii 1 Federsion and of preferential tariffs as a means to the end, must admit that it opens up issues so far reaching that no decision can be ventured upon without the amplest informatio At present we import from the Colonies the extent of about. £110,000,000 anomallyardexport in them about £101,000,roon year. But our Imports from foreign countries are no less than £419,000,000 per-annum. and, our exports.
There is an prospect.
Mr. Hanna, one of the Commissioners, is re- ported as saying
We are instructed by the State Tepartment to present to foreign Governments the subject of putting an end by some monetary arrange. ment to the present fluctuation in the rates of exchange between silver standard and gold standard countries The only sound method of doing this, in my opinion, is to raise the si ver countries in a gold exchange standard. This will permitentracts to be made for the delivery of goods in China, Mexico, and, other countries now upon the silver basis without the uncertainty which at present exists as to the gold value of the money received for them. We shall probably be supported at each of the leading capitals by the Ministers of China and lapan, acting under instructions from their Governments. I think it is only a question of time when all the Western Powers will recog- nise the importance to commerce of puiting China on a gold exchange standard and giving her their moral support in maintaining it. It is possible to separate the value of silver money from the value of the bullion which it contains by proper Government control over the coinage and the creation of a gold reserve. This system has succeeded in British India, and promises to succeed beyond question in the Philippines. If, however, the market for silver is enlarged by providing for a silver currency on a gold basis in China, and in other countries without such currency, it will have a tendency to strady the price of silver. Just so far as this occurs it will make it easier to main tain the pay of silver money in the l'hilippines and all ther countries adopting a similar -ystem-L. & C. Expres.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THERE was a heavy blow at Shanghai Inst
́eo or Woosung.
-21den with the sinnulus of profeet 11 forwachenmandeur kryp
tariffs could for generations take the place of the foreign countrie with whom we do three- quarters of our trade. The crucial issue, then, is the effect preferential rifts with the Colonies would have upon our fiscal relations with foreign countries, and how far they would interfere with our right to most-favoured-nation treatment. No doubt it will be argued that as the greatest buying nation in the world Great Britain has nothing to fear from tariff wars, but with interests o vast at s'ake, we cannot afford to take any leap in the dark. Mr. Chamberlain has promised to collect the fullest informa ion as in the effect preferential tariffs would have pon the coun- try's manufactures; when this is available, and the policy of the Government is distinctly out- lined, we shall have the necessary materials upon which to form a decision. And if any fair working scheme is formulated, it must not be condemned because it involves small im inedinte sacrifices for a great Imperial end.
These developments effectually dispose of therumours that there will ben General Election in autumn. Of course, it suits the Liberals to
THE Rev. Dr. J. Harty, a well-known scholar and orator, of St. Louis, has accepted the Archbishopric of Manila.
Of the three battleships included in Japan's naval expansion programme, one is to be built in England and two in Japan.
PARCELS sent to China from Japan will, after the 18th, he subjected to an ad valorem duty of 5 per cent when their value exceeds 'TIs. 10
MR. J. Peak, of Messrs. A. S. Watson & Co.,
who has been connected with the Manila branch of the firm for nearly a year past, has left that city for England.
THE Shangh à Mercury says there are rumours rowing four, and possibly a football eleven to that Hongkong will send a cricket team, a Shanghai this autumn.
A MOTION for new trial in the case of A. S. Watson and Co. vertus the representatives of the American Club, was overruled at Manila by Judge Sweeny.
HEL&C. Expreer is our authority for stat ing that Sir Thomas Jackson, late chief man ager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, has joined the board of the Imperial Bank of Persia,
The body of Mr. Fenwick, the third engineer of the 6.8. Charterhouse, was discovered in the water at Tanjong Rhoo, Singapore, minus the head and in a very decomposed condition. At the inquest a verdict of "found drowned was
returned.
TWENTY-FOUR Japanese passengers who are rived at Manils on the Realio plary on and ult. were inoculated with bubonic plague serum by the Board of Health officials before being allowed to land in Manifà, holes
AcCORDING to the Straits Echo, legal pro- readings have been instituted for alleged libel against the Pineng Gurelle Press, Lich, by Mr. CN. Barnett, of the firm of Barnett and Stark, architects and engineers of that Settlement.
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A WIRE 10 N. C. D News, dated London 22nd inst., says that the 27th Punjabis, with 250 native, Mounted Infantry, are to proceed forth with to Somaliland from India, and other O troops have been warned to hold themselves
în readiness.**
REAR-Admir 1 the Hon. 4. G. Curzon-Howe, CVO, C.B, C.M.G., Second-in-Command of the Channel Squadron, leaves home on the 24th of July next to relieve Rear-Admiral H. T. Grenfell, C.M.C., as Second-in-Command on
this Station.
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AT Shanghai last week Mr. F. W. Grantham; younger son of the Hon. Sir W. Grantham, lurge of the High Court and of the Masters
of the Bench of the Inner Temple, was ad- mitted to practise in the Supreme Court for
China and Korea.
THE latest addition to the fleet of the Shell The vessel is 483 ft. long, 56 ft. wide, and 35 Transport and Trading Co. is the Goldmouth, ft, deep and is designed to carry 9,000 tons of oil. The vertel can use either coal or liquid fuel in her furnaces.
GENERAL. and Mrs. O'Moore Creagh, with Captain St. John, A. D. C., leave for home by the Siberian railway on Friday. The command at Tientsin has been given to Colonel Thorney- croft, of South African fame, who will have the local rank of Major-General.
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IT in reported in Shanghai that Tautai Cherg Hsiao Hsu, the former Director of the Kisognan Arsenal at Shanghai, has been ordered by Imperial Edict to go to Canton at the request of the new Viceroy Tsco Ch'un- bauen to be his Excellency's private, advisor.
TRE German transport tugs and lighters were handed over to the Take Tug and Lighter Co on the 18th ult., so this Company has now very powerful. fleet. Business, however, does not seem to be very brisk, although the river is getting more in their favour daily as the dry season continues.
THE recent rains flooded many districts of the New Territory and considerable damage was
caused, nutherans landships being reported especially, along the Jubilee Road. The rice harvest being close at hand it is feared that the crop has suffered severely. Rain fell with- out a break for sixly hours.
IN PECTOR Collett has been promoted to 1st class inspector vice Insp. Cuthbert, absent on leave. inspector Gourlay, Government House, is acting second class inspector vice lasp. THE Russians have been seizing the native-Collett promoted, and Sergt. Cameron is acting owned rafts brought down the Yalu on the third class inspector vice Insp. Courlay pro ground that all the forests on the Yalu have noted. These promotions date from the toth hern leased by Russia. The Russian Minister April. at Seoul has promised that the rafis belonging to Coreans shall be returned..
GOVERNOR Tuin Fang of Hupeh has received an Imperial Edict ordering him to send one or two thousand rifles, turned out by the Hangang Arsenal, to Yunnan, to be used by the Imperial tronps there in suppressing the troubles that were lately reported to have broken out in Linanfu.
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MR. 1. L. Holmes, the resident civil engin eer of the Tanjong Pagar Dock Company, is severing his connection with the company, and proceeds to Rangon to carry out large dock extension works there and Mr Alan Railton
who has recently arrived at Singapore from Gibraltar, takes up the position of Resident Civil Engineer.
THE Hamburg-American line has started a line of passenger steamers to the coast of Mexico direct, and has opened this new line with the new steamer Print August Wilhelm, of 5.300 tr, a vessel which has attained a speed of 14.4 knots an hour. It is presumed that the new line will contribute much to the increase of the trade between Mexico and Hamburg,
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A TELEGRAM, dated Seoul 15th ult., printed in the Kobe Herald, states:-1 is understood that the Corean authorities have secretly sanctioned
ment regarding the lease of Ryong and to the Russianet med till9 expiains the unsence of a reply from the Russian Minister to a note sent bith from the Corean Government on the Ryong-an affair under date of the 18th May Jiji.
THE Shanghai Mercury understands that a competitive examination will shortly take place among the appraising staff of the 1.M.C., those passing to be chased, according to thele merits, As A. first, B. second, C. third, and to be paid according to their grades. This we consider a very gond move on the part of the Customs. Mr. H. E. Hobson, Commissioner of Customs, who was gazetted for leave has had his leave rescinded in order to attend to this examination.
This is as it should be.
WITH refer nce to the Siberian Railway, intending passengers are advised not to carry silk, cigars, wines, or spirits. All tuggage is minately examined by the Russian officials at the station of Manchuria, and a very heavy duty is charged on the goods above mentioned. Card playing is also prohibited in Russian territory-Chefoo Press.
THE annual report on the F.M.5. for 1902 is signed by Mr. Hood Treacher as Resident. General. It says that the tin and tin ore exported from there during the year was 780,872 picut, The resulting export duty' yield stood at a decrease of 4.375 piruls compared with 1901.
$8,438,770. The revenue for 1902 came to
50.550.544 and the outlay to $15,996,247. The corresponding figures for the previous year were $17,541,507, and $17,273.158.
As the local Post Office occasionally receives mail matter addressed "vid Siberia or vid Daloy," we are reque ted to call the attention of the public once more to the fact that no matter can at present be transmitted by this route to Europe. Under the postal agree- ment between Japan and Russia, mail matter will only be received for transmission by the Siberian Railway when its destination is some place in Ru sia-Kobe Chronicle
THE Singapore Free Press says that private "lettes "teleived gum Tungkung diria morning (June 23rd) onys; "The doctors went to the market a short time ago and found poultry infected with plague." Thi adds another terror to the fond supply of our sister Colony. That we have no plague here is probably not due to the more clean y habis of our poultry. Anyhow the cold-storage company's poultry will be absolutely free from any taint of that kind.
AMONG the arrivals by the N. Y. K. liner flakata Maru on Tuesday was Mr. G. F. Wition, the Directory Man," who is accom- panied by Mrs Witton. Since leaving here last vem er Mr. Witton has been through Manchuria, Siberia, Russia, Poland, Germany, France, England, India and divers other countries. During the period in question over six months he has travelled an average" of a thousand miles a week, which is heavy.
So far we have no intimation from Singapore concerning the decision of the Straits Govern- ment on the report of the Committee appointed question. Meanwhile, perhaps, by Mr. Chamberlain to consider the currency IT is stated in the Asahi Shimbun that the may note arrangements relative to the financing of the from them morendum handed the Com-Shanghai Hankow Railway have been comp mittee by Mr. Robert Craig that as the lion islered. Mesars. Jardine, Matheson & Company the symbol of British power, and as Singapore and the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank pro- is the City of the Lion, it would be singularly vide a loan of 3 millions sterling, on which appropriate to have a lion represented on the the Chinese Government guarantees interest proposed Straits dollar.-L. & C. Express. at the rate of five per cent. On the other hand, the British firm supplies the materials and A Kobe Herald wire from Seoul of 15 ult. rolling stock for the fine, receiving a commits.
sion of five per cent. a room in the Kanjo Hospital, where Ye. Yong- yik was under medical treatment. A portion THE Osaka Shosen Kaisha send us an ex- of the building was damaged; but nobody was cellent guide to their company and to the Land injured. Ye Yong-yik also escaped unhurt. of the Rising Sun. It is a fine production tle left the bospital after the outrage, preferring replete with maps and interesting engravings. to receive further medical attendance in his Intending visitors to Japan should note that own house. The man who committed the out the company has a regular service between rage is still at large. The affair is generally various ports on the Western half of the Em- believed to have political significance.pite as well as Chinese and Corean ports, Afainichi,
During the national exhibition the Company is furnishing.excursion, boats to go through the In'and Sea.
THE Chinese Engineering and Mining Co., Ld., have awarded the sum of £50 to the relat ives of Mr. Baxter, who was killed in the Com-reports that a dynamite bomb was exploded in pany's service at Tangku.
WE are led to believe, says the Chefen Express, bail the suggestions of an approaching dissolu-
that out of the total British warships on the tion. At least they have found a Party cry China station, numbering 35 ships, 26 are at which will unite all discordant elements and a present in Weihaiwei, shibboleth that will serve instead of a policy. But the complex nature of the proposals to which the Government are now pledged is the Barest guarantee that they will not seek a hasty verdict. Reciprocity, even when it is tacked on to old age pensions and social re- forms a too obvious electioneering device-isA RUSSIAN proclamation has been posted in not a popular cry with the general body of the
Dalny and Na chwang prohibiting any refer- electorate. Its bearings are too subtle to be
ence being made in local newspapers to eily understanded of the people and it is Russia's new demands to the Chinese. open to easy and effective misrepresentations. In every constituency the familiar device of the
THE Nichi Nichi calculates that tourists, big and the little loaf will be employed to bamboozle the electorate, and denunciation of foreign men-of-war, etc, made up a total of the wicked Unionists who would tax the poor
Y41,500,000 that passed into Japan during the man's food is extremely damaging platform
last sel year by non-commercial channels. oratory. It is certain, therefore, that the Gov- emment will not be in a hurry to submit their nefiscal policy in a surprised electorate. ir Balfour truly said the matter could not be decided this session or next as it required most careful consideration. Ample time will be taken, therefore, to educate public opinion and to ensure that when the verdict of the country is taken it shall not be based upon a mis
autumn of next year, the St. James Gazette has made a shrewd guess. One passage in Mr. Chamberlain's speech indicates that he is
THE S. F. Prer understands that H. E. the inclined to appeal to the country on the General Officer Commanding, Major General general question of Free Trade versus re- Sir A. R. F. Dorward, is about to leave, Sniga ciprocity, and leave the adumbration of a pore, having been appointed to a staff post at definte scheme. until a mandate has been the War Office. obtained. This would be a grave blunder, and
THE Pluto, a screw, steamer 160 feet long, built for the Sanitary Department, Manila, was launched on Saturday at the Pootung Point yard of S. C. Farnham, Boyd and Co., Ld.
MR. G. F. NASH, who embezzle 1, Vioon from the New York Life Insurance Co., Yokohama, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment surveillance.
THE late Mr. George H. Ferguson, chief en- gineer of the P.M. liner Siberia, who djed from pneumonia following an accident at Kobe os the 22nd ult., was a man of about fifty-five years of age, and stood second in point of seniority to Mr. McClure, the chief of the City of Peking. It was under Mr. Ferguson's supervision that the steamers Korea and Siberia were cons. tructed, and he refused an offer as chief engineer of the great works at Newport News
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THE San Francisco police have arrested four members of the See Yup "ociety, a Chinese secret organization, on a charge of plotting to murder a large number of members of the Chinese Society of English education. Two
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The Earl of Lonsdale, who visited llongkong | A TEST alarm was given the other night at hot long go on a tour through the Far East, Shanghai and the Fire Brigade turned out in has been decorated by the Emperor of Gar- excellent lime. It was found out, however, many with the Prussian, Crown of the First that one of the police, who had been informed Classi : PETTAINED DEV
beforehand, warned some of the men and the result was that they were ready.
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MR. F. A. Hazeland, the Police Magistrate, left for Japan per the Hakata Maru on Thursday. Mr. T. Sercombe Smith, the senior Police: Magistrate, is expected back on or about the 7th inst.
A GERMAN officer, says L'impartiui, has laid a plan before Viceroy Yuan and asked him to submit it for the Court's approval. It concerns the wholesale planting of trees in Chihli Pro- vince to counteract the tendency to drought
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A GOOD Blart has been made in preparing Mid- way Island for human habitation. Over 10,000 trees and plants have been sent to the island. Of this number there were 1,705 palms, 1,513 fruit trees, 3,136 shade trees, shrubs and vines, and 4,426 forest trees.
AT the Magistracy to-day. John Robertson, formerly a surveyor employed on the Naval ging a receipt for $98. It is alleged that he Yard extension works, was charged with for-
forged the signature of the proprietor of the Cosmopolitan House to his monthly bill. MESSRS. Behn Meyer and Co. have been ap painted the Singapore agents of the new China Commmenal SS. Co., which is to run every three weeks between Hongkong and San Francisco. The S.F. Press hears the new
company will offer very favourable passage rates.
JACK GRACE of Australia and St. Clair (Manila) had a boxing match at Shanghai on Saturday. In the third round St. Clair claimed at faul and dropped into his corner, where he remained for some time breathing hard. When the excitement had partially subsided the re- feree stated that there had been no foul and declared Jack Grace the winner.
CHINA is a sleeping giant, waiting only for the magician's wand to make it cast off the shackles of centuries and spring into new life. It may become a great mart open to all the world if the United States and Great Britain so willst, or it may become merely an appanage of Russin if the United States and Great Britain are indifferent to their responsibilities and care- less of their material interests.—Independent,
New York,
WHILE awaiting the arrival of His Excellency at Blake Pier, a Government House chair coo lie saw a basket of provisions and, spotting Seeing it contained kerosene oil he was a bottle, took it up and had a drink from it.
naturally very disgusted, and gave an old woman in charge a severe shaking. Then a constable stepped up, and arrested the coalie for disorderly conduct, At the Magistracy on Wednesday he was fined $5.
THE public in the east will be interested to. leara that passengers proceeding to and return ing from Europe by the Messageries Maritimes mail steamers will no longer be stibject to transhipment at Colombo, as the boats on the Indo-China line proceed now direct to Yoko hama from Marseilles and vice versa. In con. sequence of this arrangement the Australian mail boats which leave Marseilles every 28 days will proceed via Rombay, instead of the Indo-China steamers.-S. F. Press.
THE new dogstaff at Waglan has ben erected and is a credit in every way to the lighthouse. We trust that the authorities will take advant age of the facility for making Waglan a signal to passing ships. It would certainly be of station where weather forecasts can be signailed great advantage if such a course were adopted and especially so in the typhoon season. Steamers leaving Hongkong would then have the latest information regarding movements of typhoons before passing out into the open sea.
June 29, Bays-A dispatch from Washington A WIRE to the Cablenews, dated New York,
announces that it has been decided to make Honolulu and its adjacent territory a great naval and military base. Twenty millions of carrying out of the gigantic plans already, dollars will be asked for of Congress for the made by the engineers of the Army and Navy The work will preceed, in unison with the present preparation of Pearl Harbour to form à magnificent naval rendezvous. Dry docks, repair shops and hospitals will aid the Navy in its operations on the Pacific, while forts and the heaviest ordnance manufactured will make the defence of Honolulu as formidable as any in the world.
INFORMATION has been received by the Shanghai Press of a serious fight near Choupac a few days ago between a desperate band of salt smugglers and a body of soldiers under the command of Wi Chang Po. The smugglers in that vicinity have been very bold of late, and
it was with the intention of wiping them out that the soldiers were sent against them. The soldiers went to the scene of action in three smugglers numbered nearly 500. After a fight gunboats. They numbered about 375. The lasting nearly two and a half hours the soldiers ammunition in possession of the enemy. The were forced to retreat, leaving their arms and
smugglers' losses are not known. losses were ra killed and many wounded. The
coacéption. In fixing the dissolution for the with hard labour and six months' police in order that, he might work a steamer of his authorities. The men to be murdered were of that province since the latter's arrival there
if Mr. Chamberlain seeks a "carte blanche"
without fully disclosing his plans and the extent to which they commit the country, be will alienate the large class who are not pre- pared to blindly trust such interests to any tatesman-Times of India,
M J. Protassieff, a Financial Secretary at Port Arthur, has been appointed Commissioner of Customs, nominally under Sir Robert Hart, at Dalny, where the Custom house is to be opened
on the fat of July.
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THE big tobacco factory owned by the Com. panía General de Filipinas on Calle Conogo, Face, F. I was nearly entirely destroyed by fire on 25th ult. The fire was discovered by Captain Monet of the Paco police precinct at about twelve o'clock. It was then burning extensively in the storerooms. The loss le roughly placed at about three million dollars, the factory building being valued at two million
and the stock, which was consumed at one million. It is thought that the fire was the work of incendiaries.
A TELEGRAPHIC message received by the Shanghai mandarins from Canton states that ever since taking over his seals of office on the. 20th instant, H. E. To Chubbrüten, the new Viceroy of the Two Kwang provinces, has been busily occupied in informing himself as to the real state of affairs in Kwangsi with regard to of the plotters have made confessions impli- the alleged rebellion there with the resu 1 that cating several other leaders in Frisco China-ais Excellency has decided to go to Kwangsi town, and these are being searched for by the in person and superintend the operations so badly bungled by Governor Wang Chih-ch'un suspected of informing the police of Chinese in the spring of 1903. It is further stated that gambling baunts. ANOTHER highway robbery was committed on the Shaukiwau Road last Tuesday night when a gang of natives got hold of a ricksba coolie and robbed him of a dollar. He called for help, and one of the ruffians drew a knife and slashed him across the neck and chest. Con st ble Clyde was riding his bicycle to the Shaukiwan Station when he came across the la jured coolie and had hit removed. He then
out to find the robbers and eventually suc ceeded in capturing a man, who was brought before Mr. Kemp on Thursday and remanded for a week.
Viceroy Tsen will take with him his own body. guard of 1.200 troops, a field battery, and a couple of battalions of Kwangtung territorial troops, making in all a force of about 2,500 men, The Universal Gaseffe gathers that recent news from Kwangsi are of a most discouraging nature respecting Chingyuanfu and Hsiangwu and Tachou districts of Chingyuanfu,
a rough weather has been experienced outside is evidenced by the fact that the Govern ment tender Stanlay, Capt. Robinson, with the A SEOUL despatch, received by the Oraku
usual fortnightly relief for Gap Rock was un- able to land her supplies at the lighthouse on Malnicht-under date the 22nd ult, says that a
25th al. She left here at eight o'clock in number of Court officials have been arrested THE Philippine Gold Mining, Power & Deve. It is a matter of common knowledge that anti- the morning and arrived off the well-known in connection with a plot to administer polson loping Company is the name of a company English sentiment has always been sedulously rock at half-past one, and found that very to the Emperor of Korea, u organized recently at San Francisco for the fostered at Luassa by the Chinese Resident, heavy seas were running. After steaming purpose of improving their mining claims in and if he has now swung round to a pseudo-around the rock and, presumably, exchanging the province of Benguet. The company is sort of Angio-philism, the change is wholly signals the Stanley left for Hongkong with- reported to be incorporated under the State of due, It may be safely assumed, says the Globe, Arizona with a capital stock of $1,000,000. It to a wish to with over Lord Curzon to his side
out risking launching a boat in such stormy is claimed by the company that a sample taken in the quarrel Travellers who have recently lost while making the attempt some time waters. If we remember correctly a boat was from all the dumps and ledges, carefully penetrated the last of the Hermit Kingdoms since, and, judging by all accounts, a similar quartered down to an average sample of 200 of Asia, generally met fairly civil treatment fate, would have been shared by another if pounds, gave an assay by Thomas Price & Son, until the Chinese authorities at Lhassa heard floated last Thursday week. No doubt the men. of San Francisco, of a gold value of $36.18 per of their approach Troops were then hurried at Gap Rock have been relieved era now. In ton, absolute free milling. The claims of the off from the capital to drive back the intruders, connection with this important lighthouse we company are very close to MA Clarke, who and this breach of hospitality was represented believe a distance findet similar to that erected | la interested to a large extent in the mining as the spontaneous outcome of Tibetan sex at the Pink, adds and layballad of Mr. Hayil
proposition in the norik..
Taylor, has beau died M Gay Rooki
Bips for the construction of three thousanp fest of breakwater at Manila to be put in south of the new port have been opened. The breaks supp water in question will protect the port from the MR. George McBain, general agent, Shanghai heavy-winds, from the south which have 10 Sumatra Tobacco Co., Ld... has received the frequently done immense damage to shipping following telegraphic advice from the Deli in the past. This contract is a very important Maatscyappi! Amsterdam, dated 27th uli, viz. ons and will involve the outlay of about one Sold soo bales Glds. 0.83. million dollars gold. Contractors from the United States sent representatives to bid and local rock men made competition close. The contr.ct was awarded to the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Company whose bid was 0.73 per cabic yard, the neat lowest bidder being a Spanish Contractor whose bld was 81,80,
ONE of the biggest seizures ever made by the Customs Officials of Manila took place on Monday evening. About $5,000 gold worth of Chinese tobacco was taken from various Chin ese houses on Callet Rosario, Nucys, Santo Cristo, and Problete, 3
ACCORDING to the latest investigation made, the total output of coal from the mines through- out Japan last year was 9,215,108 tons, show- ing an increase of 269,169 tons on that of the preceding year, and of 5,898,004 tons compared with that of ten years ago...
In the case of anyone arresting, or giving in- formation that will lead to the arrest of any parson indulging in illegal gambling, the Local been authorized to pay a reward amounting to Revenue Department in Bangkok has now
not more than two-thirds of the fine inflicted by the Court.
A WIRE from Peking to the Shanghai Times says the civil Governor of Shengtien, Fu Chen Pi, has succeeded in contracting a loanyoÍ: Tls. 100,00%, from each of the foreign banks Peking to relieve the market of Fcking. This may be said to be the first step taken by the t Government to save the crisis,“
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according to a Tientsin letter, the agreement? THE Sin-Wan-Pas of 26th ult. says that, regarding the Tientsin-Chinkiang Railway, having been signed, a German engineer has started to survey the road from Shantung to menced the survey from Chinkiang to Shan Tientsin and a British, engineer also .com..
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COMMENTING on the establishment of two American coaling-stations in the Pacific ocean; *f the Kranz Zeitung says: With the Panama...
Canal, the Hawaiian Islands, Tutuila and the Philippines, the United States holds the most M strategic points in the Western hemisphere, where some day her supremacy will be indis putable."
ACCORDING to the latest returns, there are at present 557 European and American residents: of Nagasaki,
These figures comprise 127.
English, 113 Russians, 103 Americans, 63 French, 48 Germans. 27 Austrians, 13 Por tuguese, 12 Swedes and Norwegians, 11 Danes,, to Italians, and 27 of other nationalities. The Chinese and Corean residents are returned as numbering 1,086 and 11 respectively.
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THE Viceroy of Chili Province has come to the conclusion that his province is in need of better protection,than it has had in the past. Recently, he recommended to the Peking Government that three gunboats be built for use in the waters of Chili He has just received permis sion from the capital to place the order for the boats with Messrs. Mandel & Co. of Tientsinger They are to be built in Germany and will cost 300,000 taels. The contract calls for their completion by the end of the year, says the Shanghai Press.
THE Birmingham Post says that advices and inquiries which have reached London from an official quarter in Tokio indicate that the Japanese Government proposes shortly to place on order some ffty electric locomotives for short distance lines. Official Japanese engi-:: neers have, it is understood, reported to the Mikado's Government in favour of electricity as the motive power on all lines up to one hundred miles in length, and the ordering of the fifty locomotives referred to is the first official move in this direction.
IT is stated in Shanghai mandarin circles that a memorial to the Throne dated 15th ult. sent by special courier by Governor Wang ch'un of Kwangsi reporting that he bad cont pletely restored order in the province "upon arrival at this port the other day, was met by... a telegram from that Governor ordering the special courier's immediate return to Kwangsi- with the memorial in question. Evidently they sanguine boastfulness of Governor Wang Chih- ch'un about matters in Kwangsi has been tobo previous, M. C..D. News.
ACCORDING to news from Manila the head-- Filipino Republic" and "Secretary of War. quarters of the "Supreme President of the has been found at Mt. San Cristobal, Laguna A camp was found in the confines of the dense forest consisting of three barracks, with a capa city for one thousand men, situated on the summit of Mt. San Cristobal. When Governor Cailles and his column were nearing the sumse, mit they were met by a beavy rifle fire from the ladrones which continued for some time, buts. as the attacking party kept gaining ground in the advance, the ladrones escaped down the opposite side of the mountain. 1 he object af and Runajo into a capital of the "republic, the eneiny was to convert Mount San Cristobal the residence of the proposed governor being in a barrio of Santa Cruz. Arrests were sub... sequently made, and it was learned that the "Supreme President" and "Secretary" were residents from Manila, and had been in the monatains for three weeks effecting the or ganization.
WIZE from Peking, anent the Yunnan affair, are printed in the Shanghai Times.
One treas reports that Chow Yung Triang, the robol leader of the Yunnan mob, has requested the Freach Minister to inform the Wal Wu Fa that he will surrender himself and the cities. captured by the mob in return the Chinere Government must pledge itself not to call him to account for what he did in the past. The offer will, in all probability, be accepted by the Wai Wn Pu. Another wire, dated 23rd inst, states that the French Consul st Pakhoi wired a few days ago to the French Consul at Kwangchew, requesting the lattery, to ask the Viceroy for protection as there have been signs of an anti-foreign spirit. The latter on receipt of the message besides com municating it to the Viceroy, dispatched four gunboats to Pakhoi. The native oficiais áre anxious owing to the reported invasion of French troops in the province of Kwangsi, and have cause for additional alarm at the presence of four gunboats..
THE manager of the Nippon Yasen Kaisha has forwarded to the Shanghai Press the follow ing information in regard to the quarantine of
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Company's Trans-Pacific liner Kage Marth received from the head office of the Compadys Owing to a suspected case on board the Kaga Maru on her arrival at Yokohama on the ith inst. from Seattle, she was ordered to temporarily anchor for 48 hours, pending the resuls of the examination of the case. On the 17th, the case baving been assured to be a pestar the ship was shifted to the Nagahama Quarantine Station for disinfection of passengers, crew, cargo and chip. All the passengers are to be released after to days, commencing from the thing is being done for their comfort All bea date of their removal to the station, and every cargo is to be landed there, which will take about a week, and after the disinfection will be forwarded to their destinations. The ship is subject to 10 days quarantine after the com pletion of the disinfection. Thus having to bo demined at Yokohama about'a fori-ights will get all at Shanghai on bertrip to Hon kong and vice versag.
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