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CONTENTS:

Birth, and Marriages.

Leading Articles;-

* Colonial Finance,

The Gorrion-Bennet Cup.-

Macao and the Luso-Chinese Treaty,

The Supply Bill

The Admiralty Deck,

The Disturbances in Kwangsi.

Another Yellow 'e il.

Telegram:-

Macao Harbour Works,

Meetings:-

Legislative Council,

Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd.

Legal Intelligence:--

Marine Insurance Claim.

日七十月五閏年九十二緒光

falls short by an amount, in round figures, approximating $300,000 for the twelve months. With the single exception of miscel taneous receipts, which have decreased $6,660,89, under all other heads of revenue there have been increases, Detailed, they

are as follows:- Light dues,

Licences and internal revenue

$3,647-70

not otherwise specified...$152,789-53 Fees of Court or office, payments for specific purposes, and reimbursements in aid, Post Office, ... Rent of Government property,

land and houses, Interest,

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first four months' collections this estimate | Germany, Hieronymous, Baron de Caters, supported by the Acting Governor, who was police station at Tai O. The Kowloon ever, it has been shown that the inhabitants. and Jenatzy; and America, A. Winton, Percy a staunch advocate of the scheme, the Waterworks absorbed $90,781.86 (the Esti have once more embarked on a fruitless en- This work deavour to obtain the best advantage for the Owen, and Mr. Mooers. Each of the countries advisor of Government in engineering mate provided for $60,000), was allowed to run four of their best types matters, and the whole body of the Senate cannot be pressed forward too rapidly when Colony, and must resign themselves to the of machines, England being represented by backed up by foreign and Chinese representa,, the requirements of the inhabitants on the fate that, when pitted against official bureau- three Napier motors, one of them driven by tions. The present Governor enjoys the remainland and the inadequate and incfficient cracy, commercial judgment and business Mr. J. W. Stocks, and calculated to develop putation of being a well-known civil en system of water supply, which the gravi commonsense count for nothing. The de a speed of from roo to iro miles an hour; gineer and as far as can be known is tation scheme when completed will super-cision at which the Lords Commissioners of France by two Panhards and one Mors; entirely in agreement with the supporters of cede, is taken into consideration. The widen the Admiralty have arrived and in which the Germany by three Mercedes; and America the scheme. When the concession for the ing of Conduit Road on the upper levels is a Secretary of State for the Colonies has by a like number of cars. The probability railway to Canton was obtained by Senhor public work which the rapid and still pro concurred becomes all the more galling is that none of these cost less than 1,000 Castello Branco, it was held that no benefits gressing development of the district in that to the inhabitants by reason of the fact that A new shed it is not assumed by Their Lordships that $18,701.32 to build. As the law in England does not would accrue to the Colony unless the neighbourhood demanded.

$5,093.93 permit the necessary speed, it was decided harbour works were first tackled and com- for sheep and swine was built at an expendi- the site which they have been requested to surrender, in lieu of payment for the ex to have the race in Ireland, and a special pleted. The news communicated by Sun-ture of $14,619.07 and about $21,000 was $3,895-40

Act of Parliament was passed to give the re-day's wire is, therefore, a valid ground for incurred in the completion of the gao!penses already incurred on the works, is the $1,121.82

officers' quarters. The illumination of the only one available for the purpose of the Water Account, .

$18,643.25quisite powers to the local authorities there to rejoicing on the part of the inhabitants at At first glance the sum realised on sales of sanction and provide for the event. The old Macao. By a strange coincidence almost public buildings on the nights of the Coro Naval Extension. It must be assumed from Crown lands, viz., 326,177.25 represents Emerald Isle has certainly made the most of at the same time the last Lisbon mail nation Celebration festivities cost the Colony their reply to the Colonial Secretary that the hardly one-tenth of the $350,000. put down the occasion, and has not been overlooking brought out private advices to the effect some twelve thousand dollars and for island does offer another site which they call on the 1903 Estimates. There have since the valuable harvest that the race would pro- that the Luso-Chinese treaty concluded by repairing the damages caused by the upon the Colonial Government to submit been a few unimportant sales of garden lots vide to those who had accommodation to let Conselheiro José d' Azevedo Castello Branco typhoons of last year $26,000 have been for Their Lordships' approval in the first which have brought in but a few hundred within reasonable distance of the course. in 1907 had been rejected by the Portuguese paid. Fourteen thousand dollars is the instance. The selection of the site in itself dollars between them. The sale of the The Irish made up their minds to taste the Chamber of Deputies as containing provisions money paid in the resumption of a piece of is a matter of comparative ease; for as we have large and valuable lot in Shek-tong-tsui, Saxon visitors' money, and those who viewed unfavourable to the interests of the country. Crown land, while "Mountain Lodge," the just hinted, speaking with no authoritative opposite the Sailors' Home, however, an- the race must have been prepared to pay The proposal to establish a Chinese Customs gubernatorial residence at the Peak, was technical knowledge, the castern extremity of the Island offers a site in every respect nounced to take place on the 20th inst., is out on a high Henley Regatta scale. Ac- within Macao was not well received. It is more costly in completing by some $18,400. sure to realise far more than the price at cording to the Irish Wheelman, six pounds believed, and rightly so, that the colony Reviewing the various heads of "ordinary possessing all the advantages which are was asked for a three-bedded room for one which, by decree of the 20th November, expenditure" under their departmental classi- claimed for the one in the central portion of which it is going to he put up, $179,550. With this large total added to the amount night only. The fee for pitching a cyclist's 1845, was declared a free port, should have fication, a summary may be presented as the city while removing all the objectionable already realised the year's average should be camp on a piece of waste ground was a fairly maintained and the estimated figure at-modest £20, whilst for one of the cheapest tainer. Crown lands has been a very valu houses near the line of route £80 was asked able asset of the Colony which, as a source for the week. Twenty-five shillings for a of revenue, is dwindling pretty rapidly with bed and breakfast was asked at even second- the small area now left for disposal. Of rate hotels in Dublin. Had the race been 'course, consideration must be had of the postponed Ireland alone, it was thought, enormous tract of land in the New Terri- would lose £50,000. No stone was left un- Competition.fories. We had occasion to note carly in the turned to make the event an unqualified

success in every way, and although presentatives of England and America were out of the race before it was half finished owing to accidents to machinery there does not appear to have been any serious mishap or fatalities such as attended the Paris-Ma- drid race.

Miscellaneous, Articles, and Reports:

The Plague.

The Admiralty Dock.

The Famine in Kwangsi.

Hongkong in 1902,

Belilios Reformatory.

The Use of Search Ligh's, etc. Government Grant to Schools. Canton Land Co., Limited.

Hongkong Water Polo League

The McEwen Case.

The Case against Johannten. Prof. Davis in Hongkong. H.M.S. Sparrowlinek and Virago in a

Storm.

Independence Day. Kowloon.

The Ariping in a Gale. ¿

Fatal Picnic Excursion..

New Territory Notes.

Crown Land Sales.

Old Spanish Warships. Share Market.

MACAO AND THE LUSO CHINESE TREATY

year the first two sales of sites in our newly ac quired extension, but since then no demand has existed or gives immediate promise of arising in connection with fots for industrial or other purposes that may contribute to enlarging the revenue of the Colony from the mainland. The effect of the licensing laws introduced this year is at once seen in the very large increase collected during the first tour months. The Treasury brought in for licences, etc. no less a sum than $988,165,19, thus representing an increase of over a lakh and a half of dollars. The elasti-pondent, which we published last, arous city of the resources of the Colony is. indeed, great, and the burden of such increases, which has been accepted, with apparent. good grace, and which must be felt more or less by the wage carning class Suggestions concerning a Uniform Currency. is, however, not publicly complained against

Weekly Share Reports. Fortnightly Markes Report. Yarn Market Report. Freight Market.

Sugar.

Raubs.

China Oil.

Canton Noles.

The Movements of Viceroy Tsen." The Disturbances in Kwangsi. Consul Report on CantonTrade. The Foochow Dockyard.

Tacis 3,000 paid to evade Hongkong. The Wreck of the Carri e Devr The Trade of Hankow.

Tientsin.

China's Debt to the Powers, Japan-Siam Steamship Service. Entering an Unopened l'ort. The Robert Dollar S.S. Co. Russia's Progress în Asia. The Philippines "Open Door.' Philippines Currency.

The Manila-Hongkong Run. The Mysterious Cattle Disease. "The Stranding of the Sumner,

Cadets and Cantonese.

A Glimpse of East Sumatra. The Raub Australian Gold Mining Co., Ld. The Grounding of the Steamer Australian. China-Aus ralia Carriers,

100 Fine for Sinuggling.

New Chuiser for Orient.

The Silver Question."

Threat to us: Plague Bacillus.

Fiscal Federation with Our Colonics.

Indo-China S, N, C^.

The Cost of two Big Wars. How British subjects have made Russia, The Spread and Prophylaxis of Plague. Local and General.

BIRTH.

At Lyndhurst, Mount Elizabeth, on the 27th June, the wife of H. RIEGE, of a son.

MARRIAGES.

On the 28th May, at Rome, by His Eminence Cardinal Macchi, in his private chapel Deputy Commissioner of Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, eldest son of H.E. the late Comm. Ferdinand de Luca, His Italian Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, to Donna MARIA, second daughter of Don Girolamo Theodoli, Count of

RAPHAEL THOMAS FERDINAND DE UCA,

Ciciliano

At St. Andrew's Cathedr 1, Singapore, on the 27th June, by the Revd. . Halland Stubbs. Military Chaplain S.S., THOMAS C_B. MILLER, second son of DANIRI. MILLER, Fairlie, Scot land, to BESSIE ALFREDA HOLDCROFT, eldest daughter of Joseph Holdcraft, Hanley, Stafford: shire.

The Hongkong Celegraph|

HONGKONG, Saturday, July 11, 1903.

COLONIAL FINANCE.

Satisfactory as the increases have been on the revenue side of the financial statement the items of expenditure show a larger increase

than the excess amount collected as revenue.

(7th July,)

The special wire from a Macao,

has been made the subject of much rejoicing by the inhabitants of that medieval colony. The news that the Portuguese Minister for the Colonies has approved of the general scheme of harbour improvements, though much longed for, had been thought too good by the people of Macao to be flashed over the wire to the "gem of the Orient sea," long neglected by the mother country. Quite a quarter of a century ago an expert The total increase for administration, in-engineer was sent out from Lisbon to report cluding all the public works, is $322,546.20. Our Sanitary Department is still account able for by far the largest proportion of this total, 369,255.41 being chargeable against it. Then follow police, fire brigade, and gaol with an increase, in round figures, of $$7,000. Post Office' takes $44,355.32, the medical departments, $24.352.06, judicial and legal departments, $19,222.13, pensions, $13,579.10, and charges account

of public debt, $10,808.04. The only department showing no increase is the Botanical and Afforestation, which was worked more economically for the Colony from January to. April, by $4,036.40. Exchange compensation to the officers of Government is not shown as a separate item of expenditure. It should be interesting to discover how much more it costs the ratepayers to maintain our highly salaried Civil Servants, with all the benefits accruing to them by way of old age pensions, because of the depreciation in the sterling rate of the dollar, which affects everyone of the inhabitants of the Colony, high or low, without exception, as much as those enjoying the double exchange compensation grant at the cost of the taxpayers in general.

THE GORDON-BENNET CUP..

The result of the most important event of the "Irish Fortnight" is announced by a Reuter wire giving the name of the success- ful competitor in the Gordon Bennett Cup race.. The event was timed to commence at seven am, on Thursday over a circular route 351 miles in length, and the cars, which were expected at certain points to reach a speed of nearly go miles an hour, (4th July.)

were to start at Ballyshannon Cross Roads, The financial returns for the first four near Nais, and proceed by a circuitous route months of the year have been published via Carlow, Athy, Maryboro, Kildare, and and show that the total amount collected for the Curragh. Last year the struggle for this that period is $1,531,905-37 with 826,177-25 international trophy took place in France for land sales, giving an aggregate of and was won by Mr. S. F. Edge, on a Napier $1,558,082.62. Comparing this with the car. The representatives of the four count corresponding period of last year there is an ries chosen to battle for the Cup in Ireland increase of $213,110.-18. The estimated were as follows England, Messrs, Stocks, revenue for the

he whole of the current year is Jarrott, and Edge; France, M. Kene de $4.9331495.00. On the average basis of the Kuyt, Henry Farman, and H. Fournier;

no custom-house much less one that collects follows:-

out

Pensions ...

Charge on Account of Public Debt.$ Governor and Legislature Audit Department... Treasury.... Post Office Registrar General's Department... Observatory...

Legal Departments Medical Departments Magistracy Sanitary Department Transp r

Miscellaneous Services.. Public Works Recurrent

features attaching to the existence of the 18,234-51 Naval Yard and works in the heart of the 39.654.80 11,164.25 City. Hedging in their first requirement 4.791.64 obviously not difficult to meet, the Admiralty 8,820.59 Lords formulate their stipulation which at 26,124.12

733.33 once puts out of the pale of all practical 990.30 discussion any question of an exchange of 14,165.39

sites. 2,800.41

The condition imposed, if at all 4,142.62 acceptable, involves, at a rough guess, 24.737.20 millions of dollars which make it wholly 15.703.66

657.930.55 impassible for the Colony to incur. The 201,628.46 preposterous stipulation asks for nothing less

duties for a foreign government. Almost all the leading journals of the metropolis strongly advocated the ratification of the treaty; but Senhor Custodio Miguel Borja, a former Governor of Macao, arid who is practically acquainted with the prevailing conditions and needs of the colony, protested against certain Articles in the Treaty. Mr. Joan Marques Pereira, chief secretary of the Colonial Office, in a series of thirty- eight articles contributed to the Epoca, unfav. categorically the

Ordinary Expenditure ...51,031,627.86 than that the Colony should provide pointed ourable terms of the Treaty, recalling Exchange for the payment of interest and equivalent accommodation, not only..for the memorable historical fact that Governor sinking fund was calculated at a higher Docks, Basins, Stores, Magazines, Work- Ferreira do Amaral sacrificed his life rate than the average ruling last year shops and other accessories to a Naval for having expelled from Macao the and thus accounts for a higher expendi-Yard, but also the available anchorage and Hoppo of Porta do Cerco, and that by reture on account of public debt by over whatever defences are considered necessary For a like reason and owing to ensure security equal to that obtained admitting the Chinese customs within the $13,000. confines of Macao the Government and the to an increase in number of peusioners, the under present conditions, and possibly people, will be casting an insult to the disbursements for pensions, gratuities and also replace the Naval Hospital which memory of a hero for Free Trade principles. commuted pensions were $39.654.80 in is in the vicinity of the present Yard. Freed from the incubus inseparable from excess of the Estimates. Excess amounts

And it is further stipulated that the Navy the establishment of a Custom-house" and have had to be paid by reason of salaries should continue to occupy the present Yard with a good harbour the destiny of the having been paid to officers on leave in and anchorage. until the new establishment ancient colony may yet be retrieved from the England to the total of $56,732.52. Add to is ready, and can be handed over to them. Slough of Despond into which it had long this the huge sum of $343,451.03, we have To the most casual observer of the Naval fallen. Portugal is still the fourth colonial a formidable total bordering on nearly half establishments and accessories completed on the island, it must be patent that the power in the world. The new alliance that a-million dollars for the fall in exchange and has been entered into with Great Britain is for the "double compensation" which cer- colossal amount which has to be laid out in the most solid and permanent compact tain officers enjoy to the total exclusion of re-erecting and re-equipping the establish that could be readily imagined to exist. It others who, though suffering quite as intensely ments enumerated could only be obtained is an absolute guarantee of the Colonial if not more, yet are deprived, and unjustly so, from the mother-country and not drawn out dominion of Portugal in its integrity. It is, from the privileges of which their favoured of the purse of the taxpayers of the Colony, therefore, as observes a writer in the Fort brethren in the Service are given the full Hongkong exists not as a colonial depend nightly Review, a buttress of the throne in measure. This question of the payment of ency of fanciful value, in the retention of Lisbon. Portugal will no doubt share in all, exchange compensation is one which we have which purely commercial interests are served the commercial advantages of the partner frequently alluded to and dealt with editori- or in whose preservation purely sentimental ship... By emulating the example of her ally in connection with the two petitions motive actuates the Government and the peo sister colony she can do no better than to from the subordinate officers of Government. plc. The judicious foresight by which it was preserve inviolable the freedom of her port We regret that we have been unable to dis-selected as a distant outpost of the King's and by restoring it to the condition of which, cover that any relief has up to the present ocean carriers can take advantage, Macao been.obtained from the Secretary of State, may ring up the curtain to a vista of a but that some mode of readjustment of the share in the commercial prosperity which compensation can be arrived at we have no looms large in the "Gorgeous East" in the reason to doubt. Such a step ought to be new future.

taken in conjunction with any action adopted to put the finances of the Colony on a basis so that the influence of a rise or fall in the rate of exchange might not so seriously throw the balance out of pivot as is revealed in the Supplementary Estimates for 1901.

THE SUPPLY BILL.

THE ADMIRALTY DOCK.

(9th July.) The correspondence published in another column relating to the public petition pray ing for the discontinuance of the work on, and the removal of the Admiralty Dock from,

upon the condition of the harbour of Macao and its approaches. What remained of the dwindling trade of the Portuguese settlement with the birth of Hongkong as a British Colony, was surely and steadily kept away by the gradual silting up of the inner harbour and the roadstead. This condition was at once realized by the expert, whose voluminous report presented to the Portu-

dominio. beyond the sea gives to the nation guese parliament remains extant as a moņu.

the very key to the gates of the i gorgeous ment of Portuguese indifference and neglect

East," over which Eagles of distant land of a most valuable colonial possession over

float with outstretched talons watching which other Powers have more than once

with unceasing care the chance of a prey, cast covetous eyes and under any one of

and on the threshold of which the Beat stealthily seeks to gain a foothold, Eng whose administration the little island, with

land holds Hongkong for Imperial' na its splendid geographical situation, might have been capable of possibilities undreamt

(8th July.)

less than for Colonial interests. And it i of and uncared for by lethargic and apathetic The Supplementary Colonial Estimates

well this should be borne in mind that, when these interests conflict, an understanding or figure-heads adorning the cabinet of Lisbon. for 1902 laid on the table at the meeting of

the basis of a quid pro-que should b Sr. Adolpho Loureiro more than twenty years the Legislative Council this afternoon, on the

arrived at. Monetary sacrifices by die Im ago arged upon his Government the impera- first reading of the Supply Bill being intro-

perial Government devolve, therefore, as a tive necessity of initiating measures having duced by the Colonial Treasurer, is an

obligation upon it for the effective defence for their effect the arresting of the natural interesting and useful document as showing But the financial vicissitudes of a Colony whose

the Admiralty have asked for everythin the island. The Lords Commissioners c process of silting in the harbour. beyond the narrow, muddy embankment revenue is collected in silver and the bulk of thrown across the snail stretch of water to whose expenditure is paid on a gold basis.

and give nothing. The Colony offers the Green Island and a few hundred feet of The sum the Colony is asked to approve of its present site will be read with considera. price of the expenditure on the site it need seawall in the inner harbour nothing has in excess of the Estimates of Expenditure ble disappointment, not to say regret, by all for commercial expansion; the Admiralı been done, in effect, to carry out the recom-framed for last year is $1,800, 201.40. De classes of the inhabitants of Hongkong. grants it subject to the stipulation whic mendations of St. Loureiro. In fairness to ducting from this amount the sum of Strong as the arguments are in favour of the makes it impossible of acceptance. the local administrators, however, and to $768,573-34, for public works extraordinary.| abandonment of the present site for a more

(roth July the body of the Municipal Councillors, the total charged against ordinary ex-suitable, one which the Colony offers on this

So unexpected has been the result of th whose zeal in the well-being of the port, penditure is over onе million and thirty side of the island, it must have been felt by public petition to Mr. Chamberlain and cannot be too highly praised, representations thousand dollars. The capital sum of those who approached the Home Authorities disappointing the nature of the reply fro to the Home Government have been made $508,180 for the purchase of the Reclama- on the question, that the unyielding obduracy the Admiralty Lords, that a public meetir with a commendable pertinacity to save the tion sites known as M.-L. 99 and 100 of the Naval officials might be too great to is mooted to mark the sense of indignatio trade of the port from total extinction by from Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. for he overcome by a petition originating from on the part of the inhabitants of the Colon the complete silting up of the approaches to the erection of the Post Office has been the commercial community of the Colony. Such a meeting, in our opinion, can ha Macao. The latest memorial was referred debuted to the item Public Works Extra-Hence the prayer for the appointment of a absolutely no effect whatever beyond e to in these columns when the Special ordinary, eliminating which there leaves Royal Commission of Inquiry upon whose phasizing the helplessness of the communi Envoy from the Court of Lisbon was passing two lakhs and a half to be accounted for decision the Colony was content to allow in a maiter with which the Colony is vita two years ago en route to the Chinese under this head. Consideration of the items the matter to rest. The petition has been concerned and as regards which representati capital. After a personal inspection of the separately leads one to the conclusion that met with a bland denial. In this instance, members should be those best able to form wretched state into which the port had been the excess amounts appropriated have been however, the inhabitants were supported by judgment The gods have spoken, howeve allowed to drift, H. E. Senhor Castello spent principally in the nature of (1) devel the sympathy and strong recommendations and the Colony must perforce lapse into Branco arrived at the conclusion that one opment work in the New Territories and of H. E. the Governor who, in recognition state of quiescence against the abitra of the first necessities crying for re- (3) in remunerative works, Under New of the gain that would accrue to Colonial dictum of the Naval Oficials who medial measures was the improvement of Territories are to be included $20,459 over. interests in, securing for the Colony a cop. interposed in the commercial the Macao harbour and the carrying out in the estimated round sum of $20,000 in theiinuous road on the waterfront for the whole of the port in a manner whereby their entirety of the plans of the Harbour construction of the sixteen miles of road to breadth of the island, could not surely be interests bave had but little to gain

bent Scheme. In this view he was Taipo, and something over $7,000 in unmindful of Imperial interests also. How Colony all to lose.