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ACCORDING to the Japan Times, there are re- ports that the China Commercial Steamship Co. is giving up its Hongkong-San Francisco

The French all of the 8th Sept was de 8 wo mentioned some munths since Messrs. Bailey & Co., of Hongkong, have been engaged livered in London on the 8th inst

upon four iron barges for Messrs. Markwald & Co., of Bangkok. Two of the craft have already

repeated in an * express launched from their yard at Kowloon Bay the circulated this morning inviting the members third ship-a vessel capable of carrying Spot of the Chinese community to a meeting to be held at the fung Wa Hospital tomorrow, for tons dead weight

had the purpose of considering whether, on the occasion of His Excellency's departure from the Colony, they should tender him a farewell A REPORT received by the japanese authori-chwang, while sanitary measures are adopted banquet or let their appreciation of his admini les from the Consul at Seoul, Mr. Mimasu, against. arrivals from this port at Manila,stration of the Government of the Colony take

Since: the last Labuan and North-Borneo. says that rinderpest prevails in the neighbour. Netherlands India, Rangoon, Siam, Indo-China, the form of a presentation. hood of the Korean capital,

notification appeared Saigon bas withdrawn the quarantine against Hongkong.

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ted taxation to which these labourers were submitted was unjust, in the extreme. It is a matter of some satisfaction to us to note that, in dealing with this question, the Governor made use of similar arguments to those which found a place in an article. which was published in our columns, as far The raten per qitarter and per menser, proportional. back as in January last, and which lend to prove that these unfortunate labourers, The daily less in delivered free when the address is

who earn a maximum of $15 a month are obliged to pay taxes amounting to from grair is stated that Mr. G. L. Tossop will cease to to $17 a year. Whether or not the wise captain Gloucestershire after this season as he advice of M. Beau will have any future ads it impossible to lead a team and give the effects on the colony's attitude towards im- necessary attention to business. ported labour it is difficult to state, since much will depend on the point of view from which his successor will regard the question, but he is to be cordially congratulated on the courageous outspoken manner in which he has advocated á more liberal and just policy towards the Chinese in France's Far Eastern possessions.

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HONGKONG. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1903.

THE CHINESE And FRENCH

INDO-CHINA.

In a recent article, we made mention of the semi-official announcement which was

OUR NEW GOVERNOR,

It was hoped that yesterday's English mail would have brought some further particulars concerning the career of Sir Matthew Nathan who has been appointed to succeed Sir Henry Blake in the governorship of Hong. kong. Our London exchanges, however, contain little to add to our present know ledge of the new Governor. The following clipping from the Pall Mall Gazette will be read with interest by the community in general and the Jewish section in par ticular, who form a not inconsiderable proportion, in point of number, and by

THE Komin-ji-ji-pao states that the Empress would like to execute Marshal Su at once, but desiring to "save the face" of the French Minister at Peking no decree to that effect will be published for some weeks.

THE death is announced of Lord Kags, who had served the Imperial family under four reigns, and at one time was Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal. He was the father of Marquis Kuga, and was in his 89th year.

QUARANTINE restrictions Are Bill in force against Manila, Amoy, Shanghai and New

THE New York Herald has published details of a peculiar fever which is now raging in Cuba and in said to be für deadlier than yellow fever. The Governments of Cuba and the United States have ordered medical experts to make investigations into the causes, etc. It is said that the pulse of the victim reaches as high a point as 167 with respiration at 58. Soon after death the body turns yellow. No statistics have yet been secured of the number of deaths from the disease.

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AT the offices of the Public Works Depart ment on 26th init. Inland Lot No. 1,704 situated in Robinson Road had comprising, an area of 14.914 square feet will be put un for THE local press in French Indo-China is con- ducting a violent campaign against the Post-sale by public auction. The annual rent is master General in that colony, and it declares $103, and the upset price 54.477. Before the purchaser has to build and finish fit for that the portal and telegraph service there is expiration of twenty-four calendar months the occupation one or more permanent messunge or tenement, expending thereon a sum of not less than $10,000 in rateable improvements.

proving itself a complete failure.

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MR. Almond N. Gray, of San Francisco, is at present looking over the ground in the Philip pines and studying the possibilities for coal mining in the islands in the interest of the large capitalists who are behind him.

The Kawasaki Shipbuilding Company at Kabe is at present constructing four torpedo brais for the Japanese Navy, and two steamers, one for the Commercial Navigation School at Yeta- shima and the other for the Korean Govern. ment.

his feebleness fi'bard rapacity towards his victims," Thus the Shanghai Tiwes introduces a short account of the recent strike of ricksha coolies in this Colony.

no means the least important residents of Hongkong "Congratulations upon Sir Matthew Nathan's promotion will be mingled with a very general feeling of regret in West African circles. Sir Matthew's work as Gav- ernor of the Gold Coast and Ashanti has been admirable. In fact, the colony has rarely had a more hard-working or capable head, and it is the excellence of his work "THE most obstrepemus beast of burden in the world is probably the Hongkong ricksha which has led to his transference to Hong-coolie, who is famous all over the Far East for kong. It was after the stirring events of the siege and relief of Kumasi that Major Nathan was appointed to the Gold Coast, and during his three years' tenure of the government he has found time to visit the most distant parts of the Northern Territories, and succeeded THE steamer Pembrokeshire which has been in winning the respect, if not the confidence, purchased by the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, is expected to reach Japan about the end of this of the Ashanti tribes....Siteed kåtive

as certain necessary both on the Nile and the North-Wermonth, and, as 2004 Frontier. He has also the honourable distentions have been made, will be employed

Moji to Hongkong and Singapore. tinction of being the first Jew to be made a Colonial Govenor. The difference in the emoluments of his present and his new post is considerable, though more apparent than real when the difference between the social duties of the respective offices is borne in mind. The Governor-of the Gold Coast receives £3,000 and £500 table allowance; the Governor of Hongkong £5,000, of which

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being circulated in the French metropolis with regard to the nomination of M. Pierre Baudin to the Governor-Generalship of French Indo-China. Whatever reasons the authorities in Paris may possess for the recall of M. Beau, the able statesman who now occupies this important post, it is cer- tain that a want of frank outspoken opinion concerning the several causes hampering the progress of the colony cannot be included among the defects he is reproached with. For use in the garden generally. In a recent speech, made in Saigon, con. cerning the general tenor of which we published. but lately, an editorial, M. Beau dealt, with admirable candour, on the past errors and existing defects, which have so often compromised and are still retarding the commercial and agricultural advance of French Indo-China, telling his bearers that among the problems to be treated he con- sidered that the question of insufficiency of skilled labour in the colony was as urgent and important as that of irrigation. It may come as a surprise to many, who are acquainted with the overcrowded districts in the Delta provinces of Cochin-China and Tonkin, that any such. difficulty should pre sent itself in the colony and, apart from this, the proximity of some of the most dense ly populated provinces of Southern China is complaint. There nevertheless exists a real want of skilled labour in the country which daily becoming of vital interest to its This state of affairs has its prosperity. origin in the real distaste shown by the natives to leave their villages or to settle away from districts with which their ancestors have been associated for centuries past, and where their means of existence are assured. though modest. Also, since the occupation of the country by the French, every possi- ble means of discouraging Chinese immigra tion have been the order of the day, so that very few Celestials have cared to risk them scives in a country where the narrow-minded prejudice of the ruling race is so blatantly unfavourable to them. One need not seek far afield to discover wheuce springe this spirit of exclusiveness, so unworthy of a nation which since 1789 has declared itself to all law-abiding British subjects, 'without the champion of human liberties, since for distinction of caste or creed, by the years past the majority of the local presstitution we are proud to own, is not an has published complaints from the French evasive promise but an actual reality. merchants concerning, what they term, the unfair competition of the Chinese trades- men; which simply means that these thrifty dealers content themselves with smaller profits. To add weight to their argument these anti-celestial champions state that the Chinaman sends home his profits so that the country he has settled in reaps no reward therefrom. It would be difficult to imagine L1 Mun, second apothecary's assistant, lias anything more absurd than this ridiculous been appointed a public vaccinator. mis-statement, which goes far to prove the KITCHEN UTENSILS, and

ignorant prejudice of such as make use of it MB. W. Armstrong was elected a member of the HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES,

As an argument; and, in this respect; M. Church Body vire Commander R. M, Rumsey, Beau is courageous enough to givean absolute late R.N., L.S.O., resigned. PHOTOGRAPHIC denial to his compatriots, for he states:- "As to the question of the exodus of Chinese DEPARTMENT.

capital, one has but to pay a short visit to DEVELOPING and PRINTING A

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city it is self-evident that the most important: Hongkong, 29th August," 1903.

industry of the colony, the rice-trade, is al- most entirely in the hands of the Celestial merchants, and it would be absurd to deny that all their efforts and capital are being employed to increase that branch of THE Imperial erasor has accused the Viceroy our trade." The Governor-General might of Szechuan of receiving gifts from his subor have added that the recent augmentation of dinates on the occasion of his seventieth household property in the hands of Chinese birthday. landlords, in Haiphong and Hanol, was

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THE French are said to have claimed damages sustained by them on account of the interrup- ion of the work on their railway in Yunnan, due to the late disturbance of the miners, at the tate of $6,000 per day. Negotiations have been progressing between the French Consul and he Viceroy and Governor of Yunnan,

WAN NAI-CHUE", nee of the Imperial

that the new Ministry of Commerce should be

800 is an entertainment allowance." The appointment of a Governor of the Jewish, has written to the Empress requesting persuasion to such an important port is a suppressed, on the plea that it is useless and splendid example of the broad-minded policy that the functionaries attached to the same of the late Colonia! Secretary, Mr. Cham- hink more of seeking after their own profits berlain; and it is also a lesson to the nations han protecting the Chinese merchants. that still cherish race-pajalice and religious

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the auditor's report of the condition of the Consilippines treasury to the Secretary of Finance d Justice, a comfortable balance of $4,297,173 shown to the credit of the government. The penues during the past month have reached Im the customs, postal department; internal enue, the City of Manila and miscellaneous. cash balance at the end of last month was.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

INWARD Parcels by s.a. Malta are now ready,82,633, for delivery.

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OGRAMME of Music to be performed by the THE German gunboat litis arrived from Food of the 33rd Burma Infantry on the New chow this morning.

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M. James 6. Fearon, of Shanghai, has been elected a director and vice-president of the International Banking Corporation,

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another sure proof of what became of other tz is notified in the Gaseite that Mr. Gaston Celestial commercial profits, and he might Liebert, having-arrived in the Colony, has been have advised his compatriots to take a lesson recognised by tf. E.. the Governor as Consul from Singapore and Hongkong, from whose for France...

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THE following returns of the average amount of bank notes in circulation and of specie in reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 30th September, as certified by the maungers of the respective Banks, are published in the Government Gazette jä

Average Specie Amount. in Reserve,

Banks,

of India, Australis and China,............. $3,320,433 Hongkong and Shang- hai Banking Cor- paration,......... £1,673,832 National Bank

China, Limited,.................. 445.630

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THE BELILIOS TERRACE OUTRAGE.

It will be pleasing to learn that an arrest has been made in connec ion with the recent dastardly robbery from Miss Bateman's The" amab who house at Belios Terrace. was in the room with Miss Bateman. duri ing her illness saw a man in the street whom she identified as one of the thieves. She gave information to the police with the result that the man was arrested, and was identified by both Misa Bateman and the amal at the Magistracy this morning. The man will be charged on Monday.

FIXITY OF EXCHANGE.

The latest official deliverance on the results.

of fixity in India was that of the Secretary State for India, Lord George. Hamilton (now,

before the House of Commons a few weeks ago, resigned), who, in laying the Indian Budger

diew the attractive picture of the advantages being derived by India under the new system,

He spoke as follows employ

Now let me say a word in connexion with- currency. The finance of no Government can

be satisfactory if it is associated with a dis- credited and depreciated currency. I claim: for the Indian Government that the success of the currency policy recently adopted has enormously increased their whole financial system. Lot \mo, shortly recapitulate, what it' has done." The foundation of the change was the attempt to give to the rupee an external ex- change value in gold of rs. 4d. That scheme has $1,850,000 now been four years in operation. Taking the annual average external value of the rupee for purposes of exchange for the last four years, it 7,000,000 only shows a variation of 3 per centy while the exchange during the past year-that is, the years 1902-03-varied only 1.4 per cent. Dur ing the same period the fluctuation in the price of silver-which had previously governail the price of the rupee-was 14.7 per cent. The. THE Kobe Chronicle quotes the following tele- | benefit thus conferied upon Indian merchants, gram from Tacoma, dated the 28th of August:exporters from and importers into India, is It is conceded by shipping men that the num ncalculable ... It has given, in place of the ber of sailing ships that will be chartered to slippery shifting value of the old silver rupee, carry this season's wheat crop will be much the stable foundation of a gold standard upon smaller than in recent years. This is due which to frame their enterprises and calcula

g Cống givelse af almmers, has of the rupee has risen, and without difficulty principally to the fact that Alfred Holt, operations. Whilst the exchange value externally contracted with the largest gmin companies in been maintainen pracholy alterate of 18/gd, the State to carry the major part of the grain internally prices bave not been adversely

150,000

Total $15.419,897 $9,000,000

which will be shipped from Puget Sound during the coming season. The Blue Funnel line is operated between the Sound and Liverpool via Oriental parts and by having an established line of steamers and being able to carry other freight besides wheat, Holt was able to offer a more favourable price and give better service than the sailing ships. The result has been to leave unchartered wheat vessels on the Sound. British barques. Dusitanage and Chilionford, Among the ships: no disengaged are the the British ship Kinross, the British steamer Yeddo, and the Russian barque fermes. Se

verslinge ugg thus fine business poor, and

one, the Tyre, has already gone out of com- mission.

fected. In fact, prices of commodities of getieral consumpt on have risen rather thind. fillen By reducing the number of rupees to be remitted to this country to meet gold obligations, surplus after surplus has been

secured during the past four years, and the present, rergission of taxation is mainly dun to the success of our currency. Neither bas any difficulty occurred of obtaining and retain. asures the gold necessary for exchange of no ea or Jupees coined in silver, ing in our treasuries.

Sir Edward law reports that gold coins, though demanded by bankers chiefly for remittance

purposes, are little used in local circulation,

We have in the currency reserve bout £9,000,000, and in the gold reserve in this country about £4000,000 invested in gold, ACCORDING to the S. F. Chronicle Mr. W. H.security. I saw that in the debate, in the Avery, general agent of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha, Legislative Council of the Viceroy it was said in San Francisco, stated upon his return from by some native gentleman that the rise in the the Orient that one of the objects of his trip was external value of the rupee bid is creased taxa- to examine the Hamburg-American steamships tion internally by the amount of the diference Hamburg and Kitchou, which the Toyo between the external value of the rupee when Kisen Kaisha comtemplated purchasing for the the mints were closed, and its present quotas line connecting the Pacific coast port with the tion, I think only a moment's consideration Orient. He looked over the vessels in the is necessary to upret that contention. If a rise Orient, and, while finding them palatial and in in the exchange value of the rupee means an many respects faultless, they were found to be increase in internal taxation, then a fall in that unsuited to the Pacific trade, principally owing exchange value would mean lightening of in stockholders, who had depended to a great rupee during the last 25 years has steadily fal to their bigh superstructure. So the Japanese ternal taxation. The exchange value of the extent upon Mr. Avery's opinion, have decidedlen from tpenco to 12 pedco. Was fixation not to purchase the vessels. It is understood during that time diminished 50 per cent? that plans and specifications for two or more Taxation was not so affected, and, if a fall does steamers for the San Francisco route have been not diminish taxation, then arise in the ex approved by the Toyo Kisen, but no contracts change value does not raise it. for their const uction have been awarded. The steamers will, however, be built in Japan, pro-. bably at Nagasaki, and will be of about 1,500 tons capacity, with a speed of nineteen knots,

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from the point of view of what it owe opened, the coffin taken up and the body The Imperial Gen alf and to civilisation, It does not make thrown out while the linen was strewn around. Shanghait baterial difference to Japan whether or not. The matter was at one reported, to the police ed here,

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