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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1904.

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The mater per quarter and per mensei, proportional. The daily issue is delivered free when the addrew is necewaililu to mersonitur. On copios sont by poet an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage. The postage on the weekly, iste ter any part of the

world is 30 cents per qiuitor.

are made of the purest ingredients and are elegantly put up. Our Carbolic Dog Soap single Copies Daily, ten seats, Weekly, twenty-

is the best thing of its kind in the market.

WATSON'S TAI YEUK FONG HAIR

WASH prepared from a recipe of the late

Dr. Ayres, continues to give much satis- 'faction to those who use it.

DENTI

WATSON'S ORIENTAL

FRICE. In the early days of the: Colony the public used no other. Liquid dentifrices do not keep the teeth white and clean. We recommend the above preparation to all,

and especially to those who are heavy

smokers.

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MARRIAGE,

On the 21st March, at. Holy Trinity Cathe drai, Shanghai, by the Rt. Rev. J. B. Ost, JOHN SOWDEN SYMO 8, 10 ANNIE Gardner BLAIR, elder daughter of Captain and Mrs. T. Jobos, of Shan, hai.

The Hongkong Celegraph

HONGKONG, Monday, March 28, 1904,

THE LABOUR QUESTIÓN.

The movement against the introduction of Chinese labour into the Transvaal has almost attained national dimensions. The subject has deeply stirred up the British people at home, and at many meetings or ganised against the proposal the conduct of the Government on the matter has been strongly censured. No public gathering could A. S. WATSON & Co., possibly be held in England in favour of the introduction of Chinese labour, while in nearly all the great centres of population meetings in opposition to that policy have taken place. The journals have printed column after columa bearing upon the sub- ject, and newspaper correspondents seem to have been reaping a small harvest by vigor. ously attacking the Government upon their policy. Dealing with what he-or the sub- editor has headed, "the Yellow Peril' in the Straits Settlements," an enterprising writer, in the course of an hysterical effusion, admira- bly illustrates the fact that, since the intro- duction of Chinese labour into our southern [35 colony the States have continued to flourish. Following this, he alludes to the hopeless struggle" of the British merchant seeking to establish a new business in Singapore or Pe- nang against Chinese labour, and as a parting hit blindly refers to the 'host of vices' brought by the Celestial when he entered the Straits

MANUFACTURING CHEMISTS.

ESTABLISHED 1841,

Hongkong, 26th March, 1904.

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A. B. C. CODE, 4TM” EDITION.

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A CHEE &

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

ONE fatal case of plague (Chinese) accurred to-day at Salisbury Avenue, Tsim Sha Tsui district.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

IMPORTANT BILLS INTRODUCED.

A meeting of the Legislative Council was held this afternoon in the Council Chamber. OPERATIONS on an extensive scale are about Present: His Excellency the Officer Adminis to be carried out by the whole of the troops intering the Government, F. H. May, C.M.G., Hon. garrison.

On Saturday the l'ongkong Cricket Club beat a united league team of fifteen players by 31 runs. The club scored 162 and the united Į Ieague 131.

THE British battleships and cruisers left the harbour at tw (o'clock this afternoon and pro- ceeded to Mirs Bay where they will remain for a few days.

MR W. J. Tutcher, assistant superintendent of the Botanical and Afforestation Department, is leaving for home, with Mrs. Tutcher, on the German mail next Wednesday

PLAYING under Association rules on Saturday afternoon the navy league teams from the, Albion and Ciesty tried conclusions at the Happy Valley. The Albin scored three goals' and the Cressy O. 0.

was given by the A.D...

THE Portuguese cruiser Adamastor arrived at Macao from Lourenço Marques on Friday evening. She is lying in the outer raadstead, not being able to approach the harbour neer than seven miles on account of its silted con dition.

A. M. Thomsun, (Acting Colonial Secretary), Hon. Sir Henry pencer Berkeley, Kt. (Attorney-General), Hun. L. A. M. Johnston (Acting Colonial Treasurer), Hon. Capt. L. A. Barnes-Laurence, R.N. (Harbour Master), Hon. W. Chatham, (Director of Public Works), Hon. Sir C. P. Chater, CM.G., Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, CM., Hon. 'Vei Yuk, and Mr. R. F. Johnston (Acting Clerk of Councils).

MINUTES.

The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed.

FINANCIAL.

The Acting Colonial Secretary laid on the table Financial Minutes (Nos. 19 and 20) and moved that they be referred to the Finance Committee.

The Acting Colonial Treasurer seconded and the motion was agreed to.

PAPER.

The Acting Colonial Secretary laid on the table a revised estimate, 1904, in connection with the New Territory Land Court.

PILOTS.

The Harbour Master moved the first read-

This was agreed to, and the Confeit adjourned sina die..

*FINANCE COMMITTEE.

A meeting of the Finance Committee was held immediately after the Council Hon. A. M. Thomson, Acting Colonial Secretary, presiding. The following votes were submitted, and the Committee agreed to recommend that they be adopted by the Council:-

THE LAND COURT.

A sum of $13,801 in accordance with revised estimate for the Land Court, New Territory:-

Personal emoluments,........ $10,881 Other charges, 2,920

Total,... $13,801, -

THE VICTORIA HOSPITAL.

A sum of $1,895 84 in aid of the rate public works recurrent, miscellaneous works, to clear off all liabilities in connection with the con: struction of the Victoria Hospital, The meeting then adjourned.

PROMISSORY NOTE CASE.

The Chief Justice, this morning, heard an action brought by Kwong Kam Chuen, Kwong Sui Hing, Lau Ching Ming and Pui Cheong Tong, alias Tang Pui Cheong Tong, trading as Hep Sing Tong against Kwok Chíu Kin to recover $4,000, due on promissory notes.

Mr. E. II. Sharp, KC, (instructed by Mr. E. Grist, of Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist) appeared for the plaintiff, while Mr. H. E Pollock, K.C. (instructed by Mr. G. K. H. Bratton,) appeared to make an applicati on on behalf of defendant,

We understand that on Friday evening the new German Consul and his wife, Dr. and Mrs. Krueger, gave an entertainment at the German Club, and that on the following night a dance ing of a Bill entitled An Ordinance to provide.

lor and regulate the Employment of Pilots. The objects and reasons state:-This Bill is designed with the object of exercising certain control over the existing so-called pilots of this Clony, and thus establish a properly con stituted pilot service. While no natural diffi culty presents itself in the navigation of these waters it is a well known fact that men are largely employed for the purpose, in vessels using the port, though doubtless alo the masters are glad of their services for berthing their vessels, etc. Such being the case it has been deemed expedient that desirable persons only should be employed as pilots, if duly qualified. This Bill makes provision for the same, while it safeguards the service being one of option to the employers.

On Friday, Saturday and Monday, the 1st, 2nd and 4th April, the General Post Office will be open for one hour only, i.e., from 8 am till am. All outgoing mails will be closed at a.m. The money order office will be entirely

closed.

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We have received from the Vice-President of the Great Northern Railway Company, St. Paul, Minn., a copy of an article describing the design and building of the 21,000 tons steamships Minnesota and Dakota, which are intended tor the Pacific trade.

THERE was a large attendance of ladies and gentlemen at the Metropole Hotel on Saturday evening when Mr. Jas. Christie, the proprietor, gave a ball in celebration of his taking over the premises. A naval band was engagal and a most pleasant evening was spent.

Defendant was at Port Arthur and wrote lo the Chief Justice asking him in 6x a day for the hearing of the case and go on with it in his absence. This, 'his' Lordship remarked, was a very improper thing to do, and had it been done by a European he would probably have committed him for contempt of Court. The day was fixed and the case came on, when Mr. Pollock applied to the Court for leave to appear for defend int. The Chief Justice, however, declined to allow him to appear, as no affidavits were filed in support of the application, and a dangerous precedent would be created if he allowed Counsel to represent defendant, after defendant had withdrawn his defence. The statement of

The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded and claim set forth that plaintiffs and defendant the motion was carried.

RESIDENTIAL AREA,

The Attorney General moved the first read- ing of a Bill entitled An Ordinance for the reservation of a residential area in the Hil District. The object and reasons are as fol- lows:-The measure has as its object the reser- vation of that partion of the island of Hong- kong commonly known as "the i eak" as a place of residence for persons other than Chinese. The reservation of this district is desirable in order that a healthy place of residence may be

temperate cliunalt andis to whom life in the Tropics presents the disadvantage of an un-

'natural environment.

The Acting Colonial Secretary seconde !. Caried.

Settlements. According to Sir Frank Swet-ON the 18th inst., the Freach minister at Pek-preserved for all those who are accustomed to a tenham, however--and we prefer his opinioning notified the Wat Wu f'u that the Kwangsi to that of the penny-a-liner-the result of rebellion was still unsuppressed, especialy at Nanning, Ching Yuen, Shu and En, where the Chinese labour in developing the mineral

rebels have their centres, and that prompt resources of the Malay Peninsula, is marvel-

measures should be taken to suppress it. lous. In less than 30 years, four small Malay States, jungle-covered, pathless, un- known, have been turned into flourishing communities with a total revenue of over

FURNITURE two millions sterling per annum, a trade of

ten millions sterling per annum, 350 miles

DEALERS. of excellent railway, thousands of miles of

DRAWING-ROOM,

DINING ROOM,

and BED-ROOM

FURNITURE.

ELECTRO-PLATED,

GLASS, and

CHINA WARES. PASTEUR'S MICROBE-PROOF

FILTERS,

KOCHESTER LAMPS,

WHITE TURKISH TOWELS.

COUNTERPANES.

FHE following is the return of visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum for the week ending 27th March, 1904 :-

Non-Chinese Chinese......

Library Museum

272 83

101 2,742

Total......... 374 2,825

roads and telegraphs, great public buildings, schools, hospitals, waterworks-in fact, all the machinery of the most inodera admini- stration with no debt of any sort and a balance of over one-and-a-half millions, transpired recently that

ready to be spent on further railway extension and other works of development. The development of the tin mines in British Malaya is the work of indentured Chinese labourers, and it may safely be said that the same results could not have been obtained with any other class of labour. The revenue raised from the mining industry has paid for the administration generally, and for all the great public works which have placed the Malay States in their present posi- tion of enviable prosperity, affording such facilities to planting enterprise of every description that cultivators of all nation alities, Europeans, Malays, Chinese, and PHOTOGRAPHIC Indians, have settled in the country, and if

DEPARTMENT. DEVELOPING and PRINTING

UNDERTAKEN for AMATEURS.

GOOD WORK.

COOKING RANGES,

KITCHEN UTENSILS, and

HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES.

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PROMPT RETURN. Hongkong, 8th January, 1904.

CARMICHAEL

CLARKE,

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Japanese

squadron, consisting of the battleships Fuji

and Yashima and the cruisers Chitose and

Takasago, visite! Haiyang Island in the Bay of Corea on the 28th ultimo. The landing of the blucjackets surprised the islanders, who number about 50%, and who had no previous knowledge that war was in progress. The Russians left the island, it appears, on the 23rd ultime. One signal flag and a large quantity of coal belonging to them was found there. The Japanese were in occupation for an hour only-N C. D. News,

RANISHMENT.

The Attorney General moved the first read- ing of a lil entitled an Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 8 of 1882 entitled "The Banishment and Conditional Pardons Ordi. nance, 1882, The objects and reasons state- This Bills to empower the Governor in Council, in the interest of order and good government, to remove from the Colony persons

who after they have acquired by naturalization the status of British subjects become a source of danger to the pence, order and good govern- meat of the Colony. The Bill provides that in case of the banishment of any naturalized person his status as a British subject shall ipse factu be suspended or cancelled as the case may be. Power is reserved to His Majesty to disallow any suspension or cancellation of naturalization.

had been partners in a business under the name of Bismark and Company, at Hongkong, Port Arthur and Dalny. On May 30 the plaintiffs and defendant dissolved their partnership on the terms that defendant should give up his interest in the business of Bismark and Company, Hongkong, and should take over The businesses at Port Arthur and Dalny and pay the plaintiffs the sum of $15,000, In pursuance of the agreement and in part payment of the $25,000 the defendant gave plaintiffs two promissory notes, dated May 31st for $1,000 each, which were payable one month from date, and entered in possession of and still retains the businesses at Port Arthur and Dalny. The defendant had not paid any of the money, and the plaintiffs clained $4,000.

The Chief Justice gave judgment for plaintiffs, with costs.

The Court adjourned sine die.

THE TIENTSIN GAS CO

INCREASE OF CAPITAL.

At the Supreme Court this morning, before the Chief Justice, Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., (instructed by Mr. H. J. Gedge, of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master), appeared in support of an application from the Tientsin Gas Company to give effect to certain special resolutions passed at an extraordinary meeting of the company in December lust.

The special resolutions were that clause 3 of Somewhat similar legislation the Memorandum of Association be altered by has been adopted in the Straits Settlements. substituting the following sub-section :-(a) to The object of the Bill is the prevention of crime manufacture, sell and supply any kind of in the New Temitories. There are in that illuminant in the foreign concessions and portion of the Colony many bad characters who settlements at Tientsin, Tienizin Native City, go about in armed gangs robbing the peace- Peking, Tongku, Tongshan, Feitaiho, Ching. able inhabitants. There have of late bern wantao, Shanhaikwan' and any other place numerous cases in which inhabitants of the between or in the neighbourhood of the said New Territory have been convicted of armed places or elsewhere in North China, and to rubberies on junks and boots and of robberies carry on the business of a gas or oil, or electric with violence in the night time on land and light works in all their branches, and to manu afloat with and without arms. It is desirable facture orgenerate gas, or electricity, or any ott eý that power should be taken to banish, if neces-illuminant. And by inserting after sub-clause- imprisonment. There are also cases in which the Company to carry on in all or any of the persons guilty of the serious crimes mentioned, places aforesaid the business of an electric though well known, escape punishment on ac light company in all its branches, and to light count of the difficulty, for fear of reprisals, in the towns, streets, docks, etc., both public and getting witnesses to come forward against them private, in the foreign concessions in Ticalsin or elsewhere_io_Nonb China. To carry on

the mines should fail (of which there seems Mortlock, a portrait painter, and in some way sary, such persons after they have undergone (f) three new sub-clauses which would enable

no probability for many years to come) there will then be a settled population of agricul turists. The Straits Settlements Colony, with its great markets on the main line of ocean traffic, holding as they do the gate of the Far

A VERY interesting arbitration is to be opened at Shanghai on 22nd instant before the Chief When H. E. Justice, Sir Hiram Wilkinson.

Hung-chang was in England he was intro- duced by Lord Salisbury at Hatfield to Miss it was arranged that she should paint H.E. Li's portrait, which she did. She is now claiming one thousand guineas from the Grind Secretary's estate, her counsel being Messrs. Messrs Dowdall, Hanson, and McNeill. been relained as counsel for the defence.

145 Eastern trade, has increased in wealth and Drummond, White-Cooper, and Phillips have in the Law Cours. As the law stands such the business of electricians, etc, for the pur

AND

CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND

SHIPBUILDERS, SURVEYORS AND CONTRACTORS.

-REPAIRS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.

TELEGRAMS: "CARMICHAL," Hongkong. A. B'C. Code, 4th Edition, A. 1 Code.

:

Lieber's Standard Code.

TELEPONE, 237, 6:

Hongkong, soth March, 1903,

ADJOURNED.

THIS HONGKUNG I

CORPS.

NUAL INSPECTION,

The Hongkong Volunteer Corps assembled for annual inspection, by the Officer Command- ing the Troops in South China, ou the new Ground on Saturday afternoon. Some asso inspection, announced occurred

p.m., did not begin till 3.20. The ang officer, H. E. Major-General Villiers ttoo, C.B., was accompanied by Major A, B. Hamilton, P.S.C., Depty, Asst. Adj. Gegeial and Capt. E. S. Ward, and Grenadier Guards, A.D.C. The officers and men presented a very smart appearance in their uniforms of khaki drill, putties, white helmets, belts, sideärmus and rifles, and the muster was a good one; 170, rank and file, being present."

Major C. G. Pritchard, R. A., was in com mand, with the following officers under bis orders:-

Major A. Chapman, second in command; Supy Surgeon Lt. E. A.-R. I ning, Caplains 0. Ordish, D. Macdonald, G. J. H. Sayer, JH.W. Armstrong, T. Skinner and R. Mitchell; Lieuts J..W. L. Oliver, J. A. T. Plummer; G. P. Lamment, W. Nicholson, M: S. Northcote, R. G. Barrett, M. M. Scott and W. A. Crake, Corps Sgt. Major W. Higby, Corps Armourer Sgt. J. Hawks,

Inspection terminated, the Corps, formed up in close order, was addressed by H. E. Major- General Villiers Hatton, C. B. He expressed his satisfaction at the appearance of the men on parade, but regretted that the corps was not

up to its full strength, and urged the memten to use their influence with their friends toinduce them to join. The General stated that he was very satisfied with the gun practice of the corps, and said that, in the future, manœuvres would only be executed with the 15ib. B. L. and maxims. The band of the Sherwood Foresters was in attendance and played during the inspection

CHINESE FOR SOUTH AFRICA,

Sir Ernest Salow, the British Minister to

Peking, has written an official despatch to the Viceroy Wei Kwang-tao regarding the importa tion of Chinese labour into South Africa which has become such a burning question in British.

of the Government. We roughly translate politics, involving as it does the life or death

from the Chinese text as follows:

Minister Chang Teh-yih has written, me from London that he is now contemplating concluding an agreement regarding the im- portation of Chinese labour into the mines in South Africa so as to protect the interests of the Chinese labourers. According to the treaty between China and Great Britain dated so h year of the Emperor Haien Fung (24th Oct., 1860) there is a stipulation in Article Vas follows:-

* As soon as the mutifications of the Treaty of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty.

eight shall have been exchanged, His Majesty the Emperor of China will decree, commanding the high authorities of every province to proclaim throughout their jurisdictions that Chinese, in chosing to take service in British ‹olonies or other ports beyond the sea, are at perfect liberty to enter into engagements with |British subjects for that purpose, and to ship

themselves and their families on board any. Kritish vegyels at the open ports of China; also that the high authorities aforesaid shall, in concert with H.B.M.'s Representative in Chisa, frame such regulations for the protec- tion of Chinese emigrating as above as the circumstances of the different open ports may

demand."

Therefore such regulations shall be compiled between the two powers so as to give due pro- tection to the Chinese labourers. Now British South Africa is recruiting Chinese labour and the War Wow and Minister Chang Teh-ylh are to draft such regulations, I shall be obliged if you (Viceroy Wei Kwang-iso) would attend to the matter with the Ministers of the Board of Foreign Affairs at Peking-Br.

SHIPPING AND MAILS:

NAILS DUE.

German (Preussen) 29th inst."" Indian (Lightning) 30th inst. German (Prins Heinrich) goth inst. Americas (Dork) 4th French (Annam) 4th prox." Canadian (Athenian) 4th prðs. Indian (Hangsung) 5th prox.

prox

** Canadian (Empress of India) 15th prox.

American (Siberia) 17th prox:

The Imperial German, Mall, K. Przut left Shangh be expected ********

persons though a constant menace to poace and importance pari passu with their Hinterland

good order cannot l'e banished if naturalized Roses of supplying light, heat, and to

manufacture all apparatus requin con The M. M. Co.'s ss dream, will the next for all the imports to and exports from the Fe

subjects by operation of the Lease of the New nection with the distribution or generation and French Mail, will leave Singapore, to-day, at 5 derated Malay States pass through the hands THE arrival of the popular river steamer Territories or otherwise. The present Bill gives employment of electricity. To carry on the pm, for this port zvs Saigon, lagu dep

power to deal by way of banishment with such business of lighting of every description, of the merchants of Singapore and Penang Hrungskas from Macao to-day was consider With this, the authorities at home and those ably delayed on account of the log. So dense bad characters and it is believed that whed they whether gas, electricity or other illuminant, in

all their respective branches

and to mant who have a voice in the matter evidently was it on the steamer leaving Macao at eight learn that they may be banished from the o'clock this morning that considerable caution Territory the eff.ct for good upon them will be agree, and, as we have already seen, the had to be exercised by the experienced hand at considerable.

facture, manipulate, or use all chemicals capable of being used alone or in conjunction House of Lords has rejected a motion put the heln, Capt. Jones, who had a difficult task

ith olber chemicals or elements for the pur to defer, indefinitely, the introduction of in piloting the huge boat through the narrow Chinese labour in our newly acquired pos. | fairway in Macao harbour. For a considerable With regard to the second reading of the pose of producing any illuminating power. session in South Africa. The British Minister time the steamer proceeded dead slow and Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend the fre- Further, they resolved that the capital of the when she got near Labtão so dense was the fog pared Opium Ordinance, 1891, and the commil-Company be increased from tan's 50,000 that the skipper decided to drop anchor. Half les stage on the Bill entitled An Ordinance to Tientsin sycee to taels 250,000 Tientsi

enable effect to be given in this Colony to a Syree, by the issue of two thousand shares at Convention signed the Fifth day of March els 200 each, and, furthermore, that the name Nineteen hundred and two in relation to Sugur of the Company be altered to The Tientsin the Attorney General moved that both lemos be Gas an Electric Light Company, Limited postponed,

1 be Chief Justice made the order asked for.

to Peking has had notification of the deci sion, and Sir Ernest Satow has likewise informed Viceroy Wei Kwang Tao, while locally we understand that several firms are interesting themselves over the question of [47 exportation.

an hour later the fog lifted and with a clearer atmosphere it was safe to resume the voyage which the fengshan proceeded to do at about noon, arriving at her wharf in Hongkong about | a quarter past one.

The G. F. R., Co. hama at 1 pm, on 27th at 5 am. Tuesday, for Kob

o arrive at Boon; on 30th,

t3 p.m., and may

Al

where she

The Imperial German Mail ve

rich with the German Malle Saturday morning, and max on Wednesday afternoon,

hera.