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CONTENTS.

Births, Marriages and Death. Leading Articles:--

The Cabton Samshui Railroad, Interport Cricket.

New Mova in Kwangsi,

The Dowager Empress of China. The New Lazo Chinese Treaty. White Gloyes.

晚三十月十年十三精光

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1904, 5.

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六角體:

WHITE GLOVES.

TELEGRAM. HONGKONS TELEGRAF Í "

SERVICE:

驍九十月一十英港香 33 PER ANNUM:

SINGLE COPY, 25 CENT trains could not pass over the metals in the ] is brolight about in the situation of affairs. the Empress Dowager, who was to act in the Portuguese metropolis is one that of work throughout the various shipbuilding vicinity. Passengers travelling had to alight For years past the Government authorities as regent till he attained his majority at is opposed to the old by whom the districts Barrow, Maryport and Workington, and walk along to another train in order to have been saving their face by doing what the age of fifteen arrive at their destinations, and although the title they thought to restore order, and now tween them have been always anomalous party polities will operate against Senhor and Stockton are the only yards which The relations be Minister was appointed to China. Whether Hartlepool and Whitby, and Middlesbro management had gangs of coolies at work when it is almost too late to introduce new and intricate, while the Emperor's men Branco's now compact remains an open have less! work in hand than at the cor- from early niorn till late at night the work of methods of effecting their object the Govern- tal and physical imperfections, as well question. Meanwhile it is interesting to responding period of last year, all others repairing the road took mich, longer than or of the Province has awakened to the fact as the feelings of filial defercace always observe that the Minister returns with the un-showing an increase. Turning to was at first anticipated. The filling in that the whole fault has lain with the Imperial shown by him to his adopted hother, certainty as to the fate of his latest diplomatic consideration of the warships under con to the process was labouriously slow, for what had troops. In a despatch to the Throne he have creased the difficulties. After his enterprise. In whatever light the fruit of his truction wo find that wine, aggregating been accomplished one day was undone over

avers that the failure to suppress the rising accession the Empress Dowager continued labour might be regarded in Lisbon, hopes 125,509 tons, are being built in the Royalt night, the ground where the subsidence dc-on account of difference of the dialects, ignor as the power behind the thront, and was no run high at Macao that the railway between 112,910 tons, are in various private yards.-- Dockyards, while forty-nine aggregating abcelable to masenger. On coples sent by post ancurred some two miles above Sainamance of geographical position and inadapta more stemly impressed upon the country that colony and the capital of South China The above are all for the British Navy, and additional $1.80 per quarter in charged for postage." The postage on the weekly june to any part of the being of a particularly marshy character. bility of climatic conditions: The soldiers that in the action she took to put an end to will raise it, figuratively speaking, frons that include eleven submarines now being built

world is 30 cents per quarter.

Having regard to the fact that the despatched froni other provinces and now the refom movement in China. That she "Slough of Despond" into which the apathy at Barrow. The private yards are constuct rails, in many places, are below the level of engaged in bringing about the intended sup secretly encouraged the Box: agitation, of the home Government had allowed it to remainition, nine other vessels for foreign" the river this was only to be expected, and pression cannot, he says, have any rational as whitensibly opposing it, is undoubted, sink by an utter disregard and culpable 34,520; the bulk of which, however, is due.

governments, of an aggregate: tonnage of it will be a matter of surprise if, wifen, the sociation with the natives with whom they come though at first she intended to arrest it at a negligence of the best commercial interests to the two battleships of 16,000 and 16,400- time for the spring freshels arrives, several in contact, for they cannot very well under moment which seemed fittest to herself. of the erstwhile leading entrepôt of Euro-tons, being built at Barrow and Elswick for miles of the line are not under water. For stand the words spoken to them. Even when The movement, however, got beyond her pean trade in China.

Japan. tunately, the efforts of the management they go out to buy food to supply their control, and soon became so serious that appear to have at last proved successful as wants, they experience many inconveniences she was nearly powerless. Since those trains are again running according to in their conversation and this being so, it is terrible days of anxiety she has shown in schedule time, and as it is unlikely that the beyond doubt that they cannot be of any many ways her desire to be friendly line will ever be in much requisition for reconnoitering value. We take it that this is with the Powers, and above all to be civil to heavy goods, owing to the facilities for on the assumption that they do buy food, the ladies of the various Legations. The water transport-which must necessarily be and not follow in the footsteps of others who result of all this tends to show that she is cheaper, to Samshui and other places en

went to Kwangsi ostensibly for the purpose of 100 clever to commit any indiscretions which route-being very complete and extensive, settlig affairs. Regarding the geographical would embroil China in the campaign further when once the rails become settled, the position, it is pointed out that when the troops North. But years must tell and when at company will no doubt run a frequent advance to suppress the rebels in a parti-length she ceases to control the affairs of service of trains. It was thought at the cular place, they have to be guided by the ber country a change may come o'er the outset that there would be a consider natives living near by, some of whom have scene, and Progress may be the watchword able passenger traffic, and notwithstand proved to be no better than rebels, and in ing the fact that only a couple of trains this way disadvantages are often found on at present, start from each terminus during the side of the suppressors. As to the cli- the day the gross receipts now reach four matic conditions, it has been reported to the figures. Steamers belonging to the joint authorities at Peking that ever since, the steamship company plying on the river wait soldiers went to the front many have died several hours for passengers before leaving from sickness while others are said to be The Hongkong Steam Water-Boat Co., Ld. for Wuchow and intermediate ports, and constantly suffering from some illness or when it becomes more generally known that another. These are doubtless very good ex. the railroad is-practically run in conjunction cuses for not restoring order, but that it with these ships not only the native passenger should have taken so many years to get at traffic will increase, but many foreign the root of the failure does not reflect very. merchants and travellers will avail them-creditably upon those charged with ridding Treaty with China, which His Excellency then only three years had elapsed since interviews he had had with some of the selves of this rapid and inexpensive means the province of the malcontents. Now that of transit.

a remedy is suggested it remains to be seen how many months elapse before the charige

Lloyd's Shipbuilding Register. Telegram:

Opium for China.

Meeting:-

Sanitary Board Prosecutions.

Legal Intelligendo :-~~-~-

Hongkong's "Spotless Innocence." Collision in Hongkong Harbour. An Illegal Chinese Document. Extraordinary Action for Demages. Correspondenos:-

V.R.C, Regatia,

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Miscellaneous Articles and Reports:-

The Birthday Ball,

Interport Cricket.

Annual Licensing Sessions.

Land Sale.

The Fleet.

Military Relief

Fire in Kowlcoh.

Fire at Wong-Nei-Cheong.

The s.s. Pembrokeshire.

H.M.S. Vengeance.

Indo-China Co's s.s: Pechili,

$.S. Agincourt.

Marriage of Mr. W. A. Cruickshank. *

Wedding at Canton.

A Tiger in the New Territory,

Macao Notes,

Canton Leper Relief Fund.

....French mall steamer in collision.

Bangkok ship in a hurricane.

The Trade in Cement.

Commercial:-

Langkat Dividend.

China Traders' lasurance Company.

Chess in Hongkong.

Freight:

Shangbai Share Report. Exchange.

Opium.

Dodal and General.

BIRTHS.

On the 4th inst., the wife of S. B. LANGIT, of

asbo, at Sinapore.

On 5th November, at No. 4, Range Road, Shanghai, the wife of THEO. RUFF, of a daughter

Shanghai, the wife of Captain HUGH MAC On 7th November, at 5, Macgregor Road, KINNON, 6.5, Hsinfung, of a daughter, FRAN CES DANIELSON.

At Shanghai, on the rith November, 1904, the wife of DUNCAN GLASS, of a 300.

On 12th November, at "The Den, Calle Steps, the wife of D. H. SILAS, of a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

INTERPORT CŘÍCKET.

ed a very soft thing for our local eleven, as with only two wickets to fall, Shanghai were only ninety-three runs ahead. Apart from V. H. Lanning, the Northerners fell all to the really valuable stand made by Parkes and pieces in their second attempt, nobody being

wlio bowled in exceptionally grand form se- able to withstand the onslaught of Dixon,

curing five-wickets for the ridiculously small

is éffected.

of an arrested civilisation.

THE NEW LUZO-CHINESE

TREATY.

home country where, at a maiden assize the Following the traditional custom in the

sheriff of the county presents' a pair of white gloves to the judge, the Registrar of our Supreme Court this morning barded to the Chief Justice this emblem of a session free from the narrative of crime. There is some uncertainty concerning the number of such happy ceremonies which have been performed in Hongkong, but so far as records prove this is the sixth occasion upon which no

cases have been committed for trial at the sessions. This may not count for much having regard to the fact that criminal ses- sions have now been held in the Colony for just over sixty years, but when one remem- (17th November.)

hers the teeming thousands of all sorts and Information reaches us from our corres pondent at Macao, that His Excellencying in and out of Hongkong it is a matter conditions of men who are constantly pass-

Senhor José d'Azevedo Castello Branco, of congratulation to ali concerned in the Portuguese Minister to China, has left or is administration of justice. The last time about, to leave Shanghai for Portugal, via Hongkong Registrar had such a pleasing America, upon the conclusion of the new function to perform was in 1896, and was especially charged by the Cortes to con- a blank calendar was presented to the clude with the Chinese Government on his court. The third occasion recorded in the second mission to the East. The first oc-judicial annals of the Colony was in 1891, casion on which Senhor Branco came out Mr. (now Sic) William Meigh Goodman, the was soon after the Boxer trouble of 1900 Attorney General at the time, then offering when he was to press the claims on behalf congratulations to Sir James Russell, the of the Ponuguese subjects to indemnify the Chief Justice. This was after a lipse of for the losses sustained in the anti-foreign fourteen years prior to which, four years pre- movement in the North. Among other vious, in August 1873, was held the first matters brought to the notice of the Wai-recorded maiden sessions in the history of wupu, the Portuguese Government desired Hongkong. While joining with our popular to avail itself of the opportunity to settle the Registrar in the wish that his Lordship long pending question of the re-adjustment may long be spared to receive many such the concession for the construction of a rail morning, one should not lose sight of the of the boundaries of Macao and to obtain

tokens as those handed to him this way across the fertile valleys of Houngshan remarks of Sir John Carrington, a former to Canton. Senhor Branco's mision was Chief Justice, who observed, eight years ago, but partially successful. The delimitation that remembering the old saying that "one swallow does not make a summer," we must

however, that from to-day the criminal occurrence of a maiden sessions. Let us hope, not found to high expectations on the

statistics may show a falling off not only in

The Interport Cricket week which com. menced on Friday has already given, and THE DOWAGER EMPRESS will continue to give, great pleasure to large

OF CHINA. numbers of cricket enthusiasts. The open- ing match with Shanghai gave promise of an

(16th November.} interesting tussle, but when stumps were

Although it is doubtful whether the an drawn for the day on Saturday the issue took-niversary of the birthday of the Dowager Empress of China will receive more than passing notice in the columns of the Press interest. The old lady at Peking has now the occasion is one of considerable public reached the allotted span of three-score years and ten and has recognised that

and when her political influence will begin ful issue and the railway concession was the time is fast approaching when she must cease to interest herself in affairs of State question could not be brought to a success

ported as stating that she was now worn out the Portuguese homme and colonial press con. to wane. But a few weeks since she is re-granted but hedged in by a stipulation which

is far different from before. "If it were not with age, and that her strength and health sidered would imperil the absolute sovereignty on account of the perilous state of the Empire this year, she added, she would have retired to Eho Park long ago, to confine herself in total seclusion from the rest of the world, allowing the Emperor to take his course. Such were her remarks when ap-

sum of twenty-nine runs. The match was continued to-day, and as was naturally sup posed resulted in an easy victory for the

home team. The weather so far has been Op the 29th Oct, at the Church of the As-favourable, and there is every indication

sumption, Penang, A. D. MACHADO of Perak

that the coming match with Singapore will to CATHERINE M. VAN BORSEL of Penang.

SHITE CARROLL-At, the Roman Catholic

be fought under propitious atmospherical Church, Canton, on November 12th, at 3 p.m., by circumstances. The Singapore team is some- the Rev. Father Millet, J. C. H. L. SMITH, what of an unknown quantity and although

engineer of to MARY

late of the P. W. D., Hongkong. Penang papers please copy.

DEATH.:

On 4th August, at Glenclif, near Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A.; LEWIS JAMES, second son of the Rev. and Mrs. W. B. Nance, of Seochow, aged two years, eight months.

The

of Portugal over Macao. The condition the number of cases of serious crime but was that the Chinese Imperial Maritime also in those petty cases which occupy the Customs should be allowed to establish a attention of our magistrates from day to day. collecting station within the colony itself instead of at Lappa and Malochow in ac- cordance with existing arrangements. The Press waged a vigorous campaign against

LLOYDS SHIPBUILDING

REGISTER.

Opium for China: (From Our Own Correspondent.)

- BOMBAY, 18th November. Bombay yesterday afternoon with The P. & O. Co.'s mail steamer left

about 1,026 chests of Malwa Prices are as follows

opium...

Malwa (New)...Rs. 1,680

(Old)...

1,780 (Oldest) 1,880

SANITARY BOARD PROSE- CUTIONS.

ALLEGED ILLEGAL ACION,

16th inst. evening a lengthy communication was read At the meeting of the Sanitary Board last from Mr. Ahmet Rumfahe respecting certain inspector Lyons, in the cistern district. Id' lime-washing prosecutions, instituted by Seator

the course of his letter he wrote that, from

victed for falling to carry out lime-washing! nwners who had been prosecuted and cont work to the satisfaction of the Inspector, he was convinced that the proceeding of the Inspector property had been falily treated there would confirmed his allegations that if dwner of not be any necessity for prosecutions H detalled the resuil of various visit to the Tat his letter se follows:-There have been gheat Hang Village, Causeway Bay, tha conèludedi twenty other prosecutions against fenemist. the Inspector never saw their houses "Balong houser, but some of the tenants assured mindre summoning the owners and getting them

fined 1 informed the Han. Brewin the next village and also what i had noticed about day of what I had heard' and 'self' 'if' the the condition of the latrine on top of Ship Street. I believe he has seen the owners and

reading the report of Dr. Barnett he had again occupiers, of the houses mentioned herein. Mr. Rumjabe informed the Board that after

visited some of the houses'in qüestion and was convinced that they were not occupied b members of more than und family The law required that a house or part of a house if

operation, had been limewashed twice this year. he had visited, although exempted from the occupied by members of more than one family had to be limewashed biennially, The houred

He was informed that Insp. Lyany, who took and yet the owners were prosecifted and fined. ·

out the summonses, bad not visited the Höhkes and made inquiries. It was his bounded'daty to do so before prosecuting those innoccht poor people. He had simply made out the applications; got them initialled by some. body in the office, thok out a summons and got the owners findd: This was a very serious matter.

DE Atkinson.-The Magistrate has already From the returns just issued by Lloyd's decided that they ale tenement houses.

Mr. Rumjahn-Perhaps the Magistrate Bad not his attention' drawn as to whether the

than non family. It was not a question of tepement houses.

sent us by Mr. Newman Mumford, the re- presentative in Hongkong, it appears that the severe depression in the shipbuilding

chitis out, eldest daughter of J. Carroll, Read, probably the best batsman in the proached with reference to the ceremonies the ratification of the Treaty in its then Register of Shipping, for the quarter ended

South, is not included yet the pick of the cricketers in the Malay States are here for proposed by the Board of Rights in form, so that when Senior Branico returned 30th September a copy of which has been houses were occupied by members of morb

celebration of her seventieth birthday.to Lisbon and presented the result of his duty, headed by Captain Barrett, the erst-

Last year she ordered elaborate preparations first mission to China the Chamber of De- while famous Hampshire cricketer. match, therefore, with the Southerners may ventured to predict how much money would compact by which a virtual suzerainty would to be made for the occasion, and nobody puties refused to make good the terms of a

than the one just concluded. So far

membered that lately she issued a Decrce European colonial possession in these parts the attendance has been a large and de- lighted one and the dresses of the ladies brated in such a way as to curtail expenses yoke was purchased at the cost of the life o that her coming birthday should be cele whose complete freedom from the Celestial on the ground were quite up to everything as much as possible, in consideration of the one expects from Hongkong style. The exigencies of the time; but now, as recent Senhor Ferreira Amiral. The royal sign one of its most intrepid Governois, H.E. visitors are being entertained by various affairs indicate, the order will not be forced manual being withheld from the new Treaty, members of the Club, and the Committee of not to say that it has been cancelled. This the document became so much waste paper.stocks was, however, 393, the same as

be taken as likely to provide keener sportbe wasted on the tunction. It will be re-be granted to China över the most ancient trade, which has existed for the past year or

The Hongkong Telegraph

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HONGKONG, SATUÉDAV, Nvxwaze 19, 1904.

THE CANTON-SAMSHUI RAILROAD.

(14th November.)

two, has reached its climax, and in some respects shows signs of slight improvement. The tonnage of the vessels, excluding war- ships, under construction, at the date of the

as compared with 906,608 for the same period report, in the United Kingdom, was 1,046,308, of last year. The number of ressels on the

Hon Brewin said, he had been through the houses mentioned by Mr. Rumjalt. He certainly found, three of thein were

have dreamt they were not to. The occupied by members of one family: He was surprised that the Inspector should houses were perfectly clean and well lime- washed. He felt quite sure the Inspector Had

make some definite rule with regard to Family made a mistake. The Board was not bound by the decision of the Magistrate

houses? The description given by Mr. Brewin Mr. Heyett-Would it not be advisable to

and Mr. Rumjahn leaves no room for doubt as

house not to enforce the law. 5. should be instructed in the case of a family

jastrections to the inspectors. They all knew Dr. Barnett-This his already been done.

was require the prevention of indiscr

Mr Rubijahh.-It 13'nói'a question of giving it. It was so stated in the Ordinance, What

minale

cations for summonses have to be initialled by Dr.Atkinson.I beg your pardon. All appli

been any indiscriminate prosecutions a Medical Officer of Health. There have not

referred to been il'egally and indiscriminately Mr. Rumjahn-Have not the persons I bave

we should recommend the Government to re- fund them. They were fined $7 each and that prosecuted? What about the fines inflicted?

amount was a large sum to these poor people.

the Cricket Club are leaving no stone un sudden change of the Empress-Dowager's Minister Branco was; accordingly, entrusted twelve months previous, and although the to the nature of these houses. The inspectors turned to make the brief sojourn of the mind, it is learned, is attributed to the work with a second portfolio to proceed to China vessels under construction were about $3,000 players in our midst pleasant and enjoyable. of members of the Imperial Household, who and negotiate afresh another Treaty much tons more than at the end of June last, On Saturday evening the grounds were brit-heavily bribed a certain eunuch to persuade on the lines of the former one but with comparing the total with that reached in liantly illuminated on the occasion of an open air fête. The enclosute was thronged manner. They can make money out of it rousse His Excellency arrived in China call- phenomenal activity, the present figures show her to celebrate her birthday in the usurt none of its objectionable features. In due September, got, which was a year of with brave men and fair

women and a most and, moreover, it will afford them a splening en roule at Macao; there formed syna reduction of 367,000 tans, or 26 per cent. enjoyable musical evening was spent.

did opportunity to carry out their innermost dicate of Portuguese and Chinese members The vessels commenced during the last quarter NEW MOVE IN KWANGSI,

desires. It was in the autumn of 1898 that to take up the railway concession when number 165, of a total tonnage of 351,732, she claimed for herself the position as sole finally granted, and ultimately proceeded to and justify the hopes that the trade is on (15th November)

Regent for the Emperor a position which his destination. After prolonged negotia the way to improvement. Of the 393 vessels after the intriguing of 1900 was calmly and teas his mission, according to our Macao in course of Building, 318, of 862,117 tons, formally recognized by the representatives correspondent, has at length been brought to will sail under the British flag, being owned a power such as here, unseen and uncon- preliminary discussions with the Minister for biodies. After the home demand, the best in Peking of the various foreign countries a successful issue. Whilst conducting the either in the United Kingdom or the trolled by any of the influence of Western Railways at Shanghai, the Macao Syndicate customer is Austria, who is taking eight thought and custom, is almost impossible to deputed a delegate to confer with the Portu ships of 24,910 tons; while Germany, Norto il police I do not think this Sanitary Board Hon. Brewin-After the illegal action brought realise, yet the history of the last few years guese representative at the Northern port. way and Holland come next

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Bios,should sit, quietly down and tell these people. in China shows mistakably that there The former's return to the South the other of 18:850,- 24,557 and 22,030, respectively. Dr. Atkinson-No illegal action has yet xt with tonnages hey are at liberty to petition the Government is no power so unlimited or unquestioned in day is taken as an indication that his mis. There are hine vessels in British yards of statements, given wrong addresses, and at the the great empire of which she is ostensibly son has been successfully accomplished. 15.000 tons and over and fourteen between Last moment corrected the addresses”. A fur- been proved. Mr. Rumjahn has made certain the ruler. The outlines of contemporary Senhor Branco goes back to Lisbon to subcoo to 6,000 tons, sizes between these her report cou'd be made. Hitherto the Chinese history are little known to the mit the nen Treaty for the approval of the limits being represented by fourteen vessels. world at large. The present Emperor of Chatubers of Deputies. A new difficulty. The largest sailing ships are, one between The attention of the inspector is to be Board's officers have acted according to their instructions China succeeded when only four years old, but one of political character only, arises.5,dh'and'd,dod tons, and two Betweet 9,000 drawn to this matter, and further report was and the regency was held by the hand of The new Ministry that has come into power and 3.000 tons. As regards the distribution meeting

ordered to be laid before Beard at the dext

If the profits derived from the passenger traffic over the branch line of the Canton Hankow railroad are to be swallowed up in repairing the extended permanent way to Samshui, the American-China Development Company have cause for gratification in the fact that the present receipts from passen- gers travelling

elling over the first ten miles of the route continue to prove so satisfactory. The

We gather from a native despatch that, physical conditions of the country from Shek owing to the difficulty of restoring peace in waitong to the North River presented no the Viceroy of the Two Kwang does not Kwangsi by the beginning of February next, special engineering difficultles at the time of the preliminary survey, but since the last expect to return to Canton to pass the Chin- section of the line bus beep opened to traffic ese New Year season. At one time it was the effects of the swampy nature of the imagified that his arrival in the Provincial surrounding country have begun to be capital of Kwangtung, where he is badly Some time back we reported in needed, was a matter of a few weeks there our columbs that, owing to a subsidence ports from across the border being so reas on the Falbhan-Samshui section, traffic had suring that the advent of peace and plenty been delayed and ultimately suspended; for unhappy Kwangsi seemed already shin but it was then unknown to us that upwardsning above the horizon. This, however, of a hundred and fifty feet of the pertament proved false and Tsen chuen-bsuen will way was affected to such an extent that have a long stay in Kweilin If no change

be

for the people to petition the Government!

Mr. Pollock thought the proper coussd would