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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

DEATH OF DR. EDKINS.

Universal regret will be felt it the news of SINCE yesterday at noon two cases of plague the death of the Rev. Dr. J. Edkins, which sad have been reported.

NOTHING can be ascertained in Paking of Prince Leopold's departure for Manchuris.

It is stated that the Chinese Minister to Ger many will be nominated to represent China at the marriage of the Crown Prince.

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Tux commercial burdat in Shantung has decided in issue licences to smoke opium, without which opium will not be obtainable.

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SHANGHAI-NANKING. RAILWAM

FINST GOD TURNED.

event took place last night at his residence at 7 o'clock, says the N. C. D. News of the 24th ult.

The official' sod-eating ceremony in con He was taken ill about a week ago with

nect on with the Shanghai-Nanking railway pneumonin, and yesterday at the time men-line, which should have taken place, last June tioned he passed peacefully and quietly away, but was postponed because of the illness of being unconscious at the time. By his death H.E. Sheag Kungpao, took place yesterday China loses one of its most illusinous mis morning, says the NV. C. D. News of 26th uit, sionaries and sinologues.

WINE AND SPIRIT Single Capes Bats, tea conte, Brekly, twenty- DIRECTOR Chan Cheng Hon is turn is father of Sir Walter Medhurst) who was the

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On the 25th of April, 1995, at Shanghni, the wife of W. H. JACKSON, of a daughter..

MARRIAGES.

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Chang Hsun is turning kis,

Foochow to Amoy and has proceeded to Fukien to attempt to bring his scheme to a successful i suc.-Fastern Fines.

Tuxroups on R.1.M.S. Hardinge disembarked 10-day with their light kits and are located as tollows: Mahratta Light Tafantry in the Gun Club Hill; and 93rd Hurma Infantry

i tenis on the Whitefield Parade Ground. Other nuits went with their respective corps...

LEITE GONSALVES On the 19th April, at the Episcopal Chapel, Macao, by his Lordship the Right Reverend Bishop Dum Ioda Pauling d'Arevedo e Castro, JERONYMO PITIER PERRIRA LUITK, of Kühe, to IDA MARIA, youngest daughter of Mr. C. 1. Gonsalves, of Hongkong. Lisbon, Chisa, and J pan papers please copy.

[5 12 On the 27th of April, 195, at the British At noon to-day Messis. Hughes and Hough, Consulate General, Shanghai, by ir Pelham Government auctioneers, put up for sale at Warren, K C.M.G., M. Consul General, Nos. 1, 5, 7, and 9, Reclamation Street, Yau and afterwards at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, mati, hy onder of the fficial Receiver, the by the Dean, the Reverend A. J. Walker, M A. GEORGE WASHINGTON, second son of the late goods and chuitels of the Chung Wa Engineer BLEND David Cole Niel, M., of Upper Tooting, ing Co. This was sold in varinus lots, and ag-

Surrey, England, to NORA MARY, elder segregatelja return of $1,964. viving daughter of James Simpson, Esq., late of the Old Dock, Shanghai.

GREAT AGE MATURE,

he Hongkong Celegraph

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1905

LINGCHIH.

MELLOW, A notable edict, abolishing that formn of

AND

capital punishment known as lingeh'ih (the slicing process) has just been issued by the

SOLICITORS WITHDRAW

FROM SUPREME COURT CASE.

H. Brown, trading as H. Brown & Co., American bakery, of Nos, 82 and 83 Praya East, was sued in the Supreme Court this morning before the Paisne judge (His Honour Mr. T. Sercombe Smith) by the Sui Yuen firm of contractors, of 78 Wanchai Road, who sought to recover the sum of $104.30 being balance due for work done and waterials supplied.

FINE FLAVOUR. | Chinese Imperial authorities. It has long tiffs, and

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

THE PILOT'S MIŠPORTUNE.

This afternoon at the Magistracy befors Mr. F. A. Hazeland, Captain Lawler, a licensed" Hongkong pilot, was summered on the charge that he did on the 19th of March, 1975, then das being in pilinge charge of the s.a. Slovenia unlawfully infringe a regulation made by the

Harbour Master under section 4 of Ordinance

3 of 1904, in that he failed to use due care and diligence when bringing the raid ship up to No, a wharf of the Godown Company, so as to avoid accident or damage to the said ship, whereby she struck No.'s wharf und was thereby damaged.

At 11 am, a company of about seventy, 19, eighty persons assembled at the Shanghai Station where a guard of honour of the newly enrolled members of the railway police, a force which lins been formed by Mr. Shen Tun-heat

Mr. Basil Taylor, assistant Harbour Master,

with His Worship as assessor.

Mr. H. W. Looker, of Messrs. Deacon, Lookor

Mr. E. Wilkinson, of Mesars. Wilkinson and Grist, for the defendant..

Dr. Fdkins was born nearly 82 years ago near Stroud, in Gloucestershire. He took his degree at the London University in 1843, and arrived in Shanghai. in connection with the Landon Missionary' Society in 1848. He was welcomed to China by Dr. Medhurst (the was drawn up on the platform. The guard

presented a very smart appearance. The com and Descor, appeared for the prosecution, and pany proceeded by special train down the rail way in the Soochow direction to a spot on the first Protestani Missionary in Central China,

In 186) Dr. Edkins pushed north from side of the new railway where a mutshed lind

Mr. Looker, in opening the case, explained Shanghai after the cessation of hostilities is been erected. Those present include: His

to the Court the proper method in vogue when connection with the Taiping rebellion, and Excellency Shẳng. Kung pan, Director-Ge- bringing a ship alongside a whaif, and referred first at Chefoe for a short time, then at Tich heral of the Imperial Chinese Railwașa, to the nature of the tides fluwing sear the' isin, and finally at Peking, he laboured en- Lord Li, Assistant Director-Cièneral, Messrs. | 'whatf. Richard Unsworth, wharfinger, eme Artically and successfully, earning the re H. E R. Hunter, Manager Hongkong and played by the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf spect and love of his colleagues as well as of Shanghai Bank, . Keswick, Special Re-and Godown. Company, said he held a master's others who were privileged to know hist presentative of the British and Chinese Corpo certificate, and had been with the company for About the year 1980 he accepted an impor-ration, Limited, Weug Chen sun, Chief Cashier three years. Before that he was for fourteen tant position in the Government department of of the Shanghai-Nanking Radway, Flat Siao years in the Scottish Oriental Line as captain, the Chinese Imperial Customs. He, however, chung, Assistant Director of the Land Purcha

His principal duties were berthing ships, which kept up his anection with the London Missing Office, and the Paoshan magistrate, The he shred with Captain Brown, and went on sionary Society, and the last two or three years Board of Commissioners of the Shanghai-Nan to explain the arrangements made for allotting, had charge of the service every Sunday after king Railway was represented by Messrs. Da berths to the respective ships, and the mode of noon in the London Mission Chapel i¦ vid Landale (Chairman), A. H. Collinson, M. berding them thiore,

Inst. C. E. (Engineer-in-chief), Chen Oi-ting, Christian Ludwig Lawrence Madsen, Cap Shanghai.

Dr. Edkins was marned three times, his Shen Tun-ho, and E. Morriss, (Secretary)tain of the 5.5. Slavonie, sad that his stenmer third wife surviving to mourn his Juss. There were also present Messrs E. J. Dunstan, came into the harbour on the g h of March He has left behind him a reputation for pro Locomotive Superintendent, W G. Eves, Exe. 1935, le employed Capina Lawlor to pilot found scholarship and persevering industry,cutive Engineer, F. C. Maule, Storekeeper, her. About nine o'clock in the moming he of which the many able works from his etc. The proceedings were opened by the ariived near the wharf, and stopped the ship pen bear loquent testimony. He was re- Engineer-in-Chief, who addressed the company while waiting for orders as to what berib they were to go to. A Chinaman come cognised in every land as an authority of the as follows:- very highest rank on all subjects pertaining to Your Excellencies and Gentlemen,-You off from the wharf in a lunch, and call China-its his ery, philosophy, philology, and have been kind enough to come here to-day in ed out "go straight in, there is not much current now," He may have said no cuz cultore. Up to the very last is unimpaired very bad weather (at rather short notice. I am powers were devoted to his favourite studies, afraid) to witness in the East an old Western rent." He also said "Go in on the port side and this he was able to do by reason of the ex-world ceremony, the formal turning of the alongside the wharf." The pilot said there cellent health he enjoyed. Although over lo first sad of a railway which his Excellency might be soine current, and they had better drep years of age he was late and vigorous, and Sheng Kung-pan, Director-General, of the Im-anchor and put her in stern first Witness gave one the appearance of being nearer three perial Chinese Railway Administration, kindly said that would be a mistake, and the order than fourscore years of age. Of his kind and consented to perform on the 17th day of the was given to go in head first. With the use of affectionate nature, it is sentcely necessary to 5th moon of last Chinese Year (corresponding models witness showed how the ship went in speak; all who knew him loved him, and now to the joth June, 1934, of the Western calendar), to the wharf, and showed how she struck No.! that he has fell us he will be long missed and but which, owing to the very regrettable and wharf, and sustained damage, which would'not seen at the religious, philanthropic, and educa pustponed until today, which, I believe, is the whail. tional meetings that he so love to take part first occasion his Excellency has left his house in, und where those who attended were in since. bis illness, and I am sure you will all structed and helped by his wise words and unite me in congratulating him en his recovery kindly presence.

been notorious that the punishments inflict Stephens said he app ared previously in respect mourned, when his familiar face is no longer lengthy illness of his Excellency has had to be bave accrued if there had been a fender at No.

A Blend of the Finest Pure Malted by the Chinese judiciary are the most Whiskies Distilled in Scotland.

severe in the known world, being charac. terised by a brutality and callousness purely Oriental, and one of the most terrible of these punishments was that of lingchih, which was reserved for criminals of the worst type. Lately, the Chinese Ministers A. S. WATSON & Co., have been engaged in the work of revising the laws, and on considering the nature of LIMITED,

the capital sentence they submitted a pro. posal to the throne that lingch'il should be abulished, and that it cases where criminals

Hingkong, 1st April, 1905,

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were now awaiting punishment by the tingch'il process, the lesser agony of de capitation should be submitted. In the Imperial decree on the subject, it is remark. ed that in pist ages the severest form of punishment in China was that of decapita. tion, but when the Manchus entered the country the old laws of the preceding Ming Dynasty were embodied in the laws of the conquerors, with the result that lingchik became part and parcel of the penalties which could be imposed by the

Mr. Otto Hong Sing represented the plain

At the outset of the case Mr. M. J. D.

of two adjournments. Since then no evidence had been brought to him in support of the defendant's case and he had been obliged to tell Mr. Brown that, be should apply to his Lordship for leave to withdraw from the case. The Puisne Judge-You consent to judg meni, do you?

Mr. Stephens. No, my Lord I cannot, do

that.

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THE FUNERAL. The rain was falling in torrent when in the Pahsienjan Cemetery last evening (25th April) the remains of the late Dr. Joseph Edkins were

and return to active office.

The case is proceeding.

FARNHAM, BOYD & CO., LTD.

RXTRAORDINARY MEETING.

Private advices have been received in tha

Mr. P. W. Guldring.-Defendant has just taid in their final resting place. The in the construction for the Imperial Chinese Rail. Colony from a well-known source in Shangkai:

instructed me.

Mr. Goldring am going to ask for an adjournment because my client's principal witness, the bookkeeper, is not here and we shall have to get him to attend on subpenn.

The P'uisne Judge.—Are you going on with clemency of the weather, however, did no prevent the chapel being filled with sorrowing it?

friends, among whom we noticed the Russian Consul General, Mr. Kleimenow, Mr. Hobson, Commissioner of Customs, and Mr. W. Bruce Lockhart, the grandson of Dr. Lockhart, the first medical missionary to China, and at whose home Dr. Edkins stayed on his arrival in Shanghai in 848. Many 'wel-known mis sionaries and others were also present.

The Poisne Judge-We have just heard from Mr. Stephens that there is no available

evidence.

Mr. Goldring.--All he says, my lord, is that

no evidence has been submitted to him.

The Puisne Judge.-We-cannot go on like this. We must get on with the case.

Mr. Goldring-1 am not prepared at pre- sent, and besides I have other appointments.

The Puisne Judge.- dare say; I cannot help al. He has already instructed one

he has no case

The funeral service was conducted by the Rev. C. E. Datwent, M. A., who after reading some appropriate verses of Scripture, in the course of his remarks hore elequent testimony to the learning and personal character of him whose loss they were mourning. Whose life was so pleasant, so beautiful, so inspir-

Although construction work has been in ac tive progress for some months, the ceremony which his Excellency is about to perform may be regarded as the official commencement of way Administration of a system of railways by the British and Chinese Corporation, Limited, a British Company whose interests are so ably represented locally by their joint Agents, Messrs. Jardine, Mateson & Co., and the Hong- kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, and, in particular of the railway forming part of their system from Shanghai to Nanking, which, firmly believe, will become one of the most important and profitable railways in China, if not in the world.

>verything must-have a beginning, and tri ing though the actual ceremony which you are about to witness may appear, I can assure you we engineers regard its performance with very great respect and reverence, because, no matter how many delays and postponements have

number of shareholders to obtain particulars that, in furtherance of the action taken by a in connection with the sale of the Company's business to the London syndicate, Mr. T. Morgan Phillips, formerly of Hongkong, has been retained on behalf of the share holders to represent them at the special meeting which will be requisitioned for as indicated in their joint representation to the Board of Directors, and printed in our issue of the 25th ult. Considerable interest is centred in the action of the shareholders. Although the directors may not be willing to convene the meeting there is nothing, according to the articles of association, to prevent the requisitionists (provided the required number is secured) to call the extraordinary meeting with a view to discuss at length a much.vexed

Courts. As a general rule, the criminal who solicitor who, I suppose, informed him that ing, so charged with divine elements as prefaced its accomplishment, once done, it question which has been exercising the larg

was sentenced to death by lingch'ih had committed a very serious offence against the Government so that it was deemed impossible to punish him sufficiently. The idea of

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tomy of the malefactor, he would find on his arrival in the next world that he was minus the most important parts of his body, and would be compelled to walk in the ↑ shades a forlorn and incomplete figure. So skilful were the executioners in their task that the unhappy wretch who was the victim

Mr. Goldring-No, my Lord: My client informs me he has an action. My friend is agreeable to an adjournment,

The Puisne Judge. I am not; get on with it and see what you can make out of it.

Mr. Goldring-My lord, I must withdraw

from the case.

The Puisne Judge.—I cannot help it. It is too late now.

.

Mr. Goldring. I cannot take the case. Mr. Ono Kong Sing then outlined the facts of the claim showing that the defendant co-

was his He was a steady worker at an remains to us as a matter of honour, "face" body of shareholders in Shanghai and the

Hein fact, that the work must continuously pro-smaller one in Hongkong. age when most men thought of rest. was full of learning: his reputation was ceed to fulfilment, to completion, and there world wide. He was interested in every-" must be no further delays or postponemepls,

thing that was going on till the last-every You are all of you familiar with the history look interested him. He was an ideal scholar of the Shanghai Yauking Railway, the concep a marvellous man. His character was a beautition of which was, I believe, due to the pirmeer

THE WEATHER,

The following report is from 'Mr. F. G. Fi

ful one; he had as few faults as one could find railway engineer of China the Lute Gabriel First Assistant of the Hongkong Observa-

in a man. He was full of charity for all; fond James Morrison, M. Inst. C. E. whose recent | lory-

Drum towered.

of nature and poetry. His Gospel was as broad death we all greatly deplore, and no one more On the 2nd at 6.25 a., Red S. Cone and as the heavens. Who did not honour him? so than myself; the construction of this railway Whỏ that knew him did not love him? There seemed to be no element that goes to make up a perfect life missing. He was a man

had been, I know, bis life ambition.

I have not been long caough resident in China to veatureopinions on its past history, but

At 11.55. The barometer has fallen over

Japan, and risen on the China coast.

The Northern depression first notified on the

of their operations presented a horrible gaged the plaintiffs to build an oven and also who was here for more than four-scare years this I will say to-day will mark an epoch in the 29th alt. is passing into the Pacific to the F.

to make two wooden bread troughs.

Evidence was called, and it was stated that able health and strength, is record was a future history of China, of Shanghai, Nanking, o N. Japan. The depression in the Chioa defendant admitted $73 43 of the cl-in,

His Lordship po ted out that it was only a question of accounts, and subsequently found for plaintiffs to whom he awarded $82.30 and coals.

CHINESE ENGINEERING AND MINING CO.

NEW ENTERPRISE.

and had enjoyed from God's band very remark. marvellous one; he was faithful as a Missionary and faithful in his service for the Chinese Go vernment. He was the author of well-known

Souchow, the capital of the province of Kiangsu, Sea is no longer traced. and of the whole valley of the Yangtze,

Gentlemen, I will not detain you longer, but and valuable books on Oriental fore, and his will how ask Mr. Henry Keswick, the Special contributions to the Royal Asiatic Society Representative of the British and Chinese were constant and valuable. He was un- Corporation, Limited, to initiate his Excellency doubtedly a inan of wonderful intellectual into the mysteries of the ceremony, and to pre- energy. As for his character, how beautiful it sent him with the spide necessary for its ac- was. Whole-hearted devotion to God's service,complishment. but without any of the acerbity, parrowness, Mr. Keswick in a few well-chosen words uncharitableness that soch a character some then handed a spade to his Excellency, who times shows. He was beloved and honoured dug the sod and tipped it into the new bank. by the Chinese, for whom he had spent his His Excellency returned his thanks to Mr. life, and he was also equally beloved and Keswick for the kind words he had used, in a honoured by the whole foreign community of brief speech. He hoped that Mr. Keswick China. He had not lived in vain; bis work would cable to the Corporation in London to will remain, and he will not be forgotten. Mr. the effect that he had performed the formal Darwent concluded his remarks by a few ceremony, that he wished the railway every mutually for the benefit of both Chinese and foreigners.

Pressure is highest over N. China. Gradients slight on the China coast and mo☛ derate NE. winds may be expected in the For mosa Channel and moderate NE, winds along the northern shores of the China Sen.

Forecast Light to moderate SE. winds;

fair.

SHIPPING AND MAILS, 47“

MAILS' DUE.

Canadian (Empress of Japan) and inst English (Malta) 4th irisi. - Canadian (Athenian) 8th inst. -Indian (Kumsang) 9th inst,,,

spectacle of maimed limbs before death mercifully came to his rescue. Whether the punishment of lingch'ih really had the effect desired of proving n warning to cri minals generally is very much to be doubt ed. It rather bred a callousness in the spectator and proved demoralising to every- per dozen. body concerned. Now the Chinese authori

ties have discovered that "this punishment $29.80

is not a merciful one, and is contrary to our desite in the dispensation of justice and mercy." It is ordered, therefore, that only We (China Times) understand that the the sentence of decapitation shall be im- Chinese Engineering and Mining Co. are on posed on those guilty of the death penalty, the point of undertaking an important new en- and it is further commanded that the sen- terprise at Chinwangtao. This is a new and first-class hotel, the construction of which will lences of lingch'ih, exposure of the head

be begun at once and completed during the after decapitation, and beheading the corpse summer. Messrs. Adams and Knowles, whose of a malefactor who was under the sentence name is a guarantee of excellence, are the and zo other varieties of French Liqueur of decapitation when alive, shall be abolished architects of the new hotel. This will be the sympathetic references to his bereaved widow, good wish, and hoped that it would work i from Messrs. Marie Brizard and Roger of for ever. Those who have been sentenced to first occasion on which any outside firm bar after which the Rev. H. L. W. Bevan offered

summary decapitation are to have the sentence done work for the company at Chinwanglao, prayer. changed to summary strangulation, which The hotel, which will be built in the best seems to be a distinction with little differ style, will be situated on the Bluff, and thus will have a magnificent situation from the ence. In the words of the decree, each point of view of holiday visitors and others in sentence already given is to be commuted summer time, when, it may be expected, Chin N-All our Wines and Spirits are hottied at one degree. Branding also is abolished, so wangiao will speedily attain popularity as a that at this rate China's scale of penalties health resort for the people of Tientsin, Peking home, thereby ensuring to our Customers for criminal offences are being brought into and other parts of the province. In the winter all the advantages aceruing from bottling line with Western ideas, although there is the hotel will be found to be a great con still much to be done before it can be claim-venience to travellers going or coming by sea, done at home under the direct supervisioned that the days of barbarism are gone. class hotel close to the steamers The Mining the spoils taken by the Japanese since the be

for they will have all the advantages of a first- THE Jopan Mall has compiled a statement of of the Growers and Distillers as compared Still, these are real reforms and they show Company, while building the hotel, will not ginning of the war; among other things they MR. C. Thwaites has returned to Japan, from mails, &c, from San Francisco to the 13th sli

attempt to do the catering; for this purpose have taken 296 guns (counting only 66 at Mek- the Keshu mountains with the great bag of via Honolulu, arrived at Yokohama, and whe the hotel has been leased to the Astor House den), 111,445 rifles, 1,375 Ammunition wag three goat antelopes, an animal exceedingly leave for this port via Kobe, Nagasaki and, Hofal Ltd, Tientsin, who expect to open it gons, 2,016 transport waggons; 4,053 horses, difficult to find it is said indeed that Manila, to-morrow morning, and is dus bera

Thwaites is the first foreigner to get one,

on 13th inst during the ensuing summer,

1.

Berdeaux.

to bottling done in China by Chipamen that that Ministers, among whom is our old friend Wu Ting-fang, charged with the duty of revising the laws have gone about their [33-work in the proper spirit of progress..

at the service of European Firms. Hoogkong, 9th December, 1904.

The coffin, which was covered with beautiful wreaths, was cauried, to the grave by old friends who had known and loved Dr. Edkins for many years. After Mr. Darwent had read. the burial service the Rev. A. P. Parker, D. D. offered prayer, the service then being brought to a conclusion by the pronouncing of the benediction.

and 1,026 tenis,

The ss. Minnesofa sailed from Yokohama on 5th ols., strived at Seattle on 18th ult.

The Imperial, German, Mail as. Prinz Eitel; The company then returned to the station; Friedrich, which left here on Wednesday at where refreshments were served and a few noon, arrived at Singapore on Sunday at 2 pm. congratulatory speeches delivered. Ms. Henry The Imperial German Mail a Ross which Keswick proposed the health of the railway, left here on 26th inst, pan, arrived at Shang and bis Excellency Sheng also made a few hai sa Sunday at 11 p.m., having been delain remarks. Mr. iluster, Manager of the Honged by fog.. kong and Shanghai Bank, proposed the health. of his Excellency the Director-General, which

The Imperial German Mail‍s.6. Bayern carry

was heartily drunk by the assembled companying the German Mails with dates from Beadin

of the teth a't, left Colombo on Saturday am The proceedings terminated at 11.45 am.

and may be expected here on roth inst.

The O. & O. S. S. Co. s... Deriz' with.

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