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„HONGKONŰ, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER'ja, 1903,

CANTON-HANKOW RAILWAY

AGREEMENT.

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continual increase in the price and the necessaries of life gener, opinion the increases which toccur in the moon opposite Dady

Fed rather levere injuries and value of products, involving increas cost of labour, are due primarily to the re duced value of ten-cash pieces as a result of over coinage by the Government Here marks that "Eighteen months ago changed for 840 cash, and the Kwangtung 10 cash pleces, because they bore the in We publish to-day a curious telegram from scription 100 equal were accepted as our Shanghai correspondent to the effect of the value of 8 cash only. To-day #1 that the Belgians have entered a strong changes for 1,050 cash, and these coins are protest against the conclusion of the Agree worth over 10 cash cach, Z., within eighteen ment between Viceroy, Chang Chih-tung and months the value of the currency employed the British Government anent the Canton-by almost the entire population of this em Hankow railway. It is difficult to under-pire has depreciated no less than 25 per stand the motives which have prompted the cent.; and 18 or 13 cash are required to Belgians to protest against that Agreement, day to purchase what could be obtained or the logic by which they have discovered for is cash a year and a half ago, So that they have any locus standi in the matter long as the Chinese authorities in charge of at all. It is true that at one period King the Mints obtain a profit from the unlimited interests in the scheme for the construction of the Canton-Hankow railway, but these were effectively disposed of by the Chinese Government under the provisions of the con- WHISKY.ssion granted to the American syndicate

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EARLY in October a large shipment of live assist Terna cattle left Sydney for Japan in the new steamer Elitte be Wonga Fell, the experiment being made at the stom expause of the Japanese Government, and poison Dr. twenty days hence the results of the shipment ver will form another, spock in the history of to their residence.

TAK London correspondent of the Straits

Echo remarks, in connection with a subject which has been largely discussed both in lengkong and Shanghai: 1 understand that the principal Chambers of Commerce have made strong representations to the Foreign Offe in regard to the suggested treatment of textile, marks in the amendment to the China trade marks regulations as formulated in con saltation between the British, French and German Ministers at Peking. The British Government realising the importance of the suggestions made by there Ministers asked the Chambers of Commerce for an expression of their opinion and the representation referred

being tried was sentenced to thre rigorous Imprisonment Fearing present unsettled state of affairs in the Consul General might place

struction on the incident, Dr. Todd tele

ed to Cauton as follows in en

Macao, 3rd November Table boy put croton oil la poirida. "All

who ate vomited within 30 minutes after eating The cooss was personal spita for-reduction of wages for stealing silver goods. All have re covered effects polson. Boy confessed. Sen- tenced three months."

It has been

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RUSSIA'S GRATITUDE

SHANGHAI CONSULAR AGENT

HONOURED!!

Leopold had considerable and important coinage of ten-cash pieces they are not Australia. The Town and Country, Journal | poison, the missionary, a likely to desist, although the policy they adjust to hand contains photographs showing the to Government House, pursuing is absolutely suicidal. In every cattle, passing through the covered gangway Immediately had the cookand department of life prices have been rising : from the railway trucks, and views of the stalls | ed. The bay confessed to the crime those who have spent ten years in the on board the Wanga Fell. There is also a Colony can testify to the enormously increased picture of one of the bulla exported, which was cost of all commodities. The price of living the champion at the last Highland Agricultural from the speculative field so far as the has advanced by leaps and bounds. At the Society's Show, and is a specimen of the breed

most approved by American cattle abippers, Canton-Hankow railway is concerned, the moment, perhaps, the rise is overlooked, but Belgians are without a leg.to stand upon in when we compare market prices in Hong claiming any right to interfere with any trans-kong to-day with those which were current a actions which might pass between the British decade ago we are amazed at the difference. authorities and Viceroy Chang Chih-tung, as

And it is the poor who are the real sufferers, representing the Chinese Government. The The reduction in the value of cash pieces Agreement to which exception. is taken--

when the thousandth part of a dollar repre- and it is the only Agreement extant on the sents a buying capacity is only properly A. S. WATSON & CO., subject of the Canton-Ilankow tailway appreciated by the coolic. It affects the

An uneasy feeling prevalls among the mis- sionaries here, and it is evident that His Excel- foreigner principally through the labour

lency the Governor is not altogether markets when he finds that his wages billig

their safety. At all events, His mounting with no palpable increase in work

tirely upon his own initiative and without performed, he is compelled to retrench or to

"uggestion being made by the make good the difference in some other way,

sent a guard of constabulary to prot sionary's bours, and the police are also guard. Eventually the woes of the coolie affect the

ing the chapala, - I have heard that sEY! whole community, from the starveling clerk DESPITE the fatigues of yesterday, His Ex-Chinese Christians here, have been stoned by to the pampered taipan. Ofcourse, the over cellency the Governor, Sir Matheer Nathan, their compatriots. Two Chinese stores bave coinage of ten-cash pieces by the Chinese has had another busy day to day, which His also suffered at the bands of the Chinese authorities is not the sole cause of the risexcellency his spent in paying a round of what canaille, olmply because they are alleged to be in prices; there is the question of supply and partook of the nature of surprise: visits to the selling American goods. I learn from Ameri tho Rus

can sources-although I have not verified the demand, but the writer in our northern con-

information that scores of Chinese hold boy. temporary is probably right in attributing the

cott meetings across the flyer, every Sunday increasing cost of goods to the reckless

morning. Theme la considerable unrest in the air. coinage at the Chinese mints. The worst of it is, he predicts a 'rise of another 50 per cent in the value of commoditics in the very near future!

LIMITED.

WINE & SPIRIT

MERCHANTS,

ALEXANDRA 'BUILDINGS,

Hongkong 28th October, 1905.

bears no relation to any controversial nutter whatever The Agreement declares that the Hongkong Government agrees with the Viceroy Chang Chib-tung to raise a loan amounting to the sum of £1,100,000 steri- ing on behalf of the Viceroys and Governors of Hupeh, Hunan and Canton and their successors to redeem the Hankow-Canton Railway from the American syndicate, for which transaction Chang Kung pao has the Kole right, duly given by an Imperial order. The terms of the loan, are for ten years counting from the 6th October, 1905. The principal and interest of the loan will be repayable in ten annual instalments and [32 will be £110,000, and the first instal- ment will be paid on the 19th day of the eighth moon of, the next year (1906). The interest payable on the loan is to be at the raiç of 49 per cent, per annum. In certain circumstances it is conceivable that the security given for the loan might lead a foreign Government with extensive under. evening, at Macao. takings in China, and large pecuniary in terests at stake, to feel aggrieved, but in this case no such feeling can arise. The security of the loan is the opium revenues in the

GREGOR & CO.,

Wine Merchants,

Will Shortly

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No. 19

QUEEN'S

ROAD

CENTRAL

lately' occupied

. LOCAL AND GENERAL,

ANOTHER Shock of earthquake was felt lasi

the New Zealand Legistative Council, the second reading of a Bill to allow lotteries to be conducted in the colony has been carried on the casting vote of the Speaker."

THE King's Park Range at Kowloon will be available for Practice shooting from a 'o'clock 10 5,30 o'clock to-morrow alternoon. Shopling will be over the 500 yards range. Member may shoot for the sixth month's competition for the Governor's Cup and "China. Mally Cup; and there will also be a " Pool" compell- tion. A Musketry lastractor will be present.

to is the result."

hospitals and charitable institutions of the Colony. In the morning His Excellency, ac companied by Captain Arbuthnot-Leslie, A.D.C. and Mr. R. A. B. Ponsonby, Private Secretary, visited the Government Civil Hospi 'tal, the Mortuary, the Nethessob Hospital,

and the Lunatic Asylum, which he in pected throughout with that thoroughness which characterizes all His Excellency viaji of the sort, being apparently well atlafied with all he saw in the various institutions, This afternoon is Excellancy is visiting the Kennedy Town Hospital,

Workinen.

A BEGGARS SUICIDE.

Yesterday morking when went into No. I'lairine at Shi some sight was spread before some time past an individual has been making

precarious living by "r begging in the districi, but apparently, come to the end of his lether, he dete AN extraordinary charge of murder will shortly take his courage in both hands and coms up for hearing at the town of Babenried, That be succeeded is borne out by in Bavaria, where an artisan named Noeite, that when the coolies entered the latri fifty years of age, has just been arrested on sight that met their startled gaze was the bod suspicion of murdering his children Noelte, of the beggar banging from an iron cross-beam who was twice married, bad seventeen children | inside. The man had apparently taken

by his two wives, but not one of the infants lived longer than two days, though all, accord ing to the local doctors, were born perfectly healthy. The supposed murderer's neighbours have shunned him for some years on account.

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girdle, thrown one end of it over the beam, and then with the two ends formed a noose and, raising himself up, inserted his head in the hoose and then let himself fall, thus hanging himself. Life was extinct when he was found

and cut down by the police, and the body was

·removed to the morgue at Kowloon,

CHINESE PRAISED BY AU

AS BISHOP.

three provinces of Hupeh, Hupan and ON Nelson's Centenary, the Singapore, Branch Canton, and these revenues are not at pre-of the Navy League sent the following telegram sent affected by, any, loans which have al- to Admiral Togo-"On Centenary Trafalgar ready been subscribed. It cannot be claim- Singapore Branch, Navy League sends you ed by the Belgians that they were entitled greeting," to which the following reply was

of these mysterious deaths, but no definite -to-consider these revenues-in-the-light-received-(from Togo); "Thanks for-sincero-

charge was brought against him. A week ago, greeting on this Centenary day-Togo.? | of possible securities for problematicàl· enter-

kays a home paper, however, when. Noelte's prises which might originate in Belgium: The

seventeenth child was born, the doctor pro nounced it healthy, and prophesied – that: It Agreement goes on to say that in, the event

would live. Two days later he was astonished at of the revenue' not proving sufficient the

hear that the child was dead, and at once The Bishop of Bendigo ealogised the Chin Viceroy at Wuching shall inform the British

reported the fact to the police, to whom he also ese character, in an address at the authorities in which province the revenue

imparted his suspicions. The result" to chat | last night, says the Sydney Ev falls below the estimated amount, and some

the present charge his been brought against || soth ult, whila" "peaking.... other suitable income shall be placed as

him. The arrest has caused intense exclie. foreign misslan He said that ha ould rather ment in the neighbourhood.

have a docent, respectabl security for this loan, which will be placed

though under the control of the Maritime Customs. THE following team has been chosen to play BEFORE Mr. F. A. Haceland this morning of Chrisinn.community whos heathen, than many of the nom for the Hongkong Football Club against Ludwig Hannenberg, second officer of the godlessness and sin. Th In all this there is no suggestion of clashing YM.C.A. at Happy Valley, on Saturday, the German 5.a. Hedwig Mensall, was charged ed a thousand rules of interests of international complications, least with inst. Kick off 415pm.-Goal with assaulting Alias Moller, chief mate of the could not forgot them of all with Belgium, When the Bill enipower.F. II. Kow; Backs:-J. Anchell and E... said. vessel, on Wednesday, the 8th lust, on into contact with the ing the Governor to raise £2,000,000 for Aucolt: Half Backs-H. G. Gray, F. Bumboard the vessel in the waters of this harbour, the purpose of defraying the cost of a railwayams, F. C. Hall, W. E. Leckie, R. Whitmore that he told the second mate to go and get phreys and Morfey Forwards :-W, H. Wil Defendant pleaded guilty. Complainant said

Were they, he from Kowloon to Canton and "for other rail.

some dil from the engine room. when the de way charges" came before the Legislative Council, His Excellency stated that part of the IT is reported that the Chief Justice of the fendant said he, did not want to go and, on money would be utilized in financing the Straits Settlements, Sir Lionel Cox, is seriously being ordered to do so, defendant struck him

causing a cut on the top of the Canton-Hankow'rallway' under the terms of fill and intends to retire ashortly. A Fenang blackened eye. He did not have's the Agreement outlined, but not a word was contemporary slates that "the Chiefship of the did he is any way strike defend said which could offend the susceptibilities the retirement of Sir Lionel Cox, probably gasid he heard the chief mate

Supreme Court, Straits Settlements, will, on Stark, stewards on the steamer of the Belgians or anybody else. The fact to the Allorney-General of Ceylon, while the why he did not send men down, Attorney Generalship of the Straits Selderroom to get oil, and the defends ments may go to the Solicitor-General of this, not his business and refused to Colony,"

seems to be that the Belgians, with King Leopold at their head, are chagrined at the successful termination of the negotiations with the British. nuthorities and the utilisa

and R. Miller,

WOMEN bailiffs are now making their appear

tercation and bad names? defendant gave complai

Lion of British capital in the construction of Cince in England. “One of the largest house chin, and the latter the line: The Canton-Hankow railway is agencies in London has applied for certificates is head Agala now an assured fact, and all the dilly-dallying of a number of women "mea-in-possession, bis procedure, the squabbling and hole-in-the- | with the idea of employing them in the large plainant was

and struck him on the corner tactics which were allowed to continue number of cases that crop up in which the per- far too long, have been effectively swept son levied upon in Herself a woman, or an eye. Wliness saw it i away by the straightforward and business. elderly person not likely to cause, trouble to had always been like methods of the British authorities. It may be a hard nut for the Belgians to swallow, but it is to be feared that their protest is likely to undergo the classic treat: ment of being tablede. zi

the bailiff.

A CURIOUS incident, showing the perta the London sparrow, occurred Surrey and Yorkshire match Oval Myers was on the pob ball to Hayers, and had got on he noticed the batsman appealing.

Messrs. Kelly & Walsh. Tapore Shipping Office announced that Why, a sparrow was actually opt

Hongkong, 4th Novembar, 1905,

vassola meriving at Hongkong from the eithern port must steer close to Gap, Rock, to receive signals for transmission to the harbour office, Hongkong

(the middle of the pitch, nor;

until a player want within

It then hopped its way to

a visit to one or two play

An impression that'

-given to class' logislatio; them the dawn of the problem of th ed and learned a terrible tim

nor

tunity

Chris

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hanghai,

General Dessino: Bented by the Russian with a gold mounted Cross of the

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