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Shanghalt Foreign Population.
Canton-Elankow Railway Agreement, "The Cost of Livingatia
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The Mikado's Munificenco. The Manchuriau Problem, Destructive Fire at Hankow." Canton-Haskow Railway. Roibdiestvensky's Departure.. ¿ Russia's Gratitude,
Shanghai Racesi **** Meetings
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Legal Intelligence
Chau Tung Bang in Court,
Choy, Chung L Bankruptcy,
Correspondence :-*.
The Lien-chan Tragedy.
Miscellaneous Artioles and Reporte:
"Mikado, Day,"
Lion-chau Massacro.
The King's Birthday.
Insanitary Properties Resumption.
Telegraphic Transfera,
Baxter C. M. S. School Hazaar, Governor-General and Mrs: Wright. The Partnership Bill.
Sociedade Philharmonica's Concert:
Another Blasting Fatality.
Cantón Leper Fund.
Concert at Wellington Barracks.
A Beggar's Suicide.
Cricket.
Water Return.
American Missionaries Poisoned.
Canton and Reform.
Canton Notes.
Tea and Silk.
The Russian Admiral's Farewell.
Carile Floating Dock.
The Alla Abandoned,
The Oley.
Fitzgerald's Tiger..
Dr. Knappe.
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our as a mis vassal of the peace-loving ide thirsty, Ignorant and reich The Emperor of China' fourth, continues Veen dibed as
traders out of the Colony. The princ advantage of light-ent system "from" Chineas partner 1 prjit of consideration,il that it affords' him a decent opportunity of escaping to China with a fair quantity of | tried, Toot if the firth in obich he is secretly a ↑ Emp partner" happens to 14. This it one view, And...t bowever. Hongkong we have sufficient - her: Mini ground for the disertion that so far as native | Indica of merchants of standing are concerned, not only wi'l they be found, willing supporters of any meanture that can estually bring about registration, but theres, je many among the Chinese who are strenuous advocates of legislation for the purpose of securing the registration, of partners in firma doing bual. ness in the Colony. The Bill is a most potent, the victim, also, { important, measure from a commercial point case. Hỹ is treated as v of view. As a resuscitated and modified mowerless to coulest they Bill for the Registration of Partnership, helming annto its' progress through the different stages in that he had been confined Council will be watched with the greatest der a guard of soldiers, by interest. In the meantime local advocates prest-Dowag of coUERE. of similar legislation for fongkong may be be the cong
drawn pleased to learn what the "objects and of the Empa lowagernit
ain reason" of the measure are. As set forth in aid for a mon it that the it's remarkable the Straits Government Gazelle they read woman, wielding a power more autocratio The Registration of Partneñhips is a and absolute than that which apportaing to subject which has occupied the attention of the 1 hrone of Russia A French King and the Legislative Council and of the Celut, c'est mor" undoubtedly that might mercial community for many years. Opinions have been from time to time much divided: hut the general opinion has been that the great difficulty of discovering the actual con
fitution of Chinese business firms is such a deterrent to commercial crèdit and encourage should be sought in legish at a remedy 2. A Bill was brought for this purpose in
on.
fittingly come from the Empress Dourager of Ching Her Majesty has passed the aliot ted sof life, but if we may judge from the reports of Ministers at Peking her facul ties are unimpaired; she has hot relaxed and in tuneration it in difputt to realise China, without the Empress Dowager. Time and in the generation it is dimoult to realise and again China has been on the verge of A Resolution of the Legislative Council was disruption and partition but do skilfully passed on the 23rd February, 1893, to thehas the Head of the State maticeuvred the effect that such a measure should be again introduced.tal
the year 1888, but was doned after 'the' second reading.
In 1894; an Amended Bill was prepared, but for some reason, probably for the want of sufficient support, was not proceeded with.
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#BOYCOTT AND OUTRAGE.
SINOLO
President RoosETE of liberty, no
of peaca thaa
mpira. In Hongkong we have rejoiced in much clamour, but the deepest depths are: time-honoured fashion, sedately and without
not productive of the loudest noises, and that feeling of unbounded respect for His Majesty the King is not to be gauged by any outward or visible sign or expression. It is deep-seated, permanent; inviolable, and is founded on a sure basis. The King at tains his 64th birthday to-day. "God save the King,"
ever may be the condition of thing at Crown. Shanghai, the boycott is Blourishing and ex up panding at Canton: The reason is obvious, {the So far the Viceroy has made no definite des claration against the evils of the boycott; the leaders have been tacitly allowed to incite
vereign of Grệ the people to stronger aliatory measures
Great against American goods, and no attempt has international history," "which" wher em-licen made to carry into effect the edict pro. fito' Ua written must prove, of the tulgated by, the Throne some weeks agu terest, will reveal the infucho oradic against the boycott., So long as the Viceroy is Edward exercised in socuring bred lent sympathiser with the boypotters and Rugala, and Japan; and who
shows no inclination to crush the movement, lift power, has been employed rulers, so long will the agination. continue to exist Gery outbursts of his flamboyant
htto and from all that can be acen It seems to be Germany ? Within a few years, and
Increasing by leaps and bounds, Viceroy owing to His Majesty's efforts, Great Britain Shuni is admittedly a powerful figure in has come tú be looked, upon as a friend and until Kwang-tung, and the knowledge that he dare by France, feeling between Germany and me the ignore the Imperial edict is not lost upon a Great Britain has been reduced, we have rate their sycophantic yamen or watchful people cemented our relations with the United 10 inaugurate who spread the news throughout the pro-States and Japan, and only against Russia be subject tovince. Trotaf Wen in at the lead of the is there any spirit of mistrust. These are which amaxe and terrify all Two Kwang telegraph atitninistration, and we great accomplishments, achieved by
Here in Hongkong we are have no certainty that the messages from the monarch who might be described as of horror at the madness of a interior are not being tampered with or un an unaccredited diplomat, but "they are: h-chau, but what should we necessarily delayed. The fact int the Tantai tot" to be gainsaid. In the Colouids, the situation where 5,500 people have is now attributing the outrage at Lien chau to Crown as represented in King Edward ded in hospital as the result of a the over waloushens of French missionaries, was never more respected, and there is not rake's progress? The doings in Russia are thereby inulying that Americans were mur a little 'hamlet in the wide "vasunesses' ofl. a humiliation to all Europeins, and expecially ered by mistake, is a significant sight; but it Canada or the back-blocks of Australia to hose of us whose home is in the East; is no excuse and the Taotsi kimws it. His where His Majesty would not find a respon for how is it possible to praise and magnify idea doubtless is to shift the responsibilty sive heart. As a fact, His Majesty's birth-" the West in the face of the tragedies which on to the missionaries as a whole, so that day is being celebrated with greater tokens are of daily occurence there? Of course, one country may not claim particular injury. of loyalty and good will in the Colonies Odessa is not Europe, neither is Russia At all hazards, the official policy is to dissa- than probably in London, the heart of the Europe; but unfortunately the Continent has ciate the Lien-chau occurrence from the boy Empire, for the King's Birthday is a holiday to stand or fall, not by what all the nations colt movement, and up to the présent time in most of the Colonies whereas in Great do, but by the actions of each single entity, they have fruitlessly laboured to do so. In Britain generally it serves simply as a text Tritons can only re-echo Lord Salisbury's the minds of those who should be best quali- for discourses on the greatness of the British",
rds that they are proud of their splendid fied to judge, the massacre was only an out- Great Britain can have no diplomatic deal against America, the outcome of the boy tolation, and asseverate their hope that ward and visible expression of opinion logs or understandings with a nation amongst coti propaganda. It cannot be assumed whom such atrocities are possible.
that the masses really understand what they are fighting for; here in Hongkong we hear coolies speaking about their abstention from American goods, but when questioned as to their reasons for supporting the boycott they (8th Novembar,)
are found to be completely at ses on the From the information which we have re subject. The boycott has been engineered ceived throu special representative at by a band of Chinese who hope to win some evident that the Lien-chau fictitious advantage from the effect of the air has by no means ended, and it will clamour against American articles; and by be astonishing to those who are in close their skilful machinations they have suc uch with the officials, and observe the reeded in deluding the common people into On the 14th of October last, the Munici titude of the people, if further trouble belief that they also stand to gain some occurs. According to a statement made by illusory benefit. An agitation which is encoural Council of Shanghal took a census of Taotni Wen, the Government has been ledged to wanton outrages against foreigners the foreign population of that centre of to understand that the disturbances at Lien-in China is to be condemmed and repress and some interesting figures are the result. industry exclusive of the French Settlement farose out më ndane netion, the nature of Fed with the outmost rigour of the law. Our not revealed, on the part of the special representative is Kwang tung harps Ugementopallas That la certainly guns. Coaling that developments may be the Chinese Government to ly trust that there will be no further incri- supon at idea new complications will be fice of human lives, unless it be in the male and 110a female adults; and $5-684 agency, in the regeneration of Cf. rought into force, and a wider significance punishment of those responsible for the and 450 girls. It would appear that the number of Britishers is steadily increasing at 5. As in the former Bills the sanction for the almost impossible to speak of the Empresaiven to the rising than it already holds, dastardly act at Lien-chau.
Shanghai this year the number le 3713 1 in law will const chiefly in certain disabilities Dowager, who is China personified without At the time the Government of the which are made consequent any non-regist.a.referring to Japan which at a bound that United Stres cannot permit wanton out-
1900 it was 2691; in 1895, 1936; in 1890 tion of a fir3n, and non-registration of a re-
KOWLOON-CANTOV RAILWAY. - | 15744.885, 1453; and in 1880.the number- gistered firm.
throws off the trammels-of barbariam-and--riges-to-be-committed-with-impunity-on
was 1057. Japan comes second on the list entered the foremost ranks of reformers." It | harmless subjects of America; reparation To-day, the members of the Legislative with 2,157 of that nation, which is a big is possible that to Japan may be due the must be exacted, and although it is impos- Council were asked, at the instance of His jump from the figure, 736, recorded five credit of rousing the Chinese nation to Asible to recall the valuable lives which have Excellency the Governor, to vote an addi-years ago, and 250 in 1895. The Portuguese sense of her mission in the world, for the been sacrified by the fanatics of Lien-chau, tunai sum of $50,000 towards the expenses number 1,379, as compared with 978 in Japanese are the most nearly allied to the a lesson may be given to the people in that incurred in the survey and preliminary work 1600, and 731 in 1895. Then comes Chinese race, are the best qualified to district, which will sink into their minds in in connection with the construction of the America, fourils on the list, with 991 repre follow the intricacies of Cimese thought, indelible characters, and make them under Kowinon-Canton railway. That amount sentatives; twenty years ago there were only was in supplement to the 825,000 which 174 Americans in Shanghai. Germans are was granted by the Council in September last, fifth with 785, which la respectable when so we are entitled to assume that the pre- compared with the figure 159 recorded in fiminary operations necessary for the con-886-There-are-393-French-who-do-not- struction of the line are being conducted prefer their own. Settlement for residential with a vigour and an energy which have not been apparent to the majority of people in and twenty years ago the figure was 66. purposes; five years ago there were only 176; the Colony. It is exceedingly satisfactory Russians number 354-due no doubt to the to know that all needless delays and presence of the warships-at the time of lengthened pauses are being brushed aside the census in 1880, Russians numbered 3. by those responsible for the preliminary The list falls away sadly as it goes down the work in connection with this great under nationalties, the eighth on the roll being taking; and it bears out our previously Austro-Hungarians with 158 members. Then conceived opinion that Sir Matthew Nathan follow Italian with 148, Spanish 148, words is n man of action rather than of Danish 13 Norwegian 93, Swedish 80, required is sufficient to indicate that, since dry, 3" It would be interesting to know That the vote of $50,000 is now Swiss 80, and so on till we come to "Sun- September, the progress of the work has been who these "Sundry" are, and how they' characterised by the utmost forcefulness, dropped into that column. There seem to and if the rate of progression which has be very few Eurasians in Shanghai at any marked the operations in the initial stages rate only 123 acknowledge themselves to be
In 1991, "The matter was again considered, only to be abandoned again; the Chamber of Commerce of
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ShNanking Railway.
The Chinese Maneuvres. The Population of Japan. Banking Pin lapan
Business 10-Japan. Post-Bailum Instructions. Launch at Kawasaki. The Russian Prisoners,
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Korea
Astors on the Korean Coast.
A Case of Triplets.
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Freight Market... Exchange.
Opium
Looal and General..
BIRTHS.
On the 39th October, at Singapore, the wife of Mr. S. E. SIMON, of a daughter.
On the 31st of October, at Shanghai, the wife of Capt. W. REID BOYD, of a daughter,
On the tst of November, at Sinochow, the wife of the Rev. O, C. CRAWFORD, American Presbyterian Mission, of a daughter,
~MARRIAGES.
On the 30th of October at Shanghai, FANNY, eldest daughter of Z. Ambrano, Esq. to GEORGE COLLINWOOD, only son of Dr. C. R.
Collinwood, of New Orleans, La., U.S.A.
On the fat of November, at Shanghai, WIL LIAM PAGET, eldest son of George Lambe, to IDA MARY, only daughter of W. Thurlow Lay, Commissioner, Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service...
DEATH.
At Singapore, on the 30th October, WILLIAM ANDERSON, Jr., 60% of William Anderson of Messrs. Howarth, Erskine and Co., Ltd., agod 23.
3.The argumenta which were strongly urged in 1888 have lost nose of their force, pat have rather gained weight through the increasing to put before the Council a Bill embodying the provisions of the former one, but with various
the conservatives, the education of the Feforms and the suppression of
masses and the purification of official life, China miyet take her rightful place as a
that time to rapore bot being prepared at lower te Far East It his fot been the Canton, it f
policy BiChinese Imperial Government to exercle in international influence; the Impress-Dewager has preferred to remain enclosed within the bounds of China and i tributary states, and that idea is perhaps at the root of the sudden, and apparently unwarranted pack hich are comb being made on facienstein they márig The great mercant lo contaža: MAN will gradually, permeate the m into, but as the Tien-chau
amandments.
4. The chief Alterations are as follows:- The Bill Jolandad-dheartwarend or téhlä tively at the different Settlements one by one.
Registration will not be purely voluntary, but voluntary for existing Gris, and com-
pulsory for firms instituted after the commen-shown it is still far from becomi cement of the Ordinanca.
THE EMPRESS DOWAGER.
(6th November.)
Today, the Empress Dowager of China, probably the most commanding woman in international politics at the present time, attains her seventy-first birthday, and after forty years of incessant intrigue retains the supreme power of the Throne in the Middle Kingdom, recognised by the lower as the reat roter of China. The lustre of the amaz lug career of the Dowager-Empress, from the days when she first entered the Warem at
RUSSIAN ATROCITIES.
(7th November.)
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SHANGHAVS FOREIGN
POPULATION....
that is to say British-born, is 3713, neatly It appears at the total number of Britons,
maged nf the navi nationa
The Honghang Telegraph gained, in part at least, by tortuous methods, Tinglish peace-loven, Mr. Will Steady for the people may not be needlesly wound is maintained throughout the period of com. Butasians, and half the number was compos
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At all events, while we may obate the sari-stand that the Powers will sternly. demand guinary andruthless feature of the Empress punishment for misdeeds committed and Dowager's charact cannot withhold will, if necessary, Inflict it themselves. tribute of admir the genius of the wor When li was stated that American marines man-who-has-go China, not always were to be dispatched to the scene of the wisely or well," ertainly always with massacre, the Chinese Government made supremaer, during the greater part of innumerable objections, holding that the the last batcentury.
sight of foreign troops, a slender band Peking, until now, when she doniinates
Tat that, marching through a bostile goun China having thrust the Emperor and all
try, would so inflame the populace that the pretenders to power into the back
an upheaval would inevitably occur, the re ground--has frequently heen dimmed, but
ault of which could not be foreseen. The the strength of purpose which has marked
American authorities, however, well knowing all the acts of Her Majesty the unquestioned A startling revelation of the upheaval in the procrastinating policy of Chinese officials, authority which she exerts, were never more Powerfully in evidence than they are today,othing so terrible has been published since Chinese Government, as represented by ussia is furnished in to-day's telegrams, and doubting the ability, or desire of the Amid a long lifa of political ferment, the the days of Kishineff, and we are outdone Viceroy Shum, to execute summary ven Dowager-Empress has had to sacrifice her hy the massacres in and around Odessa, geance on the ringleaders of the Lien chau personal feelings when occasion required, This is the country whose ruler is the grassacre, have decided to leave the official but where, her ends could not be attained famous Rescript of Peace, whi
Indotestations unheeded. A body of marines, by straightforward tactics they have apologist in the prince civilian attire, so that the susceptibilities the adroit manipulation of the nations whose policy is dictated by the motive ed/will leave Canton for Lien-chau this struction, we may anticipate that the Kowed of infants who had no choice, or children clamouring for her favour, and the utter dis of peace at all * When we leam week, if they have not already started. By loon-Canton railway will be an accomplished under 15 years of age. The total foreign regard of human life. The Empress that invalids undergoing martyr the instructions of the American Consul fact in the very near future. At all events, population of Shanghai--always bearing in Dowager remains nearly as goal a mystery dom, that innocents are having their General, the party will carry revolvers con the fact that a supplementary vote of mind that the French Settlement is not in- to the outside world to-day as she was when eyes gouged out, that suonamen mcspicuously worn in belts strapped to the 50,000 is already deemed necessary affords cluded amounts to 1,497 persons, nearly she quietly acted as the power behind the are being conimit
The waist. It is stated that anti-American feel happy augury that the line will be com.double what it was in fooo, when the figures throne The last Emperor died in 1875, Tsar, wo who clai
are iming is undoubtedly growing in intensity, and, pleted and in working order at as early a and from chat time the Empress Dowagerpelled to Eli,
wing to the fact that the Chinese Imperial date as possible-a consummation which, all ed 4684; in 1890 they were 3821 and twen were 6,774; in 1895 the foreigners number- has stood for China as Regent in the early A single in Chi
the whole cials, if not actually encouraging the are agreed, is greatly to, be desired, days as the Throne itself now. In the world, bu, holesale Concluding our brief comments the other autumn of 1900, after the Boxer rebellion, only awakens attenlich:
movement, are certainly not attempting to day when announcing the fact that a Bill the seige of the Legations at Peking, and widespread thin fil
moro alert it into some other channel, another was shortly to be introduced into the Legis. the flight, of the Chinese Court, the China from time immemorial, on the
been, meute would not come as a surprise to Cofre those on the apol. We understand, that a ative Council of Singapore for the regis Association of London, in a special letter to volution, but the ignorance or pithy or mass meeting of Chinese in Honam has been
(9th November.) tration of partnerships, we remarked that Lord Salisbury, strongly urged the inadvis impotence of the peonie hrs- off the advertised to take place shortly, and that the King Edward the Seventh's birthday is the Hoogkong Chamber of Commerce ability of restoring the Dowager-Empress evil day. But if Ru was awaiting the action of Singapore before to power. The restoration of the Empress, herself, Earr
unable to govern Chinese officials are taking no steps to pro- being celebrated to-day in every part of, the taking any steps in the direction of securing. In a word, means continued reaction, perse the safety of
sible for hibit the meeting There can be no question great Empire which flies the Union Jack.
(10th November.). ss to the main object of such a gathering; it When King Edward ascended the Throne, similar legislation as that now proposed for the cution and unrest. It is impossible. Yet that Finland hathon her freedom, and that 10, stimulate the boycott of American nearly five years ago, cavillers were not We publish to-day a curious telegram from Southern Colony. Special interest attaches to the Empress Dowager returned to Peking only the Taira gure it required to corse goods and to extend the movement. The lacking who doubted whether King Edward our Shanghai correspondent to the effect the lead Singapore is setting us in view of Sir the undoubted and recognised Sovereign of picle she act Matthew Nathan's request for a definite China; not a single Great Power besitated
American Consul General, it is believed, would inspire his subjects with that spirit of that the Belgians have entered a strong pronouncement from the Chamber of Com to accept Her Majesty as the real ruler of
ussia "wrole to the Viceroy suggesting that the loyalty and affection, and attract the regard protest against the conclusion of the Agree mass meeting should be prohibited, but of neighbouring states, which were such ment between Viceroy Chang Chib-tung and merce on this long-debated question. Here the country; and, however the edicts issued
ich apparently the Viceroy views the'matter in a eminent characteristics of Queen Victoria's the British Goverment onent the Canton. In the South there is a considerable by the Imperial Government may read, they diversity of opinion as to the advisability are beyond all manner of doubt the direct
three different light, for he has not sought in any way personality. King Edward has not only won Hankow railway. It is difficult to under- of registration of partners in a firm. The expression of the Empress Dowager's opinions
to repress the agitators. Only, the other day a niche in the hearts of His subjects; he is stand the motives which have prompted the fact that matters have advanced so far as for the time being. Since the period when
an American lady in Canton was foully in recognised to-day as the leading diplomatist Belgians to protest against that Agreement, to lead to the Draft Ordinance being ac she first assumed, the reins of Goverment, told how the troops were so
sulted by a gang of Chinese, and so far as in Europe, the Inspiration of Pentente or the logic by which they have discovered. tually brought before the Legislative Council the Empress Dowager.ban not feared to dis- the throsis of the soldiers of
we can learn, no punishment was meted out, | cordiale, the friend of Japan' and the world's that they have any focus stand? In the matter on the 27th October, must be taken as a play her snyletding and inflexible nature could ply be red
Elo the rabble Twp of the leading spirits in peacemaker. While closely observing the at all. It is true that at one period King afe indication that the promanderance of especially when Chinese subjects were 'pany: Commanders,
bat gors, the boycott campaign were imprisoned as a etiquette of a constitutional monarch and Leopold had considerable and Important opinion, now leans in favour registration: concerned. It is said that even Liinto the prisons, of
sop to the American Government and respecting the rights of a free und indepen-interests in the scheme for the construction salve to the conscience, of the, Chinese dent people, King Edward has nevertheless, of the Canton Hankow railway, but these But that that opluton is far from unanimous Hung-chang never dared to dictate to the Now that peace baal
authorities. Some of the native gentry have contrived by the exercise of those qualities weres effectively disposed of by the Chinese) I learnt from a Straits contemporary The Eropress-Dowager. When reform was in the we are provided local Ziwer observes that the subject is one air, the Empress Dowager was the greatest strife which outvles all
how sent threatening Jeller to Conrul of dignity, tact and a gracious banhome→→ Government under the provisions of the con- on which it is well known, very conflicting reformer in China; in 1808 when the contre Since he dare ol
Lay warning him that unless he exer- qualities which his detractors. himer cension granted to the American syndicate. vibus are entertained by the members of theservative cloment had to be conciliated she empire of Rumala has been si
ition In the || Binps, therefore, thatṇayndicatë has retired ses his infidence to have these boycotters to acquire a preponderating commercial commonly, and Maillotted was the strongest supporter of the reaction cataclysms, butronatha
ssled immediately his own life, will pay counsels of the nation, and thin the brief from, the 'speculative field so far as the Tly quick clean then tune, chat Pron or five year, lo sad new laste to the Canton Hankow, railway is concerned, the
(4th November.}
sount to a confession of
actual state shows the unstable foundation Pussian autocracy is throned months ago, Russia was vau bition to sweep the Japanese generals were busy, ting
A
THE KING'S BIRTHDAY,
ty years ago they amounted to 3.673. Fo that within twenty years the foreign_popula- tion of Shanghai has nearly quadrupled.
CANTON HANKOW RAILWAY AGREEMENT.
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