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CONTENTS.

Births, Marriages and Deaths.. Leading Articles

Development of the New Territories. The Education in Kwangtang Mr. Taff and the Coastwise Trade. House Rents in Hongkong, Gambling Debian D

Russia in Revolution.

·Telegrams:

Transports in Collision.

Vladivostok Riots.

Plague in Kóba.

Marwarri Ashore.

Hosting

Sanitary Board.

Legal Intelligence:

Alleged Bribery of a Witness.

Claim for Deposit Money.

Claim for Goods Bald.

The Millionaire's Bankrupt Son.

A Leper Bankrupt.tk

A Watch-dealer's Bankruptcy.

Claim for Wages.

Police.

Alleged Murder. -

Suicide at Crescent Terrace, Alleged Embezzlement,

Correspondeno©

Ice House Street Block, Miscellaneous Artioles and Reports:

St. Andrew's Ball.

Taikoo Club,

The Miniering Children's League.

Queen Alexandra.

The Races 492E

Hongkong Shipping Interests

St. John's Cathedral.

Burglary in Hongkong.

The Dollar's Vagaries.

The T.K K. a. America' Maru,

The Berwania Arrival,--

Pressmen in Court...

Hongkong Volunteer Reserve Association The Rule of the Road.

Homeward Bound.

Thanksgiving Day

Baseball.

Filzgerald's Circui

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十二月二十 mined to follow the lead which has been recommended by Mr. Taft, and it will harm | wete, enlarges on the fact and says in effect and all the lethargy which has for so gested by American shipping firms in Manila ment. With that we wholly disagree. There Gupon a lifted many centuries characterised the Govern that they are being ousted by foreign rivals. It an inherent vice in man to take chances. shacurity is as grea ment of the Middlo, Kingdom. While the Anoiber recommendation is that a reduction The opposite party who inveigles, or, by fair that the skilled chief authorities are alive to the importance to 15 per cent of the Dingley Tariff on means, induces a man to risk money on a went on strike for oflostitutinggeberal reforms, and educational tobacco and sugar should be granted in horse race, on a game of poker, or on the equivalent of reforma in particulat, it can well be under-mediately. There will be a big fight over problematical solution of a problem has no onnum ?. Then stood that many of the district magistrates, that question, and it will be best to wait for right whatever to claim in law that he is promises a parlia Imbued with old ideals and wom-out fetiches the Tariff Comintission's report before judging entitled to recover his beth The tutior is enacts that about £8 are disinclined to carry out the instructions whether Mr. Taft's suggestion is likely to be an offence against good morals; he is an professional men in the of the officials at headquarters Incidental carried. It is proposed that after 1909 there offence to himself, because, presumably, he cluded from the right (27th November.)

ly, ou ly, our Special Representative with the should be free trade between the United bas, lost the sense of morals, or ethics as you election of its member cularly concerned as a rule with questions the fact that al Ching-yuen the Magis British shipping if the American shipping laws character; and be is without the saving grace Russia's service has falle People In Hongkong, who are more parti-Lien chau Commission of Inquiry mentions States and the Philippines. That also will hit please; he has lost the sense of independent who is apparently, the one which chair their personal observation trate has proved himself to be actuated come into effect on the same date, but by of humanity; and, moreover, his game is to publie demand for constitut than with affairs occurring some distance: by very advanced ideas. He has instituted that time it is probable Great Britain will bleed. Out contemporary very speciously ment. In 'a' pathetic, appe away, are apt to overlook the very valuable night schools and has presented a library to have arranged a most favoured nation pleads that "It has never been alleged calls upon his "Brother work which is being done by the Govern the town. That is an example of the clause with the United States which will that a man was compelled to enter the work, to live peaceabl ment in the development of the New Terri- modern spirit-which sces in education the largely discount the influence of the ship game or to stake his money, and his being Government; if they do tories. But one of the features of His Ex-true motive power-that should be comping laws so far as trade between Hong-there, it is poor policy, when losses are met, they want and more, cellency Sir Matthew Nathan's rule has been mended to the attention of other Magistrates kong and San Francisco la concerned. Ou to claim that a note was signed under com repentance does not suit the the encouragement given to settlers in the in the interior. No single official can hope the whole, tlie commercial community of pulsion." We shall never subscribe to the demand something tangible and New Territories, and the reasonable termson to effect very much in the way of reforms longkong-granting that the unforeseen doctrine that a man is as good as he appears Tear and his Ministers will which leases are being offered to those in- Should one enlightened magistrate endeavour does not happen-may rest easy for the next to be, and, in plain, language that is what does not require any very clined to lake up land. Now that the Kow to introduce modern methods; any benefit four years, which is the best news that has the Manila people would like to belleve. loon Canton railway is being pushed forward, which he might confer upon the people een heard for some time.

ree that autocracy is reeling is it is exceedingly desirable that the New within his jurisdiction is nullified by the

In Hongkong, not so very long ago, a man pite the hindrances laid upon them by the Territories should be populated, if only that apathy and ignorance of officials in adjoining |

who made a bet and failed to pay it when authorities, the people are being educated, a source of income might be assured to the districts; and it is to be feared that there is

ha lost had to appear before the Court. He and with education: comes the

that railway. But there is more in the scheme a vast amount of moth-eaten procedure

successfully pleaded, that it was a gambling they should be heard in the councils of the of development than that. There is no which still finds favour with those dignatories

bet, and the judgment went for the de-nation, that their representativer should have reason why the New Territories should not who do not care to understand western forms is one which is daily becoming more serious,

The question of house rents in Hongkong fenitaru. If men will bet and most #place there," and "that their 'Immedikti be a productive centre for Hongkong. At and would not in any case adopt them for there never was a time when those who it is a matter for their own conscience as a people have got out of hand and the Govern

men do bet, on absurdities sometimes demands should be complied with The present Hongkong in largely dependent for Kwangiang is probably the most progressive are compelled to occupy the position of rule, whether they pay or get paid. The ment is at its wit's end to know how it can its supplies on districts lying outside what province in China, but even there the au tenants were so greatly handicapped in the great Bacon laid it down that those who recover is prestige without executing an may be termed the Colony proper, but with thorities are inclined to be dilatory in matters struggle for existence as at present. Two or staked their money on indeterminate sub entire volts Worse still, these out the New Territories smiling under cultiva which do not appeal to them. Recently three years ago when the value of sliver jects were worse than fools, and ns, accord-breaks among the troops, strikes among the tion, accessible as Canton cannot become, an order was issued by the Imperial ruled low, estate agents in Hongkong alleged ing to Carlyle, we are mostly fools, then the working classes, and clamour of the people and the focus of a thriving, people, a coun- Government to the effect that schools that their principale in England, who had proportion of those who bet is quite appre generally, have alaimed financiers thoughout try which is at present largely a wilderness were to be started in which western retired from. Hongkong but retained im clable. With the learned judge's statement Europe, and not a penny is forthcoming to would become a fruitful paradise That learning should be taught. this is the object of the Government that this order was carried out it was de the depreciation in their rents as represent posing the law, we are at loggerheads. even a form of government. The country And to see mense properties in the Colony, suffered by that you can discourage gambling by inter pay the servants of the State or maintain may be gathered from the sales of land creed that inspectors should be appointed ed in gold. Hence they declared that, to Betting is in the blood, just as thieving or is on the verge of a revolution, and unless in the New Territories advertised dur to visit the towns in the interior and to maintain the normal revenue derivable by practical joking is, and it cannot be removed the people are speedily calmed by fair ing the past few weeks. In the latest supervise the new: education being imparted. property owners in sterling, it was necessary by legislative measures. To discounten- means they will obtain what they desire by Government Gateife it is announced that The Bureau of Education has now become to increase the renis, so that when converted ance it, there is the law of England-a law, force if necessary. It in a most critical leases are to be granted of seven foreshore aware that this order has been treated very into gold at the then exchange rate of the remember, founded on Roman practice period for the Tear and his Ministers, but lots in the Hang Hau village. The land much as a dead letter, and accordingly a day, the average in sterling of the rentals re which refuses jo have any concern with they will have few sympathiser; for it le due thus leased must be used for building, re very sharp circular despatch has been sent ceived from the properties would remain as betting of any of its auxiliaries. The to their own lack of sympathy with the great clamation or similar purposes, and the out by the Bureau requiring delinquent and before. But during the last few months ex question of a place." within the meaning of mass of the people, their determined obstruct Crown rents are merely nominal. Naturally dilatory officials to make no more delay on change has risen steadily, representing al the Act has nothing to do with this matter. tion of all advances, their cruel persecution this last fact is of the first importance, for it pain of being denounced to the Throne, together a rise of something like 15 per cent. But when a man says that by process of law of the Jews, and their autocratic method indicates that the Government is not so That is the right spirit it is the district off In all trade circulars it is agreed that the he can recover a debt which is made in a that this trouble, has armen. They have anxious to obtain large returns us to induce cisls who must be brought to book, if they outlook for silver is highly favourable to a settlement-the returns will come in due fail to give the younger generation the ad- continued increase, so that we need not refusal to obey the constituted authorities, away by a pretty tune played sulkily,

wager, when that wager, is tantamount to a raised a bogey, which cannot be charmed course. Farm lots in the New Territories vantage of an up-to-date education. The consider the possibility of silver falling to then he should have no sympathy. Take are also bei. offered and there is a promis officials must see that the schools of western the rate which prevailed some three years ago. the case to an extreme-not the extremist ing demand for these lots, which showe, that education are started, for the responsibility The result of this is that the sterling value point. Why should a man not jump over the future of the district is not to be mea lies wholly with them. We note that the of the rental returns, when calculated at the the pier in order to win a bet? Why should sured by a superficial glance at the number Bureau of Education also declares that the present, to say nothing of a higher, exchange not a man commit murder for a bet? The of those who already inhabit the New Terri-funds hitherto devoted to the support of col rate is correspondingly, higher by some 1s thing, is phrious A bet cannot be classed tories: The fact of the matter is that the leges of the old régime are to be diverted to or per cent than the rents obtained as a commercial speculation because it ell- New Territories, the foreshore and inland the use of the new schools. These are all when the basis was converted froin silver minates all factors which may lead to the lots, should prove extremely valuable once good signs, for we know that with the spread into gold. Residents in the Colony, and fulfilment of his idea. A man cannot be a the railway is in running order-and that of education and the comprehension of wes is only a question of a few months now tern standards such events as those which for a reduction in the cost of rents. Just as a man cannot speculate in shares, which tenants in particular, have a strong claim thief and an honest man at the same time; and when that trade between Hongkong occurred at Lien-chau will become rarer they were helpless when the rents were have their being in determined circum- and the hinterland, which should be until they disappear altogether. “notable feature, is firmly estalilished. The

raised to meet the sterling claim of property stances, and throw bets on nothing around, fortunate thing is that, the Government:

owners so they have to-day: a justifiable The dictum that bets are recoverable is recognises the value of the New Territories | MK." TAFT, AND THE COASTWIS perty owners to reduce their rents, now that American law approximated to English law, claim, equitably speaking, to expect pro vicious and immoral. We had thought that to. Hongkong. There is no reason why much of the congestion which exists here

the sterling value represents' so very much being founded on the same bais; but Judge to-day should not disappear when Kow,

more than it did a couple of years ago. Sweeney's judgment does not suggest that Mr. W. H. Taft, the Secretary of War in This question of rents affects a very con- view. It is a view to be reprobated. loon becomes the terminus of the railway the United States, has now formulated his siderable section of the community in Hong to Canton, but that is somewhat out proposals for the administrative reforms kong. It tells on the coolie class as much side the consideration of the develop which in his opinion should be made in the as on the average wage earner in the ment of the New Territories. It is a government of the Philippine Islands at the Colony; and it is only the favoured few, fact, however, that the intelligent natives present time. From the point of view of who draw their salaries with a rent allow. are keeping an eye on the New Territories, Hongkong shipping firms, the most impor-ance from the firms or corporations which and given the Assistance and administrative tant statement made in the course of Mr. employ their services, that are not affected support of the Governor in Council there Taft's recommendations is that the extension by the question of higher pr lower rentals at would seem to be a bright future in store of the coastwise shipping laws of the United all Generally, such people are in command for-that-district-Sir Matthew Nathan has States to the Philippine Islands be postponed of handsome not to say princely salaries, already accomplished a good deal for the for four years. In support of this recom- and a few dollars more or less would molished by the people. The present out benefit of the public, and the development of mendation, Mr. Taft, according to a special not hurt their purses in any way. But breaks, In Sevastapol and Vladivostok, the New Territories, with its consequent telegram which appears in the Coblenews of effect in lowering the price of food stuffs in Manila, says that it would be a serious de on behalf of the great middle class are the result of the persistent policy.

we are appealing to the property owners in St. Petersburg as well as in Moscow, Hongkong and affording an outlet for surplus triment to the Islands to attempt to enforce who are really the people most acutely of repression which has been followed On the 13th November, at Hapkow, the wife energy in the Colony, will be another feather now the coastwise laws, as there are not touched by the special circumstances aris, by the Russian ministers. Fear and force

in His Excellency's gubernatorial cap. evidence of the interest which is being taken and freight, and the foreign liners which run dition of the monetary market.

enough American vessels to carry passengers ing as the result of the prevailing con.. were the only weapons they used in dealing. in the development of the New Territories, to Manila from the United States, either have not been increased in anything like their meaning to those who have lost every Salaries with the rabble, but now these have lost and the possibilities which may be looked directly or by way of China and Japan, would the same ratio as the cost of rents; while thing else. Industrial disorders are every for there, was furnished this afternoon when a plece of farm land some twenty-three and retary of War and a number of Members of Colony has appreciated in a marked degree, in the hands of strikers and St. Petersburg be cut off from this trade." When the Sec- the price of commodities generally in the where prevalent; the railways are or were, auction. The upset price fixed by the some weeks ago, there was keen anxiety to in Great Britain that the amount paid by the world as if it never existed. The troops a half acres in extent was put up to publle Congress were in the Philippine Islands To be more precise, it is generally assumed was as effectually cut off from the rest of Government was 894, yet the bidding was

learn the views of the ex-Governor-General tenants is ten per cent. of their salaries. It are clamouring in every district for reformis. so keen that the extraordinary price of onthis point, and from a vague reference made is on that calculation that reformers proceed, Socialists are gaining recruits by the score, $2,500 was reached before the hammer fell. at the banquet given in Manila it was astum and the highest they allow as the proportion and the Jews, the very people whom the It seems that two Chinese gentlemen ed that the inter island shipping laws would of salary which should be devoted to paying Russian Government should seek to pro: entered into the competition and raised not be interfered with for the present at least; the rent is 15 per cent. Ten per cent. of pitiate in view of its bankrupt exchequer, are a the price by leaps and bounds, and it but the expression of opinion then delivered

was only when the value had been elevated hardly conveyed a definite assurance. Now, not provide him with even coalie accom- twenty-five times above that fixed by the Hongkong shipping firms engaged in the modation for himself and family. As a Government that it fell to that enterprising Manila trade can take it as a practical cer matter of fact, the average amount paid by gentleman, Mr.. A. H. Rennie. The land tainty that their, fears as to their exclusion the middle class in Hongkong cannot be put should prove a valuable acquisition to the from that trade will not be realised for atat less than 25 per cent. of their incomes, ranch already owned by Mr. Rennie, and it least another four years. It is quite true, which is altogether abnormal, and means the is to be trusted that the experiment in which Mr. Taft says, that the American vessels loss of those little luxuries (and in certain he is engaged will prove successful, if only carrying passengers and freight to the Philip cases the very necessaries) that make life ATHARINE as a justification of the beight to which he pines are comparatively few, infinitesimal in bearable; that differentiates, in fact, between On the 35th November, at Shangbal, Joun, was prepared to go in obtaining possession number indeed, as compared with the existence" and "living." If rents were COCK to ANNIE, only daughter of the late R. of the land. The great significance of the foreign ships, the majority of which fly reduced--and, in all fairness, property owners,

Wigton, Esq., of Shanghai auction lies in the fact that not only Mr. the British flag. But there would be who succeeded in inducing tenants to acqui. Men are being shot down in the public with refugees, and that the communicati On November 17th, at St. John's Cathedral, Rennie but also two Chinese gentlemen desire to enrol on the American register If erce in an increase two or three years ago on streets by the wholesale in cold blood. The services were suspended. The lack of by the Rev. J. France, M.A; DOROTHY were so anxious to secure the land that they the United States: coastwise shipping laws the plea that they must make up the ratio of railroads have stopped running. The opera valois was daily becoming more serious HART eldest daughter of Dr. G. H. Hart, only relinquished that idea when the price were extended to the Philippines, although silver to sterling are morally bound to grant tives of almost every important industry in...} Birmingham, to JAMES D DANEV, second son had exceeded all expectations. Here is it is scarcely likely that the big Canadian the reduction--the condition of the class to the country are reported on strike. PLAG of Win. Danby, Esq, Hongkong,

ample testimony that the development of the or Australian lines would change their fing. which we have referred would be greatly threatens the great cities. Mutiny has again On the 5th October at Brooklyn, N. Y, Mr. New Territories is assured, for there is every In Hongkong we have several vessels re ameliorated, and life for many in Hongkong broken out in the Black Sea ficct. The WILLIAM HARSHALL, COgineer, fate of the C. Indication in this that land there will be apgularly trading to Manila; they carry the would become something higher than a daily battleship Faitlimon, formerly the Anlas M.SM. Co., Bhangal,ovember, F. D. But, and the farther, expansion of the bulk of the freight which is landed here struggle to pay accounts. We would not Potemkine, which a few retas Ago bien de

At: Marseilles,on MACTAGGART, of Masara, McAlister and Co., Comment, it is to be hoped, will aid American laws they would be excluded from recognise that it is their Bounden duty to troyed by Incendiaries Negotiations for a district will follow in consequence. The from the East and West Under the suggest that property owners, who refuse to red flag of revolt is said to have been des Singapore, GASTON Arte enterprise, as far as possible, parti competing with American vessels, and the reduce the rents, are modern Shylocks; but new Imperial loan have been declated off HIMNEKINDT, Red Pears last son of cularly in fixing ground rent at a rate which very nice question: would arise whether it they are certainly not acting in a spirit of Then when the Government half appensed Madame Hinnekindt, of Woodsy Bugun will not stifle or deter individual effort,

was worth while altering their casign. For common humanity to their fellows,

the people by promising thema erstem of period, and in view of the arguments advans- tunately that question" is postponed for w

constitutional government it was discovered; that the powers of the body called thereby ed by the Secretary of War for the postpone

Into existence were so circumscribed ment that period may extend over a decades

practically worthless, Little wonde

Canton News:

The Lien chau Massacre.

At Lien-chau

Total Wen Tsung-Yao of Canton. --German-Novai-Funeral.—~~~~

The Shanghai-Nanking Railway, International Walking Competition. The Downfall of Sheng Kung-Pao... Standard Silver Currency.

The Manchuria Negotiations."

Bir John Bee in Japan.

Japan and Korea.

China and Korea,

Japan's Foreign Trade."

Japan's Protectorple over Cores, Japanese Subsidiës.

The Famine in Japan.

The Outbreak at Vladivostok, The Romance of a Recluse. Pigmies of the Ituri Forests,

Commercial:-

Yarn-Market.-~-~ Shanghai Share Report. Exchange.

Opium

Looal and General.

BIRTHS.

of HARRY E. GrzSON, of a son."

On the 18th November, at Shanghai, the On the 20th November, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. C. W. MEAD, a daughter.

On the 31st November, at Singapore, the On the 23rd November, at Shanghai, the

wife of FRANK GRAY, of a son.

wife of C. MCARTHUR, of a son..

wife of Arthur Stanley, of a son.

ife of FLEMING of a dung, he wife JAMES, a daughter.

On the agth of November, at Shanghai, the On the 26th November, at "La Hacienda," East Peak, the wife of C. H. GRACE, of MARRIAGES. On the 8th November, at Tientsin, JOHN AYLWARD CHURCHILL to ED

EDITH FLORA, COOPER.

On the 23rd November at Yokohama, HENRY HARRIS READ, of Shanghai, to MABLE AGUES THIRKELL, of Yokohama.

wife of EUD. HYNDMAN, of a son,

On the 24th November, at Shanghai, KR16-

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TRADE.

· RUSSIA IN REVOLUTION.

server that Russia is in the throes of a crisis, It is perfectly plain to the impartial ob perhaps the most serious of the many that have occurred in the turbulent history of that country, and unless the Government walk circumspecily it may find itself de-

NEAR MOJE

SEVENTEEN MEN MISSING.. [From Our Own Correspondent]

Shanghai, 27th Nov, 1005, 2.60 p.m

A collision has occurred between two Japanese transports with return- ing troops on board.

The Ikuta-maru III. collided with Within three minutes of the im the Fukusa-maru near Moji

past the cuta maru sank; all aboard were rescued with the exception seventeen men who are missing.

VLADIVOSTOK RIOTS. TWO OFFICERS MURDERED [From Our Own Correspondent.Į

Shanghai, 20th November,

1.5 p.m. turbulent.

The troops in Vladivostok are still

Two officers have been killed.) [The latem report to hand concerning the steamer Severus which arrived at Mojion thatth

an average clerk's salary in Hongkong would being hounded out of the country or that the daturbances exded on the 14th, and

GAMBLING DEBIS, M

(30th November,) d

be found This is good news for shipping firms in Judge Sweeney, of the Manila Court, has

butchered the streets by fiends who qualled before the Japanese. As an American contemporary puts it suc cinctly: The Czar is represented 10 have made Witte dictator and is preparing to go with his family to Denmark for two months, which implies that he is afraid of being assassinated if he stays in St. Peters burg to attempt to weather the storm: The imperial city is under martial law. Public gatherings are being dispersed by Cossacks.

ar patience with the Tsar and

ing the Hongkong, and it will be matter for con ruled that a debt incurred in gambling is as becoming exhausted, and; that panchas derived from! Igratulation Hall who tako, & pride in the debt which ust be paid, the same as any, find themselves leaders wherever they

deterred or blue sopigop. It is a miss policy that other debie ntemporary, the Cable |-is almost impossible for those ruinac

camera article from the German from Vladivostok, having left the inter part of the 17th. A mes: age received by the Mainichl represents the Caprate of this vessel as stating that the conflagrations caused by the must sioniner fell. Many hinese had departed for neers had been almost extinguished when the

the repart, that the Commandant of "Viaal- vestek had been killed?: 148 personally an Cheloo and her places The Captain defled

of Bassian women on board the German that officer in the City on the 16th! A number emer take a lean favourable view of the with the Captain that the disturbances are cota Vladivostok altuation? They do not res plet eft, all the vessels in the portant whethe

sport ward crowded

PLAGUE IN KOBE SPREADING OVER THE TOWN From Our Own, Correspondèar:];

Shanghai 29th N

The plague in Kobe is No details,