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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 271905.

·place.

ICATE, of which Sir West an, has offered to lense the les of Ceylon for 10,000 a year, on

stricken of three provinces. The rice crop har ↑ Ma. Oliver Bainbridge has returned to Hang- EXECUTIONS LS All" commoutcallinta katandel - for, pubilestion in failed; out of three millions of people a mlition | kong after an extensive tour in the interior of shyn the Chin

4 The HONGKONG TELEGRAPH ""skudt be, one wegen OpEY addressed to The Ellur, 1, Ice Hones Road, andre starving, people are reduced to living on

Lin a day aro should be nocɔmpanied by the Writer's Name and, shrub roots and the bark of trees-such it | Two cases of small-pos were notified as havini.

Meet the language of the appoal--and "'it is cer, | occurred in the Colony during the week ended. A svA Onlinary bukino common shouldrowed tain that over 100,000 cannot live without 23rd inst

to The Manager M The Teller will and writertake us be ropamile for speedy and prolonged ald. Yet the Japan Any rejected MS, nor to return any Contribution. cse Government selects this as the appro priate moment to launch a military expansion SUBSCRIPTION BATES (IN ADVANCÉ). DAY$30 per anatim.,

programme which alone will exceed a year's WEAKLY-$13 por anahin."

revenue of the country, even taking the war The rates per quarter and por meusem, importional. taxes into consideration. Had the Govern The daily imao is delivered free when flin addrom, is

ment proposed to expend 400 million yen sepewible to mawengut. On cop es saint ly print was stilitional 11.80 per quarter is charged for postage. On reproductive works, which could havet is stated that Hi H. the Sultan of Jabore The postage on the weekly in any part of the afforded a measure of relief to the people, intends presenting the Sherwood Foresters and provided occupation for the time-expired with a silver bowl in recognition of the Weekly, twenty-soldiers we could have understood their excellent services they rendered at the recent

motive and condoned the expenditure, but at Ayersall.

world b. 80,emsta par quarter.

Single Copies Daily, ten conta

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Che Hongkong Gelegraph

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 17, 1905.

DURING the week ended 3rd Inst., thres that twenty years, lease is granted. plague cases were recorded, making a total off 304 since the beginning of the year, STATION leave of absence, on private affairs has been granted to Captaid J. H Casserly, 19th Infantry, from 23rd inst. to 6th January, 1906.

THIRTY-SIX N.C.O's and men of the Ceylon ived on the 22nd inst., per s.. Bechuana Mauritius, Battalion, Royal Garrison Artillery, foms Colombo for posting to the Hongkong, Sngapore. Batt, Royal Garrison Artillery,

to flash out in an immense outlay which RETURN of visitors to the City Hall Library must be largely devoted to ornamental pur.ed Museum for the week ending the 24h poses and will not increase Japan's reputa-at-Library-Non-Chinese, 287 Chinese, lion--because that was so capably upheld 65 total, 455. Museum-Non-Chinese, 110; by the soldiers in Manchuria that it needs Chinese, 2,477; total, 3,587. no enhancement-is a policy which we have not been led to expect of the Japanese The vernacular and foreign press of Japan are practically unanimous in condemning the suggestion, the former being particularly veno. mous against the idea. One paper says that

there can be only one possible end to the M. Chung Thye Yit, third son of the Inte. desperate financial situation," and although Uptrio Ah Kwi, has just returned to Penang it does not say what that end will be it is fam Hongkong. His mine at Kampar, under made clear that the paper in question re he turned out trumps, the profits of the current the able management of Mr. Ong Lum Kok, gards Japan as being on the verge of Insoyer so far having amounted to $300,000, vency. It is a sciìous question which the Elder Statesmen, or whoever is responsible for the ambitious policy, will have to face, and it will require a very clever Cabines to find the safest solution. Fortunately, Japan is to a certain extent controlled by the Bourse of Paris, and the Stock Exchanges of London and New York, and we can only trust that a mild hint from those quarters

A CHINESE engineer has lately been through

making between-Yungchoufo, Hunan and Kusifin tien for a railway. He is the son of a "Kwangal

it le said, the preliminioary sarvay Services and official.

MADE THE CHU

ties in Tokie stating that the steamer Vahiko- ATELEGRAM has been received by the authori. mary, which was sunk at the mouth of the bar bour of Port Arthur in the second attempt of Admiral Togo to block up the fairway, was res

floated on 16th insLASS,

The director of health, at Manila, estimates that the bureau will need, for the coming year enough vaccine to vaccinate a million persons,

police

bands of the

THE Sim eva

it being the intention of the bureau to stamp not yet withdrawn out small-pox from the Philippines as rapidly Hsinming fu and Mul as possible. In several provinces this has at | them, undern ready been done, notably in Cavite and Bataan, necessity THAT there is a steady tendency toward more Tickets are

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We first but now locomo liberal construction of the Chinese exclusion passenger law in shown in the repaft of the Bureau of Sen, has, Immigration for October, made public on 1st ult. The number of Chinese admitted in Ocia- ber was 293, against 198 in October last year, The number deported during the month was year. sixteen,against forty-six in the same month last

regarding this line, ment has been arrived be recognised as a bran Railway and it is to be called a concem.

JAPAN'S FINANCÉS. From the Japanese papers that have just cometo hand it is evident that the Government of that country is on the verge of a financial crisis. The crux of the situation seems to be that a programme of military expansion which will involve an expenditure of some thing like four hundred million yen has WHISKY. been adopted, and nobody can tell where that money is to come from or how the interest is to be met. There is no doubt that japan could float new loans if neces- sary, and the inherent wealth of the country might possibly suffice to tide over any tem porary financial embarrassment, but it is a questionable policy to incet difficulties, by incurring new obligésons. As a result of the war, Japan's credit has risen high in the estimation of Ban and American A. S. WATSON & CO., financiers, and Japan's ambitions have fol will have the efect desired by the people of a commporary, be on a fuller scale than the AT Swatow they have bad their celebration of India by steamer. The

Per Dozen

LIMITED.

$16.50

WINE & SPIRIT

MERCHANTS,

ALEXANDE FRUILDINGS.

Hongkong, 28th October, 1995.

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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THE retiring Chinese Minister in Paris, H.E. Soueng Pao-ki, was to leave Marseilles on Dec. 1o.

W have received from the International Ream Bureau, of Washington, an advance cop of theith Century Quarterly in which 'is dicussed, inter alia, the great opportunity to get hina released from British opium treaty in the England and Chida must make a treaty on Tibet.

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THE American'mail which came in this morn ing brought to the Orient an unusually large shipment of treasure. The treasure is nearly all silver and consists chiefly of Mexican dollars. The total value of the shipment is about $1,000,000 (gold). The present high rato of exchange is responsible for this flow of silver to the Orinal, it being cheaper to ship the coin than to pay tlie bankers" tribute.

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THUS the Stralis Echo –Now that the war is over and people want a illile, excitement, wo bear that the tramp, serion hat commenced and those enterprising gentlemen who profess to walk, swim, crawl, Ay, run, waddle round the world are setting travels once more. There is now one individuals in India who is profes his tour on his feet--and pertaps that it why he took the trouble to come

[these folk is

that they generally want to live on other wherever they go and are, as a rule, so ribly travel-stained and odoriferous that public are usually willing to pay get rid of them. We trust that, the who is now walking round the world is dis will not come on to Penang, for we are sick and tired of these frauds. Their walkin merely consists in their peregrinations the various towns at which they call

Tjaval maneuvres for 1936 will, remarks postpued programme of this year. The Ja the boycott "martyr," Ping Hsia-woi. The panes fleet will, theoretically, form part of the Cantonese guild was lavishly decorated with schem It will be supposed that strained re-the national flag and flowers; and an assembly tationsexist, and the British and Japanese of gentry, reinforced by scholars from the local navieswill be on the watch all over the world. school, paid their respects to the martyr," As 100 as "war has broken out, the reserve whose picture was hung in a central position, divisios will be mobilised, and the conditions Thereafter a large audience listened for several hours to a series of addresses upon the herd of the day, and the rise of the new China, THE Government of Siam has just completed of plunder, and they travel from one

that mht occur with a naval combination ope- rating gainst us will then be rehearsed simul. LADY Harl and Miss Hart sailed on 22nd ult.taneouy by the various divisions, the opera by the Cedric from Liverpool for the United tipns bằng part of one war plan. States, en route for Japan and China.

a census of that Kingdom. The population | by rail or steamer whenever the

lowed suit. · But Japan's revenue' has not

· kept pace with her new aspirations, and all that the Ministers seem to be doing at pre- sent in to juggle with the figures of the revenue. The Japan Herald puts the matter clearly be fore its readers when it says Japan's expen. diture has been largely increased by the war while her revenue remains normal." The same newspaper proceeds: "The expenses of the war are already an extra tax laid on the people, from which there is no immediate prospect of release. The only money in this connection Japan has to receive is the cost of the maintenance of the Russian prisoners, and as this is to be calculated on the actual (32 expensée she will not gain by the transaction.weller weight champion of China and Manila, con followed by a hilliard tournamentder the heading of "vehicles" it is stated that For the cost of the war she has to meet an knocked out in the second round Paddy Burke provided the substituted amusements, the Police there are 113,920 bullock and buffalo carts, and expenditure in the coming fiscal year of of 1.M.S. Terrible and the light weight cham-Being victorious in the billiards by 71 points. eight hundred million yen, and however this pion of the Mediterraneun Squadron. Now- Sulsequently Dr. Swan, for the Kowloon Club, is met, whether by domestic loans, increased man gave a scientific display and had the heat proposed the health of the visitors in very.

oinplimentary terms, and for the Police in pector Langley made a suitable and witty

IT is announced that General Chaffee, whe will rotire from active service shortly, will make California his future home, and that he has selected Berkeley as his place of residence, In the Gaiety Theatre. Bombay, Sam Newman,

through..

Club.

Os Bong-day the Kowloon Cricket Club en- jetaine the Hongkong Police Recreation wing the inclemency of the weather this was intended to play a match, but lad to b abandoned, and an adjournment was de, the Kowloon Hotel, and there a

GO,, tarif or continued war taxes, the money of the material brothers to life ar y that actor Langley

GREGOR & CO.,

10, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

ITALIAN

VERMOUTH

FROM

FLLI CORA,

TURIN,

with reference to their advertisement re a re- fund of so per cent. un all purchases effected on a given day, that the day selected is the 15th, and that therefore they will refund all their customers who purchased goods from them on the 15th inst. with so per cent of the | vatue of their purchase.

has been returned at 6,650,000, which is slight- | somebody into paying thale faro. :: Truly, the

higher than was expected. There are 5,699 public is very gullible to be taken, In 1 Buddhist templer and 354 places devoted to individuals, for one would imag

given at 1,053,781. There are 2,036 "dom been sufficiently shown up by this other religions. The total number of houses start-with-nothing-come-back-rich estic" elephants, 35,812 horses and ponies, 1,104,791 cattle, and 1,144,478 buffaloes. Un

is

all events, wa warn our readers these undesirables is probably

here, and we advise them to show him the door when he calls upon, them, when he invades our office. I

not almost as extinct as the dodo

specimen to welcome the tramp when he ar Just at present, we would invest to a nice, fierce

river.

CHINESE WHO EMIGRAIK

291,519 boats. The population, of Bangkok has still to be counted.

EARLY yeu erday morning when the cook went into the kitchen of No ag, Wing On Street, accupied by marine-store deafen, to prepare the morning, meal, he found one Ha Hung, 4 coolie employed in the store, banging by his neck from a rope attached to the beam. He AMERICA GETS LESS THAN FOUR PER CENT. the assistance of two fokis cut the body down, immediately raised an alarm and then with when it was found, though warm, life was ex tinct. The body was removed to the mortuary, fi is believed that the deceased was in debt, and being unable to meet his creditors took this means of getting red of his liabilities.

THE Russian Minister has been vehemently urging the Chinese Govemment to repurchase the Chinese Eastern Railway, bis eloquent argument being that, otherwise, in the im mediate future, Tokio, Beoul and Paking hav ing been all connected by rail, In case thera should be a declaration of war, China would be placed at a serious disadvantage. His advice is strongly backed by the French Minister, who offered his services to China to secure any foreign loan that might be required for the purchase of the railway. The Chinese Govera ment, however, firmly but courteously declined. their advice.

either in the form of direct contributions or interest on loans. Moreover, the war has

Society of Arts' medals for papers read ring a recent Session have been awarded, increased Japan's normal burdens. The cost of the troops in Manchuria and Korea

hongst others, to Captain Lionel James, for paper on Wireless Teiegraphy and War will henceforth become an annual expendit

respondence" to Baron Kenchio Sayems ure, as will also the upkeep of Port Arthur,"

, AA LUM, for his paper on "Ethics of According to the Arahi, the ordinary re-

pan" and to Mr. Byron Bresan, C.M.0, far THE résult of the recent examination is that is paper on British Commercial Prospects venue, including the proceeds of the wor

Messrs. A. P. Blunt, W. B. Cunningham, F. G.. the Far East" Amongai members proposed taxes, is estimated at 390 million yen.

Gorton, L, M. King, G. P. Patob, R. S. Pratt, fr election are:-Alexander Hood Begg, that sum 230 millions will be disbursed as R. C. Schaefer, E.A. H. Sly, L. Brewitt-Taylor, Jesus. Guthrie and Co., Penang; Robert H. ordinary expenditure; 110 millions will go and W. P. W. Turner have been appointed jouglas, 1.C.R.C. Kat-Pan, care of Commis toward reducing the public debis; and the Student Interpreters in His Majesty's Consular oner of Customs, Kowloon, Hongkong, China; remaining so millions will be distributed service in China, Japan, ar Siam, er Walter Egerton, XCMG, Lagos, Liang among the different Departments for the noticed more than one name amongst the listing Ting, Taola, Imperial Railways of onb China, Tientsin; and Alexander Wright; post-bellum enterprises. But, 50 millions is is well known in the Far East. far too small an amount for these purposes, PRINCE Ranjitsinhji was among the Indians ess, Jobo Swire and Sons, 8, Billiter especially when the country is saddled with who welcomed the Prince and Princess of uare, E.C., and Shanghai, a programme of military expansion which Wales on their arrival at Bombay, He has

"Rulers of India, Far Eastern Review for December is to completed his great work, boss to be unnecessary, impolitic at the and is now resuming his travels, during whichand and contains an interesting account of time, when peace seems assured for he hopes to get some big game shooting, and construction, equipment, and tests of the years to come in the Far East, and ruinously proposes to leave India in March to be back in ating drydock Dewey, to which allusion is expensive. Apparently it is the object of England in time for next season's cricket, de elsewhere in this issue. Mr. W. Morgan juster, Insular collector of customs, writes the Emperor and his Ministers to bring up which he is quite looking forward to.

the growing commerce of the Philippine IT is stated that, following the precedent at in the Japanese army to the number and stan-Tite Cunard Line steamer Carmonie, the lands, while a lengthy and beautifully illus the case of the Chino-Japanese conflict, the dard adopted by a first-class land power in largest turbine steamer adoat, bas arrived in ted article deals with railway constraction in Japanese Government will award medals to all Europe, but such a policy would appear to the Mersey preparatory to starting on her rea as revived under Japanese su ervision those who served with the Army and Navy at the onlooker to be foolish in the extreme.maiden voyage to New York on December series of splendid photographs illustrates the the front during the late war, It is reported The Japanese army showed its mettle in the 2nd. During six hours' continuous run the lamship service of the China and Manila S,S. that over two hundred captured field guns will: Carmanin easily maintained 191 knots, white, Ld., and a number of photographic re- be malted down to furnish the 1,300,000 medals recent war when pitted against a valorous foe, her speed over a measured mile was more than ductions farnishes a capital insight into which it is estimated will be required. Atter and it might have been considered sufficient twenty knots. The Carmanta is of 21,000 tons scientific equipment of the Botanical lost the war with China, 400,000 medals wern to keep the army at its present strength, or register, is 675 feet long, and has 75 feet beam in Java. The Kaniew continues growing issued, and for those fifty-three Chidere güDK rather at the strength which existed before and.accommodations for 3,000 passengers. olume month by month, and with the in- were used. Bart will be added to the medals: the war. The Asahi waxes very bitter over

ise in printed matter the bigh tone of the for the troops who took part in the battles of the military expansion idén, and asks,

Mukden, Liaoyang, the Shabo, and a fow "Where is the Mikado to find work for the

others, and the siege of Port Arthur, w hundreds of thousands who have existed for nearly two years merely on preity promises of a profitable end to a glorious war?" Un-

ITALY doubtedly it would have seemed best to pro-

-ITALIAN VERMOUTHS

vide occupation for the thousands who were taken from the factories and fields to main- tain the honour of the country, and who: performed a task which might well have

By kind permission of Li-Col. Aitklo and offical is well maintained. cers, the Band of the tigh Infantry will play the following programme of music, at the King Edward Hotel, during dinner, to-morrow, 28th inst.(weather permitting):-

March................" Mascotte" Overture Tancred”ondied Wall.....” La Cigale" manC0001 Selection............."Yerookque!" ............ Minsager Song................” Adisu Marie”...........Stephan A daan Patrol."The Egyptian Patrol”unuz?

God Save the King,

SIR Archibald Geikie anticipates her

!!

U, S. army transport Buford has encoun a heavy gale on her voyage across the The question of the reclaimed foreshore at fe Wave after wave pounded against the Swatow bas been settled in the Viceroy's of the big transport, and now and then a favour. Present holders, of property, among ker would comb over the deck and rush whom the guild members, as a corporation,

to sea again, alter scaring all hands by orce of its strength. Finally, when the ard was labouring against the wind a gl

carry the heaviest share, are to pay $200,000 In instalments, and recalve red deeds; Things had to be pushed to as entrave" to f this

c wave arose and bearded the vessel on conclusion, The compradores of the

art bow. With a weight of ten thousand foreign 8rms in Swatow, says the come d European troops, accustomed to deluge,, He delivered a lecture at Cas lidge it broke the tailing, smashed the steel of the N. C. D. Needs, were prisoner in their

daunted:

BEWARE OF OTHER SO-CALLED continual fighting Japan.could well afford in connection with the newly-formed depart enclosing a ventilator fan, and even respectiva hongs for several days, Es

to rest on her laurels for a time until at leastment of geography which he cordially recom.ted to the bridge, where the starboard the most prominent raembers of

mended to the support of the university His light was wrecked, and the iron railing | Changhui hsion, threatened most of the burden of war debts had been subject was the evolution of a landscape, and The windows in Captain Hall's room,his post If the money were dot removed from ber shoulders. She has still be said that the great, fact which met the hose in the room of Chief Officer Randall had an unhappy, time until a great work to perform in Manchuria. student of physical geography at every step broken, resulting in the flooding of the successful. The Corea is by no means settled; and there in a was the universal decay of the surface of the and other apartments, in the transport exchequer la alio arranged a great starving population in Japan itself, who land. This decay was so material, he declared, gulfed by this same big wave. Then old sam of cannot be expected to acquiesce quietly in that even if the agents at work never increased word was bore to, and for the next eight send St

în activity a comparatively, short period would ||| ode out the gale head on to the seaa Ber 10ly the military schemes of the Ministers. It suffice to reduce most of the dry land to the the passengers on board were injured was only the other day that the foreign re-level of the sen, and confront us with apilar iously enough to necessitats, their. (as-1x aldenta appealed forassistance for the famine-

delage

to hospital

SOLD IN THE COLONY

ANDEMADE IN FRANCE.

Hongkong, 14th July, 1905,

OF THEM. TA

waldt gives the number of Chinees res

In his book of Chinese emigration Gott abroad at 7,642,610, distributed as follows

resident

Formonni...**

Siam

Malay Peninsula Sunda Islands Hongkong All America Indo-China. Philippines Macao......

Burmah Australia

Ailatic Russia Japad

Korea

It is seen by this table that 273,829, living In "All Ameri in the United States wasbould

7,000

ing less than 4 per cent of the total numb

that race living outside of Chin pulation of Japan's Formosa. the Chinese living there

ministered

set of the population

resident, in best people there This total Chinato not a pericest 400,000,000, Hongk Chinese than

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