1906-02-17 — Page 9

The Hongkong Telegraph.

NEW SERIES No 5078

CONTENTS.

Births, Marriage and Death.

Loading Articles:-

Canton Mission.

Prince Arthur's Generous Appreciation.

Hongkong at Play,

L'Affaire MacEO:

American Alarm in China.

Fake War Alarms,

The New Hongkong Loan."

The Shanghai Indemnity.

·The Famine in japan.

Telegrams:-

"Sacao's Position.

Kitchener's Scheme.

Colonial Defences Protection.

Shipping Fatality..

MAIL SUPPLEMENT.

(ESTABLISHED 1881.)

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1906.

晚四十月正年二十三緒光 no fewer than 1,424 pupils on the roll, and there ready smiling glances on these happy, uncx- would be more were the accommodation at pected occasions. That is why the crowd, the service of the Mission capable of being inspired also by a gleesome awe, cheered increased; but, as usual, there is a lack themselves hoarse when Prince Arthur land. of funds for these purposes and consequented; and why they will be as merry as sand. ly the labours of the missionaries is some boys. at the races all this week. Perhaps, what circumscribed. It is noteworthy that after all, in this holiday excitement may be traced our antecedent greatness, when we among the beneficent institutions carried on under the auspices of the Mission in the could take it or leave it as we pleased; now Canton district are a "school for the blind," we are pleased to take it because we know a "refuge for the insane," a "home for un- we are committing one of those venal tainted children of lepeis." We have fre- offences which make the world worth quently called attention to the Medical living in. That being so, so let it be. College for Women and the Training School for Nurses-two admirable charities deserv ing of the utmost support. The member

The Shanghai Dock and Engineering Co., ship of the Mission is nearly 7,000 and there

Limited."

The Shanghai Riots.

Singapore Harbour Works,

Meeting

Humphreys Estate and Finance Co., Ld. The Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steam-

boat Co., La.

Hongkong Ice Co., Ld.

China Traders' Insurance Co., Ld.

Legal Intelligence-

Persimmons in Court.

Bankruptcies.

Criminal Sessions,

Police.

A South African Deserter.

Sham Lunatic,

Street Hold-up,

Alleged Murder.

Correspondence:

The Light that Failed.

Humphreys Estate and Finance Co., Ld.

Miscellaneous Articles and Reports:-

Prince Artbur of Connaught.

L

The Races.

Off-Day Races.

poration.

The Green Island Cement Co., I.d..

Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ld.

"Princess Toto."

A Mysterious Fire.

Influx of Cantonese to Hongkong.

Turf Topics.

The Plague.

Harbour Fatality.

Hongkong Volunteer Reserve Association.

Departure of Mr. V. H. Deacon,

For the Cao Bang.

were 1,500 additions last year. Altogether the Canton Mission is filling a distinct niche in the world's affairs and may be congratu lated on the success attending its efforts.

PRINCE ARTHUK'S GENEROUS APPRECIATION,

(rath February.)

L'AFFAIRE MACAO.

and has been made the instrument of some coterie of colonial expansionists in France who, it may be, had their owB ends to serve. At all events, the good people of Macao may sleep casy in their minds, assured that they are not yet likely to awaken to find themselves famous, or rather to go to bed as Portuguese subjects and awaken to 'find themselves little better than aliens.

AMERICAN ALARM IN CHINA.

(14th February.)

A recent number of the Manila Cable news prints a Washington "special" of the 7th inst. to that journal the text of which reads The Chattanooga and the Galveston have been ordered to proceed at once to China: They are in the third division of the North Atlantic Flect, which consists, besides of the Hirooklyn and Tacoma, ail undex Admiral Sigsbee. The sending of these craters is caused by important des patches received from Peking and Shanghai by the State department. There was a con- ference hastily called this evening between the President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and the Secretary of the Navy. Sensational developments are ex- pected." One of the despatches to which allusion is made appears in the same issue of our Manila contemporary, and it is to the effect that Minister Rockhill, the American representative at the Court of the Emperor di China, has sent an alarming cablegram con- cerning the conditions in China. He says that if the sentiment of many millions of the

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bable scene of the blood-letting. Some say out of the question should be invested with that the Chinese are about to arise and ex considerable interest. terminate the foreign devils in their midst, while others declare that the Filipinos are on the point of breaking out in insurrection. Happily neither prophet of evil is correct. Nothing unusun is about to happen any. where, so far as is known.

THE NEW HONGKONG LOAN. (16th February.) Keuter's announcement, printed in another column, that a Hongkong Loan of three-and-a-half per cent for £1,100,000 has been issued at 99, is a convincing proof that the compact entered. into by the Hong- kong Government and-Viceroy Chang Chih- tung is an agreement of far greater import than its importance to this Colony at first implied. This money is required for the prosecution of the Canton-Hankow railway scheme to enable the Chinese Govern ment to resume operations on the line nearest Hongkong and once completed, if not actually before then, to turn its atten tion upon the connecting line that shall form the junction between the British line

from Kowloon and the main trunk line at Canton. A week ago the information was placed before our readers that, the Kowloon railway had advanced beyond the surveying

age.

Constructional work had actually been commenced at five different points simultaneously, and hundreds of coolies were being employed in making the embank- ments along the route the railway wil

the Kowloon-Canton Railway,

Our im-

The appeal by President Roosevelt to all hundreds of thousands in the famine-stricken Americans to contribute to the relief of the districts of North-Eastèro Japan will most certainly meet with very ready response from the citizens of the United States than whom no more generous or humanitarian people deserving of world-wide sympathy and Im.. have been appealed to in a cause so truly medinte practical assistance. In order that true estimate may be formed of the extent of the calamity with which the inhabitants of the three, prefectures of Miyagi, Fukushima and Iwate are confronted, it may be mentioned that the first official reports stated that about 700,000 people would be destitute, but this number has increased, so that it is now nearly a million. Although contribu

tions were expected not only from foreigners living in Japan but also from foreign coun- tries, it was very evident that all that foreign.. ers night give to show their sympathy with the stricken people would amount to very little in the face of such great need. The authorities projected and are carrying out millions of yens' worth of public works, that every day give employment to thousands of poor people. When the Foreign Relief: · Committee, under the chairmanship of Mr. W. E. Lampe, issued their first appeal to the foreign communities of Japan in December,

a population of 2,811,557. Since then the members ofthe committee have been through 680,000 people in starving conditions out of

(13th February.) Something in the nature of a sensation was created among a portion of the com- munity when the telegram-was publish ed in the Hongkong Telegraph that the Chinese Minister in Paris had telegraphed to the Waiwupu that Portugal was bent on disposing of her only possession in the Far East, the Colony of Macao, and the suggestion had been made that either Great Britain or France would be acceptable by Intense satisfaction has been afforded the the Portuguese Government as the new entire community-and especially the Chin-sovereign Power of our neighbour. The ese-over the gracious terms in which

accuracy of the report-which came through Prince Arthur of Connaught expressed, in a

our correspondent at Shanghai-that the letter to H. E. Sir Matthew Nathan yester Chinese Minister of France had actually day, his high appreciation of the character

despatched such a message to the Imperial and design of the illuminations which His

Government has not been called in question, Royal Highness viewed on Saturday evening. but the foundations upon which bis allega By this recognition of the efforts of those tion was based have been rudely shattered. who made themselves responsible at their

If the Chinese Minister in Paris reads the personal cost for the illumination of Hong emphatic denials of His Excellency Senhor Chinese does not change speedily, the world traverse. Up to the present time beyond the the impending calamity was, on so vast a kong in a manner worthy of the Royal Montenegro, the Governor of Macao, and may look for the most terrible outbreak two appropriations of $25,000 and $50,000 scale that the committee themselves could guest and in keeping with the best tradi- the equally stout repudiation of M. Gaston against foreigners. He says that there can the Council has not been called upon to vote hardly believe the official statements of Lious of the Colony, His Royal Highness

Macao and His Excellency in Paris is cer The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Cor- has made ample compensation for the labourébert, Consul for France of Hongkong and be no doubt that a formidable section of any further sums for the Colonial section of

the population is preparing to rise in arms and, no doubt, in some cases, sacrifices intain to have these refutations brought to his and deavour to drive the foreigner into pression is that until progress has been the provinces, especially Miyagi and Fuku volved and has gratified all sections of attention-he will doubtless wonder what the sea. According to the Philippine considerably developed no financial appro- shima, have visited 26 counties and many Hongkong by his ready understanding of evil genius suggested to him the very concep-journal the Government is not giving out priation will be submitted for the ap- villages, and have distributed Y9,000, And how the committee say that the above figures. the warmth of the welcome which these tion of such an idea. Perhaps he fondly hoped the full text of Minister Rockhill's cablegram.proval of the Council. The Ordinance

are too weak to represent the existing tributes betokened. We have to thank is to impress his own particular Government but the press is publishing columns con- passed last year enables the Government to Excellency Sir Matthew Nathan for so

with a proper understanding of his great cerning the probability of war with China. raise a sum of two millions sterling. The misery, and that the wretchedness and suffer- promptly handing us the most interesting capacity for ferreting outinternational secrets. In connection with these reports the Cable first loan being one of one million and one communication from the Prince, whereby and his perspicacity in divining the un-

There are able- ate pitiable in the extreme. news says there are extraordinary prepara-lac the balance of nine hundred thousanding are simply appalling. As to scores of the Hongkong Telegraph was enabled to

derhand intrigues of European nations. But tions being made at the Philippines division will be available to the Colony for its rail- villages, the conditions of all they have visited issue a special "express" yesterday after he reckoned without the press of the Far leadquarters for some movement of the way across the hinterland to the terminus bodied men, clothed in ragged thin gar at Sham chun any time that may be requirments, who have to face piercing winds and noon, informing the public generally of His East. In ordinary circumstances, Great United States army in the Philippines.ed. The Colony is getting the money from

snows to bring in from the mountains the Royal Highness's generous acknowledg Britain might lay sweet unction to heart in what it is may only be guessed at, but put English capitalists and investors at a pretty coal and wood on the price of which labour ments of the community's efforts.

that she was merely mentioned in a casual ung two and two together it would appear high rate of exchange and should unfortunate their thinly-clad families are trying to cke way-dragged in, as it were, to fill out a re-

as if it meant an expedition to Chioa.

ly silver play false again and fecede consider-

out a living. There are mothers giving their markable telegram. But when the character Cablenews, asserts that it has, all along ably from its present value history may repeat very lives to keep their babies warm, them- taken the conservative side of the question itself and the taxpayers be made to pay dearly selves exposed to stinging blasts that most of the source from which this kind con

atose is taken into con-

of the likelihood of American troops being

rapidly shorten life. There are even cultured descension

sent to China in the near future to preserve for contracting monetary obligations in a movement, or to uphold the reigning dynasty Colony. However, it appears futile to raise any voice of protest against the autocrals of ese emissary who was so fatuous as to against the efforts of rebels. It proceeds

to state that the three infantry regiments Downing Street even though as taxpayert the concoct such a story do not attribute to him

the piper. There will be some consolation any inclination to set Europe by the earsted in proximity to Manila-the gth, inhabitants of the Colony are made to pay

13th and 16th-it was rumoured, have so

sing and that a stray and daikon leaves rather, they take pity upon hie iurantile

in which is mixed a little cheap Iva density and view his effusion as the outcome

orders for any emergency, and have been the present generation to see the Kowloon Canton railway an accomplished scheme, and of a juvenile precocity which should be ordered to hold themselves under marching if even it sndur Quant fred faces tell the sad, tale of only one meat curbed. At the same time, the report was fully equipped with clothing and ammuns from the energy with which Sir Matthew not lightly to be cast aside by the inhabitants tion for an extensive campaign. There was of Macao, who are so greatly concerned in also a rumour afloat in Manila that England Nathan is personally directing the course of was making secret preparations to send events in this special connection, there is no negotiations in which they must be voiceless,

15,000 troops to China; that the United reason why the first locomotive should not should these ever come to anything. When we received the news we pointed out at

States was to send 10,00 troops in to the be driven, across our hinterland before the of the authorities your money," the com- the time that under the ratified Settlement Empire, and France 5,000. That Germany was preparing to send as many troops as of Macao by China to Portugal, it was clearly laid down that in the event of Por- could be made available. That a united tugal's decision to abandon her Colony of effort would be made on the part of the Macao then the Colony must by virtue of the Powers to quelch the anti-foreign spirit terms of that Settlement revert to China. which now pervades every province of the Even granting, for a moment, that China Flowery Kingdom. Situated as we are on would waive her claim under these ratified the very threshold of China's doorway we do not appear to discern any alarming condi- provisions, it was unlikely that Portugal would needlessly give offence to one or other of the tions in the political horizon in this part of parties willing to bargain for possession of the world in the near future. But that our

absolutely certain

American friends are nervous over the situa the territory. For it

quoted above:

Macao's Position.

Canton Notes.

Whangpoo Conservancy.

'Fake War Alarm.

¡Prince Arthur in Japan,

An Uncharted 'Rock

China Borneo Co., Ld.

Mr. Huttenbach on Exchange.

fommercial:-

Weekly Share Report.

Freight.

Langkats.

Exchange.

Opium.

Local and General

BIRTHS.

On the 3rd February, at Shanghai, the wife of Marquis Giacomo Pallavicino, of a daugh-

ter, LAURA.

On the 7th February, at Shanghai, the wife o Mr. J. NOBLE, of a son.

MARRIAGE.

'DEATH.

The

HONGKONG AT PLAY. Just as the labourer is worthy of his hire and a miserably small hire it is nowadays, when trusts and amalgamations and concessideration, Great Britain will look twice a compliment before accept- sionaires abound-so, we may take it the at such "hupper suckles," as Thackeray would say, ing. it. Even the detractors of the Chin order there, to fight against an anti-foreign metal alien to the standard currency of the old men and women, who in former days

are entitled to their holidays plus their hire. The remark is occasioned not at all against the residents of the heights-far from 11 thay are a perennial source of mirth, whose very name is productive of robust cachinna. tion-but because it must have accurred to many during these days of feastings,

wonder

celebrations and what not, to vaguely, and of no set purpose, how it is that so many people, who have to At Hankow, on the 31st January, JEAN

earn their bread by the sweat of their brow, SHIELS, younger daughter of Thomas Shilling.

manage to find time to attend all these ton, J.P., Pontar dows, Ireland, to WILLIAM junkettings, and revels and yet attend to HUGH, younger son of the late George Jack-business? Leaving out of the question the son, Eldridge, C.M.O., Beyrout, Syria, i quortals born of refined clay, it must have On the 6th February, at Shanghai, the infant frequently struck the observer that, whenever son of Mr. and Mrs. F. F. FERRIS, aged 14 anything out of the way occurs, a visit by a Royal Prince, the passing of a menagerie, or months.

à race meeting, thousands of people manage to be on the scene, spectators of the pageant or of the amusements of another class. On Friday, for instance, the Praya was crowded with people whose appearance bespoke toil and an effort to live, yet they spent four or

The Hongkong Celegraph

MAIL SUPPLEMENT, ISSUED GRATIS TO SUBSCRIBERS.

termination of His Excellency's administra tion in Hongkong.

were in comparative comfort, but now are can describe. There are children bare-footed reduced to physical destitution that no words in the snow whose scanty clothing and pinch-

The foreign relief commitice have issued "a second appeal to all who take pleasure in extending a helping hand to these inulti- ludes caught in this environment of irre sistible misery. By the cordial co-operation

Their

mittee state, "can be turned into food, and at once placed within the reach of the most deserving poor without a sen of cost for dis- tribution. While we will do everything we can to hasten the distribution of funds en: trusted to us, we do not urge that gifts bo sent through our committee alone. All that we earnestly desire is that every sympathetic. heart should know the facts, and, use any channel that promises to bring speedy relief to even a few among the hundreds of thou sands who are in dire distress." Japan have made a gift of Yen 40,000 to wards the relief funds, this having been followed by almost equally large gifts from such prominent men as Baron Iwasaki, Baron Mitsui, and Mr. Yasuda, the banker. On the subject of foreign assistance in aid of the terrible calamity in Japan, it may be Japan Times (Tokyo), which is edited by useful to reproduce the comments of the Japanese. This is what our contemporary

HONGKONO, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY, 17, 1906. / five hours at a stretch cheerfully waiting for that if Macao were ceded to Great Britain tion is sufficiently evident from the reports conference with the Ministers of the differ- Majesties, the Emperor and Empress of

CANTON MISSION.

France would be mortally offended, while

on the other hand Great Britain would

PAKE WAR ALARMS.

(15th February.)

THE SHANGHAI INDEMNITY. It was believed that the question of the payment of an indemnity by the Chinese Government in connection with the recent riots at Shanghai had been allowed to fall into abeyance. At the beginning of this month it was learnt from the northern vernacular Press that, since the recent riots at Shanghai, the Waiwupa had been in ent Powers at Peking regarding the payment of indemnity for the damages sustained. The British Minister at first demanded indemnity, but was informed by the Waiwu pu that since 'Chinese soldiers were not allowed within the Settlement and could not therefore afford protection, China could sustained. If China is required to pay not possibly be held responsible for damages indemnity this time, hereafter Chinese must

a fleeting glance at the central figure. On Saturday night, again, and indeed all day on Saturday, there were thousands whose lives regard it as an injury to her amour propre (roth February.)

seemed to be a round of pleasure. And yet we if France secured a new foothold in Asia

. The improbability of the correctness of Despite the disturbances, and troubles all know that these people work hard, at all through the mesalliance of a friendly ration..

the news reported in the Manila Press from which have aroused a spirit of unrest among hours, and for the sake of a mere pittance, The question was of too important a charac- the population of the Kwangtung province which is just sufficient to keep the wolf from ter to be allowed to rest where it was. of China during the past year, It is evident the door. This week there will be thou. Either the news circulated by the Chinese Washington as to the imminence of another from the report of the Canton Mission of sands at the Race course, not lords and Minister in Paris was true or it was false. rupture, between China and the PoweIB WAS

be allowed to be stationed within the Settle says: There is no doubt that the central the American Presbyterian Church that ladies only, but representatives by the hund. The truth thould be discovered. Accord- demonstrated in these columns when we good work is being accomplished in this red of the great hoi-polloi; and they will be ingly we telegraphed to His Excellency pointed to the fact that no alarming symp.

Martinho Montenegro, requesting him to Loms are apparent to people in the Colony ment. The different Ministers, seeing the authorities are moving actively in the matter. most fertile field of foreign endeavour. The at the Race-course so long as the race meet-

inform us whether, he could confirm or who should be well informed on the subject. difficulty of insisting on an indemnity, But, even with the best intentions on the was reported, to drop the part of those in charge, officialdom cannot spirit of unrest may be attributed, of course; ing lasts. Of course, no one can object to

refute the report. That same afternoon His It will be seen that even in the States, the agreed, it

All other matters also were but be slow in working; and for more in- to several causes, but chiefly to the en the natural craving for a change of scene

be amicably settled.mediate purposes, the generous public may lightenment of the main body of the people, which comes to every one, but it is intensely Excellency replied by telegraph that there fake alarm is credited to the Washington demand,

was not "a vestige of truth in it." Not Press sensational correspondents. The San expected soos to

we note with deep gratitude the endeavours the determination to have their public rights interesting to the onlooker, all this crushing satished with that, His Excellency tele- Francisco Chronicle explains that the Army Commenting upon the reported decision do much by its substantial sympathy. And

lo waive a claim for monetary compensa- and privileges respected, their recognition and squeezing and a-running from Dan to

two years in the Philippines and four years in tion, the China Gazette expressed the of our: foreign contemporaries and institu that a new era of progress has opened for Beersheba nfter a will-o'-the-wisp. Still, in graphed yesterday the definite statement regulations provide that troops shall scrve the exploitation of the country-exhibited these latter days, when everybody is being that: "The Portuguese Government has

out of the common exchequer any losses getting up relief funds, and others who nobly in the construction of railways and the educated in the laws and the prophets, when authorised me formally to deny any report the United States. That keeps substantially opinion that Shanghai is rich enough to pay ions, as well as individual foreigners, in strong stand made by the leaders of the board schools are producing future lord concerning the sale of Macao." These one-third of the Army of about 65,000 men people against autocratic methods on the chancellors and embryo archbishops, the telegrams were in Portuguese, and the ipsis in the Philippines all the time and regiments sustained in the riots, which, after all, were respond to their appeals. Speaking of appeals part of Government officials-and the proletariat are taking the matter into their sima verba were presented to our readers. In are constantly coming and going as their time very trivial, and the precedent and principle to the public, we think there seems to be a vigorous propaganda work of the Chris-own hands and fixing their own holidays, this connection we have to acknowledge our artives to go to the islands, or their term established are worth ten times the money, slight misconception entertained abroad, in The admit that there is amongst us some sense of tian Teachers in Canton and throughout the The colonies, or some of them which call sincere thanks to Senhor Montenegro for of service there expires. Just at this time Our Shanghai contemporary felt afraid the regard to Japanese sense of pride which is province. A cursory glance at the work of themselves advanced, have as many holidays, thus imposing a double burden of indebted the equivalent of about three regiments Chinese would pay up and claim the rights thought to disdain all assistance. We freely the American mission, and especially at the as working days; every saint in the calendar ness upon us, by enabling us officially to of troops are about to embark for the which payment would give them. cum total of the results achieved, shows of labour is honoured with a public holiday, contradict the disturbing intelligence which, Philippines to relieve an equal number question of an indemnity appears, after all, humiliation on realising that, with all our that there is every reason for satisfaction on which does not seem a paradox to the initia originating in Paris, leaked into publicity who have completed their service. The not to have been shelved if only temporarily modern means of communications and so the part of the missionaries in that field. tors of these so-called days of rest. Hong through the Wainupu. So we were in the details were arranged some months ago, suspended. Our Shanghai correspondent on, we cannot succour promptly enough a The unpretentious brochure which has been kong-or that part of it which is not included position of nailing the lie to the counter and they were that the First Infantry were cabled us yesterday the information re- few thousand of calamity-stricken people Issued by the Mission of the American Pres-under the head of "banks and public from the Portuguese side. What about the to embark on the 1st February at New York ceived at that port from Peking that within our own borders: that such an em on the transports Kilpatrick and McClellan Sir Ernest Satow, the British Minister,ergency is not sufficiently provided far, with French? A short interview with M. Gastoni byterian Church at Canton gives an account offices"-has comparatively few

Liébert, the French Consul here, settles the and proceed by way of the Suez Canal; the had demanded an indemnity of eighty out appealing for charity. But this feeling of the work done at the various Kwangtung sent, but the time is coming when we

for losses and damages sustained by British well-meant assistance, and surely none of us agencies for the year ending August, 1905. shall progress" with the rest of the question from the other point of view. M. Second Infantry and the Eighth, and Thir-thousand faels from the Central Government is a very different thing from resenting any It therefore has no mention of the lament world and set out joyously bound for Liebert not only characterises the allegation teenth batteries of field artillery were to

"ridiculous," "utter rubbish," and leave San Francisco on that date on the subjects in the recent riots at Shanghai. would be so 'small-minded as to be guilty of able tragedy which took place at Lien-chau nowhere, because a holiday has been pro-

"nonsense" but proceeds to explain his transport Meade, and the horses of the field Such a claim necessarily implies respon- the latter. Nearly all of our vernacular con- on 18th October last. Indeed, it cheerfully claimed for no special reason. In some comments on the return of Miss Chestnut, places in Australis, it is said, they reasons for treating the rumour with con- batteries would be sent from Seattle on the sibility on the part of the Shanghai Taolai freres in the city are doing their share, each M.D., to work after a severe illness. have a holiday for the birthdays of attempt. The obiter dicta of M. Liebert will same date aboard the transport Dix. Since and his subordinates to maintain order in in its sphere, to promote relief funds; and But aside from that, the little volume the crowned heads of Europe, labour uc found in another column, but from these, the fire on the Meade in San Francisco the foreign settlement, whereas, as is pointed we ourselves have done what we could to betrays & cheerful prospect which is holidays, holidays of commemoration, and remarks it would seem that France never harbour a fortnight ago, the departure of out in the China Gazette, "it was clearly bring the facts before the public. This not shaken by a perusal of its figures. The holidays for no particularreason at all. had any designs on Macao, not even over that transport might be delayed. Our Ameri- the business of the Council to keep order we hope sufficiently shows that there is no Chinese converts to Christianity are fre. But it is questionable if anybody really the Boa Vista matter. It is useless.raking can contemporary further explains that this inside their territory, under all circumstances false pride standing in the way. There are, quently spoken of as "rice" Christians, enjoys these hard-and-fast, rule-of-thumb, up old quarrels, for probably we all retain very simple matter of routine administration-always, of course, with the support of the perhaps, some shades of difference between for compensation would, of necessity, revive durance, and of sensitiveness to hardship, but these "rice" members contributed willy-nilly holidays. It is the holidays, our old views on the subject--all with the has been seized upon by some Washington Consuls and foreign Powers," The demand East and West, in the degree of stoical en over $17,000 last year, towards, the work of the stolen treats which come when a exception of one bright, historical genius, correspondents as evidence that blood was

What we are pleased to learn is that the Chin about to flow somewhere in Eastern Asia the question of the Chinese right to station | cùltivated by different races; but when there the Presbyterian Mission of Canton. An Prince Arthur visits our shores, or some

ese Minister luas been egregiously befooled, and that the American soldiers were basten- forces within the Settlement to repress dis- is urgent need of help, as in this case, we interesting feature of the Mission work is the body of gentlemen decide upon a race educational and medical schemes which are meeting that we really enjoy. And that is, Indeed, according to M. Liebert, he has ing to the scene of conflict. The authorities orders; and as such a medus vivendi would ere ready to respond to the utmost extent of 1 being carried on by the Mission. There are | doubtless, why we as such merry faces and not the gumption to understand the position; differ both as to the occasion and the pro- not be sanctioned the developments arising our powera.”

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