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AN ICONOCLASTIC DISPLAY,

One of the features of the gymkhana on Saturday aftemoon was the Ladies' Nomina tion Race, and it served to indicate the fact that the ladies of Hongkong are hopeless zanies when a question of arithmetic Occurs. The event was sufficiently absurd in itself, but the spectacle of a dozen ladies cal- culating backwards and forwards, by means of their fingers and by the aid of a nibbled pencil, was irresistible. Theidea was thatench. rider should hand his nominator a printed list of vegetables which had to be collected in a basket, and handed to the rider, to

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

NINE hundred and fifty-two deaths were re- Kistered in Singapore last month. The ratiu per thousand was 44.23.

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A Toxin telegram of the gth inst., to the M. G. D. News, says: Cases of small-pox have de layed the R.M.S. Taftar, which is now on her

way towards Yokohama.

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1906.

PATALITY AT CHEK-WAN,

News was brought to town last night, that VISCOUNT Nagaoki, who is well-known in yesterday morning on the arrival of the s China, died on the & thisst.

San Cheng, that vessel being unable to get bear enough inshore to land her passengers, a junk came alongside and took the latter off, But apparently the junk was over-crowded, for before she had proceeded far from the vessel, she suddenly becled over, and before she could be rightted she capsized, throwing the occu paats into the water,' The majority of them, numbering some hundreds, were picked up by other boats in the vicialty but eight of the passengers were reported to have been drown ed, their bodies not having been recovered. The report did not state whether the drowned persons were men or women, nor whether there were any children amongst them.

It is reported that the disaster was due to the efforts of

gang of pirates to board the vessel. Many of the female pas. sengers were making lavish display of their gold ornaments, and attracted the at- tention of a pirate craft in the vicinity,

REUTER wires to the Straits that T. M. King Edward and the Queen Alexandra have made in gift of £200 for the benefit of those who have become widows and orphans through the

The potage on the weakly iswara ta muy just of the gether with the account for the goods. To the Courrieres disaster.

ordinary person that would seem to be less Single, Copine, Daily, tes cente: Weekly, twenty difficult than threading a needle, but if the DR. Hirata, a Professor in the Tokyo Imperial University and a medical adviser to the Im committee bad, starched the earth for a

perial House, has been commissioned by her more intricate, puzzling and heart-rending Majesty the Empress to visit Enrope for pur, device they could not have selected a better.poses of study. Dr. Hirata left Yokohama ni, When the riders galloped up with their inst. envelopes, the ladies were at hand to collect

ABERTH.

On the 12th April, at Shanghai, she, wife af J. HUDEKOPER, of a son.

MARRIAGE.

On the 11th April, at Ningpo, the Rev. HARRISON K. WRIGHT and Miss EDWINA W, CUNNINGHAM.

TELEGRAMS.

**HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH" SERVICE.

CHINA'S PROTEST.

OBJECTS TO JAPANESE HELP.

UNCENT MESSAGES TO LONDON AND

WASHINGTON.

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

Shanghai, 16th April, 12.20 p.m.

The Chinese Government have despatched urgent telegrams to their Ministers in London and Washington " instructing them to protest against the approval of Great Britain and

the vegetables and they fitted from basket | APPLICATION has been made to the Stock Ex- alongside, and attempted to climb on board. America that Japanese assistance

to basket with the industry of a green grocer's boy under the eye of his master. But that was mere child's play compared with what had to follow. By the

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The Hongkong Gelegraph rules, the fair nominators had to itemise the

HONGKONG, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1906.

BONGKONG BANKKOPICIES.

Nobody would guess from the bald state, ment which is issued by Mr. Arathoon Seth, C.i.s.. Registrar of the Supreme Court that there was ever anything of surpassing interest in the high Counts of the Colony. Figures have such an unprepossessing ap. pearance. that with few exceptions little at tention, it is to be feared, will be given to his report on the doings of the Court during the past year. The gentleman who goes under the appellation of the man-in-the- street" will not even glance at it. Stil

interest to those who care to delve into the mass of figures which adorn the report. For instance, there appear to have been 64 baisk - ruptcies during 1905 — a comparatively small number when we remember the in

change Committee to appoint a Special Settling Day in and to grant a quotation to Hongkong (Government of).—Scrip (fully and partly paid) for £142,500 Three-and-a-llalf per Cant. Inscribed Sinck, 19:3-43.

LIEUTENANT W. C. Cooper, Royal Engineers, is the new staff officer to the Chief Engineer in South China Mr.. Cooper is a smart young sub, of a little over six years' service. He got his first star in January, 1956, and has for some "time been stationed at Hongkong..

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| articles, calculate their value and add up the total. If Mr. Shelton Hooper, who is con- cerned about the market price-lists publish ed in the newspapers, had witnessed the dilemuta in which these chatelaines were placed when it came to the current price of A PRIVATE telegram received in Shanghai on potatoes or oranges, he would have dismissed the 12th inst. shows that the price of cotton on

the Manchester market continues to advance | the matter as of no consequence, for appidly. Egyptian coton, which was quoted idea of the price of vegetables. They had od. and American carton has reached 6. 140. parently not one of the dames had the faintest Thursday week at 914. per tb, ha gone up to

never seen a market price-list, or, at any rate, per b had never given it the slightest attention,

THE British Minister in leking, according So it would seem that the only people who

a Shanghainauve contemporary, has addressed do scan the lists are those who have no con-

the Watupu on the subject of the special pris cern with the marketing. It is a fact-vileges granted by the Chinese Government to which can easily be tested--that most men the China. Merchants' S. N. Co. wheichy goods know the price of goods sold in the public carried by their steamers are allowed lighter

Chinese Treaty of Tientsin, Article XIV., in

of the demand.. .support

THE cost of the forthcoming grand review of

Their cupidity being aroused, die pirates rowed

in their excitement the passengers stampeded to the opposite side of the boat which heeled over by the weight of numbers and capsized. As most people are aware these pirates infest Chekwan during festival seasons and pillage wherever they can find booty to reward then

It is the same shore, where robbers "hold ip defenceless women, and children in the light of day, and no effort seems to be made by the authorities to suppress this lawlessness on shore and on the river

THE WRECKED "ALTA"

NOW IN DUCK,

The s.s. Taming, Captain Outerbridge, which arrived here, on Saturday, brought up in tow the American barque Alt which was wrecked an Naic Reef in the great typhoon of Septem- ber last, and which was subsequently got off and taken to Manila. The 5.5. Taming, alter taking the ita in tow, lell Manila on Tuesday afternoon, aud arrived safely in harbour with her entrely uneventful voyage, everything going tow on Saturday morning, after a very fine and well and satisfactorily. On the Alta for the tow up a Chinese crew had been placed which the owing to the alien sumigration law of Manila, Taming look down on her last voyage, and which, was not allowed to land, and was immediately

transferred to the Alta. This vessel is now in

between the salvage people and the owners.

THE BRITISH EMPIRE.

should be given to the Chinese police with the view of affording adequate protection to foreigners in China.

[Reuter's.]

France and the Morocco

Conferencé.

LONDON, 13th April.

M. Bourgeois, in a statement in the French Chamber, commended the satisfactory issue of the conference at Algeciras, the settle- ment of which could only have been secured by fair mutual concessions.

The interests and dignity of France were in nowise impaired, and her special interests in Morocco were fully recognised.

Later.

A VIENNA SENSATION. A sensation has been caused in Vienna by the publication of a telegram from the Kai-

his anwavering support at the Algeciras con- ser to Count Goluchowski; thanking him for

deed of a loyal ally..

there are some points which are of passing markets. They can quote the cost per rates as to Customs duties, and his demanded the Kowloon Dock where she is undergoing ference which he described as a splendid pical of all sorts of vegetables at a moment's that the same privileges be accorded to ship thorough repairs. The Aifa, at will be remem notice; they can even speak learnedly of pers in British bottoms, quoting the Franco-based, was the cause of considerable litigation the rise and fall in the price of bathbrick; and as for tinned, provisions they are walking encyclopedias on the subject. But what is the use of all this curious knowledge? The purchase of household comestibles s outwith their province. That is in the bands of the mistress of the house-and she

ducements offered to merchants and others in Hongkong to speculate rather than to invest. These bankruptcies involved liabili ties to the amount of $3,125,657.21. · As showing the hopeful spirit of the bankrupts

has not the slightest conception of the pre,

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HRST CENSUS.

EFFECTS OF THE DWINDLING BIRTH:RATE,

The first "Census of the British Empire" has been issue as a Blue-book.

the declared assets to meet those liabilities / vailing cost of cucumbers! At the Bymbalance will be set aside for the expenses of bed Colonial Secretary the statistics for all

amounted to $1,867,768.51 but when it came to realise those assets the result totalled $217,275-36 about an eightirof the estimat. ed total: One of the defaulters had debis amounting to nearly a million dollars. Ilt declared that his assets were a clear miltion and more, but when it came to realise his

khana, these ladies knell on the ground with a notebook, and they chewed their pencils in vain efforts to conjure up a picture of the market price column. In many cases it was the jackey who supplied the in- formation that oranges were selling at three cents each or zo cents the cattie for the best

troops to be held in Tokyo by his Majesty the Emperor of Japan on the guth instang is esti mated at Y603,000, which sum is to be deftay- ed out of the Special War Fund. - Half the amount will be spent upon the transport and lodging of troops coming to the capital from various Army Divisions in provinces, and the officials and officers in Manchona and Korea, who are to be invited to witness the review.

The anti-gambling agitators will be interested to send the following from a fume paper, Our contemporary says:-"& charge against five Chinese in connection with the keeping of a gaming-house was dismissed yesterday at

This volume is the result of four years' toil. The scans was taken at the same time as the English Census in 1901. By desire of the

Brush possessions have been collated, and analysed as nearly as possible on the liries of The English report.

This was an immense task. The tables now published were derived from reports ranging bulk from a ten-page pamphlet concerninn the 2,253 inhabitants of the Falkland Islands to the bo volumes concerning the Indian Em- pire, which contains 295 million persons and speaks 147 languages.

property the result was but thirty thousand sweet variety. The price of such an extra-Liverpool. The magistrate said that gaming dollars, so that, unless we read the ligares ordinary and unusual article of household had probably taken place for small sums. is, says the report, about 400,000,000. Since

this year.

The amount involved was

400 MILLIONS. The total population of the British Empire

| the first enumeration, in 1861, the exact decen- Hemat figures, as nearly as they can be given, are

as follows?

•1861....... 1871 1881 1894

There had, however, been no complaints of use as the common or domestic carrol was utterly beyond the imagination of these disorder or of annoyance to inhabitants.

did not blame the police, but they might have ladies, who are presumably in charge of the shut their eyes to the proceedings or looked monage of various houses in Hongkong, and through the telescope with the cap on,"

wrongly, he over-estimated his assets by In the words of a a million dollars. well-known Hongkong financier "He must have been a litery gent" it appears that there were 427 actions on the Original one lady calmly solved the question and】 à Canton dispatch states that 11.E. Lin Shao. emerged triumphantly from her dilemma by nies, Governar or' Kwangsi, bas memorialised Jurisdiction Foll at the beginning of

Then the the Throne for permission to transfer the the year and 154 had to be carried over to giving the carrots to a pony.

prices settled, the greatest tribulation of all gubernatorial headquarters of that province from the city of Kwelia to Nanning owing to $7,845,780 and the debts and damages reoccurred when the ladies entered, upon the covered amounted to $2,651,983. The task of what is facetiously described as the more central position of the latter city, in number of actions instituted in Summarysimple addition. Far from simple did these unfortunate ladies from the Peak find the Jurisdiction was 1,889 during the year 19051 addition of a few figures. They strove and and 394 were brought forward from 1994. laboured as probably few of them have done Of these, 1,663 were disposed of, 752 being for many a day. They tried it standing, set:led or withdrawn before trial, and 394 sitting and kneeling; they would have trild being struck out of the cause-book as having been standing over generally for niore than fat on the ground if it had not been so The total public; they tried it mentally and they tried a year, leaving a balance of 226,. amount involved was $749, 16.34. It is by little shouts, and still two and twp extremely interesting to observe that since would make five. They got different totas on each occasion; they proved their suns by every known and conceivable method, and by some methods that were weirdly

the Companies. Ordinance came into, force, in 1865, no less than 462 companies have been registered in Hongkong representing

connection with Nanning the Governor also re- commended to the Throne' the throwing open

its favourable situation for commerce, through of the city to international trade, on account of which the people of Kwangsi may expect to reap great advant ges in the near future.

We understand that the China Merchants S, N,

Co's 1s. Kiang Tang lately running on the Canton-Macao line is to replace the ss. Kuling between Ichang and Hankow. We believe the latter is to take the Changsha-tankow trip. We are glad to see that the China Merchants are putting a boat for this trade as it testifies to

the increase of business between this port and Hunan. We believe that within a few years

མང་་་་

*********** 159,050,000 283,000,000

.... 319,0.0,000 ................. 381,000,000 ***** 393,401,704 The area of the Empire is, nearly 12 million square miles,

The most noticeable faci brought out in the census is that Broughout the Empire the rate of increase in population shows a great decline since the last decennium. In the case of in- dia, however, this is chiefly accounted for by famine and plague.

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of the birth-rate, which has now became general ing to the report, is the continued depression

An important factor in this decrease, accord-

in nearly all countries,"

Canada Australia

Ceylan...

5/374,315

3,836,454 3.573.419 2,409,801 1,570,977

The telegram adds: "You have shown yourself a brilliant, second on the duelling ground, and you may rely upon my rendering you a like service on a like occasion."

The Lord Mayor's Japanese Famine Fund. 'The Lord Mayor has handed the Japan- ese Embassy an instalment of £5,000 for the famine fund.

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Later,

Strike of Postmen in Paris. A widespread strike of postmen has oc curred in Paris and the Government have superseded 300 of the strikers.

The Hague Peace Conference. Russia is willing to postpone the Hague Peace Conference.

The United States and Germany. The German Ambassador at Washington has presented fifty Gerinan Veterans to Preši. dent Roosevelt, who in a speech said, that no strain had imparted better qualities to American people than the German, and it it be the primary object of statesmanship to knit the two nations close.

He congratulated the Kaiser on the work accomplished at the Algeciras Conference.

THE Japan Chronicle of 8th insi, says:— The disaster to the Osaka Shoten Kalsha

remembered. The vessel, a small coasting steainer Natoriguwa-maru in February last year, by which ninesy lives were lost, will be

THE COLONIES.

stewner, running between Úsaka and Kishu, Following the Indian Empire and the Uni-struck the breakwater, and sank in twenty ied Kingdom (41,000,000), the next most minutes. The families of many of the drown- ed instituted actions for damages against the populous areas are:

OS.K. In all thirty-one cases were entered for hearing in the Osaka Cour, which gave a decision on Friday, in favour of the plaintiffs. The Court decided that the disaster was the result of the carelessness of the master of the steamer. The aggregate amount of damages claimed by the plaintiffs is V777,000, and the amount to be awarded will be decided by the Court in a few days.

•The Cape.....

West Indies............

No others exceed the million. There are 187 cities in which the popola

tions exceed 50,000. Of these, By are in the United Kingdom and 78 in India.

Yel, in spite of India's great cities, nine-

an aggregate capital of $211,704,108. Some original, and still the total kept on changi the trade from Changsha and adjacent ports, tenths of the population live in villages. This WHISKY. of the companies have faded away and gradu Finally, they gave up the attempt to get the including the newly-opened Chang-Teh, will is in striking contrast to the United Kingdom,

NOT ONE OF THE BEST,

BUT

THE BEST!

ally died, others were still-born, and at the end of last year there were only 254 of the original 462 on the register. Nevertheless, the number of companies in existence which have availed themselves of the longkong Ordinance is quite respectable, their ag gregate capital representing $128,558,561. Last year 38 companies were registered, from which a revenue of $7,583 was derived by the Government. On the whole, the Registrar's report for the year has its points of interest, but taking it on the whole, and neglecting for the nonce its Importance as an official survey, it would make capital reading for those who desire a sedative.

correct answer as a dismal 'failure,, and the be exceedingly largo.—Hankow Daily News. judge had to announce that not one of the accounts had been correctly added up We N. C. D. Newr) regret to record the death How these ladies manage to keep a chek at the Victoria Nursing Home on the 12th inal, on their household accounts is a myster. of Mr. T. McNaughton, one of the senior They must he at the mercy of servants and engineers in Messis. Butterfield and Swire's tradesmen. They know nothing of figures service. Deceased, who had been suffering blissfully oblivious of market values. They last year was about again and apparently except of the human type-and they re from pericarditis during the latter months of were all born before the Education enjoying good health towards the end of of 1873 came into force and they hate January. Two days ago he was again taken never troubled their leads about it. "Belg

to the Nursing Home with aggravated form of unconscious of their defect they have abi doned themselves to an orgy of ignorane. the disease, from which he expired on the 12th. Occasionally they may wonder why their He leaves a widow and several children, at household bill is larger this month thatit present at home in Scotland, to mourn his

The worst ofit loss. was last, but there it ends.

is that this appalling and abysmal oblivionjo ordinary duty falls on those who are contat or are compelled to reside on the lower

in which 7 per cent. live in towna.

PREPONDERANCE OF MALES,

In the British Empire at large males are in excess of females. In the case of many of the colonies this is due to immigration, whilst in India there are a larger number of male births and heavier mortality amongst females. For a further explanation of the sex proportions: in

omitted from the return, either because their India the report adds somewhat naively:

male relatives regard them as of no importance in connection with an inquiry such as the census, or because they have some special

cason for not mentioning them,"

Agriculture is, judging by the numbers engaged in it, the British Empire's most im portant industry,

"It is conceivable that females may be

VARIETIES IN RELIGION, The religions of the British Empire are broadly divided into five groups:

...... 208,000,000

Hindus Maboractans Christians.

94,000,000 58,000,000 Buddhists.....2-2

12,000,000 Miscellaneous non-Christian. 23,000,000

SHIPPING AND MAILS,

MAILS DUE.

American (Hongkong Maru) 18th inst. English (Delhi) 19th inst, 6 am. American (Korea) zand inst. German (Pring Eitel Friedrich) azrd inst. German (Prinz Heinrick) 25th inst. Canadian (Tartar), 1st prox.

The P. M. S. S. Co.'s s.s. Mongolia arrived at San Francisco on 13th inst.

The ss. Dardanus left Singapore on 14th inst., and is due bere on 19th inst.

The Imperial German Mails. Sachsen which left here on 12th inst,, arrived at Shanghai on 15th inst., at 3 p.m.

The N. Y. H. Bombay Line sa. Tosa Maru left Moji for this port on 14th intɩ, and is ex- pected here on 18th inst,

The N. Y. K. Australian Line 8.3. Kumano Maru left Nagasaki for this port on 14th inst, and is expected here on 17th inst.

The H.,A. L. ns. Arcadia from Hamburg lefi Singapore for our port on 13th inst, am, and may be expected here on 10th lost.

The 1. & O. S. N. Co.'s &.& Delhi left Singa- pore for this port on 14th inst, at 5 p.m., with the outward English Mails, and is due here on 19th inst, at 6 a.m.

THE N. C.D. News prints the following tele gram dated Peking, roth inst, The Freach A SUGGESTION bas been made that the junior levels. If my lady" of the Peak is belg Minister has informed the Waiwopu that the bacticior army officers be given accommoda.ged on the subject of vegetables the dear Governor of Annam is about to start for Yün. tions on the transports Meade, Kilpatrick and raises his prices, and those who count eveynan and Mentze for the purposes of inspecting | Outside England the Jews are most numerous McClellan during the time those vessels remain halfpenny and do give attention to ther the railways and mines, and special treatment in South Africa, where they number 10,000; accounts are also obliged to pay highir for the Governor is hoped. in this connection there are 18,000 in India, 16,002 in Canada, in Manila Day, in lieu of quarters. The trans- ports mentioned have been ordered to be prices. None of those who were present the Chinese Minister at Paris has tele- and nearly 17,000 in Australasis.

the gymkhana will readily forget the sce

Considerable difficulties attended the classi fication of the religions, Some of the sects retained in Philippine waters until such time when these ladies were in the throes of graphed to the Waiwupu that the declara-

Governor of Annum which the census authorities had to place were as they are needed. The cost of maintaining dition. It was a saddening sight and

in regard to inspecting railways and designated by such strange titles as Calathum-rich carrying the German Mails with dates them there is very heavy. It is thought that if suggestive one. The committee in charmines is merely a pretext, and that his pinn, Cosmosophist, Hoke, Hylozoist, Milieu the suggestion could be carried out it will in of arrangements might well agree to ho many ways be preferable to the young officers these meetings more frequently, if only the journey is to be made a basis for encroach- nial Dawnite, Sung Quang, Tipon, Utopian than staying in stuffy quarters ashore. It the fair residents of the Peal might have a ments on the province. The Minister thinks would also be a considerable saving to them, opportunity of exercising their skill in ca it necessary that steps shall be taken to protect as the regular mess charge will be but $30 per culating the price of everyday domest| China from a situation in Yünnan similar to that which has been so disastrous in Manchuria. articles. [56-month,

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It is a wonderful volume,

The Impenal German Mail s.s. Prins Hein.

from Berlin of the 27th ult., left Colombe on Saturday p., and may be expected here on.

The Imperial German Mail à.3. Prinx Eftel 25th inst Friedrich left Koba via Nagasaki and Shang- hai on gth inst., at 10' p.m., and may be ex- pected hore qu a3rd inst,